Big Shot Tutorial - Reshaping with your Framelit

Hi everyone and happy Friday.  I am glad you decided to stop by today.  It has been a little crazy around here as the collection of items for my daughter's new apartment keeps growing by the day.  We spent time shopping this week for items needed to cook and clean.  It has been really stressful on her so I will be happy once the move in underway and we can get her settled.  My hope as we go into the weekend is that the shopping will be finished and I will still be able to get into my craft room!!

On the card I shared with you yesterday, I used my framelits Label collection to make the centerpiece of the card.  I used them a little differently and wanted to share a tutorial with you on how to make the centerpiece if you would like to.  There will be a lot of photos and not a lot of words just so you know.  So let's get started shall we.

 

The supplies you need for this are your big shot, your platform, the cutting pads, the set of framelits and the card stock you will need.  I tend to always use scrap first if I have a large enough piece.  

 

This is the Label Collection of framelits.  When you purchase then, they are secured to the inside with tape.  I always loosen them from the tape and put a magnetic strip in its place.  Since the framelits are metal, they will attach to the magnetic strip.  This is a personal preference of mine.  

 

This shows you the framelits I will be using.  Notice I chose the 2nd largest one and the one immediately after it in size.

 

Place your platform base on the big shot.  You will be using tab 1 on it.  Place the first cutting pad on top of it.  Next lay your piece of card stock onto it and place your framelit on top of it.  The final piece will be the other cutting pad being placed on top and then run it through the machine.

 

Here is your framelit once it is cut out.  After removing the metal framelit from it, place the label back onto your bottom cutting pad on top of the platform.

 

Using the same framelit, place it on top of the cut out label perpendicularly. Once the framelit is in place, place your top cutting pad back on top and run it through your big shot again.

 

As you can see, it cuts out the same points on the other sides and you now have a unique shape to use on your project.

 

Now I would repeat the entire process with my second color of card stock and the smaller framelit.

 

After you cut it once, do the same preparation to cut it again just like the other one.

 

And now you have your unique shape in 2 sizes.  This allows you to layer them or do whatever you would like.  

I did not get a chance to make a card with these today due to apartment furnishing shopping.  I am going to make one this weekend though and will have it for you to see on Monday.

I am so glad you stopped by today.  I wish you all a wonderful weekend and hope you find time to just have fun and relax.  I am hoping for some of that relaxation time myself.  Come back and visit me on Monday.  Until then, thanks for stopping by today!

A New Flower Tutorial

Hi everyone and happy Wednesday!!!  I hope your week is going well.  I am catching up on some housework and enjoying my crafting time.  One week from today my youngest daughter will be moving out.  It is amazing how fast the time has gone.  I am truly happy for her to be in a place where she feels ready to start the next chapter of her life.  As for me, well, ask me in a couple of weeks how I am doing.  Right now, I am fine and right after she moves out, my sister will be having foot surgery.  I am guessing it will be a few months before the reality of her being gone truly sets in.  Enough of this.  Let's talk about today's post.

I happen to be on Pinterest the other day and came across this card with the coolest Lily flower I had ever seen on it.  I wanted to learn how to make it and found it is rather simple to do.  I decided I would share my first attempt with you by showing you step by step how they are made.I want to thank Debbie Henderson for making the card I saw and sharing these wonderful flowers with us all.  Let's get started.

 

Here are the supplies you will need to make the flowers:

The two-step bird punch; scraps of Lucky Limeade and Whisper White card stock; Lucky Limeade and Daffodil Delight ink; sponges for the inks; and a liquid adhesive (not shown in photo).

 

To begin use your two-step bird punch and punch out 2 bird wings from Lucky Limeade.  Next punch out 3 birds from the Whisper White and 5 of the bird wings.  This is all you will need to build your flower.

 

Next, sponge the edges of the leaves with Lucky Limeade ink.  Then sponge all the wings and birds.  I sponges Lucky Limeade ink on one side and Daffodil Delight on the other.

 

Now it is time to start building your flower.  Begin by attaching the leaves together with a liquid glue.  This is the foundation of the flower.

 

Then you will attach the birds using the same liquid glue.  As you can see, they are layered on one at a time behind the leaves.  There is no exact science for your angles.  Just make it how you want it.

 

Once you have the birds on, you will continue the layering with the 5 bird wings.  Again use the liquid glue to attach these.  Angle them how you like.  With the liquid glue, you will be able to manipulate them a little to move them into the place you want for the look you are happiest with.

 

I made 2 of the flowers.  As you can see one is smaller than the other.  Personally this does not bother me.  After all, if you think about real flowers, they are all unique and individual so the look and size of these gives it a more realistic quality.  

Tomorrow, I will show you the card I put together using these flowers.  Any changes I make to them will be pointed out.  I hope you will come back to see my card.  Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a wonderful rest of the day!!!!

Oval Shaped Card Tutorial

Hi everyone.  As promised, I have the tutorial on how to make the oval card for you today.  There are a lot of photos and it may seem long but hopefully it will help you.  So let's get started.

 

Start with a piece of card stock for your base card cut at 5 1/2" x 8 1/2".  You will score it at 4 1/4".  I used Tempting Turquoise as my color but use whatever color you want for your card.  As you can see in the photo I use the scoring tool on my paper trimmer to score my piece.

 

I folded my card on the score line and placed it onto my cutting plate.  I used a little painters tape to hold the card in place.  These corners are going to be cut off so I do not need to worry if the tape pulls on them.  I do this so that the card stays in place and closed for me to line up my framelit.  I have left a small area of the framelit off the fold of the card.

 

Here is a close up of the fold line.  As you can see an area of about 4 scallops are off the card.  This will leave an area intact for the card to function properly.  Run it through the big shot and then set the newly cut card aside.

 

Next take a piece of 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" of your base card card stock and run it through the big shot using the same framelit on it.  You want this one to be a whole oval so be sure all the edges are on the card stock.

 

The image on the left the is whole single layer oval while the image on the right is the base card.  You can see on the card the area that is flat where the card is intact.

 

Next open you card up and using a ruler measure from the fold line to the edge.  Find the middle of the card and put a small dot using a pencil so you can find it once the ruler is removed.

 

I then take the card still opened and place it on my paper trimmer once more.  I line my pencil dot up along the line where my scoring tool will run and score the card all the way across.

 

Here is another view of the card after the front is scored.

 

Now fold along that score line inwardly so that it causes the front to stand up.

 

Place runner adhesive along the area below the score line.

 

Now take the whole oval and being careful to line up the scallops, attach it to the front of the card.  The adhesive on the bottom half will hold the oval in place while the lack of adhesive on top will allow it to fold into the easel.

 

If you want to have your card as an elongated card, start with a base card cut at 4 1/4" x 11", scored at 5 1/2".

 

Line the oval framelit up leaving some of the folded edge exposed.

 

Here you can see the exposed edge.  

 

Here is the whole oval on the left and the folded card on the right.  You can once again see the flattened edge where the card is still intact.

 

Again you will measure from the fold line to the edge of the card and mark it with a pencil dot.  Use your paper trimmer and score a line across the center of the card front.

 

The fold will fold inward to create the stand for the card.  

 

Attach the whole oval to the card by putting adhesive on the bottom half of the front of the card below the fold line.  Again be careful to line up the scallops so when the whole oval is attached to the card it looks like one piece and not an attachment.

Well there you have it.  It is really pretty simple to make.  I do hope you will give this a try.  Now I just need to decorate mine and they will be ready for someone special.  I will share these with you once they are completed.  

Please come back by tomorrow to see me.  Thanks for stopping by today.

Card Shapes

Hi everyone and welcome to Friday, the final day of yet another week.  I am happy to say that when I took our daughter back to the doctor to have another blood test, the results showed she was improving and on her way to feeling better.  I was truly worried for a while.  As a parent you never want to see your child ill but Heather has always been my child that never keeps it simple.  It is always extreme.  Unfortunately, my husband has been home sick too.  His seems to be sinuses.  Of course being a man, he is refusing to go to the doctor.  I am keeping a close eye on him though and will take him if necessary.

Now to today's share.  My craft room was invaded yesterday by my youngest daughter Kaitlyn.  She needed to make a Valentine's card for her boyfriend and wanted it to be in a heart shape.  She was really struggling trying to cut a heart she was happy with and soon she asked me for help.  I knew just what to do to make a heart shape card and thought I would share this technique with you.

To do this, you will need a piece of card stock, the set of heart framelits and your big shot.  A scor-pal would be helpful too but not necessary.  Let's get started shall we.

 

I started with a piece of Island Indigo card stock and scored it down the center at 5 1/2".

 

Next, using my bone folder I folded the card stock in half along the crease line.

 

Place the folded side of the card stock on a cutting plate on the platform for your big shot.  Take out the largest heart from the framelits set.  It just happens to be scalloped which makes for beautiful edges.  Lay the framelit on top of the card stock being sure to have a small piece of it off the edge so the card will stay intact.  Run it through the big shot and when you take it out and remove the framelit...........

 

This is what your card will look like.  Notice the flat pieces at the top of the heart.  This is where the framelit was off the edges and the card stays as a card instead of two separate hearts.

 

Here is a close up of the inside area of the card where I left the card stock intact.  Now I just have to decorate it.  To see the decorated card you will have to come back on Monday!!

Well that's it for today.  Try this out for yourself.  It is always fun to have cards in different shapes.  I am going to hope that all of you have a wonderful, healthy weekend and that my family gets well.  I shall return on Monday with my decorated card for you to see.  Thanks for stopping by today!!!!!!!

A New Tip For You

Welcome to Monday and a new week everyone.  I thought that I would start this week off by giving you a heat embossing technique.  This tip should come in quite handy if you love to emboss like I do. 

Have you ever been creating a card or scrapbook page and wanted to emboss an item on it?  Did you ever need a specific color of embossing powder only to find you do not have it and cannot get it from anywhere?  Well that has happened to me on more than one occasion.  So when I learned this technique I was thrilled.  Let me show you how you can emboss a stamped image with any color you want.

 

To get us started, you will need an image you want to stamp, a VersaMark ink pad, a colored ink stamp pad, clear embossing powder and your heat gun.  I decided to stamp the gingerbread man from the Scentsational Season stamp set.  As you can see I have the clear mount set so I also had to get my clear block out for it.  I have a Whisper White piece of card stock all ready to stamp on so let's get going!!

 

Step 1:  Ink your stamp completely using the VersaMark ink pad.  Be sure to cover the entire stamp image with this ink.  

 

Step 2:  Once you have applied the VersaMark ink, apply your colored ink to the stamp.  Yes you are adding it on top of the VersaMark but it will be okay I promise.  Be sure to cover the entire image with the colored ink too.  For my gingerbread man I used Chocolate Chip ink.

 

Step 3:  Now that you have both the VersaMark ink and the color ink to the entire image, stamp your image onto your card stock.

 

Step 4:  Now that your image is stamped, cover it completely with your clear embossing powder.  By using clear, we are allowing the natural color of the ink to come through, just in an enhanced way.

 

Here you can see the gingerbread man after he is heat embossed.  The color looks nice and rich which is what I wanted for him.

 

I took this second photo of him so you could see the shine you get from the embossing.

 

Here you can see another image I embossed with clear powder, this time using Garden Green as my colored ink.

 

Again this photo is just to show you the shine of the embossed image.  

Once you try this you will be hooked.  It is so nice to know I can emboss in any color I would like to emboss with.  It allows you a much broader range for making your cards and scrapbook pages look unique.  I do hope you will give this a try and will love it as much as I do.

That's it for today.  I hope this tip is helpful.  I will be back tomorrow with another share for you to see.  Until then, thanks for stopping by to spend a little time with me. 

How To Make A Shape Card

Happy Friday!!  We have once again made it through another week.  The other day I was looking at some tutorial videos and came across one on how to make a card and shape it using the edgelits from Stampin' Up!.  I really liked the card and decided I would make one.  For my share today, I will show you step by step how to make this card.  The person who made the video is Darlene Devries and you can go visit her site and view the video by clicking here.  Now on with my photo tutorial.

 

To get started on this you will need your big shot, the Adorning Accents Edgelits from SU!, a 4 1/4" x 11" card which you score at 5 1/2", a piece of 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" solid color card stock piece and a piece of designer series paper cut at 4 1/4" x 5 1/2".  I used a base card of Very Vanilla for my card.  I chose to use Cherry Cobbler as my solid piece of card stock and used a piece of dsp from the pack of paper called Be of Good Cheer.

 

First you will need to fold your card in half.  Then add snail (runner)  adhesive to the back of the solid color card stock and attach it to the front of the card.

 

Here is the card with the Cherry Cobbler attached to it.  My flash really messes with the color.  I will have to remember that in the future.

 

Next, take out your edgelit that you will be using.  Now I know you cannot see it in this photo but I have put a small dot using a Sharpie marker at the center point of the edgelit.  That way I can make sure I get the edgelit centered before putting it through my big shot.

 

I use painters tape to adhere the edgelit to the card stock prior to running it through the big shot.  I used large pieces here but normally I use smaller ones and make sure the tape it sticking to the part that will be cut off so my card stock does not tear on the side I will be using.  You can see my center dot on the edgelit in this photo.  I use a ruler as a guide when finding the center of the card stock and placing the edgelit.  

 

As you can see, this is what it looks like once the edge is cut off.  This is my card which means it cut through 3 layers of card stock at once.  That is so awesome!!!!!!!  Now you will repeat this step on the other side of the card so only the ends are straight.  

 

Here's what it looks like when it is finished and open.  Pretty isn't it?

 

Next, we are going to do the same thing on the dsp that we did on the card.  Center the edgelit on one side and run it through the big shot to trim it off.

 

Now this dsp is going to be a layer on the front meaning I do not want it to be edge to edge.  I want a border.  So start by placing the dsp on your card (no adhesive) and mark where the dips are.

 

See my pencil marks?  This will tell me where the piece lines up on this edge.  From this mark, I will move the dsp down to double the border in size so there will be a border on each side.

 

Once it is lined up as you want, turn the card with the dsp still in place over and trace the edge on the back side of your dsp.  This will show you where to line up the edgelit.  Place the edgelit and run it through the big shot.

 

Here is the designer paper after both sides have been trimmed off.  I think it looks good.

 

Now you can add runner adhesive to the back side of the dsp and attach it to the card.  You can see that I have a border on each side.  This will serve as my beginning to a card I am making.  Now if you want to see what I do to this card, you will just have to come back by on Monday and visit.  

Well that's it for this week.  I wish you all a wonderful weekend.  Have fun and be safe.  Thanks for dropping by today.  See you all Monday!!!!