Magical Marquee Card

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Today's project uses the Guy Greetings stamp set and Maritime DSP. I can see the Bristol Channel from my living room window - Swansea is a seaport.   I grew up in the South Wales valleys, so living by the seaside is a great blessing for me. My husband is a local boy and his father was a Shipping Agent.  He has fond childhood memories of accompanying his father onto ships  - so anything nautical gets his vote.  And I think he's just the best, so the "World's Greatest Husband" sentiment just had to be done!

As you may know, I have a great love for kinetic cards and this card has a surprise inside.  

Remove the belly band and - 

Two flaps slide aside to reveal the stamped image.

Here's the tutorial - 

Measurements - 

Night of Navy card - 10" by 5", score on the long side at 2.5" and 7.5"

Sliders - 3" by 2, score at 0.5" (if you don't have the Banners framelits you will need to cut a triangle out of the sliders - cut in to  a point about half an inch from the unsecured side and adjust if you need to.)

Real Red card - 3" by 5"

DSP  for front - 4.75" square, cut in half

Rosette - 1.5" by 12", score at .25" intervals

Belly band - 2"by 10"

Thank you for visiting and I do hope you enjoyed the project.  See you soon!

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You're a star..

Hi everyone, welcome to my blog.  Thank you, everyone who's been so kind about the little self-closing box I blogged last week...I'm so glad you liked it!  It was a design I came across some time ago, and my main contribution to the design was the fancy top.

Today's project is one of those cute little folding box cards.  

I like to make these square, so I trim my cardstock.  This means I have card left over to make the struts to hold the embellishments.  

Measurements - Card cut to 5" x 10 1/2" 

Score on the long side at 2 1/2", 5", & 1/2" and 10"

Score on the short side at 2 1/2", stopping at the third score mark.  

Would you like a template?  You can download one here.

The decorative paper is cut into 2 1/4" squares.

Full instructions - including how I coloured the glitter paper stars - on my YouTube channel.

Stacked with Love

Hello bloggers and welcome to my blog!

Did you take part in the Pootlers Blog Hop over the weekend?  If so, I hope you enjoyed it.  To add to the fun, we offered some blog candy (a bundle of Best Year Ever Sale-A-Bration goodies) to one lucky hopper and I am pleased to say that the winner is – (drumroll....)

Shirley Waterhouse

Congratulations Shirley – please email me (keren.howell@ntlworld.com) with your postal address!

Back to Business As Usual – today’s project is this pretty little gift box.  

It holds itself closed – to get at the contents you just squeeze gently at the outer edges – and would hold a few sweets or a small gift (some jewellery for Mum on Mothering Sunday, perhaps?) I've also made a batch of these boxes to hold mini Easter Eggs.  They're quick and easy to do.

The measurements for the box – 
Cardstock – 8 ½ inches by 6.
Score at 4 inches and 8 inches along the long edge
Score at 1 inch and 5 inches on the short edge.
Make a small mark on the score line on the long edge at 2 inches and another at 6 inches.
(See here for a diagram)
You can see how it goes together in the tutorial.

I finished off the project with a bow from the Calypso Coral Ribbon and added  a tiny rolled crepe paper rose (see here if you want to know more about making the roses).  

I hope you enjoyed the project.  Do, please leave a comment to let me know if you tried this - and I'd love it if you followed either this blog or my Facebook page!

See you again soon!

xxx Keren

UPDATE- I've been told that some people are having trouble getting their box to sit flat.  I think it's because the tension that the design relies on for the self-closing action is too tight.  If you cut the card about 1/4 inch deeper (that is, 8 1/2 by 6 1/4)  so that the base flaps are 1 1/4 inch deep, this may help.