I love making handmade cards for family and friends, but finding the time to make them can be tricky. That’s why Instant Card Art and Creative Kits are two of my favorite new card making products.

I love that all the Creative Kits and Instant Card Art match the Cardmaker's Creative Packs, so the colors and style of the papers match all the accessories! There's no guess work in trying to get them to go together. Buying coordinated products that I know will work together makes creating cards so simple; I don’t have to spend time trying to match different products and have more time to focus on the creating my cards.

Each creative kit has such variety! I love the colors used for each of the four different kits: Pretty, Citrus, Icy Rainbow, and Earth’s Palette. And each kit has all the embellishments I could want for cards: Silk flowers and both mini and standard brads, plus cool painted brads. In every Creative Kit there’s also something extra, like shaped arrow brads, turn mounts, or mini Brad Buddies™ (depending on the kit), all of which are painted metal.

Instant Card Art is about the quickest and easiest way I know of to add art and a greeting to a card. They're made of sturdy weight cardstock and are fun to distress by sanding, chalking or inking. Instant Card Art comes in four great color themes: Pretty, Citrus, Icy Rainbow and Earth’s Palette.

These two items work wonderfully together, but they’re also great by themselves. I don’t just use the embellishments in the Creative Kits for cards; they work for scrapbook pages too. (I especially love them for 8"x8" pages!) And Instant Card Art is enough to decorate any card, all by itself.

Instant Card Art and Creative Kits make creating handmade cards quick and easy. I love how everything matches, and that the papers and embellishments work great together or separately. These two products are going to save me a ton of time when I’m making cards!