An A2 Box Card featuring Sailing Home - a card plus a tutorial - Paper Craft Crew Challenges #343

I have made box cards many times before, but they have always been on the large size requiring a hand made envelope to be made.

Today I spent some time figuring how to make the box card fit into an A2 envelope. I did consult a few tutorials, but not any one of them addressed my particular desire.

I am submitting this project to the Designer's Choice Challenge at Paper Craft Crew #343 For this challenge  to make a project of my choice .

 

Here's how I made the box card:

1. Start with a 7 1/2 by 9" piece of Smoky Slate card stock

2. On the 9" side score at 2 1/8, 4 1/4, 6 3/8, and 8 1/2"

3.  Turn - cut 2" off the 7 1/2" side.  Your card stock is now 5 1/2 by 9"

4.  Score on the 5 1/2" side at 3".  Burnish all folds.

5.  Cut on each of the score lines of the bottom (the larger of the panels) - the 2 1/8, 4 1/4, and 6 3/8" - up to the 3" mark

6.  Cut off the top portion of the 1" tab at an angle.

7.  Adhere DSP to the top panels .  You will need 4 pieces which are 1 7/8 by 2 1/4" each.

8.  Turn over and adhere a second pattern of DSP on the bottom panels.  You will need  4 pieces of 

     1 7/8 by 2 3/4" each

9.  Apply tear and tape adhesive to remaining 1" tab and form a box.

10.  Score 1/2" at each end of two pieces of 1 by 3" card stock.  Burnish folds, apply tear and  stick tape to these folds, and adhere each to the inside of the card.

Decorate card as desired.  I used the Sailing Home stamp set with the coordinating Smooth Sailing Dies to decorate the upper panels.

The box folds up as shown above and fits into a regular A2 envelope.

Supplies Used:

Stamp:  Sailing Home

Inks:  Night of Navy, Granite Gray, Stampin' Blends (Lipstick Red, Night of Navy)

Papers:  Smoky Slate, Come Sail Away DSP, Whisper White, Silver Foil, Mossy Meadow

Accessories:  Sahara Sand/Night of Navy Baker's Twine, Sail Away trinkets,

Sailing Home - sneak peak

Today I 'played' with the new Sailing Home bundle, and this has become another one of my favourites.  This set makes wonderful masculine cards, graduation cards, thank you, sympathy, etc,

Measurements:

• Balmy Blue 4 1/4 by 5 1/2" - card base
• Whisper White 4 by 5 1/4" - first layer on card base
• Sail Away DSP (Night of Navy with compasses)  3 3/4 by 5"
• Whisper White 3 1/4 by 4 1/4" - art piece
• Balmy Blue 3 1/2 by 4 1/2" - mat for art piece
• Balmy Blue 2 by 2 1/2" for sentiment
• Scrap of Soft Suede for the ship's wheel

The two ships were stamped using Night of Navy ink, and die cut using the Smooth Sailing Dies. After stamping the sea birds in the sky, the ship on the right was adhered to the art piece closer to the top; the second ship was adhered lower and to the left using dimensionals.

After sponging the edges of the art piece with Night of Navy ink, it was matted with Balmy Blue card stock.  Before adhering it to the card front with dimensionals, some Night of  Navy/Very Vanilla thick Baker's Twine was wrapped around the base twice.

The sentiment was stamped in Night of Navy on Balmy Blue card stock, die cut, and added to the card  front using dimensionals.  A Sail Away Trinket (anchor) was added to the die cut sentiment.  Behind the sentiment, a  Soft Suede Ship's wheel was added.

Supplies Used:

Stamp:  Sailing Home

Ink:  Night of Navy

Paper:  Balmy Blue, Whisper White, Soft Suede, Sail Away DSP

Accessories:  Smooth Sailing Dies, Dimensionals, Night of Navy/Very Vanilla thick Baker's Twine, Sail Away trinkets

My True North - SUO Challenge #221 ( A new catalogue sneak peek)

As I mentioned earlier, I was fortunate enough to be able to attend On Stage in Vancouver British Columbia.  One of the perks of attending On Stage is pre ordering products from the new Annual catalogue.
My pre-ordered products arrived yesterday (accompanied with a great deal of excitement and the strong and irrational impulse to play with all the products at once!  I understand from a friend's Facebook post that the dust from the craft room/supplies is the culprit responsible for my irrational actions!)  As the dust settled, so did my irrational impulses, which were replaced with a more level headed determination to use at lease one of the new catalogue items for the challenge with the SUO challenge.

I chose the "Sailing Home" stamp set mainly because of the sentiment, which is very Canadian, but also because the sailing boats worked well with the sketch challenge.

The sailboats were stamped with Night of Navy ink on Whisper White and die cut with the "Smooth Sailing Dies".  They were adhered to  a watercolor wash background  that had some  birds stamped on it.  The background was created by adding some Balmy Blue ink to watercolor paper using an aqua painter.

The watercolor panel was matted with Night of Navy card stock and then added to the card front.

The card base is Night of Navy card stock, layered with Come Sail Away DSP. The vertical stripes in Night of Night of Navy and Balmy Blue tie the various elements of the card together.

The sentiment, stamped in Night of Navy (such a Canadian sentiment) on Whisper White, is matted with Night of Navy and adhered to the card front below the art piece.  A bow tied with Night of Navy/Sahara Sand Baker's twine is added to the right bottom corner while a "Sail Away" trinket adorns the upper right corner.

Supplies Used:

Stamp:  Sailing Home

Inks:  Night of Navy, Balmy Blue

Papers:  Night of Navy, Whisper White, Come Sailing Away DSP, Water colour

Accessories:  Aqua painter, Night of Navy/Sahara Sand baker's twine, Sail Away trinket, Smooth Sailing Dies