Banner Birthday Card

Holidays are over, so no more winter cards for a while...Although I have been tempted to make some for next year since I have a billion papers and pre-cut embellishments left over! Here's a quick birthday card using the "sweet treats" cartridge for the cupcakes, and I used plain diamond shapes for the banner inside...I embossed the letters with white powder, and then folded them in half and hot glued them onto some twine. I used hot glue and little pearl things to hold them in place. The sentiment inside is a stamp I got from Jo-Ann a while back, and I used a Martha Stewart "all over the page" butterfly punch to add a couple extra things. If you have never tried those punches, I highly recommend it! I rarely splurge on punches because I have my cricut, but those are genius.

Holiday Cards

Here are some more holiday cards! Bold, bright color papers on this one. I have way too many holiday paper packs at this point...instead of deciding to stop buying them, my solution is...buy another 3-drawer storage piece to keep them in. Anyone else have this problem?? :) Hope everyone is enjoying holiday crafting time! The banner card came out super cute...I originally had one layer of pennant scraps laid out, but it just didn't quite do it. Adding the second layer of smaller strips, and using the foam adhesive really made a difference.