Prima - Breathe Paper pad - 24 cards

I'm back with another paper pack used up. This time it was a 5x7 pad called Breathe from Prima. It was missing some pages, but I had at least 3/4 of it and made 24 cards. It's not theme specific so once again I made a wide variety of cards.

Here is all of them:

most cards are the usual A2 size, but I found a large pack of 5x6.5 black cards and envelopes, so I used some of those too.

Here are some fun loving ladies from AI

Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers - F is for Friends

couple cards with animals 

Koi mermaid with Ching-Chou Kuik - stamped on watercolor paper and colored with water based inks

The Fairy and the Unicorn - Anything Fantasy Goes

layered die cut flowers

and cute die cut girls 

these 2 images are from Hanglar Stanglar - colored with Copics

Allsorts - Hand Colored Image

and some cute House Mouse - I used a glaze on the jar, so it looks shiny and glassy 

Creative Craft Cottage - Include an Animal 

International Art & Soul - Animals

couple of floral cards - all stamps are from Stampin Up

and cards using small leftover pieces and same design.

Sparkles Forum - Use at least 3 patterned papers

17 cards from a daisyd's paper pack

I have so many REALLY OLD paper packs so I decided to use them up - today I tackled daisyd's 8x8 premium paper pack that I got many years ago at HomeSense (I just know because the sticker was still on :) ). I used the papers I liked long time ago so I was stuck with papers that I'm not very fond of, but I did it and managed to make 17 cards from a partial paper pack. I used a variety of images from my stash and when I got tired of coloring, I used die cuts - like the one with cats or a big Thank You. As before I was inspired by Kristie Marcotte - she goes through couple of paper packs every week and used a variety of sketches

Here is a look at all of them

these images are from an old Stampin Up set, colored with alcohol markers

Crafty Cardmakers - Things with Wings

pretty lady digi from Ching-Chou Kuik 

various florals 

2 crafty critter crazies - AG with a critter 

Always Fun Challenges - Cuter Critters

couple of masculine cards

 Cardz 4 Guyz - Explore Outdoors - all 3 fit the theme

Just Add Ink - Just add Guys

and my favorite Art Impressions wine-y ladies

50 Thank You Cards - part 2

This is the second part of my 50 Thank You cards effort,

For  this batch I used the same pack of 6x6 patterned paper (I think it was one from MME)

Layout is the same for all the cards, just alternated the strips. If you would like to see a video how to cut up your 6x6 paper pad to make these easy cards  - you can find it on youtube here

Thank You sentiments are mostly from Stampin Up, for focal points I used random images I had colored some time ago, die cuts from my scrap box and some large butterfly and bird stickers

Alphabet Challenge - Q is for Quick and Easy
Creative Fingers - Anything Goes
Aud Sentiments - Thank You Sentiment
Southern Girls - Anything Goes
Crafty Cardmakers - Thankful