Dino Days Birthday Cards
Hello Stamping Friends,
Hopefully you are finding time during these windy winter days to have fun with your Sale A Bration products.
I made birthday cards for my grandsons Jaxson -now 3- and Emmitt -now 2! They are really into dinosaurs. I preferred the Mickey Mouse days but like my hubby says – they are boys and love to roar like a dinosaur and take dinosaur bites at dinner and attack Grandpa with a roar and a dino toy! What fun.
So it is Dino Days stamps and Dinoroar Designer Series Paper (DSP) with Dino Dies to cut out the dinosaurs on the DSP. See page 99 in the annual catalog:
I made a pop up box card and a waterfall card. The DSP is so ‘Rawrsome’ itself. It is mounted on a layer of Pretty Peacock and a card base of Balmy Blue. The pop up box card fits perfectly inside our standard envelopes.
Pop Up Box Card:
We cut out dinosaurs from the DSP and another dino of the same in a matching card stock to glue behind the DSP for strength. The dinosaurs were mounted on a strip of window sheet to secure them to the box base:
The back of the box lends itself to more stamping and I used the Vertical Greetings (retired) for the Happy Birthday and the Dino Days stamps for the greeting, palm tree, and dino tracks. I hand drew the mountains.
We cut out several additional dinosaurs and backed them with cardstock to stick in the pockets of the clothes we bought for their birthdays so they had dinosaurs to play since clothes are just not the preferred gift for toddlers.
Measurements: Click on the blue for all the instructions and examples of different boxes:
Box Card pdf
Waterfall Card:
Waterfall Card pdf
The pdf is from a past waterfall card. The difference on this one is that I used two layers on top of the base and increased the size of the little panel layers by 1/8″ so I could use a square Stitched Shape Framelit. I started with a small square Stitched Shape Framelit with a Pretty Peacock layer but I thought it was too small for the outside so I used it on the inside of the card and switched to a larger square Stitched Shape Framelit and used it to cut the Pretty Peacock layers behind the DSP squares which I just cut to size. I was able to get more of the dinosaurs on the top layer with a bigger square.
Base: Balmy Blue 5 1/2 X 8 1/2 scored at 4 1/4
First Layer: Pretty Peacock 5 3/8 X 4 1/8 (make 2 so you have one for the inside)
Second Layer: Dinoroar Designer Series Paper (DSP) 5 1/8 X 3 7/8 (make one of whisper white for the inside)
Waterfall Strip: Whisper White 2 1/8 X 9 1/4; Scored at 3/4″ intervals, 2 1/8—-2 7/8—3 5/8—4 3/8 (1/8 more than the standard directions), Burnish your score lines well going in one direction so the strip looks like a candy cane.
Front Belt: 1″ X 4 1/4″; punch a hole for the brad 1/2″ over and 1/2″ up on both sides of the belt.
Peacock Squares layered on the strip like shingles: (4) 2 1/8 X 2 1/8
Top Squares of DSP: (4) 1 3/4 X 1 3/4
Ribbon: Pretty Peacock 1/2″ scalloped linen ribbon: 3″ run through a ribbon hole punched at the bottom of the waterfall and then glued together with glue dots.
Adhere the DSP full sized layer to the Peacock front layer – NOT the Balmy Blue Base yet – and then place your belt 1″ from the bottom of the Peacock layer and mark through your belts’ hole punches with a pencil- see above- to punch the two layers for adding the belt with brads. I added a tiny strip of tear and tape to the back of the belt between the hole and the edge of the belt just to secure it in place and then put the brad through the three layers. Now you can attach the layers to the Balmy Blue Base- I suggest tear and tape for extra strength.
When gluing the Peacock squares, put adhesive on the white 3/4″ sections of the white waterfall strip not on the back of the Peacock squares. You will attach the TOP only of the Peacock squares to the 3/4″ sections. Slide the waterfall strip under the belt. Put tear and tape on the belt just the width of the waterfall (2 1/8″) and attach the bottom 1″ of the waterfall to the belt.
Be careful as you stamp the large section of the belt so that you do not get it on the wrong side of the white waterfall strip.
Placing the belt an inch from the bottom is critical to making the card work. I didn’t read my own directions and just placed it where I liked it. That is why I have two sets of brads so I could cover up my mistake and place the belt correctly.
We will be doing another waterfall card in club this month so follow my blog to get that post and see another rendition using the Rustic Retreat stamp set. Just add your email at the top right of the blog where it says “subscribe”.
Thank you for stopping by. Have a wonderful day! Click on SAL in the computer to go to my store.
SAL, Stamp Away the Long winter days
Karen
Coordinating Products for the New Mini and the Sale A Bration brochure
Hello Stamping Friends,
Hostess Code: 4F2AMKAW, January 20 – February 19
Stampin’ Up! has some incredible coordinating products to make our projects stunning ( and easier)! There is a video at the end of this post with clear examples. The products are available on February 4th and will probably sell out quickly so mark your calendars and have your order ready to input! Call me if you need assistance. Use the hostess code above if your order is under $150 or be the first person to call me to host a workshop in February and I will assign the code to you. Demonstrators can order one of each of these products right now. I can help you sign up to be a demonstrator if you would like to be part of the team and buy products at a discount and be first to see (and purchase) new products.
Host a workshop in February and we will make any two of the above projects!
Paper Pumpkin
During Sale A Bration you have the chance to order free products with a $50 or $100 order. If you order a prepaid Paper Pumpkin Subscription through online ordering, your subscription will count toward earning the free products.
This is a sneak peak from Paper Pumpkin and I love!! the colors. This kit is also a coordinating product to use with the free Happy Birthday To You stamp set in the Sale A Bration catalog.
Click HERE to subscribe for only one month!
Click HERE to place an online order to subscribe for more than one month.
Note: If you are already a subscriber to Paper Pumpkin you can still order a prepaid subscription and sign in to your paper pumpkin account and enter the prepaid code (this will be sent to you in an email) to get the next month’s subscriptions paid for by the code. Remember, you can suspend any month you don’t want a kit and it will be sent the next month. You can do this repeatedly. For example, I suspended December and then suspended January and now will be receiving February’s kit with my prepaid subscription. The home office has been giving us sneak peaks the last few months so I will keep you posted as I see what is coming and you can decide if you want to suspend or receive you monthly kit.
Call if you have questions!
SAL, Sharing A Lot this lovely winter day
New Mini Catalog and Sale A Bration Brochure
Hello Stamping Friends,
The Mini Catalog is now active and it is Sale A Bration time! Don’t you love this time of year when you can restock your supplies and get a free product for each $50 or $100 purchase from the Sale A Bration brochure?
Sale A Bration runs through March 31 and March 3rd will bring even more exclusive FREE Sale A Bration items.
The Mini Catalog runs through June 2nd, check it out by clicking on this image:
These pdf files will be in the “Catalog” tab that you see at the top of my blog. If reading this email on a mobile device be sure and click to open the email and then click again on the title to open the full blog so you can access everything on the blog; otherwise you will just see the current post.
Do you like to watch videos of the products while you walk off all those holiday calories on the treadmill? There are many:
Calories or videos?
Choke! I will start with the From My Heart suite, click to view:
Isn’t the Designer Series Paper (DSP) just “love”ly?
My turn to choke!
I wasn’t being original. Paper Pumpkin has a special kit this month and they used that pun to describe it:
This month’s kit makes 20 treat bags and 10 mini cards. Order two and you will have enough for everyone in your student’s classroom plus all the neighbors or your coworkers! The stamp in the set coordinates with the heart punches so you could get even more use of the Paper Pumpkin supplies by purchasing the heart punches from the Mini Catalog, page 10.
Don’t forget to sign up for Paper Pumpkin by January 10th, just click on the above image.
Stay tuned for more videos in future posts.
SAL,
November 2019 Paper Pumpkin Alternatives & Tailored Tag Quilted Card
Hello Stamping Friends,
This post is for those of you who still have a November Paper Pumpkin kit that you never got a chance to use.
Kind of like you never got around to posting the cards you made with the kit.
Yes, Sal, it has been a whirlwind of a month and now I need to post the new mini catalog and the Sale A Bration catalog but first let me show you how I used the 24 Christmas tags to make cards.
I purchased the Night Before Christmas Memories and More Cards and Envelopes Kit so it really was like a typical Paper Pumpkin with cards and cool matching envelopes. (Page 25 of the Holiday Catalog)
Snowflake Card
And when I ran out of the cards, I used the snowflake stamp from the PP and heat embossed white snowflakes around the edge of a Merry Merlot layer of card stock:
I have all my Paper Pumpkin stamp sets together and the ‘Wonderful time of year’ greeting was from a prior Paper Pumpkin (PP).
The snowflakes were in the November PP kit, the top greeting is in the retired “Beautiful Blizzard” stamp set and the Merry Christmas is from Octobers PP kit.
Deer and Tree Card
You know how I like to coordinate the greeting on the front with the inside and the “Itty Bitty Christmas” set had Christmas Cheer to match the “Perfectly Plaid” stamp set greeting that is so appropriate for Christmas time when we get so busy.
Sled Card
The outside greeting is from the PP stamp set and the inside is the “Perfectly Plaid” stamp set used again.
Birds Christmas Card
Joy to the world is from “Itty Bitty Christmas” and the inside greeting is from the “Still Scenes” snow globe stamp set.
Quilted Christmas Card
One more Christmas card I would love to show you is one my Mother-in-law made using the Tailored Tag punch and the plaid designer series paper with a greeting from the “Rustic Retreat” stamp set. Mom makes gorgeous quilts but has never tried her hand at cards so it was fun to show her that the two talents of quilting and cardmaking could be one.
We started by cutting a piece of copy paper to the size of the front and then folding it in half and then half again to find the exact center so we could punch a template for placement of the middle greeting.
From there it was like building a quilt:
The following card is one I had started with using all the plaids but Mom’s eye for colors made the coordination much better than my collage of colors with a white border. Just think what we could do with all our left over DSP!
Thanks Mom!
SAL, Share A Lot – Only 356 days until next Christmas!!
Karen
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