Santa’s Ride – Wiper Card

Posted in Cards, Christmas, Creative Folds, Holiday Cards, Interactive by lisababitz

Santa’s Ride – Wiper Card

I saw this sheet of patterned paper of a snowy night scene, and I immediately thought it needed Santa flying over head! I added the moon with Santa in his sleigh to the pop-up mechanism tucked inside the 5″ x 7″ double z-fold card base to create a wiper card. When the card is “opened” Santa appears with the moon.

This 12″ x 12″ paper was in the “Evergreen Cabin” Paper Pad by Craft Smart (at Michaels).

The greeting is the Festive Mini Expressions Stacked Merry Christmas (CEDME014) by Creative Expressions. The Santa die cut was a portion of the “Ho Ho Ho Square” (#590-ZZ) from Impression Obsessions. (I cut off the Santa and two reindeer from the rest of the die cut.)

To make the 5″ x 7″ double z-fold card base, I started with an 8″ x 7″ panel (from the top of the patterned paper) and scored it at 5″ and 6 1/2″. The shorter panel (from the bottom of the patterned paper) was 8″ x 3 3/4″ scored at 1 1/2″ and 3″. I previously made an A2 size wiper card and included instructions on how to make it in that post. This card is made the same way but with larger panels. The wiper/pop-up panel started out as a rectangle (same as in my instructions), but I added the circle die cut to it and trimmed the part of the rectangle that was showing around the circle.

There is plenty of room on the back for a stamped or handwritten message. This card folds flat for mailing.

Thanks for checking out my card project!

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25Apr2019

Sealed With A Kiss Anniversary Card

Posted in Cards, Creative Folds, Wedding/Anniversary by lisababitz

Sealed With A Kiss Anniversary Card

(inside: In all you dream and in all you do, may the love you share bring joy to you…)

This amusing, kissing couple image is from a stamp set called “Sealed with a Kiss” by Paper Pretties. Sadly, the online store closed, but I contacted the owner who actually still had the stamp set, and I was able to purchase it from her. Yay!!

I used a die from the Spellbinders Labels 2 set (S4-162) to create my focal panel on this z-fold card. I sponged GKD Dark Chocolate ink over/around my stamped image while the die cut was still in the die. To create the z-fold card base, I scored my 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inch panel at 4 1/2 and 2 1/8 inches.

The image was stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and colored with Copic markers (woman: B32, B34, RV02, E57, E47, E13; skin: E50, E13, E21; man: E44, E59, E55, E51, E57).

The greeting is unnamed (#97219) by Inkadinkado. The sentiment inside is called “In All Your Dreams” from Print Words by Annette Allen Watkins. (I masked off the “happy wedding day” part of this stamp.)

American Crafts (#320337) patterned paper was used along with Recollections kraft and white card stock.

Z-fold cards fold flat for mailing.

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17Apr2019

Birthday Box Card with a Twist

Posted in Birthday Cards, Cards, Creative Folds by lisababitz

Birthday Box Card with a Twist

I saw a video HERE where Maymay created a variation of a box card on the inside of her card. The other interesting thing she did was to create windows through which you can view the popped up images that are sitting on the hidden strips or crossbars (like on a traditional box card). And finally, she used stickers for her images (which I never think to do!).

I needed a few masculine cards so I set out to find stickers and card stock that would work with this card design and that would be appropriate for the men’s cards. I ended up using Me & My Big Ideas (SPX-308) stickers (that I stuck to white card stock and fussy cut) and American Crafts Pinkpaislee #1254 card stock (from Dots & More Dots pad) as well as Recollections kraft and white.

These stickers are foiled. Here is a better view of the shine.

Here’s a view of the crossbars.

I used a sticker on the front, but I wish I had heat embossed the greeting. I’m not crazy about being able to see the clear around the words. Oh well!

The greeting on the back is the Stampendous – Cling “Delightful Birthday” (#CRH306) stamp.

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25Feb2019

Another Double Z-Fold Card with Pop-up Panel (Wiper Card) – with Tutorial

Posted in Birthday Cards, Cards, Creative Folds, Interactive, Tutorials by lisababitz

Another Double Z-Fold Card with Pop-up Panel (Wiper Card) – with Tutorial

Recently, I shared a wiper card I made for my class and have another sample (with same image from the “Cup of Thanks” stamp set by Studio Katia) that I did with different colors. (If you care to see how I made this card base, I’ve included a short tutorial at the end of this post.) Again, I used Bic alcohol markers (polynesian purple, stone grey, petal pink, tranquil teal, cloud nine grey, ocean blue), and a blender pen to color my image. I found this patterned paper called “Watercolor Dots” by Recollections at Michaels and liked that it had so many colors that worked well with the pencils, markers, and inks available to my students.

Here is a tent fold card layout with the same image.

If you wish to see how I made my Double Z-Fold card base with a pop-up panel (Wiper Card)… Continue reading →

22Feb2019

Double Z-Fold Card… with a Twist (Wiper Card)

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Double Z-Fold Card… with a Twist (Wiper Card)

This “double z-fold” card with a fun pop-up panel is another project I designed for the course I am teaching.

I recently saw digital cut files, designed by Lori Whitlock, for cute Valentine’s Day cards with this type of pop-up mechanism. She called them wiper cards. I started thinking about other elements that would work well on this type of card base and thought this large image from the “Cup of Thanks” stamp set by Studio Katia fit nicely and would be a fun one to color. I watched Lori’s assembly video to get a better idea of how the mechanism worked, and I figured out how to create an A2 size card using a trimmer and score board (instead of the Silhouette). I’m not sure why it didn’t occur to me to look on YouTube to see if wiper card tutorials existed – they do. Nothing like “reinventing the wheel!” It’s a good thing I like playing with paper – LOL!! (Anyway, if you wish to see how I made my pop-up card base, look HERE.)

For this next version, I “smooshed” Memento “Danube Blue” ink spritzed with water onto white card stock. I love this technique because it is quick and easy to do, it looks great (I think), and it allows you to customize your panels to match your image with the inks you have on hand. I inked the edges so the panels would stand out against the white card base.

I colored the stamped image with Bic Marking Fashion Permanent alcohol markers (harvest orange, adobe orange, summer melon, ocean view blue, misty blue, deep sea blue, traquil teal, cloud nine grey, and tiki hut tan), and a blender pen.

Double Z-fold cards fold flat for mailing, and this one fits in a regular A2 size envelope.