Same Card Different Occasions

There are times when you might need multiple cards in the same week but they are for different occasions.  You can easily knock out two birds with one stone if you make couple of the same cards but put different sentiments and even change up and embellishment or two.  I was inspired by a card I saw here on this blog.  

The card above was the Thank You card I made for Catherine's teacher for the end of the year.

I also needed a card for a dear friend's birthday, as you can see here I changed this card up by using seam binding ribbon rather than baker's twine.

So remember if you are cutting one card you might as well cut two or three, then put different sentiments on them.  Before long you will have a nice stash of cards and you won't have to worry about scrambling to make a card when an occasion comes up!  

Gift Bag

In my previous post I shared a set of personalized notecards I had made for Catherine's teacher, I decorated a gift bag and tag for them to go in.

I started with a plain white bag and Mod Podged paper to the front and back of the bag.

I cut a tag, 3D flower and leaves out with the Close to My Heart exclusive Cricut cartridge and attached it with grey baker's twine!

Using the Cricut cartridge it doesn't take much time to make a cute tag to jazz up any gift! 

End of School Thank You Gift

Catherine finished her first year of kindergarten in May and I made her teacher a set of personalized notecards.  Catherine has a severe food allergies and her teacher was SO great with everything during the school year, I felt the notecards were the least I could do for her!

I made a set of 10 cards using smoothie, sunset, buttercup, sweat leaf and lagoon paper.

   I ordered a personalized name stamp from Close to My Heart and used the butterfly stamp from the stamp set A Tree. 

I also stamped the back of the envelope with her name and the butterfly stamp in a coordinating color to match the notecards.

I included the name stamp, an ink pad and block with the notecards.  The personalized name stamps are only $5.95 and they make great gifts!  

Footloose Swap Card

For our swap in May we used the Footloose paper.  The paper has a beachy, summery feel to it and I thought it would be perfect for summer birthday party invites.  I like how this paper can be for either boy or girl and you can play up the the pinks or the blues.       

The Guest List

While making my grandma's birthday album I wanted to include the guest list but I wasn't sure how to go about doing it and make it look nice.  I also had some random pictures left that really didn't work on any of the pages but I thought they still needed to be included.  

Well I found the perfect solution with Close to My Heart's page protectors with six horizontal pockets.  They hold 4 x 6 photos, so I was able to put the extra photo's in and add the guest list.   

I printed off the guest list onto pieces of cardstock and then I put pattern paper and solid cardstock as the base.  To add some decoration to the pages I chose to embellish the extra 4 x 6 spots with stickers that coordinated with the paper packet.  

Those page protectors made it really easy to include the photo's that didn't make it onto scrapbook pages and made the guest list not seem so boring.  With a few stickers it was really easy to spruce up the spaces that would have otherwise been blank.  This could easily be used with lots of scrapbooks as a way of including pictures and other important dates, names or even thoughts.