May the 4th Be With You

Hi Crafty Friends,

Today is May the 4th ... which means it is Star Wars Day .... May the 4th Be With You! To celebrate the day I decided to create a space themed card using stamps and dies from Made To Surprise by Sam Calcott.

Here is a quick video to show my card in action.

As you can see I have created a Reveal Wheel card using the Made To Surprise Reveal Wheel Mechanism Die set and the Out In Space Overlay die set. The Overlay die set die cuts the various shapes into the card, I used the layered circle overlay to create the circle panel which I die cut from patterned paper and the corners on the square panel underneath. There are actually four corners, but I only used the two for this card.

As this reveal wheel card is 6 inches square, it allows for more images or sentiments on the wheel. For this card I ended up adding 5 sentiments and three images (the same image) to the wheel.

As I didn't have enough sentiments that fitted the triangle area, I added the shooting star.

I added the space themed images to my card, using Made To Surprise Out In Space Stamp/Die set. This set is no longer available to my knowledge, but I was lucky enough to be able to get it from eBay UK recently.

The spaceship in the centre of the card, disguises the large brad in the centre of the card.

Here is a look at each of the 6 scenes showing the different sentiments that are revealed when you turn the wheel at the side of the card. As mentioned above, there are actually 8 different turns of the wheel but as three of those were the same star I didn't add all three to this photo.

For the inside of the card, I used the other two corner overlay dies included in the Out In Space Overlay die set to add to the corners of my white panel. I added another of the space themed sentiments and two more of the images I used on the front.

Other Supplies:

Out In Space Stamp/Die Set - Made To Surprise (discontinued)

 

Herd It's Your Birthday

Hi Crafty Friends,

Today I am sharing a Reveal Wheel Card using stamps and dies from Made To Surprise by Sam Calcott.

I have a number of reveal wheel cards in the past, but this is the first one using the Reveal Wheel Die Set from Made To Surprise. The reveal wheel portion measures 5 1/2 inches square which gives a lot more room to decorate.

Here is a quick video to show my Reveal Wheel Card in action.

The Made To Surprise Reveal Wheel normally has a pie wedge cut out somewhere on the front, so that whatever is seen in the reveal wheel section is seen through that hole. However I wanted to try something different, so I die cut a speech bubble and then stamped various sentiments that relate to the farm animals shown on the card.

I added sky paper to the base card and then used the grass border included in the Easy Edges die set to add two layers of grass on the bottom section of the card.

I used the farm animals and three sentiments using the freebie set included in the Creative Stamping Magazine Issue 117. The stamp set was designed by Sam Calcott.

I coloured all my images using coloured pencils, this is my first attempt and colouring with these pencils, hopefully I will improve. The coloured pencils I used are the Black Widow Brand.

The Made to Surprise Reveal Wheel has a large brad in the middle of the card to hold the wheel. This normally can be seen, however I placed the cow in a position so that the brad is hidden.

I also needed two more farm themed sentiments, so I used two from an older MFT Stamps stamp set.

Here is a look at each of the 5 scenes showing the different sentiments that are revealed when you turn the wheel at the side of the card.

And finally the inside of my card, I added two of the animals to the bottom right hand corner of the card. I also added a birthday sentiment using the same MFT Stamps stamp set.

Other Supplies:

Black Widow Wax Coloured Pencils - Black Widow

Black Widow Dragon Wax Coloured Pencils - Black Widow

Black Widow Monarch Wax Coloured Pencils - Black Widow