{"id":2282,"date":"2019-03-15T15:25:15","date_gmt":"2019-03-15T21:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stampalosopher.com\/?p=2282"},"modified":"2019-03-22T11:43:55","modified_gmt":"2019-03-22T17:43:55","slug":"whats-this-a-hidden-pot-of-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stampalosopher.com\/?p=2282","title":{"rendered":"What’s this? A Hidden Pot of Gold?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello Stamping Friends,<\/p>\n

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For club this month we made a St. Patrick’s Day card!\u00a0 \u00a0It is a wiper card special fold and the pot of gold pops up out of the middle!<\/p>\n

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Let’s start by making a rainbow with our Stampin’ Up! markers.\u00a0 I tried blender pens and the alcohol Stampin’ Blends but was able to get the clearest image with the markers.\u00a0 I cut out an oval with a framelit and used the center of my grid paper to determine placement for the Whisper White cardstock.\u00a0 I went over 9 squares and down 9 squares and marked the oval with the placement line. ( I will list all the measurements at the end.)<\/p>\n

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Now place your cardstock on the grid paper and draw the first rainbow line holding the marker at a somewhat slanted angle – too much slant and your line will be too thick, too little slant and your line will be too thin.\u00a0 Use the thick end of the marker and let the curve of the oval guide your hand.\u00a0 Remember, this is a marker not a crayon so you don’t need to press hard.\u00a0 After the first line is drawn, move the oval up slightly to mask the first line and draw the next line. Continue for all seven colors.\u00a0 You will do ‘damage control’ at the end when you have completed all the rainbow lines by switching to the thin end of the marker and coloring in any missed bits or edges.\u00a0 I advise practicing once on the grid paper before doing the card.\u00a0 Clean the tips of your markers by tapping them off on the grid paper after each attempt.\u00a0 The oval will absorb the ink so use the other side of the oval after practicing, just be sure and cover your cardstock with sticky notes so the ink from the practice side of the oval doesn’t get on your cardstock.\u00a0 I tried a window sheet to see if that would keep the ink from bleeding but it wasn’t any better.<\/p>\n

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With your rainbow completed, run the cardstock through the Big Shot with the Subtle Embossing Folder.<\/p>\n

For the greeting we will use the stamp from “Love What You Do” and the framelit from “Wonderful Floral”.\u00a0 The Stamparatus will let us stamp and then restamp until we have a perfect image.\u00a0 I placed the framelit on the paper to verify I had enough on each side of the greeting for the cutout- but be careful – those magnets love to grab framelits!\u00a0 Remember – stamp first – then cut!<\/p>\n

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After you have cut out the stamped greeting, use the negative space of the cutout to mark the cut for the gold glimmer paper.\u00a0 On the back of the glimmer paper draw around the cutout with a pencil and then fussy cut.\u00a0 You could cut out the glimmer paper with the framelit but then all those little rectangles on the side will have to be taped in place.\u00a0 Fussy cutting was easier for me.<\/p>\n

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Adhere the gold glimmer paper directly to the card front and then pop up the greeting.\u00a0 When adhering to glimmer paper glue dots work the best so place a glue dot on top of each dimensional.\u00a0 Since the glimmer paper is not a circle, be careful to line up your greeting before gluing down the glimmer paper.<\/p>\n

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That picture shows the beauty of the ‘Subtle’ embossing folder!<\/p>\n

I needed a birthday card for my daughter so I colored the stamp with my marker leaving out ‘friend’ and then used the retired ‘Family Reunion’ stamp set which has a daughter stamp to stamp the middle of the greeting.\u00a0 Sticky notes worked better than the grid paper to align the ‘daughter’ stamp since you can see through the sticky note.\u00a0 (It took me more than once to get it aligned right so I threw away sticky notes instead of grid paper.)<\/p>\n

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I will square it up when I cut it out with the framelit and put a bling over the dot where the ‘i’ in friend was touched when I colored.\u00a0 Butterflies and bling fix most anything!<\/p>\n

With the rainbow and greeting completed, let’s stamp!\u00a0 I wanted the images to be a rich shiny black so I embossed them and then cut them out.\u00a0 The Whisper White cardstock we used for the greeting has enough room for all with enough left over to cut out two lily pad flowers.<\/p>\n

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Let’s go to the Big Shot now and cut out our pieces.\u00a0 Cut two pots out of black using the retired ‘Cannery Set’ lid. The ‘Coffee Cup’ framelits has a lid that would work, too.\u00a0 Cut out the lily pad with the Hop Along framelits and nine hearts for shamrocks with the ‘Every Day Jar Framelits’.\u00a0 Use a 1\/4″ circular punch, mine was just an office punch, and punch out three green circles for the back of the shamrocks and a dozen or so glimmer paper circles for the coins in the pot.\u00a0 Punch half circles out of the side of the glimmer paper to line the front edge of the pot so it looks like the coins are half way out of the pot.<\/p>\n

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Now the relaxing fun! Coloring!\u00a0 I used light and dark ‘Granny Apple Green Stampin’ Blends’ for the frogs.\u00a0 I colored their tummies and the dots with the light and then did two layers of the dark for the rest.\u00a0 The open mouth got a little ‘Blushing Bride Marker’, the lilies got a touch of Dark Daffodil Delight and the unicycle was colored in Light Smoky Slate with a Daffodil Delight seat.\u00a0 The bug was colored in Dark Highland Heather and Dark Daffodil Delight. The bees got a touch of Dark Daffodil Delight.\u00a0 The lily pad was sponged on the edge for extra depth.\u00a0 The two frogs and the purple bug were popped up.\u00a0 The lily pad, flower, bees and shamrocks were glued directly down.<\/p>\n

To give your pot the illusion of a front edge, place your framelit on the pot and score around the edge then move the framelit up a bit and score again.\u00a0 Color black between the scored lines and use a Versa Mark pen to make it even darker.<\/p>\n

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I used the fine tip glue pen to place my first layer of half coins on the pot and to glue the coins that adhered directly to the black paper.\u00a0 When stacking the coins be sure and use glue dots so they will stick to the glimmer paper.<\/p>\n

My first attempt at the shamrocks was with the fine tip glue pen but I didn’t like the result (shown here) so I used a glue dot on top of the 1\/4″ circle and found it much easier to place the little hearts and have them stay in place.\u00a0 Cut just a little triangle out of the bottom of your 1\/4″ circle if you don’t want it to show under the stem.\u00a0 I fussy cut little stems.<\/p>\n

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This picture shows the shamrocks with glue dots.\u00a0 Less mess and no shiny excess from the glue.<\/p>\n

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The front is adhered directly to the black layer and those two layers are popped up on a Garden Green layer but don’t glue it on the base until you have constructed the wiper.<\/p>\n

Use your bone folder to fold the two score lines on the two base pieces in Z folds. Place the front to the back and check that you have the folds going the right way.\u00a0 It should look like this:<\/p>\n

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The front has the long portion on the right.\u00a0 Lay this face down on your grid sheet.\u00a0 The top is now at the bottom.<\/p>\n

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Line up your scored wiper piece with the bottom of the card (which is really the top when you stand it up).\u00a0 Place the diagonal of the scored portion on each edge of the second fold of the Z.\u00a0 Before adhering the wiper piece, bend the diagonal forward and backward a few times to exercise its movement!\u00a0 To score the wiper, place the square piece with a right angle at the 1\/2″ of the right side of the Stampin’ Trimmer and the opposite right angle on the same line.\u00a0 I drew a pencil line to show you what I mean.\u00a0 Score- creating a little triangle on one corner.<\/p>\n

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You are going to glue only that little triangle to the cardstock.\u00a0 I tried tear and tape and it pulled off so I found ‘Tombow liquid glue’ worked well, you just have to hold it in place for a bit and be careful not to let the glue squish out.\u00a0 I like to put ‘Tombow’ on the piece I am gluing and then count to twenty before adhering so it doesn’t squish out.\u00a0 I did use ‘Tear and Tape’ on the front and back edges.<\/p>\n

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The pot is next!\u00a0 Glue the window sheet to the wiper piece and then glue the pot upside down to the other side of the window sheet at the very edge of the cardstock. Glue on your second pot to cover the window sheet.<\/p>\n

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Stand the front back up, line the edges of each side carefully, adhering the front to the back.\u00a0 Voila!\u00a0 You have made a wiper card!<\/p>\n

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Finish by gluing the Garden Green strip on the front side and stamping the back of the card.\u00a0 The greeting stamp used on the back\u00a0 is a retired Stampin’ Up! stamp but the four leaf clover is in the ‘Amazing Life’ stamp set.\u00a0 The ‘ Make A Difference’ stamp set has the alphabet in capitals and small letters so you could make ‘daughter’ or Happy St. Patrick’s day with that set.<\/p>\n

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