Pop Up Card - Valentine Flowers

This is the most dramatic pop-up mechanism I have

ever come across.

It's much easier than it looks and no measuring required!

I've used a DL size for my card.

( I like to make it slightly wider than standard,

 I score along the A5 half fold score  line

and it still fits easily into a DL envelope).

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 'golics' has made a video tutorial at 'instructables',

here's the link: pop up flowers 

He has tons of fabulous 3D projects.

He's very fast with his instructions so I've included

two download sheets to help:

1) Glue positioning guide

2) Flower positioning guide

The sentiment stamp (miss you) is from Paula Pascual's
'Big Sentiments' set. 

I layered two of the flowers from my

'Six Petal Flowers' download sheet.

Printed onto red lightweight card, cut out and

glittered with black holographic glitter.

The embossed background was made using:-
Craft concepts embossing folder 'Budding vine'

 'LOVE' was a free stamp from a stamping mag

(quite some time ago).

I'll find the mag and post the details -

it has to be one of my most used stamps.

I stamped onto red card using VersaMark and

embossed with 'detail gold' embossing powder.

Glue Positioning Guide

Only use a dot of glue as shown.

If you glue the whole petal the flowers

won't pop up correctly.

Guess how I know that!!!

Flower Positioning Guide

Download Sheet One

Flower Centres - Black

click on image & open fully before saving

Print this sheet twice 

onto any colour A4 lightweight card.

Cut each sheet into four equal pieces.

Follow golics instructions for folding

& cutting the flowers.

You only need seven so you'll have one spare. 

Download Sheet Two 

Six Petal Flowers

click on image & open fully before saving

These flowers and hearts are sized so they can be

pyramaged on top of each other if you prefer.

Download Sheet Three 

Hearts

click on image & open fully before saving

Happy Valentine's Day.
Hope you have fun!

Thanks for taking the time to visit my blog

 Elaine x

Tim Holtz at the NEC Birmingham

Guess who we met at the NEC this weekend?

It doesn't get much better than this...

Mum, Tim and Me

What a fantastic Guy.

A HUGE talent and so willing to share his knowledge.

Isn't it obvious that he absolutely loves his work.

No Ego - just a fantastic sense of humour and a wonderful personality.

We managed to snap a few samples of his work to show you.

 He just makes everything look so effortless

This was made by Tim's friend, Karen - isn't it fabulous! 

The flowers are grungepaper, covered in printed paper then inked with the Rangers new colours.

Grungepaper holds it's shape, so when the petals are curled they stay put.

You can visit Tim's Blog here: Tim Holtz - Live the life you've imagined...

Still pinching ourselves!

Janet and Elaine

Pop Up Christmas Card - 'Snowmen'

This card was made using exactly the same process explained in our earlier post - 'Pop Up Card Tutorial'.

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Instead of using the decoupage sheets 'Presents' I stamped and cut out two snowmen  - ('Funstamps - Snowman' wood mounted stamp).

I've had this stamp for at least a couple of years but this is the first time I've actually used it. How bad is that!

The snowmen were stamped using VersaFine Onyx Black then coloured using watercolour pencils and a blending pen.

The background is chalked then stamped over with a small snowflake stamp. I stamped in VersaMark and used 'Seafoam White' embossing powder.

To finish I added crystal glitter highlights.

I doodled the 'snow ball mountain' and the snowmen are juggling doodled snowballs mounted onto the tips of acetate strips so it looks like they're in mid air.

I wanted the second snowman to reach out from the card and his arm to be in a different position to the original stamp.

Masking off didn't work so here's what I did:

- Changing a stamped image -

1.  Stamped the snowman twice. Cut out the second - I used this later, to trace round (4).

2.  Pencilled in the shape I wanted the second snowman's body to be.

3.  Inked over the pencil, dotting inside my inked line (to match the style of the stamp's lines).

4.  Placed the cut out snowman, from earlier, where I wanted the second hand to be.

5.  Pencilled round the arm and hand.

6.  Worked over the pencil lines as before.

7.   Finally I cut out the amended snowman.

8.  The variation on the original stamp.

Hope you have a go and thanks for visiting!

X



For free Xmas pyramage & backing papers click here

 

Pop up Valentine Flowers - click here

Free Downloadable Decoupage Sheets - Christmas Robins

As Christmas is just around the corner here's a quick and easy Christmas card project for you. We've really enjoyed making the samples and there are two free downloadable sheets at the end of this post.

A4 half fold card - 'from our family to yours'

The background was made using our Hero Arts 'Leaf Flourish' wood mounted stamp and VersaFine Onyx black ink.

The ribbon is 6mm wide red grosgrain (a favourite of ours).

Applying Glossy Accents to the eye gives the robin it's typical bright eyed look

These cards are very easy and quick to make and the ribbons give them a real touch of luxury.

The holly was simply punched from lime green light weight card, using our large holly punch, and edge-tinted with VersaColor 'Tea Green' Add berries using a red marker and finished off with Glossy Accents. Alternatively you could use small red gemstones.  

This card uses our 16mm red grosgrain ribbon, bows are not always necessary, with some of the wider ribbons a knot can be just as effective and much easier!

Here we used our red satin 'baby ribbon', it's a small card and so the delicate baby ribbon suites it perfectly.

Or just keep the cards simple by mounting the images onto coloured card.

We've kept the outlines very simple so there's no fiddly cutting out.

Click on the sheets below to open full size then save.

Finally - here are links to three wonderful sites with information on our beautiful native Robin:
RSPB - Robins
BBC Wildlife - The secret life of the robin leaving the nest
Arkwildlife - Robin

Thanks for visiting and have fun!

For free Xmas pyramage & backing papers click here