Papier Tole

Here's another example of Papier Tole from Paper Wishes.  I LOVE these.  They make such special cards - with a bit of metallic shine to them and all the lovely dimension.

As you can see, this card has the bulk of the papier tole on the INSIDE of the card, but the birdhouse shows through the front window and there is a bit of it attached to the front of the card to add a bit of interest.  Most of the supplies are from Paper Wishes, including the base card and the lovely paper on the front.  Peel-off stickers frame the window and the border with the outline sticker greeting.  The message inside is stamped with silver ink using the "Mix Your Messages" set from Paper Wishes.

Spellbinders in Red & White

Today's post shows a card made with Spellbinders Dies (Labels Four) and a unique fold.  This card is done like a gate fold card except that instead of meeting with a straight vertical edge, the edges meet on the diagonal.  The stamps are from K & Company - SeraSera Clear Stamps.  I find I use them quite a bit as they are very versatile.  You can't tell it well in the picture, but the ribbon is white with red metallic threads running through it and really sets the card off nicely.  When you open the card, it looks like this (one tip got cut off when I scanned it, but you get the idea):

Embellishments from Punch Scraps

Today's page demonstrates the use of punch scraps.  In this case, the borders and frame embellishments are the "leavings" from a corner punch.  I love the detail they add, though I would hate to have had to glue them down without my Xyron.  That makes it MUCH easier to apply glue to the back of all the little pieces and make them into little stickers. I also like the interplay of light on dark and dark on light.

Make Your Own Punched Borders

This scrapbook page had a lot of information that needed to be conveyed, so there wasn't a lot of room for embellishments (in the scrapbook, it is beside a large picture of the persons being discussed on this page).  I wanted to dress the page up a bit and help it go with the one beside it a bit better, so I used the same color maroon that I used for the background of the accompanying page and made a couple of borders out of it.  Though the borders look like I might have die cut them, I used a simple border punch to create them.  Here's how I did it:

1. Measure how deep the punch goes -- including the part that is punched off.  You can do this either by punching a part of an edge and measuring near where you stopped, or by measuring from the paper guideline on your punch to where the punch guides end.  For this particular border, I used the Fiskars "Lace" border punch.  It measures about 9/16th of an inch deep.
2. Double this amount and add a bit for the distance you want between punched edges and cut a strip of paper that is this wide and as long as you want your border to be. In this case I cut two strips of paper that were approximately 1 1/4" wide by 10" long.
3. Punch all along both sides of your strip of paper, lining up with the guides on the punch as you normally would.

Don't forget to save the little punched out scraps.  Tomorrow I'll show you what I did with scraps from punched edges and corners.