PIN IT FRIDAY FAVS: Photo Cards and the Very Best of Pinterest Pins

I use the back of old photos instead of waxed paper to run dies through my Cuttlebug for perfect cutting every time. (My next blog post will detail this technique!) In my box of discarded photos, I came across the flower photo above that I took eons ago. It's been quite awhile that I've used my own photography to make cards, so I had to stop what I was doing and create this photo card! 

Here are a few more photo paper craft ideas on Pinterest that might inspire future creativity:

 Original Pin HERE

LOVE this gift wrapping idea:

 Original Pin HERE

 Original Pin HERE

 Original Pin HERE

 Original Pin HERE

 Original Pin HERE

Original Pin HERE

Original Pin HERE

PIN IT FRIDAY FAVS: Christmas Thank Yous

I'm taking the rest of December off from blogging and will return on Friday, January 2nd with another Pin It Friday Favs post. Happiest of holidays to you and all good things to come in 2015!

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The gifts are starting to come in and I needed some thank you cards...so here are a few I've been making with my new Stampin' Up set called Endless Wishes.

INK: SU Island Indigo and Going Gray 

* Frost White (by Color Box)

DIE: Nesties Small Classic Circles

TREE STAMPS: SU Pennant Parade

The picture really doesn't do it justice as the final touch of the glitter paper tree trunks and the gems in the snowflake centers really make this card pop! I cased this card from the Pinterest pin below:

Click HERE for Original Pin

I like the simplicity of the card below using the same set (and the matching envelope, too):

Click HERE for Original Pin

I had some Christmas paper left over that I almost threw out because of the pattern...but it worked out well for my cased version!

INK COLORS (BY STAMPIN' UP):

Crumb Cake

Real Red

Soft Suede

The card looked pretty blah and it needed some bling! The Xmas Red Stickles on the DSP did the trick!

INSIDE VIEW

Stamp set for sentiment

puchased at JOANN'S:

Hero Arts CL351

(Brand new set...had it for months and

 just now used it for the first time! 

WHY was I saving it so long?

Oh! yeah...because I have so

much stamping stuff already that

I forgot I bought it months ago!)

...and lastly...I found this card:

Click HERE for Original Pin

I did a fusion of my top two cards and came up with this version:

Oh! My goodness! I just had an epiphany when I realized that I could line my envelopes with medium weight designer scrapbook paper (DSP) that coordinates with the card AND that are patterns I wouldn't necessarily use on card fronts! Also, if I ever give these blank cards as gifts, a separate piece of card stock placed over the bumps/gems wouldn't be required to send these cared in the mail! Twice the benefit gained from one piece of envelope liner DSP and happy dance is now in progress ^__^ Here's an example:

...and this very busy DSP that probably would have been tossed right into the circular file serves as a liner that compliments my gray and blue card:

I'm taking the rest of December off from blogging and will return on Friday, January 2nd with another Pin It Friday Favs post. Happiest of holidays to you and all good things to come in 2015!

PIN IT FRIDAY FAVS

I saw this oh! so cool way to make a Magic Envelope Card by Deb Valder on Pinterest! See her video pin HERE. She uses the new diagonal score board from SU, but I don't have it...so I modified the directions to make this same project on a standard score board --- mine is by Martha Stewart. Begin with an 8 1/2"x 11" piece of DSP - then mark and score your paper as shown in the pics below:

Along the 11" side, mark a point at 1/8", 6" and 7 7/8".

Turn paper 90 degrees to the 8 1/2" side and

mark a point at 5" and 5 5/8".

Turn paper 90 degrees to the 11" side and

mark a point at 3 5/8 and 4".

Turn paper to the 8 1/2" side and mark at 1 5/8".

Now connect with score lines as follows:

3 5/8" to 1/8" marks (To the point instead of 

1/8" works best actually!)

6" to 5 5/8" marks

5" to 4" marks

NOTE: I have drawn a line straight down the center of my score board at the 4 1/4" and 6" point with a Sharpie marker. 

The 6" line helps me score between two marks very easily and accurately. (I also have a Sharpie line drawn at the 4 1/4" mark. The 4 1/4" line helps me quickly locate the point where I need to score my 8 1/2" x 11" papers in half in order to make two cards very quickly. After scoring in half, I turn the paper 90 degrees and cut the paper at 5 1/2" to make two blank card bases.) Here is what the final sheet should look like when all score lines have been made: 

Then simply follow the folding instructions in the video HERE

and begin by folding along the score line shown

by the arrow below so that the lower right corner 

(the largest side of the paper) folds inward:

As Deb shows in her video, double-sided DSP

works perfectly for this project.