Queen & Co. Beach Bound Card

 The most recent challenge from Queen & Co.'s Facebook page was by Ginger Williams, who made a "bridge card" using the new Beach Bound kit.  The challenge was to make a beach project, whether a card, a scrapbook layout, mini album, or anything else. Many are posting bridge cards. I may do a bridge card at some point, but this is the card that I decided to do for the challenge, using the Beach Bound kit, Foundations dies, and the tiny flip flops were made with dies from their Summer Celebrations add-on kit (that goes with their Special Delivery kit). I cut the little flip flops from fun foam. I stamped the top half of the sentiment from the Beach Bound kit on the cloud, and the other half on a banner that went inside the card. Stamping them as two separate phrases on individual die cuts instead of doing it as one stamped sentiment was actually the hardest part of making this card.

The front of the card:

And inside the card:

Graphic 45 Swinging Gate Card 2

I made a second card with Graphic 45 Raining Cats & Dogs collection for a friend who is a cat lover. I had to get creative, since I don't have the full collection. Most of the papers were an old Tuesday Morning find. I ended up doing a fair amount of fussy cutting, and the flowers peek out a bit from the lower right corner when the card is closed. The blank left panel of the photo of the open card will be a note for my friend, written on cream colored card stock and glued in once I am satisfied with the note.

Graphic 45 Swinging Gate Card

I have kept in touch with my card making friends. Recently one of them mentioned a card called the Swinging Gate Card. I had not heard of it, but a Google search quickly turned up a tutorial. Here is a link for those who may want to learn how to make this card:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9O-Ls9nu7oc

I love Graphic 45 papers, but I don't have any of the new ones shown in the video. Instead, I raided my stash and this is the card that I made with them:

Upper left image is the closed card. Upper right is with the "swing gate" opened. Bottom image is with the card fully opened. If I were going to write a note in the card, I would probably leave the left side blank card stock.

Graduation Step Card

I am behind on sending out congratulations to a couple of high school graduates that I know. Yesterday I finally got a graduation card made, using a Silhouette Design Store cutting file. Sometimes you just need easy and fast, and this fit the bill. I used metallic card stock for everything but the base.

2017 Disney Album Lightsaber Layout with a Shaker

This is my first time using a shaker on a layout. I have no idea how well it will fit in the page protector, especially since I had to double the depth of the shaker. I never would have thought to make a shaker such as this one if it hadn't been for Tuesday Tami challenging us to either make a shaker with a different base such as a photo, or to use something unusual, such as a momento inside the shaker. I have included a close up view of the shaker. I did have to cut of the piece that holds the light saber cake decoration upright in the cake. It wasn't part of the light saber design anyway, and it was too long, and far too wide to fit even the double deep shaker box.

The layout itself is relatively simple. I created my own title using the Star Jedi free font. I used Jedi silhouettes from the internet that I had downloaded for a potential Star Wars t-shirt. I never actually used it for any of the t-shirts that I made for our Disney trip, but it came in handy for the layout.