Amber's Crafts and Stuff Weekly Challenge #4

Good morning bloggers,

This week over at Amber's Crafts and Stuff, the challenge is to use a technique that is new to you. I decided to try and make a shutter fold card. Oh, in case you haven't caught on yet...my favorite colors are green and brown. :0)





Details:
I started with a 5.5 by 12 inch piece of paper. I scored the paper at 2, 4, 6, 8, and 10 inches. I then turned the paper 90 degrees and scored the paper at 1 and 3/8 inch. Then rotated 180 degrees and scored again at 1 and 3/8 inch. Here's a photo showing the score lines:






Now using either your paper trimmer or a craft knife, cut along the 1 3/8 inch line from the 2 inch score mark to the 10 inch score mark. Repeat on other 1 3/8 inch line.

Now the complicated part. Please look at this picture first.






With the top and bottom section, starting at the 2 inch mark, fold back. At the 4 inch mark, fold forward. At the 6 inch mark, fold back. At the 8 inch mark, fold forward. With the middle section, fold back at 4 inches and forward at 8 inches.

Next, select your pattern paper. With the "T" section, trace the section onto the paper and trim 1/16th from all edges. You will also need 4 pieces cut at 1 3/8 by 1 7/8, 2 pieces at 1 3/8 by 3 7/8, 1 piece at 2 3/8 by 3 3/8. Confused yet?

Dry fit all your pieces before adhering down. I cut the Kanji Tag, which means mother, from Pagoda at 3 1/4 inch. The shadow circle is cut from George. The filigrees are cut from Graphically Speaking at 1 1/4. The flowers are cut from Designer's Calendar at 1 inch.

I don't own a stamp that says "Happy mother's day" so I just hand wrote it. I plan on putting a poem on the back part before sending it to my mother. If you haven't tried this type of card, give it a whirl and come back and let me know so I can check it out!

Stay Crafty

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FCCB Challenge #51 - Hip to be Square

Good Evening,

I just wanted to post my project that I will be entering into the weekly challenge over at The Fantabulous Cricut Blog. This week's challenge was to create a square card using green and gold (bright yellow was also acceptable). So here's my card:

Details:
Card base is 5 x 5 inches
Yellow mat is cut at 4.75 x 4.75 inches
Gingham mat is cut at 4.5 x 4.5 inches
Square clover is cut from Designer's Calendar at 3 inches
Ribbon is from my stash that I got from Oriental Trading Company and the stamp is from a set I got at Michael's

It's doubly squared. LOL! I was actually able to get 3 cards done tonight while the man-friend and his daughter were at boxing class. Oh how I love Tuesday & Thursday nights!! Have a wonderful evening.

Stay Crafty

Have A Sham-rocking Birthday

Good evening bloggies,

Well I'm all done with the wedding invitations, so it's time to tackle some other projects that are coming up. Firstly, one of my besties has a birthday in March.

Since she's partly Irish, it only makes sense to have an Irishy birthday card.

This is a 5 x 7 inch card. I used my Fiskar's boarder punch to make the edge stand out. The brown piece is 2 x 7 inches that has been embossed with the Cuttlebug Swiss Dots folder. The shamrock and it's shadow were cut from Designer's Calendar at 3 inches. I put a 5 x 7 mat on the inside to make the boarder stand out as well. The sentiment was printed from my computer and matted on the same brown paper to make it pop. Both the shamrock and sentiment are on 3D dots to add dimension.

The outside says, "You don't need Irish luck..." and the inside says, "To tell you that you sham-ROCK". Because she does!! I downloaded the font from Da Font. It's called YY Unical Most Irish and I think it fits perfectly.

I will be traveling for work this week so I won't have much time to craft. I'll be back next week with some more things I need to get done. Babies, babies, and stationary.

Stay crafty!!

Crafter's Block Cont.

Yesterday I posted the beginning (Jan, Feb, and Mar) of the calendar I did for the man-friend's mother. Since I still haven't made it into my craft room I am going to post the rest of the months.

Hope you like the rest of the pages.

Stay Crafty

Crafter's Block

Hello everyone,

I have to admit, I didn't get anything done in my craft room over the weekend. I had some sort of crafter's block. I added a few touches to a couple of projects, but didn't really complete anything. I blame the cold that I'm catching and a super hyper 10 yr old that was "rocking out" in her room.

So instead of a super new project, I'm going to share the calendar that I gave my man-friend's mother for Christmas. I wanted to give her something special that included ALL of her family in it. Here are the snapshots for January, February, and March.

I believe all of the cuts in these images are from the Designer's Calendar Cricut cartridge. That background paper is from a stack by Karen Foster called the "Biggie Bundle - Throughout the Year #3". I got it at Michael's for a steal!! The calendar itself is from Oriental Trading Company. Surprisingly, it's a very sturdy calendar and worth every bit of the 9.99 that I paid for it. Here is the link to it if you want to check it out. The only thing that I've added to these pages were some Jolee's Gold Coins for March.

Stayed tuned for the next 3 months: April, May, and June

Stay Crafty