Quick cards (that don't look too quick!)

Hello all and I hope that you've been having a good week?  It's been the first week of my summer holidays from work at school - although that implies that I've been lazing about! I wish!  It's just a chance to catch up with lots of other jobs really - although it's always nice not to have to rush about to be somewhere else and my brain is gradually switching off from all work-related mush that is usually competing in my rubbish short-term memory with all the home-related stuff! Our gorgeous daughter Lauren is coming home tomorrow with her boyfriend for a short stay - they've been on the 'grand tour' of trying to visit all parents, etc.! But we're going down to stay in Sussex to see them for a few days next month which will be lovely.  And next week we're heading to the Greek Islands for a week - our annual dose of hot sunshine!  We're taking one of our son's friends with us as well this time so it will be good for our son to have some company (rather than having to make polite chit-chat with his parents for a whole week! And if any of you have or have had teenage boys I'm sure you'll understand exactly what I mean lol!).

Anyway, apologies for all the usual waffle.  I just thought I'd share a couple of 'quick' cards made for the 'general cards' basket that I keep at home, when we suddenly need a card or when friends or colleagues ask if they can have a look for a card in a hurry!  Most of the cards I make tend to be for specific people or for orders for other people, but it always helps to have a few spares in.

Although these were fairly quick to make I'm hoping they don't look 'rushed'

I've used the large LOTV sentiment stamps which are brilliant for quick cards!  The papers are from LOTV, flowers from WOC and I've used plenty of distress inks. The ivy die is from Joanna Sheen and the corner die is a Spellbinder one, with little brads attached.

Again, this uses the LOTV stamps and papers. The flower die is a Marianne one, with some ribbon from stash. 

So fairly simple cards, but I think they work quite well. 

Thank you as always for stopping by the blog - and for all the lovely comments that you leave. They mean such a lot. 

Back soon,

Kim x