A Butterfly Thank You

This card was made using another die that I got at the Craft Fair/Convention in Arlington.  The place was packed full of all sorts of goodies but this one called to me the most.  Never thought I would say it but I think I'm in love with butterflies.  For the most part the butterflies have to call to me, so I don't just any old butterfly it has to have some characteristics that fit into my world of butterflies.  This card was made in Thanks to the Headquarters of work and their understanding about me being sick and needing time off to recuperate.  I never thought that I would be able to do something so cool, but I must say it is pretty dang cool.  I just LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this die.  I have looked for more dies by this maker but I can't seem to find the cellophane bag that it came in to look at their site and see what else they had/have in the realm of butterflies.

This card was all about layers.  I think there were at least three layers on the front of the card and I think the same amount on the inside they just didn't "pop" off the page like the other ones did.  For the outside, I used multiple paper stacks to give it the contrast that I wanted.  After three layers (lime green, teal with black diamonds and plain white card stock) I then die cut the butterfly and also cut out of my Silhouette the "Thanks" quote on the front.  The inside was much a repeat of the outside but I instead used black (my fav color for contrast) plain teal and white card stock with a quote from my quote book saying thanks.

Once complete it went to work headquarters and I was a happy camper of the over all look the card gave.  I think it was one of my more sophisticated cards that I have made in a long time, or maybe it is the butterfly that I am in love with.  I have used this butterfly in other cards but this particular one seems to call to me just a bit more.

Old Tyme Thank You

This Thank You card is the one card that I had a hard time letting go of. I just loved the way that I backed the dress form's hoop with a complementing color and I of course used the same paper scheme that I did on the brithday card for the chairman of my department's birthday.

This was made as a thank you note to a woman that is in Grand Rapids, that was nice enough to get my family a few of the items that we have always wanted from Gram's house. She's moving and so a lot of her items are either being given away or simply being thrown out. The Gray Women each wanted something from Gram's house. A wanted the mixer, Ma wanted the sherbert bowls and I wanted the rest of the nested set of bowls that I had the largest bowl of. So reto, but I have always loved these bowls and now I have them all! Anway, the woman the card is going to was kind enough to go into Gram's house and get us the items we desired before the wreaking crew came in and items were thrown away or given away.

Thank you Shirley!

French Inspired Thank You Card

Here is a thank you card that took a few mis-starts to get. It is going to an amazing woman, who is kind enough and cares enough to go and help out my Gram. She's 89 and needs some help around the house, even though she won't say it. But Sue goes over there sometimes it sounds like on a daily basis and makes sure that things are okay for Gram.

It took a couple of different card designs before I settled on this. I saw the image of the 19th century woman that looked to be wearing some sort of french design for clothing. They are after all the place to get clothing back in the day. I saw the image on a piece of paper I had and knew that was what I wanted to go with. I was able to use the whole sheet of paper, that the image came on and I think that my tri-fold card turned out pretty darn well considring it's the first of my making some attempts at it.

I used my Cricut to cut out the Thank You on the inside of the card since it has such a nice look to it. I was tempted to use merci, but I thought a simple Thank You would be enough, and not too theme-y.

My Cup Runneth Over with Gratitude

There are those at work that truly make going to work not so hard. Lidia has been one of those people. A majority of us, couldn't do without the things that she does.

Thank you Lidia!

Egyptian Thank You

I made this card for my sister at work. She had truly been sanity in time of complete and told craziness.

Thank you Courtney!

I also got my Silhouette and was playing with the machine when I made this. I do so love it though, Egyptian is a huge part of my interests.

Gratitude

A card make for someone that has truly been my sanity at work.

Random Acts of Gratitude

This card turned out much more different than I had planned on it. I had thought it would be a simple thanks card but it turned out to be much more than that. I've found the world of pop-up dots and I find they add another dimension that I didn't have before. With this card I went with simple but it ended up being so much more.