Christmas Bauble

                                        

 Last year, I bought a magazine, Die Cutting Essentials Issue 57, which included a Christmas bauble die set by Memory Box. There is a challenge on the Memory Box blog - Happy Holidays, where you make a holiday card using at least one Memory Box die. I thought this was the perfect die set to use.

Using the die set, I cut out the layers in red and gold cardstock. I inlaid each layer, except the bottom one. I just laid a piece of red behind the gold. The sentiment is from the Gina K. Designs Holiday Frame Stamp set, by Melanie Muenchinger, stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black ink. I added a gold mat and then adhered it to a white card base, before adding some extra snowflakes by the sentiment.

I am also entering this in the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes.

Foil Quill card

 Scrap 'n Stamp, a Canadian company, had a giveaway recently. It was a We R Memory Keepers Foil Quill All in One set, and I won! It is used with an electronic cutting machine, heats up and 'draws' the design, which transfers the foil to your cardstock.

The All in One set comes with three different sized tips, adapters for 4 cutting machines (Silhouette, Cricut, Sizzix and the Brother ScanNCut), 3 rolls of foil (gold, silver and rose gold), a roll of washi tape and a heat protection plate.

 My first try was a fairly intricate doily that I had in my library, Silhouette Design #8370. I used the finest tip and used the rose gold foil. Here is the result.

I was really pleased with how it turned out. There were no missed spots, and it really shines! 

Here is the card I made with it.

I didn't want to take away from the foiled design, so I just added a sentiment, from the Gina K. Designs Sweet Camellia Stamp set, in the middle. I used Gina's Dark chocolate ink, as I thought it would be a better match than black, and cut it out with a Cottage Cutz Stitched Circle die.

I am entering this in the Gina K. Designs Monthly Mix challenge - White Space, and the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge - Anything Goes.

Then I decided to experiment with the different foils that I had, to see if any of them would work. 

 I used these foils:

Top left: Heidi Swapp Minc foil
Bottom left: Lisa Pavelka crafting foil 
Top right: Deco Foil 
Bottom right: Gina K. Designs Therm O Web Fancy Foils

As you can see, none of them really worked, so I placed an order for some of the We R Memory Keepers foil.

Thanks so much to Scrap 'n Stamp for this fabulous prize!      

Happy For You

 My friend retired last week, so I wanted to make a card for her. 

I made a one layer card, so I used Gina K. Designs heavy base weight cardstock. I knew the alcohol markers that I used would not bleed through. 

The image and sentiment are from the Gina K. Designs The Best Flowers stamp set, and stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black ink. I used my MISTI for all my stamping. It makes it so easy to restamp if I don't get a good impression the first time. I used some Inkadinkado Stamping Mask Paper to mask off the flower and add the leaves. I think I should have tried the placement of the leaves on a scrap piece of paper, because I don't know if I'm really happy with the way it looks. I used Spectrum Noir alcohol markers BT8, BT5, BT4 and BT2 to colour the flower, and AG4, AG3, AG1 and DG1 for the leaves.

I thought I might want the word 'happy' over part of the flower, so after I stamped it, I cut it out with my Silhouette Cameo. I guess I could have just stamped it, since it wasn't over the flower, but it gives a bit of dimension. I stamped the 'for you' on a piece of black cardstock and embossed it in white. I trimmed it down with my My Sweet Petunia Cut-Align rulers.

I wanted to add some sequins, or something, and then I remembered that I had some Shrinky Dinks sheets. You colour the image on the clear sheet with alcohol markers, cut them out and then either bake them or heat them with your embossing heat tool and they shrink to produce cute, little shapes. I used the colours from the flowers to colour the balloons.

I gave the card to my friend the other day, and told her she might see it on my blog! I am entering this in the Gina K. Designs Monthly Mix Challenge - White Space and the Splitcoaststampers MISTI Monday Challenge - It's a Party!

Engagement Card

My niece got engaged last weekend, so I thought I would make a card for her and her fiance. I am entering it in a couple of challenges - Mod Squad Challenge - Patterned Paper Trio, and Splitcoaststampers MISTI Monday August Challenge - It's a Party!

I chose the Gina K. Designs (GKD) Made With Love patterned paper pack because the colours looked a little more masculine (since I'm giving the card to both of them) and had the hearts on one of the patterns. I cut the papers into 1/2 inch strips and glued them on to the bottom of a white piece of cardstock with GKD Connect Glue.

I don't have any small stitched rectangle dies, so I used a Cottage Cutz Stitched Squares die and ran it partway through my machine, so only one end cut. Then I moved it along, trying to match up the edges, and ran it through the machine from the other end and partially cut that end. This gave me a rectangle and I stamped my sentiment (from GKD Holiday Frame Fillers stamp set by Melanie Muenchinger) with GKD Jet Black Amalgam ink, using my MISTI. This allowed me to line up my sentiment, and double stamp it, to get a perfect impression. I then heat embossed it in clear and cut a black mat for it. 

 To give the card a party feel, I added some hanging lanterns, which look like streamers. They are cut out of GKD Jelly Bean Green cardstock with the Memory Box Poppystamp Party Lanterns die. It even has the word 'party' in the name of the die! I added rhinestones to the lanterns to look like the light was sparkling. They also reminded me of the diamond in the ring!

Patterned Paper Trio

Today I have a card I made for an Anniversary, and it fits the criteria for a few challenges. The Mod Squad Challenge is Patterned Paper Trio - we need to use at least 3 different patterned papers, the Gina K. Designs Monthly Mix Challenge is White Space - we need to have some white, or empty, space on our card, and the Splitcoaststampers MISTI Monday Challenge is It's a Party!

The stamps, patterned paper and inks are all from Gina K. Designs.

I used the patterned papers to fill in the balloons and as accent strips along the bottom. The balloons, stamped with Jet Black Amalgam ink, are from the Happy Birthday to You stamp set, and the sentiment, stamped with Wild Lilac ink, is from the Follow Your Dreams set, by Theresa Momber. The paper is from the Sending Love and Delicate Essentials packs.

I used my MISTI to line up my stamps, and to double stamp them to get a nice impression.

I didn't have any cardstock in the right colour to mat my top layer, so I sponged some of the Wild Lilac ink onto the edge of a piece of white cardstock.

Since it is a simple design, I wanted some sparkle, so I embossed the sentiment with some opalescent embossing powder, and added some rhinestone hearts.

Thanks for stopping by!

Dawn

August Scor-Pal Challenge

It's time for another Scor-Pal More Than One Score Challenge! This month, the theme is Birthdays, but you can also make an Anything Goes project.

Each month we will have a different theme and you will have a month to create and enter your projects. As well as the theme you will need to make "More Than One Score" and tell us where you used the Scor-Pal on your project. So a single fold card won't count but an Easel, Gatefold, Stair Step, etc will :) Also we love to see your "Anything But a Card" projects, just as long as you make "More Than One Score".

I saw this card style on Pinterest recently, so I thought I would give it a try.

To make this card, you will need:

Scor-Pal
Scor-Tape
The Stacker
Cardstock - one piece, 8 1/2" x 8" (I used yellow)
                 - 6 pieces, 1 3/4" square (I used pink)
Patterned paper - 6 pieces, 1 3/4" square
                          - 6 pieces, 1 1/2" square
                          (I used Crafter’s Companion Vintage Tea Party patterned paper, from a
                               Cardmaking & Papercraft magazine)

For embellishments, I used:
Stampin' Up!: Four Frames, Silhouette Sentiments stamp sets
                       Decorative Label punch
Gina K. Designs Birthday Blessings stamp set
1" circle punch


Attach the 1 1/2" square patterned paper pieces to the cardstock squares with Scor-Tape. The Stacker makes it easy to add the Scor-Tape to your project. It's like having another hand!

Using your Scor-Pal, with the 8 1/2" side of the cardstock at the top, score at 2", 4", 6", and 8". Cut off two 2" strips from the bottom, so you have two 2" x 8 1/2" pieces and one 4" x 8 1/2". On the half inch tabs, cut off a small triangle from the corners. Fold along all the score lines.

Place the strips with the tabs at the bottom and add Scor-Tape to the tabs. Tape the squares to the center two squares of the strips.

Turn the strips over, and tape one of the 1 3/4" patterned paper pieces to the bottom square and another one to the tab, with the square hanging over the end. Then fold the square up, remove the tape backing and fold down the top square to attach.

Take the larger piece of cardstock, with the tab at the right, and attach two of the patterned paper squares; one at the top of the right section and the other at the top of the tab. Fold in the right hand section, add tape, remove the backing and fold the left section over to attach.

Turn the large piece over, so the join is at the back. Position the two smaller pieces with the join in the middle of the back, and tape the top half of the back to the bottom portion of the large piece. 

Tape the last two squares of cardstock with the patterned paper attached to the top portion of the larger piece.

 When you stand the card up, it forms three cubes.

To attach the embellishments, I used a 1" circle and cut it in half. I folded each piece in half and attached one side of each half to the back of the embellishment. The other side is attached to each side of the front corner.

The card folds flat for easy mailing.

I hope you will join in the challenge. You could win a gift certificate to the Scor-Pal store!