Love and Best Wishes

 

Hi Crafty Friends,

Today I am sharing a Shadow Box Card I created using dies from Paper Discovery.

Back in August Craft Stash has a fabulous special on some of Paper Discovery's die sets and this was one of them. I put it away so I could receive it for Christmas. The die set includes a frame die, background die, three flower dies and a concertina piece for the side panels. I used all the pieces to make my card.

I used a sentiment from Card Making Magic's Large Sentiments stamp set for the sentiment in the centre of the card.

The flowers are die cut and then added to the card using foam tape. I also added some leaves using a My Creative Life die set.

I added a panel to the back of the card, for a place to add another sentiment and a personal greeting. I also added a few more the the individual flowers.

African Savannah

 

 Hi Crafty Friends,

It's challenge time with my friends over on the CCEE Stampers challenge blog. Maryann. Einam our challenge hostess for the month continues to issue the challenges.

For our challenge this week, Maryann requests that we create a card that features a Silhouette, it can be in a scene or a standalone image.

For my card today I pulled out my Crafter's Companion African Savannah Create a 3D Scene die set. I had been wanting to play with this die and this was the perfect opportunity to use it. 

I created a Shadow Box Card that I adhered to my 5 x 7 top folding card. I die cut the tree frame dies from white cardstock, so I could colour the images using Copic markers. I die cut the animals using black cardstock for my silhouette images.

I added a birthday sentiment to the bottom of the card using a sentiment from Avery Elle.

For the inside of my card, seeing I included a lion in my scene for the front of the card I figured the Whimsy Stamps "Roarsome! die set worked for this card. I also added stamped sentiments to complete my sentiment using a Honey Bee Stamps stamp set.

To finish off my card I added the silhouette of the tree.

Don't forget to check out the CCEE Stampers blog (goes live 12 AM EST) to see the rest of the creations the CCEE Stampers created this week. You can also see more details of their creations on their individual blogs:

Anne Harmon

Liz Williams

Lois Bak

Lynn McAuley

Maryann Einam

Kelly McKown-Santi

Beary Christmas

Hi Crafty Friends,

It's been about 18 months since I have created a Shadow Box card or what I prefer to make ... a Extended Scene Shadow Box card. Since I had ordered the new Lawn Fawn Shadow Box Card  Fireplace Add-on which was release in early September I decided it was time to make another one.

I used Kraft cardstock to create the base of my card and also the fireplace. For the folded card I cut a piece of cardstock the length of my cardstock x 3  inches and folded it in half.

I used Honey Bee Stamps Perfect Brick stencil and Gathered Twigs Distress Oxide ink to ass the brick detail to the fire place after I had die cut the Kraft cardstock using the Shadow Box die 

I added papers from the Let It Shine Paper Pad, to the left and right sides of the inside of the card.

I added the fire, trim around fireplace, stockings, candy canes and the bottom half of Santa, to the fireplace. All these elements are included in the Shadow Box Card Fireplace Add on die set.

I used stamps from the Den Sweet Den and Christmas Dreams stamp sets to decorate the card.

The Christmas Tree was a little too high for my card, so I trimmed off the bottom tier of the tree and add the trunk back to the bottom of the tree.

Here is another view of my card when it is opened. You can see that I also added images to the side of the fireplace too. I also added a sentiment from the Den Sweet Den stamp set to the right side of the card.

I kept the front of the card fairly simple, as the inside of the card is the focal point. I added pattern paper from the Let It Shine Paper Pad to the front of the card.

I added a oval die cut using the same patterned paper I used on the inside. I added the "Have A Beary Christmas' sentiment using one of the sentiment stripes from the Everyday Sentiments die set and adhered it to the oval.

I added two of the bears to the right side of the card and the Christmas tree to the left hand side.

Supplies:

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Butterfly Framed Wall Art

Hi Crafty Friends,

It's time for our March Elizabeth Craft Designs Design Team Designer challenge. Check out the Elizabeth Craft Designs blog today to see what our talented designers created for the challenge. 

Our challenge this month is .....

Frame It - There are so many options to include frames when we are creating either cards, scrapbook layouts or home decor items. For our challenge this month please include a frame of some type when creating your project.

For today's challenge Elizabeth Craft Designs are giving away a $20 Gift Card to use on our website to 3 winners. 

To enter simply leave a comment on the Elizabeth Craft Designs Facebook Giveaway Blog Post or the Elizabeth Craft Designs Challenge post and tell us What Elizabeth Craft Designs dies or stamp sets would you use to frame something on a card, scrapbook layout of home decor item?

We will select 3 lucky winners in a random drawing 

The winners will be announced on Friday, March 23rd on the Elizabeth Craft Designs blog and our Facebook page.

For my project today, I decided to pull our the ModaScrap Happy Frame die to make another framed art piece. I love how versatile this die set is.

As I have already written two tutorial on how to assemble the Happy Frame to create a frame for a wall or a card, instead of repeating myself again I am linking to both my previous tutorials. 

You can find my "Let Your Dreams Soar Wall Art Frame" here.

and

my "Framed Love Card" here. 

To create my framed wall art project today, I started by die cutting from sides using the ModaScrap Happy Frame die set from paper from the ModaScrap Magic Mountain Patterned Paper Pack.

Before assembling the frame, I cut each of the frame sides to 6 1/2 inches (when you trim the sides make sure you trim the straight edge). 

Assemble frame.

I used paper from the ModaScrap Fly & Scrap Patterned Paper Pack to line the back of the frame.

Using the Butterfly Aperture die, die cut the solid butterfly from White Soft Finish Cardstock.

Using both the decorative layer and the butterfly outline together, die cut one butterfly from black cardstock and another from silver pearl cardstock.

Add color to the white solid butterfly by applying Carved Pumpkin and Abandoned Coral Distress Oxide inks.

Adhere the black decorative butterfly over the silver pearl butterfly offsetting slightly and then adhere this to the solid butterfly.

Stamp the sentiment from the A Way with Words - Soar Collection Clear Stamp set to the upper left hand corner of the inside of the framed piece using black ink.

Adhere Butterfly using Clear Double Sided Adhesive Tape and Foam Tape to the lower right hand corner adhering it at a slight angle.

Using Garden Notes - Leafy Berry Branch 1 die, die cut three times from green cardstock. Sponge lightly with green ink and then apply berries over the die cuts using Nuvo English Mustard Crystal Drops.

Once the "berries" are dry, cut apart the berries and adhere to the lower portion of the frame.

Finally die cut the A Way With Words - Soar die three or four times and layer to each other and attach to top of frame.

I hope you enjoyed my project today. Don't forget to check out the Elizabeth Craft Designs blog to see all the wonderful creations by our talented designers and for a change to win the giveaway.

Supplies:

Elizabeth Craft Designs:

Other:
Cardstock - Black; Silver Pearl

Let Your Dreams Soar Frame

Hi Crafty Fiends,

It's my turn to post a tutorial on the Elizabeth Craft Designs blog today. The new ModaScrap Happy Frame and Happy Frame XL which were released in January are so much fun and versatile. These can be used for cards, frames and lots of other fun things. One of the fun things about these dies is that you can create frames any size you wish up to approximately 8 inches and can be either square or rectangular. All you need to do is cut the die cut pieces to the size you wish to make.

For my project today I decided to create a framed art piece which can be used for a child's room using the Happy Frames XL  and Vintage Hot Air Balloon Race die sets.

Here is how I created my framed art piece:

Step 1 -

• Using the Happy Frame die, die cut 4 frames from your desired paper or cardstock (ModaScrap Back To School Patterned Paper Pack used here). 

•  Note if you are using a patterned paper that has a definite direction of the pattern like the one used in the photo above, you need to think before die cutting your papers ... Looking at the photo above, note how each time one of the frames was die cut, the direction in which the frame was placed onto the patterned paper was changed prior to die cutting so that the finished frame would be have the pattern all going in the same direction. Of course using plain or an generic pattern (as I have used for my project today) is much easier to do.

• Fold each of the frames along the four score lines of each panel. Note - it is easier to fold along each fold line in a valley fold first and then fold it into a mountain fold once you have folded along each fold line.
• Place a piece of Clear Double Sided Adhesive Tape along the tab (shortest edge).
• Remove the protective backing from the adhesive and bring the other edge over and secure to the adhesive.
• Form a box shape with each of the frame panels.

Note - if you were wanting to change the size of the finished frame, you would trim the the straight edge of either two or four of the frame panels before adhering each frame panel to form a box shape.

• Arrange each of the frames to form a square (or rectangle) so that each of the pointed edges are all going in the same direction. (This is also a good time to make sure the pattern on your paper is all going the correct way if your frame has a pattern).
• Apply some adhesive to the three inner sides of the pointy end of one of the box frame pieces and place the square end of the other into it. Ensure that you have a neat corner.

• Repeat the last step until you have all four corners glued to form a frame.

Step 2 -

• Cut a piece of White Soft Finish Cardstock that 7 3/4 inches square and adhere to the back of the frame.
• Using the cloud patterned paper from the ModaScrap My Little Boy 6 x 6 Patterned Paper Pack, adhere to centre of frame.

Step 3 - 

• Using the Vintage Balloon Race die set, die cut two each of the detail balloon layers (one from white cardstock and one from colored cardstock). Color the basket and ropes of each hot air balloons using brown copic markers. 
• Cut off the rope/basket from the colored cardstock die cut pieces and adhere over the white hot air balloons.
• Die Cut the large and medium solid balloon dies using coordinating cardstock and adhere to the back of the colored hot air balloons.
• Stamp the "heart with wings" from the A Way With Words - Soar Collection Clear Stamp set directly onto the small orange hot air balloon using black ink. Color image using colored pencils. 
• Decorate all balloons with various colors of Glitter Dots.

Step 4 -

• Using the cloud die from the Adventure Edges die set, die cut a piece of White Soft Finish Cardstock so that the cloud is 6 inches long and approximately 1 1/2 inches in height. 
• Sponge the edge of the clouds using blue ink.
• Stamp the sentiment "let your dreams soar" from the  A Way With Words - Soar Collection Clear Stamp set to the centre of the cloud using Black VersaFine Ink, cover sentiment with Clear Embossing Powder and heat set. 
• Adhere the cloud to the bottom of frame using foam tape.

Step 5 - 

• Adhere the hot air balloons inside the frame using foam tape.

Step 6 - 

• Using the A Way With Words - Soar die, die cut the sentiment four times from red cardstock. Adhere each of the sentiments onto each other to form a thick sentiment.
• Adhere sentiment to lower right hand corner of frame.

Thank you for stopping by, I hope you enjoyed my tutorial.

Supplies:
Elizabeth Craft Designs:

Other:
Cardstock - Red; Yellow; Orange; Blue; Green
Inks - Black VersaFine Ink; Tumbled Glass Distress Ink
Clear Embossing Powder
Heat Gun
Copic Markers
Pencils
Foam Tape

ECD Design Team Focus on New Release – ModaScrap

Hi Crafty Friends,

Today I am sharing a card I created using some of the new ModaScrap dies which are being released by Elizabeth Craft Designs today.

Over the next few weeks this month Elizabeth Craft Designs will be releasing dies and clear stamp sets from five of their Licensed Designers. This year with each release we will be having a Design Team Focus on New Release day on the Elizabeth Craft Designs blog to showcase some of the wonderful products being released.

Today Elizabeth Craft Designs will be releasing new products from ModaScrap which includes twelve brand new die sets and one new stamp set.

I only received my ModaScrap dies on Sunday afternoon, but I wanted to share something I had made so I quickly made my card using the new ModaScrap Happy Frame; True Love; Dashing Squares; Flowers Lace Frame and Love, Life Tag die sets.

The Happy Frame die set can create frames up to 7 1/2 inches square, which would be suitable for so many different things. Just by changing the length of the frames once they are die cut, you can create either square or rectangle frames to any size you desire. There are actually two different versions of the Happy Frame ... the one I used here called Happy Frames the width of the frame is about 1cm wide. The Happy Frame XL die set allows you to make frames which are about 1 inch wide.

Today I have used the Happy Frame to create a Shadow Box Frame Card. Here is how I created my card.

Step 1 - 

• Using the Happy Frame die, die cut 4 frames from your desired paper or cardstock. Note if you are using a patterned paper that has a definite direction of the pattern you need to think before you die cut your papers ... If you look at the photo above you can see that I changed the direction of how I placed the die onto my cardstock prior to die cutting so that the finished frame would be have the pattern all going in the same direction. Of course using plain or an generic pattern is much easier to do.
• Trim the straight edge of each of the frame die cuts to the desired length. For my card I cut them all to 5 3/8 inches.

• Fold each of the frames along the four score lines of each panel. Note - it is easier to fold along each fold line in a valley fold first and then fold it into a mountain fold once you have folded along each fold line.
• Place a piece of Clear Double Sided Adhesive Tape along the tab (shortest edge).
• Remove the protective backing from the adhesive and bring the other edge over and secure to the adhesive.
• Form a box shape with each of the frame panels.

• Arrange each of the frames to form a square (or rectangle) so that each of the pointed edges are all going in the same direction. (This is also a good time to make sure the pattern on your paper is all going the correct way).
• Apply some adhesive to the three inner sides of the pointy end of one of the box frame pieces and place the square end of the other into it. Ensure that you have a neat corner.

• Repeat the last step until you have all four corners glued to form a frame.

Step 2 -

• Cut a piece of white cardstock so it measures 5 3/8 inches x 10 3/4 inches. Score and fold along the long side at 5 3/8 inches to form a side folding 5 3/8 inch square card.
• Apply adhesive to the back of the frame and adhere to the front of the folded card.

Step 3 -

• Using the Dashing Squares die set die cut a square from red cardstock (5th square counting from the centre die)
• Die cut the next smallest square from White Soft Finish Cardstock.
• Adhere the white square so it looks like a diamond shape to the red square using foam tape.
• Adhere the red square to the centre of the card using foam tape.

Step 4 - 

• Using the "love heart" die from the True Love die set die cut heart from red and also gold cardstock. Adhere the red heart shape to a piece of scrap white cardstock, trim around edge of gold heart. Now paper piece the red pieces where the white cardstock is revealed.
• Adhere heart to centre of squares using foam tape.

Step 5 -

• Using the heart die from the Love, Life Tag die cut the larger heart from white cardstock and adhere each heart into the corners of the red square,
• Adhere the smaller hearts from red cardstock and adhere around large "love heart" referring to photo above.

Step 6 -

• Adhere a piece of Clear Double Sided Adhesive Tape to the front of a piece of red cardstock. Die cut four of the smallest hearts from the True Love die set.
• Remove the protective backing from the tape and cover the adhesive with Bright Cranberry Silk Microfine Glitter. Polish adhesive into adhesive using your finger.
• Adhere hearts to the outer frame using photo at top of post as a guide.

Step 7 Inside of Card - 

• Using the Dashing Squares die set, die cut the second largest square from red cardstock.
• Die cut another square from white cardstock which is slightly smaller.
• Place the decorative die from the Flowers Lace Frame die set to the lower right hand corner of the white square and die cut.
• Adhere white square to red square.
• Using the sentiment from Valentine's Sentiments, stamp onto the centre of white square using black ink.
• Die cut three hearts from the Love, Life Tag die set from red cardstock and adhere to the top left hand corner of card.

Don't forget to check out the Elizabeth Craft Designs blog to see all the wonderful creations our Design Team have created using the new dies.

Supplies:
Elizabeth Craft Designs:

Other:

Cardstock - White; Red; Gold
Black Ink