Basic Grey Card Kit May 2013

 

This is card #1. Follow the background instructions, except leave 1/8" of the white card base exposed all the way around. (I always do this because it frames the card.) Adhere the "Cute as a bug with a rug" sticker to green paper. Lightly adhere the red/white circle sticker to the green paper. Cut away the excess green paper that extends beyond the red/white circle sticker's outer edge. Adhere the 2-1/2" orange cardstock circle to the 2-1/2" chipboard circle. Adhere the bug circle to the orange circle. Adhere the multicolored circle sticker to the card front. Adhere the bug circle to the center of the multicolored circle sticker. Adhere one wiggle eye to the bug with a rug. I finally just got that... bug with a rug... he has a hairpiece.

This is card #2. I just chose different stickers for the front. I substituted the red dotted border sticker for the green diagonal border sticker because it shows up better. I chose to use the red polka dot pennant sticker and the "Tough as Nails" sticker on the following card, not on this one. It seemed more appropriate on the super hero card below.

This is card #5. I cut my card base a little smaller because I didn't like all that white space. My card base is 6-1/2" x 10", then fold in half. Follow their background instructions. I added a couple more pennant stickers to the upper left. I turned the black scallop sticker upside down, and I cut off the eraser on the yellow pencil sticker. I added white stitch lines above the yellow pencil sticker. I added the "Tough as Nails" sticker. I popped up the "super" sticker.

This is actually card #7. Call me crazy, but I don't think a rosette should be on a boy's card. Besides, this beetle sticker was too cute to pass up! Follow their background instructions, leaving 1/8" of the card base exposed. Locate the orange cardstock rectangle. Adhere the "May I have that crumb?" sticker to the orange rectangle, leaving extra cardstock showing at the top, and adhere it to the card front. Remove the top notched part of the white/green ticket sticker. Adhere the ticket sticker to the card top. Adhere a small piece of the green/white scalloped sticker border to the upper right edge of the orange rectangle. Adhere the "adventure" chipboard. Adhere the black cardstock ant. Adhere one wiggle eye to the ant, and two wiggle eyes to the beetle.

 This is card #8, with a few changes. I ran the striped paper the opposite direction. I added a 5/8" strip of green bug paper above the black paper. I added the red polka dot border sticker to the top of the bug paper. I used the "You're a Winner" chipboard sticker because it matches the ticket stickers. I also used the colorful pennants from the garland package.

 

 The digital elements on this card need to be cut smaller than the directions say or it will be too big for the front of your card. The center brown circle size is fine, but the other two are too big.

 

This is card #4. I didn't put white stitching marks on the black banner. I didn't use the white ledger banner. The star die cuts and the white/black scalloped circle die cuts are in your kit.
                                                               

 

This is card #6. Cut a 6-1/4" x 10" white cardstock base. Fold. Locate the real pocket that I made you. Cut a card from the white ledger paper for your real pocket. A sample card is below. Substitute the polka dot paper for the top of the card. Cut the remaining orange rickrack sticker in half and adhere it to the left and right edge (the pocket will cover the missing part). Adhere the green star pencil sticker to the middle of the pocket. Adhere the pocket to the card front. Adhere the blue cardstock circle to the chipboard circle. Adhere the "5 cent" sticker to the blue cardstock circle and adhere it to the front of the card. Thread the green square chipboard button with hemp and adhere. Adhere the star sticker.   

sample:

 

2 Bonus Cards that I designed for you: 

 

Cut a 4-5/8" x 12" white cardstock base. Fold. Cut a piece of the green bug paper and adhere to the card front leaving 1/8" of the white cardstock base exposed. Cut a 2" strip of blue diagonal stripe paper and adhere across the center of the card. Lightly adhere the scalloped ledger frame sticker to a piece of light blue alphabet paper. Cut away the excess blue alphabet paper that extends beyond the scalloped frame's edges. Adhere this scalloped circle to the center of the card. Add black stitching line with a .08 pen. Assemble frog by adhering arms to body, then head to body. Tuck light green cardstock circle under slit in belly. Cut off any excess light green cardstock that shows at the bottom. Chalk frog's cheeks with red chalk. Adhere frog to center of circle. Thread plaid chipboard button with hemp and adhere. Adhere green push pin sticker.

Cut a 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" white cardstock base. Fold. Cut a 4" strip of red/orange stripe paper and adhere to the top of the card. Cut a 1-1/4" strip of red paper and adhere to the bottom of the card. Cut a 1-3/4" strip of the white number paper and adhere just above the red paper. Adhere the red cardstock buckles to each side. Add black stitch lines to the top portion of the card with a .08 pen. Add white stitch lines to the bottom portion of the card. Locate the rocket ship pocket and the brown rectangle of cardstock. Fold the rocket ship pocket on the crease lines. Insert the brown rectangle. Turn the pocket over and adhere the pocket flaps to the brown rectangle, adhering the side flaps first, followed by the bottom flap. Adhere pocket to the card front. Adhere brown" ticket" sticker to white rectangle and insert into pocket. Adhere blue cardstock star to chipboard star. Adhere star to pocket front (top point of star should extend a little past the pocket edge. Adhere red cardstock circle to center of blue star. Thread rocket chipboard button with hemp and adhere to red circle.

 

 

Knee-Highs & Bow Ties Card Kit

Cut a 5-3/4" x 9-3/4" white cardstock base. Fold. Adhere yellow herringbone paper to card front, leaving about 1/8" white card base exposed. Trim out "1234567890" rectangle, "a boy's favorite class is recess" and "I will not talk in class" from the snippets book. Also trim out "everything boy", with the orange triangle border and the blue dotted line below "play like a kid" attached. Adhere the "everything boy" strip across the narrower part of the "1234567890" rectangle. Adhere the "I will not talk in class" directly above it. Adhere to card front. Adhere "a boy's favorite class is recess" below. Add black stitching line with a .08 pen. Adhere medium yellow candy buttons and grad cap.   

Cut a 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" white cardstock base. Fold. Cut pink heart paper for card front, leaving about 1/8" white base exposed. From the snippets book, trim out the notebook paper just below the 3 Bears and the "we are a happy family". Adhere notebook paper to card front. Cut a 1-3/4" x 6" strip of the funny birds paper. Adhere to card front, cutting off excess. Adhere card front to card base. Tear out the frames page from the snippets book. Cut off the lower scalloped edge about 1/4" from the bottom and save it for the last card. Cut out the lower left frame. Using an exacto knife, cut the center out of the frame. Ink the inside edge of the opening with your black pen so it looks finished. Trim out "The bird's the word" from the snippet book. Cut off the bird and place it underneath the frame so it shows through the opening. Pop up the yellow rectangle frame and adhere it to the card front. Add black

stitching line with a .08 pen. Adhere small pink candy buttons.

Cut a 4-1/2" x 9" white cardstock base. Fold. Adhere diagonal striped paper on card front, leaving about 1/8" white base exposed. Cut nine 1-1/4" squares out of the various papers. Adhere squares to card, popping up the "sunshine" square, the "perfect" square, the center daisy square and the butterfly stickered green square. Adhere the stickers to the squares. Add black stitching lines with a .08 pen. Adhere yellow "laugh" sticker to center of cardstock flower and adhere flower to card. Adhere the metal tab to the remaining yellow square. Adhere cardstock heart to metal tab. Adhere a small yellow candy button to center of daisy sticker. Isn't that cute? (The word "celebrate" is a rub-on.)

Cut a 5-3/4" x 9 3/4" white cardstock base. Fold. Cut a piece of pink large floral paper for card front, leaving about 1/8" white base exposed. Cut a 2-3/8" x 6" strip of light pink paper. Cut a 2-1/8" strip of pink diamond paper. Adhere pink diamond paper to light pink paper. Adhere pink diamond strip to the center of the pink floral card front. Trim off any excess. Adhere card front to card base. Cut a 1-1/8" x 5" strip of green print. Notch ends. Adhere down center of card. Adhere "Hello Beautiful" sticker. Adhere large pink candy buttons.

Cut a 5" x 10" red cardstock base. Fold. Cut a 4-3/4" x 4-1/2" rectangle from the green print. Adhere to card front, leaving extra red cardstock showing at the bottom of the card. Trim the "Ready. Set. Go!" and the snail from the snippets book. (Save the notebook paper above the "Ready. Set. Go!" for the last card.) Adhere the "Ready. Set. Go!" to the card front. Adhere the snail above it. Adhere wiggle eyes to snail. Adhere die cut string with red pennants.

Cut a 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" black cardstock base. Fold. Trim out the rectangle frame, one "SMILE" strip and the orange scalloped edge from the 3 ducks page from the snippets book. Cut various size strips of paper from the paper pad. Adhere strips to card front, leaving a small gap between each piece. Adhere rectangle frame and orange scallop border. Adhere "SMILE" to rectangle frame. Add black stitching lines around fatter strips of paper with a .08 pen. ("Time to celebrate" is a rub-on.)

Cut a 5-3/4" x 9-3/4" white cardstock base. Fold. Cut a 4-1/8" strip of the funny bird paper and adhere to the top of the card. Cut a narrow strip of diagonal stripe paper and adhere underneath the bird paper. Trim out the "abcdefg" scalloped border and the diagonal stripe rectangle with the scalloped oval from the snippets book. Mat the striped rectangle with the dark pink solid paper and mat the "abcdefg" scalloped border with the green solid paper, making sure that the mats are the same length. Adhere both to card. Add black stitching lines. Adhere medium pink or yellow candy dots. ("Happy Birthday" is a rub-on.)

Cut a 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" black cardstock base. Fold. Adhere black triangle paper on card front, leaving about 1/8" black base exposed. Adhere a 2-1/2" x 3 1/2" rectangle of pink diamond paper to card front. Adhere pink chevron sticker to the left of the pink diamond paper. Trim the notebook paper from the snippets book and notch the end. Adhere to card front. Add black stitching lines. Trim the "{bugs}" from the snippets book. Black out the bottom of the "b" with your black pen so it looks like "hugs". Tricky, huh? Adhere to card front. Adhere cardstock flower and button center.

Cut a 7" x 10" white cardstock base. Fold. Cut a golden yellow cardstock and adhere to the card front, leaving about 1/8" white base exposed. Cut a 4-5/8" x 6" rectangle of gold daisy print and adhere to card front. Get the notebook paper snippets leftover from the snail card and cut the top off, so that it is 3-1/2" tall. Adhere 5/8" up from card bottom. Trim "Be Silly", "Shine", and "Fun is Good" banners from snippets book. Lay banners out on card front to determine spacing. Adhere die cut string over the tree banners and cut off any excess banner that shows above string. Adhere banners to card front. Adhere small yellow candy buttons.

 

Cut a 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" white cardstock base. Fold. Cut background paper and adhere to the card front, leaving 1/8" white base exposed. Cut a 1-3/4" x 5" rectangle of the solid green paper. Adhere to card front. Trim out the scalloped notebook paper to the left of the "Whimsical" block in the snippets book. Cut off the lower third of the notebook paper and adhere to card front under the green rectangle. Adhere upper piece of notebook paper directly above the green rectangle so it looks like it's all one piece. Trim out pennants from snippets book. Select 7 pennants and adhere near the top of the upper notebook paper. Add black stitching lines with a .08 pen. Remove the 4 pennant stickers from sticker sheet and thread across the black cardstock string. Adhere to card front. Add an extra large
yellow and pink candy dot. "Time to celebrate!" is a rub-on.

Cut a 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" white cardstock base. Fold. Cut a 4-1/8" x 3-1/4" piece of pink alphabet paper and adhere to the top of the card. Cut a 2-1/8" x 4-1/8" strip of burgundy circle paper and adhere to the bottom of the card. Locate the yellow scalloped border, cut it in half, and adhere to the left and right side of the card, in between the two papers. Locate the floral pocket front and the light pink rectangle. Fold the floral pocket on the crease lines. Insert the pink rectangle, turn over and adhere the flaps to the back of the pink rectangle. Adhere pocket to card front. Add black stitching lines. Adhere "smile" sticker to white rectangle and slide rectangle into pocket. Adhere the green leaf to the back of the yellow flower. Adhere flower to pocket front. Adhere white flower to center of yellow flower. Adhere extra large pink candy dot to center of white flower.