Layered Card made with a Border Punch

 

Hi Everyone,

Lisa from Lisa's Craft Room here to share my project for this month. Thank you again Sheila :) I saw this pretty layered card made with borders on Paper Trey Ink's site made by Dawn McVey and I thought I would give it a try. I don't have border dies but I thought a border punch would work. My card is made with the doily border punch from Martha Stewart. I used orange and black card stock from Stampin' Up and some Halloween card stock from a photo mat stack from Cloud 9 Design. The stamped images are from My Creative Times stamp set called Fright Night.

My base is orange and I layered the borders by only using my tape runner on the top so that I could fluff up the layers when the card was complete.

Once I was done, I turned it over and cut off the excess. I then adhered it to my card, which is black.
Then did the stamping.

I think it came out so cute. I love trying new things and I am so glad there are such talented people out there that I can learn from and try out their creations and make them my own.

I am also going to post my card on the Paper Trey Ink's site.

Thanks for stopping by and Sheila Thank you so much for giving me the opportunity to be on your Design Team.

Have a great weekend everyone. :)

Travel Mini Album - Artbooking Cricut Collection

Happy Thursday! This is Donna Lee from http://stampinnscrapinwithdonnalee.wordpress.com/ and I am so thankful for Sheila to allow me to share a little part of a new Travel Mini Album that I'm making as a gift with all of you.

If you are new to my blog and this project you can view Part 1 at http://youtu.be/he8ReaLFr1Q

Part 2 is available at http://youtu.be/Z4hwvqJ3xvw

Part 3 is available at http://youtu.be/W_XMELB5n-s

The link to the Part 4 video is at http://youtu.be/u5L4tSLppZc.

The link to Part 5 is http://youtu.be/2vGM0MAleR8.

Today I am sharing Part 6 of the Travel Mini Album that I am making as a gift using the Artbooking Cricut Collection from Close To My Heart. This album is on page 38 and 39 of the Artbooking Manual. You can see that the manual suggest a minimum size of 8". I wanted it to be larger so I cut at 10" and I love the size!

Both of the layouts I am assembling today are tag layouts.

These are very simple but elegant! There is a video of these two tag layouts at http://youtu.be/LDf2WOskem4 . In the video I say this is part 5, but it's Part 6! It was early...

Again, thank you Sheila for allowing me to share today! I hope you'll stop by my Stampin N Scrapin Studio at http://stampinnscrapinwithdonnalee.wordpress.com/ to check out what we are Stampin and Scrapin. 

Have a blessed and creative day!

Donna Lee

Quick and Quirky Cards!

The holiday season will be here before we know it!  I enjoy making Christmas cards in the late summer and early fall.  I listen to Christmas carols and begin planning, designing, and creating cards.  When time comes to deliver or mail holiday cards, I have the cards ready...and a variety of cards, too!

Hi, this is Carolyn from Carolyn's Creative Corner with a card that can be mass produced quick and easy!

The cards were created using a variety of supplies that I had in my stash.  

Confession time...deciding on the design takes much longer than actually making cards!  I use magazines, internet, facebook, etc. to find ideas.  There is no shortage of ideas, but finding just the right design takes me a while!  Eventually the idea 'clicks' and a card comes alive!

The focal point of the cards are these gift tags from Joann's Craft Store.  I bought several packages at the end of last season.  They were 90% off and I had a 15% discount...

*Basic card-----5 inches x 7 inches-----kraft paper card with matching envelope

*Bottom layer-----4 1/2 inches x 6 1/2 inches-----textured cardstock**

*Middle layer-----3 6/8 inches x 5 3/4 inches-----Embossed cardstock**

*Small layer------2 1/4 inches x 3 1/4 inches-----textured cardstock (used to frame embellishments)

*Strip-----1 inch x 3 1/2 inches----textured cardstock (used to frame sentiment)

*Fiber, ribbon, lace-----25 inches----wrapped around card front, secured on back with tape

I cut all the layers, sentiments, and fibers at one time and create an assembly line.  Everything is glued to the bottom layer.  When all the layers are attached, the completed card front is glued to the basic card.

Tip...when using textured and embossed cardstock, liquid glue is the best adhesive.  Double sided tape does not adhere well to the uneven finish of the paper.  Glue gets into all the surfaces and holds everything together. 

Inside card

*Bottom layer-----4 1/2 inches x 7 inches-----textured cardstock

*Top layer-----3 1/2 inches x 6 1/2 inches---cardstock, suitable for stamping/writing

*Assorted stickers/embellishments to coordinate with front of card

Envelope

Quick and Quriky....and a bonus...Easy, too!**

Thank you for visiting today!

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Carolyn's Creative Corner

A little bit of folding :-)

Hi everyone!  It's Karon here, from Karon's Krafty Korner.  Thanks for letting me share, with you all and thanks Sheila for having me come visit each month.

I made a card like this last week and so enjoyed doing the folded frame, that I had to make another one and thought I would share how you make the frame with you.

So here is the card I made.  My card base is 5" square.

To make the frame you will need a piece of double-sided card stock, that is 4.75" square.  I used my Martha Stewart score board, to make the following score lines. (I have used white paper to show the lines better.)  You will see that I have my square, with the tip, positioned at 3 3/8", I also draw a line down the score line with a pencil as this helps get it positioned correctly.

Score at 1.25" and 1.75" and then rotate the square 90 degrees, and score again at 1.25" and 1.75".  Doing this until you have scored all four sides.

For the folding of the frame, start by folding at the 1.75" score line and fold into the centre of your square.

Next, fold the 1.25" back to the outer edge.

Do this on all four sides.

If you want to fit your image inside the frame - don't forget to do this before you start securing the frame sides :-)

To secure the frame sides; firstly add some foam tape to the inner edge like this and secure.

And then the top outside edge like this.

Do this on all four sides.  I find if you do to opposite sides together - it will fold nicer and you get a neater frame.

And there you have it, a nice solid frame.

My little image is a stamp by Studio 112, stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black, from Michaels and I coloured it with pencils.  I inked round the edges of the frame and base layer with CTMH Sunset ink.

My papers are from First Edition card stacks "Bird Song" and "Spring Feast".  The little tag is also cut, from this stack.  The tiny sentiment is from a Small Stamps set, by Hot of the Press, "Just a Note".   I added some ribbon and a bow to finish off the front.

For the inside of my card, I used the same base layer as the front and as it has a lovely space for writing your own message, I didn't feel I needed to add anything else.

Hope you have enjoyed this tutorial and that you will give it a go.

Thanks for stopping by today.

Happy crafting.

FULL FRONT TRI-SHUTTER & COLORING

Hello, everyone, this is Charlotte C.  Thank you, Sheila, for inviting me to once again join you here.  For my granddaughter’s first birthday my daughter is doing a Minnie Mouse/pink/zebra theme, so I had to go along with those colors for her card.  I love Minnie, but those layers – ugh.  What I did for all the images was to draw them with Cri-Kits gel pens in my Cricut on some off-white card stock I have and then colored everything with some Distress Markers, CTMH alcohol markers and acrylic paint.  There was no way I could cut and layer a 1” house!  But first I created a full front tri-shutter card like so:

5 1/2 x 12 card stock scored at 4, 8, and 10 inches.  Then come down from the top and up from the bottom 1 1/2 inches and cut between the 4 and 10 inch score lines.  Now score at the 6 inch mark just down to and up to the cut line.  (I marked the lines on white paper so it’s easy to see.)

When cut, scored and folded, your card will look like this when looking down on it. 

Here’s the sizes for the solid mat and designer paper on each section:

Cover is 5 ¼ x 3 ¾ (DP is 5 x 3 ½)

Cut 6 rectangles at 1 7/8 x 1 3/8 (DP is 1 ¾ x 1 ¼)

Cut 1 rectangle at 5 ¼ x 1 ¾  (DP is 5 x 1 ½)

Cut 1 rectangle at 1 7/8 x 2 ¼ (DP is 1 ¾ x 2 1/8)

Cut 1 rectangle at 3 ¾ x 2 ¼  (DP is 3 5/8 x 2 1/8)

Here’s the card closed (sorry that it looks kind of washed out.  Too much sun coming in the window reflecting off the glitter.)

And open

I attached a panel with sentiment and signing to the back side of the card behind Minnie.

I used Stickles, Martha Stewart glitter, Martha Stewart Hydrangea Punch and added some glossy accents to the center of the flowers.  The green behind one of the flowers is from Accent Essentials.  All the flowers were cut on white CS and colored with CTMH alcohol markers.  And I know they don’t look anything like a hydrangea – never could figure out how to do it.

Hope you enjoyed this and have a great week!