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.