Purple Birthday Fan Card

I saw this technique HERE for an A2 sized fan card and thought I’d give it a try!

I recently cleaned/reorganized my craft room and discovered LOTS of (probably discontinued by now?) paper that I forgot I had or couldn’t get to easily enough to bother with. Hmmm… maybe I never have to buy another piece of paper again???… Anyway, it was fun “shopping my stash,” and I came up with two prints for my fan card. The lighter print is “Soft Purple Ferns” from Hot Off the Press/Paper Pizzazz, and the darker one is “Fairy Tale” from Recollections. The solid card stock is “Edible Eggplant” (not black!!) from Gina K Designs (no longer available?).

The greeting is computer generated (font: CK Curly, 18 pt) , and I cut apart bits from a die cut called “Vignette Floral Branch” from Memory Box to tuck around it.

Deb pops her fan panels up with foam dimensionals, but I just glued mine down flat.

When the card is folded closed, the fan pieces line up with the edges of the card front, but as it opens, it appears to hang over until you can see the cut out shape.

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Another great technique to showcase printed paper!

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Split Panel Card and Others from a One Sheet Wonder

(inside: May you continue to enjoy days filled with laughter, months filled with joy, & years of happy memories.)

Inspiration for this card came from two places. I found a 12×12 “One Sheet Wonder” template that I used to create 6 different card sketches (10 cards in all), and this was one of them – sort of. In Mary Knabe’s video, one of her sketches had the focal panel (flowers) attached to the flap at the top, but there was nothing attached to the bottom so the card did not stand up/display very well. I had also recently seen her Split Front Card video and thought I could “fix” the card here by adding the bottom panel (as shown in the second video).

The focal paper I used for all the “One Sheet Wonder” cards is called “Floral Clusters & Leaves” by The Paper Studio. This OSW template works best with double sided paper as a few of the sketches call for flipping some of the pieces over after the sheet is all cut up, but this paper is one sided so I had to “cheat” and use a second coordinating pattern I had in my stash. (The peach strip above should have been the back of one of the pieces cut from my patterned paper.)

If you care to see the other cards I created with this One Sheet Wonder Template or a list of the supplies I used, keep reading…

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Panoramic Botanicals

This card features the “Botanicals” paper (#1434406) from The Paper Studio and a technique I saw in this video on creating a Panoramic Panel card.

Lorraine positioned her panels directly on the card base, but I wanted to try it with a thin border around the whole card, so I changed the measurements slightly so mine fit on a 5 3/8 x 4 1/8 inch panel which I embossed with the Stampin’ Up “Subtle” embossing folder.

This is how it looks with no border (using her measurements/instructions):

And here is a version where I cut the patterned paper incorrectly (there wasn’t enough paper to create a wider middle panel) so I left the panels all the same height and created this card. We will call it another variation instead of a mistake – lol!

The mats were from the “Green” card stock pack from The Paper Studio. (Yes, they are dark green and not black as they appear in the photos!) The greetings were computer generated.

Another good layout for using pretty patterned paper that you don’t want to cover up!

If you care to see the measurements for the panels, keep reading.

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Party Streamers Bridge Card

I was trying out the “Layered Party Streamer” stencil set from Creek Bank Creations (#T23026) and used the panels to create this bridge card.

Gina K Designs “In the Navy” ink was used for layer 1 and “Lucky Clover” was used for layers 2 and 3.

My “bridge” was created with a die from the Sizzix/Stampin’ Up “Star Blast Edgelits Dies” set (retired?) and the “Happy Birthday Script” die ((TAD0304) from A-muse Studio.

This card folds flat for mailing and fits in an A2 size envelope.

The bridge card was actually the second card I created using these stencils. For my first attempt, I used the panel as a plain background.

It was inked with GKD “Blue Denim” and “Plum Punch” with the same Recollections Navy and White card stock. The greeting was the “Happy Birthday Chunky Sentiment” die set from Creek Bank Creations. The blue shadow was cut and layered 5 times so it stood out better against the “busy” streamers.

For the stenciling on this one, I used an ink blending tool with sponge applicators. I used blending brushes for the panels on the bridge card, and while I had to reload them with ink more, it was easier to get the ink into the nooks and crannies of the stencils with the brushes. (For those of you who stencil a lot, you probably know this, but I don’t do it so often so it was news to me – lol!)

If you wish to see my measurements for my bridge card, keep reading…

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Dots and Diagonals Birthday Card

Last week, I shared a card using this same diagonal frame, and for this version, I added some color.

The frame die I used for this card is one piece, so when you run it through your die cut machine, you get the frame, the mats, and the fillers all in one pass (and all the same color). I had unused pieces from last week’s card that I used here: the white frame and the brown for the mats. I used Blue Lagoon card stock (retired?) from Gina K Designs for the fillers. This frame die is close to, but not quite, A2 sized (5 1/2 x 4 inches) so I adjusted my card base a bit and will make a custom envelope.

The Darice “Dot” and the Stampin’ Up “Subtle” embossing folders were used to add texture to the blue fillers. The greeting was cut with the greeting die from the Free Standing Tunnel Card Drawer Die set from Creek Bank Creations.

After assembling the card shown above, there were leftover pieces of the blue so I used a few of the mat pieces for another card:

The Stampin’ Up “Subtle” embossing folder was used after the shapes were adhered to the white panel. The greeting was computer generated.

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