Sunday, October 28, 2007

How to make a shaker card pt. 2













Continued from part 1.

Step 7: This is the tricky part. Outline the foamie cut-out with adhesive. I used Terrifically Tacky Tape so you could see, but any strong adhesive will work. This needs to be all around the window. If there are any gaps, the confetti will fall out. Wow, I should not have picked such an elaborate design for the example! This took me at least 10 minutes. Normally, the card is super fast to put together.
I also added adhesive around the edge of the foamie to adhere the DS.

Step 8: Add confetti, glitter, whatever to the design window. Remove the backing to the tape. Carefully position the DS on the foamie, aligning the window. Press to seal all around. Give it a shake to make sure there are no gaps.

Step 9: Continue to embellish the card. I added curling ribbon and triangles to look more balloon like. If this was a snowball, I would have added an base. I've also used this technique to make mini-shadow box cards, so a frame would go around the window.

Finished!!! If you make this card, please let me know!!

How to make a shaker card pt. 1






I like making my own shaker cards, rather than using the CD holder because my cards are not the same size as the CD holder. I rarely make square cards. Most of the time they are 4.25 x 5.5 inches (or half of a 8.5 x 11 inch paper). I use this size because I have envelopes that fit. Or I use the precut cards with matching envelope sets.

This is an easy method to make any shaker card. Most of the time I stick with circles, squares, and rectanges. For the demonstration, I'm going fancy with a bunch of balloons. It's for my co-worker's 36th anniversary at work. That's a heck of a tenure, and she deserves a celebration! So my card will have festive balloons.

Step 1: cut a piece of sticky foamie the same size as the card front. I'm using a 5 x 6.5 inch card. Next trace your cut-out on the foamie. I like to use stencils to make the designs. The balloons are from Fiskars.

Step 2: Cut out the design.

Step 3: Trace the design on the DS paper which will cover the foamie. If the design is not symmetrical, make sure you line up the back of the DS paper with the front of the foamie. If you don't, your DS will have a mirror image of the design.

Step 4: Cut the design out of the DS paper. Then turn over the paper and match up the DS paper to the foamie. If the foamie shows through, make the cut out in the foamie just a bit bigger.

Step 5: For this card, I added the Dots DS paper to the card. Or you can add a photo to the card, whatever you want to show through the window. Remove the backing from the foamie and stick to the card. Make sure the corners match perfectly.

Step 6: Cut out a piece of acetate (transparency film) and attach to wrong side of DS paper.

Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Christmas card for Captain Crafter's challenge





This Christmas card was made for Captain Crafter's challenge (http://captain-crafter.blogspot.com/). The Challenge was to make a Christmas card without Christmas stamps. Really tough! All my stamps are Christmas, Halloween, flowers, or animals.
This was my only idea. I made several different types of trees (using different flowers) and I tried to make a mistletoe, but the flourishes didn't look right.
I hope this card fits the Challenge. The flourish kinda looks like a bird, but I added the eye and beak with a pen.

The paper is Provo Craft, the stamps are Mini Make a Flower and Family/Scroll by Autumn Leaves. Sentiment is hand written.

PS: Autumn Leaves are $1.99 clear stamps from Target. What a deal!

Acetate Card





Here's an acetate card I made a few months ago for a coworker. I don't remember who made the stamp, sentiment is a Cuttlebug emboss folder. I really like these colors together.

Monday, October 22, 2007

Get Well Card




Here's a get well card I made for my supervisor. His dog had hip surgery and needs 6 weeks of limited movement to recover. Since my supervisor is a man, I tried not to make the card too girly. The paper is from ProvoCraft. The paper flowers are from Making Memories. The brads are from JoAnn's. The flower stamp is by Fiskars. Ribbon is JoAnn's. The sentiment is hand written.

I need to practice making more masculine cards. All my stamps and embellishments are girly. I don't really want to invest in more stamps...my objective this year is to use what I have in more creative ways.

Sunday, October 21, 2007

Challenge card for WSC24





Here's my entry for the SCS24 weekend challenge. I found it on Beata's blog fresh n fun.

http://beate.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/ (wish I could figure out how to add links)

The paper is from an old Provo crafts Slab, red cardstock from BigLots, snowflakes are Snow Burst SU!, I handwrote the sentiment with a Jelly pen, and I made the 3-D tree.

Another Shaker card







Here's another shaker card. I stamped the polar bear stamp twice - once on green, and again on white. The trees were cut out of the green, and the bear cut out of white, then they were layered. I used foamie to make the shaker globe. I hope this picture is clear.

Thursday, October 18, 2007

Thanks Card


For my birthday, a friend gave me a Sixxix die cut that makes a card with a square window. I really love it, except it doesn't fit!! Argh! I have the classic Sixxix, and the die is too wide. This thing was so expensive 3 years ago. Should I trade it in for the Big Kick?

So I made this card. The window isn't straight, but I think it came out OK.

Shaker card


Here's a shaker card I made using foamies. I've made shakers using CD holders, but they're too big for my envelopes. I tried making my own window envelope, but the paper would cling and the confetti wouldn't shake nicely. So I decided to use foamies to keep the paper separated. This is my first try, and I think it looks pretty good! Though next time I'll make the circles bigger.

The picture doesn't really show the shaker part. I'll try taking a close up later.

Fall Cards




I've always been into making cards. Recently, my interest has really revved up! It might be related to a scrapbook I'm making for my dad's 70th birthday. I've been using my stamps, paper, and die-cuts almost every night!

Here are a few of the fall-themed cards I've made. The instructions for making the 3-D pumpkins are found on the Paper Source website, under how-to. I didn't have any circle stickers, so I just cut out circles and used adhesive. The instructions are here:


http://www.paper-source.com/cgi-bin/paper/howto/ideas/3d_pumpkins.html