Pampered Pets meets Animal Talk for a masculine birthday card

 I received an order the other day, for a masculine hand made card. Nothing fancy but with a cat on it was the request. So I dug out some recently retired DSP (paper pack) called “Playful Pets” and the coordinating “Pampered Pets” stamp set. And then I remembered that I still had an  old stamp set called “Animal Talk” and decided it was time to pull that one out again. The “Animal Talk” stamp set was perfect except for one thing. 

And since I love making fun fold cards for special people, I decided on a simple but fun design called a center step card. With only a single rhinestone and no ribbon (cuz generally masculine cards don’t do bling and ribbon). Here’s how the card turned out:

This card measures the same as the standard A2 card (5.5 x 4.25”) but the side panels are recessed which makes this card totally 3D! The cat “message” was a thank you sentiment but the dog one said “happy birthday”. So I used the first part of the cat “talk” and the second part from the dog “talk”. Here’s what the card looks like opened up. 

Hmm….but you still don’t see the 3D effect! So here are a few photos of a blank card base in white, front and back, if you can imagine that with printed paper and words: 

And in the event that anyone is interested in making one, here are the cutting and scoring (fold line) dimensions (score lines are shown as dotted lines):

Let me know if you try this, or want to but have difficulties in reading the dimensions, etc. Thanks, as always, for stopping by. Have a wonderful day!

Mountain Fold Fun Fold cards - Awash in Beauty DSP - Birthday & Sending Hugs/Friendship

 On a roll with these mountain fold cards. When I made my very first one, I thought “this is too complicated”. But I LOVED IT so…I made a second, and a third and by the end of the evening, I had made 8 of them! I ran out of DSP so I didn’t get to finish them all (I was out of town and crafting in a hotel room in the evenings). So some were finished at home a week later. These are the ones made with the Awash in Beauty DSP:

 I kept forgetting however that the card base is 8”! But by the end of the evening,  I had that down. Here’s a super rough diagram of the cutting and scoring dimensions (click on any photo to zoom in):

The belly band is 1” x 9” strip, scored at 2” and 6.25”. I glued the edges where they overlap in front and adhered my sentiment on top, hiding the seam. And that’s it for today. Hope this has inspired you to create something and have some fun. Thanks for stopping by!

Pick of the Crop June 2022 Paper Pumpkin Alternatives

 

Have you heard about the Paper Pumpkin monthly subscription kit from Stampin’UP!? It has all the supplies you need to create all the projects in the kit. Usually it has supplies to make 9 cards (but it changes up a little each month) and each month is a different theme. For example, September’s kit is usually about Halloween treat packages. And October and November are usually related to the Christmas holidays. Other than the theme, the exact contents of each kit are a surprise and there are so many ideas shared on the Internet for alternate designs to make with the kit’s contents. (Let me know if you are intrigued to learn more about it…)

I had a ton of fun with this particular kit from June 2022. The (farmers) market is always a fun place to go in the summer so when the theme of this kit was announced, I absolutely had to get it! 

I tend to NOT do the cards as designed in these kits and usually do alternative designs. So it takes me a while before I figure out what I want to do. It only took 2 months this time!

This first card I made (above) is a side step design based on Stampin’Up! demonstrator Vy Tran’s blog post (find it here: https://www.craftingdailydose.com/post/pick-of-the-crop). I added a basket of lavender on the front-most step on the side, more lavender on the second “step” and some grass behind the cart’s wheels. Oh and I cut the awning off and re-attached them using dimensionals so that the cart roof was raised slightly off from the card base. 

 

The second card (above) is a Z-Fold of a picnic blanket and all! Most of the parts of this card were included in the kit except for the wine bottle and wine glass, which came from my stash of stamps. When you open the card, you see the wine glass on the other side of the picnic blanket

The third card (above) was made from the kit pretty much as intended. 

The kit usually comes with extra die cuts - this time there was an extra market cart (among other extra die cuts). I used it on a background of a brick wall (using the Brick and Mortar 3D embossing folder).

And there were still more pieces leftover but ...I need to move on. I hope I pick it up again next spring when I eagerly await the summer farmers’ markets to start up again…

Thanks for stopping by! Hope you enjoyed my creations from the June 2022 Paper Pumpkin kit & have a great day!