Today's card is made using a a technique where you paint dotted lines with a tracing wheel and art from the newspaper. For the full tutorial pop on over to this post at Sweater Surgery.
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
6. Tracing wheel dotted line painted greeting card
Today's card is made using a a technique where you paint dotted lines with a tracing wheel and art from the newspaper. For the full tutorial pop on over to this post at Sweater Surgery.
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
5. How to make a recycled calendar church sign quote and lighter label card
How to make a recycled calendar church sign quote and lighter label card. Bet you weren't expecting that combo!
But yes it's true. Today's card is made with a page from one of those page a day calendars that features church sign quotes and lighter labels I picked up at a thrift store in a bag of mixed stuff.
I trimmed the warning label info and the blank space of the sticker so that just the image was on the sticker and I trimmed the church quote down to the sign shape. The quote in case you can't read it says, " Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it". Then I played around with the layout of the two images so that the star print of the scrapbook paper was in a nice balance.
But yes it's true. Today's card is made with a page from one of those page a day calendars that features church sign quotes and lighter labels I picked up at a thrift store in a bag of mixed stuff.
I trimmed the warning label info and the blank space of the sticker so that just the image was on the sticker and I trimmed the church quote down to the sign shape. The quote in case you can't read it says, " Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it". Then I played around with the layout of the two images so that the star print of the scrapbook paper was in a nice balance.
Monday, March 28, 2011
4. How to make a recycled coffee cup card
Today's card is made with a recycled Starbucks paper coffee cup and a piece of scrapbooking paper.
I had been saving this cup that has the quote on it, "On the battlefield of ideas, winning requires moving toward the sound of the guns." by Newt Gingrich.
It had been sitting on the shelf above my desk for quite sometime and I was doing a bit of cleaning this weekend. It seemed the perfect time to transform this cup into a card.
So I cut the cup down to just the area of the quote but still left the top rim of the cup. There was still a bit of curve the the cardboard and it still looked like a cup.
I went through the stash and found this cute piece of scrapbooking paper that had a hand pointing graphic on it.
All that was left to do was trim the paper into a card shape and pop the cup on using a few strips of foam tape to keep the curve dimensional.
I had been saving this cup that has the quote on it, "On the battlefield of ideas, winning requires moving toward the sound of the guns." by Newt Gingrich.It had been sitting on the shelf above my desk for quite sometime and I was doing a bit of cleaning this weekend. It seemed the perfect time to transform this cup into a card.
So I cut the cup down to just the area of the quote but still left the top rim of the cup. There was still a bit of curve the the cardboard and it still looked like a cup.I went through the stash and found this cute piece of scrapbooking paper that had a hand pointing graphic on it.
All that was left to do was trim the paper into a card shape and pop the cup on using a few strips of foam tape to keep the curve dimensional.
Friday, March 25, 2011
3. How to make a recycled Bingo card hidden window card
Today's card is made with a recycled Bingo card and a vintage image of a lady smoking.
I thought the grid of the Bingo card lent itself to making them into little flaps that I could put images behind.
How I made the Bingo card flap opening is simply by cutting the two sides and bottom of one of the grids. I scored the top with the back of my knife and folded it up.
Then I cut the photo out of the magazine and glued it to the back of the Bingo card. All that was left was to glue the Bingo card to the the front of a greeting card. As I type this I was just thinking I could have used a recycled greeting card that I didn't love the cover image since the Bingo card would likely cover the whole front. Hmmmmm, next time! Well I'm just going to pop this latest card in my Greeting Card Album for safe keeping.
I thought the grid of the Bingo card lent itself to making them into little flaps that I could put images behind.
How I made the Bingo card flap opening is simply by cutting the two sides and bottom of one of the grids. I scored the top with the back of my knife and folded it up.
Then I cut the photo out of the magazine and glued it to the back of the Bingo card. All that was left was to glue the Bingo card to the the front of a greeting card. As I type this I was just thinking I could have used a recycled greeting card that I didn't love the cover image since the Bingo card would likely cover the whole front. Hmmmmm, next time! Well I'm just going to pop this latest card in my Greeting Card Album for safe keeping.
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
2. Super Moon Greeting card made with two circle punches and One Up Me quote
With the amazing super moon shining in the night sky I thought I'd make a super moon card.
Now I know the Super Moon is a full moon but I thought it would be fun to make a partial moon. It was super easy.
I pulled out the circle punches and picked two similar in size. I punched the large circle out of some white glitter paper and then the slightly smaller circle off center.
The quote is from One Up Me:
" He's like an 800 number, you won't get a charge out of him."
which I wrote with a Pentel Slicci silver pen.
Now I know the Super Moon is a full moon but I thought it would be fun to make a partial moon. It was super easy.
I pulled out the circle punches and picked two similar in size. I punched the large circle out of some white glitter paper and then the slightly smaller circle off center.The quote is from One Up Me:
" He's like an 800 number, you won't get a charge out of him."
which I wrote with a Pentel Slicci silver pen.
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
1. Jackalope Card with March 22 One Up Me quote
I am going to try to make a card every day. This goal is inspired by the blog 365 Make Something Every Day and book 365 A Daily Creative Journal.
Here is my first card:
Here is how I made my jackalope card.
I punched 2 bunnies with my Martha Stewart punch, one with holding the pink side of the paper up and one with the pink side of the paper down. This gave me a reverse image.
I punched the deers the same way with the Martha Stewart deer punch.
I then trimmed the antlers off the deers and glued them to the back of the bunnies, now I have jackalopes!
I cut a card with the front a bit shorter because I wanted to write my quote along the bottom.
The quote is from One Up Me and it says:
"She's like the iPhone, we talk but mostly she plays games with me."
Here is my first card:
Here is how I made my jackalope card.
I punched 2 bunnies with my Martha Stewart punch, one with holding the pink side of the paper up and one with the pink side of the paper down. This gave me a reverse image.I punched the deers the same way with the Martha Stewart deer punch.
I then trimmed the antlers off the deers and glued them to the back of the bunnies, now I have jackalopes!
I cut a card with the front a bit shorter because I wanted to write my quote along the bottom.
The quote is from One Up Me and it says:
"She's like the iPhone, we talk but mostly she plays games with me."
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