Wednesday, May 5, 2021

Pinwheel Card

This is a fun little Mixed Up Craft card that I just "had" to make. It is interesting, but I doubt that I will end up making very many of these, as it is mostly for show, and not so much for sending a greeting or a message. It has a cool effect, though.
It is quite hard to photograph, as it has very many angles, and it requires at least 5 or 6 photos to show the entire card. Therefore I filmed it instead.
Here is the Mixed Up Craft tutorial:

Tuesday, May 4, 2021

Tower Block Card

The second new card style I tried out this weekend was the "Tower Block Card". This is as far as I know also originally from one of Sam Calcott´s FB lives. I love how this card looks, but I soon found out that it is quite a nuisance to put together. The card consists of four equal panels each having three "glue-tabs", and I must have glued it together in the wrong order or something, as I ran into trouble joining the edges so that they formed perfect 90 degree angles in all four corners. However, I think I managed a decent result in the end. The card also has a lot of small panels that needs to be covered and decorated. In other words a lot of squares that needed to be cut out. I chose to make four bigger panels that I could stamp on, and I decided to have them going vertically, one on each of the sides of the card.
I searched my stamp stash for some stamps that had vertical sentiments, but I didn´t quite like the ones I found, therefore I decided to put together some words, using a beautiful alphabet set that I just received from a seller on ebay the other day. I put together the words LIVE, LAUGH, LOVE, and stamped each word on it´s own panel, although since I am not 100% certain of the order of the words, I think I might have put them together wrongly. But that doesn´t really matter too much, as the words look really beaut
On the fourth and last panel I just used the same pattern paper that I had chosen for all of my smaller panels. I used a single sheet that I had in my stash from Graphic 45´s Bloom Collection called Dainty Blossoms. I might try and see if I can get a hold of more of the papers from that collection. I went with a lilac swirl smooth card stock from Bazzil for my card base, used a darker purple for all my mats, and decorated with small lilac swirl butterflies on random panels.
The last picture that I want to include is the view of the card from above.
Here is a link to the YouTube Tutorial that I used:

Monday, May 3, 2021

Cascading Gatefold Card

I spent some time this weekend trying out some card styles that I haven´t tried out before, but that I have wanted to give a go. As more often than not, I turn to Sam Calcott of Mixed Up Craft when looking for new styles to try out. I actually have a very LONG list of cards that I want to make, but don´t I seem to be able to keep up with my list. This weekend I had a go at 3 new card styles and the Cascading Gatefold Card was one of them. If I am not mistaken, Sam first made it on one of her Live Craft-alongs on FB, but I first saw it when many of the so-called MUCAs (members of Sam´s group Mixed Up Crafters on FB) started sharing their beautiful versions of the card. I didn´t get around to making it until this weekend. It is a very nice card that was quite fun to make, and it is a good opportunity to use a lot of different papers that one has sitting in ones stash. I decided on the papers after I had a look at some toppers that I have in a bag hanging right in form´nt of me on my crafting table. Luckily, I remembered that I had bought the papers that belongs with the toppers, and not the toppers alone. The collection is from Kaiser Craft and it is called Sunkissed, a very vibrant and tropical collection of papers and toppers. In addititon I used a single sheet of paper from the Norwegian Crafting Company "Kort og Godt". I think I was able to pull off a fairly cheerful and colorful card!

Easy Fold-Over Cards

Lately I have been hooked on making a simple fold-over card, that you can easily make into a gift card/tag-pocket card. Once again...