I have a friend who gives me a lot of her used cards because she thinks I might be able to use something on them.  This was one she gave me and I cut it up, added a sentiment, and some stars, and called it a card!!!  :)

Another simple little card.  The image at the bottom was stamped twice...once on the left and again on the right.  I added the Happy Birthday.
The butterfly was punched out with a die and I used black glitter paper, which you can't really see very well on here.

Here's a nice little card for the Autumn season.  I got the border somewhere online (free), added the butterfly, and formed the butterfly's antenna with some craft wire.

I thought some of the kids at church would enjoy some different type cards for their birthdays, so here's what I came up with.  

There are many, many sites out on the internet where you can get free mazes, word search puzzles, etc.

I found some free autumn borders, added some embellishments  and the card was ready to go.

I made several of these type cards, but I'm only posting a couple of them.

I haven't posted anything for a few weeks as my puter has been very very ill.  Also, I had 3 of my grandsons for four days and since they left I have been sick with a cold and sinus infection...yuck!  I have quite a few cards that I will be posting soon.  So, those of you who enjoy my blog, I should have some new posts soon.

FOLDED FRONT CARDS:

Here is a technique that I really like.  I saw a card similar to this on someone's site and can't for the life of me remember whose site it was on.  I don't even know what this technique is called, so I call them Folded Front Cards.  The real trick to this card is to find the center of the top background paper and cut it to or almost to the center of the paper and then fold the paper back.  It's nice if you use two-sided paper, but I don't have a lot of that, so on this particular card I simply stamped dots on the back of the top background paper.  Then use a coordinating background underneath the top background paper.
On my second card I did use two-sided paper and I think I like that better, so I guess I have to go shopping for more two-sided paper.  Yea I love shopping for stamp stuff because I always find more than I'm originally shopping for.  Hard on the budget though!!!  Tee hee!!!  :)
P. S. One little tip: If you want to round the corners on the top piece that you cut to the middle of the card, then do it BEFORE you glue it on as it is really hard to get to once it has been glued on.

This is another of the many cards I've made for the kiddies at church.  Their ages range anywhere from two to teenagers.  So I try and make some for each age.  I just make them and drop them off at church and let them decide which card to send to which child.  
The water in this card is a free-online image.  I hand made the boat and then cut from the edge of the water and then slipped the boat in.  I added a little saying, some clouds, and a bling bling for the top of the mast.  It was a fun card to make.  Here's the site where I found the wave image: 

http://www.123freevectors.com/realistic-water-illustration/#.Ug5oHtJsyeN

This too was a fun little card to make.
I started out with white card stock.  At this point I typed the saying into my card program and printed it out on the blank card stock.  I cut a big hole in it with a large Spellbinder's circle die, Then I embossed it with the Cuddlebug Happy Birthday embossing folder.  In my card program I typed "Happy Birthday" many times and printed it onto computer paper and then slipped that behind the hole.  I used a red crayon to color in some of the raised areas on the white card stock, and then I found a cute little bird that was a free image online and added him to the outside and the inside of the card.
Another cute little card for church.

BACKGROUND TECHNIQUE #2

The background on this card is a technique I've never tried before.  I'm always trying to think of something different to do on my cards.
Underneath the layered square in the middle of the background is a smaller square that I glued down onto a piece of white card stock.  Then I proceeded to take strips of three different kinds of background paper and glued them down in four different directions.  Below this card you will find a sample of what I drew on a piece of paper before I made this card.  I wasn't sure if I was going to make it look like a quilted card or not and that's why I drew in the little doodles on the paper.  But, from this sample you can see much easier what I was trying to explain here.
After the placement of my background strips I added the layered square with the leaf image on it and the Happy Birthday layer also.
The giraffe is a stamp from a company called Validated.  On the stamp itself it says: "Validated ©1997 Santa Rosa, Ca 95403 707-579-5443".  They make a lot of really nice stamps and if you like animal stamps, they make quite a few of them.  I actually stamped the giraffe on a piece of the giraffe background paper and then cut him out, went around the edges with a black marking pen, and raised him up with mounting tape.

FREEBIE:

This is my sample I was talking about.
Note how the direction of each group of papers starts out in a corner of the square.  Also, you don't have to have the square in the center of the paper...it can be placed anywhere on the paper you would like.  On my card above I placed it a little above the center and to the right as I knew I was going to add the giraffe on the left side of the square and I wanted to allow myself the space for it.
Please feel free to copy my sample and use it to make yourself a card also.  I would love to see what you do with it...please post a sample of your card if you use it and refer people to my blog for the sample.  Thank you so much!

FOR FOREST:

I made this card for my grandson, Forest, who has gone up to Oregon for the summer to visit his dad.  I will miss him sooooo much!!!  But, he is having a GREAT time and I'm happy for that.  He is a sweet, sweet boy and I love him dearly!

There is a river nearby where they live and they often take walks to it and go swimming (It's a very safe and shallow river.), so when I saw this image online (free), I just HAD to make this card for him and send it to him.

HAVE FUN on your vacation, Forest.  I'll see you when you get back!

I LOVE YOU!

FOR ANNA:

A little GET WELL card for a lady I know who's been VERY sick with pneumonia!
GET WELL Anna!!!

CARDS FOR CHURCH

The following are cards I've made for the children in my church who have birthdays coming up:

I really like the way this card turned out.  I started with a free-online image, colored it, and then printed it again and cut out the dinosaur.  I colored the 2nd image of the dinosaur and then ran it through an embossing folder  The little dinosaur was a separate image that I colored, cut out, and ran through the same embossing folder.

One Minute Sermon by Gaylon Huddleston

A card for a little 7 year old at church.  I used a free online image.  Added some background paper, and some flowers.  Added a flower to the hat and then raised up the hat.  A pretty simple little card.  I love the blue and yellow combination.