July Card Making

We are scheduled to have our next card making in a week. For this one, we are doing an Impossible card, a simple shaker card, and a shaped card.

First, the Impossible Card:

I had a Stampendous stamp that I have been wanting to use for a summer card. It was a single stamp, so I had to get creative to ink and stamp the individual sections so that I could cut and use the parts as I wanted. The mountain background is an older paper by Imaginisce

This next card uses a shaker pouch which you add to a card front. The pouch is supposed to be stamped, then you cut the opening with whatever shape die you choose, cover the opening with a clear piece of acetate, add the micro beads, then a stamped and colored image before closing it up. They were out of the stamp where I saw it at GASC, so I just made my own pouch with my Cameo instead, since it was essentially just a small, basic, square envelope. I wanted to use these circular stamps by Art Gone Wild, so I made the window to fit them. The phrase below the shaker pouch is from an older Close to My Heart stamp set. The background paper is by Pink Paislee and is called Summer Lights 12. I used the B side.

I used the large camper set from the recent Heartfelt Creations "Happy Camper" release to make the shaped card.  This is how the stamped image looks:

You can change the look a bit with a different window and door that are included in the set. Here is the card with the alternate door and window:

Inside I stamped "It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it i the journey that matters, in the end."

June Pop Up Card Making

The April card activity got postponed to May. Then, before I knew it, June arrived, and I scrambled to figure out our projects. I didn't actually take pictures of the cards till after the activity.

Our June card making activity was focused on pop up cards. While trying to figure out what projects would work well in a group setting, I made a variety of pop up cards, most of which just took too long to do more than one card in one night. These are the three cards that we ended up making:

These first two are the fronts of a baby card and a beach card. The baby card is a Silhouette Design Store cutting file. The beach card front was made using a Sizzix embossing folder and matching dies.

Below you can see the inside of each card. The crib is the pop up mechanism for the baby card. Again, I can take zero credit for it, since I just bought the file, cut it, and glued it together. I got lucky on finding the perfect paper in my stash that worked well for both the front and the inside.  It was a Colorbok Heidi Grace Designs paper called bgirl buggy. I also had the boy version and let them choose which color since they only had time to make one.

For the beach card, I stamped the water and sand layers, die cut the shell twice and pieced parts so that it looked more authentic, shaded with inks and daubers, then added a hint of glitter with clear Wink of Stella, especially on the die cut pearl inside. I used a simple box pop up mechanism made with a strip of paper instead of cutting slits and scoring the folds in the card base.

I had a few bee stamp sets, so when I found the BoBunny Bee-utiful You Collection in a pad at Tuesday Morning, I snapped it up. I love most of the papers, and they were perfect for this card. The bee stamp and honeycomb embossing border used on the card front were included with a Cardmaking & Papercraft magazine awhile back.

I used more papers from the Bee-utiful You pad for the inside, but the stamps used were from a different bee themed stamp set. This may have been everyone's favorite card to make that night.

For this one, I used the same simple paper strip box mechanism as the beach card.