Just One More Card

Discovering the world of card making. One Project at a time.

Video: Create a Die-Cut Only Card with a Sentiment – No Stamping (CMCC #40)

This is my second post today. For my card for the Stempelküche challenge, scroll down. // Das ist mein 2. Post heute. Für die Karte der Stempelküche Challenge, einfach runter scrollen.

Hello crafty friends! Today I have a super easy to make card for you, which requires no stamping at all! Seriously! And you can still have a sentiment! Wanna see?

When I made this card in preparation for the Colour Me…! challenge this week, I did not have any ink that came even close to Calypso Coral (that’s the color we are using in this week’s monochromatic challenge), so I had to resort to the patterned SU paper only. It’s amazing how creative you get if your supplies are limited, it’s actually a lot of fun to have to restrict yourself to certain products. All you need for a card like this is a sentiment die, another die of any shape, some nice patterned paper and some adhesive.

As you can see in the video, this card took no time at all to make. The big butterfly window is what shines on this card and makes the challenge color the focal point. I’m still thrilled about the “happy accident” that made me put the patterned paper underneath the white sentiment, not on top of it. I feel that the way I did it, it doesn’t distract but adds just the right amount of color to keep the “hello” legible.

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I hope you enjoyed the video and I hope to see you over at the Colour Me…! challenge blog with your own creations! Thanks for stopping by!

Don’t forget to head over to the rest of the Design Team to see what these fabulously talented ladies have created:

Supply List

  • Stampin Up Calypso Coral patterned paper
  • Memory Box butterfly die
  • Simon Says Stamp hello word die
  • Pretty Pink Posh sequins
And I’m making this a last minute entry into the Keep It Simple #49 challenge “No Stamps” – because, hey, no stamps! 🙂

Die Cutting & Paper Piecing with Distressed Butterfly

I wanted to try something new and so I created a panel which I watercolored, then die cut. The hard part was puzzling the pieces of the butterfly back into it, but with some patience, I managed 🙂

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The sentiment is from Casual Fridays, the Butterfly from Memory Box, and the the distress colors of course from Ranger/Tim Holtz.

I’ll be entering this card into the Colour Me…! #24 Striking challenge.

Update June 17, 2014: Woot, snatched an honorable mention for my card! YAY!

1 Challenge – 6 Cards: Butterfly Hello’s (Part 2)

This is my second post today and I’m continuing with my (slightly crazy) series of how I created six cards from the inspiration photo on Cure for the Monday Blues.

I’m actually showing you two cards today; the second one came about quite by accident and I liked the second card much better than the first one 🙂

Let’s start with the first one which was also inspired by a video from Julie Ebersole on The Classroom.

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As you can see, I used again the colors from the challenge and also some fluid pearl makers to create the accents to pep up the card.

Here’re some making of photos:

  1. Cut thin stripes of colored paper and adhere them to a piece of copy paper.
  2. Die cut the mat with MFT pierced rectangle die.
  3. Cut butterfly shape from the rectangle you just created.
  4. Cut intricate butterfly from silver paper.
  5. Adhere silver butterfly with washi tape to the colorful rectangle.
The trick here is to use liberal amounts of washi tape, but make sure that you can’t see the tape from the front of the panel. It’s a bit fiddly, but doesn’t take too much time.
The second card resulted when I saw the cute butterfly shape I had die cut from the rectangle. It just would have been a waste to throw it away.

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  1. I spritzed the basic butterfly shape with gold to make it shimmer.
  2. I die cut the intricate butterfly from vellum.
  3. I die cut the body of the butterfly from silver paper.
  4. After glueing the vellum to the basic shape and layering the body on top, I added a pearl to cover up the glue which you can otherwise see through the vellum.
  5. I used washi tape on the top and bottom to accentuate the borders of the card.
  6. I stamped the sentiment with Avery Elle Pigment Ink and a Simon Says Stamp sentiment.

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Don’t really know why, but I like this second card much, much better than the first one. Maybe because the stripes on the other card were so bold and this one has more white space? Anyways, this was the second installment of my series, and I’ll be back until Sunday which another card for the same challenge. On Sunday, I’ll also be sharing a video of the final card where I color on kraft paper.

Thanks for stopping by!

View the other cards from this series:

  1. Congrats (balloon card)
  2. Hello There (butterfly card 1) – You are currently here.
  3. Wishing You (butterfly card 2) – You are currently here.
  4. Friends are like stars (silver embossing paste)
  5. Dance and Smile (paint brush strokes)
  6. Welcome Little One (balloons on a string)

I’ll be entering this card into the Cure For the Monday Blues #17 challenge.

Watercolor Class: Wash and Stencil

I hope you won’t get sick of my watercolor attempts because you still have at at least a week of them ahead of you (sorry … well, not really, I’m having a blast). This is the third card I did on the first day of class (Monday) and I used a stencil with a generous wash of color.

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I usually never use colored card stock for my cards (I either forget or I feel like it doesn’t fit), but I felt that here it was looking good and gave the entire card a fresh feeling.

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I just love the pattern I created over the color wash; I also used some watercolor stamping for the flowers so they would match the overall watercolor style of the card.

Supplies used:

  • Memory Box Stencil
  • Cotman Watercolor paint
  • Wplus9 More Fresh Cuts
  • Wplus9 Tag die
  • Mama Elephant Waterblooms (sentiment)
  • Stampin Up colored card stock
I’m entering this card into the following challenges: Keep It Simple #39 Watercolor challenge and also into the Make The Day Special Color Challenge with the color choice 1.

The Best Is Yet To Come

This is just a quick post to share a card I made recently. My main goal was actually to record my card making process for a video, but it seems this is a bit more tricky than I expected, so no video but I’ve learned lots and hopefully I’ll be able to share some techniques soon.

Here’s my sparkly card:

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This card was inspired by a card Debbie Hughes made for the Online Card Class “Clean and Simple 3“, so I can’t show you the original, but mine is pretty close in layout to what Debbie did 😉
I used so many different techniques here I won’t mention them all because this post would get super long. But the short version: die cut the butterfly from the front panel, made it sticky with a double sided adhesive sheet, applied glitter and then colored the glitter with my Spectrum Noir markers.  Used a stencil for the raindrops (thank you, Laura Sterckx, for making me buy the silver embossing paste!) and Mama Elephant stamps for the sentiment. Done 🙂

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Oh, yeah, at the end I also used some Distress Ink to sponge the borders of the front panel where I cut the butterfly from. Not sure I’d do that again, but at that time it seems like a good idea 😉

Supplies used:

  • Memory Box Lunette Butterfly
  • Sizzix Double Sided Adhesive Sheets (via Stampin Up)
  • Distress Dry Stickles Rock Candy
  • Spectrum Noir Markers
  • Wendy Vecchi Silver Embossing Paste
  • Memento Luxe Pigment Ink Plum
  • Mama Elephant Up and Away Stamp Set (Sentiment)
  • Distress Ink Spun Sugar
  • Mini Distress Tool
  • Crafter’s Companion Mini Raindrops Stencil
I’ll be entering this card into the following challenges: 

I (Heart) You Tag Card

Sometimes, inspiration hits and I can’t get an idea out of my head. So it happened with the current Less Is More challenge – I read the challenge definition and my new Wplus9 Timeless Tags 2 immediately popped into my head.

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Originally, I had only planned the right card with the tags mounted on top of the card, but just as I was about to cut the first tag from card stock, I thought I could do a smart thing and use the negative of the die cut. So, the second card (left) was born.


Additionally, I used a new technique I had learned in my Online Card Class course “Clean and Simple 3” which is Copic/Spectrum Noir coloring on vellum. I mounted the colored vellum behind the negative tag die cuts and then I glued the letter and the little circles where the tag opening was back on.

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Just to add some accent of color, I mounted the negative die cut on some red card stock to have the thin border. Without it, the card looked a bit lost.

As for the second card – it’s still my favorite 🙂 I used the same technique with the Spectrum Noir’s , just on a smaller scale, and glued the vellum on the back of the tags.

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I actually used my t-ruler to make sure the tags where aligned straight and evenly spaced. Only after I attached them, I realized I should have something in the background, so I stamped the stripes as an afterthought. That’s why it’s only on the outside, not in the middle 😉

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In this close up, you can see how I covered the tags with my Wink of Stella glitter brush and used my black Wink of Stella marker to create a faux stitch border to add some extra definition to the tags. And I couldn’t help but to add some twine, it was just too cute.

Supplies used

  • Dani Peuss heavy white card stock
  • Vellum
  • Spectrum Noir Markers
  • Wink of Stella Clear Brush
  • Wink of Stella black marker
  • Wplus9 Timeless Tags 2
  • Memory Box Die “Parker Lower Alphabet Set”
  • Heart Die (came with the Sizzix Big Shot)
  • Natural Twine

I’ll be entering this card into the following challenges: Simon Says Glitter It (I know, it’s the third one, but hey…GLITTER!); Less is more #164 “Threes” because that’s where I got the inspiration.