Cards On Thursdays

It's another free-for-all card day on the blog today, and we have TONS of gorgeous cards from our Design Team to share with you. We're starting out with lots of springtime cards, a few everyday cards, and ending with a few winter cards.

“Thanks” card, by Kathy Martin.

My first card is a spring inspired design. All the Spring Flings & Easter Things papers are so colorful and cheerful, just like spring! And when I think of spring! I often imagine butterflies fluttering about during this time of year so I created a die cut butterfly for the focal point.

Supplies:
Spring Flings & Easter Things: Sunny Sunday, Mom’s Bouquet, Cute Cuts, Borders

“Spring Spectacular” card, by Kathy Martin.

My inspiration for this second card is the cover of the brand new Bella Blvd. product catalog that was released at CHA. Have you seen it? It’s adorable, full of clouds made from Bella’s own colorful paper collections! For my card, most of my papers are from the Spring Flings & Easter Things line. I have spring on the brain and have been drawn to it!

Supplies:
Spring Flings & Easter Things: A Tisket A Tasket, Sunny Sunday, Egg Hunt, Just Write Journaling Stickers; Baby Boy: Mama’s Boy, Borders; Sophisticates: Tall Tags

"Happy Easter" card, by Deanna Misner.

With Easter right around the corner I just had to make an Easter card with "Spring Flings and Easter Things". I love all the patterns of the paper, but also the eggs, bunnies, and Easter-y icons too. For this card, I chose to combine two of the same Cute Cute so a full bracket shape would be the foundation of the card. Then I added the eggs, the bunny, and my sentiment.

Supplies:
Spring Flings and Easter Things: Cute Cuts, Borders, Just Write sticker, Alpha + Bits

"It's Springtime” card, by Deanna Misner.

Again with the Spring theme. Can you tell I'm excited about this time of year?! lol! For this one, I thought I'd hide, tuck, and layer some of the different types of embellishments, most of which are brand new to Bella Blvd. So I hid a flower bouquet, tucked a Baby Bloom and layered a crocheted bloom on top of it. Add a flag, a butterfly, and a couple of other hand-cut pieces here and there, and you've got this card.

Supplies:
Spring Flings and Easter Things: Mom's Bouquet, A Tisket A Tasket, Egg Hunt, Cute Cuts, Borders, Sunny Sunday; Baby Blooms a Bella: Rossini; Crochet Flowers: Daisies; High Five Alphabet Stickers: Green; Winter Wonder: Miniature Stickers

"Thanks" card, by Gretchen McElveen.

I am still pretty obsessed with all the fun flowers in the Sunshine & Happiness line! And because you can never have enough extra thank you cards on hand, I cut out some flowers and used them to make a thank you card to add to my stash! The white paper on this card is actually from the Spring Flings & Easter Things Cute Cuts sheet. I thought it was fun that the "heart" flowers on the bottom coordinate sweetly with the hearts in the center of some of the flowers in the Sunshine & Happiness line.

Supplies:
Sunshine & Happiness: Borders, Cute Cuts, Petal Power; Spring Flings & Easter Things: Cute Cuts; Sophisticates: Miniature Card Sentiments

"Congrats" card, by Gretchen McElveen.

I have a friend who should be having a new baby boy any day now. So I used the new Baby Boy line to make a card for her! The alphabet stickers here are from the Winter Wonder Alpha+Bits stickers. They coordinate very well with the Baby Boy line! Those little hearts were cut out of Border sheet and I adhered them to the card with foam adhesive. Thanks for looking!

Supplies:
Baby Boy: Borders, Cute Cuts, Alpha+Bits Stickers, Just Write Journaling Stickers; We're Expecting: Baby Boy Bump; Winter Wonder: Alpha+Bits Stickers

"Winter Wonder" card, by Deanna Misner.
{A Winter CHA Project}

For this card I used a snowflake punch to create a falling snow effect down the card. I grounded it all with a couple of borders, and used the collection's name as my sentiment. I really like doing that since all the Bella collections have the cutest names! It's part of where I get my inspiration!

Supplies:
Winter Wonder: Toasty, Blizzard, Borders, Miniature Stickers

"Winter Wishes" card, by Kathy Martin.
{A Winter CHA Project}

I couldn't be more excited about the new Bella Blvd Designer Flags! Flags have been a favorite accent of mine that I often create using toothpicks or straight pins. Now I'll have ready made Designer Flags that go with all my favorite Bella Blvd. lines like the Winter Wonder collection I used for this card! It's so easy to make great cards when a collection contains lots of stylish coordinating patterned papers along with accents that match perfectly like the Just Write journaling stickers and borders strips I used.

Supplies:
Winter Wonder: Blizzard, Borders, Just Write Journaling Stickers, Flags

Comments

[Becky Williams]

cute cards, everyone!

[julie Tucker-Wolek]

These are all beautiful! I loveeeeee all the clouds on Kathy's second card!

[Mandy Szeto]

awesome colors! I can feel spring coming :)

[Kathy Martin]

I always love checking in to see all the gorgeous new projects from my teammates!!!! :)

[Jodie R]

Beautiful cards, Ladies! Kathy, you just made the light in my head go off. Instead of using the shadow of the butterfly, you used the negative of the shadow! Brilliant! Deanna, your card is so cute too! I love using the negative cuts!

[Tiffany Hood]

These are all such great cards! I really mean that- they are all perfect and beautiful and fabulous.

[Diana Waite]

WONDERFUL cards!!