CARDtober 2021 Challenge #3 Same Papers, Different Sentiment

 I used papers from the BoBunny Bee-utiful Collection, as well as Foundation dies and stamps from Queen & Co.

CARDtober 2021 Challenge #2 Seasons Spring

The hostess for challenge 2 was justjac. and her theme is The Four Seasons. The challenge was to do a spring scene card, and the twist was to include a flower. I had completed the stamping and had forgotten the flower, so I added flowers to the little girl's umbrella. Most of the stamps were from My Favorite things, as well as the cloud stencil that I used. The raindrops were a very old Stampin' Up stamp. The grass was from Love You to Bits. The small flower on the umbrella was from Judith. I'm still not particularly adept at using a brush blending tool, but I tried.

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Easy Tutorial for a Traditional Pop Up Box Card

NO dies or electronic cutters/cutting files are needed for this. Anyone with a scoring board, scoring tool, paper trimmer or scissors, and a ruler can make the original box card. The videos on the internet used a few different steps that made it more difficult. This is the easiest and quickest way to make a basic box card to decorate any way you like. The one shown in the image below was decorated with Graphic 45 papers from an older line. The tutorial itself teaches how to create the box card structure.

https://youtu.be/IFWlEANhEK0

Easy Shaped Pop Up Box Card Tutorial

Here is my tutorial for the Shaped Box Card shown below:

 

https://youtu.be/QXpvyr3Mdfs 

 

CARDtober 2021 Challenge #1 Shaped Box Card

I have the honor of posting the first CARDtober challenge at the 2 Peas Refugees message board.

Challenge #1 is to make a box card if you have never made one. I've even done a simple tutorial, which will be posted tomorrow. 

For those who have made box cards before, the challenge is a bit more....challenging: to make a box card that is shaped, and doesn't look boxy. And yes, I'll be posting a tutorial tomorrow on how to do that, too.

For now, though, here is my sample card:

And the twist is to make an envelope from patterned paper for your box card. This one wouldn't fit an ordinary envelope, anyway. I used thin patterned paper that I found at Tuesday Morning on clearance when they were getting rid of most crafts. I used my Envelope Board to make a 6 X 7 inch envelope, so it was quick. And it's a rectangle, even if just barely, so hopefully it won't be as expensive to mail as a square envelope is.

For those who have never made a box card before, the tutorial will be for a very simple box structure that can be decorated with patterned paper like this one which I made years ago for my DH:

Or, if they want to use print and cut files, they could do something like this one:

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STAMPtember Week 4: Stamped Background with Matted Stamped Image

For this one I did not use a background stamp, but stamped the bats multiple times on the purple mat to create the background. Then I stamped, colored, and added a background mat to the owl/pumpkins image. I did add a little Wink of Stella to the star, buckle, and eyes of the owl.

It's pretty simple for the amount of time it took. I didn't have the right sizes of matching ovals, so I had to make one with my Silhouette for the black oval, and that is when I realized that my oval die is not perfectly symmetrical.

It worked, though.

Great Outdoors Box Card Tutorial

This took me a lot longer than I expected, but I finally finished the tutorial for how to make a multiple level box card with Queen & Co. Foundation dies (instead of having to buy specialty box card dies).

I used the Queen & Co. Foundation dies, their Great Outdoors Kit, and a few stamps from My Favorite Things.

The YouTube link to the tutorial can be found at:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSgUyG3Ze5M 

Here is a photo of the completed project: