June 2014

Elizabeth Craft Designs June Designer Challenge – Repositionable Stickers

June 30, 2014

Hello everyone,

We’re back to show you some wonderful creations for our Monthly Designer Challenge.
This month we challenged our designers to create a project using a repositionable sticker. What is a repositionable sticker? Els will show you in the following Video:

To create a repositionable sticker, you will need a Peel-off Sticker, Double Sided Adhesive, Sticker Transfer Sheet, Silk Microfine Glitter in Warm or Cold Diamond, and permanent markers.

Let’s see what our Design Team created!

Mary Prasad used her stickers to decorate a light switch plate. What a great idea! And what I like about the stickers is that you can pick them up and use them somewhere else.

The next project is from Frances Byrne. Frances absolutely loves owls so it was no surprise to see the Owl Peel-off in one of her projects. Frances created a box, a tiny paint pail, and a napkin holder. We just love her color choices. To use the napkin holder all year, simply change your peel-offs to suit the season or holiday.

Raquel Mason made this stunning Christmas ornament using a Christmas tree and snowman from the Snowman Peel-off Sheet. Why spend money on expensive Christmas ornaments when you can just make your own? This would be a great holiday project or fun for birthday parties. Make sure to visit Raquel’s blog for more info.

Jackie Smith created 4 beautiful repositionable stickers to decorate a grocery board. Jackie used the Hydrangea Peel-off and the ladybug and butterfly from the Ladybugs Peel-off Sheet. Love the beautiful matching colors. For more info, visit Jackie’s blog HERE.

Candy Spiegel also used the Hydrangea Peel-offs but her repositionable stickers are featured on a gorgeous vase. Love the Glitter Dots Peel-offs she added to the centers of the flowers. More info on Candy’s blog.

Helen Cryer used the Cherry Bowl Peel-offs in black and created a Thank You card. With a note inside to let the recipient know how the repositionable peel-offs work, she can decide where and how to use this little gift. A glass jar would be a great idea. Love the pastel colors! Make sure to visit Helen’s blog for more wonderful creations.

Karen Aicken used the Butterfly Label 1 Peel-off in black and showed us 3 ways to use the repositionable sticker. For example on an iPad cover, a vase or on a travel mug as shown in the last picture. So many possibilities with the repositionable stickers! Make sure to visit Karen’s blog for more ideas.

Kelly Booth used one of the fish from the “Fishes” Peel-off Sheet in Gold to decorate this stunning soap dispenser, the perfect sticker for bathroom decor. Love the coloring and the added bubbles and plants. Visit Kelly’s blog for more info.

Rita Edwards used the Tulip Peel-offs in Silver to create 2 beautiful small scale glass holders. You can use them for face cloths, candies or nuts, or even for a battery-operated tea light. The peel-offs look stunning, just like stained glass! Visit Rita’s blog HERE for more info

The last project is from Debra Hensley. She used one of the Big Butterflies Peel-offs in Black to create a beautiful Happy Birthday card. Just like Helen’s card, the recipient of the card can choose where to position the sticker. The butterfly will look stunning on many things. Love the added flowers and circles. For more info, visit Debra’s blog HERE.

We’re already at the end of today’s blog post. We hope you enjoyed all the projects! We’ll be back next month on July 31st with another challenge.

Have a wonderful week!

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Summer Shimmer Katie Label Pivot Card

June 28, 2014

Hello! Helen here today, with a card for a friend of mine who has a love of blue dragon flies. For this card I used a couple of different peel-off stickers, along with the Katie Label Pivot Card die.

Directions:

1. Cut a piece of double-sided adhesive, large enough for 1 flower label and three single flowers from the ‘Flower Labels 1’ peel-off sheet, and for a dragonfly and ladybird from the ‘Bugs’ peel-off sheet. Stick one side of the double-sided adhesive onto white cardstock.

2. Stick all peel-offs to the other side of the double-sided adhesive.

3. Cover your adhesive and peel-offs with Cool Diamond Microfine Silk Glitter. Polish and brush of the excess glitter.

4. Color peel-offs with Copic or other alcohol markers. You can see Els demonstrating all of steps 1-4 HERE.

5. Cut around the finished peel-offs.

6. Use the Katie Label Pivot Card die to cut a pivoting label into a piece of peach coloured cardstock (measuring 21cm x 15cm). Also die cut one glittered card label using the largest accessory die included in the Katie Label Pivot Set. See picture below.

7. Use an edge die from the Agatha Edges die set, to cut out three borders (10.5cm wide) from Purple Iridescent Shimmer Sheetz. Use a trimmer to cut the straight edges. Die cut ‘Happy Birthday’ from purple cardstock.

8. From blue patterned paper, cut pieces measuring 21cm x 5cm, and 10.5cm x 5cm. Put a score line down the middle of the larger piece.

9. Adhere the largest piece to the inside of the card down the bottom. Adhere two Shimmer Sheetz borders as shown in the first picture. Adhere two glittered flower peel-offs as shown. Use adhesive foam pads for one to create dimension.

10. Adhere the smaller piece of blue patterned paper to the front of the card, along with the third Shimmer Sheetz border, and third glittered flower peel-off.

11. Cut a piece of green patterned paper measuring 9cm x 10cm, fold it in half, and use it to cover the gap at the back of the card left by the pivoting labels.

12. Add strips of Purple/Silver Glitter Border Peel-off Stickers along the top edges of the Purple Shimmer Sheets border pieces.

13. Die cut four big leaves using the Big Triple Leaf die from Green Iridescent Shimmer Sheetz. Stick two to the card front with adhesive foam pads (as positioned below), and two inside the card.

14. Finally, round off the corner with a corner punch.

Elizabeth Craft Designs Products:

(501) Double Sided Adhesive

(639) Cool Diamond Silk Microfine Glitter

(801) Fine Pointed Scissors

(2568) Flower Labels 1 Peel-Off Stickers

(2540) Bugs Peel-Off Stickers

(7010) Glitter Borders Peel-Off Stickers

(0106) Purple Iridescent Shimmer Sheetz

(0107) Green Iridescent Shimmer Sheetz

(768) Katie Label Pivot Card

(782) Agatha Edges

(796) Big Triple Leaf die

(717) Happy Birthday die

Other Products:

Peach Cardstock

White Cardstock

Purple Cardstock

Trimmer

Blue Patterned Paper

Green Patterned Paper

Adhesive Foam Pads

Glue tape runner

Rounded Corner Punch

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Glittered Butterfly

June 27, 2014

Hi everyone,

It’s Frances here. For today I created a card using a number of Elizabeth Craft Designs dies, Shimmer Sheetz, Velvet Adhesive Sheets and Glitter. I created a slightly larger card than a normal A2 since I wanted plenty of room for my trellis, leaves and butterfly. I still wanted it to be a top folding card, so I will also share with you how I was able to do that.

Here’s how I created my card:

1. Cut two pieces of light blue cardstock that measure 6 1/4 inches x 5 1/2 inches.

2. Cut one piece of cream cardstock that measures 6 inches x 5 1/4 inches.

3. Cut a piece of Blue Iridescent Shimmer Sheetz 5 3/4inches by 5 inches and emboss using the Swirly Curves Embossing Folder. You will need to emboss one half of your Shimmer Sheetz first and then overlap the embossing folder slightly on your already embossed piece and complete the rest of the sheet. Use a sanding block to reveal the white core from the raised areas of the Shimmer Sheetz.

4. Die cut the Bamboo Trellis from cream cardstock.

5. From Green Iridescent Shimmer Sheetz, die cut three of the Flourish with Flowers.

6. From Purple Iridescent Shimmer Sheetz, die cut Butterfly Silhouette & body.

7. Add a piece of Double Sided Adhesive large enough to fit Butterfly Overlay (705). Remove release sheet from one side and place onto a piece of designer paper. Die cut paper using the Butterfly Overlay die. Remove release sheet from the other side of the adhesive and cover butterfly with Lavender Silk Microfine Glitter. Carefully polish the glitter into the wings with your fingers.

8. Assemble the glittered Butterfly Overlay to the Purple Shimmer Sheetz Silhouette adhering them only at the body section of the butterfly. Adhere the Butterfly Body on top.

9. Using the two small flowers from Flower Set 3, die cut 5 of each size from Pink Velvet Adhesive. Die cut 5 flower centers from Beige Velvet Adhesive. Assemble the flowers using foam adhesive between the two flower layers to create dimension.

Assembling the Card:

10. Adhere Blue Iridescent Shimmer Sheetz panel onto the cream cardstock, and then adhere this onto one of your pieces of blue cardstock.

11. On the remaining piece of blue cardstock, score 1/2 inch down along the long side of your card and fold this both ways. Add adhesive to one side of the 1/2 inch scored section and then attach this to the back of your card. You now have a top folding card.

12. Add pieces of foam tape to the back of the Trellis and place this on your card as per photo above.

13. Place your Flourish with Flowers pieces through the Bamboo Trellis as per photo. Use liquid glue to adhere the flourish to the trellis in a few places were they touch.

14. Adhere the pink flowers over the flowers on the flourish using foam tape. To achieve a bit more height to a couple of the flowers you may want to add a couple of layers of foam tap under the flourish to secure to card. I only secured the three flowers on the left of my card. The two at the top didn’t need adhering.

15. Adhere the butterfly to the card using foam tape just under the body section only. Bend the wings slightly on both the Purple Shimmer Sheetz and the Glittered Wings.

The Inside:

16. Cut a piece of cream cardstock 5 1/4 inches x 5 1/2 inches and adhere to the inside of your card.

17. Using Pink Velvet Adhesive Sheets, die cut the word Happy Birthday (783). Adhere to the lower section of the inside of the card as per photo.

Thanks for stopping by today!

SUPPLIES:

Elizabeth Craft Designs
Butterfly Overlay 1 (705)
Butterfly Silhouette (704)
Flourish with Flowers (797)
Bamboo Trellis (727)
Flower Set 3 (725)
Happy Birthday (783)
Swirly Curves Embossing Folder (E119)
Purple Iridescent Shimmer Sheetz (SS 0106)
Green Iridescent Shimmer Sheetz (SS 0107)
Blue Iridescent Shimmer Sheetz (SS 0103)
Double Sided Adhesive (502)

Lavender Silk Microfine Glitter (620)
Pink Velvet Sheet (409)
Beige Velvet Sheet (404)
Metal Adaptor Plate (803)

Other
Cream Cardstock
Light Blue Cardstock
Sanding Block
Foam Tape

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Anniversary Wishes

June 26, 2014

Hello everyone, it’s Candy Spiegel here today!

My parents recently celebrated their wedding anniversary and I wanted to give them something special. After 44 years they have everything but I know they enjoy seeing my creations. That is why I decided to make them a very special anniversary card. I used the Katie Label Pivot Card, the Flower Label 1 Peel-off in Gold and some other fun Elizabeth Craft Designs products.

Here is how I created my card:

1. Cut patterned paper to 11″x4.25″ and score at 5.5″. Cut dark blue cardstock to 10.5″x3.75″ and score at 5.25″.

2. Place the Katie Label Pivot Card die at the score line of your blue cardstock and run it through your preferred die cutting machine. Do the same with your patterned paper but first place your blue cardstock on top of your patterned paper to see where you want your die cut.

3. Run your patterned paper through your die cutting machine to create the pivot.

4. Ink the edges of your die cut patterned paper. The patterned paper will be the inside of your card. Adhere your die cut blue cardstock to the outside.

5. Cut a piece of white cardstock large anough to fit 2 Flower Label Peel-offs, 6 flowers and 3 small leaves. Adhere Double-Sided Adhesive onto cardstock.

6. Remove the release sheet of the Double-Sided Adhesive and place your Peel-offs onto the adhesive using the transfer technique Els is showing HERE. Cover Peel-offs with Warm Diamond Silk Microfine Glitter, polish and brush of the excess glitter.

7. Color Peel-offs with Copic or other alcohol markers.

8. Cut out your colored Peel-offs. Adhere “spare flowers” onto Flower labels using dimensional foam adhesive as shown in the picture below.

9. Adhere labels to card pivot and adhere extra tulip on the inside (bottom left). Decorate card front with extra Peel-offs.

10. Stamp and emboss sentiment. Round corners, ink and adhere to the inside of your card.
Add extra leaves.

11. Die cut 3 flowers out of yellow cardstock. Adhere to the inside of the card on the right.
Add Glitter Dots Peel-offs to flower centers.

I hope you enjoyed today’s tutorial and feel inspired to create this card yourself.

Thank you for stopping by!

SUPPLIES:

Elizabeth Craft Designs Products:

768 Katie Label Pivot Card

726 Balloons die (for yellow flowers)

2568 Flower Labels 1 Peel-offs

7018 Glitter Dots Peel-offs

639 Warm Diamond Silk Microfine Glitter

501 Double-Sided Adhesive

Other Supplies:

Patterned Paper

Cardstock

Dimensional Foam Adhesive

Copic Markers

Sentiment Stamp

Embossing Powder

Distress Ink

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Birthday Cupcakes Card

June 25, 2014

I’ve been meaning to make a birthday card with these cute little cupcake dies so finally, here it is!
I also used one of the Elizabeth Craft Designs embossing folders to create the background; the darker ink on the lighter card stock really brings out the detail.

Making the Card

1. Cut dark blue cardstock to 4.25” x 11”, score and fold in half. Cut a rectangle from black cardstock 4” x 5.25”. Cut a rectangle from light blue card stock 3.75” x 5”.

2. Emboss light blue cardstock using the Flower Mosaic folder. Lightly rub the raised design with Distress ink (I used Peacock Feathers).

3. Using the label accessory die from the Lucy Label Pop Up, die cut one label from dark blue and one from light blue cardstock. Use a mask to add stripes or a chevron patter to the light blue label with the foam blender. Draw stitches around the edge in back (I used a black glitter pen to give it extra sparkle). Adhere “Happy Birthday !” Peel-off.

4. Cut double-sided adhesive – enough for 2 cupcakes – and stick one side to a piece of white cardstock. Die cut 2 cupcakes from black cardstock. Pull off backing from adhesive and stick cupcake outlines to it. Coat and polish each with Cool Diamonds Microfine Glitter.

5. Color the cupcakes (I used Copic markers for this). Once colored, carefully cut out cupcakes. Run a black marker around the edges to hide any white. Color the bow and cherry red, even though these will be covered.

6. Cut a strip of dark blue cardstock about a quarter of an inch. Cut a strip from the Red Velvet Adhesive Sheet, a little smaller than an eighth of an inch. Cut the cupcake bow and heart (accessory in Accordion Oval Card set) from the Red Velvet Adhesive Sheet.

7. Assemble the card as shown using dimensional tape under the top cupcake and the top label (offset from the bottom). Put a little dimensional tape under the part of the heart that sticks off the label.

8. Embellish with red enamel dot for cherry, dot stickers on label, and a dab of Glossy Accents on the candle flame (optional).

SUPPLIES

Elizabeth Craft Designs

Other Supplies

Dark Blue, Light Blue, and White Cardstock
Foam Blending Tool
Distress Ink, Peacock Feathers
Copic or Other Alcohol Markers in Desired Colors
Black Pen (or Black Glitter Pen)
Red Enamel Dot
Glossy Accents
Dimensional Tape

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Glittery Birthday Balloons

June 24, 2014

Hi Everyone,

It’s Debra Hensley here waving from sunny and HOT Texas. Today I would like to share a sparkly birthday card featuring the Elizabeth Craft Designs Balloons die.

Birthdays are that special day when you can’t celebrate too much, laugh too much, eat too much or bling it up too much! I wanted to make a bright and cheery birthday card with lots of bling so I decided to use Silk Microfine Glitter and Shimmer Sheetz. A cute image and we are all set.

Instructions:

1. Fold a 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 piece of white cardstock in half to form a standard A2 size card.

2. Cut a piece of Red Iris Shimmer Sheetz to 4 x 5. Emboss with Lots of Dots embossing folder using your favorite die cut machine. With a sanding block, lightly sand the color off the raised dots for a fun look. Adhere to a 4 1/4 x 5 1/4 green cardstock mat. Adhere to the front of the card base.

3. Adhere a piece of double-sided adhesive to white cardstock. Die cut 4 balloons and one large heart from the Balloons die. Peel off the release sheet and glitter each balloon and the heart using different colors of the Silk Microfine Glitter. Polish with your finger to set the glitter into the adhesive and bring up the shine.

4. Stamp and color bear image with Copic markers. Fussy cut image and color the cut edges with gray or black ink for a more finished look and to hide any uneven edges. Cut a piece of white cardstock to 2 x 2 3/4 and a piece of green cardstock to 2 1/4 x 3. Adhere the white to the green. Adhere the colored bear image on pop dots.

5. Die cut 2 grass shapes using the Grass Stand Up Helper and trim one side of each a little bit so they fit nicely behind the bear’s feet. Adhere using a small piece of double-sided adhesive.

6. Add green and white twine to the back of each balloon. Arrange the balloons on the front of the card for placement. Adhere balloons to card front using glue dots on some to create dimension.
Tip: Keep your phone or a camera handy when you are creating your card to take pictures of arrangements. That way you don’t have to worry about forgetting where you had things placed when constructing your card.

7. Adhere bear image to card front about 1/2 from the bottom and 1/4 from the left edge. Arrange the balloon strings behind and in front of the bear’s hand and adhere. Tie a small knot from a scrap of twine. Trim off closely and adhere over the strings on the bears hand. Add Happy Birthday Peel-off to complete your blingy birthday balloon card!

Here is a close-up:

I hope you enjoyed making this fun sparkly card with me today. Thanks for stopping by!

Elizabeth Craft Designs supplies:

0226 Red Iris Shimmer Sheetz
E114 Lots of Dots Embossing Folder
726 Balloons Die
729 Stand Up Helpers Die
502 Double Sided Adhesive
623 Royal Blue Silk Microfine Glitter
631 Soft Green Silk Microfine Glitter
625 Sky Silk Microfine Glitter
614 True Red Silk Microfine Glitter
300 Happy Birthday Peel-Off Sticker in Black

Other Supplies:

White and Green Cardstock- Bazzill
Green and White twine- Doodlebugs
Bear Image- Jackson & Bubbles – Purple Onion Designs
Copic Markers : R2o, B04, G24, W1, E31, E33, E35
Glue dots
Pop Dots/foam adhesive
Sanding Block

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Stand Up Butterfly Card

June 23, 2014

Good morning, friends! This is Rita here.

Every year we make plans to take a trip to Pacific Grove in California to see the Monarch butterflies. Finally this year we saw them – What a magnificent wonders they are! So today when I was thinking back on our trip I knew right away what I wanted to include in my card, butterflies!!

To create the card:

1. Take out your Daisy Frame Peel-off stickers, a sheet of transparent Double Sided Adhesive and a clear sheet of acetate.

2. Peel off the release sheet from the Double Sided Adhesive Sheet and adhere the adhesive side to the clear acetate sheet. Peel off the other release sheet and set aside.

3. Place a large daisy and a daisy circle frame facing down (sticky side up) onto the release sheet and place the Double Sided Adhesive Sheet on top.

4. Cover the adhesive with Vintage Pink Silk Microfine Glitter, rub the surface with your finger and brush off the extra glitter.

5. Fussy cut around the two Peel-off stickers and use the remaining material to cut out “Thinking about You”.

6. Cut card base 6″ wide x 12″ high, score at 1.5″ and also at 6″ and fold. Cut 2 additional pieces 6″ wide x 6″high.

7. Keep the two 6″ x 6″ pieces together and die cut the middle with a circle die.

8. Cut clear acetate 6″ wide by 4″ high and adhere this piece in between the two 6″ x 6″ card stock pieces.

9. Adhere this layered 6″ x 6″ card stock to the 1.5″ high x 6″ slightly folded bottom portion of your card base. This will be the focal point of the card.

10. Cut one more 6″ wide by 6″ high card stock and die cut with the Stand Up Helper die. There are several (6) dies in the set, I chose the Flower Stand Up Helper. To guide better, keep a 6″ wide by 1.5 paper strip handy at the bottom and die cut two stand up helper portions.

11. Adhere the large daisy and the daisy frame onto the front of the card around the circle. Since the inside of our card has the same pattern as the front of the card, it is almost impossible to tell that there’s a layer of acetate sheet in between the front and back layer. Add glossy accents in the middle of each flower.

12. Die cut butterflies from Purple Iridescent Shimmer Sheetz.

13. Adhere the sentiment and the butterflies to the front of the card. Now your project is complete!

When we stand the card up, our center daisy is “floating” surrounded by all the gorgeous butterflies.

I hope you enjoyed today’s tutorial as much as I enjoyed creating this card. I absolutely love how the Stand Up Helpers made this card so unique and the butterflies are just gorgeous. I hope you are inspired to try this technique yourself!

hugs, Rita

Supplies by Elizabeth Craft Designs:
– (792) Stand Up Helpers die set
– (713) Small Butterfly die set
– (789) Thinking of You die set
– (SKU 1130) Daisy Frame Peel-Off Sticker
– (501) 5″ x 12″ Double Sided Adhesive Sheets
– (617) Vintage Pink Silk Microfine Glitter
– (SS 0106) Purple Iridescent Shimmer Sheetz

Other Supplies:
– Paper Studio Blanc Boutique paper pack
– Clear Acetate

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Butterfly Label Accordion Card

June 22, 2014

Hi Everyone, it’s Jackie here. For today’s card I was inspired by my Lilac trees that are blooming right now with the bold colors of purple, green and the blue sky. I used Karen Burniston’s Accordion Fancy Label die and the Butterfly Labels 1 Peel-offs which match perfect.

Instructions:

1. Cut three accordion pages out of black cardstock using the Accordion Fancy Label die. 2. Cut three more accordion pages using the same die out of patterned paper. We’re going to use these to create 3 frames and 3 fancy labels. To create the frames, cut out the center label of each page and trim each side of the frame a few inches. (You can cut of the long side tab of the frame. Trim this side a few inches as well). To create the fancy labels, trim the two small side tabs of each label. Now assemble you card as shown in the picture below. For 2 of my fancy labels I used the other side of my patterned paper. For more info on how to assemble the Accordion card, watch Karen Burniston’s video HERE.

3. Now it’s time to create the Butterfly Labels. To create the labels, apply two Butterfly Labels 1 Peel-offs onto white cardstock with Double-sided Adhesive on top. Cover peel-offs with Warm Diamond Silk Microfine Glitter and polish glitter with your finger. Use a brush to brush of the excess glitter. I then colored my Butterfly Labels with TomBow Markers as shown in Els’s video HERE. Once colored, cut out labels and adhere to first and third page of your Accordion card using foam tape.

4. Cut sentiment out of BoBunny patterned paper called ‘Enchanted Garden Pixies’ using the second largest die from the Accordion Fancy Label set. Adhere to second page of your Accordion card using foam tape.

5. I decorated the front of my card with scalloped glitter edges. To create the edges, apply Double-sided Adhesive onto white cardstock. Then die cut 4 edges using the scallop edge die included in the Fancy Frame Edges set. Take of the release sheet of the Double-sided Adhesive and apply Lavender and Turquoise Silk Microfine Glitter. Adhere edges as shown in the picture at the beginning.

Supply List:

Elizabeth Craft Designs

771 – Accordion Fancy Label

774 – Fancy Frame Edges

2569 – Butterfly Labels 1 Black Peel-offs

640 – Warm Diamond Silk Microfine Glitter

626 – Turquoise Silk Microfine Glitter

620 – Lavender Silk Microfine Glitter

502 – Double-sided Adhesive

Cardstock and patterned papers – White, Black papers- Stampin’ Up!, BoBunny ‘Enchanted Garden’ paper collection

Other: Tombow markers- N40, 371,366,679,620,068,093, Big Shot, Paper Trimmer, Foam Tape

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Birthday Cupcakes

June 21, 2014

We invited our friend and frequent guest designer Judi Kauffman to create today’s project. As always, her card is colorful, fun, and easy. And as always, she sent detailed instructions so you can make the project your own!

I’m glad to be back, Joset. I love cupcakes – the real ones with icing as well as Elizabeth Craft Designs’ Peel-offs. They’re almost as much fun and zero calories! I can never decide between chocolate and vanilla so I included three of each on this 11” wide Birthday Cupcakes card.

Instructions:

1. Place peel-offs onto white cardstock. Color with your favorite markers (flat color, no blending needed).

2. Using black and white pens, doodle dots and short lines to add extra details and contrast.

3. Cut out the cupcakes, staying close to the outlines.

4. Cut red cardstock to 6” x 11”. Score lengthwise, fold in half to make a 3” x 11” top-fold card base.

5. Arrange the cupcakes so they “dance” across the card. Four of the cupcakes extend above the fold. Adhere so that the cupcakes vary between chocolate and vanilla, using foam dots for added dimension. Tip: Instead of alternating, start with two chocolate and one vanilla, and end with one chocolate and two vanilla cupcakes.

6. Add Happy Birthday Peel-offs in the order shown on the card. “Happy Birthday” is beneath the two cupcakes at the center of the card. Place the word “Birthday” at the far left, the word “Happy” at the far right. *Design Strategy/Tip: There is a strong visual pull toward the center of the card because the two cupcakes at the center are side by side and positioned high within the space while two others are lower and to the left and right of the words. This means that your eye will naturally gravitate toward the spot where “Happy Birthday” is positioned. The four cupcakes surrounding the words form a frame.

Options:

*I used all six cupcakes on the sheet of Peel-offs, but shorter cards (4” wide) with only one or two cupcakes would work well, too. One sheet of 12” x 12” cardstock will yield six 4” wide cards. Cut into six 4” x 6” pieces. Score each one lengthwise and fold for six 3” high x 4” wide top-fold cards.

*I chose a mix of bright colors, no two cupcakes are alike, but they are unified by the dusky pink, chocolate brown, red and yellow that repeat on several of them. Stick to a pastel palette, use school colors, or whatever you want!

*There are extras on the Peel-offs sheet (a cherry, butterfly, candles, bow, hearts and flowers) that were not used on the card front. Save them for another project or use them for the inside of the card or the envelope.

SUPPLIES:

Elizabeth Craft Designs –

0379 Cupcakes Peel-offs in Black

390 Happy Birthday Peel-offs in Black

Letraset – ProMarkers

Sakura of America –

Pigma Micron 05 in Black

Gelly Roll Medium in White

Other – Foam dots, red cardstock, fine point scissors, paper trimmer, scoring board

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Making Gift Cards from Scraps

June 20, 2014

Hi! It’s Kelly Booth here. If you’re like me you have lots of scraps lying around from previous projects. Mine usually end up all over the place before they hit the trash. The new Character Die sets by Karen Burniston, coming out mid-July, are a perfect way to use scraps and make gift enclosure cards. Tip: If you can’t find envelopes sized to fit, use an envelope punch board or open an existing envelope and use it for a tracing template.

Here are photos of the new die sets:

To create the gift cards:

1. Die cut two solid bodies for each character out of a color cardstock you would like to use for your characters. I used white cardstock for Chilly and Poppy and green cardstock for Hoppy.

2. Lay one of the bodies on your score board and score about a 1/2 inch from the top, like this.

3. Put adhesive on the back above the creased line and adhere the second body part to this.
The back will bend and have the creased line and your front will remain flat. Here is a photo of what it should look like.

4. Decorate the fronts using the rest of the fun dies included in the Character and Props Die sets. I had some paper scraps that had Silk Microfine Glitter polished onto them and it was perfect for the Props die cuts. (Bow on Poppy, glasses on both Chilly and Poppy, and Hoppy’s lips and mouth!)

Chilly was created using some leftover scraps of Velvet Adhesive Sheets in Black, White, Yellow and Red. To jazz him up, I cut some glasses from a scrap of paper with Silk Microfine Glitter polished onto it.

Hoppy was created using a piece of leftover cardstock inked with distress ink then water splashed. I used the lips from the Props set for fun.

For Poppy I used pink cardstock scraps and cut some glasses and a bow from the Props set out of Fuchsia Silk Microfine Glitter scraps and then added some glittery black pearls for her eyes and pink pearls for accents on her bow and glasses.

What do you think? They are so easy to create and a fun way to use up some of your scraps.

Thank you for stopping by the blog today. I hope you have a wonderful day!

Elizabeth Craft Designs Supplies:

#908 Chilly, #909 Hoppy, #910 Poppy and #911 Props (Coming mid July)

#402 Red Velvet Adhesive Sheet

#405 White Velvet Adhesive Sheet

#406 Black Velvet Adhesive sheet

#401 Yellow Velvet Adhesive Sheet

#603 Silver – Silk Microfine Glitter

#619 Fuchsia – Silk Microfine Glitter

#614 True Red – Silk Microfine Glitter

Other Supplies:

Black Pearls

Pink Pearls

Googly eyes

Scraps of Cardstock

Die Cutting Machine

Glue

Scoring Board

Adhesive Tape Runner

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Anniversary Wishes

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Birthday Cupcakes Card

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Glittery Birthday Balloons

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Stand Up Butterfly Card

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Butterfly Label Accordion Card

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Birthday Cupcakes

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Making Gift Cards from Scraps

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June 2014

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