Bambi!

Today I have 3 cards that came from some Disney papers and three stamped images I received from a friend. The structure is the one I saw created for an A2 card, that I re-made as a 5 x 7 - measurements listed in this post. 

Card #1 (above): I colored the stamped images with my Inktense pencils and water.  The stamped sentiment is from a Studio G small stamp set called Birthday Wishes.

Inside:

Inside is the third stamped image & a stamped sentiment (Crafter's Companion Compendium (CCC) - Birthday-Female).

Card #2:

Next is a card made with the prettiest of the three papers.  I paired it with a kraft colored card and green patterned paper from my stash.  I inked the edges of all papers, adding a cut out image with sentiment pieces from a HOTP set.

Inside:

Inside, in addition to papers done the same way as on the card front, I added a piece of tan card stock with inked edges.  The sentiment was again from CCC - Birthday-Female.

Card #3:

Striped paper, along with a with a strip of the Bambi paper, form the card front.  Washi tape borders focus the attention on the Bambi focal.  The sentiment is a cut out from a freebie download from Debbi Moore.

Inside:

Inside is more of the striped paper & a stamped sentiment (CCC - Thinking of You).

Multiple Patterned Papers

Today I have some cards made with 3 sheets of coordinating 12 x 12 patterned paper.  The first two cards have 3 different patterned papers on the same card.  This is a REAL challenge for me.  I just usually prefer either no pattern or one pattern - maybe two - seldom more than that. But, I wanted to meet the challenge I saw posted, so I decided to try my best.  The rest of the cards use one or more of the patterns. 

Card #1:

This is a banded fold back card.  The inside has the small square pattern matted with red, and the outside has the striped matted with red.  I also used matted striped for the band. Then I fussy cut the squares from the largest pattern & matted those with red before adding them as you see here.  I finished with a matted die cut sentiment (A2 Card and Box Set from Card Making Magic) and large Jewel Dazzels for the center of each square.

Opened:

As you can see, I added an extra band piece so I could put the little pop-up girl on it.  I also stamped the message "Stay young at heart!"  - Crafter's Companion Compendium stamps (CCC) - Birthday Male page.

Card #2:

Once again I have 3 patterned papers on this card.  As you can see, I matted the layers with read again.  This time I did not use Jewel Dazzles, but added a punched circle to the center of the large square.  The sentiment is again from the A2 Card and Box Set.

Inside:

Matted paper and a stamped sentiment (CCC - Congratulations page).

Card #3:

This one is quite different - I started seeing the lines as waves and went looking for something that lives in the sea.  In addition to a blue card stock mat, I used a blue Sharpie marker to border all elements (except the porpoises - which were fussy cut freebie downloads from somewhere).

Inside:

Inside I added more of the blue card stock, a stamped message (CCC - Inspirational), and scrap from a calendar page.

Card #4:

This card actually has FOUR patterned papers on it because I added a blue patterned paper as part of the matting.  But this time I made things REALLY challenging for myself.  I started by cutting squares from some of the patterned papers.  BUT, I cut them too small - 1" square - and that meant I had a BUNCH of them.  Here's the first card I made with them and I only used a small fraction!  Anyway, I had planned to put a 3 x 2 grid of squares, but when I saw how small these were - even after TRIPLE matting - I decided to make a 4 x 3 grid instead.  As you can see, I used an embossed piece of card stock (Kitchen Weave by Cuttlebug) for a background and pulled the middle two pieces out, turned them on point, and had them on either side of my focal - which is another multi-layered square, but bigger.  On the bigger one, I wrapped a scrap of lacy ribbon before adding the sentiment to it.  The sentiment is one of my Mom's stamp & die cut sets & I threaded a piece of card stock through it - finishing the ends like I would if it were a ribbon.  

Inside:

As you can see, I added strips of the same embossed card stock and 4 more of the multi-layered squares.  The sentiment is from CCC Inspirational.

Card #5:

Here I used most of the rest of those little squares I talked about in the description of the previous card. I embossed the front of the cream colored card base using the same Kitchen Weave embossing folder as I used on the last card.  I inked all the edges of the little squares, and aligned them on strips of a dark red card stock as you can see in the picture above.  I had a leftover strip of striped paper that I matted on the red before gluing it horizontally across the center.  The focal is a fussy cut image from the 3rd printed paper - matted with dark red, placed on the larger striped square (with foam tape) - also matted on dark red.  The sentiment is a cut out from a freebie download (Debbi Moore).

Inside:

Most of the rest of the squares & a couple more strips of dark red form borders on the inside.  The stamped message is one from CCC - Birthday-Female.

Card #6:

I'm getting desperate to use up these papers at this point!  So - I recognize that I need to make a bigger dent in the large patterned paper, so I cut out a bunch of the larger images to use on this card.  As you can see, I used the smaller print as the background - with a dark red frame.  To this, I add a strip of the striped paper - matted on the red.  I matted the larger print pieces on cream and arranged them as you see, then I added a die cut sentiment (A2 Card & Box set from Card Making Magic).

Inside:

The border is another strip of the small print - matted with dark red.  More of the cream matted larger prints, and a stamped sentiment (CCC - Birthday Male) complete the inside.

Card #7:

Here's the FINAL card from these papers - YAY!  Since the papers are multi-colored, I've enjoyed pulling different colors for the mats.  This time I tried yellow mats - but they didn't work as well as I would have liked, so I double matted by adding green.  This worked better.  After adding the strip of striped paper for a background, I scattered a bunch of the larger print pieces and the die cut sentiment (A5 Box Kit from Card Making Magic).  I needed something else, so went through my stash and found this panda freebie printout (from Debbi Moore).

Inside:

A couple of strips - one of the striped, one of the small print - double matted with yellow & green create a border.  A couple more of the larger patterned pieces, and a stamped sentiment (CCC - Birthday - Male).

Flowering Fields Diamond Z-Fold

This card, a slimline diamond Z-card, is made with Stampin' Up! papers - Flowering Fields and Brights Designer Series Paper.  The picture above shows the card partially open so you see all the "diamond" shapes.  Here's a quick look at how it was made:

Card Base is a slimline (9" x 4" folded size) with the card front folded back at the half-way point to form a Z-fold.  The first step was to cover the inside panel and the outside panel with the patterned paper - matted in red. 

Then I cut two squares that were 2 3/4" to form the outside diamonds.  I used the plaid paper, matted on red, for the background of these two diamonds.  I fussy cut a set of tulips from the patterned paper and matted it on white before adding it to the top diamond to create the focal.  I stamped the sentiment (Heartfelt from Crafter's Companion Compendium) on white, matted it on red (both had corners rounded) and added it to the lower diamond.

For the inside, I took a piece of white card stock that was 3" tall and 4" wide.  I scored vertical lines at each inch along the width and creased them to create a square pillar shape.  I added red paper to the two middle sections - then glued the two ends to the center of the card with ends just shy of the fold and middle sections facing out.  This created a pop-up square column that is 3" tall with red mat on the two visible sides.  Now I cut a white square that was 2 1/2" and matted it with the red dotted paper.  I again fussy cut a tulip group from the paper and matted it on white before adding it to the 2 1/2" diamond.  This diamond was glued to the pop-up column AFTER I trimmed the left corner so that the right point just touched the right side when the card was closed (see picture above). 

The last step was to cut a piece of red card stock to a 2 1/4" square, and a 2" white card stock square.  The white was matted on the red, then turned to diamond shape and stamped the sentiment (again from the Heartfelt sheet) before gluing in place so it was hidden behind the upper outside diamond shape when the card is closed.

3 Swap Cards for January

First up is a swap card that was was to have the theme of winter.  As you can see, I made a rabbits in the snow card.  The background is a patterned paper from Stampin' Up - from a pack called Feels Like Frost.  I matted this with a piece of brown paper from my stash.  The rabbits were fussy cut from some freebie downloads, and the stamp was from a small stamp set called Birthday Wishes - from Studio G.

Inside:

As you can see, I took the remaining piece of patterned paper, matted it, added another fussy cut rabbit, and glued it to the card as a border of sorts.  I finished by stamping with a stamp from Crafter's Companion Compendium stamp set - page called With Love.

Next up was a materials swap.  Here are the materials I sent to my partner - using an identical set to create a card myself:

A sheet of plain white card stock for making a card base, some printed digi freebies - papers & focal elements, a piece of glittered card stock, a heart-shaped paper doily, some ribbon, some Jewel Dazzles, and a couple of die cut words (dies from a card making magazine I bought - Die Cutting Essentials Issue 54 - from a die set called Piece by Piece.

Here's the card I made from these materials:

This card is a 5 x 7 version of the card I showed in this post - the one I call a Cut Away Card with Add On.  You can see the basics of how to make it there, but here are the measurements for creating a 5 x 7 version from a sheet of 8 1/2 x 11 card stock.  

(NOTE: You really want to use fairly firm card stock for this card because in the 5 x 7 size it will be quite flimsy otherwise.)  For the card base, cut a piece that is 5" x 10 1/2" - then score it at 7".  From from the remaining card stock, cut a piece that is 3 1/2" x 5" - this forms the "Add-On".

For patterned paper, I cut three pieces that were 3 1/4" x 4 3/4".  Two were of one pattern - for the inside & outside of the card - the other was a coordinating pattern - for the cross piece attached to the card front.  (Because I added ribbon which showed on the back of the cross piece, I added another piece of the 2nd paper to cover that in the back, but it could be left plain.)  If you want to mat these pieces - you will cut the mats these sizes & then cut the patterned paper at 3" x 4 1/2" (which would allow you to get both from a 6 x 6 piece of paper - with a 1 1/2" strip left over that could be cut down for a border on the cross piece if you wished.  In this case, I was using printed digi papers, so had more left.  

For the focal, I started with a fussy cut printed floral heart (freebie download).  This was placed in the center of a heart-shaped doily - which was matted with blue glittered card stock which I cut to fit.  I added a strip of ribbon that went under the focal piece, but over the mats & cross piece.  Another bit of ribbon was tied into a bow and added at the point of the focal heart.  A strip of white card stock was cut with one of my punches, and the die cut words added for a sentiment - glued in place as you see here.

Inside:

As I mentioned earlier, I added the papers you see.  I also added 3 Jewel Dazzle stickers in the upper right corner.  I expect to be adding a stamped sentiment when I figure out what I want to say - but I could just write a personal message in that space instead.

And finally, here are the materials I got from  my swap partner:

And the card I made from it:

As you can see, I started with the "checkers" patterned paper - which I cut into strips for borders (inking the edges with black ink).  Next, I used the "cards" patterned paper, cutting it into some card shapes - which I inked before adding to the card.  I cut another one from a cream colored piece of card stock.  Two fussy cut hearts from the "cards" paper were added to the corners, and an "A" sticker completes the "Ace" card.  A bow made from the lacy ribbon, and a stamped/fussy cut greeting (Happy4Banners by The Stamps of Life - added with foam tape) completed the card front.

Inside:

A stamped greeting (Crafter's Companion Compendium - With Love) and card/border (as for the front) completed the inside.