Hi friends! Happy Tuesday! I hope your week is going well! Please join me in welcoming back the always awesome Kelly Rasmussen to our blog as a guest today! I’m excited to share this fun postcard idea Kelly had with you! Doesn’t everyone love happy mail? Kelly provides some fun and trendy ideas on how to make your own postcard(s)! Precision pens are awesome for addressing your postcard when you’re all done! Read on and enjoy!

Hello! I’m mixing things up a bit today and instead of a standard card, I’ve created a postcard! With a little planning you can create a completely flat card that requires no envelope and less postage. And think of all the people that will get to see it on the way to the recipient — it might unexpectedly brighten someones day!

I started out by taping a 4.25″ x 5.5″ piece of watercolor paper to a hard surface. Then I stamped the “hello” message from the Hero Arts Hello Spring by Lia set with black ink and clear heat embossed the image. Heat embossing is a great way to add some dimension and interest to a postcard without adding any bulk!

Next, I used Antique Linen Distress Ink to randomly stamp the hexagons and triangles from the Simon Says Stamp Perfect Shapes clear stamp set. This is my favorite ink for this technique because it is a very light shade of ink and it also reacts with water, so in the end you can hardly even see any lines left from the ink.

Then I added color to each shape using various colors of Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers and a water brush. I put a little color in each shape and then used the water brush to blend it out. I love these markers more and more each time I use them!

I searched online about the specifications for mailing a postcard to make sure I wasn’t putting text in areas where I shouldn’t be. And I even took it to my local post office and they said it would go through the mail just fine! You don’t have much room to write a message on a postcard, but when you just want to send a quick “hello” or “thinking of you” I think it’s a great option!

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Hi friends! Happy Monday! I hope you had a fabulous weekend! Just popping in quickly to let you know in anticipation of Spring we have a Copic Sale going on NOW! Please enjoy & happy coloring!

It’s that time again…. today we are revealing the April 2016 Card Kit Colorful Life. This kit comes with some really great coordinating pieces from Simple Stories Life in Color collection to include stickers, clips and 12 6×6 papers. The Simon Says Stamp stamp set this month is called Birthday Flowers, it’s really versatile with messages, flowers and background images. This month we’ve also included a jar of WOW black embossing powder plus Simon Says Stamp cardstocks: Black, Schoolhouse Red, White, Cotton Candy and Surf Blue.

I’ve created a card where I’ve sampled just about everything from the kit. I layered up some papers, stamped some cardstock (white dots) and used some stickers along with a clip.

It’s really easy to come up with different ways of using this kit and I have more inspiration to show you from some of our great designers!

Wanda’s card uses a mixture of stamped flowers and stickers that match so well you’ll have a hard time telling which is which! Beautiful!

Debby used just about everything in the kit by stamping her message strips and combining stickers and clips for her arrangement. Brilliant!

Suzy stamped an entire background with bright and cheery flowers and popped up her message for maximum impact. So bright and cheery!

Finally, Virginia stamped several flowers in pastel colors to create an adorable arrangement in the center of her card trimmed with pattern paper and a clip.

I’ve put together a video of the walkthrough, you can watch it below or on our YouTube channel. I hope you enjoy!

The Birthday Flowers stamp set is also available for individual purchase in our store.

Remember, you can SUBSCRIBE to our no obligation kits and receive them monthly for $ 24.95 or purchase them each month for $ 29.95, while supplies last.

If you are a subscriber who used Paypal to purchase your subscription, please be sure to pay the invoice that we send you within 3 business days. We have a limited number of this card kit in stock and don’t want you to miss out. For easier and quicker monthly processing, please contact us via email or telephone and we will put your credit card on file as a courtesy for you. Card kits bill and ship between the 17th and 27th days of every month.

Thanks for stopping by today, I hope you have a great week!