Peaceful Cabin – Springtime at the Cabin

 

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Here I sit, practically snowed in, and all I can think about is when is spring going to arrive!  We have over 3 feet of snow all around us, with about 24 inches coming in one day and night.  Nonetheless, I'm happily snug in my studio having a great time.  

The Peaceful Cabin stamp set was meant to be a snow scene, but look how wonderfully it was turned into a springtime in the woods scene.  So fun to create!

For the background I used a Stampin' Up foam brayer overlapping the Distress Ink colors to make the grass and the sky with light clouds.  I really like the texture that the foam brayers leave, compared to the solid color look that rubber brayers make.  And I especially like the Diorama die that beautifully sets off the scene.  Can hardly wait to use those dies again.

Products Used
Stampin’ Up Peaceful Cabin stamp set
Stampin’ Up Cabin Dies
Stampin’ Up Layering Diorama Dies

Ink Pads and Alcohol Ink Markers
Distress Pads: Brushed Corduroy, Aged Mahogany, Forest Moss, Speckled

     Egg, Tumbled Glass
Memories Black Dye Ink Pad
Copic Markers: Reddish Brass, Burnt Sienna, Mistletoe

Besides the Usual Tools
Stampin’ Up Foam Brayers
Craft Knife and Cutting Pad for the fence

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Pop-Up and Pull-Out Card in Purple, Yellow, White

 

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Now that Christmas card making is past, I have some time to try some of the fancy folds patterns I've been saving up.  This one is called a Pop-Up and Pull-Out Card.  I was a bit intimidated to try it.  However, I just focused on one step at a time and it turned out to be quite easy.  Now I'm just crazy about this fold and love this color combination.  See what you think.

Here is a pic of how the inside and the pul-out fold look.

Card Base

Purple 5 ½” x 8 ½”; score at 2 1/8” and 4 ¼”
1st Pattern DP (z-fold panels) 1 7/8” x 5 ¼” (cut 2) (I used two patterns.)

Card Front
Purple Small Front Panels 1 ¾” x 1 ¾”, (cut 2)
2nd Pattern DP Small Front Layer Panels 1 ½” x ½” (cut 2)
Purple Scalloped Circle Punch/Die 2 ¼”
White Circle Punch/Die 2”

Card Inside
Light Yellow Panel 4” x 5”
White Panel 3” x 4 ¾”
1st Pattern DP Strip ½” x 4 ¾”
Purple Strip ¼” x 4 ¾”

Pop Up Inside Panel
Purple Panel 3 ¾” x 3 ¾” (cut in half)
2nd Pattern DP 3 ½” x 3 ½” (cut in half)
Using Stampin’ Up Double Oval Punch, punch the scalloped oval from Purple; punch the plain oval from white.

Stamps
Stampin’ Up Fabulous Phrases: Best Wishes
Rooted in Nature: Just for You
Unknown: Happiest of Birthday to You!

Extras
Small Leaves Punch
Small Flower Punch
Tiny Flower Punch
Yellow Gems

You can pretty much follow the photo to see how the pieces fit together.  However, there is one thing that I haven't mentioned yet.

Once you get the middle DP panel and the Yellow panel adhered, fold the card in half.  You need to make two horizonal slits in this way:  3/4" in from the fold and 1 1/2" down from the top.  Then again 1 1/2" up from the bottom and 3/4" in from the fold.  

Make score lines between the two slits.  Fold with a mountain fold.  This is the place where you will adhere the triangle panel.

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Peaceful Night – Christmas Card

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I love this stamp set so much that I only made one kind of Christmas Card this year.  See what you think.

I think the copper background panel and the copper metallic thread are just the perfect highlights to this card.

Stamps
Peaceful Night Stamp Set from Woodware Craft Collection
Sweet Grass Stamps #26 A Baby’s Hands in Bethlehem

Measurements
Balmy Blue Card Base – 8” x 9 ¼”
Copper Foil Panel – 3 5/8” x 8 7/8”
White Panel – 3 ½” x 8 ½”

Stampin’ Up Markers
Domes, Joseph & Mary – Dark Balmy Blue
Windows – Light Daffodil Delight
Star, Aura over Jesus – Dark Daffodil Delight
Stable, Baby Jesus’ Face – Dark Petal Pink
Sentiment Outline – Light Seafoam Green

Copic Markers
Doors, Panel Strips on Buildings, Tree Trunk, Ground, Hills Outline – E13 Light Suntan

Embellishment
Metallic Copper Braided Thread

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Coming Up Roses on an Angled Trifold Card

 

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Whatever the season, I still like to make cards using flowers.  I was afraid I would forget this idea by the time spring arrived, so here I sat, with the snow coming now, picking out a flower-pattern paper.  The one I chose is so cheerful and actually uplifted my spirit.  What’s your reaction?  The style is called an angled trifold card and the first one I’ve done.

 

I really like the flower and leaves stamps I used.  They are from a Stampin’ Up set called “To a Wild Rose,” which also has dies to match.  However, this time I just fussy cut the images.

 

To add a little color to the inside of the card, I adhered a stem of leaves like the ones on the front of the card.  Take a closer look at the belly band and notice the beautiful mini ruffled red ribbon.  It makes a perfect embellishment.        

Measurements:
Card Base: 5-1/2″ x 11″
Optional: Basic White inside: 4″ x 5-1/4″,
DSP: 3-1/8″ x 5-1/4”, cut two
White Belly band: 3/4″ x 10″ (a second option is 10”x 1” depending on how wide the ribbon is). My ribbon is 3/8” wide so I made the belly band 3/4” x 10”.
Stampin’ Up Red Mini Ruffled Ribbon 9 ¼"
1/8” red line tape or score tape

Directions for Card Base
1. Score 3-3/8″ from each side on the 11″ side.
2. On the outside panel on the right side of the card base, with pencil make tic mark 1” down.
3. At the bottom of the right side of the card, make a tic mark 1” in.
4. Do the same on the left side of the card base
5. Cut from score line to tic mark on each one.

Directions for DP Panels
1. With the red dotted panel, on the left side make a tic 1” down from the top and 1” in at the bottom of the panel.
2. With the flower design panel, on the right side make a tic 1” down from the top and 1” in at the bottom of the panel
3. Cut from score line to tic mark on each one.
4. Adhere DP panels to the card base.

Directions for Belly Band
1. Score belly band on the left end at 3 ¼”. Wrap the long end of the band around the back of the card, and the fold over to the front placing under the left end. Make sure that you have sliding room before you glue in place.
2. Attach ruffled ribbon to the belly band using 1/8” red line tape or score tape.

Flower and Leaves:
Stamp, color, and cut out. Glue the leaves to the back of the flower. When attaching the flower and leaves to belly band, be sure you don’t glue any part of them to the card base.

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Gardening Anniversary Card

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Today I made an anniversary card for a couple who aren't much into hearts and flowers, so I focused on what they really enjoy -- gardening!  I do believe that each of them has two green thumbs. 😁  They grow most everything from seed, starting sometime in late winter or so, in order to have their little plants ready for spring planting.  During harvest time, they happily give away a lot of their bountiful crops, but also do a lot of canning and freezing for the year ahead.  How wonderful it is that they can work  side-by-side and enjoy their time together.  I pray that they will have many more happy seasons together. 💓 

This is a simple card but illustrates a big story of their life.

Stampin’ Up: Garden Shed (image and sentiment)

Best Birds (sentiment)

Measurements
Card Base 5 ½” x 8 ½”
Dark Green Panel 4” x 5 2/8”
Decorative Paper Panel 3 3/16” x 4 3/8”
Yellow Gold Sentiment Strips (cut 2) 7/8” x 3”
White Sentiment Strips (cut 2) 6/8” x 3
After adhering together, trim to fit card.

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Trapeze Fold - Beautiful Snowflakes

 

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Finally, we had our first snow of the season.  It all melted by the next day, but while the flakes were coming down, it was beautiful to watch.  All sizes and shapes – they’re amazing.  Thoroughly inspired, I started looking through my supplies for snowflake dies.  This is my first snowflake card of the season.  It’s called a trapeze fold card and totally new to me.  There are several videos on YouTube which were totally helpful in making this card.  More simple than you would imagine.  Take a look.

The color of the sequins did not photograph properly.  A couple of them look black, but they are really a pretty shade of pink.

Here is a diagram of the card base where you can see the score and fold lines and also indicating valley fold and mountain fold.  I hope you'll give it a try.

 

Measurements

White Card Stock 11” x 5 ¾”

DSP 5 ½” x 5 ½”

Scrap of White Card Stock for tag and die cut.

Supplies

Stampin’ Up Snowfall Thinlits Dies

Sentiment from Stampin’ Snow is Glistening

Stampin’ Up Stitched Nestled Labels Dies

Scoring and Folding for Card Base

·       Fold the white card base in half, open it up flat with the inside face up.  Make pencil marks along the score line at 1 ½”, 2 ¼”, 3 ½”, 4 ¼”.  See the diagram below.

·        Make score lines from the marks in the center, two off of them scored from the marks to the left corner; then the other two score from the marks to the right corner.  Turn the card around and score the same way on that side.

·        With the outside of the card base facing up, the middle score lines are mountain folds and the outside lines are valley folds.

 After the folding is completed, if the bottom corners don’t match - with the card closed, you can cut off 1/8” off the bottom to even it out

 

Cutting for DP Layering Panel and Finishing

   ·     At the top of the DP, make a pencil dot at 2 ¼” and 3 1/4”.  Then cut from the markings to the lower corner on each side.

 ·        Adhere the DP Panel, aligning it evenly to the top of the card.  Cut off any excess at the bottom if necessary. 

·        Die cut the snowflakes and adhere to DP panel, along with the tag stamped with a sentiment.

·        I added several pink sequins to the side sections, using glue dots.  Sadly, a few of the sequins look like they are black, but I could not get a better picture.

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Wreath of Thanksgiving

 

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Stepping out of the box, I wanted my Thanksgiving Day cards to be a color scheme out of the ordinary – but not too far out. Blue always goes well with orange, but I wanted to go beyond the normal, so I chose a dark turquoise card stock that had a pre-embossed pattern on it. The center decorative card stock strip was just the perfect match and a nice way to add a little more detail and eye appeal.

 

I die cut the wreath in a shade of brown and one of tan, gluing them together, one on top of the other. I used the same colors for the bow, but die cut an extra one out of the dark turquoise card stock, then layering the three colors together, with the dark turquoise one on top.  To the center of the bow, I gued a golden brown sequin.  It’s a fun and simple card but still projects a card with lots of interest. It’s really fun to combine an assortment of dies.  I hope you've gotten a few ideas or inspiration from today's post.

Card Stock Dimensions
Orange Card Base 5 ½” x 8 ½”, score and fold in half
Dark Turquoise Layering Panel 4” x 5 3/8”
DP Narrow Center Panel 2” x 5 78”
White Card Stock for Label

Supplies
Honey Bee Grapevine Wreath & Bow die
Impression Obsession Pumpkin Patch dies
Memory Box Small Garden Sprig die

Small Leaves Stem Punch  
Spellbinders Labels Two dies
Dolphin Song Happy Thanksgiving stamp
Black Dye Ink

Sequin

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Hey Chick - Happy Birthday from One Chick to Another

 

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One of my dear friends asked me if I would show her how to cut and paste pictures. So there we were looking at cards in Pinterest. She made a fuss over the cards made with the Stampin' Up chickens.  We spent some time just looking and laughing at all the cards we could find using the chickens stamps. I knew right then that the birthday card I would make for her would have to be with the chickens.  My inspiration came from a card I saw at Beth's Paper Crafts.

For the front of the card, I stamped the sentiments on small white paper strips, cut them to size, and adhered them with foam tape.  All of the images are glued in place.  

Stamp a sentiment on the little sign after you die cut.  On the inside of the card, I added a slight shading on the ground under the chicken and the sign.

Stamp the four chicken images with Memento black ink on the white card stock and die cut.  I used Barn Door Distress Ink to lightly shade the three chickens for the front of the card.  For the chicken inside the card, I used Mustard Seed Distress Ink.  For the chicken combs and the cupcake, I used Stampin’ Blends Real Red.

Measurements and Card Stock
Light Blue Card Base 8” x 9”, scored at 4”, then fold.
Red Card Stock Layer 3 7/8” x 8 7/8”, adhere to card base.
White Card Stock Panel 3 ¾” x 8 ¾”, cut 2 (one for the inside)
Extra White Card Stock for stamping images

Die Cuts for the Card

• 3 corn stalks from a shade of green and 3 more from a darker shade of green
• 7 corn husks from the darker shade of green and 7 corn cob pieces from yellow
• 3 picket fences, 1 sign and 1 chicken wire from light brown or tan card stock
• 2 streamers from light blue card stock (the same color as the card base)

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Autumn Blessings

 

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Hi there friends,

 I feel so blessed to live in an area where there are four distinct seasons.  Each one has its own beauty, displaying all shades of yellow, red, orange. and green.  What I decided to do today was to make a card using colors that usually aren't considered autumn colors - blue and yellow.  I'm quite pleased with the result.  See what you think.

The Cuttlebug Forest Branches embossing folder made a wonderful accompaniment for the Stampin' Up leaves border die from the set called Wonderful Floral Dies.  I used the Sizzix Dotted Squares die for the label.  Two sizes of flower petals layered together beautifully adorns the label.

I was really happy to find the striped decorative paper that exactly matched the colors I wanted to use.  

I was also happy to be able to use this sentiment stamp again.  There's just something about it that makes me smile.

Here's how you can make this card.

Card Measurements

Blue card base: 8-1/2" x 5-1/2, Score at 4-1/4"
Yellow card mat: 3" x 5 3/8", for Embossing
Yellow card mat for sentiment: 2-1/2” x 5-3/8”
Blue card for die cutting: 2-1/2” x 2-1/2”
Designer Paper: 1-1/8" x 5-3/8"
Scrap card: Navy Blue card stock for tiny leaves

Materials
Stampin’ Up Wonderful Floral Die
Cuttlebug Forest Branches Embossing Folder
Sizzix Dotted Squares Die
Small Leaves Punch
Dies R Us sentiment stamp for inside of card
Blue and Pale Yellow Rhinestones
Black Dye Ink

Directions
1. Fold card base in half. On the card base trim off 1" on the front panel.

2. Adhere the strip of DSP to the inside of the card, leaving a small border on the 3 edges.

3. Stamp the inside sentiment and attach.

4. Die cut the leaves die from blue card stock.

5. Emboss the Yellow card stock with the embossing folder. Adhere the leaves die cut to back of the yellow embossed panel, trim off the excess.

6. Adhere this panel to the front of the blue card base, being sure to align so that there is a blue border all around.

7. Stamp Autumn Blessing on the blue die cut and attach at an angle on the card front.

8.      Punch four Navy Blue stems with leaves; attach two on the top right of the sentiment panel.  Attach the other two on the inside of the card on the bottom left.

9.      Adhere one large and one small yellow flower together with a blue rhinestone in the center at the bottom left.

10.    Add three light yellow rhinestones, placing them in somewhat of a triangle on the front of the card.

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Front Step Fold Card

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Hello again!

After several days of rain, we finally have a beautiful sun-shiny day.  After getting my fill of outside, a bit chilly, I came in and made this masculine birthday for a  friend.  He is really into the outdoor life of hiking and fishing, so I think he'll probably be happy receiving this card.  At church, I'm known as the Card Lady and my church family seem to really look forward to receiving my cards.  So it makes us happy all the way around, because I love to individualize as much as I can.  Hope it gives you some inspiration.

Here's the info you need to make the card:

First Section
Brown Card Base 4 ¼” x 11”
DP 3 ¾” X 3 ½”
DP 3 ¾” x 1 5/8”

Second Section
Brown 2 ¾” x 6”,
DP for Front 2 ½” x 3 5/8”,

Top of Box
DP 2 ½” x 1 ¼”

Back of Card
White Card Stock to write or stamp your sentiment 3 ½” x 4 ¾”

Assemble First Section
1. Score at ½”, 2”, 4”, 5 ½” on the long brown panel and adhere the DP panels to the top and the front folded section of the card.

2. Fold up each of the scored sections and adhere the ½ inch section to the card front.

Assemble Second Section
3. Score at ½”, 1 ½” on the small brown panel, fold, and adhere the two DP panels to the front and the top sections.

4. Adhere the small section to the box card.

Stamps
Stampin’ Up Campology
Stampin’ Up Very Vintage for the Happy Birthday sentiment

Markers
Stampin’ Up Dark Sea Foam
Copic Barium Yellow Y00

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Peaceful Forest Masculine Birthday Card

 

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We are having just beautiful fall weather.  It makes me want to stroll through a forest just to enjoy the beauty and sounds of nature.  Since that's not possible, I'll just make a card and pretend.  This is a top-folded masculine birthday card that I made for my hubby.  All of the products used for this card are some of my favorites.  With that, take a look.

For the background, I used Stampin' Up Softly Falling embossing folder on blue cad stock.   For the background, I used blue card stock and Stampin' Up Softly Falling embossing folder.  Impression Obsession Fir Trees, Small Deer, and Deer Trio provided the die cuts I used for scenery.  The beautiful wood panel was made with Stampin' Up Pinewood Planks embossing folder.  I really like the look it gives.  The cut out ovals were made using Spellbinders Classic Ovals Large.  For the label I used Albums Made Easy Banners by Memory Keepers and the sentiment is from Stampin' Up Flourishing Phrases.  

The sentiment on the upper panel of the inside of the card is from the Beautiful You Stampin' Up set.  I wrote the main sentiment and printed it on white card stock.

Being an outdoor kind of guy, he really like the card.

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Tower Pinwheel Card

 

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Well, I finally did it.  With all those tower pinwheel cards showing up everywhere, I finally made one of my own during a card making afternoon with some friends.  I was surprised at just how easy it is to put the pinwheel base together.  The hardest part is deciding how to decorate it.  I love pink and I love flowers, so guess what?  Problem solved.  Take a look below.  

I used the same DP paper and die cut on each of the four left panels.  The sentiment was stamped right on the DP paper.  I made slits in the paper so the stem of the flower would slip behind the word Loved.

Here's a view of the next panel.  For the right panels, I alternated using striped DP paper and dotted DP paper.

Note that I used the same flower die on two of the panels, and again stamped the sentiment on the DP paper.

This is the fourth panel.  On this panel and the second panel, I used the same die cuts for embellishment.  Repeating elements is a great way to tie a multi-paneled card together.

If you haven't made a tower pinwheel card yet, I hope you give it a try.  It is really fun!

Measurements with Cutting Photo Below

Using an 8-1/2 x 11" sheet of card stock, make cuts as shown:

   1.  down the length at 5-1/2"

   2.  big piece, cut at 7"

   3.  rest of big piece, cut at 3"

   4.  long leftover piece, cut in half at 5-1/2"

For Base

5-1/2 x 7" - 1 piece, along 7" side, score at 1, 2, 3, and 4

5-1/2 x 3" - 3 pieces

For Panels

5-1/4 x 2-3/4" - 4 pieces

5-1/4 x 1-3/4" - 4 pieces

Here is a link to Lisa's Stamp Studio for a video.  I chose to arrange my large panels on the right and have the small panels on the left.  Lisa's are opposite.

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