Stamp Club Projects 5.2.09

Several posts done today. Put this one up last since it is the projects done in Saturday's workshop. The other posts for today are the display cards I had made and links to origami shirt, etc.

Spiral Pop-Up Card
Card front and inside cased from splitcoaststamper poster MelisLeach - card posted December 31, 2008.

This is the first project we did at Stamp Club on 5-2-09. The front is stamped with the grass image from SU!'s Inspired by Nature which I realized is on the Dormant List. Which means it may or may not be in future catalogs! The base of the card is Kiwi Kiss card stock. The scallop edged strip was 1 1/2" wide before scalloping it. Then a length of Kiwi Kiss ribbon was glued on. Another shorter strip of Kiwi Kiss ribbon was tied into a half knot and the ends v'd and it was glued on with a mini glue dot. The butterflies are from the Flight of the Butterfly set - they are used both on the cover of the card and the inside. One thing we did learn yesterday was that when you are cutting your spiral -- skinnier is better - I believe the instructions say 1/8" and you really need to look at ruler and think 1/8" or less. If you cut the spiral too thick - like 1/4" then you don't have much spiral or much length to go from one part of the card to the other.

See tutorial here:

http://www.splitcoaststampers.com
Click on Resources, then on Projects, then scroll down to Spiral Pop Up Card
Direct link: http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/resources/tutorials/spiral_pop_up_card/

At splitcoast, do a search on Spiral Pop Up cards or click on the Spiral Pop Up gallery link at the bottom of the tutorial to see spiral pop up cards others have done with different sets. Some of them have 3 spirals. I especially like the bright colored one with all the stars.

Simple Shirt Card

CASED from splitcoaststamper poster: Figaro. Card posted January 4, 2009.

This card was a single layer card - no fold. I just stamped the Happy Father's Day sentiment on the back (not pictured). The design on the shirt was made using security envelopes. I had the security envelope on the left with the small blue print. I've seen some other security envelopes with a great print also. One thing about using the security envelopes - you don't have to buy them -- look at the envelopes that we receive bills in -- Also, some of the return envelopes that come with bills are security envelopes and since some of us pay some of our bills online or by phone these days, we don't even use those envelopes. So now they could be put to good use.

Again - remember that these could be masculine birthday cards.

Below is how the shirt card started out. I took an A2 card front and trimmed a little off the long sides so that when I glued the envelope inside to it there weren't any creases. Then I traced the card onto the envelope inside, cut it out, and glued it with Anywhere Glue Stick - covered it well so that the envelope was well adhered to the cardstock in all places. I liked the Glue Stick for this cause it was easier to completely cover a wide expanse of cardstock - it is square and it goes in the corners and glides on really well.

Then, on the back, cardstock side -- from the top measure down 3/4" of an inch and make a dot - to this on both sides. Then measure in from the sides 1" and very lightly (so you won't see it later) and draw a line. Then cut on that line. The image above was the template, so it doesn't have the envelope liner part on it - but you can see how the lines were cut and then the collar is folded on angle. Below is the finished card with a tie we cut out also from a template. Glue the tie on with a glue dot and then put a glue dot where the "button" would be to hold the collar down.

Wood Grain Technique
CASED from splitcoast poster: scrappybug posted Feb. 8, 2009

There are 3 tutorials further down that give directions about this technique. Try them and see which one works best for you. NOTE: You probably will end up having a dedicated brown ink pad for this technique. Or a dedicated Craft White. And therefore having to buy new ones of those for other purposes. (I now have dedicated both.) One of the tutorials suggests that when you get the white onto your brown ink pad to then blot it off on a sheet of copy paper, so see if that works. You also need to have a grid sheet or some other kind of protective sheet under your cardstock piece because you will be dragging the ink pad from off the cardstock all the way across it and off the bottom.

One of the tutorials says to streak the cardstock with the white craft pad (I used Stampin' Up white craft ink pad) first, then the brown - I used Stampin' Up! Close to Cocoa Classic Ink Pad. (I tried Chocolate Chip and it seemed too dark - maybe pad was too juicy - it got too much ink on the card.) So in this one, you get white craft ink on your Cocoa ink pad - which might come off if you rub it immediately on copy paper -- or you might just have to dedicate that Cocoa pad to woodgraining.

Another of the tutorials streaks with the brown ink (Cocoa) first and then streaks with the white craft ink and said that the brown classic dye ink won't come off on the white craft pad. With us on Saturday, it did. Maybe I should have let the dye ink dry for a minute or so...

Check your fingers before going to other parts of the card as they probably have gotten ink on them!

The fish above was stamped onto Very Vanilla cardstock. Stamp from SU! Fly Fishing Set. Colored it with palette made by pressing top of Old Olive ink pad into pad before opening it and then picking up the color with a blender pen. I just colored parts of the fish - not all of it. Then I cut it out. Using another piece of woodgrain we had done (NOTE that I did not draw the board lines on this one but I think I forgot to mention that during class and everybody drew board lines on both pieces of woodgrain we were doing), we cut the mounting board -- about 1/4" from the tail and 1/4" from the mouth and however much you want on the top and bottom - probably more than 1/4". (The piece I used for the mounting board measures 1 ¾” x 3 ½”.) Then ticket corner punch the corners. The backing behind the mounting board (so that it will show up on top of the woodgrain card front) is watercolor paper - cause it had a little texture to it. I cut it about 1/2" longer and wider than the mounting board piece so that there is 1/4" border on all sides when you place the mounting board on it. Then ticket corner punch those corners also. Pop up the fish on the mounting board, pop up the mounting board on the watercolor paper, and pop up the watercolor paper on the woodgrained card front -- all with Dimensionals.

Stamp sentiment with Chocolate Chip Classic Ink on Very Vanilla, punch out with Wide Oval punch, and mount with Dimensionals.

Wanda Pettijohn:

http://www.starlightstamper.com/2008/08/it-sure-looks-like-wood-tutorial.html

Dawn:

http://www.5min.com/Video/How-to-make-a-Faux-Wood-Grain-Background-for-Your-Card-77393209

There are a couple variations to this technique. I think most of the tutorials used More Mustard cardstock for the base. Creamy Caramel cardstock seemed to work best for me. My sample with the Creamy Caramel is base of the card above and also the picture below on the right. The "board" the fish is mounted on above was done on the More Mustard.

The picture on the left below shows weathered wood. This was made using Sahara Sand cardstock, Going Gray Classic Ink Pad, and Craft White ink pad. I didn't draw the board lines on the right side of the weathered one so you can see that drawing the board lines on and making the nail holes (I decided I liked two nail holes on each like on the left) makes a big difference in making it look more realistically like wood grain/boards. I just eyeballed how far apart to make the lines. And I used the hard (not brush) tip of my black Stampin' Up marker because the lines need to be thin - so use a light hand and make them thin and not too heavy.

These were the cards we did on Saturday. We talked about the Faux Alligator technique and I explained how it was done, but did not demonstrate.

I did some more posts earlier today (so they would be below this post) showing Father's Day/masculine birthday cards I had made to display yesterday. I believe I broke those up into 3 separate posts just because it was easier to do that way. On one of them are links about how to make an origami shirt -- not that hard once you look at and follow the tutorial. And then there are some made with dollar bills. And then one with a shirt and pants made from two separate dollar bills. And a more complicated one (which I decline to try thank you!) that folds the tie and then makes the shirt -- that's a little too much folding and unfolding, etc.

Thanks for "listening"/reading.