Birthday card

A birthday card for a girl at my son's childcare who is turning 5.

Unfortunately my phone doesn't capture the true colour of the backing paper, it's more teal than it appears here, which matches the dress.  I stamped Happy Birthday on the inside.  The girl is from a Butterick 1965 pattern book.

Supplies:
Stampin' Up Very Vanilla and Berry Bliss cardstock
Stampin' Up Berry Bliss ink pad
Dear Lizzy Happy Place paper
Lawn Fawn Birthday Tags stamp set.

My Prayer Book

These cards were made with images from the Rand McNally book "My Prayer Book".  Still have a few pages left with smaller images that I'll probably use for gift tags or small note cards.

My nephew's gift tag and card

My nephew turned one on the weekend, so I made him a gift tag and card with adorable teddy bear pictures.  Unfortunately I've thrown out the cover of the book, so I can't remember the exact name of it, think it was something like Teddy Town. All the pictures are just too, too cute.

Used Stampin' Up's crumb cake notecard as the base for the card, and just some red coloured cardstock for the base of the tag. 

Little Golden Book: Colors Are Nice

I adore the images in this book. I really hope I can stumble upon another copy in an op shop, so I can make more cards.  The Golden Books are a good size to use for square cards.

 



This one I tried something different by ripping the pages rather than trimming.  I'd like to say it was because I like the effect, but it was initially because the trimmer I bought was a bit faulty and I wasn't getting a straight line (have fixed it now).  But I do like how the torn pages look against the kraft card stock. 

I love this zebra one; I think I will give it to my nephew for his 6th birthday in a few months.

Butterick 1965 Pattern Book

I picked up Butterick 1965 pattern book a few years ago from an antique market in Adelaide.  Back then I was buying scrapbooking stuff (but never got into it) and I'd seen someone use these types of images in gift tags and cards and I absolutely loved them.  So when I saw this book for sale I snapped it up, thinking maybe I would try some myself.  But I never ended up getting into cards and paper craft back then and sold all my paper and tools etc. Except I hung on to the book and it has lived in my garage until a few weeks ago.

I don't feel like I've got the right papers at the moment for backgrounds, so I haven't been cutting up that much; I don't want to waste the images.  And whilst I'm trying to make my own cards, I've never considered myself a creative person, so I don't really have a lot of ideas.But here are a few things I've done. 

Repurposing children's books

I love vintage illustrations.  Every time I go to an op shop I scour the children's book section for vintage little golden books and other books.  So I have ended up with quite a collection.  Recently I was tired of all the boxes of stuff (not just books) in the shed so I decided I would cull them and donate them to my local church op shop.

For some reason though I decided to Google things to do with old books and came across some sites where people had used children's books to make cards or gift tags. So I thought I would keep some of the books and give it a go.  I felt a bit guilty tearing up a book, but I felt some of the illustrations are too cute for me to let go of.  So this is some of the stuff I've created so far.  I bought cheap pre-cut cards and envelopes from Target as I wasn't sure how I would go with it and whether I'd want to do it, but so far I'm having fun.