Happy Birthday Earthling

 

Hi Crafty Friends,

Today I am sharing a Space themed Inside Out Stepper Card I created using Spellbinders Space Collection designed by Stephen Hurley. 

THe Inside Out Stepper Card  was created using  Creative Craft Products High Centre Stepper Card from the Step on Up 2 Collection. Sam Calcott, shared a tutorial on this style of card a few years ago, you can see her tutorial here.

I used black cardstock for the base of my card, and then decorated all the panels using a patterned paper from Whimsy Stamps Lost In Space Slimline Paper Pack. This was layered using Silver Holographic cardstock.

I used Spellbinders To The Moon & UFO Friends die seetd for all the various images that decorate my card.

I added three sentiments from an older Made To Surprise Out In Space stamo/die set.

I don't normally decorate the sides on the front of the csrd, but I was having so much fun that I kept going!

Here is a look at my card when it is folded ready to be placed in an envelope. When closed the card measures approximately 5 3/4 inches x 7 1/4 inches.

For the inside I added a stamped sentiment to the middle panel using stamps from Honey Bee Stamps. I also decorated the side panels with a few aliens etc.

To create the ground of the planet the aliens are standing on, I die cut a side panel from grey cardstock and then used the die included in the Starry Night Embossing Folder to die cut the top of the panel.

 

Mugs & Kisses

 

Hi Crafty Friends,

Today I am sharing a Christmas Coffee themed card I created for the Fall/Winter Coffee Lovers Blog Hop. The hop started on Friday 3rd November and goes until Friday 11th November.

As I had recently purchased the new Spellbinders Merry Mug & Circle Crew Collection, I decided to pull those out to use on my card today. I used the Merry Mug die set to create all of the mugs and the fillings for my coffee cups. I used the Festive Ornaments die set to decorate the Santa mug, and the Santa's Festive Circle Crew die set for the reindeer mug.

For the card, I created an Inside Out Stepper Card using  Creative Craft Products High Centre Stepper Card from the Step on Up 2 Collection. Sam Calcott, shared a tutorial on this style of card a few months ago, you can see her tutorial here. 

Here is another view of the front of the card, with the side flaps extended so you could see how I decorated the sides as well as the front.

The "Mugs & Kisses" sentiment is from Spellbinders Santa's Sippin' Sayings stamp set.

For the back of my card, I decorated all panels again, using the dies included in the High Centre Stepper Card die set. I die cut two more coffee mugs which I added to each side of the card.

For the centre of the card I added another sentiment using Spellbinders Santa's Sippin' Sayings stamp set.

Merriest Christmas

 

Hi Crafty Friends,

Thanks for visiting my blog. Today I am sharing a Christmas themed Inside Out Stepper Card I created using  Creative Craft Products High Centre Stepper Card from the Step on Up 2 Collection. Sam Calcott, shared a tutorial on this style of card a few months ago, you can see her tutorial here. 

I shared a card using this style back in August, I decided to revisit it for my card today.

I pulled out my Spellbinders Betterpress system to make this card. I used the Spellbinders Merriest Christmas Betterpress plate to add the sentiment to my main panel. After pressing the sentiment into my cardstock, I then used Distress Oxide inks to add colour to the panel.

I added ephemera from two magazine freebie sets that I received last year. 

Here is a look at my card when it is folded ready to be placed in an envelope. When closed the card measures approximately 5 3/4 inches x 7 1/4 inches.

For the back of my card, I kept it fairly simple, just adding a large white panel to the centre panel and adding a sentiment and a few more of the ephemera pieces. The sentiment is from Made To Surprise's Christmas Sentiments stamp set from the Moving Scenes Collection.

For the Record

 

Hi Crafty Friends,

Thanks for visiting my blog, today I am sharing a music themed card.

A few weeks ago, Sam Calcott shared a tutorial on how to use the Creative Craft Products High Centre Stepper Card from the Step on Up 2 Collection, and turn it into a Inside Out Stepper Card.This is done by using two card bases and folding the bottom fold lines in the opposite direction. You can see her tutorial here. I hadn't planned on buying this die set as it is a smaller stepper card die, and I have others I do use a lot. But when I saw this card by Sam, and I was placing an order anyway, I added it to my cart. I will probably use it in this way when I use it again.

To decorate my card I used Concord and 9th's For the Record stamp and coordinating die sets. 

Here is a look at my card when it is folded ready to be placed in an envelope. When closed the card measures approximately 5 3/4 inches x 7 1/4 inches.

As you can see I decorated the inside of my card. I used two music themed sentiment stamp sets from Honey Bee Stamps to add both sentiments.

I die cut a few of the records from my left over background panel for the front and added them. around the sentiments.

For the centre of the card, I added a panel with the You Rock symbol from MFT Stamps.

Other Supplies:

• For the Record Stamp Set - Honey Bee Stamps (retired)
• Rock Star Stamp Set - Honey Bee Stamps (retired)

 

Drive In Movie

 

Hi Crafty Friends,

Who remembers Drive Ins??? The used to be so popular when I was growing up and when my kids were younger. I have many happy memories of going to see a movie at the Drive In. Unfortunately they aren't as popular as they used to be and to my knowledge there are only two left in South East Queensland where I live. One of those two is not all that far from me, about 10 to 15 minutes and it's funny as I had just finished making this card when my daughter messaged me to say she and her sister were going to that Drive in to see a movie the following night.

Ok back to my card ... MFT Stamps recently received their At the Movies Card Kit and as you can see, I decided to order it. There are so many different ways this can be used. For my first card using the kit I decided to create a Drive In scene. 

I used Creative Craft Products High Centre Stepper Card die set to create the Centre Step Card base, I really like the wider card base for this style of card as it is allowing me to be fun scenic cards.

It's probably hard to tell, but I also added people to each of the cars using the Heads Up Die-namics set which is included in the kit.

I created the grey base for the ground using a border die from a Trinity Stamps Slimline Great Outdoors Borders & Builders die set.

Here is a look at the inside of the card, I added a number of the elements that I used on the front of the card. The sentiment on the screen is from Crafter's Companion's Once Upon A Time stamp set, I thought that worked well with the image on the screen on the front of the card. I also added a birthday sentiment underneath the screen.

Swimming By

Hi Crafty Friends,

To all my Aussie readers, Happy Australia Day.

It's summer down here in Australia, so in honour of Australia Day,, I decided to create a card with a summer theme.

To create my card I created a Centre Step Card using Creative Craft Products High Centre Stepper Card die set which is available from Craft Stash. This and a number of other stepper card die sets were on special last year during their Black Friday sale and as the prices were really good a few landed in my cart! This one is different to others I already have in that the finished size measures 8 inches wide by 5 3/4 inches high.

As I wanted to create a pool scene I decorated the white card base using blue patterned paper on the top portion of the card. I then used green patterned paper and a hill border die from Honey Bee Stamps Horizon Slimline Borders die set. I also added the fence from the same die set to the top portion of the grass area.

I used the Swimming Pool die and Kiddie Pool Stamp set from Sunny Studio Stamps to create my swimming pool scene.

For the palm trees I used Lawn Fawn's Tropical Backdrop die set.

I die cut a yellow circle for the sun which I added to the top right hand corner of the centre step portion of the card.

For the sentiment I used Whimsy Stamps' Fintastic stamp set.

The beach ball is from a Lawn Fawn stamp set.

For the inside of my card I used the rectangle dies included in the High Centre Stepper Card die set.

The sentiment here is from MFT Stamps BB Sunshine and Friendship stamp set. 

To finish off the card I added two more of the images from the Kiddie Pool stamp set.