Taylored Expressions

One Layout- Three Cards

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Using the Craft Roulette Funn Sentiments #01 stamps and dies sets and Concord & 9th Make Some Noise dies, I created three different birthday cards using the same basic elements, but switched up the papers, card orientation and inside sentiments. All the cards are A2 (4.25×5.5-inches) in size.

Watch the process video to see how I made these cards.

Below are the details for each card.

Blue Stripes Materials Used: Craft Roulette Funn Sentiments #01 stamps and dies sets * Craft Roulette Funn Friends #01 stamps set * Concord & 9th Make Some Noise dies * Taylored Expressions Stencil – Plaid * Bay Blue Velveteen Felt Paper * Stellar White Carnival Groove Cardstock * White Copier Paper * Craft Consortium Little Robin Redbreast Paper * Dark Blue and White Cardstock * A2 Envelope * Memento Paris Dusk Ink * Clear Sequins * Stickles Sunburst * White Gel Pen * Liquid Glue * Foam Squares

Orange Dots Materials Used: Craft Roulette Funn Sentiments #01 stamps and dies sets * Craft Roulette Funn Friends #01 stamps set * Concord & 9th Make Some Noise dies * Photoplay Stencil – Dots * Karen Burniston Crosshatch Rectangle die * Stellar White Carnival Groove Cardstock * White Cardstock * Craft Consortium Little Robin Redbreast Paper * White Copier Paper * Spellbinders Orange Cardstock * A2 Envelope * Sunbird Spark Ink – Canyon, Dahlia, Mulberry & Ochre Ink * Nuvo Glitter Gloss * Stickles Sunburst * White Gel Pen * Liquid Glue * Foam Squares

Teal Tiles Materials Used: Craft Roulette Funn Sentiments #01 stamps and dies sets * Concord & 9th Make Some Noise dies * Paper Discovery Moroccan Nights Background stamps* Karen Burniston Big Birthday Charms Balloon die* Craft Consortium Little Robin Redbreast Paper * Pale Blue and White Cardstock * Your PaperInsider Sliver Holographic Oil Slick Envelope * White Copier Paper * A2 Envelope * Unknown Water Soluble Ink in Teal & Pale Blue* Clear Sequins * Black Fine-Line Pen * Liquid Glue * Foam Squares

Envelopes:  The cards fit into A2 (4.25x 5.5-inches) size envelopes stamped with “HBD” on the back flap in inks and papers that coordinate with each card’s specific materials.

You can also see another post using a similar layout by clicking here.

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Materials Used:

Dies

  • Craft Roulette – Metal Dies – Funn Sentiments #01
  • Concord & 9th – Metal Dies – Make Some Noise
  • Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Big Birthday Charms – 1180
  • Karen Burniston in cahoots with Riley and Company – Rectangles – Crosshatch – 1054

Stamps

  • Craft Roulette – Clear Stamps – Funn Sentiments #01
  • Craft Roulette – Clear Stamps – Funn Friends #01
  • Paper Discovery – Clear Stamps – Moroccan Nights – Moroccan Background

Stencils

  • PhotoPlay – Say It With Stamps – Plastic 4×9-inch Stencil – 3-Piece Dots by Becky Moore
  • Taylored Expressions – Plastic 6×6-inch Stencil – Plaid – TESN63

Papers

  • Craft Consortium – 210x297mm – 200gsm Double-Sided Papers – Little Robin Redbreast
  • Spellbinders – 8.5×5.5-inches 100# Cardstock – Persimmon
  • Your PaperInsider – Box 10 – 8.5×5.5-inches 235 gsm – Bay Blue Velveteen Felt Paper
  • Your PaperInsider – Box 10 – 8.5×5.5-inches 100# Cover – Stellar White Carnival Groove
  • Your PaperInsider – Box 10 – 4.25×5.5-inches 60# Text– Sliver Holographic Oil Slick Envelope
  • Blue and White Cardstock
  • Fraser Papers for William House – A2 Envelope – Genesis Text Milkweed Smooth

Ink

  • Memento – Fade Resistant Dye ink – Paris Dusk
  • Sunbird Spark – Velvety Dye Ink – Canyon, Dahlia, Mulberry & Ochre
  • Unknown Water Soluble Ink – Teal & Pale Blue
  • Pigma – Mircon 01 Fine Tip Pen – Black
  • Sakura – Gelly Roll Pen – Medium – White
  • Nuvo – Aqua Shimmer – Glitter Gloss

Adhesives

Tools

Miscellaneous

  • Clear Sequins
  • Ranger – Stickles (Glitter Gel) – Sunburst

Shabby Chic Trifold Card

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How do you dress up an old stamp set? Add it to some distressed vintage-style floral papers and stamps and heat emboss the sentiment.

My creative mojo has been missing and to jump start it I tried stamping an older Art Impressions tri-fold stamp and die set and coloring it using watercolor pencils. Next, I fussy cut out the three images and went searching through my stash for some fun paper to make the card base from.

Because I had some mini slim envelopes in my stash, I made a 3 Âź inch x 6-inch tri fold card from two pieces of heavy Dress My Craft cardstock that is printed only on one side. I cut one 3 Âź inches x 12 inches piece of rose patterned card stock and a 3 Âź inches x 6 Âź inch piece of green leaves patterned card stock. The long rose piece I folded in half and the smaller leave piece I scored and fold Âź inch in from one of the smaller sides. The Âź inch tab was glued to the back of the fold rose piece to form a tri-fold card.

Because the inside of the card was plain white, I added pink vellum stripes to hide my seams inside and them covered the inside front and back panels with floral patterned paper from my stash which I believe was from Stampin’ Up.

I positioned my stamped, colored and cut out floral images following the layout on the packaging to determine the positioning of the front image. I traced the inside of the opening onto the card front and used the accompanying die to die cut the hole. Next, I glued the image in place on the front. I did the same for the middle image on the second flap, positioning the image so it shows through the aperture cut in the first image and then die-cutting the aperture. The final image was positioned, traced and then glue in place on the central panel.

Decorative patterned borders were stamped using several stamps from LeCrea Designs Lacy long stamp set. The “Happy Birthday” was gold heat embossed using a stamp from an older Apple Blossom stamp set.

Stamped on the back flap of a mini slim envelope from Taylored Expressions is the clover chain stamped in the same “Always Artichoke” green ink as the inside of the card.

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If you enjoyed this tri-fold card, check out some of my other trifolds:

One In A Melon

Festive Foliage and Hearts – Trifold card

Santa Vintage Trifold

Sleepytime Dreams

Materials Used:

Dies

Stamps

Inks/Embossing Powder/Watercolors

Papers

Miscellaneous

Work Bench

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WOrk Bench-inside

Not every dad has a work bench, but many do and the recipient of this Father’s Day card was a carpenter when his family was young.

Much of my inspiration for this card has come from a variety of Pinterest posts of 3D workbenches and some tool bench and tool box posts on Craftworld.com.

To make the bench, I stamped the Stampin’ Up hardwood stamp twice on light kraft paper. I cut the stamped pieces out to their edges of 5 inches x 5 ½ inches. Next, I scored down the long side at 1/2 inches, 2 ½ inches and 4 ½ inches. Using a pencil on the back side of the scored paper, I drew a line at 3 1/8 inches (5/8 inches below the 2 ½ inch score line). I also drew lines ½ inch parallel to the short edge from the 5-inch edge to the 3 1/-inch pencil line on each side. These pencil marks should form a smaller rectangle that needs to be cut out to from the lower center portion to form the table legs. Save the rectangle to cut two drawer fronts. I punched holes for black button shaped tiny brads to go thru to form the drawer pulls. (And then used foam tape to adhere the drawers to table front after it was all folded and glued to card.) Age the edges of drawers and table top with some Distress ink and a sponge or brush before gluing table into card.

Mean back to the table. All the score lines should be mountain folds with the woodgrain facing up and pencil marks hidden underneath. From the second stamped piece cut the lower shelf 2 ž inches by 5 ½ inches. And then score at ½ inches and 2 ½ inches down long side and make into mountain folds. Make pencil marks on back of each leg 3/8 from bottom foot flap. You will glue the edge of shelf at these marks. Once the shelf is glued on to legs the bench is ready to install on card. Mark the inside back of card at 3/8 inches and 2 inches from center fold. These marks are what you will use to glue the tale top and shelf flaps to on inside card back. Once the table is glued to card securely, glue the table leg flaps down.

Because I used dies by three different brands, none matched the others in scale, so I adapted the Divinity Designs pegboard and hooks to work with the tiny Tayored Expressions tools set. The picture frames are scraps from the table that I darkened with Distress inks. The tiny photos are of photos of the recipient’s family reduced in Photoshop to ¾ inches wide and printed on computer printer. The “Happy Father’s Day” was die cut from two die sets. Foam tape was used to adhere all items to the table top. All the tools were cut once from silver card and then again from colored or stamped card scrap to cut handles which were then glued onto silver base tools.

The front of the card was made using a mat of graph paper, a computer printed sentiment given to me by the card giver and the die cuts of hammer, nails and saw were from the larger set of tool dies by Sunny Studio.

WOrk Bench-Front-Envelope

I used the matching stamps from Sunny Studio to stamp the hammer and saw “x” on the envelope flap. The hammer was stamped first and then, using a post-it tape mask over the saw, I stamped the hammer.

Other Father’s Day cards on my blog

A Tool Box Father’s Day

A Fishing Father’s Day

A Father’s Day Waterfall Pop-Up

A Work Bench Father’s Day Card

In-Vested Father’s Day Card

Supplies used:

Dies

Stamps

Papers

  • AC Cardstock – 5 x 7 in set of 8 kraft cardstock cards & envelopes
  • Computer paper
  • Colored and silver matte metallic cardstock from my stash
  • Graph paper

Inks

Miscellaneous

New Dies!

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There is nothing so exciting to a papercrafter as new materials and dies arriving in the mail! I managed to have two such boxes (Karen Burniston and Taylored Expressions) and a raffle goodie basket full of Stampin’Up papers, stickers, cards, inks and stamps all sitting on my crafting table at the same time.

Below is the split personality card that evolved from all these fun items.

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I used:

Karen Burniston  in cahoots with Riley and Company dies:        karenburniston.com

  • 1043 – Fancy Label Accordian
  • 1044 Fancy Flourish Frames  (These fit nicely over the tabs connecting the frames together and blend the three different colored cardstock.)

Taylored Expressions dies:         www.tayloredexpressions.com

  • TE600 – Golf Ball & Tee
  • TE1089 – Hole in One

Stampin’Up:       www.stampinup.com

  • TeaRoom Memories & More Card Pack
  • Tea Room Copper Vinyl Stickers
  • Baker’s Twine – Bermuda Bay
  • A Nice Cuppa Stamp Set

Cardstock from my stash in

  • Bold Teal Blue
  • Pale Blue
  • Bold Green
  • Pale Green
  • White

Hampton Art’s Pale Blue Ink Pad

CraftSmart’s Light Blue Ink Pad

Tombow Aqua Mono Liquid Glue