Many Thanks!

As most of us do, I have need for thank you notes after the holidays. Yesterday I got busy and made a set of cards to send. I recently acquired a lovely new set of stamps from Papertrey Ink called Love Lives Here. I used two of the images on this card, but another one–the heart in hand, which has always been a favorite of mine–was the one that really called to me. I’m sure you’ll see it soon.

I didn’t have the right color tags so I took some standard Avery tags and distressed them with Walnut Stain. I love the waly they came out. The patterned papers were all from my scrap drawer. The beautiful flourish is one of my favorite stamps–from Vintage Labels (Papertrey).

I didn’t think this card was really appropriate for my brother-in-law who drew my name in the gift exchange this year. He gave me a year’s membership to the George Eastman House and I’m thrilled! Better yet, he made it a couples’ membership so Tracy and I can go together. This card is almost a total copy of one Cristina posted on her blog. I used the scrap drawer again and you’ll see the same Martha Stewart twine as in the card above. The sentiment is from Waltzing Mouse.

Earlier this month I was responsible for sending thank you notes to two manufacturers who sponsered the Scrap-Mart Blog Hop. I wanted to be sure to use their products when making the cards. It was easy to do since the first one was Spellbinders and I never go more than a week without using one or more of their products.

I think this snowflake die was my very first Spellbinder die. I saw it on Debbie Olsen’s blog and just had to have it. The card is a shimmery blue. One of the local shop owners told me that it’s made by Bazzil. The patterned paper is from the 6X6 Eskimo Kisses pad by Basic Grey. I die cut the snowflake from the same shimmery paper and then added glitter to both it and the brad. It’s placed on another Spellbinder label die the Scrap-Mart exclusive Oval/Square which turns out to be just the right shape time and time again. The beautiful ribbon is from Paper Source.

The last card went to Silhouette America. I purchased a Silhouette SD in November but didn’t have a chance to work with it until earlier this month. This was my first project and I knew immediately that I would enjoy having this addition to my tool set. I love that it connects to my computer, doesn’t require cartridges, and will cut any True Type font that is on my computer. I’m working my way through the tutorials on the website, and you’ll be seeing a lot more from the Silhouette once I understand everything it can do.

This was so easy. I ran the paper through the machine, backed the snowflake with shimmery cardstock, cut out a Spellbinders tag and embossed the sentiment (from Impress) with gold, and it was done.