Sunday, August 4, 2019

Sliding Pop-Up Window Card Tutorial

Here's how to make this fun interactive card!

Start with a half sheet of card stock (5-1/2" by 8-1/2"). Score the card stock along the long edge at 2" and 6".


NOTE: I embossed my card with the Subtle 3D Embossing Folder. You can let your card stock "hang" 2" outside the embossing folder and run it through one way and it will mark your 2" score line. Turn it around and let it hang 2-1/2" outside the folder and it will mark your 6" score line. And you'll have embossed the entire piece!

Next, cut a window by cutting 1/2" from the bottom and 1/2" from each of the score lines, like this:


Score the un-cut top of the window, then score again 1-1/2" from the first score line, and again at 3" from the first score line.


Fold the scores like this (valley, mountain, valley):


Cut a 3-3/4" by 5" card stock piece and stamp your sentiment. Place the scored and cut card stock base face down and place your sentiment piece face down in the center.

Next, add Tear & Tape to the bottom of the two side flaps (only one flap shown), to the back of the top of the sentiment piece (not shown), and to the long side of the wider flap. Adhere the shorter flap and then the longer flap, making an envelope.


Cut a second 3-3/4" by 5" card stock piece. Slip that piece inside the card, in front of the sentiment piece, and adhere it to the bottom of the thin window flap. This is your pulling mechanism.You can add a ribbon to decorate.

Decorate the front any way you like. I used a 2-3/4" by 3-1/2" Whisper White mat, with a 2-5/8" by 3-3/8" Gray Granite mat, and a 2-1/4" by 3-1/4" stamped image. Adhere this to the front of the mountain so the image stands up when the mechanism is pulled.




Friday, August 2, 2019

Fancy Folded Thanks

#stampinup   #faithfulinkspirations   #FabulousFriday   
I hope you're not tired of seeing cards made with the awesome Magnolia Lane Suite of products. I love this suite--and if you love it, too, you can get everything in the suite with one product code (item 152178). You know you want it!

We have another guest designer today and another card I received at the Proverbial Stampers & Friends swap. Our guest artist is Nancy Amato and she created a fabulous card. Take a look.


Nancy stamped a sentiment and flower from the "Good Morning Magnolia" stamp set in Memento Tuxedo Black Ink onto Whisper White Card Stock. She cut this out with a Stitched Nested Labels Die. She colored the flower with Light Petal Pink and Light Old Olive Stampin' Blends.

Next, Nancy took a 5-1/4" by 9" piece of Petal Pink striped Magnolia Lane Designer Series Paper and scored it at 2-3/4" and at 5". She adhered the largest portion to a 4-1/4" by 5-1/2" Mossy Meadow Card Stock panel and then zig-zagged the folds so they lay flat as in the picture above. Here's the card opened.
On the front of the card, she adhered a 2" by 5-1/4" strip of a contrasting piece of Magnolia Lane DSP. She adhered the left side of the label to the card with Stampin' Dinensionals and added a pretty bow tied from Petal Pink Striped Organdy Ribbon. Inside the card, she added a 2-1/2" by 5" strip of Whisper White Card Stock for the written sentiment. 

Didn't Nancy do a fabulous job?! I love this card and fun fold!












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Thursday, August 1, 2019

Relax!

#stampinup   #faithfulinkspirations   #ThoughtfulThursday   What's the most thoughtful thing someone could say to you? Well, I think, "How about you sit down and relax and I'll take care of everything?" That would be sooo thoughtful. Today's card shares that sentiment and it would be perfect to give to the man in your life!

I stamped the image of the relaxing dude from the "A Good Man" stamp set in Memento Tuxedo Black Ink onto Whisper White Card Stock. I cut it out with a square Stitched Shapes Die. I colored him with Light Balmy Blue, Light Pretty Peacock, Light Crumb Cake, and Ivory Stampin' Blends. I adhered this image to a Balmy Blue Card Stock mat.

Next, I stamped a sentiment from the "A Good Man" stamp set in Pretty Peacock Ink onto the bottom corner of a 4" by 5-1/4" Whisper White Card Stock panel. Then I embossed the panel with the Subtle 3D Embossing Folder. I adhered a 1-1/2" by 4" strip of striped Come Sail Away Designer Series paper to the middle and then wrapped some Whisper White Baker's Twine around  before adhering everything to a Balmy Blue Card Stock card base. And, finally, I adhered the stamped image to the card with Stampin' Dimensionals.

Got some men in your life? The "A Good Man" stamp set is perfect for making cards for your guys!














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Wednesday, July 31, 2019

Country Christmas

#stampinup   #faithfulinkspirations   #ChristmasInJuly   Although I don't normally like to use "traditional" red and green on my Christmas card designs, I thought I'd just go for it and see how I liked it--and I do like it! This is another prototype of one of the cards we'll be making during my annual Christmas card stamp-a-stack class. I like this card, but I think I'm going to make a couple of changes for the final card--especially since I didn't leave room for a sentiment!

I cut a Whisper White Card Stock rectangle with one of the Stitched Rectangles Dies. Then I stamped the pitcher and floral arrangement from the "Country Home" stamp set in Memento Tuxedo Black Ink. I colored this with Light Smoky Slate, Light Shaded Spruce, Light Real Red, and Light Crumb Cake Stampin' Blends. I adhered this to a Shaded Spruce Card Stock mat that I cut with a larger Stitched Rectangle Die.

Next, I embossed a 4" by 5-1/4" Whisper White Card Stock mat with the Tin Tile 3D Embossing Folder. I adhered the stamped image to the card with Stampin' Dimensionals and then wrapped a length of Real Red Cotton Ribbon around these pieces before adhering everything to a Real Red Card Stock card base, cut lengthwise. Easy-peasy and very pretty!













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