It’s an 80th birthday card for Steve’s grandpa from his lovely grandchildren. I went back to plain old cutting chinese characters out of paper.
I found some gold paper and attempted at some framing. I thought cutting into cardstock over print paper was a joy, but cutting into metallic paper, it felt so good – cutting [...]
Dear Mind Over Paper fans,
Wishing you a very safe and happy winter holiday! Merry Christmas!
The following cards are all cut with an X-acto knife and the snowflakes confetti allowed me emboss a few of them. Leave a comment, let me know which one is your favourite!
Ting
This is the only pop-up card I made:
Materials: card stock [...]
A dear friend celebrated her birthday party this weekend. We got her the Nintendo DS game Scribblenauts. For the card, I decided to stick with the theme and make her the notebook in the game.
Inside the notebook, I scribbled pictures that reminded us of the birthday girl. These were among my favourites:
This is the ultimate [...]
I’m just so glad that there’s so much you can do with just paper and a knife! (and the occasional glue) Mainly because I would hate to start recycling designs with the amount of cards I make… Although I must say, it’s a lot easier to make cards for people I know, because I just [...]
Finally, back to paper! My friend, Michele (with 1 l), had her birthday this week. I got her the 20 Questions toy where the toy tries to guess what you’re thinking of in 20 questions. The point was to make her feel younger than the age she’s turning. I thought a card might go well [...]
This has happened on many occasions where we have to leave the house in 10 minutes to a party and I have to make a card. I suck at drawing, so I typically just take papers of different colours and try to glue something together that’s quick and passes as a decent card.
I managed to [...]
A coworker is having a birthday and I’m her assigned birthday buddy, which means I have to prepare a little gift to acknowledge their special day. I saw an opportunity to do some crafting.
Gift Box
Using cardstock and popsicle sticks I made a box to put the treats in.
Materials: popsicle sticks, cardstock
The Birthday [...]
I had made the decal of mario with the hammer as a graduation present for Jeff, my future little brother-in-law who just graduated from UBC and got accepted into the education program. I had to present the gift somehow. Jeff’s a big Nintendo fan (as we all are), and I had these paper mushrooms at [...]
This is a card I made for a great friend who is all about Macs. His nickname is Air so I thought I’d make him a card in the form of the MacBook Air.
Inspired by Apple’s ad of the MacBook Air, I tried to recreate the envelope. I grabbed an old manila envelope for the [...]
Wonderful people start with a wonderful mom. I made this card for my future mother-in-law of her 4 kids on Mother’s Day 2009. I mounted the cut out silouhette on foam. Can’t see the depth here but I used extra layers of foam to raise the silhouette to actually see the cut out. I attached [...]
