I have been fascinated lately with cards that feature alphabet letter dies that are cut out of the same designer paper and attached so the pattern continues on the letters and on the background. Does that make sense? Jennifer McGuire showed this technique in a recent blog post with a video tutorial here. I cannot afford the set of alphabet dies she used, but searched through my dies and found a block letter "hello" die from Kaisercraft that worked great.
I started with two identical pieces of pink floral designer paper from The Paper Studio. I die cut "hello" out of one of them and also out of black fun foam. I used my favorite glue from Nuvo (Deluxe Adhesive with the fine tip) to attach the pink floral hello to the black fun foam and then onto the card front so the flower pattern continues on both. I attached that piece to a black cardbase. Then I added some pink punched butterflies decorated with Ebony Black Nuvo Crystal Drops. Here is a close up look showing the dimension and a look at the inside where I attached another piece of the gorgeous floral dp with gold foil:
I am entering this card in the Layers challenge at Dies R Us and the Anything Goes challenge at Scrapy Land. (The "hello" die is from Kaisercraft.)
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Yeah- my blog issues have been solved thanks to my computer whiz friends, Michael and Sara! I have been very busy working on a new adventure in my creative life. Stay tuned here for my big announcement. But in the meantime, I am sharing a fun shaker card featuring Tonic Studios lovely Floral Blooms Patterned Panels Die Set and the perfect stamp set for shaker cards from Studio Calico. I simply cut out the Floral Blooms background out of a purple polka dotted cardstock, attached a layer of acetate behind it and two thin layers of mounting tape all around the back. I dumped in a bunch of chunky glitter and floral sequins and attached to an eggplant colored card base. I stamped "shake it" with purple ink and "you know you wanna" with black ink on a vellum strip and attached it with glue dots. The glue dots were covered up with gold floral sequins and I added a couple pink floral sequins for fun. Here's a peak of the card all shook up:
I am entering this card in the Layers challenge at Dies R Us and the Anything Goes challenge at Scrapy Land.
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I have been wanting to try a tulle shaker card ever since I saw Jennifer McGuire do it in a video a while back. I created this see through shaker card with tulle and red, green and gold mirror card using Tonic Studios dies, stamps and embossing folders as well as their Christmas mirror card pack. Christmas colors now? Why not? For complete instructions and more pictures, please visit the Tonic Studios USA blog here.
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I am entering this card in the Layers challenge at Dies R Us and the Anything Goes challenge at Scrapy Land, as well as the Win & Tonic Challenge.
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First the fun news:) A mixed media card I designed with Nuvo mousse on a gel press plate and other Nuvo and Tonic Studios products was published today here: https://www.allfreepapercrafts.com/Card-Making/Butterfly-Garden-Mixed-Media-Card/
Please click on the link to see the complete card and instructions and I would greatly appreciate it if you took a minute and left a comment there. You know how it is - the more clicks and comments, the more likely they will say yes to future articles. Thanks!
You may have noticed I have not been blogging as much as usual lately since my signature and many of my pictures on this blog and on my Send a Smile 4 Kids blog have been replaced with an ugly picture from Photobucket. I do not have an account there, but my computer whiz friends who helped set up those blogs did. Without warning, Photobucket decided to start charging a huge amount for accounts that were previously free. While my computer whiz friends try to find an alternative and fix the issues, I will not be posting new blog posts except when required.
Thanks for your continued support and understanding. I truly appreciate all of you who subscribe and follow my blog!
I was so happy to meet Suzanne Cannon of Quietfire Designs at this year's Creativation (CHA) and when she asked me to be a guest design team member this month, I jumped at the chance. To see all the details of how I made this sparkly and glittery card, click on this link to the Quietfire Creations blog.
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I have a quick card to share today on our nation's birthday. I received a pretty stars and stripes napkin from a friend and I thought it would be perfect for a 4th of July card. I was hoping my laminator would be hot enough to melt the cling wrap and hold the napkin in place, but it was not. (I had heard Mincs do work for this technique, so tried my less expensive laminator, but with no success.) So I pulled out my old iron, heated it up on dry high setting and ironed the napkin onto a piece of cardstock using cling wrap and a couple pieces of scrap thin paper. I die cut Happy 4th using Tonic Studios Windsor Numerals, Attraction Lower Case Scrip and Birthday Script dies. I die cut two gold stars with a Tim Holtz Sizzix Dimensional Stars die set. The stars pop up with great dimension as shown here:
I am entering this in the Red, White and Blue challenge at Monday Simon Says Stamp and the Anything Goes challenge at Wednesday Simon Says Stamp.
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It’s Saturday and time for another fun challenge at Send a Smile 4 Kids! This time our challenge is: Birthday Fun 4 Kids. Create and link any birthday card appropriate for a child and you could win one of our great prizes.
We have two very generous sponsors for this challenge: So Suzy Stamps is giving their winner a $15 gift certificate! And the winner from Stampendous receives a $20 gift certificate! TEAM S.A.S will also be choosing their favorite cards for our top three and the winners will receive a blog badge and an opportunity to be a guest design team member on a future challenge.
My kid's birthday card features some sweet cupcake, ice cream and sentiment stamps from So Suzy Stamps. The cupcake frosting is colored with Nuvo Shocking Pink Neon Glow Drops and pops up on some labels cut with Karen Burniston's 1011 Katherine Label Pop Up Die. Here is a look at the inside of this fun interactive card:
The label pops up when the card is opened and fits in the front label opening when it is closed. I cut another dotted label from the same Karen Burniston set of dies and printed a sweet sentiment from So Suzy Stamps on it.
I am entering this card in the Anything Goes challenge at Wed. Simon Says Stamp and the Layers challenge at Dies R Us.
Stamping smiles 4 our kids,
Karen
