With Love Triple Layer Card

Posted in Birthday Cards, Cards, Get Well/Sympathy, Mother's Day, Other by lisababitz

With Love Triple Layer Card

Normally, I stamp my panels when making a triple layer card, but I had this beautiful printed paper and wanted it to be the focus of my card. The dark layers add interest without covering up the print.

This card was done with patterned papers (floral and brown) from a pack by Momenta. (There is not a name on the package so I don’t know what it called.) Once I cut and layered the panels, I adhered them to an ivory card base so the card was sturdier. The stamp used for the greeting is from the “Vertical Greetings 2” stamp set by Gina K Designs. I heat embossed it with versamark ink and Ranger’s Liquid Platinum embossing powder. The ribbon by Recollections – Celebrate It #215813 matches the embossing powder beautifully. I stamped a birthday sentiment on the inside, but this card could be used for a variety of occasions. To cut my panels, I used dies from the Spellbinders “5×7 Matting Basics B” for the dark panels and “5×7 Matting Basics A” for the floral panels. (The center panel was cut with a paper trimmer.)

This technique could be used with any printed paper for any occasion, and I will definitely use it again!

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14Jun2015

Color Challenge – Butterfly Note Card

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Color Challenge – Butterfly Note Card

Join us this fortnight over at Perfectly Rustics for Design Challenge No. 50 – Colour Combo. For this challenge, we are to use three Stampin’ Up! colours (Pear Pizzazz, Pool Party, and Smoky Slate) to create our project. Equivalent colours in different products and neutrals are allowed! (http://perfectlyrustics.com/2015/06/15/prdc-no-50-colour-combo/)

The card stock I used was Bazzill Irish Eyes (for the Pear Pizzazz), Gina K Ocean Mist (for the Pool Party), and Bazzill Tiara (for the Smoky Slate). The squares were punch with a Creative Memories two square punch with two of each corner rounded with a Fiskars corner rounder. The butterfly was made with a Martha Stewart Large Monarch Butterfly punch and a portion of the green rhinestone swirl from the DCWV Vintage Collector Rhinestone Swirls self sticking gems pack. The embossing folder used on the blue panel was a 5×7 folder called Damask Background by Darice. (The green card stock came with the dots already embossed on it.) The ribbon was from my stash.

Now it’s your turn! Create a project using these colors, and share it over at Perfectly Rustics. I can’t wait to see what you create!

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3Jun2015

Penn Note Card

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Penn Note Card

Join us this fortnight for a new challenge over at Perfectly Rustics. The challenge is “Letters or Symbols” where you are to make a letter or symbol the hero of your project. For example, if you were making a card with the word love on it, make the letters big, emboss them, have them in patterned paper etc. (http://perfectlyrustics.com/2015/06/01/prdc-no-49-letters-or-symbols/)

This is a card I created last September which had a letter or symbol as the focus of my card.

This card was originally posted in my Stamp TV Gallery but had not been posted here on my blog yet. My son just finished his freshman at the University of Pennsylvania this year, and when he first started, I thought it would be fun to make some Penn stationery so I could send notes to him throughout the year. I ended up making some of these for my husband as well, who needed to send a few “Penn related” thank you notes at the time. One of the recipients of this note from my husband recently asked if I’d create a set of thank you notes for her to send to the volunteers of a Penn event she was organizing. This is the card design I made for her. (This is the first time I was ever asked to make cards for someone!)

I stamped the background with the frame from the GKD “Inspiration Mosaic” set and the greeting from the GKD “Just A Note” set (retired?) in Gina K In the Navy ink. The Penn emblem was paper pieced using Gina K Cranberry Tart, In the Navy, and white cardstock. (I googled the emblem and “traced” it using my Silhouette.) The same cardstock was used for the card base, background, and mat. The panel behind the “P” was embossed with the Sizzix (Stampin’ Up) Stripes folder. This card design was so much easier to duplicate this time around since I now have the MISTI. (Once I lined up my stamps, I was able to stamp all the panels quickly.)

This simple design using this frame stamp could easily be made with different emblems, personal initials or monograms, or other symbols, and with a variety of color combinations.

Now it’s your turn! Create a project making the letters or symbols the star of your card and share it over at Perfectly Rustics!

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2Jun2015

Celebrate – Graduation Card

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Celebrate – Graduation Card

Join us this fortnight for a new challenge over at Perfectly Rustics. The challenge is “Letters or Symbols” where you are to make the letters or symbols the hero of your project. For example, if you were making a card with the word love on it, make the letters big, emboss them, have them in patterned paper, etc. (http://perfectlyrustics.com/2015/06/01/prdc-no-49-letters-or-symbols/)

I created a graduation card featuring the word “celebrate” where I embossed and glittered my stamped image, cut it out, and adhered it to multiple layers to make it thick/3-dimensional.

(click on photo to see sparkle)

The stamps I used are from the Gina K Designs “Lots of Lines” set (retired?). I started by stamping a star on my white panel with versamark ink and Ranger “Rich Red” embossing powder. While the embossed image was still hot, I sprinkled on some Artsyfartsy Crafts “Sunrise Red” microfine glitter and applied a touch more heat (first from behind and then on top) to remelt the embossing a touch so the glitter would “stick” to the embossed image. (I did one star completely and then went back to do the other one.) To see a video on how to add glitter to your embossed image, click HERE.

I created a cut file with my Silhouette for the greeting stamp. On plain white card stock, I cut this multiple times (5-6) and glued each of these cuts together to make a thick version of the cut. I created one additional cut that I embossed and glittered to glue to the top.

The graduation cap and diploma/scroll are die cuts from the svg.cuts “Graduation Elements” SVG Collection. I added a bit of embroidery floss and ribbon to the cuts to spruce them up a bit.

For added color, I added a mat and strip across the center of 7 Gypsies “Antiquaries Postale Collection: Post” card stock as well as some black.

Clean and Simple has always been tough for me, and while there is more on my card than CAS allows, I was having a lot of trouble walking away from this project with all the plain white showing in the two corners. (Before the strip of color, there was even more!!) Baby steps towards CAS!!!

Now it’s your turn! Create a project where the letters or symbols on your card are the focus, and share it over at Perfectly Rustics. I can’t wait to see what you create!

I’m entering this card in the Mod Squad Challenge this week which is “Masculine” where we are encouraged to make a Masculine card/project. (Sadly, this site is no longer active.)

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1Jun2015

WOW Graduation Shaker Card

Posted in Cards, Interactive, Other by lisababitz

WOW Graduation Shaker Card

I created a graduation card featuring the word WOW. Each of the letters is its own shaker window filled with small, glass beads. I added a small graduation cap and sentiment to show it is a graduation card, but the main focus of the card is the word WOW.

The first version I did was a clean and simple design with a plain gold front.

Here is another view of the individual shaker window letters:

I used a Silhouette file called “wow! word art cog wheel, star tail, stencil” (Design ID #53295), and used just the letters from the stencil image. I closed up the w’s so they would only have one part for their shaker windows.

To create my shaker windows, I cut the letters out of white card stock (centered on a rectangular panel) with my Silhouette – 10 times. I stacked (and glued) these 10 panels on top of each other, lining them up perfectly. This created a very thick panel. I glued a solid panel on the back, added the beads, and glued a piece of acetate over the letters. I cut one more panel with the letters cut out from a piece of black card stock and another (slightly smaller) from gold paper to create my card front and mat. Since the cardstock I stacked was white, I used a black Copic marker to color the edges black to match the black mat and the black card base I used.

Then I created the outline letters (using the Silhouette software and the same file) to place on the card front to further highlight the letters.

The graduation cap is from an svg file called Graduation Cards and Tags from svgcuts.com (HERE).

I purchased the stamp from Ebay; it is unmarked so I have no idea what company makes it. The stamp actually says, “Congratulations, You did it!” but I masked the “congratulations” part and just stamped the rest using versamark ink and black embossing powder.

I really like the clean and simple design of the first card, but I was curious to see how it would look if I embossed the front panel so I made this second version (pictured at the top of this post also).

The embossing folder I used is the Sizzix Stars & Swirls. I covered the WOW outline and graduation cap with black embossing powder to make them more vivid on this version. Since I embossed the panel before I added the stamped greeting (I was waiting for the stamp to arrive in the mail!), I needed to stamp it on a separate panel so I created the matted banner. I’m wondering how it would have looked if I had stamped it first directly on the card front and then embossed it since I am not crazy about the banner (I REALLY like the stamped image directly on the card on my first version!), but I like the stars and swirls.

Now it’s your turn! Create a project making the letters or symbols the star of your card and share it over at Perfectly Rustics. I can’t wait to see what you create!

Over at the Mod Squad Challenge Blog, the challenge this week is “Masculine” where we are encouraged to make a Masculine card/project. This card was made for my (male) neighbor who is graduating this year, so I decided to enter. (Sadly, this site is no longer active.)

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