birthday card for a music lover

 Kyle was going to a birthday party for his BFF and he likes classic rock- Led Zepplin I am told so I thought perfect opportunity to bring out my vinyl record stamps to make him a birthday card.

record die from Concord and 9th "Greatest Hits"

stampset from Team JB Hobbies

"Classic Vinyl Music Record Cutting Dies with Coordinating Stamp Set"

I couldn't find my die so I just stamped the image of the tonearm and cut it out (badly as you can see)

Grassy Groves silhouette cards

Grassy Grove stampset 

base: take thick white cardstock  5 1/2x  8 1/2  scored at 4 1/4  to make a 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 A2 size card

diecut the tree scene and the deer on a basic black cardstock

color the front of the white cardstock in color of your choice, daffodil, calypso coral to create a sunset

color the front with a straight edge with pool party to create a lake on the bottom and sky above it 

adhere the black cardstock and the deer using dimensionsl 

add sentiment of your choice 

 

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.

12x12 DSP birthday card

it was my brother in law's birthday and I wanted to make him a card and I used the 12 x12 DSP to make the card.  the picture below shows what it looked like trimmed up with the pockets I created. I did add a center panel with a message after this picture was taken. above is what it looked like closed up with the belly band made from DSP from He's all that set. 

 

Max's Starwars Birthday platform popup card

One of my son's friend was having a birthday party themed around Starwars and of course the fan that I am have been collecting Starwars themed stamps whenever I could. 

This set was from Galactic Adventures the third and the sequel. 

it mails totally flat which is so cool. 

My nurse Mary Lou had given me some birthday cards with this popup mechanism which I totally 

loved and I kept them because I wanted to figure out how to make them then LawnFawn came out with this die which makes it SO EASY!

I will be making my Christmas Cards out of the die as well so can't wait to show you what that will look like....

I put the Wow large embossing powder  to make it look like stars and then a tie fighter  in the sky then stamped the death star, storm trooper, Rey and Chewbacca on a separate piece of scrap and colored it in and then mounted it as shown. 

I love the sentiment and I found a banner die and stamped Max's name to personalize it.

I was happy to hear his mom send me a message that he really liked it.  Worth the effort! 

 

Fold Flat Box card- template and sample using He's all that stampset for Father's Day

 

What a fun card this is. There are a lot of videos on how to make this but not a template so I had to make it up and it is below 

take a cardstock- here I used Early Expresso.  

cut off 1" from the 11 inch side to make a 8 1/2 x 10 inch cardstock piece- save this 1" piece to use for the belly band.

Score the cardstock with 11' horizontal at 

2", 3 1/2", 6 1/2 " and 8"

make a mark on the 7 " at the very top and bottom of the 7" line to mark the center of the diagonal mark you will need to make.

turn 90 degrees with 8 1/2 inch horizontal and score at

1 1/2" and 7" 

Cut out the diagonal hatched marks- (the 4 corners but make sure you keep the 1/2 inch tabs on either side of the center  top and bottom panels since you will need them to tape them to make the box pop)

use the 7" mark to make the score the diagonal marks as shown on the top and bottom center panels.

I would recommend that you decorate the center of the box panel before you put the box together

I stamped the trees from Campology stamp set. I stamped the tent on a scrap piece of white cardstock and cut it out. I also took the happy Father's day and stamped it on the smallest of the Tailor made tags. You could stick a gift card and pop it up if you wanted and it would be super cool.

to make the pop out elements:

- to pop out 1/4 inches- take a 1/2' x 3 inches and score at 1" 1 1/4", 2 1/4' then 2 1/2 inch and put the ends together to make a rectangle piece you can use as a mechanism for a popout if you wish.

-  to pop out 1/2 inches -if you want it to pop out more you can take the 1/2"x 3 1/2" and score at 1", 1 1/2", 2 1/2" and 3"  to make it pop 1/2"  if you want more dimension.  

put tape on the bottom and the side you want to stick to side of the box - make sure it does not get in the way of the box closure though.

To put the box together, fold the top down then fol the angles up then put the tabs down and put the tape on the tabs facing you and when you close the card it will form the box.

same for the bottom center panel, fold it up, and then fold down the diagonals, then fold the tabs up then put tape the tab facing you and fold over the front panels to make the box. 

decorate the front panels with DSP  5 1/4 tall x 3 1/2 wide, cut in half to decorate the left and right side of the front panel. put the belly band on with the seam in the front and put some decorative element to hide the seam. Here I put the piece from He's all that diecut with the scalloped circle die that is really sweet

Truly Tailored Graduation Easel Card

 I love popup cards.  For some young men in my life who are graduating I wanted to make them a special graduation card and what better for that than the Truly Tailored Suite?

 Take a 4 1/4 x 11 inch cardstock and score it at 2 3/4" and 5 1/2" as shown.

I made a template out of a piece of chipboard that comes with our DSP to make the collar.  Use it to cut out the sides on the 2 3/4 side of the base card as shown.

I used the same template but this time on a 4 1/4x 5 1/2 inch whisper white CS and just but the shoulder part- leaving the vertical lines without cutting as shown on the left.

Fold the cut pieces in as shown on the left into a V to create the collar.  I took a 3/8 inch strip and glued it down for the front.  I used small gluedots on the corners of the collar to secure it.  You can flatten the collar if you are mailing it or keep it sort of  rounded it you are hand delivering.

 Put the Tombow glue on the base card as shown to adhere the shirt on the top only to create the easel.

I did not have enough matching small buttons so I made them using an old punch that has 2 holes in it and then punched it out with a 5/16 inch circle punch.  Put it on the shirt with the mini stampin dimensionals- the perfect size!

The pocket is just a 1" strip of whisper white CS that I fed through the Tailored Tag punch to create the angle on the bottom. The Old hexagon punch will work too.

 You can use scraps of triagular piece of True Gentleman DSP to make the pocket squares as shown.  I took a rectangular piece of scrap, cut it diagonally and layered it side by side to make it look like this.

Stamp the sentiment from Truly Tailored set in Night of Navy and punch it out. Layer it with a piece of Basic Gray CS then again mount it with dimensional.  Put a piece of DSP on the bottom of the basecard on the inside as shown, mount the sentiment and you are good to go.

 I needed graduation cards so I used the congratulations from Stampin Up retired eons ago and the graduate is from another company.  But you could make it a promotion card, birthday card - it fits all occasions depending on what you say on the inside piece.

Undefined- Star Wars

 At the  end of the school year I have been making a tin of cards for each of my kids' teachers, decorating the tin, filling it with a stack of cards for different occasions.  I like to add a book of postage stamps on the lid with a magnet and  put it in a bag with a stack of envelopes so they have everything they need to send out the cards.

One of my boy's teacher this year is crazy about Star Wars.  He has movie nights at school and has lots of paraphernalia on his desk. He was the teacher for my other boy in the past and I had found some Star Wars designer paper then, but this time I had no luck finding anything appropriate. So Undefined again to the rescue-  it is now retired through Stampin' Up but I bought a bunch of extra carving material just for situations like this.   I found some pictures on the internet that I thought would work and printed it and used it to carve out the images.  I found the font TIE-WING on line for free and printed on whisper white CS using my printer.  I printed 4 on one sheet then cut it out then stamped the images above the sentiment.  The Yoda is stamped in Pear Pizazz with same color CS to layer the stamped piece.

Easy cards and now with my new stamps I can make many many more.  I have little stamping space so I don't mount the carved rubber on the wood blocks but they are thick enough to work without the wood.
I also carved out too much of Yoda's eyes so when I stamp it, it looks wonky.  Since Stampin' Up has coordinated everything, I just used the marker to fill in the eyes a bit and it's just fine.....
Lynda

Tap, tap, tap

 I was surprised to find this stampset that I really adore make it into the next catalog and when I needed a card for my May workshop it was perfect.    I unfortunately did not have a new DSP that fit my card design so I used the Moonlight DSP which I am hoarding - I love it's color combo- a gender neutral/ slightly masculine pack perfect for this type of card. 

 The base card is Sahara Sand ( my new neutral favorite!). with a 1 inch strip of Typeset DSP and a 1/4 inch strip of Blackberry bliss. Piece of Shimmer paper was used to stamp the typewriter in Memento Black.  Then made a mask to cover the typewriter then stamped the notepaper stamp in Sahara Sand.
Then used Lost Lagoon ink to watercolor in and Hello Honey marker to add some accent.  The banner was stamped in Memento and sentiment stamped with same ink.  I used the banner die to cut out the Note banner and the piece of DSP .  The banner is cut at the top to make it fit and then I used the stapler to attach the note banner.  But after all that it still looked unfinished.  It just needed a little something.  I got the metal buttons.  I used one the letters in the long stamp to see if I can make an alphabet typekey but it was the wrong size and how could I make the card fit everyone's needs?

Well, the answer was to try the Hi sentiment.  The one on the right used 1/2 inch punch and put on a big button.  Because I had too many people in my class of the amount of buttons I had so I tried and alternate button - the circle is the larger eye circle in the owl punch but inside the smaller button with the raise lip and I think I like it even better- it really looks like one of those old fashioned type keys.  Use glue dot to adhere it - works the best.
Just change the message to Happy Father's day and it would be perfect for that too.......

Enjoy.
Lynda

Something for Baby Father's Day Card

 When I saw the dies that came with Something for Baby set I envisioned this card with the man's shirt made with the baby onesie die.  It's perfect for a father's day card or any man's card- Hawaiian print or any print will work.  I originally made this shirt with a white CS and my DH said it looks collegiate/ preppie so I changed it to Smoky Slate to make it more manly.  The base card is Smoky slate with a piece of Night of Navy embossed with Stylish Stripes EF.  Another piece of Smoky Slate with a Blackberry Bliss on top.   The tie is diecut using the Moonlight paper stack. Actually I wanted the

stripe pattern for the tie and the DSP is how I chose the colors the card turned out. 


This is the template for the shirt.  I first cut the waist as shown then used paper snips to cut straight up the sides of the crotch to make the pocket ( it's the perfect width! and I like the slight curve on the bottom)  then folded the paper in half to make symmetrical collars from the curves of the leg ( the collar is a bit too tight for a man's shirt but the curves of the legs are really perfect).

 This is how it goes.  The collar on the right is from the piece cut from the left side of the leg (I put them side by side so you could see where it came from).

I stamped the image from Label Something set using Blackberry Bliss and punched it out with Modern label punch.  The Happy Father's day is from Teeny Tiny Wishes using Night of Navy inkpad. 

It would be really cute with a small Rhinestone jewel as a tie tack, too.

Time to Play!
Enjoy...
Lynda

May Paper Pumpkin trip into the Redwoods

 My husband's friends from college days and their family get together once a year for a camping trip in Redwood State Park in Humbolt county which we look forward to every year.  The air is so clean and fresh and dewy, the trees so majestic, you can't help but relax- even for a type A like me.  We took hikes along trails although Dylan got a horrible tendonitis of his foot by the end of a 6 mile hike- poor little guy!

 The elk are aplenty - grazing all over the place.  We went to Fern Canyon where they filmed Jurassic Park, the place looks absolutely prehistoric with ferns growing up and down the canyon walls and wood pilings rich with green growth.

At the beach  it is miles and miles of beautiful sands.  Driftwood here and there but rarely with anyone else besides us.  We even saw some whales from the shore  spewing through the blow hole and surfacing and diving which was amazing.







 This was our campsite with the huge netting for the mosquito- challenged family like mine- although my legs today still looks like a map of the constellations with all the bites I still got...

Now what does all this have to do with stamping?  Well, as I was leaving for the trip, what arrived in the mail but my favorite little monthly box!  I took the box off and tucked away the package with my portable stamping bag (with all my essential stamping gear). just in case I had any time to kill.

 This was the corner of the picnic table where I laid out my kit to figure out what I wanted to do with it. The kids were still snoozing, I had my morning cuppa and I had my little Quiet Time- Yippee Skippee!  Time to get out the Paper Pumpkin!

This is a picture Kyle took of me literally "stamp camping" as he was goofing with my camera after he got up.  Now I am more in love with my Paper Pumpkin than ever. I love it that it is complete and portable.  I used my catalog as the stamping surface, even.

Below is one of my finished cards- a variation on the sample in the pack.  Love the stamps in this Hey, Man kit-  Love the baby tags and the words that go inside it- Dad, Son, and Bro.  And out of the whole kit I brought the only thing I really needed was my scissors and that was because 'I had to be different' and wanted to make a horizontal card instead.

I think Stampin' Up should have a "where can you take your Paper Pumpkin?"  challenge- Imagine it on a plane, on a train, in a box, with a fox....
by the pool, at a game....