Happy Easter! It is Ali (FunAdventuresWithAli) here today! I’m excited to share a special Celebrate Easter Layout with you! Featuring the E-Z Runner® Petite Permanent Dots Refillable Dispenser, I tacked down all these beautiful spring-themed papers and elements.
Celebrate Easter Back Story and Foundation
My friend, Sheri, and I took a trip to Krispy Kreme to check out some sweet Easter-themed treats. So why not document these fun donuts? Start with four different patterned papers, and cut them to the desired shape and size. Secure them down with the E-Z Runner® Petite Permanent Dots Refillable Dispenser. The tape dispenser makes creating go super fast, and I absolutely love how lightweight and easy it is to hold while crafting.
Elements Details
After matting my photos with tones of orange cardstock, I popped them up on the page with the Crafty Foam Tape White 108ft. Next, I placed several squares from the 3D Foam Squares White Mix to pop up all those adorable bunny and chick stickers on my page. Lastly, I added some dimension to my title.
Happy Easter to my favorite peeps! Wishing you all a joyful and creative day!
Thanks for visiting! Ali Skifton (FunAdventuresWithAli)
Hi everyone, Yvonne here with a Flower Bouquet Card. This simple yet elegant card is suitable for many occasions, depending on the sentiment.
I would love to share how I use adhesives to handle delicate items on a card creation.
Flower Bouquet Top Card Panel
To create the panel, start with a stencil by first temporarily adhering it to a lilac cardstock with the E-Z Dots® Repositionable Refillable Dispenser. It prevents the stencil from shifting when applying purple ink with an ink blending tool.
Simply rub the dots off with your finger…there’s no damage or stain on the cardstock surface.
Create the Bouquet
Die-cut the stems from green cardstock and the flowers from white cardstock. Roll the E-Z Runner® Petite Permanent Dots Refillable Dispenser on the back of the stems. The adhesive covers the stem and skips the spaces in between. Adhere them to the card panel.
Designer’s Note: Place a scrap piece of cardstock under the die-cuts to protect the work surface, just in case. Lastly, place Adhesive Dots Micro on the white flowers and secure them on the stems.
Card Base
To layer the card base, mat the lilac card panel onto a kraft panel with the E-Z Runner® Permanent Strips Refillable Dispenser. Using the same adhesive, place the layered panel onto a white card base.
Finishing Touch
To embellish, I centered yellow Rhinestones into the flowers. Tie a satin bow and secure it with the Adhesive Dots Medium.
And voilá, the Flower Bouquet Card is ready to be sent. Designer’s Tip: The card can be themed with specific occasions, simply add a sentiment.
I hope you enjoyed this Flower Bouquet Card tutorial and wish you happy crafting!
Other: Craft Dies and Machine: Spellbinders Paper Arts® (Sealed Blooms Etched Dies and Platinum 6 Machine); Stencil: Dutch Doobadoo (Geometric Stencil); Ink: Ranger Ink (Distress Oxide in Dusty Concord); Ink Blending Tool; Paper Trimmer; Scissors; White, Lilac and Kraft Cardstock
Love a good purple card! So I thought I would create an Arched Friendship Card for a long distance friend. Hi, Margie here today and I hope you can use this idea for your next card creation!
Create the Arch Card Front
Fold a piece of 8.5 x 5.5 in. white cardstock in half to create a side fold A2-size (4.25 x 5.5 in.) card. Trim the purple patterned paper to 4.25 x 5.5 in. to cover the card front. Apply a sheet of Adhesive Sheets 4 x 6in. to the back of the patterned paper card panel. See How to Use Adhesive Sheet video.
Before placing the panel on the card base. I do one step to keep the card base from peeking out from behind the panel. Designer’s Tip: Ink the edges of the patterned paper panel and card front with matching ink color. This helps to keep the edges uniform.
The Arch Design
Nest two arch dies together to create a frame and place on a 3D Foam Creative Sheets Small White. Make sure to secure the dies and sheet with washi tape. This will prevent slipping in the die-cutting machine. Next, die-cut and center it to the card front.
Wear Your Adhesive on the Outside with 3D Creative Sheets
Remove the top liner of the arch and place gold foil from the Metallic Transfer Foil Sheets Celebrate Colors set over the exposed adhesive. Make sure the color side is facing you and gently rub/tap the color into the arch. Remove the foil to reveal the color – beautiful! Reapply foil in missed areas.
Add the Elements
Die-cut the leaves in white cardstock and rosette flower pink patterned paper. Designer’s Tip: light mist the flower with water to soften the paper fibers to easily roll and bend the petals. Secure the flower base with Adhesive Dots Large. Determine placement of the floral elements in the lower left corner of the arch and adhere all with the Adhesive Dots Large.
The Sentiment and Sparkle
Stamp and die-cut a sentiment strip onto white cardstock. Place a 3D Foam Strips on the back and add it towards the inside top of the arch. Using Adhesive Dots Micro, add rhinestones and sparkle around the card front.
Would you try a sparkly Arch Friendship Card idea? I hope you do – it’s so easy!
Hi, Judy here today! This Patchwork Note Card is made with 1-inch squares of patterned paper adhered to cream cardstock featuring Adhesive Sheets 4 x 6in. It’s a great design to use up small scraps of patterned papers. By adding a different sentiment, this card can easily be made for other occasions.
Cut the Patchwork Card Papers
Create the card base by folding in half a 5.5 x 8.5-inch rectangle from cream cardstock to form an A2-size (4.25 x 5.5-inch) standard base.
Cut a 3.25 x 4.25-inch rectangle and a strip measuring .375 x 2.75-inch from the same cream cardstock.
From three different patterned papers, cut four 1-inch squares for a total of 12 squares.
To mat the patchwork panel, cut a 3.75 x 4.75-inch green patterned paper rectangle.
Make the Patchwork Design
Partially peel back liner on Adhesive Sheets 4 x 6in. and place squares on adhesive. Replace the liner and rub over all squares on the front and back. Remove liner, place scrap paper over squares and rub to transfer excess adhesive from between squares, and remove.
Peel a square from adhesive and place on 3.25 x 4.25 inch cream rectangle. Continue to place squares on cream cardstock leaving a tiny space between each one. Squares can be repositioned if not pressed too firmly in place. Once all squares are in place rub firmly to set. An adhesive eraser can be used to remove any excess adhesive along edges of squares.
Hi, this is Jingle here today and I am Hopping By to Say Hello with this fun spring shaker card! Shaker cards are so easy to create when you use the 3D Foam Circle Frames White. I used the absolutely gorgeous Graphic 45’s Spring Is In the Air Collection Pack. I fussy cut the bunny right out of one of the paper designs – its hop is just too cute not to use!
The Shaker Feature
To create the shaker portion, die-cut a circle from the pretty blue patterned paper and adhered that to my card panel using the E-Z Dots® Permanent Dispenser.
Add sequins inside the foam circle frame. Finally, apply some Crafty Foam Tape White 54ft. to the back of the white panel around the opening and adhere it over the filled shaker and the rest of the panel.
The Hopping Bunny
Fussy cut the bunny and adhered her to the card front using the 3D Foam Circles White Mix. Then add the sentiment strip, trimmed from one of the postcard sheets in the paper pack, using Crafty Power Tape Polybag 81ft. The whole panel is mounted on a pink panel to make it pop off the card base!
Hope you are inspired by my Hopping By to Say Hello card to pull out your stash of foam frames and shake up your crafting today!
Hello, crafty cardmaking friends! Tracy Here and today I have a fun little Miss You Card to share. Here are all of the details.
Let’s Get Crafty!
Start by cutting your card base layers. The card base is white cardstock. Then a layer of black cardstock to cover the entire card front. Then cut the patterned paper top layers.
I wanted to create this sweet little house around the sweet window cardstock sticker. Cut a piece of yellow patterned paper for the house and a piece of white cardstock for the roof.
Continue these layers of Creative Photo Corners White, until the entire piece of cardstock is covered. Then using scissors, trim off any pieces that are hanging over the edges. This is your complete roof for the Miss You Card.
Choose some die cut and cardstock sticker pieces for the Miss You Card and adhere the top of the card front using Thin 3D Foam Squares Black Mix for just a little bit of dimension.
Add some pink pearls along the edge of the rooftop to finish this Miss You Card.
Hello, Crafty Friends! If you are like me, the one occasion I am always sending cards out for is birthdays! Because of this, I always like to have a few on hand that are ready to go! Teri here and I’m going to show you how I put together my latest, Birthday Stars Card, in the stash!
Start by cutting a panel of white cardstock to place on a card. You’ll want to cut a frame out of it. Use a rectangle die or a paper trimmer to do so! Set the panel on your card. Use the opening as a guide to randomly apply some 3D Foam Stars to the card base.
Wear Your Adhesive on the Outside with 3D Foam Stars
Remove the panel from your card. Apply the brown foil from the Metallic Transfer Foil Nature Colors to the 3D Foam Stars. Remember to face the foil color to you. Peel off the top liner and rub to transfer the color. Add a few random pearls or gems to the design.
Embellish the Cardstock Panel
Take your cardstock panel and blend several ink colors onto it. Flip the panel over and apply the E-Z Runner® Petite Permanent Dots Dispenser to it. Set a piece of tulle over the window opening. Trim the excess tulle.
Use pieces of Crafty Foam Tape and place them around the window opening. Designer’s Tip: If you want more dimension, consider stacking up the Crafty Foam Tape to create two layers. Adhere your panel to your card.
Add the Sentiment
Cut a small rectangle of cardstock. Stamp a sentiment on it and mount it onto your card, slightly over the window opening. Use Crafty Foam Tape to make it really pop off the card.
I hope you are inspired by today’s Birthday Stars Card tutorial to make a few birthday cards to keep on hand for yourself!
Hi everyone, Yvonne here with a fresh and colorful card to celebrate Spring. This Spring Flower Card is easy to make and suitable for many occasions.
This card may look complicated, but I can assure you it’s quite simple to create. I would love to share how I made my card.
Spring Flower Card Panel
Start by making paper rolls for the top card panel of the Spring Flower Card. Cut 2.5 x 2.5-inch squares from old book pages. Then distress the edges with some brown ink and an ink-blending tool. Roll the paper squares and adhere the ends with Premium Double-Sided Tape 1/4in.
Trim a piece of pink cardstock to a rectangular size and adhere the paper rolls to the pink panel using Premium Double-Sided Tape 1/4in.
Designer’s Tip: If you want to turn this card into a themed card, adhere a sentiment right below the flowers or stamp the sentiment onto the pink card panel.
I hope you enjoyed this fun Spring Flower Card tutorial and wish you happy crafting!
Hi everyone! It’s Ali here today! I’m super excited to share this fun Winter layout, Frosty, featuring the Adhesive Dots Micro—perfect for using on those enamel dots to decorate that big snowflake! Jeff and I attended the Snow Sculpture competition in Lake Geneva and were in awe with all that talent.
Frosty Layout Back Story
For our frosty photos, I used an Echo Park collection and used a cut file title. To add dimension to the title, I used the Crafty Foam Tape White 108ft.! Plus, I added the 3D Foam Squares White Mix behind my stickers to pop off the page.
Final Element Details
I also used the Adhesive Dots Micro to adhere those cute enamel dots to my snowflake in the title. These little dots are fabulous to work with and are strong enough to hold down heavier materials—even though they’re small, they are mighty!
Stay Chill!
Thanks for visiting! Ali Skifton (FunAdventuresWithAli)
A creative friend made this super fun fold card so I wanted to give it a try. The Thinking of You Double Z-Fold Card is perfect to send to a special friend for a pick me up. Hi, Margie here today! Let me show you how.
Create the Double Z-Fold Card Base
On a piece of 11 x 4.25 in. patterned paper, score on the long side up (11 in.) at 2.75 and 5.5 in. Burnish the score lines. Fold in half at 5.5 in. and fold in quarter at 2.75 in. in the opposite direction to form a Z shape.
Cut a piece of 11 x 3 in. patterned paper and repeat the score and fold step. Flip the 11 x 3 in. patterned paper over to the B-side pattern. Make sure the long scored piece is on the left side as pictured above. Set them aside.
Mat Pieces
With a piece of soft blue cardstock, cut one piece at 5.5 x 2.5 in. and one piece at 2.75 x 2.5 in. Using a piece of white cardstock, cut one piece at 5.25 x 2.25 and one piece at 2.5 x 2.25. Emboss the 5.25 x 2.25 in. white cardstock.
Embellish the Thinking of You Z-Fold Patterned Paper Strip
Stamp and cut a sentiment strip on a soft blue cardstock. Pop up the sentiment on the embossed panel with 3D Foam Strips.
At one end of the strip, add a small heart from the 3D Foam Hearts and remove the top liner. Cut a piece of blue foil from the Metallic Transfer Foil Sheets Pastel Colors and wrinkle the piece. Place it on top of the heart (color side facing you). Gently rub the foil to transfer the distressed color to the heart. Cut a piece of green foil from the same set and place over the distressed foil heart. Peel off the foil to reveal a shiny marbled heart accent!
Embellish the Middle Section
On the middle section of the patterned paper strip, place a small, medium and largest heart from the 3D Foam Hearts and remove the top liners. Repeat the foiling steps (solid + distressed type).
Apply the E-Z Runner® Permanent Strips Dispenser on the back of each end of the patterned paper strip and attach to the card base. Make sure to fold up the strip and apply the adhesive on each end.
Make sure the card forms a Z-shape. Now it’s ready to be sent! I hope you enjoyed this fun fold card and make it for your friends!
Other: Patterned Papers: Memory Place (Dusty Blue Floral Collection); Stamps: PhotoPlay (Inside Out: Thinking of You Set); Ink: PinkFresh Studios (Storm Premium Dye Ink); Embossing Folder: Spellbinders Paper Art; Paper Trimmer; Bone Folder; Score Board; White and Soft Blue Cardstock
