Handmade Card - First year Birthday

Last Saturday I got an invitation call from one of my friends, to attend his son's birthday party. The party was that day evening itself. I always prefer to give handmade gifts and cards. To many kids and infants I have gifted  applique work quilts and crocheted frocks .
As the party was on same day, I could not make any gift, so thought of buying it. Made  a simple card to wish the kid on his birthday. I'm not so good in making amazing cards, like some of my craft friends make. While making card, I give importance to theme.
 As it was for baby , I  selected pink color paper.

Pink paper to make the card

 And attached attached the border made by Martha Stwewart punches on the edges.

With punched border

 To make the theme "one year birthday", cut the shape of  1 and attached some ready made embellishments I had. I made it colorful, thinking the child might like the bright colors :)

With colorful embellishments

 My son was happy to give this to the birthday boy :)


Planning to make a crocheted frocks as gifts to bay girls. Will share once I make those.

Until then,  

Love , laugh and live the life to the fullest,

-Ranjana

Handmade Christmas Card-Merry Christmas

I had started my blog with the post of a handmade quilled card. And after that I had made many cards to wish on teacher's day , as my son had asked me to make to wish his teachers .  All were made using quilling.After that I had stopped making cards. Recently started making cards again inspired by many of my blogger friends, who make wonderful cards. The one I made to wish twin  babies was liked by many . And another I made recently is to wish on birthday. In both I have used punch-craft. I'm not so good in paper craft, but in both the cards I tried to express the concept.
Now made a Christmas card,

Handmade Christmas card

 How I made the Christmas card:

This involved very simple procedure. I love the handmade papers for cards. Here also I have chosen handmade paper in light green. 

The handmade paper I chose

 And some decorative cloth like paper and some embellishments.This very beautiful cloth like paper in my collection. It is light pink in color, with silver color stars all over.

Cloth like paper

Cut a strip from the cloth like paper and gave it zigzag border shape:

Thin strip of the paper

 Then attached it along the border of the card. And glued  some embellishments which are Christmas Symbols , on the border. I have kept the card theme very mild, so did not add many glittery materials.

Handmade Christmas card

And then small stars and pearl embellishments :

With Stars and Pearl embellishments

 And finally  a cute Santa doll. Without Santa how can anyone  celebrate Christmas  :)

With Santa

May this Christmas bring you happiness , peace , prosperity and of course lots of gifts. :-)

Love , laugh and live the life to the fullest,

-Ranjana

Handmade birthday card

Recently, to wish on a birthday I made this handmade birthday card. Compared to the handmade cards made by experts it is very simple. But serving the purpose.
This was a masculine card, so I chose blue color handmade paper.

For the edges , attached the border made by Martha Stwewart punches, which was gifted by my sister in law. Recently I started crafts related to punches :-). So she had gifted some punches.

And used some embellishments which I had purchased recently. Front page a birthday cake and flowers:

And inside, the favourite things for boys with a happy birthday wish.

As I have mentioned already, it is very simple, but served the purpose. Slowly learning card making, soon will post some more.

Until then,  

Love , laugh and live the life to the fullest,

-Ranjana