Textures & Gears for the April Pals’ Blog Hop & the NBUS #85
Welcome to the Stampin’ Pretty Pals’ Blog Hop!
This month’s Stampin’ Pretty Pals Blog Hop is all about the Male Room theme—because the men in our lives deserve handmade cards too! Whether you’re creating for a dad, husband, son, grandson, brother, or friend, this hop is packed with ideas to help you craft something special. Today, the Pals are sharing male-themed card designs using Stampin’ Up! products, from bright and playful styles to classic looks and quick-and-easy layouts. If you’re looking for fresh inspiration (or just a good reason to dive into your craft room), you’re in the perfect place.
Here’s my card:
I’ve already posted two other 4-panel accordion fold cards. You can see those posts here, here and here. I am looking forward to making many more cards using fun fold since it’s quickly become one of my absolute favorite fun folds.
As always with a fun fold card, I will be adding this to the Creative Creases Challenge where the theme is always Anything Goes with a Fun Fold. I know I’ve already posted cards using this fold to Creative Creases, but it’s such an easy fold and it makes very good use of the 12 x 12 inch DSP (designer series paper).
I’ve been introduced to a new-to-me card challenge, the Never-Before-Used-Schtuff challenge. Since this is the first time I am using the Textures & Gears bundle, this card qualifies!
Measurements:
When trimming and scoring the DSP I wanted to use, I completely forgot that I needed to score on the opposite side of the DSP I wanted to use. Therefore, I used a piece of Crumb Cake cardstock and followed the template. Then, I trimmed the DSP to the appropriate measurements.
Here’s the template:
- Trim the Secret Sea DSP to the following measurements:
- 5-3/8 by 1-5/8 inches
- 2 pieces at 5-3/8 by 2-7/8 inches
- 5-3/8 by 4-1/8 inches
- Trim two pieces of Very Vanilla cardstock to 4 by 5-1/4 inches, one for the front and one for the inside
- I used the Textures & Gears stamp set and Crumb Cake and Granny Apple Green ink to create my own DSP
- Trim a piece of Crumb Cake 6 x 6 inch DSP to 6 by 2-1/2 inches for the envelope flap
- I stamped the Granny Apple Green circles on the Crumb Cake DSP
- I love the way that turned out so I will be doing more of that for envelope flaps
- Punch a 1-inch circle from the Secret Sea DSP and run it through your XYRON create-a-sticker for the envelope seal
- I wanted shiny gears and lattice on the front of the card, so I added packing tape to pieces of cardstock before cropping the shapes
- HINT: You will need to run the dies/cardstock through the Cut & Emboss machine two or three times
- BIG HINT: Don’t try to crop out the gears through more than one layer of packing tape – trust me on this
- I cropped the chains for the inside and outside from Crumb Cake cardstock after stamping with the same ink
- Stamp the Edison light on a scrap of Very Vanilla cardstock and crop using the die
- Crop the background for the light from a scrap of Secret Sea cardstock
What I Did:
- Unless otherwise noted, I used multipurpose liquid glue to adhere pieces together
- Adhere the Secret Sea DSP to the Crumb Cake cardstock
- Adhere the first flap of cardstock to the second flap (optional)
- Stamp one piece of the Very Vanilla cardstock using Granny Apple Green and Crumb Cake ink
- Crop the gears from the packing tape/cardstock layers
- Adhere the lattice, chains & Edison lights, and smaller Secret Sea circles to the Very Vanilla cardstock
- Add dimensionals to the large Secret Sea and the Granny Apple Green gears and adhere to the front
- Stamp the sentiment, from the Nature’s Symphony in Secret Sea ink on Very Vanilla cardstock, and crop
- Crop a piece of Granny Apple Green cardstock and adhere it to the sentiment banner
- Add dimensionals to the Granny Apple Green layer and adhere to the front of the card
- Adhere the completed Very Vanilla front to the base of the card
- Adhere the inside Very Vanilla cardstock so that it matches up with the cardstock layer on the front
- I didn’t stamp a sentiment on the inside yet since the outside sentiment can be used for many ocassions
With that, I’d finished this coordinated card, envelope, and envelope seal set.
Back to the Pals’ Blog Hop:
Thanks so much for stopping by today! Keep the inspiration going! I hope my project inspired you to create something special for the guys in your life. Be sure to continue along the hop for even more Male Room inspiration from the Stampin’ Pretty Pals. Next month will be Flowers in Bloom, so mark your calendars!
Stampin’ Pretty Pals Blog Hop
- Su Mohr
- Windy Ellard
- Rae Burnet
- Peggy Noe
- Debbie Mageed
- Stesha Bloodhart
- Tricia Chuba
- Sue Jackson. <<<— YOU ARE HERE!
- Beth McCullough
- Lisa Ann Bernard
Thank you for stopping by today!
Have a Peachy Day!
Sue
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The Eyelet Blooms Die:
Product detail
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