Minions card

Happy New Year! So I'm going to try to keep a resolution about blogging...  but I don't want to make too big of a deal about it because yeah, I'm pretty sure I'd still rather create things than write about them! But I am going to try.

Here's a project that has absolutely nothing to do with New Years, a card that I made for a friend of my daughter who  turned six last week. She insisted that he likes Minions so that's what he got, a Minion board game and a Minion card. I found a super cute cut file to download (that I modified slightly) and I cut it with my Silhouette. See, I told you I've been trying to use it more!

This was the first item that I've made with so many layers. I actually cut all of the pieces at once by trimming scraps to correct size and putting them on the cutting mat in the corresponding places. So much easier than I thought it would be! I didn't have a slightly darker blue for the pocket so I used the same blue as the overalls but colored it with a VersaMark marker.

Then I pulled out this patterned paper that's been in my scrap stash probably since I started scrapbooking in 1996. Remember Paper Pizzazz and how patterned paper wasn't usually sold in individual sheets back then but in booklets? I think this was one of theirs. It has never worked for anything in the past 20 years but somehow I liked it for this card.

Mother's Day hexagon card

So I may have gone a little crazy with the hexagons, buying not only one but all three sizes of the Fiskars squeeze punches and a Darice embossing folder. So I had to make use of them on this Mother's Day card. If you haven't used the Fiskars squeeze punches before, check them out. They do really make punching easy. You can even make chevrons with the hexagon so they're pretty versatile.

On to the card. I used kraft colored cardstock that I ran through my Texture Boutique using a the chevron embossing plate. Then I punched six patterned paper scraps that were on my desk with the largest sized hexagon punch. I stamped the sentiment with pink chalk ink onto white cardstock then trimmed the edge by putting the strip through the punch from the top, so that it just cut one side. I adhered it with foam tape over one of the hexagons. Then I punched flowers from three of the papers, adhered with with foam tape and topped each one with a pink pearl.