Sailing Home Double Corner Pop Up Card - SUO Challenges #224

Father's Day is coming up soon, but if you're anything like me, you don't have a father anymore.  That doesn't mean that I don't miss him.  I miss him terribly, especially when I work in the garden because I learned all my gardening skills from him.

Before we emigrated to Canada from Holland, my Dad was a fisherman in the North Sea, so the Sailing Home stamp set gives me 'warm fuzzies". 

This week the challenge with SUO Challenges #224 is "Masculine" so I will be submitting this fun fold card to this challenge.

This double corner pop up card features the Sailing Home stamp set with its coordinating dies and DSP.  For links to tutorials visit yesterday's blog post here

I kept the card monochromatic using Night of Navy, Balmy Blue,Very Vanilla and Sahara Sand.  Everything was stamped using Night of Navy ink.

In the center is a small easel upon which an arrangement of sea faring images from the stamp set is adhered.  The easel is made by die cutting a folded piece of cardstock using the stitched circles dies, moving the die so that a small part of the die edge is placed over the fold line.  This created 2 circles joined at the center.  One half of the circle is folded in half to form the easel.  Another circle of the same size is die cut and the images are adhered to this.  The bottom half of this circle is adhered to the bottom half of the folded easel.  The close up is below.

Sailing Home DSP cut into a triangle and matted with Balmy Blue are adhered to both outer corners. A stamped sentiment was placed on the right corner; a compass (with movable hands) on the left. The compass was punched with the 1 3/8" circle punch.

The inner corners were left uncovered, so images of the bird and the small sailboat were stamped on them.

The lower square upon which the Pop Up Easel was adhered, also had Balmy Blue card stock and DSP adhered to it as well as Whisper White.  Since there was little room to write a greeting on this piece, the square underneath was matted with Balmy Blue and Whisper White.

Because the closed card is an odd size (4 1/8 by 4 1/8") an envelope was made using the now retired envelope punch board using retired  Sahara Sand DSP .  The envelope I made is visible to the left of the card.

Supplies Used:
Stamp:  Sailing Home, Black Memento
Inks:  Night of Navy
Papers:  Heavy Very Vanilla card stock, Whisper White, Night of Navy, Balmy Blue, Sahara Sand, Come Sail Away DSP
Accessories:  Smooth Sailing DSP,  Sailing Home trinkets, Very Vanilla/Night of Navy Baker's twine, Dimensionals,Small black brad, Stitched Circle Dies, 1 3/8" circle punch.

Congrats - The Paper Players a CAS #291 with Butterflies

CAS cards have always been difficult for me, but what has really helped me is being more conciencious about using the "Cost Calculator" on the SU website.

I no longer now go "Oh No! A CAS challenge"

This card was inspired by one I saw on Pinterest, and I just love the gold foil Butterfly and I just love the simplicity of it.

The basic cardstock is Bermuda Bay, layered with Whisper White.

I then cut 4 pieces of cardstock 2 3/8" each ; 2 in 2 colours - Bermuda Bay and Pear Pizzazz.  Using the corner rounder, I rounded 2 of the 4 corners, and placed then near the top middle of the card, with one of the pointed ends of each square facing the inside.  I adhered them to the card front using tombo glue.

A medium butterfly was die cut using gold foil, and added to the middle of the squares with only tombo on the body.

The sentiment, from "Happy Happenings" was embossed with gold embossing powder.  I used the Stamp-a-ma-jig to center the word.

Supplies Used:

Stamps: Happy Happenings

Inks: Versa Mark

Papers: Bermuda Bay, Whisper White, Pear Pizzazz, gold foil

Accessories: Corner rounder punch, Butterfly die, gold embossing paper

Congrats - a Gatefold Shutter card

This is one card fold I have never made before (actually I have never heard of it before), but I'm up to a challenge.  This was a task for one of the groups I am in.

I used a You tube video tutorial by Maria Russell.  She made the card look so easy by showing us step by step how to make this card. I was able to make it the first time. 

• This is the Gatefold shutter card closed, and held closed by a bellyband decorated with a flower made with various sizes of scallop circle punches.
• The base card is Very Vanilla, cut at 8 1/2 by 5 1/2" then scored at 2 1/8 and 6 3/8".
• I used Pacific Point cardstock with Pretty Petals DSP stack 

• The partially opened card shows the shutter component on the inside of the card.  The shutter is partially opened - opened enough to see that the word stamped in the middle is "Congrats" from "Happy Happenings"

• The card is fully opened - as is the shutter.  The circle in the middle of the center panel was made using a circle framelit.
• The inside is decorated using the Bird Builder punch and the Petite Flower punch.  Brights sequin embellishments adorn the middle of each flower, and a rhinestone is on top of that.

This card proved to be quite easy to make and my plan is to make more of them.

Supplies Used: 
 

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Congratulations on Your Engagement - a Confetti Card

When my sister phoned to tell me that my niece was engaged to be married I was absolutely delighted, so I immediately sat down and made a very special card for her.

I had seen a demo of a confetti card done earlier in the week, so I thought what a neat engagement card that would made.

Leave me a comment if you would like me to do a tutorial.

First I cut two pieces of 4 by 3 pieces of paper - one a piece of Something borrowed DSP and one Whisper White.  Holding then together I die cut a Heart shape through both layers using the heart framelits.

The word "Congrats", from the stamp set "Your Perfect Day" was embossed with white embossing powder on a piece of Window Sheet (I didn't want the other words on the sentiment so I covered them with scotch tape).

The window sheet was attached to the back of the die cut DSP with snail adhesive.

In the meantime, I made a small pouch cutting down a clear envelope.  Then, using a 1/8" hand held punch, I punched numerous confetti pieces in whisper white, sahara sand, crisp cantalope and silver glimmer.  These pieces were put inside the pouch to which sticky strip tape was applied to the both open ends.  After the confetti was inside, the pouch was taped closed.  This pouch was attached to the window sheet, and then both were attached to the Whisper White heart.  So the pouch with the confetti is between the 2 layers of paper.

If you look closely you can see the confetti in the pouch under the window sheet.  It was hard taking a picture because of the glare of the light on the window sheet.


The base card is Sahara Sand, layered with Whisper White and then Your Perfect Day DSP.  On the left I attached a piece of 7/8" Sahara Sand lace trim.  A bow made out of the same trim was adhered to this ribbon, and a piece of Crisp Cantalope tied around it.

The sentiment "Congratulations on your engagement" are from a retired stamp set "Love to Laughter" and was embossed with white embossing powder on Crisp Cantalope cardstock.  This was die cut using the Itty Bitty Banner framelit die.  It was attached to the lower half of the card part way over the heart using dimensionals.  A strip of rhinestones was added below the sentiment.

Five flowers from the "Petite Petals" stamp set were stamped in Crisp Cantalope and punched using the coordinating punch.  They were added to the front of the card using glue dots.

Here's the supplies I used:

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