The BoBunny Blog: Celebrate Card Making with The Avenues

Fun Facts about World Card Making Day!

World Card Making Day began in 2006 as National Card Making Day. Founded by Paper Crafts magazine to bring card makers together at the beginning of the busiest card-making season of the year, it was first held on October 7, 2006. The initial celebration involved the Paper Crafts magazine audience only; however, due to the positive response it received and the worldwide popularity of card making, the holiday became known as World Card Making Day from then on.

Garden Card by Evgenia Petzer

I love to fussy cut and the Avenues are prefect for this. I also love these soft muted colors and I like that you can add some bright accents to give the card/project that look that you feel like.

BoBunny Supplies:

Patterned Paper: Home, Сlocks/ The Avenues

Jewels: The Avenues

Chipboard: Layered Chipboard/ The Avenues

Brads: The Avenues

You Make Me Smile Card by Evgenia Petzer

BoBunny Supplies:

Patterned Paper: Home, Clocks, Treasures/ The Avenues

Jewels: The Avenues

Brads: The Avenues

Jewel Flourishes: Frosting Jewels

The Avenues Card by Kaori Fujimoto

BoBunny Supplies:

Patterned Paper: Antique, Dot, Trellis/ The Avenues

Sticker: Misc Me Sticker/ The Avenues

Noteworthy: The Avenues

Brads: The Avenues

Jewels: Frosting Jewels

Doilies: 4" Small Doilies

You and Me Card by Kaori Fujimoto

BoBunny Supplies:

Patterned Paper: Home, Courtyard, Trellis/ The Avenues

Stickers: Misc Me Sticker, Dimensional Stickers/ The Avenues

Chipboard: Layered Chipboard/ The Avenues

Brads: The Avenues

Trinkets: The Avenues

Doilies: 4in Small Doilies

Jewels: Chocolate Jewels

Love Card by Gabrielle Pollacco

I just can't get enough of scrapping with the beautiful The Avenues collection, and I can't bear to throw my scraps away either. This card was literally made of a few little scraps I had left over from other projects. Quick and easy!

Here I just hand cut two heart designs and machine stitched them for a homespun look. Added some burlap and wrapped on some twine. I topped it off with one of those adorable new wood clock embellishments!

Bo Bunny Supplies:

Patterned Paper: Antique, Dot, Stripe/The Avenues

Jewels: The Avenues

Kraft Wood Clocks

Thank-you Card by Gabrielle Pollacco

I just love all the shutter, door, window and clock designs in this collection! Using these little design elements make it quick and easy to create a fun and cheerful card.

I created blooms in just the shade of peachy pink I was looking for by using the coordinating patterned papers to hand-make my blossoms. I used some kitchen cheesecloth to make my curtains for my card design.

Bo Bunny Supplies:

Patterned Paper: Antique, Song Bird, Shutters, Dot/ The Avenues

Packaging from the The Avenues Layered Chipboard (background paper behind window)

Layered Chipboard: The Avenues

Jewels: The Avenues

Misc Me: Journal Contents (fussy cut the bird/branch from one of the cards)

Cherished Moments card by Bernii Miller

I created this card based around one of the paper cut outs that I found on the back of a The Avenues Treasures paper. The paper is made up of gridded accent embellished papers that take so much of the guess work out for me and help me to create a starting point for the card. So I based the card around the "Cherished Moments" paper and built up from there.

To help make my pearl frosting jewels last a little longer I cut it in half and placed it on either side of the flower. You would never know I did that and it helps to both balance out the design and to make my supplies go that extra mile.

Bo Bunny Supplies:

Patterned Paper: Stripe, Treasures, Dot/ The Avenues

Blossoms: Harvest Orange Daisy

Layered Chipboard: The Avenues

Jewels: Frosting Jewels

Noteworthy: The Avenues

You're Invited by Bernii Miller

This card was created for a high tea that I will be hosting for a few friends of mine very shortly . I created this card with the intention of keeping it simple yet elegant. The Avenues collection is a perfect fit for that design brief and I had fun creating a few extra elements that go along with this card. You can see more of what I made over on my blog weekendatberniis if you are curious.