Paper + Punchers = Pretty Wreaths

Card for the Retiring High School Principal

 

The principal at the local high school retired recently, and I was tasked with making a card from some of the employees. A picture of the school went into Photoshop, and after a round with glue and paper, this was the result.

Christmas Cards

Years ago, my mom and I started making 3D cards. I quickly grew bored with those, though, but not with card making. These days I make all kinds of cards, and these are some of my recent ones.

With this one, I had a lot of fun with rhinestones and my snowflake puncher.

 

A piece of scrapbooking paper and some gold snowflakes go a long way.

 

A template? What template?

 

I'm going through an owl phase.

Cute santas from Panduro Hobby.

 

Nothing says "Merry Christmas" like Santa's stomach.

Wreath of holly on door.

And wreath in window. This one is made of snowflakes.

 

 

And finally - a card on a stick. Bon appetit.

 

Gift Tags

Making your own gift tags is easy. I've used a flower punch and made some tags from scrapbook paper. Dead easy but more personal than what you buy at the store. 

 

 

 

Bookbinding

I saw this amazing tutorial one day and decided to try my hand at bookbinding. It's so much fun and extremely easy to make some really personal books. I'm planning to give away a few for Christmas.

 

 



 

I pretty much use whatever patchwork fabric and scrapbooking paper I have. Old ribbons and stickers. For the blue one beneath, I actually used part of the dress my grandma wore for her birthday 22 years ago. So it's very easy to make them personal.

 

 

 



Flower Stickers

A couple of American friends got me hooked on scrapbooking last year. It's a wonderful way of preserving memories, and I love how you can give your trip or special occasion exactly the setting you want to. I quickly discovered a problem, though.

Since scrapbooking is not a very popular hobby in Denmark, finding the right materials is a challenge. Once you've made an album or two with the same paper and embellishments from Karen Marie-Klip, you're kind of over it. The cool stuff is imported from the US and as a result incredibly expensive - ordering it online from US yourself is just as expensive.

So I thought that it was worth it to try making some of my own. I started with something safe - flowers. I got a couple of punchers, some paper, adhesives, and rhinestones.

The flowers have many uses.

Cards

Wreaths

These are - ironically enough - for an American friend's New Orleans scrap album

If you're not up for making them yourself, I sell them on Etsy. You can request custom orders in the menu to the left.