Beyond Quick Thank You Cards

Sharon's Stamp Simply Challenge this week is to make cards that are so simple that someone copying the design could make six cards in 30 minutes.  As I looked around my rather messy studio table, I saw all sorts of scraps of Basic Grey cardstock left over from the card I've made this week, and that is where my design idea began.

I used kraft cardstock for the card base and the same Savvy Thanks for all of the cards to unify the design. 

I punched four 1 1/4" squares from four different scraps of Basic Grey Offbeat papers (I love the paper that combines pears, radishes and dragonflies). 

The sentiment is stamped in Dark Brown and clear embossed.  I finished with a Martha Stewart butterfly punched from the red paper with three adhesive gems on its body.

For the next card, four squares were punched from the same piece of Basic Grey Periphery paper (perfect for that strip you cut from a 6x6"piece of paper when you're covering a standard card front).

I rotated the stripes in the design and then stamped over all of the paper squares with the Rhonna Farrer swirls v.1 in Blue Iris ColorBox Chalk Ink.  Both the swirl and sentiment are clear embossed.

This design combines four papers from the Basic Grey Wassail collection.  I really love how these colors look with the kraft.

The sentiment is stamped in Maroon, and the snowflake is punched from the white designer paper with an adhesive gem center.

The final card I made uses four squares punched from the same piece of Basic Grey Archaic paper with the swirl stamped over the squares in dark brown.

I finished all four cards in 20 minutes, and now they're ready to be mailed out after the holidays (or I may wrap them up for a last minute gift set).

Not only are these cards beyond quick, they use up scraps of cardstock that often get discarded.  Thanks to Sharon for the inspiration.

Comments

[Tara]

I love these cards... found you over on SCS and decided to visit your blog. Thanks for sharing your work! Quick and cute is great sometimes!

[Michelle]

oooo... me likey!!!

[Tammy Hershberger]

Excellent cards, Stef! You definitely captured the Beyond Quick concept Sharon was going for today! TFS!

[Shirley]

I would have never thought to use that BG CS, but your added touches make them even elegant!

[jane]

Love your cards! I really like those simple thank-you notes!! Just adorable!

[Lucy]

I'm an RSS feed subscriber and have been working my way through your posts. Just got to this one after jumping around a bit. LOVE the simplicity of them, but they're so striking. I may have found my Christmas card for this year, since I'm way behind on that task. Thanks for all the inspiring cards you make and post. You are one of the websites I've kept as I try to whittle down the number I try to follow.