Free Play Fridays- Spellbinders January 2024

 Free Play Fridays- 

with Spellbinders January 2024 Small die of the month and stamp of the month

Couple of my friends in a stamping group started a circle where each person sends out some supplies and you make something from it and see what each of us made at the next get together - has been so much fun and so interesting how everyone comes up with such different ideas.  So I decided I will post these other company cards I've made on Free Play Fridays

I love how the diecuts pop on the black background

Spring Double flap card

 

basecard is bubble bath cardstock 4 1/4x 5 1/2

Use delightfully eclectic double sided DSP  5 1/4 x 6 scored at 4 inches with 6 inch side across the top

take the old olive panel 4 1/4x 5 1/2 scored at 2 3/4 with 5 1/2 across the top.

front panel is white 2 1/4x4 white cardstock. 

stamp the easter bunny on a post-it note to use as a mask. 

stamp the Easter bunny on the white panel, cover with mask and then stamp the grass elements.

Stamp sentiment from Hooray for Surprises set in memento black.  color in the easter bunny - bubble bath inside the ears - green grass, however you want to color it in.

Easy card using 2 quarter sheet and a piece of DSP - you can get 4 pieces out of a 12x12 DSP so good way to use up your stash- especially the really pretty ones that you want to show both front and back.

Free Play Friday- Persimmon Thank you

 

I have a large collection of Asian Stamps I have collected over many years and in the past, I have not been very fastidious about keeping track of whose company it came from to give credit and many wooden blocks were unmounted to make room so I apologize to whose ever stamp design this is. I love persimmon and I have a persimmon tree which has not been able to fruit in all the years i have had it but I have many friends who have been blessing me with this wonderful fruit whenever it is in season and I wanted to thank them for their generosity.  

One of my patients brought me back a frame with a Korean folk scene inside which was cool but what I really loved was the wrapping paper it came in- like my kids who loved playing in the boxes that the presents came in rather than the presents themselves?

Anyhow someone else gave me a roll of this paper with a bunch of Korean writing on it so I used it as the background for this card to add interest but the print was too large and dark so I put a piece of vellum to soften it up and I liked how it turned out.

Very Vanilla thick cardstock base with a layer of Stampin' Up Calypso Coral- then the layer of the wrapping paper and a vellum on top. Then the center image stamped in a piece of scrap Vanilla with another layer of Calypso Coral. COlor in the persimmon with pumpkin pie and Old olive Stampin' Blends.

Hot Air Balloon card

 

base: take thick white cardstock  8 1/2x 5 1/2  fold into 1/2 into A2 size card 4 1/4x 5 1/2 

Sunny Days DSP cloud paper- from Sale-a-bration 2024-

stamp large Hot Air Balloon in Poppy Parade and diecut out

Stamp the smaller balloon in Parakeet Party and Pool Party

stamp sentiment in Memento Tuxedo black in front of card and on the banner. mount balloons and banner and the clouds diecut with dimensionals. 

 if you do not have it use cloud stencil to create a strip of clouds using blocking technique

piece of paper to the left and right and use the cloud basic border die to create a stencil and use any blue ink of your choice to create a cloud background- I love this soft look.

 

Trusty Tools pop up Card

 

basecard is basic black 10 x 4 1/4  scored at 5 1/2 

inside center panel is piece of white 8 1/2 x 3 scored at 3 3/4 inches

Inside panel DSP  3 1/2 x 2 3/4- cut bottom corners with  Stampin' Up Very Best Trio punch. (Flip the punch to make the corners symmetrical.

mechanism is a piece of Cello bag 3 x 2 1/2- the tear tape goes onto the 3 inch edge- and adhered to front top of the inside panel.

another piece of tape goes on the other side of the cello piece on the opposite edge.

position the center panel as desired and then stick to the main card. 

make sure mechanism works before adhering the sides closed. 

stamp "pull " on the bottom of the center panel (from Hurray for Surprises stampset)

stamp

Diecut the woodpeg panel.

diecut the tool box panel and stamp the sentiment

Stamp the tools on a white cardstock scraps -color in as desired and diecut.

adhere to the front and inside panel as desired - use dimensionals to add interest.

DSP Gatefold card with Enduring Beauty flowers

The basecard is a double sided DSP 5 1/2x12 scored with 12 across the top at 2,4,8 and 10 inches.

Mark the front panels along the sides at 2 3/4 inches using a pencil and cut the triangle from the top fold at 2 inches and 10 inches to the side 2 3/4 inch mark.  save the 2 triangles to use on the bottom.  Flip the triangles and adhere it to the bottom part of the front panel so it mirrors the top when card is closed. 

watch direction of your fold if top is in one direction.

stamp the Enduring Beauty flower image with versamark on a separate piece of scrap paper, heat emboss with gold embossing powder and diecut to create the front panel. mount with dimensionals on the left side of the front panel only 

inside panel is white cardstock 3 3/4 x 5 1/4- stamp with image and sentiment if desired with smoky slate ink - leaves plenty of space to write a message- and if you wanted you could cut the paper twice as long to create a flap for additional messages. 3 3/4 x 10 1/2 scored in half for a top flap inside panel.