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Happy Birthday Wallet Card

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A wallet card is a great category of cards if you want to send out something more elaborate and interactive than the regular single card or folded card. I’ve designed several versions of wallet cards, among which this type, which has two deep pockets, a flap and a belly band. You can add tags with sentiments, pictures and one time I even sent out a small bag of flower seeds in one of the pockets.

They are of course suitable for any occasion and you can choose your papers accordingly. This week I’m sharing a birthday version in bright and happy summer colors. For decoration I added several die-cuts, stamping, fussy-cutting, Stickles (glitter glue), enamel dots, washi tape and even some heat embossing. The inside flap has a punched border with cute birthday presents – thanks to a great Martha Stewart punch. The back flap sports a tiny orange umbrella brad that in itself has nothing to do with birthdays but that I simply fell in love with. In the pockets I tucked two large tags on which I printed some fun birthday sentiments.

All in all quite an elaborate card full of nice little nooks and crannies – and still relatively flat, so easy to send out in an envelope.

Hope to have inspired you to create some wallet cards of your own! And if you want to make this particular one, simply go check out my tutorial!

Have a great week, enjoy the weather and celebrate the eased lockdowns everywhere.

Papers used: 2 sheets from the double-sided Birthday Bash collection by Pink Paislee:

Craft Life Update & Video Tutorial

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Hello everyone!

So I’m back after a 3-month hiatus… Check out my update, and also my latest project, two tri-fold cards with Studiolight’s Celebrate Spring papers – which I’m not just sharing with you but also showing you how to make at the end of this video!

Grungy Card with Tim Holtz’s Dapper

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Grungy card with Tim Holtz's Dapper collection (front)

Hi everyone,

This week I’m sharing my enthusiasm about Tim Holtz’s 2016 Dapper paper pad. As per usual when I really like a paper collection, I leave it in my stash for quite some time before I can bring myself to cut into it; hence the 2.5 year (!) delay between it being offered on the market and me actually creating something with it…

Anyway, I chose to use one of Dapper’s 6×6″ sheets, plus a 3×4″ sheet. They all come in one big double-sided 12×12″ pad – which I find a brilliantly creative invention – a characteristic shared by all Tim Holtz’s paper pads alike.

The double card I created is about 6×6″, and I grunged everything up by actually distressing all of the papers’ edges, using no inks whatsoever, to enhance the effect. Also, I added in some layering and of course embellishments – and there you go, a card with a distinct masculine feel!

Do you like the Dapper collection as much as I do? And which are your favorite masculine papers for creating projects for the men in your circle of family and friends?
Let me know in the comment section below.

Low Budget Quickscrap Tip: Close-ups of Your Own Projects

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This week I’m sharing a project tip on this blog exclusively, so no Youtube video this time. If you’d like to peruse the other (over 40!) blog exclusives I’ve offered so far, click here!

So, the tip I’m sharing with you today belongs to what I’ve dubbed the quickscrap category, that is to say projects you can finish in 1 hour or less. Perfect if you’re in a bind and absolutely need a card or a gift pronto! And as an extra bonus it is super low budget.

If you’re anything like me, you’ve taken pictures of all of the craft projects you created thus far – and if you haven’t, start doing that right now! For the only thing you really need to create a lovely and most importantly superquick card, is a nice close-up picture of one of your own projects. And by close-up I mean: no background, no borders, just the details of your project. Crop the picture (digitally or physically) if you have to, to make it so.

Step 1

Print the close-up picture on photo paper. Crop it if that’s necessary to get a 100% close-up without backgrounds or borders.

Step 2

Get some nice folded cardstock and accompanying envelope from your stash.

Step 3

Glue the picture onto the front of the card.

Step 4

Cut off the excess of the card if that’s needed to perfectly fit your picture.

And you’re done!

How easy was that! Let me know in the comment section and have fun upcycling your old projects! 🙂

There’s more where that came from! For my other quick photo card tips, check out this post and this post. And for all of my low budget tips, click here!

Don’t forget the Birthday Sale in my shop! Because my birthday is January 11th, I’m celebrating it with you all by offering you a 40% discount on all of the tutorials in my shop, from January 11-13th!


Five Thank You Cards to Start Your Thanksgiving Season

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Yeah yeah I know I know, Halloween comes first so why am I even talking about Thanksgiving. Well, simple really: I don’t like Halloween. It’s a creepy holiday celebrating death and the occult. Me, I’m into Life. And that’s the first important reason to be aware of everything that deserves your gratitude – or your thanksgiving, if you will. After that come many more reasons, one of those being the people you are grateful for of being in your life, or whom you’d like to thank for some actual nice thing they have done for you the past year. So why not add a card to that gift you’re buying them? 🙂

That is why this week I’m sharing five of those, to inspire you with some ideas – and well in time for you to make them 🙂 All my cards were made with an older Bo Bunny collection called Ambrosia, but the main thing I hope will inspire you is that paper alone really is enough to make beautiful cards.

Layering was the main technique I used, using the design paper and the diecut pack that came with the collection and playing around with some dimensional tape. Some stamping will always do well of course, to add the main sentiment to your card.

Will you be sending out any Thanksgiving cards this year, or will you add any to your gifts? Let me know in the comment section!

 


Shabby Chic Tea Card

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As you may have noticed, I like to send tea bags over the mail by way of sending someone sort of a ‘warm hug’. I’ve done several of these cards before, and I try to come up with new designs once in a while.

This week is such a time. I designed a way to tuck your customized tea bag envelope onto the front of your card so that it remains easily removable, yet fixed in place.

The papers used are Shabby Chic 6×6″ pad by Studiolight, and a sheet from the Wonderland collection by Stamperia.

I hope to have inspired you to send someone such a fun hug-in-a-mug yourself after watching this week’s video 🙂

See you next week and let me know what you think!

 


Two Cards with Spring Market

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This year’s fun, colorful and on-trend Spring Market collection by Cartabella caught my eye, so I was very happy that Wendy, with the Scrapwereld (or Scrapworld) papercraft store (selling internationally as well!) very generously offered to sponsor my work with this lovely collection. I ended up creating four projects with it: my Double Take Mini Album, my Double Take Micro Album, and the two cards I’m sharing with you this week.

One is a lavishly decorated double card, the other an elegant tri-panel card, showcasing the lovely colors & patterns of the collection. For the second one I mainly used die-cuts and labels from the collection, but of course you could also add one or more pictures or personal sentiments instead.

Enjoy the video and find some inspiration! And please don’t forget to click the like & share buttons underneath this post 🙂


Creative Card Tip (for when you want a break from papercrafting but… not)

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I don’t know about you, but sometimes I’d like to do some creative work, just not actual papercrafting. Then here’s a new card making tip for you: try digital scrapbooking. Granted, you’ll need at least a little bit of affinity for working with some kind of photo app, and you’ll have to gather at least like 100 digital elements to work with. But once you’re there, you’re good to go.

You can of course create nice scrapbooking layouts like you would with your normal 12×12″ paper, like this one:

Now imagine printing that, but as a 6×6 sized picture. Now you can either mat a piece of folded cardstock to create a card, or print it on a 6×12″ piece of white paper and fold that in half.

You don’t have to use photos of course, you can also go ‘all digital scrapbooking’, like these cards:

And last but not least, you can print them yourself, but you can also have them professionally printed.

Check out the video for show & tells of all of these examples!

Several of the cards in the video are available for you as professionally printed cards, plus envelopes!

So, have you got any experience with digital scrapbooking – and if not, would you ever consider trying it? Let me know in the comment section! 🙂

 


Unicorn Card & Summer Announcement

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In this week’s video I’m sharing a nice quickscrap project: a unicorn card, created without cardstock, using the wonderful Unicorn sheet from the Wonderland collection by Stamperia.

Also, a summer announcement: this summer I’n doing a four-part series called Scrap With Me, with four basic papercrafting technique tutorials, starting next week! 🙂

Enjoy your summer!

 

 

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Card with Upcycled Front

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The other day I bought new bed linens – very colorful ones of course, as I generally tend to feel attracted to colorful things. They were packaged in plastic with a cardboard wrapper which displayed a picture of what the linens would look like once unpacked. And it was that cardboard picture I used to create this card!

The colors were simply amazing and I embellished only a little here and there. Did have to mat the inside and backside of the card of course, and for this I used some Studio Light papers.

In the video you can see the actual linens by the way 🙂

So anyway, this week my tip is to look beyond your design paper pads and check out other options – like cardboard wrappers of bed linens 🙂

 


Photo Showcase Birthday Card

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Sometimes it’s nice to be able to send some great pictures of you and your friend along with a birthday card for said friend. This card design is perfect for showcasing 2-4 pictures, together with a nice birthday wish!

It’s based on my wallet card design that’s explained in tutorial #22, so check that out of you’d like to create it yourself. It’s easy and fun!

This time I worked with Bo Bunny’s Rose Cafe collection, to coordinate with the color scheme automatically dictated by the pictures that I used 🙂

 

 

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