Pressed Flower Cards

This is my PIF (Pay It Forward) project for 2014; I've been working on it all summer. When we bought flowers for the flower bed I tried to pick ones that would press nicely. Then I dried flowers using my flower press that I got for Christmas last year. It worked really well, much better then using phone books.

My original plan was to make coasters, but they didn't turn out very well. I used Mod Podge and stuck the flowers to tiles. Initially, they looked so nice but as they dried the colour of some of the flowers faded away. They looked awful. So I scrapped that idea and decide to make cards instead. I wasn't really looking forward to coating them 5 million times with Mod Podge anyway.

I have this collection of card paper for card making, complete with stickers. I picked out some paper that I thought went with the flowers and after that it didn't take long to put them together.

I made up some envelops and stuck the matching stickers on them,

bundled them up and mailed them to my PIF friends!

I like them! Next year I'll be drying more flowers!

Snowman Christmas Cards

Every year I say I'm going to make all of my Christmas cards. It never happens. Mainly because I leave it until December and then don't have time to make 50 cards. So I end up buying some or doing up a quick card on Print Master. This year was no different. I had an elaborate card planned, and as December neared the card got simpler and simpler until I abandoned my original plan all together.

I was still determined to make a card, so I looked around on Pintrest for super simple Christmas cards and I came across this. I knew it was something I could pull off!

I'm sure I would have been able to work more efficiently at my desk but it was (and still is) covered with Lego. I was ban to the floor. I'm afraid my desk is forever lost to Lego. I should have never cleaned it off!

Regardless, I got to work making snowmen.

Then made a snowflake background using my fabulous Cuttlebug.

Added a "Let it snow" stamp, embossed in blue and gold and called it done! It's pretty cute for just some circles!

I'm glad I got them done because with the price of stamps going up I might never be able to afford to mail letter again!