Have a Good Day!

 Hello Crafty Friends,

Diane here to share with you a quick card.  This is a great card to say hello or just to let someone know that you are thinking of them.  I used the "Have a Good Day" die by Tutti Designs. 

 

I cut a white card base 8 1/2  x 5 1/2 & scored it at 4 1/4 (A2 size).  I cut a piece of blue snowflake paper (from the paper pack) measuring 4 1/8 x 3 1/2 and added it to my card front.  Then I cut a piece of boarder paper measuring 4 1/8 x 2 1/4 and adhered it to my card.

Next, I die cut the "Have a Good Day" out of the brown designer paper from the paper pack.  I cut it again in off white cardstock.  I cut off the coffee fumes from the off white piece and layered it onto the brown allowing for a slight shadow effect.

Next I took a scrap of dark red cardstock that was laying on my desk and adhered the coffee cup to it.  Then, I fussy cut around the cup so that it looks like I have a dark red cup.  Then I adhered it to my card.  I thought about adding some flowers but, I thought that I really wanted to make this for anyone, male or female, so I didn't add any flowers this time.  I really enjoyed this cute little die and hope you would too.

In addition to white, dark red and off white cardstock here are the other products I used to create this card:

Tutti Designs:  Have a Good Day die

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Have a Good Blessed Day!

Masculine Double Slider Surprise Card

 Happy New Year! Amanda here....today, I am sharing a masculine Double Slider Surprise Card. I made this card for my Grandpa's upcoming birthday. Shhh....don't show him. Don't worry, he's not one for YouTube and blogs. LOL!

As usual, I have prepared a video tutorial for you today. Below that will be a couple more finished card pictures and the supply list.

Supply List

• Lawn Fawn Double Slider Surprise Dies - Currently, Out of Stock, but check out the other great Lawn Fawn Dies on the DRU Site!
  
  
  
  
  
• VersaFine Clair - Nocturne
• Simon Says Stamp - Graduation Celebration Layering Set Stencils
• Distress Inks
  • Mowed Lawn
  • Peacock Feathers
  • Squeezed Lemonade
• Unity Stamps - For the Guys
• Black Glimmer Foil
• Spellbinders - Happy Birthday Glimmer Plate - No name. It was a starter plate included with Glimmer Machine

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YOU Make the World a Better Place!

Hello all, Samantha here!

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Today, I am sharing a card I made with a galaxy theme!

Its just in my nature to make everything sparkly, and pink! So, generally I have a tough time making masculine cards. However these two sets from Karen Burniston made it so easy!

For this base, I started out with a slight shimmer navy card stock. I then used regular white cardstock to create my galaxy base. This was created with Adirondack inks. If you've never played around with these, you ought to because they are so much fun!

So, once the galaxy background was created. I got to work cutting out  my dies! Karen Burniston makes assembly so easy with her You Tube videos! So that's what I used, to assemble this card together. I, did however switch the rocket to pop up the side of the card, instead of the bottom. 

The ring around the space ships, were actually die cut with washi tape! 

Dies R Us Products Used:

Karen Burniston - Rocket Pop Up

Karen Burniston - Space Charms

Avery Elle - Sentimentals

Technique Tuesday - Shooting Star

Fine Line Glue Applicator 

Thermoweb Adhesive Foam Squares

Thanks so much for checking out my cards today! I hope you have a great day!

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Masculine Cards with Elizabeth Craft Circle Background

Hi Everyone, Happy Thursday, Kristina here today with some masculine cards using a background die from Elizabeth Craft.

I've wanted to do a paper piecing type technique with this die every since I got it, but was intimidated by the need to keep track of all the pieces. But I found a simple method to easily produce the effect, and get multiple cards in the process. I went with three different colors for my background, which produces three different cards. In hindsight I would've rather done 4 or more so there was less options for colors to be next to each other.

Onto the process:

I ran the die and paper through my die cut machine. I kept it sandwiched between my cutting plates and flipped the whole sandwich over so that the cut side was up. With all of the piece still in the die, I stuck down a piece of Avery removable label paper (masking paper) to cover the back.

I used my tool n one to carefully remove the die, leaving the positive and negative space die cuts adhered to my label paper.

Once I was done, I had a panel for each of my colors, with all of the pieces where they go. 

To begin assembly, I first ran the circle frame through my Xyron machine and stuck it down to an a2 sized card base. From there, I simply transferred the circle from the label paper over into their "frame"

From there I embellished the card with a sentiment, some nuvo drops and ranger liquid pearls. 

Thanks for stopping by today! 

Supplies

Elizabeth Craft Circle Background Shop at: Dies R Us

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Just for Dad

Howdy and hello crafty friends!  Kristina Hein here today with a Father's Day card to share.

Here's a picture I took of most of the supplies I used in the creation of this card.

The first thing I did was to cut 1/2" wide strips of the navy, light blue and red cardstock. They don't have to be a particular length.  Just long enough to place at a diagonal on the card base.

I laid them across the card base and just loosely marked the edges with pencil.  This was my cheat so I didn't put too much adhesive on the back of the strips.  I used a scratch piece of cardstock to line up with the pencil marks, flipped the strip over and added glue.  I then attached them to the card.

I flipped the whole card over and trimmed off the excess paper.

Next I cut out all of the die cut pieces I needed for the card.  The sentiment die is the Father's Day Line Border die from Lawn Fawn. I cut it out of red and blue.  The grill items are from the Elizabeth Craft Designs Backyard Barbeque set.  The vellum piece was cut out using Elizabeth Craft Designs Stitched Rectangles dies.

Sorry about the glare!  I used a shiny, metallic black cardstock for the grill pieces and metallic silver for the grill tools.  I did sponge a bit of Spiced Marmalade distress oxide ink on the bottom of the flame pieces for more definition.  Now let's build the card!

I started by piecing the grill elements together.  I am using a vellum piece behind the grill to mute the stripes of cardstock.  So I laid the vellum on top (do not glue!) while I was working in order to get the placement of the grill just right.  The grill, along with other elements, will be a place for me to hide the glue on the vellum!

I should mention that I cut the wheel out of black foam and then just a flat black piece of cardstock.  I wanted it to look different from the main grill.

Behind the lid of the grill, I used little pieces of foam tape to pop it up.  I used a liquid glue to adhere the grill tools.  I cut the Lawn Fawn Father's Die line die out of both red and navy.  This die is too long to fit in the space I had available so I just trimmed it down into individual words.  Very easy to do.  I did have a little bit of panic when I couldn't find the apostrophe but I found it!  I used the Zig 2-way glue on the back of the words and glued them in place.

Here is the back of the vellum panel so you can see the foam and adhesive.

Then I put it onto the kraft card base.  I put some acrylic blocks on it until I was sure the glue was dry. 

Here is a side view of the completed card so you can see the shine from the grill.  It looks like a real grill does!

And one more picture of the finished card.

You'll probably notice that the version above looks slightly different than the first picture.  I actually made the card twice because I forgot to take photos.  Oopsie., but I was able to add a few more details.  I used three different colors of Nuvo drops and I sponged a little Spiced Marmalade behind the flames.  I can't pick a favorite version!

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Supplies Used:

Zig 2-Way Glue Pen - Squeeze and Roll Shop at: Dies R Us	Tombow Mono Multi Liquid glue Shop at: SBC | EH	Therm O Web Foam Tape Shop at: SBC | EH	Tim Holtz Idea-ology 8x8 Metallic - Jewels Shop at: SBC
Stitched Rectangles Elizabeth Craft Design Shop at: Dies R Us	Spiced Marmalade Distress Oxide Shop at: Dies R Us	Backyard Bbq Elzabeth Craft Designs Shop at: Dies R Us	Father's Day Line Border Lawn Fawn Shop at: Dies R Us
White Nuvo Drops Shop at: Dies R Us	Red Berry Nuvo Drops Shop at: Dies R Us	Midnight Blue Nuvo Drops Shop at: Dies R Us

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~Kristina H.