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posted on June 18, 2012 by

Apothecary Art Framed Latch

apothecary art

Hello! OK, if we can get a break from medical issues at our house, I think I’ll finally be back to stamping and blogging! This is a special fold card with a frame that also serves as a latch. Lots of fun.  The picture below shows how it opens.

apothecary art

You create the frame by laying two dies on your cardstock and running them through the Big Shot together. Then you attach them to the card by only adding adhesive to half of the frame and focal piece and attaching them to opposite sides of the gatefold to create an interlocking latch. The ribbon creates a pull for easy opening. I added color to the embossed base by using the direct to paper technique and drawing two colors across the already embossed images. This requires a very light touch, but I love the pop of color that it adds when you need a little extra something on your card. I’ll try to get a tutorial made for this card, so you can try one for yourself, we made these at stamp camp and workshops this month.

Thanks for looking!

Belinda

 

Stampin Supplies

Stamps

 Apothecary Art ~ Loving Thoughts

Ink

 Wild Wasabi ~ Daffodil DelightBlack StazOn ~ Baja Breeze

Paper

 Very Vanilla ~ Baja Breeze

Fun Stuff

 Big Shot ~ Vintage Wallpaper TIEF ~ Daffodil Delight satin ribbon

 

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posted on May 18, 2012 by

Pedaling Past

Pedaling Past

This card makes me smile, I really love this set. I am kind of all over the map in the way that I design cards, especially lately. I usually start from an inspirational point and go from there, whether it is a design layout, or a color combination, a particular paper or set or technique. I started with the paper this time. I adore this Everyday Enchantment paper from the Saleabration collection. I will be very sad when I run out! I loved these two pieces together, so I decided on the layout and then went in search of the set to go with it. I ran across my retired Pedaling Past set and that was that.

I really like the way it turned out, it reminds me of summers past. I keep hearing that Country Time lemonade music in my head when I look at it!

Happy Stampin’

Belinda

 

Stampin’ Stuff

Stamps

 Pedaling Past

Ink

 Basic Black ~ Real Red Marker

Paper

 Basic Black ~ Very Vanilla ~ Everyday Enchantment DSP

Fun Stuff

 Basic Black satin ribbon ~ Brights Collection designer buttons ~ Black embroidery floss

 

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posted on February 17, 2012 by

Flight of the Butterfly

I have had a lot of searches for a couple of pop up cards that I featured in a kit at StampFest a couple of years ago. I decided to add the tutorials for those cards since there was so much interest in them. I have written quite a few tutorials over the last couple of years and will be adding some of those to my tutorials page over the next couple of months. If you like tutorials, you may want to keep an eye on that page.

pop up card

This is the pop up card that I made, using the Flight of the Butterfly set. You can find the tutorial here. I’ll go ahead and add the stamping supplies on this post as well. I hope this is helpful for those searching for pop up instructions.

pop up card

Thanks for stopping by!

Belinda

 

Stampin Supplies

Stamps

 Flight of the Butterfly ~ Enjoy Every Moment ~ Happy Everything

Ink

 Chocolate Chip ~ So Saffron ~ Cameo Coral ~ Certainly Celery

Paper

 So Saffron ~ Whisper White ~ Cameo Coral ~ Certainly Celery ~ Retired DSP

Fun Stuff

 Bigz XL Top Note Die ~ Little Leaves Sizzlet ~ Big Shot ~ Corner Punch ~ ¼ Circle Punch ~
Five Petal Flower punch ~ Backgrounds 1 Texturz Plate ~ Butterfly Punch

 

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posted on February 8, 2012 by

Up Up and Away

up up and away

Even though the weather has decided to cool a bit this week, I have been thinking spring in my stamp room. This is a cheery little card using the Up Up and away set. The clouds were sponged using a stencil that I made from card stock. I pieced a scalloped circle and the Fancy Flower punch together to create the cloud shape. The hills are circles, punched using the 2 1/2″ Circle Punch.

Thanks for stopping by,

Belinda

 

Stampin’ Stuff

Stamps

 Up Up and Away

Ink

 Daffodil Delight ~ Pool Party ~ Rich Razzleberry ~ Wild Wasabi ~ Rose Red

Paper

 Rich Razzleberry ~ Rose Red ~ Whisper White ~ Subtles Pattern DSP pack

Fun Stuff

 2 1/2″ Circle punch ~ 2 3/8″ Circle punch ~ Fancy Flower punch ~ Itty Bitty Shapes punch pack ~ Basic Pearls

 

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posted on July 7, 2010 by

Hand made flowers

Another kit for StampFest. Learn to make hand made flowers from paper. You will be learning 10 flower techniques plus a couple of variations.
The fee for this class is $15.00.

Belinda

 

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posted on July 30, 2009 by

Flight of the Butterfly

Flight of the Butterflies

This is another card from my pop up class. If I used this design again, I would probably add some paper piercing or embossing to the card base. I had already added my inside pop up piece, so I couldn’t do that for this card without starting over!

It is really hard for me to make a card without DSP or embossing, now that I have gotten addicted to both concepts!

The top note die cut is cut in half and used as a layer behind my focal image and the little corner piece has been embossed with a texturz plate and then punched with the Photo Corners punch. The flowers are stamped and cut out and then layered on leaves cut with the little leaves sizzlet die. There is a 1/4 inch punched circle added to the flowers

You can find the tutorial here.

The inside of the card

butterfly pop up

Belinda

 

Stampin Supplies

Stamps

 Flight of the Butterfly ~ Enjoy Every Moment ~ Happy Everything

Ink

 Chocolate Chip ~ So Saffron ~ Cameo Coral ~ Certainly Celery

Paper

 So Saffron ~ Whisper White ~ Certainly Celery ~ Cameo Coral ~ Retired DSP

Fun Stuff

 Big Shot ~ Top Note Die ~ Little Leaves Sizzlet ~ Corner Punch ~ 1/4″ circle punch ~ 5 Petal punch ~ Backgrounds 1 Texturz plate ~ Butterfly Punch

 

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