Kelli at There’s No Place Like Home has begun hosting a Paper Crafting Thursday. I’ve enjoyed Kelli’s card tutorials for some time and look forward to seeing what everyone does. And I was excited to learn that I won last week’s paper crafting giveaway!

Mine are still pretty amateurish compared to others, but I love the creativity!

These are from last year as well — I hope to make some new ones this week.

The verse was cut from a sheet of verses I printed out on the computer, and the heart was made with a paper punch.

The brown hearts remind me of chocolate candy. 🙂

This verse was also printed out. I used paper punches on the corners and the hearts. I think the hearts would have stood out more if I had backed them with a contrasting or solid paper. All of the papers for this one as well as the following two bookmarks and some of the pink and brown ones came from a booklets of coordinating papers which included the strip at the left and the picture at the bottom of the last bookmark.

More paper punches used here. I really love the one that rounds off corners.

Here is a little plaque I made:

Besides Kelli’s card tutorials, I’ve also bookmarked other card-making blogs for inspiration. I thought I’d share some with you all as well. Some of these post about other things besides cards as well, but they post cards regularly:

De Stampin’ Corner

Fresh & Fun

Wild Rose Stamper

Card Positioning Systems

Sentiments By Denise

And, as I mentioned last time, I created a Flickr Group called Creative Cards. If you upload pictures to Flickr, I’d love to have you add your cards to that group!