Pop Up Scrapbook Card

Hi All! Hope your week is starting out well. Worked on this card over the weekend. I had told Tracy about my idea and was dying to show it to her after I finished it last night. Since I wanted it to be a surprise, I didn't want to post it till I could show it to her in person. This is actually Teri's Pop Up Scrapbook that I scaled down to card size. Instead of using 12x12 paper, I used 8x8, so each square came out to a 4x4 size.

I didn't really intend to give this card to anyone, but since the girls at Island Scrapbooking have become my friends, I thought I'd give this to all of them...

Here's the first "page"... Caption says "Meeting new friends"

"Page" 2... "Who share"

"Page" 3.. "The same interests"

Finally- the last page... "as you!"

See, she's now with all of her new friends!

In case you are wondering, yes, I stamped the lanterns, stickled them, and then cut each one out. I then strung them using a lei needle. I poked holes in each page and knotted them so that the lanterns would stay in that section.

It actually didn't take as much time as I thought it would. Waiting for the stickles to dry took the longest.

Don't know if you can tell, but each doll actually pops out from the background. It reminds me of a little doll house. I guess that's why I decided to use the Japanese doll set by Hero Arts.

Supplies used:

Japanese girls- Hero Arts

Markers- Copics

Washi paper- Hanko designs

Cardstock- Bazzil

Sakura punch

Crystals- Hero Arts

Stickles

Gold cord

Ribbon

Dew Drops

Have a great week!

Magic Card Class

Just wanted to share some of the cards from today's Magic Card class. We all had the same paper kit but the girls in the class chose different stamps to work with. All of them came out so cute!

Here's the card when its closed.....

Abracadabra!

Here's Amy's card using the Greeting Farm Dhalia stamp..

Here's Belinda's card using the H&G Sing stamp...

Here's Susan's card using my favorite- Snuggle stamp.

And finally, here's my card featuring either Hope or Grace... not sure which is which!

These gals were so talented that eventually the students didn't even need me there!

Sorry to my first class- I forgot to bring my camera! I know I'm so junk. I'll try to remember next time so I can feature all of our cards.

Magic Card (adapted) Tutorial

As requested, here's the tutorial of my version of the Magic Card (adapted by me). It was adapted from the instructions posted on Split Coast Stampers. I had problems following their instructions, so I made some adjustments and it works better for me.. hope it helps you!

Supplies:

One 4 1/4” by 5 1/2” cardstock– card base (you can also replace with an A2 card so it will open)

· One 8 1/2” x 10 1/2” for cover (if using patterned paper cut 8 1/2” side facing up; 10 1/2” side should be facing sideways)

· One 3 1/2” x 5 1/2” white cardstock– for colored image.

· One 4” x 5 1/4” piece of white cardstock (backing for non-colored picture). Note- I've found that I've had to trim this down a little so you may have to too.

· 1 sheet of Acetate (~ 4 1/2 “ x 6 1/2”- allow room for trimming).

· One 1/2” x 3” of cardstock– for top of image.

· Ribbon

· Paper flowers, flourishes, crystals, Stickles (all optional) Tools:

· Stamp– The Greeting Farm images are recommended because of their size. Try to use line stamps (not those that are filled in).

· Stamp– Greeting (optional)

· Paper cutter

· Score blade or bone folder

· Markers or color pencils

· Double stick tape

· Scissors

· Staz On black in pad

· Spellbinders Oval dies- you can try using different Spellbinders shapes.

· Hole punch (1/8”)

· Circle Punch

· Sizzix Big Shot

Instructions: 1. Score your 8 1/2” x 10 1/2” cardstock horizontally at 5 1/4”.

2. Reposition cardstock vertically and score it at 4 1/4”. You should now have 4 panels.

3. Change to a cutting blade and cut out upper left panel.

4. Cut off 1/4” off the long side of the right panels.

5. Cut on score line between the right side panels leaving 1/2” on each side. (hint: If you turn the paper horizontally, start cut at 1/2” and end at 3 1/2”. Hope you can see where I cut on the score line.

Put piece aside for now and work on stamped image.

6. Using 3 1/2” x 5 1/2” of white cardstock, stamp image ensuring at least 1/4” on each side and at least 1/2” from bottom. Try to center image as much as possible.

7. Color image as desired.

Note: You could stamp a sentiment here if you want to. I normally wait till the card is almost done so I can see if I have enough room for the words.

8. Lay acetate over image and try to center it– leaving space to trim acetate.. Note: if you are a good stamper, you could probably use a smaller piece of acetate, but I leave room so I can trim.

9. Stamp image using Staz On black ink. Don't laugh at my stamping... I didn't re-do it because I just wanted to make this tutorial! Normally, I would have re-done it. I put it on blue so you could see that it was stamped on the acetate.

10. Adjust acetate so that it lines up perfectly with colored image. Using double stick tape, adhere acetate to the top of the image so that it lines up perfectly.

Its hard to see but this photo shows the double stick tape at the very top of the cardstock.

I start lining it up from the bottom of the image and work your way up so that you don't accidently get the acetate stuck to the image in the wrong place. You should have excess acetate over the cardstock.

11. Trim excess acetate so that it is the same size as the cardstock.

12. Carefully trim off 1/4” from each side of image keeping 1/2” at the bottom. (hint: at 1/4”, trim up to 5” from top- stop at 5").

13. Now, trim off the strips you just cut. You should have a tab at the bottom of the image. Cut off the tab from the ACETATE ONLY. Keep the tab on the cardstock.

If you look closely, you can see that I just cut off the acetate tabs and not the cardstock. If you cut the cardstock tab, your slider will not stay in the card! This photo isn't that good I know... Sorry!

14. Take 1/2” x 3” cardstock and score at 1/4” (in half the long way).

15. Using double stick tape, adhere to the top of the image/acetate piece so that it covers both.

16. Get card cover piece and fold top right panel down, so that there are 2 panels (side by side).

start with this...

end up like this

17. Get the card cover piece and on the left panel, line up stamped image to the bottom of the card. Center image.

18. While holding the image in the center, get the largest oval Spellbinder’s die and center over the stamped image.

19. Carefully remove the image while holding the oval die in place. This is the only way I could figure out how to cut the hole where I wanted it!

20. Cut oval using Sizzix Big Shot Machine. Re- measure to see if you cut it correctly.

21. Adhere white 4” x 5 1/4” cardstock to the back piece (piece w/oval cut from it will go over this piece.

22. Punch a 1/2 circle for the tab at the top of the card cover.

23. Carefully insert the card from the bottom. This photo shows where the slider should go.

There are 2 pockets that you can slip it in– it should go in the back pocket.

26. Pull image up from the top of the card through hole on the top– card should not be able to pull completely out from the pocket.

27. Carefully pull out the acetate sheet only and insert it into the front pocket (where oval window was cut).

28. Test mechanism to see if when you pull out image from top if it appears colored.

29. Punch a hole at the top center and attach ribbon.

30. Fold excess cardstock of card cover over the card so that it closes it in the back. Tape card cover closed. You could score the excess piece at ~ 1/4" but sometimes the cardstock is too thick and it won't close well.

31. Adhere card cover to card base.

32. Your card is almost complete! Just embellish as desired.

I'd love to see what you do with this card! The possibilities are endless! Have fun!

Favorite Butterfly

This is my favorite butterfly stamp. I've pretty much had it since it came out, but have never used it yet, till today. Its so pretty- I just love how the design on the wings are all hearts! I'm pretty sure it was a valentine's day stamp, but since its a butterfly, you can use it all year round.

Anyway, had this leftover scrap paper from when I did the Mykai card and thought it would work well as an asian butterfly.

The more I use my Copics, the more I love them! Who knew blending colors would be so easy?

Thanks for stopping by! For all of you who have requested the Magic Card tutorial, I'm almost done with it... I'll be posting it after my class on Saturday, so stay tuned if you want the instructions. I hope you can follow it- Its so hard to translate the steps when you can't point to what you are talking about! In class its so much easier to be able to explain myself. Oh well- hope you guys can figure out what the heck I'm trying to say. If not you can always email me/post a comment and I'll try to explain my nonsense! Hope Blogger doesn't give me problems like I was having last night! Grrrrr.

Anniversary Pop Up Scrapbook

My mom has got to be the hardest person to buy a gift for. The only thing she seems to like from her kids are things that we make for her. It would be so much easier if buying her a nice blouse would make her happy, but I can just hear her say... "Thanks, but I really like it when you make me scrapbooks.".. Yes, my mom is very blunt and has been known to say- "Why would I want that? I only have one body", or "I have so much stuff in my house, I don't need any more stuff", or even "Even free I don't want it!". That last one was stated at a local craft fair in which I had to hold my head down in shame. I have since trained her to be more considerate in front of crafters since they are the ones who actually make the stuff and can get hurt feelings from these types of comments- I know, I've been there.

OK- so back to the story about the scrapbook. Joe (stepdad) is a photo fanatic. He is the one who makes everyone take photos during gatherings that we all dread, but are actually happy later when we get the photos.

So, keeping these two personalities in mind... a scrapbook is probably the best gift you can give to them... unless of course you are willing to do their yard. Now that I got the hang of making the pop up scrapbook featured on Teri's blog, I decided that this would be an easy but impressive gift to give to them to document their Anniversary party. Given the fact that we had only about 10 photos taken the whole day, I don' t think I would have had enough photos for a regular scrapbook anyway.

Here's the 1st "page".

2nd "page"

Mom's face just shows how surprised she was!

We couldn't fit everyone in one photo, so we took photos by table.

Last page..

It sure was fun surprising them. I hope they like this gift!