Stick It Down Aug. Card

   Welcome back to my blog. Today, I will be sharing my take on this month's Stick It Down card sketch. When I first saw this sketch it had me a little confused about how to approach it.

As you can see I changed the sketch a bit but it still has the bones of it. I made the framed area larger and used puffy stickers as the accented squares. 

Supplies: Carta Bella), cardstock (the Paper Studio and Cardstock Warehouse), stamp (Hampton Arts), ink (Altenew), stickers (Pinkfresh studio and Echo Park Paper Co.), sequins (SpiegelMom Scraps), foil (We R Memory Keepers), tool (We R Memory Keepers) 

   I have to say I love the touch of foil. I used the freestyle foiling pens from We R Memory Keepers to do the sentiment. I stamped the sentiment onto the foil and traced it with the pen. 

The frame was a leftover of a cut file from a different card. I thought it was a the perfect way to frame the stamped image. 

                   

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Jungle Elephant Card - DRU

 Happy Friday everyone,with a fun jungle card that uses an elephant die and stamp set. First, create your card base, I used brown cardstock and matted it with dark green cardstock. Set aside. To create the die-cut panel first dry emboss it, I used a woodgrain folder. Offset the die on one edge and run it through your machine. 

Now stamp the elephant toward one edge on cardstock and color. 

Now stamp the leaves and die-cut it. I usually have to do this step twice since I always do this step backward. 

Adhere the stamped cardstock, emboss/die cut panel, and add the finishing touches (sentiment, die-cut, and gems). 

 

 Dies R Us Product Used:

Stampendous - Stamp/Die Set - Elephant

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Pocket Card - Dies R Us

Today's blog post is a fun how-to to create a card with an inside pocket. 

   

I created a little diagram to help visual learners.  Once you got the card base cut and scored place the die on the card front and die cut it. 

  As you can see I used the love word die from Paper Smooches. Keep the die-cut handy since we will be using it in a minute. I wanted to keep this card simple so I just fussy cut a watercolor stamped image and used foam tape to pop it up on to the card. 

   Cover the angle piece with your desired paper. Now fold the card so the angle cut is on the inside of the card. Glue along the inner and bottom edges. With the card close glue the love die-cut on the inside of the card by placing it in the negative area of the card front. Accent the sentiment with a Funky Floral #3 die-cut. 

   For the finishing inside touch, I added the same Funky Floral #3. With this inside pocket, it is great to hold a gift card. 

  Here is the completed card. 

 Dies R Us Product Used:

Sizzix Tim Holtz Funky Floral #3

Paper Smooches Love word 

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