CoCoNUT Cards

I have been making a lot of baby blue cards lately as thank-you cards for our dear little boy to come. So for a change, I was making some wedding cards and birthday cards these couple of days.

Here is a baby card for my friend. I find it hard to make a baby card without knowing the gender of the baby (especially when I don't have a lot of nice yellow paper). Believe it or not, this simple simple baby card took me 2 hours to make (design and assemble). On the right is a birthday card for a little girl. I used my friend's circle cutter to crop out the circle. :) It provides such a nice clean cut which gives my card a more polished look.

Using my new Martha Stewart's Set Your Own stamp set, I have created a new 'logo' for my cards. :) Here are some of my thoughts about the new stamping set:

Like:

• Great for stamping different messages
• Comes with two circle and two rectangle mounts
  

• Small font letters come off the mount easily. Not good to create a stamp set for more permanent use.
• Small letters are hard to place (Kit comes with a tweezer, but the tweezer is too big to set small letters)
• Set comes with a circle border, but I can't seem to be able to mount both the border and fonts together.
  

I got myself a new crafting toy today. I figure instead of spending money to buy different stamps for different messages, I can create my own! And I can also make my "CoCoNut Cards" logo with this stamping kit. :)

Rarely do I use a cartoon character to create my cards. But for a special little girl, I can't think of any better than creating a girly hello kitty card. I love these little girl's cards. I just love all the pink and purple colours, and floral and glittery embellishments. :)

With our baby expecting to arrive in the next month and a half, we started receiving presents from friends. What's more personal than making my own cards to show our appreciation to these friends. :)


I went to Michaels hoping to use my 50% coupon, but of course, I ended up buying a lot more stuff. :) First I saw these cute baby ribbons and charms. Then I saw these white square blank cards (8 for $1.50!). I seem to like to work with square cards more, especially ones that are not too big. I will go back to Michaels to grab more of these blank square cards. I am going to have fun making more Thank You cards the next couple of weeks.

I have been pretty motivated with cards making lately. I made several Thank You cards last night. I took out my stamps and embossed powder which I haven't used for a while and was stamping away the different "thank you". This is probably the first time I am pretty happy with how the "thank you" stamps are being incorporated with the cards.

My set of three "thank you" cards.

Two good friends finally settled into their love nest.So I made a house warming card to celebrate their new home. I am sure their home will be filled with love. :) I like the concept of the "Home Sweet Home", but admit I probably used the wrong choice of ribbon in this case. Now that I am adding more ribbons to my cards, I should buy for ribbon supplies for my card making. :)