Scrappy Tails

Scrappy Tails – Nutcracker Tunnel Card

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Welcome to Day 10 of my Nutcracker series using a variety of stamps and die sets to make some nutcracker themed cards. My card today uses dies by Scrappy Tails – Nutcracker , Snowflake Pop-Up Tunnel Card and Train Station Pop-Up Tunnel Card die sets.

Watch the process video below to learn how this card was made.

Nutcracker: Referring to the images of the nutcrackers on the packaging for the Nutcracker die set and the video above, cut out all the pieces using your own color scheme. (I cut out the entire body from flesh colored cardstock and then dressed the nutcracker.) The nutcracker is glued into the second layer of the tunnel card at the hat (onto the lattice work of the frame) and at the boots onto the snow piece. (The snow piece is glued to the back side of the frame. )

Tunnel Card: Using a pale blue cardstock, cut three of the tabbed frame pieces and one large solid arched piece from the Snowflake Pop-Up Tunnel Card die set. Cut from white, one frame without tabs, one arch with snowflakes and one snow piece. From white glitter cardstock cut one frame without tabs. Punch out all the decorative pieces from all the white frames and save for decorating the blue embossed frames. Glue the plain white frame onto the solid blue arch piece and then glue the smaller snowflake arch onto the blue arch inside the white frame. Glue the white glitter frame onto one of the embossed blue frames. Decorated the other two blue embossed frames with the snowflakes and swirls from the white frames. For the first and second frames fold the tabs toward the back and then fold the third frame’s tabs toward the front. Add 1/8 to 1/4-inch wide double-sided tape to the sides of the tabs that will be adhered to the side pieces. Cut two side pieces from white using the side piece from the Train Station Pop-Up Tunnel Card die set. (If you don’t have the Train Station set, cut two 1.25×5-inch rectangles.) Assemble the tunnel card as shown in the video.

Sentiments: The back sentiment of “Happy Winter Wishes to you” comes from the Snowflake Pop-Up Tunnel Card die set.

Envelope: The panel card fits into an A7 (5×7-inch) size envelope with the back flap decorations of snow from the Snowflake Pop-Up Tunnel Card die set.

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Materials Used:

Dies

  • Scrappy Tails – Dies – Slimline Nutcracker Spinner
  • Scrappy Tails – Dies – Snowflake Pop-Up Tunnel Card
  • Scrappy Tails – Dies – Train Station Pop-Up Tunnel Card

Papers

  • Concord & 9th – 8.5×11 Cardstock – Powder
  • Gina K. – 8.5×11 100lb. Cardstock – Blue Raspberry
  • Pen + Gear – 8.5×11 104lb. Diamond Print Glitter Cardstock – White
  • Silver Matte Cardstock.
  • Black, Pink and White Cardstock
  • A7 (5×7-inches) Envelope – Cream

Ink

  • American Crafts – Metallic Marker – Silver
  • Nuvo – Aqua Simmer Brush – Glitter Gloss
  • Nuvo – Marker – 430 Ultramarine
  • OLO – Marker – Cotton Candy
  • Sakura – Gelly Roll Pen – Medium – White
  • Sharpie – Permanent Marker – Chisel Tip – Black
  • Stampin’ Up – Stampin’ Write Marker – Chocolate Chip

Adhesives

Tools

  • Die Cutting Machine
  • Scrapbook.com – Magic Mat
  • Paper Trimmer
  • Stamping Block as Paperweight
  • Bone Folder
  • Tweezers
  • Scrapbook.com – Mint Tape
  • We R Memories – QuickStick

Halloween Tri-Fold Pop-Up Card

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I recently purchased some new Scrappy Tails Halloween dies to make some pop-up tri-fold cards. Here is my first go at making one of Sabrina Leavell’s tri-fold cards. I watched a few of her YouTube lives before I began.

Watch the video below to see how I made this card.

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Materials Used:

Dies
• Scrappy Tails – Metal Craft Dies – Ghost Gallery
• Scrappy Tails – Metal Craft Dies – Ghost Study
• Scrappy Tails – Metal Craft Dies – Halloween Tri-Fold Window Add-On

• Scrappy Tails – Metal Craft Dies – Spooky Fireplace
• Scrappy Tails – Metal Craft Dies – A7 Tri-fold Pop Up Card Base


Stamps
• Colorado Craft Company – Clear Stamps – Scary Pumpkin – BB704


Papers
• Bazzill – 8.5×11 Cardstock – Tiara -18-1002

• Graphic 45 – 8×8 Double-Sided Papers – Midnight Tales– Full Moon

• Grafix – 8.5×11 Dura-Lar Acetate .005 – Clear Film

• Concord & 9th – 8.5×11 Cardstock – Mushroom

• Fun Stampers Journey – 8.5×11 Cardstock – Tin Pail

• Black, Browns, Oranges, Tans, White and Yellow Cardstock

• #10 Business Envelope – White


Ink
• Memento – Fade Resistant Dye ink – Tuxedo Black
• Pigma – Mircon 01Fine Tip Pen – Black
• Sakura – Gelly Roll Pen – Medium – White
• Stampin’ Up – Stampin’ Blends Marker – Dual Tip – Dark Copper Clay & Dark Wild Wheat


Adhesives
• Neutral PH Adhesive by LINECO
• Fine-Tip Glue Bottle

• Scrapbook.com – Double-sided Tape – 4-inch wide



Tools
• Die Cutting Machine

• Paper Trimmer

• Stamping Platform

• Scissors

• Pencil

• Paper Masking Tape

• Riley and Company – Pick & Poke Tool

• This Calls For Confetti – It’s No Secret Anti-Static Powder Brush

• Microfiber Cloth

Shelf Cards – Plant Ladder

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This is the first in a series of cards that have shelves as the main element of the card.

Today’s card is a plant ladder made with dies by Scrappy Tails.

Watch the process video to see how I made this card.

Cardbase:  Use the outline die in the Plant Ladder die set to cut a shaped cardbase from a 3×12-inch piece of card stock that has been folded in half. Place the die so that the two top cutting edges of the die are just off the fold.

Sentiments:  I am leaving off any sentiment so that there is space inside and on the card back to write a message.

Envelope:  The card fits into an A2 (4.25x 5.5-inches) size envelope with a cardstock liner to keep the palm tree leaves from getting damaged in the mail.

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Materials Used:

Dies

  • Scrappy Tails – Metal Dies – Plant Ladder

Papers

  • Bazzill – 12×12 Cardstock – Sand Dollar
  • Black, Browns, Greens, and Yellows Cardstock Scraps
  • Fraser Papers for William House – A2 Envelope – Genesis Text Milkweed Smooth

Adhesives

Tools

  • Die Cutting Machine
  • Paper Trimmer
  • Bone Folder
  • Stamping Blocks used as paperweights
  • Scissors
  • Paper Masking Tape
  • We R Memories – QuickStick

A Gothic Classic Pop-Up Book

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This card was made for Craft Roulette #237 whose parameters included a pop-up card, Trick or Treat colors, boutique, and jewelry.

I chose to make Mary Shelley’s gothic novel Frankenstein as a pop-up book card using dies by Scrappy Tails.

Watch the process video to see how I made this card.

Cardbase: The card base is made using the Scrappy Tails A7 Pop up Book die set. (I apologize for not having included video of the frame assembly.) The accordion fold pages frame that goes inside the book card can be seen in an assembly video by the designer by clicking here.

Sentiments: The “Halloween Greetings” is a stamp from PoppyStamps. The “Boo-tique Books specializing in Gothic Novels” was computer generated and die using a label die from the Scrappy Tails Life is a Story die set.

Envelope: The card fits into a catalog (6×9-inches) size envelope. “This book belongs to…” is stamped in black on the envelope flap.

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Materials Used:

Dies

  • Scrappy Tails – Metal Dies – A7 Pop up Book – Parts 1 & 2
  • Scrappy Tails – Metal Dies – Frankenstein Tomb Stone
  • Scrappy Tails – Metal Dies – A7 Frankenstein CP
  • Scrappy Tails – Metal Dies – Life is a Story CD 

Stamps

  • Papercraft Essentials Magazine Issue 183, January 2020 – The Next Chapter
  • PoppyStamps – Clear Stamps – Bugs and Hisses -CL512

Papers

  • Bazzill – 8.5×11 Cardstock – Tiara -18-1002
  • Concord & 9th – 8.5×11 Cardstock – Dove
  • Craft Perfect – 8.5×11 Pearlescent Cardstock – Glazed Chestnut
  • Fun Stampers Journey – 8.5×11 Cardstock – Tin Pail
  • Recollections – 12×12 inch Glitter Cardstock – White Marble
  • Recollections – 12×12 inch Embossed Cardstock – Kraft
  • The Paper Studio – 12x12Faux Leather – Football
  • Clear Plastic Packaging
  • Black, Blue, Brown, Greens, Purple, Red, White and Yellow Cardstock
  • Catalog (6×9) Envelope – White

Ink

  • Hero Arts – Alcohol-Marker Friendly Ink Pad – Intense Black
  • Simon Says Stamp – Pawsitivity Saturated Ink – Aegean
  • Ranger – Tim Holtz – Distress Ink – Dried Marigold, Forest Moss, Hickory Smoke, Mowed Lawn, Rusty Hinge, Seedless Preserves
  • Pigma – Mircon 005 Fine Tip Pen – Black
  • Sakura – Gelly Roll Pen – Medium – White
  • Sharpie – Permanent Marker – Fine Tip – Black, Yellow
  • Sharpie – Permanent Marker – Ultra Fine Tip –Blue, Greens, Orange, Red,

Adhesives

Tools

  • Die Cutting Machine
  • Paper Trimmer
  • Bone Folder
  • Score Board
  • Stamping Platform
  • Stamping Blocks used as paperweights
  • Scissors

Let’s Be Pirates – A Pop-Up Map Card

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It’s time for the July 2024 Karen Burniston Design Team Challenge with the theme of SET SAIL.

“Let’s Be Pirates” is the theme of this card made with Karen Burniston’s June 2024 release of new dies and clear stamps. For this card (which could be used for birthdays, Father’s Day, and just for fun), I used several of the new sets including: Pirate Borders, Pirate Ship Add-Ons and Boat Pop-Up die sets and Pirate Sentiments clear stamp set.

Cardbase: Cut a piece of kraft card stock 7-inches x 12-inches. Score and fold at 3 1/2-inches and 8 1/2-inches to form a gate fold cardbase with overlapping flaps. Stamp map onto cardbase. Use map’s stencils to ink in map. Stamp sentiments using the new Pirate Sentiments stamp set. Tear off and distress the card edges. Crumple up the cardbase flatten and crumple again. Spritz the cardbase with water. Lightly spray brown inks and splatter watercolor paint onto cardbase. Spritz again to allow inks to soak into the cardstock. Crumble cardbase while still damp. Dry flat over paper towel. (You may want to practice all the distressing with ink and water on scrap kraft cardstock before distressing your cardbase. I sprayed water to the back of the map as it was colored with Distress Inks which would run.)

Pirate Characters: Watch the video above to see how the pirate characters were made. The pirate captain’s hat was switched out with one from the new Pirate Borders. The treasure chest and captain hat borders are also from the Pirate Borders set.

Ship: (Refer to directions on packaging of both the Boat Pop-Up and Pirate Ship Add-Ons.)

Train the folds on the ship’s body piece cut from the Boat Pop-Up die set in black. Glue the small side tab while the piece is folded flat. All of the following pieces are cut using the Pirate Ship Add-Ons set. Cut the boomerang shaped bow piece from black. Glue to the narrow-tabbed front of the ship while folded flat. Cut the back railing from black and glue to inside of ship back while folded flat. Cut 10 of the small circles in black and 10 of the larger circles in pale yellow. Glue small circles on top of large circles and attach them to ship body as show in photos.

Cut two sets of wave pieces. Ink blue. Glue to the sides of ship body, but not to the front or back flat panels. (The waves stick out in front to a point while the back jut out two wave points.) The tiny edge of the wave pieces match-up at the center side folds.

Cut the deck and seat pieces from the Boat Pop-Up die set in brown. Train folds. Trim off the front edge of the seat piece. (See red circle in photo.)

Cut two of the u-brace pieces from the Boat Pop-Up die set in black. Train folds and fold edges of tabs to fit through slots in the deck piece as shown in photos.

Cut two sets of masts from the Pirate Ship Add-Ons set in a thick back cardstock. Glue the mast pieces together matching up the different sizes to form two smaller masts and one taller mast. Slide the tallest mast through the center slot of the deck down between the two u-braces. (See red circled photo.) Glue to one of the u-brace sides. Add the second mast through one of the end slots and check alignment of the two masts in the folded position. Glue to u-brace. Repeat with third mast.

Test placement of seat (referred to as deck in photos) between center mast and back mast. Glue the deck front tab between the center tab and the mast. Glue back deck tab to back mast tab.

Cut three sets of the two sail dies from the Pirate Ship Add-Ons set in black. Cut three of the smaller sails from white and one of the large sail from white. Attach one of the small white sails to cover one small black sail. Do the same with the large white and black sails. Center the remaining two small white sails to the remaining two large black sails. (I used white label paper that had adhesive on the back.) Cut the sail decorations also from white and use the stencil feature of the skull die. Color the sword handles red. Attach decorations to smaller sails. Cut two of the crow’s nest basket from brown. Ink them brown. Cut the two flags from yellow. Starting with the tallest center mast, glue the flag at the top of the mast, the mast between the two pieces of flag then attach the basket in the same manner. Next attach the all-white small sail followed by the all-white large sail. For the smaller masts glue a decorated sail at the top and then a large sail.

Fold the deck up and add glue just to the front u-brace bottom. Slide folded deck into flatten ship body matching the front body narrow tab with u-brace. Repeat with back u-brace and body tab.

Test opening ship. You may have to help train it opening all the way. Flatten to glue into the cardbase. Add glue to one of the ship body tabs and attach with end of tab being in the cardbase fold. Add glue to other ship body tab and fold cardbase flap over to attach. Wait until glue has dried to open.

(If you’ve read this far, click here to go to yesterday’s Blog Hop Giveaway)

Sentiments:  Stamp all sentiments before distressing the cardbase using Pirate Sentiments stamp set. On the front flaps are “It’s A Great Day to be a Pirate!” and “You arrr an absolute treasure.” Inside is “Let’s Be Pirates” and “Yo Ho Ho!” There is space inside for either a personal message or a die-cut sentiment such as Happy Birthday or Happy Father’s Day.

Envelope: This card will fit into an A7 (5 x 7-inch) envelope. (I choose to hand deliver the card because of the wax seal on the back of it.)

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Materials Used:

Dies

Stamps & Stencils

Papers

  • The Paper Studio – 12×12 Cardstock – Kraft
  • Black, Brown and Yellow Cardstock
  • Colored Cardstock and Packaging Scraps

Ink

  • Memento – Fade-Resistant Dye Ink – Tuxedo Black
  • Ranger – Tim Holtz – Distress Ink- Abandoned Coral, Fossilized Amber, Gathered Twigs, Lost Shadow, Mermaid Lagoon, Mowed Lawn and Saltwater Taffy
  • StazOn – Solvent Ink – Jet Black
  • Altenew -Artistry Watercolor Brush Marker – Spring Garden – Dusk Blue and Evening Gray
  • Nuvo Sparkle Spray – Cocoa Powder
  • Tsukinek -Antiquing Solution – Walnut Ink and Java
  • Sharpie – Permanent Marker – Chisel Tip – Black
  • Sharpie – Permanent Marker – Ultra Fine Tip – Black and Red
  • Sakura – Gelly Roll Pen – Medium – White
  • Recollections Opaque Marker – Snow
  • Pigma – Mircon 01 Fine Tip Pen – Black
  • Nuvo – Aqua Shimmer Brush – Glitter Gloss

Adhesives

Tools

  • Die Cutting Machine
  • Bone Folder
  • Stamping Platform
  • LDRS – Stampendable Stamping Tool
  • Stamping Blocks
  • Scissors
  • Pencil
  • We R Memories – QuickStick
  • Tweezers
  • Craft Mat
  • Craft Clips
  • Sponge Daubers
  • Wax Seal Stamp Kit
  • Honey Bee Stamps – Bee Creative Wax Stamper
  • Mister Bottle of Water

Miscellaneous

  • Natural Hemp Cord

Stamp & Scrapbook Expo Cards

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Just wanted to share the card fronts and light-up lighthouse card I made at workshops at the Orlando Stamp & Scrapbook Expo last week.

I took a class with Jennifer from Stamplistic on using the Spellbinder’s Better Press. We made a number of card fronts trying different techniques and papers. To get the letterpress look of an embossed plate, you need to use the thick cotton paper such as the Better Press papers. We learned to add sprays to the paper before stamping onto the paper for the crisp imprint and ink coverage of image. You can add a variety of ink colors to one plate, or use one of the new registration plate sets and print different colors in several printing passes. I found the Better Press to be a quick way to get professional and elegant looking images. The cost is more than rubber or clear stamps, but as long as you get enough ink on the plates, you get a professional looking image that you can then watercolor or color with alcohol markers.

Sabrina Leavell of Scrappy Tails taught a quick workshop on making a dimensional lighthouse with a Pear Blossom one light to make it light-up.

Lots of great and friendly vendors at the Expo too.

Sail-ebrating!

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This pop-up display card sail-ebrating life was made for Craft Roulette #196 whose parameters were a celebration project with apple farm colors, preserve(s) element and a dog.

A life preserver was my thought for the preserve(s) element, so I used my favorite life preserver die set from Scrappy Tails along with their A7 pop-up stand. (You can see a previous blog post for a tutorial on making the pop-up card.)

The dog is from Rubbernecker/Brass & Bliss.

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Ahoy! A Nautical Hello

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I am enchanted with Sabrina Leavell‘s new nautical collection of pop-up stand cards. (See more pop-ups – Life Preserver and Ship’s Wheel by clicking on them.)

For this pop-up 3D card, I used products from Scrappy Tails’ new Nautical 2023 June Collection.

Base: Stamp on kraft paper the Caribbean Map Stamp. (To see the map colored with its coordinating layering stencils look at A Map To The Caribbean.) Cut two of the Pop Up Stand from the map. Train the folds on each piece and glue tabs with slot for rubber band together. Add rubber band. (I used a #12 band.)

Anchor: Cut two anchors from gold cardstock and two anchors from kraft cardstock using the large die from the Anchor die set. Trim the rope pieces from the gold anchors. Using the rope pieces in the die set, cut two sets of ropes from kraft cardstock. With a sponge dauber, ink the rope pieces to create shading. Glue the rope pieces to the kraft cardstock anchors. Next, glue gold anchors in place.

Sentiments: Three of the six hot foil banners in the Nautical Banner hot foil plates set were used – “Lets sail-ebrate!” and “Waving Hello.” (I usually do batch hot foiling with my Spellbinders’ Glimmer Foil System because it takes time to set-up, heat-up and cool-down.) The sentiment banners are attached to the anchors with foam squares after being cut out using the coordinating dies. “Ahoy!” was cut from navy blue cardstock from the Set Sail paper pad three times using a bonus gift die. Each “Ahoy!” was glued in place on the base and envelope. Gems and pearls from the Set Sail Card Kit were added to each anchor.

Envelope: The card folds flat to fit into an A7 envelope that I decorated the back flap with the the remaining “Ahoy!” and a scrap of gold rope.

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Materials Used:

Dies & Foiling Plates

Stamps

Papers

Foils:

  • Spellbinders – Glimmer Hot Foil – Polished Brass

Ink

  • Memento – Fade-Resistant Dye ink – Tuxedo Black
  • Ranger – Tim Holtz – Distress Ink- Vintage Photo

Adhesives

Tools

  • Die Cutting Machine
  • Sponge Dauber
  • Craft Mat
  • Scissors
  • Spellbinders -Glimmer Hot Foil System
  • Spellbinders – Quick Trimmer

Miscellaneous

A Map To The Caribbean

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Taking a sailing vacation around the Caribbean Sea deserves a special bon voyage card.

For this shape card, I used products from Scrappy Tails’ new Nautical 2023 June Collection.

Map: Stamp on kraft paper the Caribbean Map Stamp. Using the coordinating stencil set –Layering Caribbean Map Trio, start with the grid stencil and brown ink. Use the next two stencils to add color to the land masses, ships, whales and compass. (I found it easier to use a white opaque marker to color the sails than use the stencil.) I used the A7 Compass Scroll die to cup the map making sure the words of “Caribbean Sea” were visible. To create the rolled back of the scroll, I die cut just the scroll portions of the die from kraft paper and trimmed to fit the map. I daubed brown ink to shade and age the scroll and map.

Cardbase:  Cut three scrolls from kraft paper using the A7 Compass Scroll die. Cut a 2 1/4-inch x 4 1/4-inch rectangle from kraft paper and fold in half longwise for the card hinge. Glue the hinge to one of the scrolls to be the cardback as shown in photo. Glue hinge to back of map scroll, matching the shape edges.

Trim over hanging bits of hinge. Glue the scroll edges together at hinge fold. Trim the remaining two kraft scrolls to fit inside the card and cover hinge.

Compass: Cut the nine dies that make up the compass from the A7 Compass Scroll die set. Use lightweight colored cardstock for the three main parts and ink them to provide depth and shading. Cut the smaller bits from gold cardstock.  Glue completed compass to inside of card.

Sentiment: Stamp in black, the “Let your dreams set sail” from the Set Sail stamp set on the top left of the map scroll.

Envelope: The card fits into an A7 envelope that I decorated the back flap with the Caribbean Islands banner fussy cut from the map.

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Want to see more of the Scrappy Tails nautical collection? Check out my blog posts:

Materials Used:

Dies

Stamps and Stencils

Papers

  • Kraft Cardstock
  • Matte Gold Cardstock
  • Blue, Brown, White and Yellow Cardstock
  • A7 ivory Envelope

Ink

  • Memento – Fade-Resistant Dye ink – Tuxedo Black
  • Ranger – Tim Holtz – Distress Ink- gathered Twigs, Fossilized Amber, Saltwater Taffy, Abandon Coral, Cracked Pistachio
  • Recollections – Opaque Marker – Snow
  • Sharpie- Permanent Marker – Fine Point – Red

Adhesives

Tools

  • Die Cutting Machine
  • Stamping Platform
  • LDRS – Stampendable Stamping Tool
  • Stamping Cloth
  • Sponge Dauber
  • Quickstik Tool
  • Craft Mat
  • Scissors