Easy Reindeer Christmas Card

Hey Everyone! I hope you're all well! Today I thought I would share with you a little Christmas Card that I made over the weekend :) It's really quick and easy to do but I think it looks really cute! :)

DIY Origami Mother's Day Card

Hey everyone! I hope you all had a lovely weekend! Today I wanted to share with you a DIY which I thought would be perfect for Mother's Day :)

Daisy Card DIY

Hey everyone! :) Hope you're all well and enjoying the run up to Easter :)

Today's post is a little card DIY that I thought fit in well with Easter/Spring :) You will need:

Materials:

Card and Envelope

Coloured paper for your daisies

Hemp or string

Pencil

Ruler

Glue

Scissors

1. Cut three 0.5cmx'length of paper' strips from yellow paper. This will be the centre of each daisy.
2. Cut three 2.5cmx'length of paper' strips from different colours of your choosing and mark along 0.5cm         from the edge along the length of the strip.

3. Cut along the strip at even intervals up to the 0.5cm mark. Do this for all three.

4. Glue the yellow strip to the thicker strip with fringing.

5. Start rolling the yellow strip tightly and keep going until both strips have been rolled. Glue the end. You can     do this with your fingers if you dont have my handy tool.

6. Open up the flower by spreading out the petals. Curve the petals with your fingers so they're not as           straight.

7. Make three of these flowers and glue them onto your card. 

8. Tie a bow out of hemp onto another piece of hemp to run along the bottom of the card.

Ta daa! Bear in mind that the flowers stick out quite a bit so it's a bit of a pain getting it into an envelope. But that's the card! It's quite simple and not too busy as the flowers are the main focus :) Let me know what you think! :)

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Mother's Day Card DIY

Happy Mother's Day everyone and to all of your lovely mums! :) 

Today's post will be a little DIY for a card I made yesterday (last minute whoops) for mum today. It could be tweaked and changed for other occassions but I thought it worked well as a Mother's Day card as I chose quite gentle and pastelly colours as mums are cute and lovely XD 

The technique I used for this card is called quilling. It's basically rolling strips of paper into different shapes to make your design :) You can either use ready made strips or I made my own by cutting strips of paper 0.5cm wide.

 Materials: 

White square card and envelope

White and pink paper or quilling strips

Pink mulberry paper

Quilling pen

Pencil

Ruler

Glue

Paintbrush and water

Heart gems

1. To start off with, choose your colours and cards etc. I think this is the hardest part and it usually takes me forever as I'm sooo indecisive! I went for a white square card, pink and white paper for the flowers and pink mulberry paper, or you can use any patterned paper. 

2. Using the ready made strips, or the ones you made, quill the strips into roughly even sized circles and glue the edge. I used a board that has premade shapes so I used it as a rough guide for my circles. Pinch the circle to make a teardrop shape. This will make a petal. Do this for all of them. I made 4 flowers, so 20 petals, 10 in white and 10 in pink.

3. Measure how big you want your square windows. For this card I chose 4.5cm squares. If you're using mulberry paper, I'd recommend drawing drawing your shapes in pencil then instead of cutting with scissors, drawing along the outline with a wet paintbrush and gently ripping the paper, then leave to dry for a few minutes. 

4. Glue to square windows to your card and glue the petals onto each window. 

5. Finish it off by adding two little gem hearts to the bottom right corner. 

6. I like to fold a piece of white paper and glue it along the crease to the inside of the card so you can write on the paper and it gives it a nicer finish. 

Tadaa you've finished! Mum really liked the card so I'm really glad! I hope you've all had a lovely day! Let me know what you all got up to :)

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Graduation Card DIY

One of my close friends recently graduated with a First! I'm really happy for him and all his hard work paid off! So I thought I would put my card making skills to use and make him a little card. I spent a while trawling through hundreds of photos on Google and Pinterest until I found a template of an owl that I liked. I thought I'd keep it simple and do a big owl on a card.

I printed off the template

Cut around the template and drew them onto card

I'm pretty sure it takes me longer to decide what colours I want and how to do the card than actually making it itself haha! So after I'd fiiinally decided on colours (aka asked mum to pick between the options I'd narrowed it down to) I started copying the template onto each colour and cutting it out.

Glued all the pieces of owl together

Made the hat and glued it all onto card :)

It was quite simple and easy to make and it looks super cute! I'll probably be doing this same card again unless if I find another one I like for everyone's graduation next year, maybe vary the colours slightly, or not haha :') Sorry everyone for getting the same card XD 

If you've recently graduated congratulations! And if anyone's made any cards link me below I'd love to have a look! :)

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Purple Card

Different Cards and papers I used

Made the flowers and cut everything to size

Finished card :)

Now that I don't have Uni over the Summer and passed all my exams so no resits, yays! Means I have a lot of spare time on my hands. I've got a whole wardrobe full of things for making cards yet I never have the time. So I decided to use up some of my free time where I'm just eating all day and being lazy. I like making cards but I always find I mess it up right at the end :') whether it be with the glue or making it slightly wonky, too much of a perfectionist XD But I'm slowly learning, and this is what came out at the end. :)