Simple Square Flower Card

Creative Craft World is having a challenge for a square card, so I thought I'd give it a whirl.  I don't make them very often anymore because I'm too cheap to pay the extra postage for them.  I wanted to try out my new Stampin' Up stamp set I got, my first one ever.  I went to a Stampin' Up demo a few weeks ago and got a set of stamps free after spending $50 on gorgeous ribbon.  I don't buy very many stamps because I have a hard time justifying the cost and I don't really have space to store them.  I prefer to work with digi stamps that I can store on my computer.  Anyway, I used my Cricut Graphically Speaking cartridge to cut out this flower from a scrap of blue cardstock and a scrap of print paper.  I used the stamp on the center.  The card is a 5" square cut from white cardstock with a blue mat and a yellow mat under the flower.  I stitched on the yellow cardstock and then zigzag stitched the white trim onto it.  Pop dots on the flower center of blue and the stamped circle for a little dimension.  Just a quick and simple card.

Favorite Friend Sentiment Card

I needed a really quick card for a friend today.  Not long ago I went through some of my scraps and picked out a few of the nicer designer papers that were big enough to be mats for cards and cut a bunch of them to have on hand.  I always have base cards made and handy.  So today I was able to grab the elements to this card fast and just put them together.

Here is my supply list:

• A2 base card from white cardstock
• Black mat (4 1/8" x 5 3/8")
• Design paper mat (4" x 5 1/4")
• White cardstock punched strip (2" x 5 1/4")-Fiskars scallop punch
• Black cardstock flourish (cut from Cricut Cindy Loo cartridge @ 2")
• Hampton Art sentiment stamp
• White cardstock (2 1/4" x 3") for sentiment
• Black mat for sentiment (2" x 2 3/4")
• Cuttlebug-Divine Swirls Embossing folder
• Pop Dots

Having all the pre-cut pieces ready to go helped me put this card together in under five minutes.  All I had to do was emboss the pre-punched white strip, stamp and mat the sentiment and adhere all the pieces.  This worked so well I'll go through some more of my scraps to cut some more mats.  From now on I'll look at my scraps differently, too.