Red and Gold Foiled Slimline

 

Hi Crafty Friends,

Today I am sharing a Gold Foiled Slimline card I created recently.

For the background of my card I used Spellbinders Slimline Confetti Background Glimmer Hot Foil Stamp set with gold foil onto red cardstock. I foiled one end of my red cardstock panel with the hot foil plate and then the other end. I die cut the panel into a Slimline panel using a stitched slimline die from Picket Fence Studios.

I layered the red panel onto a gold scalloped rectangle panel which was die cut using another Slimline die set from Picket Fence Studios. This was then layered onto a top folding white slimline card base.

I used the smaller die included in Altenew's Slim Deco Cover Plate die set, which I die cut from Gold Mirror Cardstock.

The sentiment is gold foiled using Spellbinders More Sentiments Glimmer Hot Foil Stamps set.

I embellished the frame using an older dragonfly die set from Elizabeth Craft Designs. The dragonflies are glittered using Elizabeth Craft Designs Desert Gold Silk Microfine Glitter.

For the inside of the card, I gold foiled a thin strip of cardstock to use along the bottom edge of my card. I used the Scalloped Slimline die from Picket Fence Studios that I used on the front of the card along the top edge of the red panel.

I used the "Happy Birthday" sentiment from Spellbinders Essential Glimmer Sentiments Glimmer Hot Foil Stamp set to gold foil a piece of white cardstock. I die cut the sentiment using the sentiment die from Spellbinders Slimline Classic die set. 

Other Supplies:

Dragonfly Die Set - Elizabeth Craft Designs (discontinued) 

Butterfly Wishes

Hi Crafty Friends,

It's challenge time with my friends over on the CCEE Stampers challenge blog.  Vicky Gould our challenge hostess for July, finishes off the month with one last challenge.

Apparently July 20 - 28 is National Moth Week. Who knew the moth would have a whole week dedicated to it.  Use a moth (or butterfly) on your card today.  Extra credit if you actually have a moth stamp/digital you can use. This is an opportunity to add to your Birthday Thank you, Thinking of you or just all-occasion card stash!  Let the bugs fly.

For my card today, I was inspired by a card I made a few years ago. I used Karen Burniston's Oval Pull Card die set for the base of the card, this is a die which was created under license and sold via Elizabeth Craft Designs and is no longer available.

 One of the fun things about Karen's dies is you get to decide what size to make your card, so I was able to make this a little long than I normally make them. I used designer paper to to create the pull card and then backed this with the aqua cardstock.

Along the right hand edges I used the Memory Box Kensington Border die set to die cut the aqua cardstock before adhering the panel behind the pull card. I die cut  two more of these borders using purple cardstock and cut out the butterflies and adhering them to the butterflies on the border.

Along the left hand side I die cut a scallop border also from aqua cardstock adding it to the left hand side.

I used the butterflies from the ModaScrap Butterflies die set which I added randomly over the card. 

I added glitter dot peel off stickers to the centres of all the butterflies.

The birthday sentiment on the front of the card is an older one from Me and Carrie Lou, which has been in my stash for years.

When you 'pull' the card open it reveals the two oval panels, one with a sentiment from Impression Obsession and the other left blank for a handwritten message.

Don't forget to check out the CCEE Stampers blog (goes live 12 AM EST) to see the rest of the creations the CCEE Stampers created this week. You can also see more details of their creations on their individual blogs:

Anne Harmon

Liz Williams

Lois Bak

Lynn McAuley

Maryann Einam

Vicky Gould

Kelly McKown-Santi

Supplies:

For your shopping convenience, all products are linked below. Compensated affiliate links are used where possible with no extra cost to you. This helps me to continue to share all the projects I include on my blog. Please note I only use and share products I love.

This Butterfly Brings Rubber Stamp - Me and Carrie Lou
Le Petit Jardin Collection Designer Paper - Couture Creations

Gift Wrapped

Hi Crafty Friends,

It’s challenge time with the “Crazies” over on the Crazy 4 Challenges blog. Being the beginning of the month, it is time to introduce our new challenge hostess which is Maryann Einam.

Stencils and Dies - Use a die to create a stencil to use on your card.

I have been having fun playing with stencils lately, and I also enjoyed using a die to create a stencil for my card this week.

I cut a rectangle using the Dashing Rectangles die set from Elizabeth Craft Designs.

I  then used Elizabeth Craft Designs Circle Background die to create my stencil. I die cut the background die using some scrap cardstock and then removed only the circle parts of the stencil. I taped the stencil onto my card and sponged pink ink into all the open circle areas.

Once I had finished sponging the pink ink through the stencil, I lifted the stencil up off the cardstock and moved it over a fraction and adhered it back in place and this time sponge white pigment ink through the circles. You can see the slight halo of white and darker pink on either side of the stencil.

To finish the background I stamped the flower which is included in the Gift Wrapped Clear Stamp set onto the centre of the larger circles and added Nuvo Crystal Dots to the centre of the flowers.

I stamps the girl from the Gift Wrapped Clear Stamp set and die cut her using the coordinating dies. I then attached her to the lower right hand corner of the card layering her onto partial circles.

The sentiment is also from this stamp/die set.

As you can see I created a pop-up card on the inside. I used the ECD General Pop Up die set and die cut 3 pop up panels ... the centre pop up is a two tier one and the one either side is a tall skinny one.

I added presents also from the Gift Wrapped Clear Stamp / Die set to the pop up panels.

I created another stencil panel, the same way I created the front. Cut it in half and adhered it to the top and bottom edges of the card.

Finally I added a birthday sentiment which is from the Sentiments 1 - Celebrations Clear Stamp/Die set.

Don't forget to check out the rest of the “Crazies” cards over on the Crazy 4 Challenges blog and also their individual blogs for more details.

Amy Ottmers

Anja de Regt

Joanne Grzelak

Karen Aicken

Kathleen Adams
Maryann Einam
Raquel Mason
Rebecca Ednie

Supplies:

Other: 
Inks - Catherine Pooler It's a Girl and Pixie Dust
Foam Tape
Copics

Just for You Lace Pocket Card

Hi Crafty Friends,

It's my turn to post a tutorial on the Elizabeth Craft Designs blog today. My project today is a Pocket Card using the ModaScrap Lace Card die set.

Here is how I created my card:

Step 1 -

• Cut a piece of cardstock in color of choice so it is 6 inches x 9 1/2 inches.
• Place the ModaScrap Lace Card die along the bottom of the card so that the straight edge of the die is straight (this will create the score line to the pocket card). 
• Die Cut and weed out any excess pieces of card from the design if necessary.

• Fold along the score line created by the die and then unfold. Fold in tabs at side of lace design.
• Line the cardstock in a trimmer so that the folded tab is level with the cutting line and trim excess card from the solid portion of the cardstock.
• Remove card from trimmer, flip and trim other side.

• Place Cleat Double Sided Adhesive Tape to the tabs.
• Fold over tabs and glue to the base of the solid cardstock area to form pocket card.

• Trim top of pocket card so it is 5 1/4 inches high.

Step 2 -

• Cut a piece of patterned paper from the ModaScrap Relax in the Garden Patterned Paper Pack so it measures 5 inches square.
• Cut a piece of cream cardstock 5 inches x 1 1/4 inches.
• Cut a piece of pink cardstock 5 inches x 1 1/2 inches.
• Layer the two pieces of cardstock together and attach to the upper portion of the patterned paper. Tip: Place paper into pocket before adhering the cardstock strip to it, to gauge the best position.
• Using the A Way with Words - Just For You die set, die cut the sentiment from pale green cardstock and adhere to strip at top of the card.

• Stamp three small flowers from the Color My Flowers Clear Stamp set, die cut using coordinating dies. Color. Attach flowers around sentiment. 

Step 3 - 

• Cut a piece of cream cardstock that measures 5 inches square.
• Using the 'xxxx' edge from the Decorative Edges 1 die set, place the die so it is on the edge of the cardstock, place a piece of removable tape on the die so it doesn't move. Tip: Before die cutting ensure that the die is centred on the cardstock as you can see in the second photo above.
• Die cut.
• Repeat this on other side of card so that the edge is top and bottom of the card.

Step 4 - 

• Adhere the cream cardstock to the back of the patterned paper panel.
• Adhere a Glitter Border Peel Off Sticker underneath the die cut edge created in step 3.

Step 5 - 

• Using the Color My Flowers Clear Stamp set, stamp one large flower; 3 small flowers and three leaves on White Soft Finish Cardstock with black ink.
• Die cut images using coordinating dies.
• Color as desired.
• Arrange flowers to the lower left hand corner of card and adhere in place.
• Stamp sentiment from the Birthday Sentiments Clear Stamp set to upper right hand corner of card.

Place insert card into pocket and the card is complete.

Thank you for stopping by, I hope you enjoyed my tutorial.

Supplies:
Elizabeth Craft Designs:

Other:
Cardstock - Pink; Cream
Black Ink
Copic Markers
Foam Tape

Butterfly Framed Wall Art

Hi Crafty Friends,

It's time for our March Elizabeth Craft Designs Design Team Designer challenge. Check out the Elizabeth Craft Designs blog today to see what our talented designers created for the challenge. 

Our challenge this month is .....

Frame It - There are so many options to include frames when we are creating either cards, scrapbook layouts or home decor items. For our challenge this month please include a frame of some type when creating your project.

For today's challenge Elizabeth Craft Designs are giving away a $20 Gift Card to use on our website to 3 winners. 

To enter simply leave a comment on the Elizabeth Craft Designs Facebook Giveaway Blog Post or the Elizabeth Craft Designs Challenge post and tell us What Elizabeth Craft Designs dies or stamp sets would you use to frame something on a card, scrapbook layout of home decor item?

We will select 3 lucky winners in a random drawing 

The winners will be announced on Friday, March 23rd on the Elizabeth Craft Designs blog and our Facebook page.

For my project today, I decided to pull our the ModaScrap Happy Frame die to make another framed art piece. I love how versatile this die set is.

As I have already written two tutorial on how to assemble the Happy Frame to create a frame for a wall or a card, instead of repeating myself again I am linking to both my previous tutorials. 

You can find my "Let Your Dreams Soar Wall Art Frame" here.

and

my "Framed Love Card" here. 

To create my framed wall art project today, I started by die cutting from sides using the ModaScrap Happy Frame die set from paper from the ModaScrap Magic Mountain Patterned Paper Pack.

Before assembling the frame, I cut each of the frame sides to 6 1/2 inches (when you trim the sides make sure you trim the straight edge). 

Assemble frame.

I used paper from the ModaScrap Fly & Scrap Patterned Paper Pack to line the back of the frame.

Using the Butterfly Aperture die, die cut the solid butterfly from White Soft Finish Cardstock.

Using both the decorative layer and the butterfly outline together, die cut one butterfly from black cardstock and another from silver pearl cardstock.

Add color to the white solid butterfly by applying Carved Pumpkin and Abandoned Coral Distress Oxide inks.

Adhere the black decorative butterfly over the silver pearl butterfly offsetting slightly and then adhere this to the solid butterfly.

Stamp the sentiment from the A Way with Words - Soar Collection Clear Stamp set to the upper left hand corner of the inside of the framed piece using black ink.

Adhere Butterfly using Clear Double Sided Adhesive Tape and Foam Tape to the lower right hand corner adhering it at a slight angle.

Using Garden Notes - Leafy Berry Branch 1 die, die cut three times from green cardstock. Sponge lightly with green ink and then apply berries over the die cuts using Nuvo English Mustard Crystal Drops.

Once the "berries" are dry, cut apart the berries and adhere to the lower portion of the frame.

Finally die cut the A Way With Words - Soar die three or four times and layer to each other and attach to top of frame.

I hope you enjoyed my project today. Don't forget to check out the Elizabeth Craft Designs blog to see all the wonderful creations by our talented designers and for a change to win the giveaway.

Supplies:

Elizabeth Craft Designs:

Other:
Cardstock - Black; Silver Pearl

Mr & Mrs Pocket Card

Hi Crafty Friends,

I have a wedding Pocket Card to share with you today using the ModaScrap Lace Card die set and a few A Way with Words sentiment dies all available  from Elizabeth Craft Designs.

Before assembling the pocket card I adhered some Clear Double Sided Adhesive Tape to the lacy area of the pocket card and then applied Solar Gold Silk Microfine Glitter over the adhesive.

I cut a stencil using the release paper from the Clear Double Sided Adhesive Tape so that I could use this to add the same design to the card insert that goes into the pocket. Here I used the Solar Gold and Basic Black Silk Microfine Glitters.

I added a gold sheer ribbon to the lacy area of the pocket card.

For the portion of the card that can be seen when it is in the pocket, I added a Way with Words Mr/Mrs as well as the '&' and hearts from the A Way with Words - Calligraphic Elements 2 die set.

For the inside of my card I used A Way With Words - Cherish and Forever die sets. I also added some Line Peel Off Stickers to the lower end of the card.

Supplies:

Elizabeth Craft Designs:

Other:
Cardstock - Black; White Shimmer Cardstock
Gold Sheer Ribbon

Romantic Bouquet Celebrate

Hi Crafty Friends,

My card today is for a challenge I do with a couple of friends of mine. As we all own Distress Oxides our challenge this month was to include Distress Oxides on our card in some way.

As I had ordered the new Distress Oxide Collection which was released in January, I decided to wait until my order arrived before I started on this challenge. As it turned out I only ended up using one of the new colors (Tattered Rose) ... but that is ok!

I used the new ModaScrap Romantic Bouquet die from Elizabeth Craft Designs to die cut the front of my card from Soft Finish Cardstock. I then used Tattered Rose; Worn Lipstick and Abandoned Coral Distress Inks to create an ombre effect on the die cut panel and also the inside of the card. I adhered a piece of White Soft Finish Cardstock behind the die cut Romantic Bouquet and then also used the three inks on that panel as well so the card had the same look inside and out.

I adhered pearls to the centres of each of the flowers on the front of the card.

The sentiment "Celebrate" from A Way With Words - Happy Birthday Collection Clear Stamp set was stamped onto the lower right hand corner of the card so it could be seen when the card was closed.

I added two birthday sentiments also from the A Way With Words - Happy Birthday Collection Clear Stamp set to a pink piece of cardstock which was die cut using a rectangle from the Dashing Rectangles die set. I trimmed the left edge off to match the straight lines of the centre.

Supplies:

Elizabeth Craft Designs:

Other:
Cardstock - Pink
Black VersaFine Ink
Distress Oxide Ink - Tattered Rose; Worn Lipstick; Abandoned Coral
Pearls