Thinking of You

I find the most frequent cards I send are "thinking of you" cards.  Even when it comes to get well cards, I often will send a thinking of you rather than a specific get well card.  Today's samples come from the Paper Flair Clearly Collage All Occasion Card Kit - a kit using a variety of fun transparency techniques.  While I usually prefer to come up with my own ideas, it can be helpful when you need a card in a hurry to have something like this on hand. It comes with materials and instructions for 10 cards, but there is enough extra artwork included that if you don't decorate your envelopes you often have enough to make a second card -- thus can make nearly 20 cards from this set. This particular set also is like a tutorial of neat ideas for using transparencies in card making.

The card above is from this set - the dragonflies are transparencies.  It is an unusual style of card.  Here are a couple more pictures showing the card opened and then the back of the card when it's open.  (These pictures also show the limitations of scanning your cards. Only the center part is full size, the rest is thin, cut out around the elements.)

Here is the additional card that I made:

The sentiment in the inside of this card comes from the Paper Pizazz definitions & words ephemera by Hot Off the Press, everything else is "extra art" from the previous card.  A little bit of chalking, and I have a second card (outside and inside!).