Handmade Birthday Cards

Rubber stamping could have been invented just for cardmaking. What else allows you to create beautiful, original, mini works of art like these stamped birthday cards, so quickly and easily?

Simple "Sticker" Cards

These cards are simple, but the "stickers" themselves are anything but. You can't walk through a craft or scrapbooking store these days without being amazed by a new line of "embellishments"--stickers that have so far surpassed the original form of a design on paper with a sticky back, that they aren't even called stickers anymore. Created with glitter, beads, metal and wire, fabric, dried flowers, buttons, bells, trims of all kinds, sand, shells and anything else you can imagine, these embellishments can stand alone on a notecard and still be something special--and it couldn't be simpler.

These cards were all made using just write! cardmaking products from Me & My Big Ideas. Their threads labels are one of my favorite products these days, because they add such a fun, contemporary touch to cards. (Apply them quickly and cleanly with double-sided tape.) M&MBI's notecards with or without a window cutout come in a neat notepad in a variety of color themes. Add a sticker or two (layered on a square of fun scrapbooking paper to make them a bit more substantial), "write" your message with a threads sentiment, and embellish with ribbon, trim, sequins or beads--all from the just write! line--and you're done! They even have packages of vellum envelopes that fit their cards perfectly.