Happy Birthday Fun "Tri-shutter" fold card

Hello, how are you?
It's been a very wintery day here today. I s'pose because we live on a mountain the weather has really drawn in. It is winter time here so it kind of goes with the territory (forgive the pun!). If you live across the other side of the globe you may have a warmer time of it. Mind you, you take the weather with you don't you? Meaning it can be really miserable outside but sunny on the inside.

My card today is a fun one. It is a "Tri-shutter" fold card. Let me show you . . .

The basic instructions to make the base card can be found on the Split Coast Stampers website, resources section.

I used a green coloured card-stock from my ever faithful DCWV Neutral Card stock Stack Pack.

Then all the panels were covered with patterned design paper. The selection included:

Crafters Choice Pastel Basics 120 Paper Pack

K& Company 12" x 12" Daisy Printed Embossed Paper item code: 643077 63479.

Once the panels were covered it was a question of adding all the embellishments.

On the front panel:

I used JustRite Stamp set, Topsy Turvy Cakes – CR-02230 and Memento Black Tuxedo ink pad and stamped my images onto X-press it blending card.

I coloured the cake with Prisma Color Pencils and blended the colours using the Gamsol Technique with Stumps and Gamsol. There is a video showing you how to do this, click> HERE.

I then cut and embossed my image using Spellbinders Classic Ovals Large S4-110. 

On the middle panel:

I used JustRite Stamp set, Botanical Butterflies CR-02245  and Memento Black Tuxedo ink pad and stamped my images onto X-press it blending card. I used my Prisma Color Pencils again and blended them together as before with Stumps and Gamsol.

I cut and embossed this image using Spellbinders Standard Circles LG S4-114.

Additional embellishments used were: October Afternoon SIDEWALKS Chip'n Stick Chipboard Stickers CB830, NitWit Collections – So Berry Precious Label/Tag, Hero Arts Stamps & Sizzix, Die Cut Antique Flowers & Butterflies, Martha Stewart Large Monarch Butterfly, Golden Yellow Wire Butterfly and Dragonfly from Spotlight and a Gold Peel-Off Happy Birthday sentiment.

Here is a more detailed (and visual)  list of the ingredients I used:

DCWV Neutral Mat Stack 12 x 12	Crafters choice pastel basics 120 paper pack	K&Company 12 x 12 Daisy Printed Embossed Paper Item code: 643077 63479	Copic BLENDING CARD X-Press It Paper Pack of 10	JustRite Stamps "Topsy Turvy Cakes" CR-02230
JustRite Stamp Set Botanical Butterflies - CR-02245	Prisma Color Pencils	Paper Stumps for Gamsol Technique	Gamsol for blending technique	Spellbinders Classic Ovals LG S4-110
Spellbinders Standard Circles LG, S4-114	Hero Arts Stamps & Die Cut ANTIQUE FLOWERS & BUTTERFLIES Sizzix 657773	Martha Stewart Large Monarch Butterfly:	NitWit Collections - So Berry Precious Label/Tag	October Afternoon SIDEWALKS Chip'n Stick Chipboard Stickers CB830

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So there you have it, a "Tri-shutter" fold card. One of my first and I really enjoyed making it. I'm sure I'll make more of these styles of cards now I have tried this particular fold.
Thanks for stopping by.

The "Hush Hush" Commission for Dave's Birthday

G'day, how are you today?
Today is July 11th and the day I can show you the card that has been hush hush until now. You may recall that the brief was for a Red and Black card. I can now tell you why.

The story starts in December 2011 when I received my first commission from Gail (Dave's Wife) to make him a Christmas card; and more critically that this would be a key component of her gift to him.

OK no pressure!
I thought about what I would do for a while. Then I happened to be in the Reject Shop in Coffs Harbour and they had some Fabulous Gift boxes on sale - - - and I found the perfect box.

It inspired the card. Let me show you . . . .

It was a BIG box about 12" tall and 9" wide and about 3" deep. I placed it on our Lounge floor to photograph the lid and the base together.

In the bottom of the box wrapped in red tissue paper would be Chocolates, Sweets, Christmas Cookies etc. the card would sit on top as shown here.

My next pictures show this in more detail
. . . . Take a look . . .

Here is a close up view of Dave's Christmas card.

So, the reason for his Birthday card being Red and Black was because "THE BOX" was to make its appearance again.
My card would need to be another large one, if it wasn't to look lost in the box. The finished card size of his Birthday card is 81/2" x 9". 


Here it is:

How did I construct it?
I began by creating the card base by matting and layering DCWV Black card-stock, on top a red card-stock layer (from my stash bought at Office Works).

Then on my computer I used the small (and FREE) program that you may have come across called Wordle - word clouds.
By entering a whole heap of words you generate a word cloud.

This is a reiterative process until you are happy with the look. You can change the orientation and font (to some extent).

Once I got the layout I liked, I printed off Two copies. I intended to do some colouring and decoupage.




I adhered one of the printed sheets onto the top of the card ensuring I cut it out with a white border. On the bottom of the card I added a black piece of card stock. I used a piece of diagonal striped black and white ribbon from my stash and covered the join.

Next I coloured the second printed sheet using my red Copics: R29, R27, R24. Then I cut some of the words out and decoupaged them onto the card in the appropriate place. I used Spica Clear and Red pens to add a bit of shine to the words I had coloured.

It's amazing where you get your inspiration from isn't it? I saw a card made by one of the Blogsters I follow and she had used the New Wild Rose Studio - DIY Legend A7 Clear Stamp Set and I knew it would be a stamp that I would use, so got myself one. NOW was when it was exactly what I needed. I coloured it with a variety of "N" and "C" type Copic pens. As it was a bit like a James Bond image and I thought I would add 0054 not 007. (Can you guess why???).

I looked on Google and came across a copyright free Drill Bit image. Then I made some quick pennants by hand, using red card-stock and added the numbers using gold peel-offs. The white lines were made with a Motolow paint pen. I placed these pennants over red and white bakers twine and attached them to the Drill bit image I had printed off.

To finish off the card I added a couple of Antique Silver Franchecille metal charm embellishments. Then used Xmas Red and Crystal Stickles to add a bit of glitter.

For inside the card I used Word Art on my computer and played around with colours and layouts to make the image you see here. I printed out the words and fussy cut them out; sticking them onto red card-stock which created the matted layer on the inside of the card.













Here are the details of most of the ingredients I used to make this card:

DCVW Bright Mat Stack Pad 12 x 12	Scor-Pal Tool	New Wild Rose Studio - DIY Legend	At You Spica Pens - set B	COPIC Sketch Markers
Google searched Image - Drill Bit	Stickles - Crystal	Stickles - Xmas Red	Really Reasonable Ribbon - Bakers Twine	Francheville metal charm embellishments: Antique Silver
Molotow White Paint Marker 127HS

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Thanks very much for stopping by to read about the "Hush Hush" card. I certainly enjoyed making it - once I knew what the main concept would be! Hope your day is going well.

My Little Helper

Hi, How are you going today? Well we have started the countdown for the number of sleeps left before we are off to Kenya for our 6 week assignment on the 24th July. The penny dropped when we figured we would be in the air flying to Africa in 15 sleeps! We have been working on this for some time so to be this close seems a little weird. It is said that the waiting is the worst; maybe so!

Not sure if you got my previous posting. If you did all well and good. If not you will see it below this posting.
My card today is a cutie - in my humble opinion. I mean the image. It is actually called "Monday's Child" and is from Mo's Digtal Pencil. I prefer "My Little Helper".

Here it is:

Isn't he adorable?

Firstly, I layered and matted  a piece of Brown DCWV neutral card stock onto my white card base (5" x 7").


On top of that I used a 6" x 6" sheet of My Minds Eye Lime Twist - Life of the Party. I cut it into two to stretch to fill the page and added a strip of a similarly patterned MME Design Paper from the same 6" x 6" pad which was matted onto a strip of the same brown DCWV card stock I had used earlier.


I also created another strip for decorative effect which I laid at an angle on the bottom right of the card base.


I printed my image onto smooth white blending card stock and cut it out and embossed it with Spellbinders Classic Squares LG S4-126.

Here is the image in more detail. I coloured it using my lovely Copics:

Skin: E50, E51, E11

Hair: C7, C5, (also Marvy 1122 Le Plume II Black)

Dungarees: YG61, YG11

Shirt: Y11, Y0000, G0000

Mud: E47, E37, E97

Hose: B0000, G0000

Spade: C5, C3

Background: G0000

I layered and matted the coloured image using the second design of MME papers with my brown DCWV card stock as you can see. I then used 3D foam pads to adhere the square medallion onto my card.

To finish I stamped the "Happy Birthday" sentiment using a Memento Rich Cocoa Ink pad and the "Spring Words" stamp set from JustRite Stampers CR-03640. I cut, embossed and layered the sentiment onto a piece of Gold Mirri card that I was also cut and embossed using Spellbinders Label Twenty-Three dies S4-347. Last thing, I added a couple of metal dragonfly brads from my stash.


.. and there we have it. Hope you like him, he just makes me smile!

Mo's Digital Pencil - Monday's Child - My Little Helper	COPIC Sketch Markers	Marvy 1122 Le Plume II Black Pen	DCWV Neutral Mat Stack 12 x 12	MME Lime Twist - Life of the Party 6 x6 Paper Pad
Spellbinders Classic Square LG S4-12	JustRite Stamp set Spring Words CR-03640	Memento Rich Cocoa Ink Pad	Spellbinders Label Twenty Three S4-347

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Thanks for stopping by today to read about "My Little Helper". I hope you have had a Great day.