March Shoebox Cards

Hi Everyone,

I think I blinked... and then it was April!  Here's our creations from March... Love these creations and the ladies that share their talents and their stuff!!

The first card (a bit different than the original, but the same basic design... the stamp set is different) Stamping the flowers on the white, mounted on a darker purple with a simple yellow center. The lower part of the card has second generation stamping along with a simple greeting.  This card would be easily adapted to what ever stamps you have on hand.

Anita did a two-fer in March... we were able to create two cards!!  The first card is a lovely layered Thinking of you... with the addition of a layer, and the "photo mounts" and the ribbon make this versatile card.  The flowers were stamped on the front and also stamped and cut out to add additional dimension.  

Anita's second card uses a random stamped card using a lovely hydrangea stamp and using a blue and purple give this card a soft feel and with the addition of leaves, it completes this card.  The extra layer really gives this card dimension and gives a more elegant feel.  There are also three diecut butterflies that add an elegant touch.  Love all of the stamping on this card.

Beth was out of town in March, but was impressed to still send the supplies to create this fabulous under the sea card. Many of the times were already cut out and supplied with adhesive.  Love this background and texture paper... and the diecut net and octopus.  What a fun and creative card.  

Julie's card has a Saint Patrick's day feel to it.  Fun paper and stamps.  The design she was working on didn't work the way she wanted... (we have all been there) so she brought all of her supplies and just let us create our own design!  Everyone's a wee bit Irish on St. Paddy's Day!! 

 Shannon's creation also features a Saint Patrick's flavor.  She had fun two types of background and texture paper, one featuring shamrocks and one just shades of green... and adding the cut out shamrocks really give a pop to this fun card.  Love the green ribbon on the side as well!  just such a sweet card!!

Melani's card was a fun fold card.  Lots of squares in this card, we started out with 4x12 piece of lightweight cardstock, and scored it at 4 and 8.  Then we scored from the bottom left to the upper right of both of the end pieces Then adhere the 3x3 square... only on half the diagonal... and then it folds in on itself.  An additional 2x2 square was added on the top of the 3x3 square.  It was tied with a piece of yarn.  How cute.

Roxxy drove us "Buggy" with this cute card... She had pre cut the shape (a diamond) for us, and then we had to score, starting in the middle... putting the center point on six of our scoreboard, scoring at 5.5 and 6.5, 5 and 7, 4 and 8, 3.5 and 8.5, 2.5 and 9.5, 2 and 10, 1 and 11, .5 and 11.5 (this last piece will hang over the edge of the 4x5.25 layer.  The card is decorated with puffy bugs and fun words cut from a wordstrip.  Super cute card!!

Shoebox cards is a wonderful night of creativity, laughter and conversation!  It's fun to find such a group of ladies that I call my friends.  Love you all!!