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Punched Flower Card

September 25th 2008 07:07

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Punched Flowers Card

This card is bright with lots of bling, and with an interesting twist for ribbon.

Materials Required

1. Card: Bazzill Dark and light purple, white
2. Stamps: Happy Birthday Stamp from Stampin Up Birthday Whimsy set
3. Inks: Color Box Pigment Inks Violet and Lilac
4. Punches: Carl CP-2 Sakura and CP-1 Sakura, Stampin Up Horizontal Slot
5. Embellishments: Light pink 12mm ribbon; collection of Rhinestones
6. Cutting tools: Paper trimmer
7. Adhesives: White craft glue, Double sided sticky tape (DSST) and foam mounting tape.
8. Paper: Small scrap pieces in different shades of purple

Instructions

1. Fold a piece of dark purple card 210mm x 150mm in half to form the base card.

2. Cut two strips of light purple card 105mm x 20mm. Use the horizontal slot punch to create a seris of 4 holes along each for the ribbon to thread through.
On the top strip the left hand side of the hole slots are at 22mm, 42mm, 62mm and 82mm.
On the bottom strip the left hand side of the hole slots are at 12mm, 32mm, 52mm and 72mm.

3. Thread the ribbon through, as shown, attaching it behind the strip of card at the top, right most slot using DSST. Position the two strips of card onto the base card, and use DSST to attach.
Hint: Put the DSST on the upper half of the strip for the top and the lower half of the strip for the bottom, so that once attached to the base card, you can move and arrange the ribbon neatly by pulling it through the slots.

4. Cut the loose end of the ribbon that has come through the left hand hole on the lower strip to a point, and attach it to the card using DSST.

5. Punch flower shapes from the scrap paper pieces and arrange them onto the base card. Attach using the white craft glue.

6. Attach matching rhinestones to the centre of the flowers using the white craft glue. Attach small flower rhinestones directly onto the card.

7. Stamp Happy Birthday using the two different inks randomly over a small piece of white card 77mm x 30mm, using secondary impression images. Stamp one happy Birthday in the centre using Viiolet ink and a first impression image. Sponge Violet ink around the edges and Lilac ink over the piece of card. Attach to the card using foam mounting tape.

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Card Gallery - Stamping with bleach 2 - Free Card making Instructions

August 11th 2008 06:23

Stamping with Bleach - Free Card Making instructions craft

Stamping with Bleach - three card ideas

Here are some more card ideas for stamping with bleach. I love the browns, but you can use any colour you choose.

To see instructions for stamping with bleach, see my previous post on stamping with bleach.

Stamping with bleach free card making idea craft birthday

Stamping with Bleach - Flower Birthday Card

Card 1 - Flower Birthday Card

In this card I stamped with bleach onto dark brown card - using a flower stamp from Autumn Leaves Clear stamps "flower stamps by rhonna farrer" selection. Once the bleach had dried I stamped the images over again with black ink.

I cut out a rectangular section from this measuring approx 11cm x 9cmm and mounted it onto a piece of light brown card approx 12cm x10cm.
I also punched two tags, one from the dark brown card, and one from the light brown card. I have stamped "happy birthday" onto the dark brown tag, overlying the flower design (using the happy birthday stamp from the Stampin Up set, Birthday Whimsy).

I used a medium brown card (21cm x 15cm, scored in half and folded to make a greeting card).

Onto this I have put three lengths of brown ribbon approx 8cm long each, each folded in half and secured with double sided tape and with a eyelet near the folded end.
The two tags are layed on top of each other, and have a small brad (paper fastener) matching the eyelets as per photograph.
The rectangular piece (made above) is attached as well, covering the unfolded end of the ribbons.

See the photograph above for positioning.

Stamping with Bleach - Birthday Tag Card

Card 2 - Birthday Tag Card

In this card I again stamped with bleach onto dark brown card - using a flower stamp from Autumn Leaves Clear stamps "flower stamps by rhonna farrer" selection.
On a different piece of the same colour card, I stamped the words "Happy Birthday" with bleach (the happy birthday stamp is form the Birthday Whimsy set by Stampin Up).

Once the bleach had dried I stamped the images over again with black ink.

Using a Tag punch, I cut out two tags with flower design and two with Happy birthday on them. I positioned a square brad in the end of the two tags with flower designs.

I then attached the tags onto a piece of light brown card (approx 5.5cm x 11cm). This I attached onto a piece of dark brown card (approx 12cm x 6.5xm) cut from the same card as the punched flower tags.

I made a greeting card from cream card (21cm x 15cm piece of card, scored down the middle and folded in half).

Taking three pieces of brown ribbon approx 6cm long, I folded them in half (held with double sided tape), and attached them to the card as shown.

Three metal brads were used near the folded ends of the ribbon.

The Tag section (made above) was then adhered to the card, covering the unfolded ends of the ribbon.

See the photograph above for positioning.

Stamping with Bleach - Free Card Making instructions craft birthday

Stamping with Bleach - Flower Birthday Card 2

Card 3 - Flower Birthday Card 2

In this card I again stamped with bleach onto dark brown card - using a "Happy Birthday" stamp by Stamp-It "Happy Birthday" 1174D, and a stamp with three flowers in a row taken from a set called "Gardenia, bu Ruby Makenna 92610.

Once the bleach had dried I stamped the images over again with black ink.

These I cut out - The happy birthday to measure approx 6cm x 4cm and the flowers to measure approx 6.5 x 3.5 cm.

I layered them onto pieces of cream card (approx 7cm x 5cm for the happy birthday and 7.5 x 4.5cm for the flowers). Before attaching them I sponged the edges of the cream card with brown ink.

I positioned them onto a medium brown greeting card (21cm x 15cm scored, and folded in half) whose edges I had sponged with brown ink, as shown in the photo above.

Across the middle of the card I attached a strip of brown leather approx 10cm long.

Over the leather strip I positioned 3 cream paper flowers with metallic brads used as centres.

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Card Making - Stamping with bleach - Free

August 5th 2008 11:37

Stamping with Bleach

These two cards were made using bleach to stamp an image onto paper, and later stamping the same image over again, using coloured ink. Using different papers textures and colours creates different effects.

When you are using bleach to stamp with, first wear clothes that you don't mind getting ruined!!! If you spill, splash or inadvertantly wipe the bleach on your clothes, there will be bleached patches on them.

I used a couple of paper towels in the bottom of an icecream container, and soaked them with bleach. It works best if the stamp rubber is really wet with the bleach and leaves a large splodge on the paper when you stamp it.. You will need to leave the paper for the bleach to dry before stamping over ithe image with coloured ink. I wiped the bleach off the stamp after use with a baby wipe, followed by my usual stamp cleaner.

In these two examples, I used "Tree Frog 2G8BA" produced by Fern Gully Stamps, Australia, and the Happy Birthday comes from the Stampin Up "Birthday Whimsy" set.

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Cowboy / Cowgirl Hat Craft and Card- Free

July 17th 2008 07:32

Make the Cowboy Hat by layering 3 pieces of coloured paper, and then use your imagination to create a card - great for Dad's birthday or Father's Day.