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Hats Off Spinner Card

July 19, 2017 / Leave a comment

Hello Stamping Friends,

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My hostess, Nicole, requested a masculine spinner card for her party which challenged my creativity. After giving the idea some thought I used the “Guy Greetings” stamp set on page 36 of the new catalog. It is available in wood mount # 138825, clear mount #138828 and photopolymer #137178.

And created this:

Yes, I did cut the stamp with the six hats into six pieces. The Designer Series Paper, DSP, beneath the Very Vanilla top layer is the new Foil Frenzy paper. The catalog picture doesn’t do it justice:

The Hats Off To You! from Guy Greetings is embossed with copper embossing powder and uses an upside down cutout from the Hearth and Home Thinlits:

And of course one must put a feather in the cap and ‘Jar of Love’ had a great stamp, the one at the bottom right, which just needed a little extra feathering with a Chocolate Chip marker:

To cut out the spinner path, you need a framelit or punch that is just a little narrower than a penny. The Bunch of Banners framelits had the perfect one, the little one at the bottom right:

Since the card is 6 1/2″ long it took four cuts across to make the spinner opening but well worth the time. Cut a 7/8″ wide strip of sticky note and place it at the bottom of the Very Vanilla layer to guide your four cuts.

The inside brings in the foil paper behind another hat just like the spinner on front and adds the classic car and greeting! Scroll back up and check out the variety of greetings this set offers.

Base – Early Espresso 6 1/2″ X 6 1/2″ scored at 3 1/4″
Foil Frenzy DSP 6″ X 3″
Top Layer -Very Vanilla, 5 1/2″ X 2 1/2″ , sponged with Crumb Cake ink and distressed with a finger nail (or distressing tool)
Inside Layer – Very Vanilla 6″ X 2 7/8″ , sponged with Crumb Cake ink
Spinner – Scrap of Very Vanilla for 3/4″ punch and Scrap of DSP for the 1″ punch- make a second one for the inside
Stamps – Guy Greetings and Jar of Love
Tools – 1″ circle punch, 3/4″ circle punch, Bunch of Banner Framelits, Hearth and Home Thinlits, Chocolate Chip Marker
Inks – Early Espresso, Chocolate Chip, Crumb Cake, Soft Suede, Basic Black, Versa Mark and Copper Embossing Powder
Embellishments – 3 Candy Dots or pearls colored with a brown Sharpie
For Assembly – Foam Adhesive Strips (see page 203 for this great new product), two pennies and Stampin’ Dimensionals
Envelope Punch Board for a perfectly sized envelope

Adhere your Very Vanilla top layer to the DSP layer and cut the path for the spinner on both layers at the same time. I used temporary glue to adhere the two layers for cutting the path, then took them apart, decorated the top and then glued them together permanently. For the spinner to work it is critical to mount these two layers to the base using Foam Adhesive Strips (or a lot of Dimensionals).

For temporary glue just use a bit of snail and pat it with your finger and the oils in your finger will keep it from sticking too hard.

For the spinner, place a dimensional in the very middle of a penny and place a second penny on top. Even though the dimensional isn’t round it works perfectly. Then place another dimensional on the top penny and add your hat spinner made from a 1″ circle punch of DSP and the hat stamped on a scrap of vanilla, punched with a 3/4″ circle punch and adhered to the DSP. Beware – don’t get your dimensionals mixed up when you lift the slot to slip the bottom penny inside the path. If you use the dimensional between the hat and top penny it won’t spin.

What do you think?

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Double Z Fold Box Card & Clearance Rack

September 16, 2016 / Leave a comment

Hello Stamping Friends, (Click little SAL to go to the full blog if you are on your phone)

Stampin’ Up! just added lots and lots of goodies to the clearance rack. They will be available while supplies last. I will post screen shots at the end of this post to entice you! If your order is $150 you earn hostess rewards; if it is under $150 use the hostess code FCZSQ336 and get a treat from me!

For now let me show you my version of a Double Z fold box card. The standard double Z fold card base is cut and scored like this:

Do you see how the base is a Z fold one way and then the 1″ on the bottom is Z folded the other way.

Base card is 9 3/4″ X 4″ (This gives you the option of adhering the entire card to a base of 5 1/2″ X 4 1/4″)

Cuts: Using your Stampin’ Trimmer, with the 4″ side on top, cut at 1″ starting at 3″ to 7 1/2″. (I love how our Stampin’ Trimmer has the inches marked on the vertical bar to guide us.) Turn to long side and score at 3″ down to the cut line and then score at 5 1/4″ all the way top to bottom. Lastly, score at the 7 1/2″ from cut line down to bottom. That is a standard Double Z fold.

I chose to do a Double Z fold “Box” card instead of having an open middle as shown above so I could add a middle box strip to put on a jar of flowers. Our stamping friend, Terri, is getting married this month and her colors are gray and hot pink. Congratulations Terri!

Base Card: 9 3/4″ X 4″ Score at 3″ and 5 1/4″ all the way top to bottom. Basic Gray used here.

Bottom Strip: 9 3/4″ X 1″ Score at 5 1/4″ and 7 1/2″. Basic Gray.

Box Strip: 4 1/4″ X 1″. Score at 1″ and 3 1/4″. Basic Gray.

Front Panel: 2 3/4″ X 3 3/4″ to glue on before the 1″ bottom strip is adhered. Pop of Pink Designer Series Paper (DSP).

Back Panel: 4 1/4″ X 3 3/4″ to glue on before the 1″ bottom strip is adhered. Pop of Pink DSP.

Bottom Strip DSP: 9 1/2″ X 3/4″ Score at 5 1/8″ and 7 3/8″. Pop of Pink DSP.

Whisper White cardstock was used for all the embellishments with the bow on the heart stamped first in Melon Mambo then cut with the bow framelit in the Everyday Jars Framelit set . I cut one full Flourish Thinlit for the front, and for the bouquet I used the top of another full Flourish thinlit for two of the flowers, one of the single Flourish thinlit flowers and one of the single stem bud Flourish thinlits. I cut off a few of the extra buds that made it a bit too busy.

The jar is stamped twice from the Jar of Love stamp set and cut out with the shortest of the Eyeryday Jars Framelits. I stamped the bow in Melon Mambo on one of the jars and then put sticky tape/glue dots on the top of the back of the jar to hold the flowers as I arranged them, being careful to not place a flower too far to the left where it would be crunched in the fold. I attached the back jar to the front jar just at the top and slid the two over the middle gray box strip adhering both sides with Tombow glue.

The border comes from the Flourish Thinlits set.

The Heart and Congrats are from the Sunshine Wishes Thinlits.

I found it easy to adhere all the thinlits by putting a few drops of Tombow glue on our Silicone Craft Sheet and then using a toothpick to put glue on the thinlit. The glue in the new Fine Tip Glue pen has a tendency to dry too fast for my slow speed.

The greeting comes from the Rose Wonder stamp set. It should be stamped on the middle of the base before adding the embellishments. I had to add a 3″ X 2 3/16″ panel with the greeting. Design opportunity…..I could have used a different cardstock, but you know how I like the monochromatic look. (If you don’t get the card mailed in time for a wedding, you could easily add a panel that says Happy Birthday!)