Birthday Wishes

You can never have too many birthday cards on hand, and I know a lot of people with April birthdays!  I like to make a "batch" at a time and add them to my card stash so that it's always full of birthday cards for last minute necessity. 

When I make batches I like to keep them simple and versatile.  Here's what I came up with!  I stamped the balloon on watercolor paper to give it a little texture.  The balloon framelits are a must have!

These were really easy to put together a stack of-- and I hope this inspires you to go make something fun!

Christmas Gift Boxes

I haven't posted for a while, mostly because finals were right after Thanksgiving so I've been really busy.  On the plus side- I almost got straight A's this semester!  Studying hard is worth the feeling of satisfaction.

I had a lot of tiny treat boxes left from my Thanksgiving post, so I paired them with fun Christmas prints and voila!  I love this paper, it feels traditional and warm--like home!

I wanted to create the look of curling ribbon around this box.  It's actually made of 1/4" strips of paper, curled using my bone folder.  Awesome technique!

This bow was created by layering loops of paper in alternating pattern, using glue dots to hold it all together.  It's really cute and tiny!

I can't wait to fill this little boxes with treats and give them away!

As it just so happens, the Fancy Friday theme this month is pretty packages!  Check out some other great ideas from the blogosphere.