High Five Turkey

Whoever thought of using a hand print to create a turkey was a genius! 

Charlie wishes you a...what does that say?

If you watch It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, you'll know that Charlie (probably the best male character on that show) can't read or write all too well. He once thought pirates lived inside a room because the door was marked, "Private". His less-than-spectacular spelling has been the subject of many of the jokes on that show.

The man on this card, due to my inability to draw well (let alone faces!), looks more like a surprised mountain man than Charlie Kelly (or rather, the actor, Charlie Day). And this is why I had to write his name. Tsk tsk.

Where have I been?

Where have I been?!

I honestly haven't been churning out very many greeting cards or paper crafts, unfortunately. So much for my 2012 New Year's Resolution! Shame on me. Hopefully the need for greeting cards in the upcoming months (so many holidays!) will give me my much needed motivation!

Also, this is completely unrelated, but Haagen-Dazs sells green tea ice cream and it is absolutely delicious!

Chili

The Elevated Envelope

I signed up to be a part of The Elevated Envelope project. It's a penpal project that allows strangers from around the world to send handmade envelopes to one another. The creator and organizer, Tara, put us into groups of 4 or 10-ish (depending on how ambitious we were) and we sent envelopes to the people in our group . I was obviously not very ambitious so I chose to be put in a group with 3 other people. The theme our group was given was "sweet" so all of my envelopes deal with sweets. I wish I didn't procrastinate and make my envelopes a few days before the deadline because my envelopes sure look janky, heehee. If you look at Tara's blog, you'll see the lovely envelope creations that other people have made. It's really inspiring :)

CTRL+C and CTRL+V #8

Other Works of Art: Japanese stationery items

I went to Japan recently and visited Itoya, a gigantic stationery store in Ginza, Tokyo. They have everything stationery-related imaginable there. Here are some of the things I purchased that really blew my mind!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
This is called the Deco Rush decorating tape. It looks like a regular white-out dispenser, but it dispenses cutely designed tape! I chose the one with whimsical dogs. The Deco Rush is super easy to use and it dispenses onto paper quite cleanly.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I've never gotten so excited about a pen before in my life, but the FRIXION pen by Pilot is amazing. It works like a regular pen, but the trick is at the opposite end of the writing tip. The white rubbery end is an eraser! It never leaves eraser dust and will never shrink down. The eraser works very well.

I drew three squiggly lines, one in each color, and then rubbed the eraser about three times down each squiggle.
Look at how clean it is!

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

This is the Beetle Tip highlighter that has two interesting ridges; it's so you can highlight in three different ways!! Use the thick ridge for bold lines, the thin ridge for thin lines, and both to make double lines!! This should make highlighting very interesting. You can highlight words, underline words, and surround words with two lines. 

Blackberry Birthday

Outside

Inside

I'm back again! I think. 

Don't have wrapping paper?

You can just cover the top of a gift box with pretty magazine paper and a paper flower!

The green pipe cleaner, unfortunately, did not stick to the magazine paper with glue so I stuck it to the box with cute piano tape!

Recycling?

So if you need something to put chocolates or cookies in, just use a box, clean it up, cover any writing with paper (hearts) and line the bottom with parchment paper! Most of my recent posts haven't been card-related...oops.

              

Ummm yeahhhh paper flowers

Soooo I guess I didn't really keep my promise, did I? My last post was over...a month ago? This is terrible. What happened to meeee?

Well, here are some paper flowers that I've made now that the weather is getting nicer here in NYC. I ventured to the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens this past weekend, but there still weren't too many things in bloom outside. I hope the warmer weather we've been getting changes that!

The petals are paper hearts made out of magazine papers. Each flower is comprised of about 8 hearts and they are secured with a brad in the center. The stems are just green pipe cleaners.

My favorite one

Close second? Eh, eh?

In a "vase" on a wall

Happy Valentine's Day!!

My signature stick figure!
It kind of looks like me. Well, except for the fact that I don't really look that much like a watermelon!

Sending some love

Front

Inside
Pop-up mailbox (with a swivel flag!)
Hmm, is that a letter sticking out of the mailbox??

Yes, it is!

The front of the mini envelope

The inside of the mini envelope: hearts!

Office decorations!

Here are some Valentine's decorations that we put up in our office. Aren't they pretty? Everything was so easy to make and we created them bit by bit during our lunch breaks. We are such a creative bunch. I'm so modest.

                             

TA DAH!!!

Origami hearts strung together

Here's a chain of hearts that have been shaped into a heart!!

Valentine's Compilation #2

Part 2!!!

 

Valentine's Compilation #1

I'm just not able to make as many cards this year. It's not even lack of time; I just don't have the inspiration! Oh dear, this is a problem. Here are some oldies.