Vintage Waterfall Card

Posted in Cards, Interactive, Mother's Day by lisababitz

A Waterfall Card is an interactive card that has a strip with cascading images. When you pull on a tab, you can make hidden messages or images appear, while pieces of card stock fold over and look like a waterfall.

HERE is a tutorial for making one.

I created this vintage style waterfall card with a Mother’s Day greeting.. The “Happy Mother’s Day” greeting appears, along with a new image, when the tab is pulled.

For this project, I used paper from two digital paper packs I purchased on Etsy. The floral background paper is from the “Floral Digital Paper Pack” (006) by AphroditaShop. The images on the waterfall panels are from the “Vintage Ephemera Digital Paper Pack” by VintageLeChocolate. The solid card stock was Gina K Innocent Pink and Sandy Beach. Inks used were Gina K Innocent Pink, Warm Cocoa, and Kraft. The “Happy Mother’s Day” stamp is by Studio G, and I used the Stampendous Marble Texture Cube stamp on the greeting panels. Recollection brads and some kraft ink on the edges added to the vintage look of the card.

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29Jul2016

Cheers to the Happy Couple

Posted in Cards, Wedding/Anniversary by lisababitz

Cheers to the Happy Couple

(Inside Text: Wishing you happiness as you start your life together)

I recently needed to make a wedding card and an anniversary card, and when I discovered this gorgeous champagne glass stamp (D-21609 Bride and Groom Wedding Rubber Stamp, Champagne Glasses) by RubberHedgehog Rubber Stamps, I immediately fell in love with it! It’s a pretty small stamp (about 1 3/4″ x 3/4″ – I’d love to see them make a larger version!), so I decided to pair it with the beautiful heart-shaped wreath image (K-20307 Floral Heart Rubber Stamp, Garland of FLowers), also by RubberHedgehog.

This is a flip card where the center panel flips over as the card is “pulled” open.

Below is the anniversary version with less formal card stock:

(Inside Text: Happy Anniversary)

The sentiment on the wedding card is from the “Rectangle Greetings” set (retired?), and the “Happy Anniversary” on the anniversary card is from the “All Occasion Tags” set (retired?) – both by Gina K Designs. These were stamped with Memento Elderberry ink.

The card base and decorative panels were made with dies from the Sizzix Framelit Flip-Its “Card, Circle Flip-Its #4” set and my BIGKick die cutting machine. I used heavy weight white card stock for the card base and paper from the DCWV “The Formal Affair Stack” paper pad for the decorative and stamped panels. One of the sheets in the pad had a floral pattern on parts and was solid on the rest. I used one of the We R Memory Keepers Nesting Circle Dies to create the round panels from the different parts of this sheet. For the inside of the card, I cut the panel from the floral portion of the paper and used the solid part for the stamped panel on the front.

I stamped the images with Memento Tuxedo Black ink using my MISTI. This allowed me to get the champagne glass image nice and dark and eliminated the need for masking. I was also able to make multiple cards once I got the stamps positioned where I wanted them. After the images were stamped, I “colored” them in with a Sakura Stardust Gelly Roll clear glitter pen and used an Infinity green metallic marker to add a touch of color to the leaves. Then I added small gem stickers (Recollections) to the centers of the flowers.

The glitter and gems added to the stamped images and the shimmer and metallic parts of the paper made it very difficult to get good photos of these cards. (I took 191 pics over the course of several days before deciding enough is enough!) The shimmer paper looks light gray, silver, or pale purple depending on how the light hits it. There is shiny, metallic silver detail on the paper as well. As I mentioned above, the card base is actually white! Below is a photo which shows the shine a bit better (although the color is completely washed out)…

(click on photo to see the shine)

This card will be entered in the RubberHedgehog 2016 card contest.

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27Jul2016

Brush Stroke Thank You Note

Posted in Cards, Thank You Cards by lisababitz

Brush Stroke Thank You Note

These bright and “fun” thank you notes feature one of the stamps from the “Work of Art” stamp set by Stampin’ Up along with the greeting from the “Basket of Blossoms” set .

I stamped the paint swipes and greeting on white card stock using Gina K Designs Applemint, Lipstick, or Blue Raspberry ink. The swipe is a large stamp with lots of rubber so I used my MISTI which allowed me to stamp each image several times to make them nice and dark. This panel was then mounted on matching Gina K card stock and then on a white card base.

I made boxed sets containing two of each of the three colors. The MISTI made it easy to duplicate this design.

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24Jul2016

Golf Cart Box Card

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

Golf Cart Box Card

This golf cart box card is from the Father’s Day Box Cards SVG Kit by SVGCuts. The kit contains several different box card projects with themes that are perfect for Father’s Day or that could be used year round. In addition to this golf cart card, there is a baseball themed card, a toolbox card, a BBQ grill card, and a generic card with stars. The kit contains the svg files that you can cut with your electronic die cutting machine, and you can choose the papers and embellishments. Once all the pieces are cut out, you assemble them into an amazing dimensional card! A tutorial VIDEO is provided to make assembly a breeze.

What I love about box cards is that they fold flat to fit into a regular envelope, and depending on the embellishments that you choose, they may not even require extra postage (if you make them light and flat enough).

The patterned paper and printed card stock I used was Authentique “Durable” from the Loyal collection, “Green Plaid” by Paper Pizazz – Hot Off The Press, “Persnickety Finicky” by lilybeedesign, and Recollections silver shimmer card stock. The textured white was the back of some scraps of printed paper I had in my stash. The brown card stock was from the open stock at AC Moore (not sure of the name; no label). The textured-looking metalic silver was from the “Silver Textured Foil” digital paper set by ScubamouseStudiosJr which I purchased on Etsy. I also used Recollections green from their Christmas cardstock pack and Gina K Cherry Red.

I used the Sizzix Dot Matrix embossing folder to add the dimples to the golf balls and two Recollections brads on the wheels.

I found the score card on google and stamped “fore you” with Gina K Grass Green ink. This stamp is from the CC Designs “Just Fore You” set.

There is a plain panel on the back where you could stamp or write a message and sign your name. The sentiment I used is from the “And Many Mower” set (retired?) from Stampin’ Up, and was stamped with Gina K Green Grass ink. (This stamp set also contains a “Happy Father’s Day” stamp which I also used in place of the “Happy Birthday” on a few cards.)

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20Jul2016

Embossed Sympathy Card

Posted in Cards, Get Well/Sympathy by lisababitz

Embossed Sympathy Card

My husband’s uncle passed away suddenly, and I needed to make several sympathy cards for his family.

I made this card with two of my favorite stamp sets. The background was made with a stamp from the “Inspiration Mosaic” set by Gina K Designs, and the greeting and floral branch were both from the “Thoughts and Prayers” set by Stampin’ Up. The images were heat embossed on Gina K Pure Ivory card stock with Versamark Ink and Ranger Liquid Platinum embossing powder. The background panel was embossed with a 5×7″ folder called Basketweave by Darice. The ivory panels were matted on Gina K Kraft card stock.

I used my MISTI to initially help me line up the stamps where I wanted them and then was able to stamp multiple times if needed to insure I had a perfect image before adding the embossing powder. Also, I needed to make a number of these cards, and I was able to duplicate my design easily with the MISTI.

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