Saturday, 5 December 2015

Simply Sketched Saturday - 4


Thank you for joining us for another Simply Sketched Saturday Challenge! We’re so excited to be sharing this hop with you.  The products used are all available in the current Annual, or seasonal, Stampin’ Up!® Catalogues*. Simply use the buttons at the bottom of the post to keep hopping.

Here's this week's sketch as set by Ania- 

I'm feeling very festive right now, with the holiday season upon us.  In fact, when you read this, I will have been to my first Christmas party of the year with some of my colleagues from the office.  So my contribution is a Christmas card. 
See the gold "Peace" sentiment?   I cut it out in craft foam (also known as fun foam or funky foam).  In its original size, it was too big for the card, so I used my heat gun to shrink it (carefully, because if you get too close you can make the foam shrivel up.  How do you think I know that?) Ever since I discovered that you can shrink this stuff I have been having so much fun with it!

Once it was shrunk right down, I pressed it into my Versamark ink and dipped it into gold embossing powder before heating it again.  And there you are!  Now, if you're working your way through the blog hop, please move on to the
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Tuesday, 1 December 2015

Santa in a Box

Hello blog friends, and than you for visiting.

Today I've made this Card-in-a-box.  The festive season will soon be here and it's hard to believe that I just had my first anniversary as a Stampin' Up! demonstrator.  It's been great fun and I am so glad I joined.  One of the perks of being a SU! Demo is that you get to see the new catalogue and to order from it before anyone else...and there's some gorgeous things coming up in the Spring/Summer catalogue...you're going to LOVE it!

Bit I've teased you enough.  There's still time to play with the lovely things in the Autumn/WInter catty, and today I've been busy making this card-in-a-box.

Here's how I made it -


And what I used to make it is at the end of this post.  See you again soon!

Crafty Hugs,

Keren

Saturday, 28 November 2015

Noel Shutter Card

Hello blog friends, thank you for visiting.

I may have mentioned once or twice that I enjoy action/kinetic cards.  I’ve been fascinated by pop-ups and paper engineering ever since I was a littlie, so they do feature on this blog from time to time.  Today I’m showing you a shutter card (sometimes called a magic marquee card).  Here’s the layout for this card–



It’s important in making this card that the moving parts are placed right inside the fold line of the gatefold flaps with the adhesive upwards.  Here's the tutorial - hope you enjoy!