Every Day Is a New Adventure

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I made this card for my friend's son who is graduating from high school this year.  I layered the clouds and airplane to make it 3D.

STAMP SET

• Begin Adventure ATS *

CARDSTOCK

• Huckleberry Fusion card stock *
• Pool Play card stock *
• Whip Cream card stock *

TRUE COLOR FUSION INK

• Black Licorice Ink Pad *
• Huckleberry Fusion Ink Pad *

CUTTING DIES

• Journey Rectangles Die Set *
• Cloud Dreams Die Set *

ADHESIVES

• Journey Foam Squares - Medium * or Journey Foam Squares - Small *
• Journey Glaze *
• Journey Craft Glue *

OTHER

• Rich Sorbets PanPastels *

INSTRUCTIONS

CUTTING AND STAMPING

1. Use a piece of 8 12" x 5 1/2" Huckelberry Fusion cardstock for for the card base.
2. Use the largest Journey Rectangle to cut the background from Pool Play cardstock.
3. Use the three smallest Cloud Dreams dies to cut three clouds from Whip Cream cardstock.
4. Add shading to the clouds with Huckleberry Fusion PanPastel.  Use an eraser to add detail and erase mistakes.
5. Stamp the airplane onto Pool Play cardstock with Huckleberry fusion ink.
6. Stamp a second airplane onto Pool Play cardstock wtih Black Licorice Ink.
7. Detail cut around the outside of the airplane.
8. From the Black Licorice stamped airplane, cut around the propeller including the round front part of the airplane.  Pop it up on foam squares and attach it to the airplane.
9. Stamp "Everyday is a new adventure," onto the largest cloud with Huckleberry Fusion ink.

ASSEMBLY

1. Coat the airplane with Journey Glaze and set aside to dry.
2. Glue the Pool Play background to the Huckleberry Fusion card base.
3. Place the card with the fold at the top (landscape).
4. Glue the smallest cloud to the near the upper left corner.
5. Pop the second to smallest cloud up on Journey Foam squares and position as shown.
6. Pop the Airplaine up on a double layer of Journey Foam squares and position it in front of the second cloud as shown.
7. Pop the third cloud up on a triple layer of Journey foam squares and attach it to the bottom right corner of the card.

See my Box Envelope post for instructions on how to make a box envelope for this card.

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Giant Spiral Card

I have been eyeing the Fold-it card templates from Paper Wishes for quite some time, so when I saw the spiral template on sale for $1 I snapped it up right away. I wasn’t sure how I would like the template because it seemed like there was a lot of tracing and cutting involved, but it turned out to be quite easy to use.

Here is my first card.

I made it for my niece’s graduation. Inside, I put a verse from the Bible on each of the petals and an inspirational poem in the middle. Of all of the giant fold-it templates, I think this one has the most room in the center for writing.

The template also comes with a pattern for a small spiral, plus templates for tags and decorative dots and swirls. I know I will be using this one quite a bit!

Graduation Card for My Nephew

My youngest nephew graduated from high school this year.  How time flies!  Cards for guys have always been a struggle for me, so I turned to the May issue of Cardmaker magazine for some inspiration and found the perfect pattern.  The only problem was that I didn’t have the die cuts for the diploma or the graduation hat, nor did I have the stamp for the wording.

What to do?  Make my own templates, of course!  I wanted the graduation hat and the diploma to be embossed, so using a coffee can lid, I created my own embossing stencils.  It was really pretty easy as the plastic cuts very easily with an X-acto knife.  Just draw the design and cut it out.  Here’s my stencil.

 

The only marginally tricky part was the swirl on the end of the diploma.

I used my cuttlebug to emboss the cap (Plate A + plate B + stencil + paper + 2 Nestabilities embossing pads + plate B).  It turned out really well.  I finished it off by adding a black brad and a tassle, which I made from black, orange and gold embroidery floss.

The diploma didn’t  emboss well in the cuttlebug.  The paper kept tearing around the swirl, so I used an embossing tool instead.  I finished it off with a gold outline (sorry, I didn’t get a good picture of that).

Next came the wording.  I found a font that I liked and created it on my computer.  Next, I printed it out and then put it on my light box so I could trace it onto some off-white paper.  This is a tricky way to make people think I can actually write well. :)

All in all, I’m pretty pleased with the results.