#card techniques

Hello stampers crafters and friends I hope that you are having a wonderful.  Today I will be having two posts this is the first of them.  This month for the Blogging Friends Blog Hop we are celebrating every thing from Sale-A-Bration!   Sale-A-Bration is the biggest sale of the year at Stampin’ Up!®.  For every $50 in the United States that you spend in my online store you get to pick one free…

Banner of Love for PCC230

Hello stampers, crafters and friends, I hope that you are having a wonder day.  Today I am sharing my take on the Paper Craft Crews theme Challenge.  Yes, this week we are having a theme challenge and this week we have a wonderful timely challenge for you.  This week all the design team members came up with a card using the theme Love.   Which is a very timely challenge considering Valentine’s…

Quick & Easy Halloween Treats Card Video Tutorial

Hello Stampers and crafters thanks for joining me for today’s blog/vlog post.  Today I am going to show you a quick and easy Halloween Card using the Halloween Treats stamp set from Stampin’ Up! in the brand new 2016 Holiday Catalog.  If you have your catalog the stamp set is on page 58.   This stamp can be used for so many different things, from treat tags, to cards to scrapbook…

Paper Piecing using Moroccan Nights from Stampin’ up!

Today’s card is one that I had worked on over the summer and I am just getting a chance to post it for you.   I wanted to play with the Moroccan Night Stamp set to see what I could do with it.  I wanted to see how many colors I could use the mandala stamp with and recreate it using paper piecing. Well I found my inspiration for my card from a summer fashion show.  Yes I saw some of our Stampin’…

Merry Christmas from Our Home #PCC210

Hello everyone this is my second post for today.  I am sharing my card for the Paper Craft Crew’s weekly Card Challenge.  This week we have a wonderful challenge for you to be part of.  If you haven’t every played along with a challenge you are missing out.  This is a great way for you to build your design skills.   Because the possibility are endless with the card sketches or design…

Anyway, today I wanted to teach you how to make one of these bad boys. Are you ready?

For your base paper, you are going to want to choose a heavy duty card stock (are you noticing a trend yet?!). I chose an 8 ½ x 11 inch sheet and created a mark at 2 inches, 6 inches, and again at 8 inches, both vertically and horizontally with my trusty ruler and pencil. I then joined my marks to create a grid of sorts. I cut off the excess paper and threw it into my scrap pile for future projects; frugal to the core baby!

The center of your pop up card is going to measure 4 inches x 4 inches, and is going to be surrounded by 2 inch x 4 inch rectangles on the top, bottom, and on both sides of your center square; it will resemble an addition sign. On the top edge of your center square, you are going to want to measure over 2 inches to find the center point on your line. Once you discover your midpoint, you are going to use your compass (yep, dig out that old relic from high school baby!) to create an arch like so…

Repeat this process on all sides and then cut off the edges.

All that’s left to do now is to crease your lines and decorate. I have found that the easiest way to prepare your decorative paper is to simply use your “base” as a stencil. Trace along the edges on the back of your chosen patterned paper, cut it out, and then take ½ cm to ¾ cm off the edges. You are welcome to distress the edges with an ink pad, but it’s not required. Grab your favorite sticky substance and slap her on (allow to dry if applicable). From there you can add your sentiments, doodles, photographs, or stamped images to the card. AND, that’s all she wrote!

Let’s go over those dimensions and instructions just once more for those in a rush:

1-8 ½ x 11 inch heavy duty card stock-Mark at 2 inches, 6 inches, and 8 inches horizontally and vertically-cut out

Measure over 2 inches to find your midpoint and then create an arch with your compass. Cut off the excess edges.

Use your “base” card as a stencil to measure out your patterned paper for decoration. Trim anywhere from ½ cm to ¾ cm from the edges

Add any extra details you would like

Well, there you go. Super simple, huh?! If you missed my other posts on card techniques, make sure to pop over and take a peek…

Never Ending Card

Squash Card

So, 3 creative installments…Which has been your favorite so far?

BUILD A BIRTHDAY ONLINE CARD CLASS ANNOUNCEMENT

I am super excited to be offering a new online class to everyone!   And I am super excited about this class.  I loved this stamp set since I saw it. Included:

Along with you kit you will get the Build a Birthday Stamp Set, Online instructional Videos ($75 value), on a password protected site, you can watch them as much as you want.   GO at your own pace, no rushing required.  Full color PDF…

Yeah, those. How cool are they, right?! So, I finally ran across a tutorial on YouTube that explains, step by step, how to create one, so I took notes (on dimensions) and discovered just how super easy they really are to make. To see the video, click HERE.

A lot of people draw on them or throw some pics on them and give them to their special someone for Valentine’s Day. Me? I grabbed some patterned scrapbook paper and inked up the edges to give a distressed look, and will include them in my exploding boxes. A little something extra for that overall “WOW!” factor that I’m going after. Here are some pics of where I’m at with them right now. I’m sure that I’ll do something more to them before it’s all said and done.

Well, let’s get to those dimensions so you can throw a few together for yourself. If you have any questions, throw them my way; I love helping others out!

First, know that you will have 4 sides to display whatever you choose. For the “base” of the never ending card, you are going to need 2 squares that measure 4 inches x 4 inches (or bigger/smaller depending on your needs). I used a heavy duty Kraft card stock from Hobby Lobby. I don’t want a dinky piece of paper that will rip after only a few uses! Once you have these, you are going to want to score both squares vertically at 1 inch and again at 3 inches. Crease these in both directions with a brayer or bone folder to ensure flexibility within the card. Once you’re happy, you are going to cut both squares in half (at the 2 inch mark). NOTE: You are cutting horizontally-NOT between your score lines; you want those on all 4 of your new 2 inch x 4 inch rectangles.

Once you are good to go, I want you to place your new rectangles like this  in front of you.

Next, grab your choice of adhesive-most folks use their double sided tape dispensers (a.k.a. snails), but I opted to use a little tacky glue instead to prolong the life of the card-it’s a good thing my “practice” one had tape on it though, as I adhered too many sides together and it wasn’t working properly, so pay close attention to this next part…

You are going to add a small corner’s worth of adhesive:

Now, lining up the corners, place your “landscape” rectangles on top of your “portrait” rectangles like so…

and apply pressure.

If using glue, allow to dry. Now, you’re going to want to make sure that she works properly. Open and turn, open and turn, open and turn, open and turn. How cool is that?! AND, the best part is that YOU created it!

All that’s left now is to decorate. If you choose to use scrapbook paper, you are going to need:

8-2 inch x 2 inch squares

8-1 inch x 2 inch rectangles

8-1 inch x 1 inch squares

NOTE: Make sure that you plan where each of them go if you are using multiple styles of paper to ensure that they coordinate properly.

For those of you who are in a hurry and just looking for the dimensions, here they are again:

Base Paper-4 inch x 4 inch (2 squares)

Optional Scrapbook Paper:

(8 squares) 2 inch x 2 inch

(8 rectangles) 1 inch x 2 inch

(8 squares) 1 inch x 1 inch

Well, that just about does it. What did you think of this project? Have you ever made these before? Do you think you’ll try it out? If so, I’d love to see it! Drop me a line…