This card was featured on Pinterest, and I immediately thought it would make a wonderful Mother's Day card for my class. However, 3 of my students do not have their mother anymore, so I changed the sentiment for something more neutral. It is a partial case from Biggan at splitcoaststampers. However, I did change a few things around. I started by punching five 1 3/8" circles, and sponging them with Blushing Bride with the edges Pear Pizzaz. These I folded into dahlia flowers using this tutorial. The stem was die cut using Pear Pizzaz cardstock and the Bouquet die. The stem and flowers were arranged on a Very Vanilla background embossed with the script embossing folder. This background was matted with Pink Pirouette cardstock and then a 1/4" Pink Pirouette ribbon and bow were adhered to the bottom. This was adhered to a Sahara Sand layer, which in turn was adhered to a Blushing Bride base card. The sentiment is "For Being You" (SAB) and was punched using the oval die. The oval was reinserted back into the punch to reduce its size. It was also sponged with Blushing Bride and Pear Pizzaz. Supplies Used: Built for Free Using: My Stampin Blog I also used the script embossing folder (retired) and the Bouquet die.

One of my team members shared a card like this in our Flowerbug's group and claimed it was so easy she's making lots of these cards. I loved it so much I had to find out how she made it! I learned how by watching the creators video; her name is Julie Heitz and she goes by the Chirpy Cardmaker. I shared how to make it during last week's Live video. The products used include the pretty Softly Stippled designer...

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A Star Fold Card for almost any Occasion: To make this 6" card, you will need to start with a piece of paper measuring 12 X 12. Laying it on your mat you can easily find the center of one of the sides. Mark the 6" point and draw a line down the paper for about 2". Now you can draw a line from the corner left to the center line, making sure it is 12" long, do this again of the other side from right corner to center at 12" point. Now you can trim off the corners using your paper trimmer. Sometimes it helps to cut of the excess at the top of the triangle, also you can now erase your pencil line. You will now find the center of each side of the triangle. Using those lines you will now score from center point on one side to the center point on the other side. You will do this three times. When you have finished scoring it should look like the picture above. Now using the score lines you just finished place this score line on the 1 3/4" line on the trimmer and score a second line, do this on the other two sides. When all score lines are finished it should look like this. Now with the paper laying flat on the table top fold in all score lines nearest the center, and the second score line on all points should fold out . Points or triangles will interlock together. Here are a few more examples of this card worked up. I used two different paper packets for these projects both were from CTMH, Florentine was one and the other was Mayberry, also the color Blush was used for the last card. Thanks for visiting today......have a great crafting day....:-).....Joanie

Today's card was inspired by one I saw by Lorri Heiling. About the only thing I kept from hers was the fun fold design, and the Art Gallery stamp set, LOL! Lorri used large circles for her

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I made some Peekaboo Cards with a little twist to them. There’s an inside folded piece that the sentiment sits on to make it more of a fun fold design.

Happy Friday. So my world is filled with all things die cutting right now. (Oh, and babies and remodel dust and baseball games, etc. Ha.) Why? Because we

How much fun is this card!? Find step by step instruction on how to make a revolving door card over at the There She Goes blog. This idea would work well with so many different stamp sets. -Heather…

SPRINGY THINGY CARD TUTORIAL It's time for me to share my weekly Tuesday tip or technique. This tutorial fell out of my tips/techniques book as I moved it last night and so got chosen for today's effort. It makes a card front that the receiver pulls open and the card opens out like a spring to see an inner 20cm square area. Images of a completed card using this technique are below these instructions. Practice this on some scrap paper first. MATERIALS 20cm square piece of card stock or decorative paper of your choice. Pre colour the card if you wish. I'll use white card stock so you can clearly see what to do. Pencil, rubber, ruler, craft knife, craft mat and bone scorer. HOW TOO 1) On all sides measure and make a light pencil dot at the 5cm, 10cm and 15cm mark. On my sample I will use a black marker so you can see what I did easily. 2) From the 5cm mark at the left and right side measure and mark a dot at the 10cm mark 3) From the 10cm mark at the left and right side measure in and mark a dot in at the 5cm mark from each side 4) From the 15cm mark at the left and right side measure and mark a dot at the 10cm mark. These dots make a large diamond. 5) Score between all these dots. In my image I have drawn dashes to show you were to score 6) At the top 15cm mark score down to the right side of the diamond. At the 15cm mark at right edge, score across to the bottom of the diamond. At the 5cm mark on the bottom edge, score up to the left side of the diamond. Lastly at the 5cm mark at the left edge, score across to the top of the diamond. See dashed marks I have marked for you on my sample. All these score lines will be mountain folds. That is you bend the scored line back on itself to make a mountain. 7) At the 10cm mark on all sides score into the points on the diamond. See dashed areas on my sample. These scored lines and the scored lines for the diamond are all valley folds. That is you bend the scored line in on itself to make a little valley. Here is my sample with all the scored lines bent to their respective mountain and valley folds. 8) Now all you do is gently fold the card in on itself. Start on one side and then work your way around. If you have all the scored correct lines and folds it sort of winds in like a spring. It should look like this at the front and this at the back. Rub off all marked pencil dots. After I made my sample above for you I painted the card stock with white gesso, sprayed it with various sprays. Stamped and added embellishments to turn it into a steam punk card. I then layered and stuck it to a base card. As mine is fairly embellished it doesn't fold completely flat. This is m Springy Thingy Card open Some close ups of the folded card part. Hugs Annette In Oz

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Hi Friends, Today I have one of the projects we made at Pat Carr's Stamp Camp at Toodyay last weekend. I met up with a couple of old friends and met a lot of new friends, Hi Ladies! It was a fun stamping weekend that went into the early hours of the morning for some of us. I presented a Workshop on the Star Card which I found on Frances Byrnes blog Stamp Owl. I made and decorated two cards to show it's versatility. Susan Joyce Supplies: Stamps: S/U's Tiny Tags Card and Papers: Pretty In Pink, Whisper White, Certainly Celery, Pink Pirouette, Designer Paper Patterns Stack - Subtle Collection Ink: Pretty In Pink, Certainly Celery Finishing Touches: Pearls, 1/8" Pretty In Pink Taffeta Ribbon Tools: Fiskars Trimmer and Scoring Tool, Ruler, Pencil, Eraser, Bone Scorer, Big Shot, Sizzix Leaf Die, Square Lattice EB Folder, Sponge, Dry Embossing Tool, Scallop Circle Punch, Tweezers, Itty Bitty Punches, Jewelry Tag Punch, Dble Sided Tape, 2 Way Glue Pen, Tombow Multi Purpose Glue, Mini Glue Dot Susan Joyce Supplies: S/U's Apothecary Art Card and Papers: Pacific Point, Pink Pirouette, Rose Red, Whisper White, Old Olive, Designer Series Pattern Stack -Subtle Collection and Apothecary Art Ink: Pacific Point, Stazon Black Finishing Touches: Pearls Tools: Fiskars Trimmer and Scoring Tool, Big Shot, Framelits D, Dble Sided Tape, Tombow Multi Glue, Dimensionals, Bird Builder Punch, Itty Bitty Punches These are some of the cards that the ladies managed to finish, aren't they fantastic. Amanda Blythe Julia Duffy Pat Carr Rivkah Birch Sue Taylor Virginia Ting Virginia intends to add some Pearls to the centre of her flowers for the Finishing Touches to her card. Hopefully I will have some more projects to show from the camp in the next couple of days. Thanks' for visiting today. Hugs,

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As promised, here's a free photo tutorial of one of the more complicated of the designs we did at Advanced Papercrafters Class this month, featuring the Circles Card Thinlits for the Sizzix Big Shot. I'm calling it a porthole flip-fold card, for obvious reasons... basically there's a window that goes all the way through to the back of the card. This would be really cool to use with our Clear Translucent Envelopes! Here's the card, opened... you can see the basic Circles Card Thinlit base, with extra openings. It's waaaaaay easier than you'd think, actually! So uncomplicated, actually, that you...

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Hi friends, today I’m sharing a new fold card which I’m calling a Book Cradle card, as the base reminds me of a book cradle! It’s a very easy card style to make, and another great…

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A few weeks ago, I shared here on the blog that my favorite of all the Bazzill 12x12 cardstock is the Bazzill Card Shoppe line. It is 100 lbs and stands up well to stamping, die cutting, and heat embossing. It's thicker than most other cardstocks which means it provides a sturdier base for my handmade cards. This switched shape stamping tutorial is a perfect project for this paper (especially if you like to make multiple cards in one sitting).

How to cut paper for the inside of your handmade cards. White inserts are great for dark color card bases.

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Triple Time Stamping is a card making technique that is easy, beautiful, and a favorite! It’s a time saver! Let's stamp together to make it.

How to cut paper for the inside of your handmade cards. White inserts are great for dark color card bases.

5 Simple greeting cards you can make with ONE card layout? Yep! You'll love how this layout gives you successful DIY cards every time! Watch the video!

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Mass produce cards while making each one different! This Stack, Slice & Shuffle Technique makes easy quilt cards. These butterfly cards are made with the Butterfly Kisses Designer Series Paper. Since you are making three cards at a time, just change up the Designer Series Paper you are using for each set and they will all be unique. All of these cards use only the papers. These lovely flowers in the Hues of Happiness Designer Series Paper can be cut out with coordinating dies.. Celebrate tea drinkers with the Tea Boutique Designer Series Paper. Black and white is always stunning.