Gleeful Garden

 

Use Lawn Fawns Gleeful Garden stamp and die set to create this really fun birthday card

Lawn Fawn's stamps are just so cute and it makes making your cards so easy. I've made this gardening based card to remind me of sunnier days.

There are lots of stamps within this set so you can alter the picture on the card quite easily by stamping more snails or flowers if you would prefer. Why not make a smaller card and use less stamps? A little snail climbing up the side of the large mushroom would make a fab small card or gift tag.

My card has a frame in the centre but i've placed some of the stamped images so they overflow this frame which I think makes the card look less plain.

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Floral Teacup Birthday Card

 

Make this pretty greeting card of flowers in a cup by using Lawn Fawns Stitched Teacup die set

I've used a small die set by Lawn Fawn called Stitched Teacup and filled it with flowers to create this card.

You can use any teacup die or even cut one by hand and can choose any flowers or leaves to fill your cup. The beauty of making your own cards is that you can alter them to your recipients favourite colors etc.

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Wrapping Paper Robin

 

Making a card from some really pretty wrapping paper

I know Christmas seems like ages ago now and we are already half way through January but I was tidying my desk and found some wrapping paper I had saved from Christmas. It was such pretty wrapping paper that I want to show you how to make a beautiful card quite quickly from it. This particular card is a Christmas card but you could make a similar card using birthday or celebration wrapping paper.

I'm not sure if I have ever mentioned - I like to get my Christmas cards made in January! I know it's early, but the time leading upto Christmas gets so manic and I'm still in Christmas mood in January so I get them done early. I make quite a few Christmas cards each year and I've left making them till October/ November time and run out of time and they never turn out how I would like them to as they are rushed. At least by making them in January, I can take a bit of time and if I need to order items such as card, there's no rush to find some.

Not only that, these cards are made from some wrapping paper I salvaged from Christmas - I need to use it now before it becomes all creased and crumpled !  Isn't it good to recycle?

I've also used a bit of the paper to cover the front of a notebook. This is a notebook that I use for tracking Christmas gifts. As I buy items, I mark it against the people I need to buy for and any ideas, I can also note down. I do buy gifts all year - not purposefully looking, but sometimes you just stumble across a perfect item for someone whilst on holiday for example. I therefore cover my little notebook in Christmassy paper so I don't get it lost amongst my other little notebooks.

I have made some cards using some birthday wrapping paper in the past - if you missed this click here to be taken to the page

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Relaxing Birthday

 

Make this cool relaxing birthday card using a couple of stamp and die sets by Lawn Fawn

The thing I love about making your own cards and particularly stamping, is that you can mix stamp sets and colour in your own way to achieve a card that is specific to your recipient. It would be quite difficult to find that ideal card in the shops! The card below was made for a teddy loving, book reader, whose living room is a peachy colour.

This time last year, I made a little money box to collect coins, that the family find on the streets, for charity. Click here if you want to take another look at how it was made.

Anyway, we collected coins over the year and counted up what we had collected just after new years day. We collected £44.35 which we will be donating to cancer research. I've emptied the box and will be refilling this year with coins we find. I wasn't expecting to find quite so much as people are supposedly using more card transactions these days. But a brilliant donation for charity.

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Origami Gift Box

 

Make a small gift box by folding a couple of square pieces of paper

This gift box is made up of two parts, a lid and a base. Both made in the same way from square pieces of paper. It doesn't require any gluing - just folding.

I've used Christmas wrapping paper to make this box. It could be a last minute wrap for a gift or maybe you could make them for Christmas table decorations (my dog doesn't like the cracker bangs, so I make little gift boxes instead and put the joke, hat, chocolate etc into the gift box). 

I've been making these boxes since I was little and once you know how to make them you will never forget. You can make them for any occaision using different papers and in different sizes - just make sure the starting base square is a tad smaller than the lid square (in my example below, I've made the starting base square a centimeter smaller than the lid)

The internal dimensions of the box made in this blog is 7 cm square and just short of 3 . 5 cm deep 

 

You can use almost any type of paper - just make sure it can hold a fold and it's not too thick.

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