Hog Wild Birthday Card

Posted in Birthday Cards, Cards, Interactive by lisababitz

This card is being entered in the Perfectly Rustics – PR Design Challenge No. 39 – Animals, where we are to “go wild” with animals in our creations. (http://perfectlyrustics.com/2015/01/12/prdc-no-39-animals/)

This was a fun card to make! I love this awesome party pig and sentiment by Art Impressions called “Hog Wild Birthday” from their Zoo Crew collection. She was stamped with Memento tuxedo black ink and colored with Copic Markers (R20, R24, Y23, B12, B14, and W4). I made her a tutu from white tulle which I attached with Score Tape.

She was originally stamped on plain, white card stock and was then hand-cut, but there were too many thin lines, and I felt she wasn’t all that sturdy. I decided to make a second card using a heavier weight card stock for the stamped pig, but this was very hard to cut without bending it so I made a cut file on the Silhouette and stamped the image on that. (You’ll see the thin white border around the pig on the photo below.) Glitter was added with a clear Wink of Stella brush pen. (It’s on the card in the photos above, but it’s hard to see unless it catches the light at the right angle.)

The pig cut-out was mounted on a spring, and it wobbles when the card moves. (If there is a big blank space below, click on it to see the gif file of the pig moving. Not sure why it’s sometimes visible and sometimes not!!)

The spring is called an “Action Wobble Spring” and is a plastic spring with adhesive on both sides so it sticks to your card project and to the element you want to wobble. I really love using these springs, but as you can see in the photo below, the adhesive panels are fairly large so your element needs to be big enough to cover the spring. (They now come in a smaller/mini size as well.)

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15Jan2015

Pink Shaker Birthday Card

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Pink Shaker Birthday Card

I made another shaker card similar to the snowman shaker thank you card I made last week. Again, I used the recessed window technique Theresa Momber shows HERE. Instead of leaving it open as she suggests, I added some beads and sequins, covered the recessed window with acetate, added a cover frame, and used a few pop dots to adhere it to the card base.

The stamp I used is from the Stampin’ Up “Simple Wishes” set. I stamped it with Memento Tuxedo Black ink on white card stock and then added color with Copic Markers V17 and V12. I used the Spellbinders Classic Squares Large dies to create the recessed window, the image panel, the cover frame and the glitter border frame. While the focal panel was still in the die, I lightly sponged the edges with Tim Holtz Milled Lavender Distress Ink. The pink printed paper is Recollections Lavender Lines, and the glitter paper is Recollections Foil Paper. The pink and silver yarn is by Martha Stewart, and the button is American Craft.

I don’t usually use pink or so much glitz, but once I got going, I really had fun with this!

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8Jan2015

Snowman Shaker Thank You Card

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Snowman Shaker Thank You Card

I recently saw a video tutorial by Theresa Momber making a Recessed Window Card. She showed how to make the recessed window using a Spellbinders die and a craft knife, and I thought this recessed window card could be easily adapted to make a shaker card.

After I created the recessed window and inserted my stamped panel, I simply added my “shakers” and taped a piece of acetate (cut slightly larger than the window) over the recessed window. I then cut a frame (using the same size die that I used to create the window) and adhered it over the acetate and window panel. For the card above, I created a second frame with the patterned paper (with the next larger sized die) and adhered it on the blue frame. The whole thing was attached to a card base with 4 small pop dots in the corners. (I used to use lots of pop dots to create the enclosed window to keep in the shakers.)

To create the snowman panel, I used stamps from the following Gina K Designs stamp sets: Fabulous Holiday Fillers, Let’s Talk, Winter Cheer, and Fabulous Frame Fillers. I stamped the images using Memento Tuxedo Black and used Gina K Blue Denim ink (and masks) to sponge the background. The snowflakes (hard to see) were stamped with Color Box Frost White pigment ink, although I’m not real happy with the way they came out. (Heat embossing or versamark resist may have been better.) I added color to the snowman with Copic Markers B39, B95, and Y17. Spellbinders Classic Squares (Large) dies were used to make the recessed window and the frames around it. The printed paper I used is “Winter Freeze” by Melissa Frances along with Gina K Blue Denim and Pure White card stock. To photograph the card, I rubbed the acetate with a piece of wool to build up a little static to make the sequins “stick” to appear to be shaken around; they usually sit on the bottom!

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26Oct2014

Holiday Card Collection from 2013 Michaels Classes

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Holiday Card Collection from 2013 Michaels Classes

The following are the sample cards I made (and taught) for the 2013 Holiday Card Classes offered at Michaels last year. I did not design these cards; the lesson plans were provided. I thought I’d share them to show the types of projects/classes that were offered last winter.

Vintage Holiday Card Tricks Class:

This class featured distressing techniques, heat embossing, and using Sizzix dies with the Big Kick. We created a waterfall card, used washi tape, and created an interesting ribbon embellishment. I also added alcohol inks for coloring metal embellishments to the curriculum.

Very Merry Card Tricks Class:

This class featured heat embossing, using Spellbinders dies and a score board. We added shimmer and bling to all of the cards for a festive touch.

Classic Holiday Card Tricks Class:

This class featured dry embossing with an embossing folder and using a Sizzix die with the Big Kick. We created a card with vellum and a cut-out which glowed when a battery-operated tea light was placed behind the card front when it was displayed. We also created a tri-fold card and a step card.

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21Oct2014

Christmas Shaker Card

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Christmas Shaker Card

This is a shaker card I created where the stamped Santa image is recessed and sits behind a piece of acetate, and metal snowflakes are sealed between them. When you shake the card, the snowflakes move around – hard to show that in a photo!

The Santa stamp is by Inkadinkado #5247 (Alma Lynne Designs), and the sentiment is from the Gina K Designs “Merry Tree” duo.

Santa was stamped in Memento Tuxedo Black ink and colored with Copic Markers:
holly – R89, zg24, G29
hair – E55, E57, E59
face – E30, E13
coat – R46, R59
mittens – B24, B29, C5, C7, C9
heart – R89, E49
fur & belt – E30, E33
checks – E40, E42
boots – E57, E59

Card stock used: Gina K Cranberry Tart and Kraft, Coredinations Hunter, along with patterned paper by Pebbles called Mary from the Walnut Grove collection.

Dies used: Spellbinders Matting Basics B (3rd from biggest), Ribbon Tag Trio Two, and the pine bough from Diemond Dies.

Inks used: StazOn cotton white and timber brown, Gina K dark chocolate and desert sand, and Memento tuxedo black.

For the white snowflakes, I hand drew them with a Sakura Gelly Roll white pen. The metallic snowflakes were from my stash. Scotch foam mounting tape was used to create and adhere the “window” over the image.

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