Joy Fold Card With Thumping

Posted in Cards, Creative Folds by lisababitz

This card features a Joy Fold card base which is like a mini card (that opens backwards) on a larger card base.

First, the smaller “card” is opened:

Then the larger “card” is opened:

A sentiment could be stamped or handwritten on the inside of the smaller “card” panel.

I thought this water color patterned paper (#PPR3507) by love nicole was so beautiful and that the thumping technique would complement it nicely since the end result has a water color look to it. The stamp is called “Butterfly Scroll” (#2056125) by Inkadinkado and was inked up with Memento Summer Sky ink. Then I thumped ink from a blue and a purple marker from the Recollections Brush Marker set over it. Because I used my MISTI to stamp the image, I was able to repeat stamping/thumping it a few times to get more color variation.

The greeting was stamped with Memento Danube Blue ink. Gina K Designs Powder Blue card stock and white card stock was also used.

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29Oct2018

Tranquil Tulips Birthday Card

Posted in Birthday Cards, Cards by lisababitz

Tranquil Tulips Birthday Card

(Inside: Happy Birthday. May today be the start of a wonderful year.”

This card features stamps from the “Tranquil Tulips” set (retired?) by Stampin’ Up. The background was made with the “Dictionary Background” stamp (retired?) also by Stampin’ Up.

I used Tim Holtz “Antique Linen” and “Victorian Velvet” distress inks along with Gina K Designs “Dark Sage” ink. Water color paper added texture to the focal and background panels and was matted on Gina K Dark Sage card stock.

The greeting on the front is from the “Celebrate” stamp set (#SC0752) by Hampton Arts, and the inside sentiment is from the “Birthday Sentiments” set by Honey Doo Crafts.

For my first attempt, I used GKD “Honey Mustard” ink for the dictionary background and had done some sponging around the edges for a more distressed look. A greeting panel could be added later.

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28Oct2018

Paper Pieced Baby Card

Posted in Baby, Cards, Tutorials by lisababitz

Paper Pieced Baby Card

Here’s one more baby card (along with a quick “paper piecing” tutorial) I made while playing with the papers and supplies I had pulled out for the cards in my last post…..

This cute baby image is a cling stamp from a set called “Baby” (#227909) by Recollections. (I purchased this set at Michaels a while ago and can’t seem to find it in the store or online anymore.)

I used the Darice “Quilt Blocks” embossing folder and a scrap of Core’dinations “Light Aqua Plaid” (#320009) card stock for my background along with a pierced circle (and plain circle) die cut to frame the stamped images.

The greeting is from the “Bundle of Love” stamp set from Gina K Designs (retired?) and was stamped with “Mint Macaron” ink from Stampin’ Up. I’m not sure why my camera “sees” blues differently than I do; the ink and these papers match so much better in person than on the photo. (The papers are more greenish, and the ink is more bluish in real life.) Oh well!

I “paper pieced” scraps of card stock to my baby image to add the color. I really like this technique because you can easily match whatever card stock you are using on your project.

HOW TO PAPER PIECE:

To do this technique, you stamp the image onto the panel you plan to use on your card. (For my card, I wanted the baby and greeting to be on a white panel, so I stamped him on white making sure I had enough space around him to die cut the panel with the pierced circle die.)

Next, decide what colors you want to “color in” the image and stamp the image on a scrap of each of those colors. (I couldn’t decide if I wanted his pj’s to be solid or plaid, so I stamped it on a scrap of each.)

With scissors, cut out the portions of the colored pieces you need to “fill in” your image. I cut out the whole body from the peachy paper and just the pj’s from the aqua pieces. Notice that I did not worry about cutting out the line for the baby’s hair on the peach piece. (The hair is too thin to cut out and is not supposed to be peach; it is supposed to be black and is still on the image on the white panel.)

The final step is to glue the layers on to the white panel. Line up the black stamped portions when doing that. You can see how the hair “reappears” in this step! (I was still deciding what he should wear in the photos below. Ultimately, I decided to use the solid piece and removed the plaid one.)

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27Oct2018

A Few Baby Card Variations

Posted in Baby, Cards, Creative Folds by lisababitz

A Few Baby Card Variations

In a recent post, I shared a few easel cards with negative framed scenes which were samples I had made for one of the classes in the 8-week card making course I am teaching through the Haddonfield Adult School. One of my students had asked me (prior to that class) if I had any baby shower supplies as she needed a card for her daughter-in-law who is expecting. I went through my stash at home and adapted the easel card lesson to include some baby shower elements and offered this variation as an option along with the others. The above sample is the same basic card as the others but has patterned paper behind the negative (instead of the scene) and different greeting stamps.

Once my baby supplies were out, I got to playing with them along with a few scraps of paper that seemed appropriate and came up with a few more designs. Below are a few cards using the negative of a “baby” word die cut.

For two of the samples, I embossed the stitched rectangle frame with a wafer thin stitched rectangle die using my Cuttlebug and a Spellbinders embossing mat. (The “sandwich” I use for embossing with a thin die is A-plate, B-plate, embossing mat, card stock, die with cutting edge facing paper and embossing mat, B-plate, and a chipboard shim.) For the other two, I cut out the rectangle instead.

This is a pretty easy card design that could be customized with whatever colors and printed papers you desire. And once the front panel is created, it can either be adhered to an easel card base or to a plain folded card base. (I show how to create the easel card base in the post mentioned above.)

The “baby” die is called “In a Word: Baby Cutaway” and the “happy” die is called “In a Word: Happy Cutaway” which are both by Winnie & Walter. The “Baby Shower” stamp is from the “Mommy-To-Be Diva” set and the “a blessing from above” stamp is from the “Blessing From Above” set which are both by Gina K designs.

The patterned paper I used was Green/Pink Plaid HOTP-200210 (Paper Pizzazz/Hot off the Press) and several prints by Core’dinations called Light Aqua Plaid, White Plaid, and Light Aqua Small Dot. The solid colored card stock was Chiffon (Bazzill), April Lovely (Core’dinations), Grey Kraft (Recollections), and a sheet from the Earth value pack (Recollections).

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25Oct2018

Floral Palette Screen Divider and Shutter Cards

Posted in Birthday Cards, Cards, Creative Folds, Holiday Cards, Mother's Day by lisababitz

Floral Palette Screen Divider Cards and Shutter Cards

(back: Wishing you a very happy birthday”

In my last post, I shared a few cards I made with the beautiful patterned paper called “Floral Palette” by Recollections.

Here are a few more cards I made using this same paper.

The pattern on the top of this paper is quite different from that on the bottom, and these patterns flow from left to right beautifully so I decided to keep the two patterns “as-is” for my screen divider cards. I had made a screen divider card last year and decided to “warm up” with the same punches. (Instructions on how I made these are included in that post.)

You can get 5 panels across the 12×12 inch page, and choosing two different groups of 4 gave me two variations.

This card is from the top (left) half:

Here’s another card from the top (right) half:

After I completed those, I played around with the bottom half of the paper and with a few different punches and dies for a different look. Here’s my third card (also shown at the top of this post):

Floral Palette Shutter Cards

In addition to screen divider cards, flowing patterns also make great panels on shutter cards. (HERE is a video tutorial on making this type of card.) I left the “inside” blank and could add a stamped or hand-written message when the card is needed.