Bluegrass Stamper

Delayed Easter Projects

April 15, 2016

I know Easter is long past, but I do want to share a few projects from our March classes. I hope you enjoy seeing them, even though it’s late. I lost my mom in March, so it was not a good month for me, and I’ve gotten behind on blog posts.

First up is a cute bunny card. This was adapted from a card on Pinterest by Kelly Acheson. I switched things up a bit, but the original idea came from her. 🙂 This card uses the Tiny Triangles TIEF, and the Friends & Flowers and Greatest Greetings stamp sets from the Occasions catalog. The DSP in the background is vintage but the new paper stack would also work great for this.

I’m a frugal stamper, and I don’t like to throw anything away. So, I decided to make this cute little lamb card using the circle punched from the gray panel on the card above. We used the white chalk marker to color the “wool”. The stamp is Easter Lamb from the Occasions Catalog. It comes with the lamb and words on the same stamp, but I cut mine apart to make it easier to use separately. The lamb would be so cute on a baby card.

Here’s another cute Easter project. It’s made with the scallop tag topper punch, and uses the Friends & Flowers stamp set again. The bunny is colored with aquapainters and backed with a scalloped circle of Blushing Bride glimmer paper. There’s a Hershey nugget inside for a nice little treat!

One more Easter card using the Circle of Spring set from page 77 of the Annual Catalog. This also has a “hello spring” stamp, so it doesn’t have to be an Easter Card. If you purchased the Wonderful Wreath bundle from last year’s holiday catalog, you already have framelits that coordinate to cut out the wreath, if you choose.

I hope you’ve enjoyed these belated projects. If you have any questions or need additional information on any of these, please leave a comment below.

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Pocket Card

April 13, 2016

It’s almost tax day! I finally got my taxes ready to go. My husband wants them done early, but it always seems to take me a while to get it all together. How about you? Have your returns been sent yet? If not, you’d better get busy!

Today I want to share a card I made for a monthly swap group I am in. Each month, we are challenged with a different type fold, color scheme or theme. Last month’s card was a Pocket Card. I used the hostess set from the Occasions Catalog…. Love You Sew. It also uses some vintage DSP from my stash.

I hope you like it!

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Pop Up Slider Card

March 6, 2016

The weather in Kentucky has been crazy lately. We go from 20 degrees and snow to 45 degrees and rain, to 60 degrees and sunshine! I do love ALL the seasons, but not all in one week’s time!

One of the perks of being in my Stamp Club is getting written instructions for our main club project each month emailed to you. But, this month, an email just won’t work. After getting all the instructions written and pictures taken, I decided it would be best to post the tutorial here. I’m afraid that email would never download!

It did take me a while to get this done. In our original project, I had 1/8″ measurements, so I decided to re-work it a bit to make it easier for everyone, including me!

Here are pictures of our original project, which was adapted from a card by Michelle Last. However, there were no instructions, so I had to do some research and write them up myself to get them like I wanted.

So, here’s the tutorial.

1. Your mat (backing for the card) will be a 1/4 sheet of cardstock (CS) (5 1/5 X 4 1/4) in the color of your choice. Our card mat in class was Bermuda Bay. I’m using purple for this tutorial.2. Cut 2 pieces of white CS to 4″ X 5 1/4″. This will layer nicely onto our mat. Cut another piece of white CS to 3″ X 4 1/2″. This will be our “slider”. For the purpose of this tutorial, I am using purple for this piece just so you’ll be able to see where to place it in the pictures.

3. Stamp as desired on one of the two twin panels. Line the stamped CS vertically in your trimmer at 3 1/4″ and cut from 3/4″ to 4 1/2″. Turn panel around and do the same on the other side. You’ll have two slits as shown. Depending on your stamped images, decide which end of the card will be the bottom. Connect the two cut slits by cutting at 3/4″. DO NOT CUT between the top slits. This will create a flap in your card.

4. Insert the BOTTOM of your card (the cut end) into your trimmer and score between the cut lines at 1 1/4″, 2 3/4″ and 4 1/2″. Fold on the scored lines. The bottom one is valley fold, center is mountain, and top is valley.

6. Place the twin panels together and punch a half circle from the TOP so you’ll have a place to access your slider, once the card is put together. Put the “back panel” aside for now.

7. Turn front panel (with cut and scored flap) over to back side and put sticky strip or other strong adhesive on bottom of the flap. Be sure to use a STRONG adhesive like sticky strip, tear n tape, etc. Attach the smaller white panel to the back of the flap. It should overlap slightly on each side. Mine is purple for the purpose of this tutorial.

8. Place strong adhesive along side and bottom edges, and seal to the twin panel, sandwiching the slider panel between the two. Pull/push up and down on the slider a few times to get it working smoothly.

9. Your slider card is now ready to secure to your bottom mat, and decorate as desired!! In class, we rounded the corners of the top of the slider panel, punched a hole and attached a ribbon. We pulled the slider to the “open” position, stamped inside the revealed “window”, and attached balloons to the center scored and folded panel.

Note: If you do attach items to the scored panel, be careful to use adhesive only where the pieces will attach to the panel. Our balloons “stood up” beyond the edge of the fold, and if we’d placed adhesive all over the back of the balloons, our card would have stuck to itself and not opened.

Hope you enjoy this tutorial. If you make any of these cards, please post them on the Bluegrass Stampers FB page. If you’re not a member of Bluegrass Stampers, search for our group and click Join. If we haven’t met, please message me, too, as sometimes random people ask to join. If you’re not on FB, send me a photo and I’ll post it for you.

A big THANK YOU to my Stamp Club members!!