Happy New Year

These are the last samples of 2011 that I made for Darlene at Dutch Paper Crafts. The dies are for sale on her blog.

 

Snowman Face

I bought a new-to-me-punch around the page set of Martha Stewart punches so I had to use them. What I have discovered with these punches is that you have to cut your cardstock exactly the right size for the marks on the punches to line up exactly. I use a very old office type guillotine cutter that has rather a thick line for the inch mark and I learned that I have to have the edge of the cardstock exactly in the middle of the line. Not easy to do!

After punching the edges I used a square Nestie to make a frame. The doily is from a Marianne Designs Creatables die and I used a Martha Stewart punch to make the rosette. What doesn't show is the glitter on the rosette.

Golden Butterfly

I have a stash of special papers that I have had for quite a few years. I don't know what I have been saving it for but it is paper that has always been too special to use! LOL Anyway after looking at it I decided to use a little of this beautiful gold paper that is all crinkled and soft.

I used a Cuttlebug embossing folder Textile Textures for the bottom panel and then a Spellbinders Label 14. I used a Nellie Snellen MFD 031 die on the label and then cut a smaller label and embossed it with the same embossing folder. The tag is Spellbinders Parisian Accents the butterfly a Martha Stewart punch and the flourishes are from a Marianne Designs Creatables LRO 116 die set. I was surprised that the beautiful gold paper showed up so well in the picture but it is even prettier in real life.

Rose and Cream

In my wandering around blog land I saw a card on I think a Polish blog that I fell in love with. I forgot to bookmark the page so I tried to CASE the card from memory.

This is the front of the card. The front and back are cut separately and joined together.

This is the card opened. I should have put ribbon to hold it together when folded as It has a mind of it's own and springs open. If I I will remember that the next time I make a card like this....if I ever do!

A close-up of the left inside of the card.

A close-up of the right inside of the card, There is a pocket with a tag to write a message on.

Edited to add. This is the link to the card I cased. Thanks to those who pointed me in the right direction!
http://monika-jot.blogspot.com/2011/08/czy-to-mozliwe.html

Flip and Mirror

I called this card flip and mirror because that is what I did with the positive parts of the die. The DP I used is from a 6"x6" pad from Prisma called Fairy Flora. I love this paper! The die I used is from Marianne Designs Creatables Frames and Swirls LR0116. The die I used under the butterfly is the Spellbinders Shapabilities Fleur De Lis. The butterfly is a Hero Arts stamp colored with Prismacolor pencils and coverd with glitter.

Antique Rose and Tutorial

For this card I used Martha Stewart Punch Around the Page set Vintage Floral.  As you can see I punched a corner inside the border. I had seen this on another blog but couldn't figure out how to do it to save my soul! While surfing yesterday I found directions on a Dutch blog but the translation wasn't very clear. After finally figuring it out I thought I would write a tutorial on how to do it. You can download the tutorial HERE in PDF format. It will work with all the regular size Punch Around the Page sets the have a defined corner. I haven't tried it with the deep punches though.

The punched panel is raised with dimensional tape and a frame made with scalloped circle and plain circle Nesties is also raised.The rest is die cut with Marinanne Designs Creatables.

Book box card

As I was blog hopping I came across a book box card and wanted to try it. Unfortunately the excellent directions were in metric measurements and as I needed to use my score board which isn't metric I had to figure out how to do it in inches!

I will give you the measurements I used but for metric and for the directions I am sending you to the Sassy Scrapper blog.
These are the measurements I used for an A2 card (5.5" x 4.25")
For the folds cut 2 pieces 9" x 5.5" and 2 pieces 9" x 4" from cardstock and score at .75" intervals
For the cover Cut one piece 9.25" x 5.5" and score at 4.25" and 5.5"

I made my cover with white CS and then used aqua CS and DP on the front, back and inside. On the front I cut 2 white rectangles, used a Cuttlebug folder on one piece and then used a die (Heartfelt Creations HCD711)on the top piece and raised it with dimensional tape, The butterflies are Martha Stewart punches covered with glitter.

On the left inside of the card I stamped the sentiment, Let Your Dreams Take Flight, with Versamark ink and embossed with white embossing powder on a panel cut with a Marianne Designs Creatables die. Inside the box I used the positive part of the die I used on the front with the same butterflies and glued them between different  folds of the book.

June Swap

This is a card I made for a Wedding/Anniversary swap on my Yahoo Group Card Camp. The recipient has received it so I can show it to you.

 I used a Martha Stewart punch and various Marianne Design Creatables.

Missing

With vacations and company for the best part of the month May has been dismal for both creating and posting. To finish out the month I want to share some more cards I made using the angel stamps. I printed lots of copies so that I could practice the coloring. Here are 3 that made the cut to become cards.

Angel #2

I have finished the cards for Dutch Paper Crafts but I can't show them to you yet but I do have another angel card to show you.

This angel is Dusk and you can find the digi HERE at Crafts And Me. I colored her with pencils and OMS. She has glitter on her wings but it doesn't show up in the picture. I used a punch around the page and a butterfly punch from Martha Stewart. Spellbinders Oval and scalloped oval dies and Creatables Rose and leaf dies. I will have the third angel in the series to show you tomorrow.

Edited to add the MS punch I used is Punch Around the Page Vintage Floral.

Designer Doily

 Marianne Designs has some great dies and I just love using them to create cards as they cut and emboss at the same time. However the downside for me is that you have to use the whole  think and can't use just a part of the design like you can with the stencils. This card uses Creatables Designer Doily set LR0130. There are 2 dies in the set, the doily and the flower. The swirl is from the Frame and Swirls set LR0116.