Enjoy Your Special Day - a Different Corner Pop Up Card

Now that I have made several corner pop up cards, I have discovered a different corner pop up card - made by turning the card up side down. There are many tutorials on how to make these cards.  Here is a link to one of them here

I used thick Whisper White card stock as the base.  The remainder of this card is decorated with Magnolia DSP matted with Mossy Meadow card stock.

Score an 8 1/4 by 8 1/4" piece of card stock at 4 1/8", turn and score at 4 1/8" again.  Without removing the card stock from the trimmer cut along the score line up to the middle.
Score one of the upper squares diagonally.
Fold in half, fold the triangle inward, and overlap the two square pieces.  Adhere them together.  The scored triangular piece becomes the base of the card.

The right upper square is matted with Mossy Meadow with Magnolia Lane DSP (pattern 1) on top.  A Mossy Meadow banner is placed down the middle, and the sentiment, stamped in Black Memento and die cut with a Stitched Die is added about half way up.  The small bunch of flowers and the leaves, coloured with Stampin' blends is from the Blooms & Grow stamp set.

The right side is decorated in a similar manner, and a square of Whisper White is added for a written personal message.

For the bottom triangularly scored square, the Mossy Meadow and DSP (Pattern 2) is cut into 2 triangles before adhering together, and then added to each triangle.

The sentiment piece, from "Blooms & Grow" is matted with Mossy Meadow.  The corners of both pieces are rounded with a corner rounder punch. The piece is adhered to the base at the right side only so the it tucks up inside when the card closes.  A Magnolia bloom, die cut from the DSP decorated the upper right corner.

To close the card, the scored base folds inward pulling up the sentiment.

The size of the closed card is 4 1/8" square.  It is matted with Mossy Meadow and pattern 3 of the Magnolia Lane DSP.

The sentiment, stamped with Soft Suede and Versa Mark, is embossed with Clear Embossing powder, then die cut with the Stitched Label die.  Before adhering this label to the front, some Petal Pink Organza ribbon is added to the front and back and will be used to keep the card closed.  An alternative is a belly band.

Two flowers decorate the front.  They are made by punching Petal Pink card stock using the Four Petal Flower punch, and die cutting the flower centers using the Magnolia Lane dies.  After adhering the center to the flower, each flower is spritzed and scrunched in my hand.  After gently unscrunching them (leaving lots of wrinkles in) they are adhered to the card front.

The front was completed by adding some petal pink self adhesive sequins.

Supplies Used:

Stamps:  Stitched All Around , Bloom & Grow

Inks:  Versa Mark, Soft Suede, Black Memento, Stamping Blends

Papers:  Thick Whisper White, Regular Whisper White, Mossy Meadow, Magnolia Lane DSP, Petal Pink, Daffodil Delight

Accessories:  Stitched Label dies, Magnolia Memory Dies, Budding Bloom dies,Corner Rounder Punch, Four Petal Flower punch, Magnolia dies, 5/8" Petal Pink organza ribbon, dimensionals, Clear embossing powder, Self adhesive sequins

A Wedding Card in Silver and White

I love to get maximum usage from my stamps and dies, particularly my dies.  For this card I used Valentine Day dies to make this silver and white wedding card.

Starting with a Smoky Slate card stock base layered with Whisper White, I added the art piece to this using dimensionals.

The art piece is a piece of Whisper White card stock embossed with the Lace embossing folder and matted with Smoky Slate card stock.

Two hearts die cut using the fancy hearts die and silver foil paper were added juxtapositioned on top and at an angle from each other on this embossed art piece.  Below the hearts is a die cut scalloped panel in Smoky Slate card stock.  A 3/8" silver edged white ribbon and bow is adhered to this panel.

The sentiment, from "Floral Phrases" is stamped using Gray Granite ink and  die cut using the Stitched dies and added over the ribbon using dimensionals.

Supplies Used:
Stamp:  Floral Phrases
Ink:  Gray Granite
Papers:  Smoky Slate, Whisper White, Silver Foil
Accessories:  3/8" silver edged white ribbon, Lace embossing folder, Be Mine dies, Stitched All Around dies, Dimensionals

You Are My Sunshine - The Paper Players #436 Theme Challenge

"You are my Sunshine, my only Sunshine-----" That song  brings back so many memories.  When we were younger, my sister and I would belt out this song every night just before  falling asleep.

The Theme Challenge with The Paper Players #436 is to make a project featuring plaids or checks. I immediately visualized a Gingham flower with remnants of the Sunshine song in the center.

Because the flower is fairly large, the base card of Highland Heather is larger as well - 5 1/2 by 11 scored at 5 1/2" to form a 5 1/2 by 5 1/2 square card. It is matted with a Whisper White layer embossed on the left side with the Petal Pairs Embossing Folder.

The five petals of the flower were die cut with the layering oval framelits and the Highland Heather gingham DSP.  After the edges of each petal were sponged with Gorgeous Grape ink, they were adhered to a 1" circle using a hot glue gun.  The smaller Gorgeous Grape petals were from  leaves trimmed from a punchie made by the Leaf punch.

The center of the flower was stamped using a stamp from "Stitched All Around" set and Highland Heather ink.  It was punched with the 1" circle punch.  A second circle was stamped using Granny Apple Green ink,  the middle section of which was trimmed out and  adhered to the Highland Heather circle using small dimensionals.
This now completed circle,  matted with a 1 1/8" scallop circle of Granny Apple Green, was added to the flower center using  hot glue.

Before adhering the flower to the card front, the 'stem' of the flower was stamped onto the Whisper White layer using Granny Apple ink.  As well, a rectangular frame made by die cutting 2 sizes of the Stitched Rectangular Framelits at the same time,  was adhered at an angle to the card front. The flower was adhered inside the rectangle.

To finish the card a Granny Apple green organza bow was added at the top of the stem and some Gingham self adhesive sequins were added randomly on the card.

Supplies Used:

Stamp:  Stitched All Around

Inks:  Highland Heather, Gorgeous Grape, Granny Apple Green

Papers:  Highland Heather, Gorgeous Grape, Granny Apple Green, Whisper Wite, Highland Heather Gingham DSP

Accessories:  Layering Oval Framelits, 1" circle punch, 1 1/8" scallop circle punch, Granny Apple Green organza ribbon, Stitched Rectangular Framelits, Petal Pair Embossing Folder, Leaf Punch, Dimensionals, Gingham Gala Self Adhesive Sequins.