Open And Reveal First Birthday

This is the card I put together for our cousin's grandson's first birthday celebration last month. I was falling behind on my birthday card making in May so I knew I had to keep this card quick and easy. To cut and assemble the paper pieced teddy bear, I used one of the bears from the "Stardust and Moonbeams" cutting file from Marjorie Ann Designs. "Expose" font was used to make the cut file for the word "One". Balloons were cut using Craft Emporium's (retired) "Stitched Balloon" die.

I needed a card I could finish quickly, so I decided to use the Slide and Reveal mechanism I recently learned  from watching video tutorials by Sam Calcott and Sara Davies on You Tube. As the card is opened, a panel holding a gift card slides out from the bottom of the card.

Teddy bear inside is also from Marjorie Ann Designs and  "1-derful" was created from New Boston and LD Charming fonts using Make the Cut Design Program. 

Open and Reveal Thank You Card

I was in need of a thank you card in a hurry and this is the quick and simple one I came up with.  I used "Patches the Bear Birthday" cut file set from Marjorie Ann Designs to create my paper pieced teddy bears. Blue background digital papers are from Papers By Helen.

As the card is opened, a panel with a gift card slides out from the bottom of the card. I followed You Tube tutorials from Sam Calcott and Sara Davies to put this fun card together.

The sentiments for this card were computer generated using "Hello Valentica" font. I used Make the Cut to create a shadow layer of the sentiment and the print and cut function to cut it out. Later, I scribbled my personal hand written thank you note onto the blank top panel before mailing.

I really like that this interactive slider card requires no special dies (just different sized rectangles and squares scored and glued together) and is very quick to put together. I'm sure I'll be making this style of card quite often!

Just in Time for Easter

 Happy Easter! I made a card to send to our granddaughter and cookie boxes to share with family to celebrate Easter this year.

Finally had a chance to play with my set of Lawn Fawn "Build A Bunny" and "Build A Bunny Accessories" dies to make the bunnies for this Easter card. Die cut Happy Easter greeting comes from Karen Burniston "Easter Charms" set and I used Karen Burniston "Curved Edges" dies for the grassy hillside.

Inside the card, I added a sliding gift card mechanism which I learned from watching video tutorials by Sam Calcott of Mixed Up Craft on You Tube here and Sarah Davies of Crafter's Companion here.

Here's a short video showing this sliding mechanism in action.

 As the card is opened, a panel holding the gift card slides out from the bottom.

The sliding mechanism for this card is really simple to put together and no special dies are required. The only thing that bothered me a little is that the sliding mechanism (shown here) is part of the back of the card and very visible; there is really no way to hide or disguise it.

At the last minute I decided to put together these Easter cookie boxes to share with friends and family.

The original cutting file for the top of this box was a freebie I picked up from Dreaming Tree at Creative Fabrica. This was meant to be a box style card, but I made a few adjustments to the cut file so I could use it for the top of my cookie boxes.

I wanted to use a hinged lid for my cookie boxes so I first enlarged the outer "box" of the card to fit around the lid of the cookie box. I then cut the height of the two struts that hold the bunny and tulips by 0.5 inch so it would sit nicely on top of the lid.

I also added a round scalloped label with "Happy Easter" printed on it just above the tab closure for the box.

Not enough time to even bake cookies so I filled my boxes with our favorite decadent Palm Leaf cookies from a local bakery. 

Hope everyone is spending Easter doing whatever you enjoy most!