Welcome to the Cardz 4 Galz two-week challenge. I am the host for #198 and chose Flowers for a Friend or Flowers for Mother’s Day, which is in a couple of weeks in the U.S. When you finish here, I hope you will visit the challenge site to see the cards from the rest of the design team. I’m always fascinated by the variety of projects created by my fellow design team members. I look forward to seeing what you create and upload to our challenge gallery!
I’ve made my card for a dear friend who is having surgery next week. She’s much more of a clean and simple person, so this card is perfect for her.
Here’s my card:
Clean and Simple:
I used the Dainty Delight stamp and die set for this card. The DSP was the coordinating paper from the Sale-a-Bration in the beginning of this year. It’s beautiful and I need to use it more often.
The Rich Razzleberry base measures 4-1/4 by 11 inches, scored at 5-1./2 inches to create a tent fold card.
The DSP background measures 4-1/8 by 5-3/8 inches.
Trim a piece of DSP to 6 by 2-1/2 inches for the envelope flap.
Punch a 1-inch circle from coordinating DSP for the envelope seal.
After stamping the floral spray using Momento Tuxedo Black ink on white cardstock, I cropped it using one of the Dainty Delight dies.
Stamp the sentiment in black ink on white cardstock. Crop it using one of the deckled rectangle dies.
Trim a piece of white cardstock to 4 by 5-1/4 inches for the inside panel.
Stamp the sentiment on the inside.
Add a floral spray to the bottom left side of the white panel and color.
I also cropped the curved branch and leaves piece from the die set from Old Olive cardstock..
Color the floral spray using the blends combos for Old Olive, Rich Razzleberry, Daffodil Delight, and Petal Pink.
Tie a length of Old Olive ribbon around the DSP.
Adhere the DSP, using dimensionals.
Adhere the floral spray and branch using multipurpose liquid glue.
Add dimensionals under the sentiment and adhere under the ribbon.
Adhere the inside panel to the base using multipurpose liquid adhesive.
With that, I’d finished this coordinated set of the card, envelope, and envelope seal.
Welcome to the latest two-week Cardz 4 Galz challenge. Our theme for challenge #197 is cocktails. When you finish here, I hope you will visit the challenge site. There’s loads of inspiration from the rest of the design team. We all are looking forward to seeing your creations in our gallery.
I went with bold and bright colors for my card, using Starry Sky, Parakeet Party, and Sweet Sorbet.
Here’s my card:
Measurements:
The Starry Sky base measures 5-1./2 by 8-1/2 inches, scored at 4-1/4 inches.
The Parakeet Party 6 x 6 DSP (designer series paper) for the front measures 4-1/8 by 5-3/8 inches.
The Starry Sky DSP for the envelope flap measures 6 by 2-1./2 inches. I punched a 1-inch circle from the Parakeet Party DSP for the envelope seal.
Trim a piece of white cardstock to by 5-1/4 inches.
I used a piece of white cardstock measuring 5-1/2 by 4-1/4 inches for the sentiment banners and cocktails.
Stamping, etc:
First, crop the Parakeet Party DSP using one of the Split Textures dies.
Tie white bakers’ twine around the left side of the DSP.
Adhere the cropped DSP to the base using multipurpose liquid glue.
Stamp the two front sentiments in Starry Sky on the white cardstock.making sure that you will be able to crop the sentiments using 2 banner dies from Stylish Shapes.
Punch small holes using a hole punch in the sentiment banners. Thread a piece of the Starry Sky ribbon through the holes and tie in a knot.
The cocktails require two-step stamping. I stamped the cocktail outline using Momento Tuxedo Black ink.
Next, stamp the cocktail/ice cubes stamp in Sweet Sorbet on the cocktail outlines.
Then, stamp the lemon (which probably should have been a lime) using Daffodil Delight.
I stamped the cocktail umbrella using Starry Sky.
Crop the cocktails. using the Love You More Than dies, which are on the last chance product list for $18.
Add dimensionals under the sentiment banners and three of the cocktail glasses.
Adhere to the front of the card.
Next, stamp the inside sentiment on the white cardstock using Starry Sky ink.
Use multipurpose liquid glue to adhere the white cardstock to the base and the cocktail to the white cardstock.
With that, I’d finished this coordinated card, envelope, and envelope seal set.
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Welcome to the newest two week Cardz 4 Galz challenge! Our host for this time, Caz, chose creating an easel card as the theme. There are so many different kinds of easel card tutorials and styles of which the creations of my fellow design team members are just a few examples. When you finish here, I hope you will visit the challenge site to get inspired to create your own easel card. Please remember to post it to our gallery so we can all enjoy your creation!
Here’s my easel card creation:
You might remember that I posted a similar easel fold for the April Sparkles Christmas Buddy challenge. You can see that post here. Once again, I used the video posted by Connie Stewart from Simply Simple Stamping because this one post had two options for a very similar easel card. You can see the very talented card set created by Connie here. Her directions are all-encompassing and easy to follow.
I embossed all the sentiments on this card using my Versamark ink pad, gold embossing powder, and my heat tool to set. The addition of the adhesive backed gold swirls helps to bring out the gold.
I used the Fancy Flora DSP, which can be found in the current mini-catalog. This paper is stunning, gorgeous, fabulously textured in design, and just plain wonderful. Take a look:
I used the paper pattern on the top, left-hand corner. Beautiful!
There are new and returning colors coming with the new catalog! Sadly, there are also colors that will be retiring. One that makes me sad is Mango Melody, mainly because I’ve recently started really playing with it.
Take a look at this SU! video with the new, returning, and retiring colors:
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Welcome to the newest Cardz 4 Galz two-week challenge. Our host for this challenge, Lynda, chose flowers for the theme. The sky’s the limit, as long as you include flowers. When you finish here, I hope you will visit the challenge site to see the projects from the rest of the design team members. There’s so much inspiration to be found on the challenge site, and I can’t wait to see what you create and upload to our gallery.
Here’s my card:
As you already know, I enjoy watching JanB’s videos on YouTube. I saw this card and, after watching the video, I wanted to recreate this fold. Jan’s card turned out larger than I wanted because I wanted to use a medium Stampin’ Up! envelope. Therefore, I worked out the measurements for a card to fit. You can find JanB’s video here. I did make a slight adjustment to the inside of the card. In hindsight, I probably should have used DSP pattern 1 and DSP pattern 2 for the inside.
Measurements:
The Sweet Sorbet base measures 4-1/4 by 11 inches, scored at 2-1/4 and 5-1/2 inches.
DSP (designer series paper) pattern 1 needs three pieces.
Piece 1 needs to be trimmed to 6 by 2-1/2 inches for the envelope flap.
Trim the inside piece of pattern 1 DSP to 4 by 5-3/8 inches..
For the front DSP, trim it to 2-7/8 inches by 4 inches.
NOTE: If I changed to two pieces of DSP on the inside, pattern 1 needs to be trimmed to 3 by 4 inches. The pattern 2 piece would be 2 inches by 4 inches. Here’s a picture of the inside of my prototype:
To recreate the card I pictures above, the DSP pattern 2 needs 1 piece trimmed to 2-7/8 by 4 inches.
You need two pieces of white cardstock measuring 2-5/8 by 2-5/8 inches.
Trim the Mango Melody cardstock mats to the following measurements:
Two mats trimmed to 3 by 4-1/8 inches.
One mat trimmed to 4-1/8 by 5-3/8
Two mats trimmed to 2-7/8 by 2-7/8 inches
Putting It Together:
As I started typing the directions to put this card together, I realized that pictures are worth 1,000 words. Therefore, I would highly recommend going to JanB’s video. If you follow this link, I’ve got it ready to start after all the pieces have been cut.
Please note that the triangle cut into the base of the card ne a diagonal cut. It goes from the center of the end of the cardstock base to the outside of the score line at 2-1/8 inches.
I used multipurpose liquid glue to adhere all the pieces, except for the little Mango Melody bird on the front of the card. I placed dimensionals under that bird.
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Welcome to the newest two-week Cardz 4 Galz challenge. Our host for challenge #194, Billie A, chose using vellum as the theme. When you finish here, I hope you will visit the challenge site to see all the inspiration from the rest of the design team members.
I got my color combination from the Color Hues Challenge # 59, which calls for green and gold. While most of the cards for this challenge are for St. Patrick’s Day, mine is not. I think it’s pretty striking though, and I hope you agree.
Here’s my card:
This is actually the “after” version of this card. My “before” version didn’t have the little sprigs of vellum cardstock in addition to the gold embossed vellum cardstock. Believe me, it was a challenge to get the sentiment banner off the card without ruining it or the DSP background.
The Evening Evergreen base measures 4-1/4 by 11 inches, scored at 5-1/2 inches to create a tent card.
The gold foil mat measures 4-1/8 by 5-1/8 inches. Since I only needed to border the DSP (designer series paper), I used a Stitched Rectangle die to crop out the center of the foil to use another time.
The Fancy Flora DSP measures 4 inches by 5-1/4 inches. I trimmed a 4 by 1/2 inch strip for the bottom of the inside white cardstock panel.
I trimmed a piece of Evening Evergreen 6 x 6 inch DSP to 6 inches by 2-1/2 inches for the envelope flap. At the same time, I punched a 1-inch circle of coordinating DSP for the envelope seal.
I used a piece of Evening Evergreen scrap to crop the sentiment banner using the Stylish Shapes banner die.
The white panel for the inside of the card measures 4 by 5-1/4 inches.
That’s it for the measurements!
What I Did:
First, I wrapped some Soft Succulent open weave ribbon around the DSP front panel. I used tear-n-tape to adhere the ends on the back.
Next, I adhered both the gold foil and the DSP to the front of the card using multipurpose liquid glue.
Then, it was time to get out my embossing buddy, gold metallic embossing powder, my heat tool, and vellum.
After rubbing down the vellum cardstock with my embossing buddy, I stamped the large floral spray from the Natural Prints stamp set using VersaMark ink.
I carefully added gold embossing powder to the image and softly tapped off the excess powder.
Heat set the image using a heat tool.
Next, I repeated the embossing steps using a sentiment from Natural Prints.
After adding gold embossing powder and softly tapping off the excess, I heat set it using the heat tool.
I used the Natural Prints dies for the large spray and the small twigs. I cropped the sentiment using the banner from Stylish Shapes.
The gold embossing powder allowed me to use liquid glue on the back of the large spray to adhere it to the DSP.
I’ve already said what I had to do for the twig sprays. OOPS!
Next, I tied a double bow using the gold Simply Elegant trim around the Soft Succulent ribbon next to the sentiment.
In order to balance out the gold on both sides of the front of the card, I added three gold gems.
After adhering my strip of DSP to the inside white panel, I adhered it to the inside using liquid glue. I left the inside blank and can add a sentiment when I use the card.
With that, I’d finished this coordinated card, envelope, and envelope seal set.
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Welcome to the newest two-week Cardz 4 Galz challenge. For challenge #193, our host, Pamela, picked Red with Pink for a color challenge. When you finish here, I hope you will visit our challenge website to see what the rest of the design team created. It’s always so interesting to see how each person put their individual mark on the challenge.
Here’s my red and pink card, which pretty much evolved as I went along:
I used retired DSP (designer series paper), two of the Scalloped Contour dies, vellum cardstock, and the Framed Florets and Art Gallery stamp sets. The bronze butterflies were completely a last minute addition.
What I Did:
The Poppy Parade base measures 4-1/4 by 11 inches, scored at 5-1/2 inches.
I cropped the Petal Pink cardstock using the largest Scalloped Contours die.
Next, I trimmed the DSP to fit inside the frame of the scallops. It measures 3-3/8 by 4-3/4 inches. I also trimmed a piece of DSP to 6 inches by 2-1/2 inches for the envelope flap and punched a one inch circle to use to create the envelope seal.
Then, I cropped the top layer of vellum cardstock using a smaller die from Scalloped Contours.
I stamped the flower using the stamps in the Art Gallery set using Poppy Parade ink. To get the variations in the color, I stamped off once for the base part of the flower.
Then I stamped the leaves and stem using Soft Suede.
Next, I stamped the sentiment using one from the Framed Florets stamp set in Momento Tuxedo Black ink.
Then, I cropped the sentiment using a rectangle die. I used the coordinating dies for the flower and stem. Both pieces had dimensionals added
After trimming Petal Pink and Poppy Parade matting layers, I added dimensionals to the underside of the sentiment.
I adhered the Petal Pink scalloped layer and the DSP layers to the base of the card using multipurpose liquid glue.
Next, I added the flower pieces and sentiment panel to the vellum. Once they were in place, I could add liquid glue to the back of the vellum so the pieces would hide the adhesive.
I tied a triple bow using linen thread and attached it using mini glue dots.
I added a piece of white cardstock measuring 5-1/4 by 4 inches using liquid glue.
With that, I’d finished this coordinated card, envelope, and envelope seal set.
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Through Stampin' Up!, I happily share my love of papercrafting through sales, classes, small stamping group meet-ups and workshops. I think that being a teacher in my "real life", I have a unique approach to sharing my fantastic hobby. I look forward to connecting with you!
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