Claire Selby Cards

It’s not only a special time of year to celebrate love, it’s also time for Cards for Soldiers. We appreciate and honor our service women and men every year with cards for soldiers. Valentine’s Day is the perfect way to share the love and admiration. For my cards I got to play with decorative heart punches. It’s fun to layer the papers and punch random hearts! It’s even better to use double sided papers so you get more options. A Great way to use up small scraps. And don’t through away any extra hearts use them for confetti! Here are a few of my supplies-

1) 4.5″ by 6″ card, I usually make my own

2) A German Dresden Scrap angel and an Art Chix Flourish Postage image

3) Aleene’s® Original Tacky Glue™, it only takes a small amount and you want to smooth it out when applying.

4) Creative Memories Heart punches

5) Black paper from Stampin’ UP and Red paper from Close to My Heart.

6) Vintage sheet music scraps and red valentine heart for accents

Claire Selby baby card

This baby card began as a sweet Baby Fairy Post image from ArtChix that resembles my son. I then selected pink paper for my 4.5″ x 6″ card, and used paper from the Amy Butler Designer Charm 12″ paper pack. I glued the paper down in vertical strips using Aleene’s® Original Tacky Glue™. My little fairy man is then decorated with a glued on paper flower and a Close to My Heart decorative brad. Perfect for an invite, an announcement, or as a Thank you card.

Claire Selby One of a Kind Vintage card

On the 10th day of Christmas my true love decorated for me…. a Lord a Leaping Card! This dapper gentleman topped with a top hat & leaping through the air was found at the lovely Graphics Fairy site. For my Leaping Lord Card I decided to print the Air Balloon photo onto a mottled pale green marble paper. This gives black and white images a real vintage feel. I accented my card with shimmer paper and a vintage page, as well as Creative Memories circle punches. Everything was lightly glued with Aleene’s® Original Tacky Glue™, I like the glue to have an almost dry, tacky consistency when using on cards. I also decorated the side of the vintage ticket stubs with green staples and seam binding ribbon.

This Swan card started out as a winged beauty from Artchix Studio atop lots of paper scraps! I added the German Dresden Swan wings with Aleene’s® Original Tacky Glue™. The edges of the card are all Colorbox pigment inked. I also embellished the card with the rose ribbon and the Close to My Heart Crystal accents. She is a sparkling swan beauty ready for the New Year!

On the 6th Day of Christmas my true love hatched for me….a Just Hatched Baby Card! Lots of things came to mind during this season, not only the birth of Christ, but also our own newborn. Just thinking of that elusive Peace on Earth that we all try to attain, sometimes, seems so easy when we stop and just look at a baby sleep. Softly and sweetly! I was also inspired by the colors blue and gold which I used for my Christmas tree this year. The 6th day classically heralds in the geese laying eggs, so this little fella is just hatched! I used some of my Acid free Scrapbooking paper scraps left over to make the card, the Best way to recycle! I glued the Art Chix Studio Egg form and baby and butterfly cutouts to the card with Aleene’s® Original Tacky Glue™. I then drew the antennae and the baby string with a permanent marker. Fun, Festive and Hard to catch that peace when it is drifting away!