Janet's Gems: 2024

Sunday, March 17, 2024

Thoughtful Expressions Corner Fold Cards

Stamp & Dies Set Thoughtful Expressions

Poetic Expressions DSP1st sheet front mat & smaller inside mat cut 4” x 5 ¼” and 3 ½” x 4 ¾”

Coordinating 2nd sheet cut 4 x 5 ¼” inside mat, outside focal mat 2 ¾” x 2 ¾” and scrap for label

Coordinating Cardstock Cut 5 ½” x 8 ½”, score at 4 ¼”

Basic White Cut 3” x 4 ¼” inside mat, 2 ½” x 2 ½” outside focal mat and 1 ½” x 2 ½” for label &sentiment

Bling Tinsel Gems Three-pack

Instructions:

1) Cut a card base 8 ½” x 5 ½”, score at 4 ¼”

2) Mats for the outside of the card are 2 ¾” sq and 2 ½” sq

3) Mats for the inside of the card are 4” x 5 ¼” and 3 ¾” x 5”

4) Create a cutting template 3” sq as shown, this will be the cutting guide for the top right corner of your card base. You will cut from the 3” mark up to ⅝” from the top and right edges of the card.

5) Once this cut has been made you will gently push the inside point of the corner up toward the top right corner. The two uncut ⅝” sections will fold at an angle to make the “flip fold”.

6) Decorate the card as you like.

For the Moody Mauve design I simply stamped the hummingbird with Moody Mauve ink and blended it out a bit with the shimmer pen.

For the next two sets I simply water colored the humming birds with coordinating ink and then added some glitter pen.

I didn’t like the white inside mat showing so I just offset it to the left and added a second generation image to the mat.

I could not attend the Stampin’ Up! On Stage in Houston this year so I sent 15 of this set with my team leader, Nancy McBee.

Saturday, March 9, 2024

Simply Zinnia Corner Flip Cards

Stamp Set

Simply Zinnia

Optional Embossing Folder

Zinnia 3D Folder

Flowering Zinnia DSP

Cut border sheet in strips 1 ½” x 4 1/8”

fussy cut flowers from sheet with flowers on white background

Mossy Meadow Cardstock

Cut 4 ¼” x 11”, score at 5 ½”

Old Olive Cardstock

Cut 4” x 5 ¼” inside mat, 2 ¾” x 2 ¾” outside focal mat

Basic White

Cut 3 ¾” x 5” inside mat, 2 ½” x 2 ½” outside focal mat and ½” x 3 ¼ for sentiment

Bling

Shiny Sequins

Instructions:

1) Cut a card base 4 ¼” x 11”, score at 5 ½”

2) Mats for the outside of the card are 2 ¾” sq and 2 ½” sq

3) Mats for the inside of the card are 4” x 5 ¼” and 3 ¾” x 5”

4) Create a cutting template 3” sq as shown, this will be the cutting guide for the top right corner of your card base.

You will cut from the 3” mark up to ⅝” from the top and right edges of the card.

5) Once this cut has been made you will gently push the inside point of the corner up toward the top right corner.

The two uncut ⅝” sections will fold at an angle to make the “flip fold”.

6) Decorate the card as you like.

Here is the most simple design using DSP for the focal image and a single mat layer.

Now let’s step it up and double mat the focal image and the inside mat.

Or what if we fussy cut a focal image? This DSP has some great images that can be fussy cut.

There is also a coordinating embossing folder. What if we added some embossing and decorated the inside a bit more? Did you know that you can emboss your DSP as well as cardstock?

How about taking the design to the extreme? I pulled out the glitter specialty paper and made one layer sparkle! Also let’s add an embossed element to the inside mat.

I couldn’t stop at five cards. I was unable to attend the On Stage event in Houston this year so I made a 25 cards for my team leader, Nancy BcBee, to take with her for swaps.

Monday, January 1, 2024

Faux Fractured Cards

Happy New Year’s Day and a blessed 2024!

I found a really fun and easy card technique called faux fractured or shutter cards. For more inspiration visit my Pinterest Board here

This is the most simple way to make this card. Use a patterned paper cut at 4” x 5 1/4” (before adhering to the card base) center and adhere the largest square, then align the 1/4” strip against each edge of the square. Now trim the 1/4” strips even with the patterned paper. Now you can adhere it to the card base and layer the sentiments the add a few embellishments .

Now let’s step it up a bit! Let’s use two strips of paper around the center square and then mat the patterned paper on blue cardstock before adhering to the card base.

Okay I found one more way to make this card using scraps instead of a single patterned. This time you start with the largest square adhered to a scrap of cardstock and adhere one or two strips to each side of it. Then add scraps of patterned paper to the corners before trimming each side to finish off the 4” x 5 1/4” mat. I added another scrap of patterned paper to the inside mat.