Playing With New Cardmaking Tools

April 30, 2024April 28, 2024 | ullycatdesigns

I just got a lovely shipment from Craftstash of papercrafting tools. Included in the package were a layered tapestry stencil set by Lou Collins in her TEXT{ures} brand and a Creative Craft Products gift box maker scoring board with ball tool. Below is a stenciled pillow gift box that I made with these tools.

Stenciling: The four layering stencils in Lou Collins’ Ornate Layering A5 Stenciling Set creates a multi-color tapestry design in the William Morris style. Because I don’t have a stenciling platform or jig that works with the stencils, I taped the first stencil onto the center of my 8 1/2 x 11-inch piece of cardstock and used a marker to trace the jig holes at the top of the stencil onto the cardstock, so I could line-up the various stencils each time. I used a variety of small ink blending brushes to ink in each stencil. I found the small detail brushes worked well as did the larger surface brush on all areas of the stencils. (Sorry I don’t know the brands of the various brushes I used.)

Pillow Box: I used the stenciled piece of cardstock to create a pillow box for a gift card using the Creative Craft Products gift box maker scoring board with ball tool. First I trimmed the cardstock to the 15cmx15cm recommended size and then sandwiched the cardstock between the acetate and scoring board and taped the edges of the acetate at the corners. Next, I used the small end of ball tool to trace over the red pillow box template lines and then turn the cardstock 180 degrees to mark the opposite end’s eye shaped fold/cut lines. After trimming off the excess cardstock, I adhered the side tab to the other edge with double-sided tape.

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There’s Always Room for Cake

December 21, 2020December 21, 2020 | ullycatdesigns

There is always room for indulgence on one’s birthday. This card is inspired by the Daisy Mae Designs bakery and sweet shops collection of stamps and stencils.

I created the gingham stenciled background with the striped stencil inked one way for the vertical stripes and then turned once to ink the horizontal stripes in coral ink. The doily is inked with the green pistachio through a stencil. The cake was stamped with a permanent black ink and then colored with watercolor pencils and mixed using a waterbrush.

Sentiments stamped on the front of the card come from the Daisy Mae stamp set while the inside sentiment is a Spellbinders’ foiling plate.