PIN IT FRIDAY FAVS: For the Week Ending 8/8/2014

This card was a recent highlight of my pinning activity on Pinterest! Learn how to make this easy pop up card by watching a terrific how-to video HERE (or at the end of this post) made by FRENCHIE STAMPS.

Collapsed and ready for mailing.

Side View

This cards fits into a standard A2 envelope and doesn't require extra postage. The video shows all of the steps so you can make one, too. Here's my version for my friend, Anne, who is turning 90 next month:

SU STAMP SETS:

Create a Cupcake

Sweet Little Sentiments

NESTIES:

Labels 3

This is the paper stack from JoAnn's that I used:

MEASUREMENTS:

Base = 11" x 4 1/4" 

Score at 1, 2 3/4, 3 3/4, 5 1/2, 7 1/4, 8 1/4 and 10"

Pop Up Tag Background = 2 3/4" x 5 1/4"

Pop Up Tag Top Layer = 2 1/2" x 5"

FRENCHIE'S VIDEO

MANY THANKS

to the OH! so

TALENTED FRENCHIE!

I also made up a pdf to create a set of four instruction cards that can be cut into quarters to place over the top of this collapsed pop up card in the envelope so that the receiver knows how to open and display their card. Click HERE to print on card stock, then cut it into four 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" pieces.

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One of my Card Chicks friends, Michele, let me borrow her We R Memory Keepers envelope punch board and I can't stop making projects with it! I'm having the time of my life all thanks to the many projects and videos available through Pinterest when I did a search for ENVELOPE PUNCH BOARD. Stampin' Up also has their version which looks like the exact same product. Here's one of my favorite projects from the blog of SU UK Demonstrator Pootles: 

...and two of my versions:

This talented blogger was so nice to add the dimensions with a link to a video tutorial - THANK YOU SO MUCH! Here is exactly what she posted:

So you want the video, right??

Here you are!

And of course, the all important dimensions.

Cardstock – 6×6″ (15x15cm)

Line your paper up at 1.5, punch and score.

Rotate

line your paper up at 2.5, punch and score.

Repeat the previous two steps to have worked on all 4 sides.

Now, line up the previously scored lines with the handy score guide, punch and score. Repeat for all 4 previuosly scored lines.

BABY SHOWER GIFT CANS AND CARD

I had the pleasure of going to my "adopted" daughter's baby shower this weekend. (Since I have two sons, I've "adopted" a few wonderful daughters through the years!) I love the idea of using a paint can (and a paint can opener key attached with a bow to the handle) as a baby and wedding shower gift container. Here is my card and the decorated cans I created for this HAPPY day:

Basic Paint Can Instructions:

Cut two small pieces of DSP to cover the areas between where the handles attach and the top of the can. Adhere with double-sided tape. Cover the top third of the can between the handle attachments with two pieces of 2 1/2" by 9 1/2" using the same DSP. (Make sure all seams fall along the side of the can near the handle attachment to the can.) Cover the bottom of the can with two pieces of coordinated 5 1/2" x 12" pieces of DSP. Adhere a piece of coordinated ribbon along the seam where the upper and lower pieces of DSP meet. (The point where the two ends of the ribbon meet should be in the front because the sign will cover the seams.) Use a circle cutter to cut a piece of DSP for the top of the can....and here are a few more shower pics that were my favorites:

Jimena and Her Mom

Me and the Mommy-to-Be!

It's going to be a girl and the shower was

a lamb-themed party in browns,

cremes and whites - so pretty!!

They also had a mimosa bar -

a terrific entertaining idea!

(I took these pics before the champagne was

opened and added to the table. Open the
champagne right before guests arrive.)

The chalkboard sign was from TJ Maxx.

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The traditional method for making criss cross cards looks like this:

...but I just came across a VERTICAL version:

Splitcoast Stampers provides a tutorial with a video HERE for both versions, but for the vertical version, start out with two 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" pieces of cardstock. Score both pieces at 4 1/4" then continue with the tutorial at step 2 below.

Supplies

• Two 4 1/4" x 11" pieces of cardstock for your card base
• One 4" x 5" piece of patterned paper
• One 3 3/4" x 5 1/4" piece of cardstock for insert
• One 3 1/2" x 4 3/4" piece of neutral cardstock for insert
• One 1 1/2" x 12" piece of colored cardstock for card band
• Ink
• Stamps
• Adhesive
• More paper for accents
• Corner rounder
• Embellishments

Step-by-Step Instructions

Step 1

Score both 4 1/4" x 11" pieces of cardstock at 5 1/2".

Step 2

Take one scored piece and cut it diagonally from center top to the bottom left. 

Step 3

Take the other piece of scored cardstock and cut it diagonally from the center top to the bottom right. 

Step 4

Add adhesive to the rectangle back of one of the cardstock pieces.

Step 5

Tape both pieces together. Make sure both long edges of the diagonal sections are on the bottom.

Step 6

Cut the patterned paper in half diagonally.

Step 7

Adhere it to your card front. I used double sided patterned paper (Dashing, from Stampin' Up!). The dotted paper is on the back of the striped design.

Step 8

Add Sticky Strip™on the bottom of the middle panel, as well as on the bottom of the triangle flap that will be on top of the card. 

Tape the card base together and set aside

.

Step 9

Take both pieces of cardstock for the insert and use the corner rounder on the top corners.

Step 10

Tape together.

Step 11

Stamp and add tab and other embellishments as needed.

Step 12

Take the 1 1/2" x 12" piece of colored cardstock and score at 5 5/8" and 11 1/4".

Step 13

Add Sticky Strip™ to the end of the strip with the small 3/4" scored section. Tape band together.

Step 14

Decorate the card band.

Step 15

Slide your band over your card.
Your card is finished!

Read more: 

http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/resources/tutorials/criss_cross_card/#ixzz2fM929EJO

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VIDEO TO MAKE HINGED CARD BASES USING DIES

One of my most favorite and most talented bloggers on the planet is Becca Feeken whose blog is called Amazing Paper Grace. What she does with Spellbinder dies takes paper crafting to another level of art! 

She has made a terrific tutorial to show how to make hinged cards using dies. In her video below, she used quite an intricate die, but you could use any type of larger die to make a card base using this hinge technique.

If you are viewing this post on a phone, 

click HERE to watch the video.

Can't wait to give this one a try!

SU THINLET

I'm having so much fun using the SU circle thinlet that my friend Michele let me borrow! BIG thank you hugs, M! The thinlet cuts and scores a flip card in one quick pass through my Cuttlebug...and I came up with another way to add some design with function to extend the card for a sentiment or a note (instructions follow below). MANY thanks as well to my friend Rina who showed me how to make the little lamb from punches that she'll be using soon for her daughter's baby shower!

My first flip card attempt...but the green scalloped circle didn't seem to add anything to the card...so I decided to go with the SIMPLE IS SOMETIMES BETTER idea!

I'm giving this one to my mom for her birthday this week.

I put it in a clear envelope and used it 

as part of the decorations on the package:

Then I made the same card with a different piece of DSP:

The sheep was made by using a 3/4" circle punch for the head, a 1/2" circle punch of black cut in half for the ears, one scallop punch and the swirls embossing folder for the white body, two heart punches in black with one side of the heart cut off for the two legs and three small flower punches for the top of the head. Two tiny black adhesive gems were added for the eyes. The head was attached to the body with foam squares and the sheep was also adhered to the card using foam squares.

Next, I made this congrats card for Rina:

PICTURE TO PIN ON PINTEREST

FRONT VIEW

INSIDE VIEW

BACK VIEW

...and here is the step-by-step technique
for extending this flip card:

After running the paper through the thinlet and
folding it into a 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" card...

Turn over the double-sided DSP on the right and...

I'm feeling like Santa in his workshop as I put these flip cards together! It's hard to stop making them because they're just so fun and so different with each set of papers used! Here is another way to make a flip card with an extension:

All sentiments are from Stampin' Up or
were done on my computer.

A video by the talented Patty Bennett demonstrates this way to make an extension for flip cards - Click HERE . She starts to give the extension technique at about the 4:58 mark....and here's another brilliant idea below from PATTY'S STAMPING SPOT if you're making the short version of the flip card. The pics show how to adhere a piece of DSP to the card base before running the thinlet through the Cuttlebug so that the thinlet die can cut out the little crescent moon for you:

There are tons of flip card samples on her site as well.