Love

I made this card for my parents' recent wedding anniversary, the colours match their living room walls.

I love the 3D embossing folder I've used, it has such deep definition. It's called 'Studded Leather' and I've used cream Liquid Pearls to highlight each 'stud'.

The sentiment die is by Simon Says Stamp.

Flip-flap cards

We made some flip-flap cards at the club recently. There are lots of different tutorials on YouTube/ Blogs etc.

I've used SU punches for the mechanism, SU stamps,  and the patterned paper I've had years.

Birthday

Made for one of my lovely club ladies.
I've used an embossing folder by Creative Expressions for the frame and highlighted it with a little gilding wax.

Sentiment dies are also Creative Expressions. Flowers are from The Range

70

Things have been hectic of late, I haven't really had time for card making or blogging.

I made this card a few weeks back for one of my ladies who was celebrating a milestone birthday.

Numbers were cut on my ancient Cricut machine, flowers from the Range.

Shutter card

I made this shutter card following a great tutorial on Mixed-Up Crafts.

I've used Paper Boutique papers and topper, the sentiment stamp is by LOTV.

Sweet

Stamps are by Docrafts. I've heat-embossed with white and gold powders.

Inside I made a simple open box, punching a 'bite' using an SU scalloped punch. The biscuits are (box of 48) from Costco but also available on Amazon, they work out less than 20p per pack so a fun addition to the card.

Shabby

We made this card a while back at the club, unfortunately my sample got a bit battered then misplaced, so by the time I photographed it it was definitely on the shabby side of chic.

Embossing folder is by Anna Griffin, we rubbed a little gilding wax over the surface.
Decorative card panel is Graphic 45, the front panel is a stamp by SU. There was originally another small panel tucked into a front pocket but that has disappeared somewhere along the way.

Border die is Spellbinders
Flowers made from card that has been punched (SU) then dampened with water and scrunched up.

Fancy fold friend

Another fold-flat card.
I've used two pieces of card, cut and scored the same size, then adhered together at the sides.

Before adhering I stamped the butterfly (Inkadinkado) using Versamark ink, and die cut an oval in the front piece.

The decorative frame and the flower dies are by Crafters Companion.
The friend die is by Alinacrafts.

Pop-up

7 X 7" card with a pop-up inside. I'd seen similar cards to this on Pinterest but they were tent-fold, I don't tend to do a lot of tent-folds as find they sometimes dislike standing up!

The pop-up mechanism is very simple, a piece of card that is 8 x 8" scored and folded in half both horizontally and vertically. Flip over then score diagonally from one corner to opposite corner (only one diagonal score, not two)

I've used paper and toppers by the Paper Boutique.

Pop-up card

This card was made using measurements from the Craft Spa blog.
It folds flat to fit in a standard envelope.

I've used flower stamp and punch from SU
Sentiment is a Phill Martin stamp. The cream card isn't dirty it has a flecked pattern!

G45

Another fancy-fold using Graphic 45.
Same as one we made at club a few weeks ago but changed the papers.

Notebook

Plain kraft notebook from Wilko. I've seen a good price for these on Hobbycraft website but you need to buy ten at a time (£13.50)

Papers from Graphic 45. I punched a couple of holes in one layer and threaded ribbon through to make a pencil holder.

G45

Z-fold card using papers from Graphic 45
Dies are from AE

Card Box

This is meant to be a box to hold half a dozen or so cards. I made the box but haven't got round to making the cards yet...

Patterned paper is Graphic 45. The measurements for the box are from a great video tutorial on this blog by Teri Pocock.

Fancy Fold

This was a card fold I kept seeing on Pinterest.

I didn't realise until after I'd cut and glued every panel that it doesn't actually stand up! So annoying, when I went back and looked at Pinterest I realised all the photographs I'd seen were taken with the card laid flat.

I don't see the point of cards that you can't display so I added some card layers to the inside so it balanced the weight out, card now stands up.

Book

Storybook and sentiment dies by Crafter's Companion
Music stamp is from AE

Sunkissed

This was a card we made a few weeks ago at the club.
We used Graphic 45 "Sunkissed" papers and ephemera cards

Each card was different in some way, although we all used the same folds and pockets.

Delicate Wings

Butterfly dies are a set by Crafter's Companion called 'Delicate Wings'
I added a very light touch of ink and some fine glitter
Sentiment die from AE, cut twice and shadowed.

Card is A5 sized but with the fold at the left, I really must try and buy more of these, much prefer them to tent-fold for this size.