By Lata Tokhi ( March 10, 2008 at 11:06 am) · Filed under Card Making, Holidays
Shamrocks, shamrocks everywhere! These easy cards took me just about 15 minutes to make and did not require a hoard of crafting supplies to make. Click on the cards for instructions:

Your Valentine’s Day heart punch comes to use here. Punch out little green hearts and glue together 3 or 4 to make shamrocks. Easy!

Same way of making the shamrock, but the only difference is that 3 heart cutouts are used since this is a large shamrock. I usually have an assortment of basic shapes in different color but I ran out of green heart shapes and hence had to use poster color to make white heart die-cuts green. Again, when searching in my sewing box for matching floss or yarn to use, I could find none to match the exact color. So the poster colors came to my rescue again. I trimmed the yarn and then painted it with the same color.
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By Lata Tokhi ( March 4, 2008 at 10:09 am) · Filed under Card Making, Crafts
Making handmade cards for men is always thought to include stickers and die-cuts shaped in weird shapes like tools, trucks and gizmos. Give me a break! Just because it’s a man you are making a card for does not mean you have to make the card look like the front of a hardware shop. It’s their birthday and whoever said men don’t appreciate beauty!? Well, some of you might agree with me and some wont, but anyways, how do you like this card I made for my BIL?

The brown card stock gives it a rich feel and the pretty blue contrasts so beautifully. The daisies give it a touch of daintiness without being overbearing. All in all, it looks like a cheerful, no-nonsense card. The card is on its way to my BIL who is in London and I hope he likes it.
And that reminds me - I should soon send out Nat’s Easter card for she too is in the UK and I don’t want to be late.
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By Lata Tokhi ( February 29, 2008 at 3:59 pm) · Filed under Card Making, Crafts, Holidays
Started my Easter crafting today. Click on each for instructions on how to make them.
Here is a card I made for my friend Nat who stays in the UK:

And this one is for kids to make and share on Easter!

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