Yes, I made another one with Queen & Co. products. I have no affiliation with them, but I do love their products.
I have two friends who had surgery recently, and the Get Well kit from Q&Co. was perfect. Until I bought this kit, my only get well craft items are geared more toward kids.
I will probably hand deliver this one, since I put a shaker on it. They don't always mail well.
I made this camping box card with levels, and I used Queen & Co. Foundation dies to make the box card itself. I also used their Great Outdoors kit, which is a recent release, for the tent and mountains. The cloud is from Foundation set 9.
The stamped designs are from two different My Favorite Things stamp sets: Adorable Adventures and Fall Friends.
One thing that I learned from this project is there is an easy way to make a level box card with Foundation dies, and a hard way. I did the hard way. Then late last night I realized how it would have been easier. I'll try to do a YouTube tutorial on it this coming week.
This Magical characters box card is similar to the Baby box card tutorial that I posted recently, but I figured out better ways of doing things, as well as how to add decorative panels. I've posted the tutorial on YouTube (link below). It also shows how to "cut first, stamp second" as part of the tutorial (super useful for small banners that you want to stamp on).
And here is my Disney inspired box card made entirely with Queen & Co. Foundation dies and their Magical Characters kit dies:
I still can't afford to buy a box card die set, but in all honesty, it's not like I need to.
If you don't have the Queen & Co. Foundation dies, you may have similar dies that you could use the same way.
Someone on the RefuPeas Stamping and Card making board has been posting the Sheetload of Cards challenge, which is a YouTuber called Crafty Al. The link to this month's video is:
August 2021 Sheetload of Cards
I have never done the Sheetload challenge before, mainly because I really don't need or use sketches. I prefer to design my own cards, layouts, and crafts, and for some reason it can take me longer to use a sketch than if I do my own design work.
However, I decided to give this month's a try. It did not go well at first. I pulled different papers and card stock, which looked good together until I cut them and assembled them (minus the adhesive). I ruined several sheets of paper and card stock. I'm hoping I can use those scraps later somehow.
I thought about it in my spare time, and I played around with more papers, only I didn't cut them. I finally realized that I needed to use papers with a smaller pattern, and since it was a fairly simple sketch, I decided to go with a rustic, camping theme. I also used the lantern from "The Great Outdoors" shaker kits, a fairly new release from Queen & Co. I used up all of my points to get it, so it only cost me about $5 plus shipping. We're still on a tight budget.
I'm happy with the results. Here is my take on the August 2021 Sheetload of Cards Challenge:
I won't be doing the full number of cards, though, since I probably wouldn't use more than one or two.
Update: It just seemed to need something more. I added light orange rhinestones to simulate the light of a lantern, and cut out the matches twice from the paper to get a little bit of a 3D effect. Although they were small additions, they seemed to make a big difference to me.
Note: The brown behind the updated version of the card below wasn't part of the card.
I can't delete the image with the brown edge, because I've posted it online and removing it might cause some issues that I don't have time to deal with at the moment, so here is what the card actually looks like (no brown border):
I love box cards. That should be pretty obvious. I've made quite a few with my Cameo. I also love stitched lines that you get with dies. The Cameo stitch lines are barely noticeable by comparison. I looked at box card die sets, but they were pretty pricey, and with my husband's health issues, it just wasn't an expense that I could justify right now. I have all of the Queen & Co. card making Foundation dies sets, though, and as I was looking at them, I got the idea to use them to make a box card that would have stitch lines. I posted the card earlier both here and on the Queen & Co. Facebook Royalty page. Someone there asked me to give a link to "the tutorial." At the time, the tutorial was in my head, and nowhere online as far as I knew. I said that I would try to make a tutorial when I had time. I've taught a lot of classes, but I've never made a video, so it was a learning process. It's not perfect, but it turned out fairly well, and it will teach you a few new things if you choose to watch it. If you don't have the Queen & Co. dies, you can probably use other, similar dies, that you already have on hand. Here is the link:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX2ESsUG6MfCl_6py5ImaxA
And here is a reminder of what the box card looked like, that I made exclusively using Queen & Co. dies:
The sentiment and lemonade stamps for this first card are a set that I bought off Amazon, probably last year, possibly longer ago. The papers were scraps left over from a previous project. I found the papers at Tuesday Morning long ago. I used Foundation dies for both cards. The rectangles and fishtail banner of the top card are from Foundation Die sets 3, 8, 11, and 10 respectively.
I used Foundation Die sets 2,4,8, and 11 for the card below. I used scraps from a previous project, but the patterned papers were from the BoBunny Celebrating Freedom Collection, also found at Tuesday Morning before the pandemic.
I've found a lot of fun papers, dies, and more at Tuesday Morning over the years. Sadly, they seem to be gradually phasing out their paper craft section. I don't live near any LSS, and I'm not a fan of the papers from the big box stores. I will miss the Tuesday Morning treasure hunt, but I've been crafting mainly from my stash for a long time, anyway.
First, a disclaimer: the photos are mine, taken with permission, but I did not make any of the samples shown below.
Back in 2016, Tim Holtz Village Sizzix dies were on sale at Goldenshill. I saw the samples in the store that had been made with them, and I bought the dies. It was totally an impulse buy, but the samples were impressive! I was decluttering photos from my phone this afternoon, and I came across the photos I had taken so long ago. I usually post only cards and crafts that I have designed and made myself, but I don't want to forget about these. Hopefully this will remind and encourage me to get out these dies and get creative.
The Time Holtz Village dies are going to be re-released in the fall, in a smaller size, and as a complete set of Thinlets dies. Here is a link to photos and announcement:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/193394460@N06/albums/72157719501616592/
And here are photos of the samples on display at Goldenshill that I took almost 5 years ago:
And my favorite:
And here is what a couple of my grandkids made with them:
