Submitted by: Shari Carroll, Designer, Hero Arts
Theme: Handmade cards
Description:
These complimentary handmade cards in a tin are great "thinking of you" gifts for your closest friends or maybe a new neighbor.
Required supplies:
- 1" Glue Lines
- Craft Glue Dots
- Mini Glue Dots
- White, pink, green cardstock; Hero Arts
- Orange textured cardstock; Bazzil
- Pattern paper; The Paper Company
- Ribbon; Offray
- Flowers; Prima and Wright's
- Chip board frame; Maya Road
- Stamping supplies; Hero Arts
- Versamark Ink; Hero Arts
- White embossing powders
- 1 large pink button and 2 small orange buttons; Buttons Galore
- Corner punch; EK Success
- Ghost letters (an "h" and an "i")
- Glue Stick
- Tin; recycled from an AOL CD mailing
Happy Birthday Card:
- Stamp the numbers in the lower right portion of a pink card with Versa Mark, embossed with white powder.
- Stamp the "birthday greeting" with green ink onto white cardstock, trim closely and set aside.
- Trim pieces of pattern paper (patterned with circles), and adhere to the card just above the numbers using 1" Glue Lines.
- Block the rest of the card with scraps of green and orange cardstock.
- Secure the "birthday greeting" onto the orange portion of the card using Glue Lines.
- Secure the ribbon using Glue Lines and tie ribbon in a knot.
- Secure the flowers using Craft Glue Dots.
- Round the corners of the card.
Your a Great Friend Card:
- Block a card with pattern and color cardstocks and secure a ribbon vertically using Glue Lines.
- Stamp a greeting with green ink on white cardstock and trim to create a strip.
- Secure the greeting to the lower portion of the card using Glue Lines.
- Secure white flower and pink button to the center of the card using Craft Glue Dots.
- Tie a small bow with green ribbon and attach to the flower with Mini Glue Dots.
- Tie the orange button with thread and secure it and the flower to the card using Craft Glue Dots.
- Round the corners of the card.
Thank You Card:
- Block a pink card with green and orange cardstocks and striped pattern paper.
- Stamp "Thank You" with Versamark Ink and emboss with white powder.
- Adhere ribbon across the entire card just above the striped pattern paper using Glue Lines.
- Add thread to an orange button and secure the button to a white flower using Craft Glue Dots.
- Secure the flower and button to the card with a Craft Glue Dots.
- Round the corners of the card.
Tin Cover:
- Measure the tin and cut cardstock to fit.
- Block green, orange cardstocks onto white cardstock, round the corners and secure to the tin using Glue Lines.
- Cut a strip of the striped pattern paper and secure it vertically using Glue Lines.
- Cover a chipboard frame with coordinating paper using the glue stick.
- Stamp a greeting with green ink and adhere to the back of the frame with Craft Glue Dots.
- Run a ribbon through the openings of the frame and adhere with Glue Lines.
- Adhere ghost letters and a flower with Craft Glue Dots.
