Get Well Soon - SUO Challenges #131

A number of my friends have been ill lately, and my stash of Get Well cards is getting low.  So I was particularly happy to see "Get Well" as this week's topic at SUO Challenges

I partially cased a card I saw on Pinterest - namely the tissue pop up box on the inside.

• The base cardstock of Mint Macaron was matted with Whisper White embossed with the Decorative Dots embossing folder.
• Down the middle is attached a piece of Pretty Petals DSP matted with Mint Macaron.
• The imagae panel was first stamped with the "Gorgeous Grunge" stamp set using Mint Macaroon, then the swirl image from "Flowering Flourishes" was stamped with Black Memento
• On a separate piece of Whisper White, 5 flowers from the stamp set "Petite Petals were stamped using Mint Macaron.  They were punched out using the Petite Petal punch.  Three of the flowers are for the front of the card, and 2 for the inside.
• Using the Owl Builder punch, 5 small circles (the eyes) were punched using Black Glimmer paper.  These were attached to the inside of each flower with a glue dot.  But before doing that, the petals of each flower were curcled up slightly.
• A 1/4" strip of Mint Macaron was adhered to the bottom of the panel, and a 1/8" strip of black glimmer paper was added to the middle of that.  
• The 3 flowers were added as shown in the picture above.
• The sentiment is from "Word Play" and die cut using the Lots of Labels framelits.  I played around with the framelit to get the shape I wanted.  Not sure if I suceeded.  It was attached using dimensionals.

Inside: 

• After adhering the 4 by 5 1/4" piece of Whisper White cardstock, the tissue pop up box was made.
• Tissue Pop Up box:  A 6 1/4 by 3" piece of Mint Macaron cardstock was scored at 1 1/2, 3, 4 1/2, and 6" on the long side.  Crease folds and burnish with a bone folder. Adhere the small flap to the bottom to create the pop up box.
•  DSP was adhered to the top and front of the pop up. The opening for the tissue was created using a craft knife.
• Adhere the bottom and back of the box to the inside at the crease.  When the card closes the box folds down.
•  The sentiment was punched with the Word Window punch and adhered to the front of the box. 
• The other two flowers were adhered to the top right of the inside layer.

Supplies Used:

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Card Using Napkin Technique with tutorial

I haven't used this technique in a long, long time, but I'm participating in another swap that requires us to adhere a dinner napking to a piece of cardstock and use this as a background for a card. There are some very interesting dinner napkins out there. I was very lucky to have this napkin as it was the last one I had that had a design on it.
I'll show you my card and then explain the technique.

Stamp: Word Play
Ink: Basic black, Bravo Burgundy
Papers: Bravo Burgundy (retired), Whisper white, Napkin adhered to Whisper White cardstock
Accessories: 5/8" Organza ribbon coloured with a Bravo Burgundy marker, dimensionals

Napkin Technique 

Supplies:

. Dinner napkin

.  White cardstock

.  Parchment paper

. Cling wrap (saran, etc)

. Iron 

. Waxed paper

. Scissors

A firm surface to work on.  I used my ironing board.

1.  Decide on the napkin you're going to use.

2.  Separate the top layer from the rest.  Be sure that you have only the top layer.

3.  You can cut out the area you wish to use, but make it a bit larger so that you can trim the edges evenly later.  Use scissors to do this as it's fragile and may rip if you use a paper trimmer.

4.  Cut a piece of white cardstock just a little larger than the napkin piece you're going to use.

5.  Place a piece of parchment paper on a firm surface.

6.  Place your cardstock on the parchment paper.

7.  Place a piece of shrink wrap (Saran, etc.) over the cardstock. (I've found that the cheaper the wrap the better it seems to work with this technique.

8.  Place your napkin piece on top of this.

9.  Place a piece of waxed paper over top of all these layers, and press the entire pile with an iron on medium heat.  Check every so often to make sure the edges of the carstock and napkin are sticking together.  If not, turn up the heat on the iron and carry on.

10.  Once finished, cut your piece to size and adhere to your card and add any embellishments you wish.

Gently Falling - an Autumn Card case

I saw this card on Pinterest and tried to track down the original artist but could not find out who it was.  This card is almost a CASE of this card.  I did change a few things.
If you recognize this card as yours will you please get in contact with me and I will give you credit.

Technique:
The card itself - I embossed a second Very Vanilla layer with the Fancy Fan folder and die cut a Label framelit shape in the middle of it.  Into this shape I stamped the sentiment.
The leaves were stamped with Chocolate Chip ink onto Whisper White paper and sponged different colours on them before cutting them out.  I used a combination of Summer Starfruit, Tangerine Tango and Old Olive.
After cutting them out, I adhered them to the outer left edge of the die cut.

Stamps: Gently Falling, Word Play
Inks: Chocolate Chip, Summer Starfruit, Tangerine Tango, Old Olive
Papers: Early Espresso, Very Vanilla, Whisper White
Accessories: Fancy Fan embossing folder, Labels Framelits, Victorian crochet ribbon, Naturals Button