Birthday

Quint-Essential Flower Card 6-6-12

Quint-Essential Flower Card
Quint-Essential Flower Card 6-9-12

This stamp has 5 concentric designs, each with a matching punch.  Stamp it five times, punch with different punches, and you have a fabulous focal point for this card.  I used this card to introduce the new 2012-2014 In Colors, so we stamps in Midnight muse on all 5 new colors then used the Dahlia Adornments in the center.  I love the way the Delicate Designs embossing folder repeats the circular patterns.  We stamped Thank You on this card, but it is really open-ended the way you use it.

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Quint-Essential Flower Card 6-9-12

Double Twist Easel Card 5-12-12

Double Twist Easel CardThis card folds flat, but has 2 panels that can be tipped up and propped open.  It needs an image that without a definite top so the bottom image looks OK upside down, but it looks great sitting on display.

 

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Double Twist Easel Card 5-12-12

Double Twist Easel Card
Double Twist Easel Card, open

Medallion Pillow Box 5-12-12

Medallion Pillow Box
Medallion Pillow Box 5-12-12

The die, punch, and card stock used on this card have been retired.  {sniff}  I don’t usually hang on to retired products, but I still have my Pillow Box Die and a small stash of Glossy card stock.

If you don’t have the die, it’s not impossible to make the box.  It just takes a bit more work. The Medallion stamp has been retired too, but you could substitute Daydream Medallions.  The Pillow Box goes together quickly.

 

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Medallion Pillow Box 5-12-12

Pop-up Layer Cake 5-12-12

Pop Up Layer Cake
Pop Up Layer Cake 5-12-12

This card uses simple slits and folds to add a 3-D pop to cards.  We made them into a birthday cake and on the instructions you’ll see a wedding cake I made with the same method.  I have also seen this technique used to make stacked birthday or Christmas gifts or baby’s building blocks.  It’s all in the way you decorate it.

Pop Up layer Cake 2012-5-12

 

 

 

Flip Flop Card Embossed Aluminum 3-26-12

Flip Flop Card Embossed Aluminum Foil
Flip Flop Card Embossed Aluminum Foil 3-26-12

Yep.  You read that right.  Regular heavy-duty household aluminum, glued to card stock for strength, and run through the Big Shot in an embossing folder.  We did the flip flop by getting fancy with the cutting plates on the Big Shot.  Sounds harder than it really was.  Try it!

 

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Flip Flop Card Embossed Aluminum Foil 3-26-12

 

 

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