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MATERIALS USED:

Dies/Embossing Folder

Stamps/Inks/Embossing Powders

Papers

White core green cardstock from my stash (may be from Park Lane)
Patterned paper scrap from my stash (Hunkydory Christmas insert paper)
Joy Craft Mirror Cardstock
Scrap colored paper from my stash
Park Lane – A7 – 50 Cards & Envelopes – White

Miscellaneous

Cosmic Shimmer Acrylic Glue
Foam tape from Dollartree
Foam squares from my stash
Hampton Art – Action Wobbles mini action springs – AWSM012
Nuvo Glow Drops Neon – Shocking Pink
Yellow organza ribbon from my stash
Gel pens
Crayons
Scissors
Anti-static Pad
Make-up Brush
Tonic Studios – Tim Holtz Stamp Platform
Recollections – Embossing Heat Tool

Hoppy Spring!

February 1, 2021February 1, 2021 | ullycatdesigns

If you have followed my blog, you will know I am enamored with the Spellbinders Sunday Drive die set and all its seasonal add-ons. The Spring collection has arrived with bunnies.

For this spring card I used a tulip embossing folder from a recent issue of Simply Cards and Papercraft magazine for the background. By using a white core cardstock with green top and bottom, I could sand the top of the embossing to make it white. (Great technique I learned in the magazine from Nicky Gilburt.)

The car goes together as usual except I left off the folded roof layer as you wouldn’t be able to see the baby bunnies. The adult bunnies have separate arms, heads and body so their poses have lots of possibilities and could be used separately away from the car. For the license plate, I used a white scrap behind the green “SPRING” to make it pop and coated Nuvo Glitter Gloss over the plate and the “HOPPY” pendant.

A circle smaller that fits inside the embossed circle has been inked using a make-brush and Distress Ink.

The “Hello…” sentiment is also from the same Simply Cards and Papercraft free gift set. It is heat embossed on a die cut sentiment strip using a Spellbinder’s glimmer plate die. (Many papercrafting magazines include a free gift set that can really added to your craft stash and gives you inspiration on how to use the stamps, dies and other tools and papers.)

A sequin butterfly from my stash wings bent and adhered on foam squares is the final accent element to the front of the card.

Inside the card, the sentiment is from Riley and Company’s Funnybones series and reads “Everybunny needs somebunny sometimes.” It is stamped on some scrap Hunkydory Christmas insert paper.

The envelope is stamped on the front lower corner and on the back flap with bunnies from the Craft Consortium’s English Garden collection.

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Other Sunday Drive cards:

Materials Used:

Dies/Embossing Folder

Stamps/Inks/Embossing Powders

Papers

White core green cardstock from my stash (may be from Park Lane)
Patterned paper scrap from my stash (Hunkydory Christmas insert paper)
Joy Craft Mirror Cardstock
Scrap colored paper from my stash
Park Lane – A7 – 50 Cards & Envelopes – White

Miscellaneous

Cosmic Shimmer Acrylic Glue
Foam tape from Dollartree
Foam squares from my stash
Hampton Art – Action Wobbles mini action springs – AWSM012
Advantus Corp. – Sequin Shapes – Multi Butterfly -SUL55792
Scissors
Anti-static Pad
Make-up Brush
Tonic Studios – Tim Holtz Stamp Platform
Recollections – Embossing Heat Tool

The Best is Yet to Come

October 18, 2020August 7, 2022 | ullycatdesigns

“You’re not getting older, you’re getting better” was the inspiration for this anniversary card for a “better” couple. I used one of my favorite Spellbinder’s die set – Sunday Drive along with one of it’s add-on sets – Sunday Sunset Drive.

To create the rainbow oval I hot foiled the Spellbinder’s Essential Glimmer Ovals and then the sentiment above from a Spellbinders Glimmer of the Month sentiment set. (Spellbinders has great clubs of the month that get you the newest dies/glimmer plates before they are released to the general public and/or get sold out, plus discounts on other products like the Journey Platinum and Sapphire Mini die cutting machines that I use. The Mini I got for 75% off.)

The heart and star are some die cuts that have been in my stash for years most like cut from punches and junk mail.

To assemble the car and passengers I looked at the pictures on the packaging, but you could watch an assembly video too. The License plate was cut from white glitter paper. The taillights are Nuvo Glow Drops Neon – Shocking Pink and silver matte cardstock. I used Watercolor pencils on the passengers’ skin and hair. I added the yellow ribbon scarf to create the illusion of motion following the direction of the woman’s hair. (I was also thinking of an old Audrey Hepburn movie of her in a small sports car with a scarf blowing in the wind.)

Because I don’t own matching glimmer plate or stamp that would compliment the typeface of the front sentiment, I used die cut letters from gold mirror card and another of the license plates from the Sunday Sunset Drive set.

As is my style I stamped the back of the envelope with a hint of what is inside using an older BoBunny hearts stamp in red.

This card feels like one a husband might give to his wife as they near retirement.

Other Sunday Drive cards:

SUPPLIES

Dies:

Foiling:

Stamps:

BoBunny – Clear Acrylic Stamps – I Heart Stars – 12105444

Coloring:

Paper:

Reflections – 8.5×11 inch cardstock – Cape Cod
Heavy White Cardstock 110# weight 8 ½ x 11 inches
Joy Craft Mirror Cardstock
Colored, metallic and glitter cardstock scraps from stash
Cream #10 business envelope

Miscellaneous:

Cosmic Shimmer Acrylic Glue
Foam pads
Yellow organza ribbon
Heart and star die-cuts from stash
American Crafts – Metallic Marker – M – Silver
American Crafts – Metallic Marker – M – Gold

© Sue Small-Kreider 2020

Driving into a Spooky Sunset

September 24, 2020August 7, 2022 | ullycatdesigns

Halloween in the USA often means corn mazes and pumpkin patches as well as dressing up on Halloween evening and going to a party. I have tried to combine these things into a single slimline sliding bridge-fold card.

This card was a second prototype for trying new methods and materials for me. This was my second attempt at ink blending a setting sun sky using Distress Inks and blending sponges, so not as spotty as my first attempt, but not as smoothly blended as I would like. I made a stencil for the sun using scrap card.

The base of the card is 8 1/2 inches (21.6 cm) tall by 9 inches (22.7 cm) wide and scored at 4.5 cm, 8 cm, 15 cm and 18.5 cm. I cut the top corners diagonally from 9 cm down to the 8 cm scoring and the 15 cm scoring.

The small ghosts and bats lurking on the inside panel are die-cut pieces – the bats from the Halloween Sunday Drive and the “Squeaker Ghosts” by Poppy Stamps.

I used the Hero Arts September 2020 My Monthly Hero Kit to stamp the layered image of a field of pumpkins with a corn filed in the background. The kit includes five mini cubes of ink needed to stamp each layer as well as the layered stamps and sentiment stamps. Dies to cut out a few of the images and several sheets of glitter paper round out the kits. (You need to order early the monthly kits as they sell out fast. Hero Arts is one of the few companies that lets you order a single kit without taking out a subscription.)

I stamped four of the images on white copy paper and layered the pumpkin field to create a taller background image. I knew I wanted a road going down the middle of the card, and I cut a road from brown cardstock.

The sliding bridge is a mechanism under the car that involves a capital I piece and two folded rings.

The rings are glued to the folded edges of the card base around the I piece. The end stops of the I piece were adhered behind the car’s wheel wells and tires with foam pads.

The car driven by a white glitter paper skeleton with a glow-in-the-dark pink haired witch with glow-the-the-dark green skin, is die cut suing Spellbinder’s Sunday Drive car die set with the Halloween Sunday Drive add-on set. The car body was cut from white cardstock and then covered with Black Soot Distress ink. The taillights are Nuvo Glow Drops Neon – Shocking Pink and silver matt cardstock. Two glitter cardstock die cut skulls are in the car’s luggage rack. The brown folded down roof is colored cardstock heat embossed with clear embossing powder to get a faux leather look. The shiny hat bands on the two hats are made with Nuvo Glow Drops Neon – Blue Crush.

The sentiment and stamps used on the envelope flap are all from the Hero Arts kit stamped in Memento tuxedo Black and the wheel in the Hero Arts brown ink cube.

For another Halloween slimline card using the same supplies see Being Spooky.

Other Sunday Drive cards:

© Sue Small-Kreider 2020

SUPPLIES

Dies:

Stamps:

Hero Arts September 2020 My Monthly Hero Kit

Inks/Embossing Powder:

VersaMark – Watermark Stamp Pad
Recollections Detail Embossing Power- Clear
Ranger Distress Ink – Fired Brick
Ranger Distress Ink – Antique Linen
Ranger Distress Ink – Black Soot
Ranger Distress Ink – Fossilized Amber
Ranger Distress Ink – Abandoned Coral
Ranger Distress Ink – Seedless Preserves
Hero Arts September 2020 My Monthly Hero Kit – green, brown, yellow, orange, purple ink cubes

Nuvo Drops:

Miscellaneous:

Cosmic Shimmer Acrylic Glue
White computer paper
White cardstock
Colored cardstock scraps from stash
Foam pads
American Crafts – Metallic Marker – M – Silver -62212

Being Spooky

September 23, 2020August 7, 2022 | ullycatdesigns

This card was my prototype for trying new methods and materials for me. I had never ink blended a setting sun sky using Distress Inks and blending sponges, so my sky is a bit “spotty.” I experimented with using Nuvo drops to cover an entire surface (car, witch’s hair and neck.) I like the effect that Nuvo drop spread thin has on small die cut pieces but getting an even coating on large pieces was difficult. I think using a glow in the dark embossing powder would work better for the car.

I used the Hero Arts September 2020 My Monthly Hero Kit to stamp the layered image of a field of pumpkins with a corn filed in the background. The kit includes five mini cubes of ink needed to stamp each layer as well as the layered stamps and sentiment stamps. Dies to cut out a few of the images and several sheets of glitter paper round out the kits. (You need to order early the monthly kits as they sell out fast. Hero Arts is one of the few companies that lets you order a single kit without taking out a subscription.)

I stamped four of the images and layered the pumpkin field to create a taller background image. I knew I wanted a road going down the middle of the card, but in hindsight, I have the perspective all off for the angle of the road. The road is made of three pieces of black cardstock. The design of the car is for the card to be standing open in a z-fold position, so you can read the “Happy Halloween.”

The base of the card is 8 5/8 inches tall by 7 5/8 inches wide and folded at 1 7/8 inches and 3 ¾ inches.

The car driven by a white glitter paper skeleton with a glow-in-the-dark pink haired witch with glow-the-the-dark green skin, is die cut suing Spellbinder’s Sunday Drive car die set with the Halloween Sunday Drive add-on set. The car body was cut from white cardstock and then covered with the Nuvo Glow Drops Neon – Sour Apple. The taillights are Nuvo Glow Drops Neon – Shocking Pink and silver matt cardstock. Two glitter cardstock die cut skulls are in the car’s luggage rack. The brown folded down roof is colored cardstock heat embossed with clear embossing powder to get a faux leather look. The shiny hat bands on the two hats are made with Nuvo Glow Drops Neon – Blue Crush.

The small ghosts and bats lurking on the inside panel are die-cut pieces – the bats from the Halloween Sunday Drive and the “Squeaker Ghosts” by Poppy Stamps.

The sentiment and stamps used on the envelope flap are all from the Hearo Arts kit stamped in Memento tuxedo Black and the wheel in the Hero Arts brown ink cube.

For another interactive Halloween slimline card using the same supplies see Driving into a Spooky Sunset (Set to be released on September 25).

Other Sunday Drive cards:

See the more the series of “A Week of Christmas Houses”

SUPPLIES

Dies:

Stamps:

Hero Arts September 2020 My Monthly Hero Kit

Inks/Embossing Powder:

VersaMark – Watermark Stamp Pad
Recollections Detail Embossing Power- Clear
Ranger Distress Ink – Fired Brick
Ranger Distress Ink – Antique Linen
Ranger Distress Ink – Black Soot
Ranger Distress Ink – Fossilized Amber
Ranger Distress Ink – Abandoned Coral
Ranger Distress Ink – Seedless Preserves
Hero Arts September 2020 My Monthly Hero Kit – green, brown, yellow, orange, purple ink cubes

Nuvo Drops:

Miscellaneous:

Cosmic Shimmer Acrylic Glue
White computer paper
White cardstock
Colored cardstock scraps from stash
American Crafts – Metallic Marker – M – Silver -62212

Santa Delivers to the Tropics

September 2, 2020August 7, 2022 | ullycatdesigns

How does Santa deliver presents to places where there is no snow for his sleigh? I think he goes in his trusted vintage white convertible with Rudolph to those tropical places. This is the sixth house card in my series of “A Week of Christmas Houses” using Poppy Stamps 2020 Winter House Pop-Up Easel die set.

This double easel card is designed as a slimline card to fit a #10 envelope. The car and Santa are part of the Spellbinders’ Sunday Drive collection.

I found both the Poppy Stamps and Spellbinders sets easy to use following the images on the packaging but recommend having a pair of tweezers handy to glue and place the tiny details. I also recommend having a small container or bag to put your die cut pieces into as you cut them out. They are quite easy to lose on your workspace or get dropped onto the floor.

To make sure the Fired Brick Distress ink I used under the Ho Ho Ho did not bleed onto the white car, I clear heat embossed the piece which adds some texture and shine to the license plate.

Because both die sets for this card are designed to represent snow and cold weather, I had to modify the die cut pieces. For Santa, I cut the sleeve off his shirt and used colored papers to have him wearing a more causal tropical shirt and created his arm by tracing around the outside of the skeleton’s arm in another add-on set for the Sunday Drive collection. On the house I trimmed off any of the snow on rooflines and used the poinsettia flowers from the Sunday Drive collection to plant in front of the house. To fit in a #10 envelope the tiny tips of the roof edge had to be trimmed off the card base.

Once again, I used peach organza ribbon to create some interest at the windows of the house. The door and roofs are inked dark with Walnut Stain Distress Ink. The door wreath is from the Tonic Studios set and the palm tree towering over the house is from a Karen Burniston pop-up die set. Nuvo drops were used for the doorknob and flower centers.

The welcome mat, which acts as the easel stop, was stamped and heat embossed using a stamp from a retired Stampin’ Up set. I used a blend of Ranger Black Sparkle and Recollections Ebony Detail Embossing powders that give the welcome mat a snowy sparkle. Once heat embossed, the mat was weathered using Antique Linen Distress Ink on a sponge dauber and cut out with the coordinating die. Foam squares where used to adhere the mat to card and make it tall enough to act as an easel stop.

The “Merry Christmas” is cut from heavy black cardstock glued down. A personal message can be written behind the house.

Finished off the card by stamping its envelope with some hints as to what’s inside using a “Magical Christmas Wishes” sentiment in dark green ink.

Day 1 – From Our House to Your House

Day 2 – Santa is Coming

Day 3 – A Baby is Coming

Day 4 –Keeping the Home Fires Burning

Day 5 – Red Four-Square

Day 6 – Santa Delivers to the Tropics

Day 7 – House Luminary

2019 – 12 Days of Christmas Trees

Other Sunday Drive cards:

SUPPLIES:

Dies

Stamps

Winter Woodland Stamp set by Sheena Douglas from Creative Stamping magazine Issue 62, December 2018.
Stampin’ Up – At Home with You – stamps & die set 143681 (Retired)

Papers

Scraps of card stock from stash
Matte silver cardstock
Heavy White Cardstock 110# weight 8 ½ x 11 inches

Ink/Embossing Powder

Miscellaneous

Foam squares
Cosmic Shimmer Acrylic Glue/PVA Glue
American Crafts – Metallic Marker – M – Silver -62212

Santa Bauble

August 26, 2020August 7, 2022 | ullycatdesigns

This Christmas card/ornament is a prototype for a shaker card. The car and Santa are part of the Spellbinder’s Sunday Drive collection and the pierced circles is also a Spellbinders nesting circle die set.

To make this bauble card, I cut a circular card base using the largest nesting die placing it just off the edge of a 6 ½ x 5 inches white card base.

I cut the series of pieced holed circles on white glitter cardstock and colored the front of the card base with silver metallic ink to show through the pierced holes. I also cut a piece of acetate between tissue interleaves so as not to have the cutting plates leave marks. Two strips of silver foiled cardstock ½ x 1 ¼ inches and a piece of thin silver wire 3 inches long were cut as well.

Next I cut a circular frame using the largest nesting die and the next size down circular die out of glitter cardstock. (I used a stitched circle die from another set to get a narrow border, but you could use the Spellbinders circle set and have a wide pierced border frame too.)

At this point I should have stamped and heat embossed the inside greeting before assembling the card. I like to use a stamping platform and the assembled card was too thick to get a good stamped impression. (My improvised solution was to stamp and heat emboss a tissue circle and glue it inside which is not as professional a finish as I would like.)

Previously I had cut and assembled a number of the Santa in the car and assembled them. (See Sunday Drive with Santa post.)

The whole process should be:

Cut card base, acetate circle, nesting circles, silver foiled strip, all parts for Santa, reindeer and car.
Stamp and heat emboss inside card sentiment. (If in inking back of license plate with distress ink, clear heat emboss it now.)
Add any colored ink or paper to go behind pierced circles to front of card base now.
Assemble Santa, reindeer and car
Glue down pierced circles
Glue Santa and car to top of circle frame and place foam tape on back side of car
Using a thin line of glue at outer edge of circle frame, glue acetate circle on top of circle frame and car
On the back side of the circle frame place short, thin strips of foam tape with no gaps. This will hold your shaker contents from escaping. (I cut ¼ inch wide stripes of foam tape.)
Place a small amount of craft snow in the middle of the front card base and then peel off backing paper on foam tape and adhere the acetate circle assembly to card base.
Score on backside of foil strips every 1/8 inch and accordion fold both strips and flatten out again. Cut two strips of foam tape ¼ x 1 inch and adhere at top edges of foiled strips on back.
Make a loop from the thin wire.
Glue one of the foil strips to the top of the card base over fold so that foam tape is above the fold. Remove backing paper from foam tape on this piece.
Place wire loop on foam tape. And add a drop of glue to secure wire.
Remove backing paper on other foil strip foam tape and glue in place on backside of card.
Tie ribbon through wire loop.

To finish the card, I stamped its envelope with a hint of what’s inside using a “Believe in the Magic of Christmas” sentiment in red ink.

Other Sunday Drive cards:

· VersaMark – Watermark Stamp Pad

SUPPLIES:

Dies

Stamps

Kaisercraft – Clear Stamps – Sentiments -Traditional – CS313

Papers

Scraps of card stock from stash
Matte silver cardstock
Dura-Lar .0005 Clear Film acetate
Reflections 6 ½ x 5 inch card base and envelope

Inks/Watercolors

· Recollections Pearl Embossing Powder – Sapphire

· Recollections Detail Embossing Power- Clear

· Stampin’ Up Classic Stamin’ Pad – Real Red

Miscellaneous

Foam tape
Cosmic Shimmer Acrylic Glue/PVA Glue
American Crafts – Metallic Marker – M – Silver -62212
Blue Snowflake satin ribbon
Thin silver wire (I used 26 gauge round medium temper silver plated jewelry wire)
Craft snow (I got my package years ago from a hobby shop that sold materials for making model train scenes)

A Snowy Sunday Drive with Santa

August 23, 2020August 7, 2022 | ullycatdesigns

I was so excited when I received the Sunday Drive die set from Spellbinders in May and now I am happy to show off one of the new holiday add-on sets for the Sunday Drive collection on this clean and simple slimline card.

The die sets I found easy to use following the images on the package but recommend having a pair of tweezers handy to glue and place the tiny taillights, box-ribbon-bow, and reindeer antlers. I also recommend having a small container or bag to put your die cut pieces into as you cut them out. They are quite easy to lose on your workspace or get dropped onto the floor. (I am still finding lost antlers on my crafting table.)

All the pieces were cut from scraps in my stash. I had to use my embossing mat to get good definition on the bummer piece cut on silver matte cardstock.

This was my first attempt at foiling multiple times the Spellbinders Twinkle Lights foiling plate on one card. Lessons I learned: Be patient and let the foiling plate cool down so you can place it exactly where you want it for the second and third pass. Don’t foil directly onto your slimline card unless you want the snow embossing effect inside your card too. Foil onto a panel you can adhere later.

The card base is an 8 inch x 9 inch piece of heavy white cardstock scored and folded long ways in half.

Inside the card is a green foiled Christmas tree which was one of test pieces I had foiled previously on a die cut rectangle scrap from another project.

Finishing of the card by stamping its envelope with some hints as to what’s inside using a vintage Disney stamp set.

Other Sunday Drive cards: