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 [...]
No fireworks, no loads of candies, no clubbing. It’s the kind of celebrating I like to do: pumpkin carving party! It took me a long time to finally decide on what to carve this year. The idea finally hit me an hour before the party started. Steve helped me find the image that I could [...]
I can’t remember the last time I decorated for Hallowe’en. The original idea was to have something “spewing” out of the mail slot, something like blood, but I couldn’t figure out a way to make it look real. So I gave up on that idea and moved on to wanting the mail slot to be [...]
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 [...]
I always wanted a bathroom in a particular shade of blue with white trims/accents. Finally we get to colour our walls however we choose, so on went the blue. Once we were done, I was asked to think of a way to decorate our tiny bathroom, since I took over wall decor for the rest [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
For the past week I have been working on plastering Steve’s MacBook (at his request) with decals. I have finally finished.
If you’ve seen his MacBook in a previous post, we had a mushroom where Toad is right now. I decided to replace the mushroom because the more characters I put on, the more the mushroom [...]
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 [...]
