Birthday Gift Card Box

Tuesday is my "guaranteed" work day.  That means when the hubby gets home from work I head upstairs to my scrap area and make new projects, take and edit pictures, load items to my store and generally work on things for my budding little business.  Over the last couple of days I've been having a blast making templates for new products and turning those templates into fun new things.  There is a bit of trial and error, but overall it is a ton of fun for me.

This is one of my favorite new things that I made over the last couple of days.  This is a gift card box that I made in the style of a matchbox.  I decorated the top of the box with a feminine birthday in mind.  I love how it turned out!

In this image you can see how the inside of the box pulls out like a matchbox.  The boxes measure 3 inches wide, 5 inches long and half an inch deep.  Perfect to slip a little note into or just put a gift card to their favorite store.

A close up of the cover design.  I have no idea where I got those flowers....I've had them for that long, but I thought the coloring was perfect for the paper and everything just seemed to fit together.

After I'm done doing some more gift card holders for birthdays, I'm going to move on to Christmas.  Now those are going to be F-U-N!  I have so many ideas for fun shapes and styles that I can't wait to design and create.

Like I said, I've been working on a ton of stuff, so I'll hopefully get to show you all the fun things I'm working on in the coming weeks.

Also, I've decided to post things for sale on Shophandmade.com.  The link to my store is:  http://www.shophandmade.com/Store/Melissakaye80.  I will be posting things on my blog that will not be for sale in that store because of licensing requirements, so be sure to check back here for those things!

If you aren't a follower yet, I'd love it if you did that!

Happy B-Day!

I've been away for quite awhile!  I started school in January for Graphic Design and took a ton of credits the first quarter.  I won't be making that mistake again!  I missed my scrapping time and haven't gotten to make as much for my shop as I would like to.

On a positive note:  I'm BACK!  During my hiatus I had a couple of custom orders and one of them was for a set of matching birthday cards.  Below are samples of the cards.

Quick tip for the buttons.  I have a MILLION buttons, but mostly in pastels and greens and reds.  The colors I had didn't work for these cards and I didn't want to go out and buy more.  So I picked out a button that was the right style and size, covered one side of it liberally with VersaMark and dipped it into my American Crafts Zing Embossing Powder.  I picked it up with a tweezers and heat embossed it.  That quickly and easily I changed the colors of my buttons!  I love that I can now customize all of my buttons to whatever project I'm working on.  Be careful though, if you heat it too long, your button may warp.

In order to get a full bow on top, rather than the cut out like it is on the cartridge, I went into Design Studio and hid the lines so they would not cut.  I like this look a lot better and I think it adds a lot more contrast.

Both cards were made using the Lyrical Letters Cricut Cartridge and BoBunny Love Bandit Collection, plain white cardstock and miscellaneous buttons.  The second card uses Archiver's pink cardstock.

Our 2009 Christmas Card

I made 80 of the card below for our family Christmas card this year.  I got my inspiration from the JOY card on this post at Christmas with the Cricut.  It turned out much different then the original, and I actually think it looks great and joyful!

Supplies Used:  BoBunny patterned papers, Archivers blue cardstock, Bazzill Bling cardstock, Fiskars Threading Water Punch, Cricut with the Storybook cartridge.

Finally...

I have been WAY out of commission over the last couple of months. At first it was complications for my daughter and her surgery and since then I've been having major issues with my hip and pelvis. Hopefully I'll get to update more frequently, because I HAVE been scrapping. Here is a monogrammed card I made for my uncle as part of a package of cards that I gave him for Christmas.

I used a packet of paper left over from a Scrap Mania at Archiver's and a plain chipboard letter painted red with Making Memorie's paints.

I hope you are having a FABULOUS National Scrapbooking Day and I hope to add more things as I'm able to. Have to take pictures first. :)