Easy Money Card Holder!

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Money card holder

Saturday I mentioned we recently gave out Employee of the Year awards at my office and with the award comes a cash gift. I wanted to create special money card holders for the cash. The gift bags were red so I decided to use Soft Sky and Real Red as my color palette.

Using my Envelope Punch Board this could not have been easier.  As a matter of fact I made the two cards I needed one morning before heading off to work!

I measured a one dollar bill and decided the envelope should be 3 x 6 1/2. Following the dimensions on the punch board itself I made the envelope. Then I grabbed my Chalk Talk Bundle (remember you save 15% when you buy these as the bundle). I stamped the frame image onto Real Red card stock with Versamark and used White Emboss Powder to create texture and WOW against the red. Using the coordinating framelit the image was cut out.  Then I stamped the sentiment with Real Red Ink onto Whisper White card stock, punched it out with my circle punch and adhered with Stampin Dimensionals. 

Money card holder close up

Using Real Red Taffeta Ribbon I lined it up using Glue Dots to hold it in place. I attached the framed sentiment onto the card and over the ribbon with Stampin Dimensionals.  Using the ribbon I tied a pretty bow in the back.

I LOVE how these turned out.  The color combination and the simple sentiment made it a special way to deliver this cash element of the award.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope I got your creative mojo going today.

Michelle

Here are all the items used to create this project:

Table built using Product Table Builder 

Yay You!

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Our younger son is a senior in high school.  He along with friends anxiously await to hear from colleges. Last weekend the young man across the street received the acceptance he had been waiting for … to his first choice school! He will be attending the University of South Florida come this fall and he is thrilled. (So is his mom as he will only be a couple of hours away.)

To celebrate I made him this card.

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I was giddy with excitement as I made it. The colors are great in this DSP and the burlap ribbon gives it the rugged masculine feel I wanted. I used lots of new fun stamps, papers and tools.  Here is a peek at the inside:

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Thanks for stopping by, I hope I have inspired you today.

Cheers,

Michelle

Check out the items I used below. You can click any item and you will be in the Staminmojo Online store to add the item to your shopping cart. 

Table built using Product Table Builder 

Watercolor Note Cards

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01-20-2014

This weekend I spent time in my craft room trying some new things. I see beautiful cards by other crafters who watercolor their stamped images and I wanted to give it a try.

First I need to confess that I often jump into things and then when it is not turning out right I say "perhaps I should read the manual" OR "maybe I should do more research on how to do this".  

The card above is an example of just jumping in. I started with the new Watercolor Note Cards from the Occasions Catalog.  I stamped a flower from the Happy Watercolor Stamp Set with Stazon Black Ink directly onto the note card three times staggering the flowers as if they are growing up onto the card.  Then I began my hand at watercoloring.  I used Tangerine Tango, Crushed Curry and Daffodil Delight Ink Pads and my Aqua Painter and Blender Pen to color the flowers.  The stems are Gumball Green. It was fun and with some practice my results will improve. 

I have perfectionistic tendencies and can easily find fault with my results.  Then I decided to add  the sentiment from the Perfect Pennants Stamp Set to remind me that my card does not need to be perfect to be wonderful.  I stamped the image using Smoky Slate ink on Smoky Slate card stock and using my Apothecary Framelits cut it out to really focus on the sentiment.

While the watercoloring results are not perfect I am pleased with my card. It would make me smile to receive this in the mail.

So are you a read the manual kind of person or someone that just jumps in and learns through doing? I would love to hear from you!

Check back tomorrow for more Stampin Mojo!

Michelle

Here are the products I used to create today's card.  Each item will take you directly to the StampinMojo Online store – Open 24/7!

A Sparkling Sketched Birthday

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Birthday 01-18-2014

Happy Saturday!

I hope you had a great week.  While work is exceptionally busy with the kick off of the new year and we are celebrating the wrap up and successes in 2013.

My card today was created to celebrate the birthday of another special colleague at my office this past week.  She is someone who is ALWAYS doing something to make another's day better.  She is one of those individuals that sparkles…she lights up a room with her positive energy, creativity and enthusiasm.  Yesterday at our Quarterly Kick-Off  Meeting she was honored as Support Employee of the Year.  A great honor as it is an award won through the vote of her colleagues.  We invite the winners family as well so they can see their loved one win this award.  It was an extremely emotional and deeply heartfelt experience for ALL.

Let's get onto the card…

Where did my mojo come from?

I wanted a clean design yet I wanted it to be fun to represent the recipient.  This card is clean yet it showcases several design details. 

  • Very Vanilla card stock is my base and then I mounted a piece of Birthday Basics DSP onto Raspberry Ripple card stock.  
  • I added an embossed edge to the DSP with the Needlepoint Border Embossing Folder.  
  • Then I stamped the birthday cake from the Sketched Birthday Stamp Set and punched it out with a circle punch and framed with a new Starburst Framelit.  
  • Before adhering my focal point to the card with Stampin Dimensionals I colored in the flame of the candle using my Summer Starfruit Stampin' Write Marker and added sparkle to the flame with Dazzling Details.  I also added a piece of Blushing Bride Chevron Ribbon folded over to create a "winner's ribbon" look.  [I did not know she was an Employee of the Year winner when I created the card.]

I hope you enjoyed today's card and I got your mojo going to create today. Here are links to the products I used for today's card and available through Stampinmojo's Online store.

Michelle