Christmas meet shoebox project #3

I love this one ... well, I love them all but like the simplicity and impact that this has.

Jan's shoebox kit

Ingredients:

A6 card blank

Score board for scoring lower part of card and border (Hougie board in this instance)

Strip of DP paper

Circle nesties for matting.

Nellie Snellen Multi frame circles or Nestie Lacey Circles

Stamp or Digi image (this one was from Pink Gem)

Colouring medium (promarkers used here)

Greeting and SU window punch

Stickles glitterglue

 Enjoy!!

 

An Anniversary.

Today is my friend Cally's wedding anniversary. I think she told me that her and Gary had been married 17 years this year. Doesn't seem possible as I remember her 'eloping' all those years ago when she was a mere slip of a girl - *lol* She had a very quiet wedding as they went to Gretna Green to get married and it was only them and a couple of friends as witnesses. She was still mourning the death of her Mum and didn't feel right with a big 'do' so decided to keep it simple but hey ... mine was simple to and I shall be celebrating (?) my Silver Wedding next weekend. We had a few more guests than 2 as we had my sons (it was my 2nd marriage) and what family we had at the time present, so we had a grand total of 10, including us, for the wedding and wedding lunch after. I did the big white thing first time round. Which did I prefer? The second one. Far more intimate and meaningful.

Anyway, here's the card I made to give to Cally and Gary to mark their anniversary. Picture isn't too good due to poor light but the card is actually a really crisp white and the golds are more vibrant.  The quilted effect was created by scoring diagonally at half inch intervals using my ScorPal.  I'm leaning back towards smaller cards.  We made a lot of smaller cards during the House Party weekend and they were so effective .... and I'm finding it easier to come up with ideas for the smaller size.  Strange how things go around.

Ingredients:

A6 Papermania white card blank.

Papermania ribbon

Rubber Stamp Tapestry Love set

Various ink cubes from stash - reddy pink, dark & light olive green

Brilliance gold ink pad for lettering

Dark & light gold pearlescent chalks (round edge of shape)

Spellbinders Labels Ten die

SU slot punch

Small heart shaped crystal gems

Enjoy!!

 

Crafter's House Party 2010 - #2

Here's another couple of the shoebox cards made at the House Party weekend.

Jackie's card.

Jackie chose a very feminine envelope style card.  This card I took home to complete as the stamps available for the sentiment weren't my cup of tea and I knew I had just the one I wanted to use at home so, the insert was left to finish at home.  I do know that the flowers and leaves were from Fred She Said .... and the stamp is an Impression Obsession wood mounted one.

This card was flat and had no way of standing on it's own although some people managed to make it so that it opened in the standard way so that the envelope effect was the front of the card.  I've added a 'stand' to the back of this one.  Just a triangular piece of card scored in the relevant place and adhered to the back.  It flattens for putting into an envelope.

JanR's card.

Jan's card was so simple to do but how effective is this?  The backing card was scored diagonally at 1inch intervals.  The backing medallion is the Spellbinders Lotus Shapeability medallion and the tag was made from a scalloped circle.  Don't know where the image came from but it's coloured with Copics and Stickles were used to bling the snow.  Glitterati bling was used at the intesections of the scored lines but I've just noticed that one has dropped off.  May be in the polybag but otherwise I've got to find some and Mr Google hasn't been of much help in finding it.  Perhaps Jan, if you read this, you can point me in the right direction?

Enjoy!!

TUTORIAL - Box-Pleated card

Here is a tutorial on the box-pleated card and a couple of tips that Greta and I learnt whilst making the card.

Tools and Materials:- (click on any image to enlarge)

~ Ruler & pencil or scoring board (M&F or Eazi Score)

~ Bone folder or embossing tool
~ Double sided tape (DST)
~ Wet glue (PVA, UHU or similar)
~ A square card blank - made or bought - measuring 150 x 150mm (approx 6 x 6 inches).
~ A5 card (148 x 210mm), matching or contrasting (your choice depending on result aiming for - see tips at end)
~ Embellishments to finish.

Method:-

It is easier to do the scoring for the pleats using a score board but if you don't have one you can do it without by using a ruler.......

~ Working with the piece of A5 card in landscape mode, measure 2.5cms from the left hand edge and score from top to bottom of the card.

~ Measure and score in the same way, 0.5cm from that score line.

~ Now measure and score 2.5cms from the last scoreline and then, again, 0.5cm from that one.

~ Continue in this way across the full 210mm width of the A5 piece of card. You should end up with 12 score lines. You may now find that you need to trim a little from the edge of the card (approx 0.5cm) to match the left hand side.

If you are using the white M & F score board ....

~ The A5 card should be laid with the left hand short edge lined up to line #3 [marked 3 Gate A4].
~ The first score line is done on line #4 [marked 4 Z-Zag leaflet A4] and the second on line #5 [marked 5 Half A5].

~ The card should then be moved left until the 2nd score line (done on line 5) is lined up with line #3 (pic on right) .

~ Score again on lines #4 and #5

~ Continue across the whole width of the A5 card for the 12 lines.

The method is exactly the same on the blue Eazi Score board but the lines used on this board are #A4 Gate to line up with and lines #5 and #6 to score down.

From here on the method is exactly the same no matter what method you used to score the lines ...

~ Starting from an outer score line and with right side facing, crease a valley fold followed, on the next score line, by a mountain fold.

~ Continue creasing and folding, alternating between valley and mountain folds across the width of the card. You should end up with 3 pleats on the right side and 2, with sides flat, on the reverse.

~ Turn the card to the reverse and attach DST to the 2 outer short, flat edges.

~ Apply the wet glue of your choice to the 2 centre pleats. The reason for this will become obvious

~ Take your card blank and attach one short, flat edge of the pleated card to the blank ensuring an even border shows around the pleated card.

~ Attach the other short, flat edge of the pleated card to the other side of the card blank, ensuring the border matches the other side.

~ You now need to press the centre sections (which have the wet glue on) down into place and manoeuvre them into position so that the pleats are evenly distributed.

~ Hold in position until the glue takes hold

You have now finished your basic box-pleated card. Decide which way you would like your pleats - I chose to have them horizontal, Greta had hers vertical - and embellish as you desire!

with thanks to Marjie (Her Marjiesty) and Dora on the ex-imag-e-nation forum ....

Tips:-

Take care which card you choose to make the pleats from. We used Bazill Bling and the coating cracked when we did the folding - take a close look at the photo above (click to enlarge) and you can see where the coating cracked and split. If you want to use a coated card check the coating is pliable enough to take the folds without cracking.

American sized card that looks like A4 is not A4 and a sheet of Bazill, for example, folded in half does not give you A5 (148 x 210mm). It is slightly smaller. There are several ways to get round this other than specifically cutting the piece of card exactly to size... a) Adjust the side borders slightly, b) trim the base card or c) keep 3 base borders the same and have the 4th larger (which is what I did). Greta found a slightly smaller card blank.

Apart from the largest in the sets, which are too wide, the new Cuttlebug borders fit the pleats really well and make quick, but effective embellishments.

Play with different card sizes, adjusting the size required of the card to pleat and the number of pleats if necessary - or even the size (width and/or depth) of the pleats. The possibilities are endless.

Enjoy!!