Nurses Week Card

So, DD called and asked if I could make her some cards for her work. She's a Medical Assistant, but Nurses Week is coming right up and so her co-workers wanted to show a little appreciation for the nurses they work with and could I make them some cards?

Sure, I can do that. 

 

 I googled some vintage nurse images, and got to thinking about how stern and solemn they all looked in their funny little caps. Did you know that lots of nursing schools from the 1800s through the 1980s had individual, unique caps that would identify the wearer as a nursing graduate of that particular school? Google is a wonderful thing. Here's the  LINK to the picture I used. Anyways, I printed the photo of these nurses onto photo paper and captioned it with "Put on your party hat & celebrate! Happy Nurses Week".

 Cute right? I think so...Hallmark, eat your heart out!!LOL! I layered the photo on some cute cardstock and added a few little brads for decoration and TA-DA cards are done for Nurses Week.

 Next to make the envelopes. I used my handy dandy envelope punch board-it sure makes quick work of making envelopes.

 Done and ready to go...except DD also needed a birthday card for another co-worker. OK I can do that too!

 Here it is! Cute paper makes it easy to make a cute card. I added the clip with the FUN! embellishment to finish it off!

SO Happy Nurses week to all my nurses out there...I only know a few..snort...haha!

I Think I need One of These

Did you see this new gadget from the folks at Stampin' Up!? It makes envelopes. I think I need one of these. I am always making envelopes, and usually they are crooked....

remember when I made these? I didn't even show the envelopes...they were bad.

And these I made DD take without any envelopes at all....shameful!


So now I need to google a Stampin' Up person in my neighborhood...I'll report back later!

Card Swap

I joined a monthly card swap...I doubt I'll do it every month, but I thought I'd give it a try.

Here's the card I made. I needed 12 cards to send to 12 different people and then I'll receive 12 cards too.
The sign up instructions say "have fun using up your scarp paper so you can buy more." I could likely make a thousand cards before I needed to buy more!LOL!

I used photos cut from a lovely calendar that I got last year-and every year- from my wonderful cousin Robin. I cut the pictures to fit, then cut the little bird with my Slice machine.

Then I made envelopes out of old atlas pages. I don't think I'll ever run out of Atlas pages! I do love them!

There, all done and 12 cards in the mail. Now we'll see what I get in return!

Recipe Swap Cards

Occasionally, I join in a swap of recipes on one of my favorite crafty places. Craft sayings
They announce the theme-this time it's cakes. And then you decorate pretty cards with your cake recipe to share. After they're all done you send off the required number of cards to your hostess and when she gets them from everyone, you get a package in the mail of a bunch of recipes on pretty cards!

I'm sharing a cake recipe that I made awhile back for something or other at the church. It came out good and was very tasty too.

I used some more of my old atlas pages for the base, and printed the recipe on card stock. Then added some foo-foo pretties, and now I'm ready to laminate them. I just use the sticky laminating sheets-No machine:-(
I'll have to remember to share the package of cards I get back when they come.