Hello crafty cardmaking friends! Tracy here and today I have a sweet and simple autumn card to share. Here are all of the details on how I created it.
Let’s Get Crafty!
First I cut the card base from coordinating brown Doodlebug Cardstock, a 5×7 card base. Then cut a piece of orange patterned paper to 4.75×6.75. I also cut out one of the large printed tags.
Adhere the patterned paper to the simple autumn card base using Creative Photo Corners Gold. I will often use additional adhesive on the back of the patterned paper just to keep it in place.
Add a burlap string bow to the top of the large tag and then adhere that to the card front using the E-Z Dots® Permanent Dispenser.
I decided to add an additional piece of green patterned paper that was 3×3. Attach that to the large tag using the E-Z Dots® Permanent Dispenser. Add the Doodle Pops embellishments to the card front. They are just SO dang cute!
Start by finding an ornament with a wide screw top opening. Can’t find one? Try using a small clear jar instead. Next, cut a rectangular piece of patterned paper to fit inside the ornament. Then cut a similar sized clear transparency piece and adhere a few 3D Foam Circles and 3D Foam Butterflies.
Wear Your Adhesive on the Outside with 3D Foam Shapes, Tape and Foils
Now the fun! Cut a small piece of Platinum foil from the Metallic Transfer Foil Sheets in Nature Colors and place on top of the shapes with the color side facing up. Rub the foil to transfer the color onto the shapes. Done! Now roll the patterned paper and transparency tightly and place them inside the ornament, letting them loosen up.
Apply a strip of Premium Double-Sided Tape across the exterior of the ornament as pictured. Using the same foiling steps using a piece of gold foil, create your gold border accent.
Finishing Touches
Place a sticker on the ornament, placing it over your largest foam shape. Seal the ornament. If desired, add piece of patterned paper or cardstock onto the lid.
Fill the ornament by making a tag to put inside the ornament. Instead of the tag, you could place a small gift inside. A gift card, cash or even a small pair of earrings would be great gifts to place inside.
Also, consider adding a hanger to the top of your ornament. Twine, ribbon and jute all make excellent hangers. If you are using a jar with a lid rather than an ornament, consider making a hanger for it.
If you noticed the image above, this Enjoy Gift Ornament is part of a wonderful gift ensemble. So, check them out too! See the tutorials for Take Time to Relax Tag and Miss You Floating Card.
I hope you enjoyed today’s project and are inspired to make gift ornament for a friend.
Other: Patterned Paper, Blue Cardstock and Sticker: Doodlebug Designs (Summer Fun Collection); Ornament: Dollar Tree; Jute: Darice; Transparency; White Cardstock: Neenah
Hi everyone, Yvonne here with a Cute and Sparkly Duck Card. Sometimes embellishing your card is ever so easy and simple. For interest, I used a combination of dimension and the Wear Your Adhesive on the Outside technique to make my card special. This is super fun to create and perfect for beginner card makers! Shall we get started?
Make a Duck Card Panel
Stamp and color the duck image on white cardstock and fussy cut using scissors. Die-cut and emboss a rectangle from blue cardstock, a scalloped circle from green patterned cardstock and a circle from white cardstock. Adhere the circles and the image onto the blue rectangle panel of the Duck Card using 3D Foam Squares White Mix.
With your choice of foil colors from the Metallic Transfer Foil Sheets Nature Color, place the foil (color side facing you) over the sticky shapes you want to foil and rub to transfer the color.
Next I sprinkled gold glitter over the sticky stars, rubbed the glitter to secure and tapped off the excess. This application in making your adhesive shine as embellishments is called Wear Your Adhesive on the Outside technique! EASY!!!
And voilá, the Cute and Sparkly Duck Card is ready. Easy and simple! I hope you enjoyed this tutorial and wish you happy crafting.
Other: Stamp (Lili of the Valley™: Digi stamp: Cute Creatures Collection); Sentiment: Tim Holtz®: idea-ology® (Label Stickers); Craft Dies and Die-Cutting Machine: Spellbinders® Paper Arts (5×7 Matting Basics A Card Creator Etched Dies, Fancy Edged Circles Etched Dies; Platinum 6 Die Cutting and Embossing Machine); White, Blue, Kraft and Patterned Green Cardstock; Coloring Pencil); Gold Glitter; Paper Trimmer; Scissors; Pin
Happy World Card Making Day! I’m here to share a Celebrate Framed Floral Card featuring varying heights of elements and sentiment on the card featuring the 3D Foam Squares White Mix and 3D Foam Strips 3mm Black.
Gather a few ephemera pieces to create a frame and cluster as a focal point to the card front. The green frame and the large floral element were secured with the E-Z Runner® Grand Ultra Strong Refillable Dispenser on the card. The two bloom piece and small blue butterfly piece were adhered with a small foam square from the 3D Foam Squares White Mix.
Add Sentiment and Other Finishing Touches
Grab a sentiment from the ephemera pack and pop it up with the 3D Foam Strips 3mm Black to highlight the greeting. Add gems around the card front. I noticed the top had more space so I fussy cut a scalloped border from the elements patterned paper. Using the E-Z Runner® Grand Ultra Strong Refillable Dispenser, and added it on the top of the card.
I love how the card turned out. If you get stuck, use the paper collection to guide you to your card creation. Adding gems and dimension brings everything together! Hope you create many cards during World Card Making Day!
Do you have too many photos? ME! LOL! I went a little overboard with my youngest’s engagement photos…in every size. HA! Featuring Creative Photo Corners Ivory, I created a Sweetest Moment Wreath Layout. What a great wreath and so easy! Hi, Margie here and I am excited to share my tutorial.
Sweetest Moment Wreath and Background
Focal point of the layout is the wreath made out of Creative Photo Corners Ivory! Cut the bottoms of them, tuck them into each other to create a chain. Using a thin ring cut from white cardstock as guide to create a wreath. I made two different sizes and stack to give the wreath volume 🙂
Taking the largest wreath, determine placement of the rub-on designs on the layout. Then secure both wreath on the layout with the Adhesive Lines.
On the other side, I used the E-Z Dots® Permanent Refillable Dispenser to add the leaf accent on the left of the wreath (it hits only the shape and skips the gaps) and the tag. The circle element was lifted with the higher height of the 3D Foam Squares 3mm White Mix to sit above the wreath.
I love how this Sweetest Moment Wreath Layout turned out. Do you think you’ll try this wreath design? I hope so! BUT I love how the new 3D Foam Squares 3mm White Mix works well with my page!!
Hi, Judy here! Today, I put together a very pretty Floral Shaker Birthday Card using Uniquely Creative papers and Creative Cuts flowers and leaves. The shaker was easy to make with a frame from 3D Foam Circle Frames White, Creative Cuts frame and acetate with pretty flowers perched on the frame.
Shaker Card Base
Fold in half a 7 x 10 inch white linen cardstock to form a 5 x 7 inch card base. Cut two 1 x 7 inch strips from stonewash cardstock. Cut a piece of 4 x 7 inch from mocha (pale pink side) cardstock and cut a piece of 3.625 x 7 inch panel from Foliage Whisper paper.
Use Uniquely Creative long tag die that’s 2.25 inches wide to cut tag from striped tag on Uniquely Creative Forgotten Treasures paper. Realign die on tag to cut off 1 inch from bottom of tag so that it’s 5.875-6 inches long.
Cut Stonewashed blue paper 2.375 wide and .25 inch longer that stripe tag. Fasten stripe tag to blue rectangle using E-Z Runner® Petite Permanent Dots Refillable Dispenser to apply adhesive to tag. Trim angle corners of blue paper to match angle of tag corners. Then apply adhesive to back and fasten on card.
Shaker Feature
From Uniquely Creative The Collectors Ledger patterned paper cut 2.5 inch circle with circle die and die cutting machine or by hand. Also cut same size circle from acetate. Peel liner from 4th circle frame on sheet of 3D Foam Circle Frames White and fasten patterned paper circle face down on 3D Foam Circle Frame. Press to fasten well and carefully peel away from sheet. Place liner over sticky side of 3D Foam Circle Frame and fill shaker with beads and sequins. Peel away liner and place acetate circle on top to seal shaker.
Take green frame from Uniquely Creative Creative Cuts and lightly press outer edges in Versamark ink pad. Then cover edges with gold embossing powder, remove excess and heat emboss with heat tool. Repeat as necessary to create gold edge around frame. Repeat process to inner edge of frame. (Designer Tip: Embossing marker can be used instead of ink pad)
Touch centers of flowers with embossing marker, cover with gold embossing powder, remove excess and emboss with heat tool. Also touch edges of wings and antennae of butterfly with embossing marker and emboss with gold embossing powder.
Hey everybody, happy weekend! Are you a fan of mixed media? Well, I love it but don’t play as often as I would like and need to change that. Leslie here, sharing a Dream Big Mixed Media Tag featuring pretty papers, die cuts/ephemera and dies from Uniquely Creative. Of course, I also used some amazing adhesives (and other products) from Scrapbook Adhesives! Let me show you this tag in a little more detail!
Mixed Media Tag Details
Using a Uniquely Creative Slim Stitched Nesting Tag Die, I cut the tag base from Kraft cardstock. Then the fun began. First I layered patterned paper, cardstock, die cuts and other pieces of ephemera from the Uniquely Creative Delighted Curiosities collection. The E-Z Runner® Grand Permanent Strips Refillable Dispenser and Dual Tip Glue Pen worked well for the base layers.
Next, I inked the edges of some of the pieces with Ranger Hickory Smoke distress ink on a dauber. Popping up elements with Thin 3D Foam Squares White Mix and 3D Foam Squares White Mix is always a fun touch. These are 1mm and 2mm thick respectively and give different heights of dimension.
Additionally, I used a sewing-themed stamp to add random cross-stitches and double-stitches in green ink using an acrylic block.
Wear Your Adhesive on the Outside Technique
Oh, how I love the Wear Your Adhesive on the Outside technique! Surprisingly (NOT), I used it three times on this tag – first with a strip of foiled squares down the left side. Created this with E-Z Squares® Refillable Dispenser and foil from the Metallic Transfer Foil Sheets Nature Colors. Simply apply the squares, place crumpled bronze foil (shiny side up) on the squares and rub with your finger. Repeat the process with crumpled brown foil to grab any bare areas which will yield a two-tone look.
The second instance was the application of green flock onto several 3D Foam Squares Micro White. These were then placed in diamond orientation in random spots on the tag.
Finally, the third instance was blue embossing powder applied to 3D Foam Strips and heated with my heat tool. Afterwards, I cut the strip in small-sized pieces and placed them on the right edge toward the bottom. This completed the Dream Big mixed media tag.
Hi there!!! Connie here with a really fun repurposing project, Rolodex Index Card Art, using a vintage Rolodex and the E-Z Runner Grand Refillable Dispenser. I call them art index cards and I love creating them and adding them to the Rolodex. The inspiration comes from every where.
Rolodex Index Card Background
Create a background on an old index card from a Rolodex file. OR You can also make your own card container and add them to a decorated box if you don’t have a Rolodex. I used Designer Paper, with a Mixed Media vibe, to cover the index card. The E-Z Runner Grand Refillable Dispenser was perfect for the task. Love the coverage and so fast!!!
Using your favorite images, stamp in random spots and add interest to the art index cards.
Prep the Die Cut Images
Stamp the branch image, on white cardstock, using a stamping platform. Die cut the image, lay over the stamped pattern and close the lid to the stamping platform, stamping the branch on the die cut. The E-Z Runner Grand Dots Repositionable makes sure the branch doesn’t move when you stamp over the die cut.
Complete the index cards by adding white acrylic paint splatters, to front of index cards, and finger smears along the edges. I also used a white Posca marker to outline the edges.
Designer Tip: The adhesive release sheet (from the 3D Foam products) make a great paint pallet when mixing paint to splatter, along with an old toothbrush.
Can’t wait to fill the Rolodex with art. I’ll keep you posted.
Hi, friends! Do you struggle to make cards for guys? Teri here to show you to quickly put together one, a Birthday Card with a Vintage Vibe to solve that issue! For interest and dimension, throw in some 3D Foam and Metallic Transfer Foil Sheets. You’ll end up with a card that’s sure to wow the recipient.
Gather Materials for the Vintage Vibe Birthday Card
Pick out the patterned papers that are more muted or earthy tones. With the die-cut elements, I chose to items like tickets, old-style stars, planes and other vintage-inspired items. Create a card base from cardstock. Cover it with a couple patterned papers. Designer’s Tip: Arrange items are on card to determine placement and clusters. Snap a photo with your phone so you can remember the design later.
Assemble the Card Front
Cluster a few of the die-cuts and adhere them to the card. If any of them are made from acetate, roll a E-Z Runner® Petite Permanent Dots Refillable Dispenser onto the card, leaving a line of adhesive. Mount the element right on top.
Let’s bring the remaining elements to life by using 3D Foam Strips and 3D Foam Strips 3mm White under them to pop them up. The 3mm strips have the most height with just under 1/8″ and the other strips are 1/16″ at 2mm.
Wear Your Adhesive on the Outside with 3D Foam Strips
Adhere 3D Foam Strips to the bottom of your card to create a border. Set Metallic Transfer Foil on top of them with the pretty side up. Burnish the foil onto the strips.
Add a “faux” distressed look to your card by rolling adhesive on it, around the die-cuts. Add some foil to the adhesive.
I hope you enjoyed today’s project and are inspired to make a card for your favorite guy!
Hello scrappy friends! Tracy here, and today I have a layered Masculine Vintage Layout to share featuring amazing products from our friends at Uniquely Creative
Let’s Get Started!
I always start a layout by choosing the layout base and coordinating cardstock for matting my photo. The patterned paper background is cut to 10.75″ square. I matted my photo in white and light grey cardstock, and then a larger mat of the dark grey cardstock. Dark grey cardstock is also the base of the layered vintage layout.
Tear a strip out of the middle of the patterned paper. Distress the edges of all of the sides. Cut a strip of striped patterned paper to go under the torn area. Adhere all of these layers together using E-Z Runner® Ultra Strong Refillable Dispenser.
Add some chipboard gears to the largest cardstock photo mat using Adhesive Dots Mini. A perfect addition to this layered vintage layout.
Attach the matted photo to the chipboard layer using the 3D Foam Squares 3mm Black Mix. These foam squares are the perfect thickness to create dimension around the chipboard pieces of the layered vintage layout.
Add Some Vintage Color
Using distress ink and stain, add some colour to the background patterned paper to frame the matted photo piece. Adhere the matted photo piece to the background using Crafty Foam Tape Black.
