Triple Tiered Wiper Card

 

For the Craft n Swap Canada group, I joined the Triple Tiered Wiper Card swap.  In the past I have only made single wiper cards, but this one has three "wipers". Here is the 5X7 inch card closed.

When the recipient gently pulls the front and back layers apart the butterflies fly out to the left side of each tier.

This is a vintage-themed card featuring ephemera, postage, die cut eyelet border and tabs. I used rub-ons from 49th and Market, including the Happiness Sentiment, which qualifies this card for the Cut it Up Challenge #362 ~ Add a Sentiment.

Here is what it looks like from the side.

And this is where a note can be added on the back panel. If you want to try one of these, check out this YouTube video that I followed. Thanks for looking!

Stencilled Snowmen

The current challenge at Jingle Belles is a colour challenge, whereby we must use at least 3 of the colours provided in this graphic.

And the current technique challenge at 52 Card Throwdown is Stencilling. 

 I am also entering this in the Addicted to Stamps & More! Christmas Challenge.           

 

Here's the card!

This vibrant and stencilled snowman card fits the bill! I used the Waffle Flower postal collage dies and snowman stencils and stamps to create this fun card. I used Distress Inks to create a northern lights background for the snowmen and set them on a dry embossed panel.

UPDATE - thank you to both Jingle Belles and 52 Card Throwdown challenge sites for highlighting my card in their round ups!

That was a different way for me to use the stencils and dies. Normally I leave the framed elements all together in a postal panel. The variations are in the framing, and the little embellishments added here and there. Those are generally dictated by where I have smudged something nd need to cover it up! Here is a sampling of those types of cards. It's like a fun Where's Waldo search to try and spot the differences in them. Thanks for visiting!

Balloon Banner

 At Seize the Birthday the challenge is:

This Clean and Simple card fits the bill. I used Taylored Expressions stamps and dies and a Sizzix stars embossing folder. Popped up a few balloons with foam tape.

I was also inspired by the Monday CAS challenge at Splitcoaststampers to use a balloon.

Hats Off to the Graduate!

 

Here is a graduation card that was fun to make because I used a new tool to make the card interactive. I recently purchased tiny Nano Spinners, a Dress My Craft Product. They are only 1/8th of an inch round, but that is what makes the graduation cap on this card spin! (Action video linked below.)

I stencilled stars in Distress Inks across the background followed by smaller stars in Nuvo Glimmer Paste. The sentiment and hat are from an ancient Stampin' Up! set called Tassel Time, and included the fun saying stamped inside.

To see the card in action, visit this 8 second YouTube video.

Happy Father's Day!

Today is Father's Day in Canada and we had a lovely day in the great outdoors. This is the card I made for my daughter to give to her Dad. It is an interactive "reveal wheel" card. The background is a scenery stencil design from Claire Brennan stencilled with Distress Oxide Inks, and the car and wheel mechanism are from Lawn Fawn. Each turn of the wheel reveals a change in the car window.

    

Normally the reveal wheel card window is at the top third of a card but I did some engineering to make it sit in the lower third for this one. The inside of the card says:

 

Beach Babes- update!

Here is a fun birthday card using Art Impressions Beach Babes stamps. And UPDATE: It was chosen as a winner in this challenge:

 

I used Copic markers and it is hard to tell, but the glassware and eyeglasses were clear-coated to make them shine. Here is the inside:

I am entering this in the Seize the Birthday Anything Goes category and Splitcoaststampers challenge called Chillin'.

Freshly Made Sketches #735

 

I find card sketches to be super challenging, but in a good way! Sometimes it is good to stretch beyond the norm. When I saw this sketch I immediately thought of a Waffle Flower Stencil I had not used called Postal Collage Envelope Stencil. 

I thought it would be fun to line up the envelopes in this staggered grid.

The stencil is a two-part affair, the flaps are inked first and then the body. I ended up cutting them out by hand as lining them up on a card front was a little tricky. I used Distress Inks.

I am entering it on the FMS blog.