Thank you card

My craft space re-organisation is coming on well but I am not quite ready to share my pictures of it yet as there are still a couple of changes to make.

In the meantime I have a card to post.

This card is so quick and easy and would be great for anyone who has a lot of thank you cards to make for birthday gifts or new baby gifts etc.

This is my usual sized card (i.e. A4 cut in half to A5 and then folded in half). I then cut a basic black layer 2 cm smaller than the base and then a further white layer 1cm smaller than that. I adhered the two layers together using my snail and then put dimensionals on the back of the basic black layer and added it to my base.

I punched 5 hearts 1 in daffodil delight, 1 in old olive, 1 in pretty in pink, 1 in marina mist and one in whisper white with the small heart punch (page 106 item no 117193 £5.75). I picked these colours at random from my scraps.

On the white heart I used the versa mark, heat and stick powder and dazzling diamonds on the to give it a bit of sparkle. I added all the hearts to the base in a sort of wave pattern. I used mini glue dots to stick down all the hearts with the exception of the dazzling diamonds heart which I added with a piece of the edge of the dimensionals.

Using the mat pack I pierced some holes in between the hearts.

My sentiment is from the sweetheart stamp set (page 37 item no 120415 for the wood mount £22.95 and item no 120780 for the clear mount £17.95) and this was stamped in the basic black to finish the card.

I hope you like it. If you would like more information or to place an order for any of the materials used then please send me a message kirstiestampinup@gmail.com


Before I go I thought I would share with you another hobby of mine which is cake decorating. This is a picture of a "cupcake bouquet". This is a gift of cupcakes made to look like a potted plant. This is the one I have just completed for a neighbour who helped me this week.

Outer Space card with the owl punch

I used the two step owl punch from page 14 of the mini catalogue (item no 118074 price £15.50) to punch out the aliens I punched three one in daffodil delight, one in concord crush and one in melon mambo.

Also with the owl punch I punched three of the larger eye circles in whisper white and three of the smaller eye circles in black. I also punched two of the smaller eye circles in daffodil delight, two in concord crush and two in melon mambo.

I then used the star punch on page 104 of the catalogue (item no 119875 price £15.50) and punched three stars one in daffodil delight, one in concord crush and one in melon mambo. I cut off two points from each star and stuck the matching colour circles to them to make the antennae for the aliens.

I carefully cut the feet of the punched owl shapes and adhered them to what would be the head of the owl. I then adhered the antennae to where the feet were and placed the whisper white and black circles to the alien to complete them.

I punched an ornament punch (item no 119847 price £15.50)  in vellum to make the bubble for the spaceship and punched a scalloped oval in daffodil delight (item no 119856 price £15.50) and a large oval (item 119855 price £14.25) in real red for the base of the spaceship.

The last punch was a 1 1/4 inch circle punch (item no 119861 price £14.25) moon in whisper white.

I also added some dazzling diamonds (item no 102023 price £3.75) glitter stars. I used the multipurpose glue and randomly placed some dots and then dusted with glitter. I also added a glitter edge to vellum spaceship bubble.