These cute little note cards are my tribute to some of the out-going stamp sets and accessories...

This month in our workshops we made Secret Message Cards, where you open the card and the inside image changes. I found instructions on how to make these cards in the Australian Cardmaking Stamping & Papercraft Magazine (Vol 15 No 7).

As I have heard from a number of people on different occasions - cards for men are difficult. This post is designed to inspire your creativity for men's cards. This first card I made a while ago for a 90th birthday:

I created this card when I made the name tags for the ladies who attended the Hamilton Extravaganza. Like the name tags, it uses the For Everything stamp set, the Crayon-Resist technique and colours drawn from the Pink Flamingo DSP. In fact, a piece of that DSP is intricately cut out and adhered in front of the stamping create depth.

This card was inspired by the many Circle Circus cards that use this layout style. For the circles I used the Vintage Labels and Baroque Motifs stamp sets. I don't usually use black, but this card demanded contrast, so I used Elegant Eggplant and Whisper White to get the same effect.

Here is another Moving Circle Card. This one is for my sister-in-law's birthday.

These two cards were inspired by a shoebox swap I made at a recent demonstrator gathering. A shoebox swap differs from a standard swap in that you take all the supplies to make swaps in a box. You pass the boxes around and make the swaps to take home. Good fun!

A couple of weeks ago was our 12th wedding anniversary, so (naturally) I made my husband a card. My friend, Patrice, showed me how to make a Moving Circle card, so I was inspired to make one myself.