Thursday, October 9, 2014

Pastor Appreciation Card 2014

I was asked to make a "big" card for Mark Jordon for Pastor Appreciation Day. I'll take it to church Sunday and get the congregation to sign it while he and Donna are on their vacation to the beach.  I was having a hard time deciding what to make. I scoured Pinterest for several days. There aren't many that I liked. This one is a little bit of one, a little bit of another, and a little bit of me.

I used silver mirrored cardstock for the backing of the cross. The cross is the one from the Wedding Cricut cartridge. I cut it at 6" and cut the blackout at 6" from the mirrored cardstock. I used pop-dots between those two layers so the cross would have a shadowed effect, sitting up from the silver backing. The mirrored strip was embossed with the dots folder. (It looks black in this picture, but it's a strip of the mirrored silver cardstock). I used my punches for the leaves and flowers. I used the palest pink, blue, and two pale shades of green. I only wanted faint coloring in the leaves and flowers.


I added rhinestones, silver dots, chrome blings, and green pearls for the centers of the flowers. I punched the butterfly from a piece of patterned vellum and bent the wings up and only applied glue to the butterfly body. The "In Appreciation" was printed on the paper and then cut, using the Big Kick die cutter.

The inside has folded paper, glued just to the center fold to make "pages", to give everyone space to add their congratulations.

The verse is from 1st Corinthians 9:14 - " ...the Lord commanded that those who proclaim the gospel should get their living by the gospel." I thought that would be appropriate for a preacher!

Note: If you click on the picture, it will expand so you can see the entire card.

Hallowe'en Cards for 2014

I made one like this for a friend last year and decided that it would work for Alex's Hallowe'en card this year. He's 5, soon to be 6, and in Kindergarten. He saw a bowl of apples on my table and exclaimed, "We're studying about apples in school!" I asked him if he'd like one to eat and he said, "Mmmmm, nah, but thanks for asking, Nanny!"

He later went out to help Popie pick up all the fallen walnuts.







Emma's card is a spooky tree with a glittery bat. You can't see the bright orange cardstock very well in this picture. It's almost a neon orange. The bat was re-cut in a glittery black paper.  Maggie's card is the Grim Reaper with some bright pink glitter paper behind it. The inside of her card has a bat swinging from the word "Spooky".

I wish could remember how to get these pictures where I want them. Oh, well.