Wedded Bliss

My friend asked for some wedding cards for three upcoming weddings she has this fall.  She requested two of them be made in teal and chocolate brown, as those are the colours for two of the weddings {popular colour scheme}.  I got back to my roots and created an elegant, multiple layered card.  It was nice to go back to this design.  I did use a sketch, but I’ve been looking at so many, I can’t remember which one I used, sorry! I used SU Early Espresso for the card base, and layered Crumb Cake and the patterned paper.  The brown heart pattern is Bo-Bunny, one of my favourites.  The teal is some two sided dp I...

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One for the Mr. and Mrs.

This might be my favourite “word card” I’ve created so far.  I had to make the letters a little smaller in order to fit on a standard A2 card, but I’m really happy with how it turned out. I just love this card!  I was tempted to leave in just the black and white, but when I remembered I had some glitter cardstock I couldn’t resist adding the hearts.  I used Whisper White as the card base, and layered black cardstock.  I used my MM Slice machine to cut out the letters and punched the hearts with my MS heart punch. There’s not much else to say about this card because the layout is simple, but it is time consuming with...

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Name that card, and WIN!

Well, name those cards actually.  This past week I added some new cards to the A Paper Buffet Etsy shop.  They are simple cards, with words or letters die-cut from patterned paper. I have more to add, but here’s what’s in the store right now:     Right now, they’re very plainly named “word cards”. I need your help!  Listing and naming are my biggest challenge, leave me with the paper and the ribbon and I’ll be fine. What would you name this product line?  So here’s the deal:  Submit your product line name in the comment section of this post or on A Paper Buffet’s Facebook page before 11pm EST...

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Wordless Wednesday

Happy Wednesday!...

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The KISS principle- in design and in business.

Summer is a time when online sales slow down, in part due  to family vacations and time spent with family and friends enjoying summer BBQ’s and pool parties. I used to fret about this time, trying to take advantage of the slow sales months by making hefty to-do lists, swearing I’m going to make my personal Christmas cards and actually send them out this year.  I’d panic when I lost my creative mojo, and feel guilty about my lack of blog posts and not having listed any new products. Now it is early August. I’ve accepted that summer is break time, for me as much as for everyone else.   I’ve just returned from a week at the...

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