Trusty Tools Toolbox Card

Trusty Tools Inside

In my February classes, we made this fun toolbox card using the Trusty Tools Bundle and the Trusty Toolbox DSP from Sale-a-bration.

The front of the card is bright and colorful with screwdriver and hammer paper and a sprinkling of screws and nuts. But the real magic is inside!

Trusty Tools Inside

The toolbox pops up. It has a “wood” top with a ruler and pencil and a drawer with a crescent wrench peeking out.

Trusty Tools Bundle

The perfect stamp set for the handy guys in your life. Plenty of different tools for mechanics, woodworkers, and Mr. Fix It!

Trusty Toolbox DSP

This DSP (Designer Series Paper) coordinates beautifully with the Trusty Tools stamp set! You can even cut out some of the images with the dies in the Bundle! If you click on the image above, you’ll be linked to the product page where you can see better photos of each page.

This DSP is available only during Sale-a-bration, which is quickly coming to an end.

Sale-a-bration is Ending!

The Trusty Toolbox DSP is available FREE with a qualifying order during Sale-a-bration, but if you want it, grab it quick. Sale-a-bration ends Thursday, February 29th!

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Mountain Air Desert Scene

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It’s time for another Freshly Brewed Projects Blog Hop, and today’s subject is Horizons. I decided to do something a little different for me and make a desert scene using the Moutain Air Stamp Set.

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Mountain Air Meets Cactus Cuties

There are so many gorgeous projects floating around these days with the New Horizons Designer Series Paper. If you haven’t seen it, be sure to check it out here. But I wanted to do something different for my horizon. So, I decided to use the Mountain Air Stamp Set and Cactus Cuties Bundle to create my scene.

I’ll be honest, I’m a Kentucky girl, so I’m used to hills and hollows, woods and pastures. I’m really not that familiar with the desert, but I do have several friends who live in the southwestern US, and I’ve been fortunate to visit them and see their beautiful part of the country.

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How It’s Made

I started with a piece of Very Vanilla Cardstock and masked the upper portion with a piece of scrap paper. I used Crumb Cake, Bumblebee, and a little Cajun Craze Ink with the blending brushes to create my desert floor.

Next, I tore another mask and placed the rough edge just below my top mask and used Soft Suede Ink to add the darker line along the bottom of the mountains.

Did you know the Mountain Air Stamp Set is reversible?! I stamped the mountains with the detail using Cajun Craze ink, and then stamped them again with the back of the stamp in Bumblebee to get the mountains in the distance. Next, I used the blending brush to add Bumblebee ink to my Cajun Craze mountains.

I used Crushed Curry ink with a dauber and a scrap of paper with a punched circle to make the sun, then carefully added just a touch of Cajun Craze to the sky with my Blending Brush.

Mountain Air Desert

Cactus Cuties Bundle

I thought I’d add a cactus to my scene and the Cactus Cuties Bundle was perfect for that. I stamped the cactus image in Old Olive on my scene, then stamped and punched cactus pieces and adhered them with Mini Dimensionals OVER the image on the scene. Another plant in Garden Green is just peeking into the frame.

Lastly, I stamped the birds in Soft Suede and used a stamp from another set for the speckled sand.

Mountain Air Desert Detail

Details

I used a piece of Garden Green cardstock and cut a Stitched Rectangle from the center to make my frame. This is adhered to my scene with Mini Dimensionals, leaving space to tie a Linen Thread bow. Then, this is adhered to a Cajun Craze cardbase.

Finally, although it’s hard to see, I added Wink of Stella to the sun and sand.

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Welcoming Woods Simple Easel

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Freshly Brewed Projects Blog Hop with Welcoming Woods Simple Easel Card.

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It’s time for another blog hop with my friends from Australia. Today’s hop is all about masculine birthday cards. Sometimes it can be a challenge designing a masculine card, but the current mini catalog has so many beautiful choices that I had a hard time choosing! I finally decided on a Welcoming Woods Simple Easel Fold.

Welcoming Woods

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Making an Easel Fold Card

It’s super easy to make a simple easel fold card. For this one, my card base is 4 1/4″ x 11″ (cut a sheet of cardstock in half vertically). Score and fold the card in half (5 1/2″) to make your card base, and then simply score and fold the front of the card in half (2 3/4″). When you adhere your decorated panel to the card front, be sure to only add adhesive to the bottom half of the card front, otherwise your card won’t fold to create the easel.

You can see how this fold works in the photo below. You’ll also notice the sentiment is “popped up” with a dimensional. This creates a stop for the easel to rest against and keep it in place.

Welcoming Woods Easel

Details

To create the beautiful sunset background, I covered the bottom (ground) portion of the panel with scrap paper, then used the Blending Brushes to add Crushed Curry, Cajun Craze, and Misty Moonlight ink above the covered portion.

I then took the scrap paper that was covering the bottom and used it to cover and protect the portion I’d just colored. Again, I used the Blending Brushes to add soft suede to the bottom uncolored part.

The trees and leaves were stamped in Early Espresso and the ground shading (it’s a stamp) in Soft Suede.

The Cajun Craze dark Blend was used to color the pearls.

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I hope you’ve enjoyed my project. Now, let’s see what my crafty friends down under have been up to.

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