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Bunny Hop ~ It’s A Boy Gate Fold Card

Posted on March 23, 2011 | 703 comments

Spellbinders Bunny Hop

Welcome to the fourth day of the Spellbinders™ Bunny Hop! In honor of Nation Craft Month and spring, we’re showcasing our spring themed die templates. We have ten talented designers – two each day for five days – ready to usher in spring with creative projects and fabulous prizes!

The Bunny Hop is from March 21-25, each contest is midnight to midnight EST (that’s 24 hours only). Be sure to mark your calendar! Each day the Spellbinders Blog will direct you to the participating blogs.

It’s so easy to win! Simply visit each blog and leave a comment! We will randomly draw one lucky winner from each blog to win that blog’s featured die templates. Winners will be announced on the Spellbinders Blog! Winners must respond within 48 hours of their names being posted to claim prizes.

Spellbinders Bunny Hop Schedule:
March 21
Linda Duke
Holly Simoni
March 22
Becca Feeken
Debbie Olson
March 23
Heidi Blankenship
Kazan Clark
March 24
Sherry Cheever
Beth Pingry – you are here!
March 25
Julie Overby
Jerri Jimenez

My featured die templates are:

S5-050 Nursery Time Frameabilities®

LF-251 Grand Big Scalloped Ovals

The first thing that came to mind was a baby announcement in a gate fold card. The LF-251 Grand Big Scalloped Ovals were a perfect fit for the S5-050 Nursery Time Frameabilities. It was pretty simple to construct, I layered the Grand Big Scalloped Ovals with Grand Ovals, using My Mind’s Eye Lush papers and cardstock.

The scallops allowed me to measure and fold the card perfectly!

I made a sleeve from the patterned paper, printed on the cut out from the large frame, and adhered the smaller frame to it.

Slide off the sleeve and the card opens. I inked through the die template to color the embossed ducks and stitching detail. I cut/embossed the frame in blue cardstock and pieced together a large frame to mat the cream colored frame. I used the bear die cuts from the blue frame to sit in the bear shaped opening.

I love the peek-a-boo of the bear die cuts. Double sided patterned paper makes this card a delight to open, and the big scallops convey the sweetness of a new baby. (No, there are no new babies in my house – just a very spoiled fur baby!!) This card is going to be one of my favorites!

Supplies: Spellbinders Grand Calibur™; LF-251 Grand Big Scalloped Ovals; LF-110 Grand Ovals; S5-050 Nursery Time Frameabilities; SCRAPBOOK ADHESIVES BY 3L™, MyStik™ Mounting Squares; Clearsnap Color Box Glacier Ice Ink; My Mind’s Eye Lush™ Blue Patterned Papers; WorldWin Papers Treasures Natural Cardstock; Bazzill Basics Paper Frosted Teal.

Thank You Spellbinders Paper Arts for sponsoring the Bunny Hop and the prizes today.

Thank you!! Leave a comment below to enter to win!
Beth

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Posted in Card, SCRAPBOOK ADHESIVES BY 3L, Spellbinders

Tagged Bazzill Basics Paper, Bear, Bunny Hop, Clearsnap, Gate fold, It's a Boy, My Mind's Eye, Nestabilities, Spellbinders, Worldwin

Flourishes Birthday Card Tutorial

Posted on March 19, 2011 | 8 comments

I promised the instructions on the card I made for the Flourishes Birthday Blog Hop yesterday. Thank you Flourishes for the invitation to be a part of your blog hop!

I would have added the instructions to that post, but a combination of computer problems, some not so great photos, dentist appointments and a rugby parent meeting cut my time short, oh and that thing called work, which involves the not so productive computer.

Lets go going! I mentioned my supply list, Worldwin Paper, Clearsnap ink and Bits of Bling, SCRAPBOOK ADHESIVES BY 3L™ 3D Foam Squares and MyStik™ and a bit of twine! I used Spellbinders™ LF-168 Grand Large Labels, S4-324 Ribbon Banners and S5-028 Nested Pennants.

I started with a Shaped Card base, made by folding 12×12″ cardstock in half, aligning the fold line just below the cut edge of Grand Large Labels #5 (#1 is the smallest in the set). I cut the shaped card base.

Next I taped the Grand Large Labels #4 to the card base, nesting it inside of the #5 die template. I embossed this in the Grand Calibur™, and that’s how I achieved the second embossed line around the edges.

I cut/embossed with the #3 die template with white and lighter purple paper for the front and side of the card. On the light purple front I stamped with one of the border stamps.

On the white-inside I stamped with one of the sentiments and floral images.

For the banner on the front, I stamped the plaid images and cut/embossed with the ribbon piece from Nested Pennants. For the Ribbon Banners, I curved the stamp to match the curve of the die cut.

I used 3D Foam Squares to mount the Ribbon Banner to the front of the card. I also used them to attach the twine to the Pennant, and then to the card, so they had a dimensional look. I added some bling and it’s done!

And the finished card again,

Thank you again for stopping by! Next week I’m in the Spellbinders Bunny Hop,

I’ll post that schedule next!

Beth

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Posted in Card, SCRAPBOOK ADHESIVES BY 3L, Spellbinders

Tagged Birthday, blog hop, Bunny Hop, Clearsnap, Flourishes, Nestabilities, Spellbinders, stamp, tutorial, Worldwin

Purple Rose Thank You Card

Posted on February 26, 2011 | 14 comments

I’m way behind on sending thank you cards. My excuse is that I refuse to buy them in a store, and even if I do, I get the “where’s my hand made card?” response. I took some Saturday time to make cards, which are still sitting here because now I need stamps. Anyway, using the Grand Calibur™ and new Spellbinders™ die templates I whipped out a bunch bouquet of cards assembly line style.

I was determined not to dip into my 12×12″ papers, but to use up scraps. I have a ton of purple Worldwin cardstock, Basic Grey (I made an 8×8″ album for a friend and have so many scraps) and I got a great deal on these ‘Thank You’ rub-ons when a store went out of business. OK, so I had to cut the card backs, but that doesn’t count, right?

Real quick – this is how to make a dozen cards with scraps and the Grand Calibur. The die templates I used are new Spellbinders S5-024 Labels Twenty-One; S4-324 Ribbon Banners and S5-050 Rose Creations. Rub-ons are older Reminisce, and the card backs are Worldwin cover stock, and Glimmer Mist in Haunted Shadow and Apple.

Since I had room, I cut 4 of the Banner Basics in each pass, I just love them and they’ll be good to have on hand for another project.

Next step, assemble the roses. I mixed and matched the purples and used sparkly brads from Creative Impressions. The leaves, labels and banners were edged with an ink pad. The leaves were also spritzed with Glimmer Mist.

The flat flowers were not working for me. I folded the petals up and in to give the flowers some dimension. Then I sprayed some purple Glimmer Mist onto my mat and tapped and dragged the edges of the flower. This is quick and there is no reason to fuss about perfection in this step.

See, it makes a huge difference and it doesn’t matter if they are all slightly different.

I pushed the brad through the labe to attach the rose, then used SCRAPBOOK ADHESIVES BY 3L™ 3D Foam Squares on the leaves and MyStik™ Mounting Squares to adhere the labels to the cards, and the Ribbon Banners on top of the labels.