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When I opened my new box of Stampin' Up! 2020 supplies, I just had to use the Peaceful Poppies designer paper from the new Stampin' UP! 2020 Jan-June Mini catalog first!! I created 72 cards with the Peaceful Poppies suite of products by cutting each piece of designer paper into 6 cards fronts. I chopped all of the designer paper into 4' strips and then cut the strips into 5-1/4' x 4' pieces. NOTE: when you cut the design with the poppies on the tall stems (front/center in photo above) be sure to cut that extra 1-1/2' strip out
This fun fold is sure to delight kids of all ages - and its a great fold to teach the kids to make too! Pull the flap open to see what is inside! The Hey Chuck stamp set with the Regals Designer Series Paper makes a fun card. These adorable birds from the Bird's Eye View stamp set is paired here with the Countryside Inn Designer Series Paper. Aren't those glasses perfect? Its fun to use a smaller image on the bottom front of the card and a larger one on the inside. The Zoo Crew Designer Series Paper includes
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These Vertical Freestanding Cards are so pretty and they stand up very well on a shelf. Both are Mother’s Day cards but you can make them for whatever occasion you want.
Hello friends! I'm sharing a FREE Card Class this first Saturday in June, 6/1/2024. This month I'm sharing the Sweet Peas stamp set from Stampin' Up! I fell in love with this adorable imagery the minute I saw this set and knew I'd want to create a class around it.Sometimes, stamp sets with smaller images can be more difficult to use in design. In this class, I'm going to share a couple of ways to work with smaller images to give them the spotlight they deserve and make your card designs shine!Y
When I first saw this FREE Lighthouse Scene Card file from Bird's SVGs I was already in love with it. Such a nice clean design and I really like lighthouses. In fact, here are a few I cross-stitched back in the day before e-cutters and paper crafting took over my creative life! And now that I'm looking at those old projects, I think I want to create a new mat for the picture on the left - it needs some stamping or patterned paper I think. Adding that to my to do list! Anyway, I couldn't resist the urge to make Bird's lighthouse really shine. Last year I had some birthday money burning a hole in my pocket, so I treated myself to a Chibitronics starter kit and started teaching myself how to build light circuits into my paper projects. The book that comes with the starter kit is great at teaching you the basics, and I've learned a lot more by reading posts and watching the accompanying videos on the Chibitronics blog. I'm still very much learning as I go along, but am happy to share what I did to make this particular card. I made some minor errors along the way, but I'll tell you when NOT to do what I did! I cut out all of the pieces in Bird's file, but also added two extra solid squares of the lightest cardstock using the same height and width dimensions as the top two darker layers. I used these to build my light circuit. First, I traced around the main window area of the lighthouse so that I knew where to add a cutout for the light to shine through. Had I thought this through in advance, I probably could have done this on my Cricut, but in this case I just traced it and cut it out with a knife. It doesn't have to be perfect, nobody will see it. I'm going to call this WINDOW LAYER. Next, I used the other extra square that I cut out to once again trace just the center of the window area to find the center point where I will stick my light down. You can see other tracing of the lighthouse and landscape shapes, but you can just ignore those. I changed my mind about the switch type I was going to use mid-project, and those markings became unnecessary. I'm calling this one the CIRCUIT LAYER. Next, I added a double layer of vellum to the BACK of the darkest blue, top lighthouse layer window area. Again, I probably could have made Cricut cut this out for me, but it was easy enough to do by hand with some vellum scraps. And here's another thing to ignore - the strips of light blue paper backing the lighthouse's smaller windows are NOT necessary! I was making it up as I went along and just made extra work for myself. Go me! Now comes the fun part - building the circuit! I'm not going to go into too much detail as you will learn how to do this in the chibitronics starter book, but I appreciate being able to see how others create their circuits and learn from it. So here it is. It's not pretty, but nobody is going to see it, so don't worry about that. I wish I had taken more pictures as I went, but I always get so caught up in lighting the light that I forgot. First I draw out the circuit on the CIRCUIT LAYER square that we marked earlier with the window center point. That little triangle sticker is the chibitronic light sticker and the yellow spot in the center of the sticker is the LED bulb. That's the part that you will want centered in the lighthouse window. I draw a small triangle there to mark where the sticker will go. The next thing I did was decide where I was going to put my battery. I'm using a push button switch for this card, so you need to place the battery where you will want to have a push spot on the front of the card. You can trace around the battery or just draw a circle where it will go. The battery will be housed in a little folder of sorts that helps complete the circuit. I used a scrap of cardstock large enough to fold around the battery and glued one side of it down where I wanted to battery to be. Next I added the copper tape. I'm going to save myself a lot of writing here and just share a link to a video by Jennifer McGuire where she demonstrates building a chibitronics circuit. It's so much easier than trying to write it out in a way that makes sense. I used some score tape inside the folder to stick the battery down. Glue works just fine too, but takes longer to dry. Remember to make sure that you have the positive and negative sides facing the way you want before you stick it! In the picture above you can ignore the extra little cross piece of copper tape on the left side of the folder. I had a small piece leftover and stuck it there for extra contact and to remind me that it was the positive side. It's not necessary at all. Finally, you are going to take your chibi light sticker and stick it down OVER the copper tape. I've seen some of the chibitronics design team folks use extra little pieces of copper tape over the top of the light sticker for extra strong contact in the circuit and have done the same here. Now you can press down on the battery folder to see if your LED lights up - it should! Next I added a bunch of foam tape around the sides and battery area. The battery area should have an extra layer of foam tape so that you have to push down on the folder flap to make the circuit light up. Otherwise, if the copper tape was making constant contact, the light would just stay lit until the battery died. Again, Jennifer does a great job of showing you exactly what to do in her video. Here's my CIRCUIT LAYER before I added the top layers to it: I neglected to take photos of the next steps (because I was busy amusing myself with the light), but just follow Bird's directions for adding the darkest top layer of the card to the middle layer and then you can glue those two on top of the WINDOW LAYER created earlier. Once that's done, you can just peel off the backing of the foam tape on your circuit layer and attach the front layers to your circuit layer. I generally only take the backing off of the tape around the perimeter of the card. On the inside, it doesn't matter if it's sticky or not, it's really just there for support. Once all of the layers are stuck together, you can glue that onto the front of the card. Jennifer mentions that she makes a note inside the card to let the recipient know about the light feature, but there are other ways. I found this fun stamp/die set from Lawn Fawn which is perfect for making interactive cards. I used it to make a 'push here' button which I adhered over the battery location on the front of the card. Now just try to keep yourself from playing with the button! I'm sure I've managed to make this seem much more complicated than it actually is. Watch Jennifer's video. Check out the Chibitronics blog. Let your imagination go wild and let's light all the things!!
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Holy cow!..Can you believe it's March already? The weeks are just flying by and although l do love the colours of Autumn, I'm really hoping Summer will hang around a bit longer, l feel like we've been jibbed this year. Anyway, time for another Just Add Ink challenge. This week we want you to "JUST ADD NUMBERS" ... So many options, l finally decided to go with the Circle Card Thinlit and make a Birthday Card for my soon to be 14 Niece. I chose Kraft-Pool Party-Silver Glimmer(retired)-Balloon Celebrations &Number of Years Bundles and some of the gorgeous Birthday Bouquet DSP. The design team have created some fun and fabulous ways to add numbers, so pop over to the challenge blog for lots of inspiration! Thanks for stopping by! All supplies used are Stampin Up!
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Thank you for joining us for the Crazy Crafters April Blog Hop. This months theme is Masculine cards! We hope you enjoy our virtual hop where you will either learn great techniques for your paper crafting projects or just a chance to enjoy each of the ladies lovely creations! You should have just left stop number 8 on the Crazy Crafters Hop - Sarah Rae Oakes at Stampin'Up! With Sarah If so, you are in the right spot. If you get off track, the full blog lineup below will help you move along from blog to blog so you see all of the amazing creations. This is my project for the hop: First you need to stamp "Hardwood" background in Early Espresso on both sides of a piece of Very Vanilla card stock, then cut out a neat little door. Sponge around door and frame. Then you will need to use the smallest banner (4 of these) from the Bitty Banner framelits for the hinges. Try and line up on both sides attaching door so it can be opened. Use a Early Espresso Candy Dot or Brad for the door knob. For the inside stamp "Woodgrain" background stamp on a piece of Very Vanilla card stock. Adhere the door frame to this back ground. Stamp sentiment inside of door. Stamp sentiment and die cut for front door. Here is the full list of Blog Hoppers! Enjoy your day! 1. Nicole Spicer at Handmade By Nicole Spicer 2. Kylie Bertucci at Craft Kylie 3. Tamie Holt at Tamie Luvs Craft2 4. Teena Maher at Stamping with Teena 5. Sue Widowik at Nigh Nigh Birdie 6. Carolina Evans at Studio Evans 7. Kate Benade 8. Sarah Rae Oakes at Stampin' Up! with Sarah 9. Angela Lorenz at Ang's Crafty Cards --- You are here 10. Petra Tailor at Tailored Craftiness 11. Karen Coulter at Stamping K Oz 12. Deborah Raymer at Debzhouse Stamping 13. Michelle Mills at Hello Day Cards Thanks for visiting my blog Angela List of products used Woodgrain $24.95 Hardwood $24.95 Just Sayin' $37.95 Word Bubbles Framelits Dies $42.95 Bitty Banners Framelits Die $25.95 Delightful Dozen - Clear-Mount Stamp $45.95 Early Espresso Classic Stampin' Pad $9.95 Sahara Sand Classic Stampin' Pad $9.95 Very Vanilla A4 Card Stock $14.95 Early Espresso A4 Card Stock $11.95
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What would I do without my acrylic blocks? Of course they are just the thing for stamping with clear stamps. But they are also perfect for creating gorgeous backgrounds! One of my favorite techniques is using my Stampin' Up markers to color them. I just ink up any old block with whatever colors suit my fancy. Then I get them super wet by misting them with water. If I'm working with card stock, I use tons of water, say 10 squirts. If I'm using watercolor paper, I use less water. In this example I was using card stock, so I drenched the block. Then I stamp it onto a piece of Whisper White card stock. I press down with force to help squish the color around. Sometimes I let it air dry, but when I'm in a hurry, I use my heat gun to speed up the process! And voila! A stunning bit of background just waiting to be stamped upon. Tomorrow I'll post some cards that I made using this technique. Give it a try!
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Hello Spellbinder friends! My name is Norine Borys and excited to contribute to the Spellbinders blog as a Guest Designer today! I’ve been working with a beautiful assortment of dies from the Exquisite Splendor Collection (discountinued) by Marisa Job. For the cards I’m sharing today, I mostly used dies from the Flower Box Card Dies (discontinued) plus one small square die from the Tulip Flower Box Dies (discontinued). I’ve recently come from the Houston International Quilt Festival and I have quilting on the brain. Because I love paper too much I will never actually BE a quilter, but I thought that with these card designs I could scratch the quilting itch and move on! I kept all of the designs but one fairly CAS, drawing the line at actually using a needle and thread to create stitch lines, but using a very classic quilt design to make multiple cards. Lets get started! I chose a color scheme of blues and greens with a touch of orange, which generally works for any card recipient, young or old, boy or girl, and I cut lots of the basic flower shape from each of those colors plus white. Then I did the same, using the square die from the Tulip Flower Box dies (discontinued) to cut the background squares. You wouldn’t need to use the square die, but it was so much easier than measuring and cutting all those squares and rectangles. Using the die just eliminates any room for error. Then I cut all of the flowers and squares in half and adhered alternating colors of flowers to bases. I glued them all back together in a basic quilt shape, added yellow centers and a coordinating yellow mat, and drew black stitch lines around the shapes. Before glueing the quilt square to the card panel, I die cut the LOVE YOU letters from the patterned paper panel as well as from some white card stock, and nestled the white die cut letters into the openings in the patterned paper. I tied a perky little bit of black thread around the card panel and adhered it all to a white card stock card base. The second card was made in much the same way as the first, just changing the quilt- pattern slightly, and keeping the overall design simpler. I die cut the THANK YOU sentiment in the same way, but inserted the coordinating colors of die cut letters and tied it all up with some baker’s twine. The quilt panel on this card is popped up with some fun foam for extra dimension. The third variation of this CAS card design is a result of using up the leftover bits of blue and green die cuts. The Flower Box Card Die (discontinued) set has three word choices for die cutting; THANK, LOVE & YOU. However, from the THANK & LOVE, you can also make the word HELLO. So the sentiment on this card is a combination of die cut letters spelling hello, and a “friend” stamp from my stash. I also added some matte enamel dots to the flower centers on this quilted square. I feel like there are endless options of colors and patterns to create this basic quilt design. I confess, the quilting bug really grabbed hold of me for this last card! Yes, I actually cut up strips of many pieces of patterned paper from my stash, and glued them on an angle, to 2 pieces of A2 sized card stock. Then I used the square die from the Tulip Flower Box Die set again to cut 12 squares, which I then arranged and adhered to a card base. I cut 6 more flower bases and flower outlines from white card stock, and 6 flower centers from yellow card stock and adhered them to the intersections of the pattern on the card front. I stamped a simple “just for you” sentiment on black card stock and tucked it under the flowers on the card. I’m sure you’ll agree, the card needs nothing more for embellishment, as busy as it is! I had a lot of fun using these dies to create these 4 cards and I’m excited to return again in a few days to share some more card designs created with more of the Marisa Job Exquisite Splendor Collection. Thanks for stopping by today! Other supplies: Neenah Solar White cardstock, DCWV colored cardstock, Bazzill colored cardstock, Assorted patterned paper scraps, Doodlebug Designs Matte Sprinkles Enamel Dots. DMC thread, Recollections Baker’s Twine, Technique Tuesday “friend” stamp (So Very Thankful Stamp Set), Endless Creations “Just For You” stamp, Black Copic Multi-liner pen
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