Sentimental Card Exchange

I held a card exchange yesterday with the theme of "sentiments". The ladies that participated really came up with a variety of ideas and inspiration. They were all great, check them out~

{inside view}

Thank you again ladies for playing along!

Check back all this week as I will be showing some of the other new goodies I had on display as well as the cards we created with paper roses and the Back to Basic September pages.

Sentiments in a Pocket

Another card featuring a sentiment or two! This was an idea I thought of for my upcoming card exchange. What I like about it were the two pockets sewn into the card. Each pocket holds a tag that when pulled out reveals a little message and checklist. I thought the color combination was cute and somewhat shabby chic. I certainly can't resist the lollipop flower and pleated paper either. However, this was not my final choice, you'll see the card I ended up duplicating for the exchange soon. I am super excited to see what everyone else has created too!

Sentiments For Everyone

This weeks challenge on H2H is called Sentimentally Yours. Create a card or project with a sentiment on it. Perfect!! That just happens to also be the theme of the next card exchange I am hosting this month. The sentiments could be basically anything other than Birthday or other Holidays. They are those perfect cards for last minute mailings or just because. Here is my card for the challenge over on H2H, but not the one I've chosen to swap. {I'll keep you guessing on that!} Once I've received all the cards from those ladies that participated I will post them here, so come back for more sentiments!

H2H Sketch Challenge ~ City Scape

Heart 2 Heart Blog this week is challenging us to a Sketch in the gorgeous Wishes book. It's called City Scape and is actually a very small 4 3/4 x 3" card. It's a simple sketch and really leaves a lot to the imagination. Here is the sketch~


I took the sketch and flipped it 180` for my card, like this~


I also made my card so that it had a "flap" opening rather than just a standard side opening. Here it is~

Look closely and you'll see the the "flap" tucks inside the card stock piece on top.

Here's a time saving idea: To create the piece of card stock on the front with all the sentiments, I laid all the words and phrases I wanted to use on a larger block then stamped it all at once. You can do this with different shapes, flowers, numbers etc. to create a background stamp too!