Use Your Paper Scraps for Card-making

Today I'm sharing another card I created using some of my paper scraps.  My scrap drawer gets so full, it nice to use up some of those scraps and watch that pile shrink.

To crate this card I cut a bunch of strips using paper scraps and the Simple Strips die from Pretty Pink Posh.  If you don't have a die, you can use a paper cutter to cut the strips.  

 

After cutting the strips, I secured them to a scrap piece of thin, white paper.  I arranged them right next to each other in rainbow order.  Once they were glued to the paper, I cut the piece with the die cut circle from the Markered Messages die set from Concord & 9th.  This created the rainbow base for my circled sentiment sit above.

I then cut the sentiment portion of the die several times using white cardstock and secured them together, stacking them for some added dimension.  I stamped the sentiment onto a rectangle piece that is cut a bit smaller than my card base and then secured everything to the front of my card.

A few black hearts finished the card.

Thanks you so much for stopping by.  I hope you're inspired to create something with some of your scraps. If you'd like to another idea for using scraps, visit my previous post Simple, Interactive, Pop-up Card.

Cathy

 Links to products used or recommended are listed below: 

Birthday Scoop

I'm playing with two of the new Concord & 9th colors along with some old and new products.  Here is how I was inspired:

The two new Concord & 9th colors:

• Creamsicle
• Eucalyptus

I threw in some Ballet Slipper from my stash.

No stamping on this birthday card design:

• Concord & 9th - Everyday Expressions | dies
• Concord & 9th - Pretty Sweet | dies
• Pretty Pink Posh - Big Birthday Cupcake | dies
• Pretty Pink Posh - Pierced Stars | cover plate

The vellum and glitter paper are from my stash.

 

I hope you have a great week!

 

Links to products used or recommended are listed below:  

Dino Wishes, Mixing Die Cuts and Embossing Folders

Hey friends! This is Amanda with Twiddler's Nook. Mix it up Monday is here in a big way today! Prehistoric big!!! Lol. I finally played with the Spellbinders Birthday Dinosaur and couldn't stop after one so I have three cards to share with you today.

The whole thing started with me just wanting to play around with the adorable dinosaurs and escalated quickly. These dinos come together very quickly and are the simplest to put together. I recommend liquid glue so you have a second to fiddle with placement if you need to but other than that they are very self explanatory.

Once I had the dinosaurs created I went digging for bits and pieces to go with them and since I happened to have this new Mama Elephant Simple Friends Bubbles stamps and die set on my desk, I thought I would see how they went together.

Absolutely perfect, is how they went together! This sentiment set stamps and die cuts six sentiments at once which is awesome! This batch was stamped with Lawn Fawn peach fuzz ink three times to make sure I had good coverage and darken the color a little.

For my background I cut three Mama Elephant Sweet Shoppe Frames, keeping the center piece that cuts out. I glued each one to a white card base. Then used the Spellbinders In the Pines embossing folder on the center piece for each one. I chose contrasting colors to each dinosaur and ink blended those panels before gluing them back in the middle of the frames.

Last I just added my speech bubbles and dinosaurs to each card front with foam squares. They are so cute just how they are that I decided to skip shiny and sparkly for this set of cards. But by all means friends, go ahead and bling away if that's what your heart desires. I will never stop you! :)

 

I appreciate you sharing your time with me. Have a fabulous day!

 

Links to products used or recommended are listed below:  

Friendly Rainbow

 I've been having so much fun crafting these days.  

This project combines:

• Waffle Flower Crafts - Postage Collage | die
• Lawn Fawn - Corner Rainbow | layering stencils
• Pretty Pink Posh - Shamrock Shaker | die
• Pretty Pink Posh - Friend Shadow | die
• Pretty Pink Posh - Lucky Charms | clay confetti
• Lawn Fawn - Fruit Salad | 6x6

The Corner Rainbow stencil is so much fun, I really need to ink that up more.  Today I used the following distress oxides:

• Kitsch Flamingo
• Dried Marigold
• Squeezed Lemonade
• Twisted Citron
• Tumbled Glass

I used the following tools when stenciling:

• Waffle Flower Crafts - Grip Mat | 6x6
• Waffle Flower Crafts - Shader Brush

Thanks so much for stoppin' by!

Links to products used or recommended are listed below: 

Dancing Monster Celebration Wishes with a Shaped Card and Gift Card Holder

Welcome to a monstrous mix-it-up Monday everyone!!! This is Amanda from Twiddler's Nook and I'm super excited to share my creations today. They were so fun to make! Words don't really express how much I think everyone should try making one of these dancing creations from Spellbinders. They are really easy and so fun, almost as much fun to give as to get!

I started these projects by die cutting pieces from the Spellbinders Dancin' Birthday Monster set. I mixed and matched them, creating two monsters for the heck of it. That's when I decided it would be great to make a card and gift card holder set! I cut card layers with the Spellbinders Make a Wish Arch Labels dies - two of the largest and one of the next-to-smallest.

I ink blended the Pretty Pink Posh Trellis stencil with Lawn Fawn jalapeno ink, then popped up the orange arch and also the monster. I die cut the word "celebrate" from the Pretty Pink Posh Gift Card Bag die set three times from black cardstock and glued it underneath the arch.

For the card, I finished things off with a scattering of Pretty Pink Posh pistachio pearls and a little glossy accents on the top of the birthday hat.

Next, I created my gift card holder using the Pretty Pink Posh Gift Card Bag die set.

After cutting the front and back of the bag from white cardstock, I inked both sides with the Trellis stencil just like the card front. Then I popped up the monster with foam squares and glued my sentiment underneath him. The sentiment is also part of the Gift Card Bag dies.

Dancin' Character Tip: You'll see with the Spellbinders dancing characters, the legs have a tab at the top with a hole in it. To attach them to anything, add a foam circle to your base (card front or gift card bag), slide the hole over the foam circle, remove the foam release paper and adhere your character body on top. Be sure that the foam squares on your character don't impede the movement of the legs though. I just added them to the top half to make sure I was safe.

Please leave me a comment or send an email if this isn't clear and you'd like a step-by-step photo tutorial.

 

I appreciate you sharing your time with me. Have a fabulous day! 

 Links to products used or recommended are listed below: 

Creating Shaped Birthday Cards

I love making cards that are just a little unexpected.  I think the recipients of these cards will be surprised when they open the envelope to see these sweet paper packages.

I used some fun, and festive colors as I'll be using these for the MANY birthday cards I need for the next couple months.  However, I thought these would be adorable dressed up in red and green with gold glitter bows.  They would be perfect for your Christmas gift card giving.  A gift card would tuck perfecting into this card.

I cut my folded note cards to measure 4.25" x 4.25" and stamped the front with the designs included in the All Wrapped Up stamps set from Concord & 9th.  After dressing up several cards, I move on to cutting and assembling the bows and tags.

These were so fun, quick, and easy to make!

With a simple change of color you can easily personalize these.  Wouldn't they be great for graduation cards, created in the school colors?

Thanks so much for stopping by.  I hope you were inspired to create something today.

-Cathy

Links to products used or recommended are listed below: 

Have a Beary Good Day

I love all things bear themed.  A bit of a back story in a smidge.  The Mama Elephant - Beary Good Day set is over the top cute.

Yes, I'm still smitten with pink + green! This project combines:

• Mama Elephant - Beary Good Day | stamp + creative cuts bundle
• Pretty Pink Posh - Eyelet Hearts | die
• Pretty Pink Posh - Pierced Hearts | Cover Plate

My grandpup's name is Kuma which is bear in Japanese. I get to puppy sit her next week.  I use the term puppy loosely as she is like 65 lbs of fur and drool. She is a husky/chow mix.

I hope you have a great week!

Links to products used or recommended are listed below: 

Stenciling, Hot Foiling and a Shaker - Perfect Birthday Combination

Hey friends! It's Amanda from Twiddler's Nook. Let's mix things up with a fun birthday shaker card today! I pulled out some fabulous hot foil plates from Spellbinders and combined them with Pretty Pink Posh stencils for my background and the combo couldn't be more perfect!

I started by hot foiling the Spellbinders Giant Party Balloon and the sentiment in the set. The balloon pieces are silver and the sentiment is moondust hot foil. To accentuate the moondust foil I went around the edge with a blending brush and Lawn Fawn mermaid ink after die cutting it out.

I wanted to make a shaker and this Giant Party Balloon set comes with the inner circle die to make that a reality. How fun is that! So I cut another large circle from white cardstock and inked the center with mermaid ink like the sentiment. Plus I cut an acetate circle and threw all my elements together with liquid glue and foam strips, inserting Spellbinders silver smooth discs as my shaker bits.

Next, I pulled out the Pretty Pink Posh Layered Candles stencil set. I inked the bottom of each candle row with mermaid and the top with peach fuzz. I replaced the candle layer with the detail layer and did the same thing again. Then for the flames, I spread Brutus Monroe yellow Chroma Glaze. It gives a shiny finish which is fun for the background of our blingy shaker balloon.

Finally, I took the mermaid ink pad and drug it across all four sides of my card base. I popped the stenciled panel up with foam tape and glued the balloon directly to that with liquid glue. Then I glued the sentiment to the front of my balloon as well.

To finish my card off, I tied some orange bakers twine around the top into a bow.

I appreciate you sharing your time with me. Have a fabulous day! 

Links to products used or recommended are listed below:  

Simple Interactive, Pop-Up Card

What do you do with a pile of paper scraps?  Today I'm sharing a quick and easy card using my paper scraps.  The card has an added surprise....the HELLO greeting pops up when you remove the card from the envelope.

To start this card I selected a pile of papers from my scrap box that worked well together.  Deciding which of the papers to use was the longest and hardest part of this card.  After choosing the papers, I used the Simple Strips die from Pretty Pink Posh to quickly cut an assortment of strips in different sizes and colors.

Once I had the pieces cut, I arranged them on a 4.25" x 5.5" sheet of white cardstock.  I placed them at an angle, laying and securing them down in rainbow order.  Once they were secure, I used my A2 card dies to cut the piece into a rectangle that would be slightly smaller than the front of my card panel.  

The dies make a more precise cut and I like how the edges look when cut with a die.  However, you could cut the strips and the panel using your paper cutter if you don't have these dies.

I stamped my sentiment and secured the panel to the front of my card base before I created the "springs" and attached my sentiment.

The sentiment was die cut several times and layered together to give it dimension and make it sturdy.

For the springs I cut a strip of paper about 1/2" wide [you could used one of the leftover strips you cut for the front of the card] and scored it at 1/4, 1/2,  and 3/4 inches and then cut at 1 inch.  I folded back and forth on the scored lines to create something that looked an "M".  I used this to secure the sentient to the front of the card.  Be sure to use strong adhesive so it doesn't come apart once it has dried.  [see image below]

All done!  These little springs will fold flat when you put the card in the envelope and pop up when the card is removed.

Thanks for stopping by.  I hope you're inspired to create something today.

-Cathy

Links to products used or recommended are listed below: 

Friend

Don't mind me as I am still busy designing Valentine's + Galentine's Day cards.  I love how this one turned out:

I had so much fun mixing and matching products to come up with this card:

• Sunny Studio Stamps - Holiday Hugs | stamps + sunny snippets
• Lawn Fawn - Cerealsly Awesome | stamps + lawn cuts 
• Pretty Pink Posh - Pierced Hearts | die
• Concord & 9th - Friendly Florals | die

The Holiday Hugs set is so versatile! You can have that cute bear carry so many different things.  Back in the day, I use to love having bowls of cereal. I remember my oldest use to love her bowls of cheerios.

These are the copic markers I used:

• R02 | R21
• RV52
• YG07 | YG17
• W00 | W1 | W2
• C00 | C1

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Links to products used or recommended are listed below: 

Sending Love and Hugs Die Cut Card

Happy Monday friends! It's Amanda from Twiddler's Nook and we're mixing things up for another bit of valentine inspiration before the big day arrives. I had fun with dies and embossing today.

I adore this new Pretty Pink Posh XOXO border so that's where things started for this card. I just cut the main piece from light gray cardstock and one heart from light pink. I still wasn't sold on what to do so I went digging in my stash and came across the adorable Spellbinders Sweet Birdie.

I used some pink, melon and peach cardstocks from my stash to create my bird and cut a heart for the border from each color too. I glued all the hearts directly to the border except the darkest one which is popped up with a foam square. I ran a white panel through the die cutter with the Spellbinders Tiny Dots embossing folder for my background and glued the border to the bottom. Then I popped the birdie up with foam squares to match the popped up heart.

I stumbled on this ribbon in my stash to tie around the top of my panel and added a tag from the Spellbinders Envelope of Wonder collection. The sentiment comes from the stamp set in that collection too. After tying the bow I added foam squares to the tags to keep them in place.

For finishing touches I just added glossy accents to the birdie's eye and beak. Isn't this such a sweet valentine?

I appreciate you sharing your time with me. Have a fabulous day!

 

Links to products used or recommended are listed below: