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POP UP FATHER’S DAY CARD

In Australia, Father’s Day is celebrated on the first Sunday in September. So with Father’s Day just a few short weeks away I wanted to create a card using the Waterside Retreat Suite Collection.

I used a Misty Moonlight card base and a panel of striped Misty Moonlight/white Designer Series Paper.

Then I added several fussy cut life jacket and oar elements from one of the other DSP papers.

I wanted to make a popup card, so I used the Pop Up Petals Dies for the card insert.

The pop up dies allowed me to add more fussy cut elements inside the card.

I added a few more fussy cut elements behind the pop ups to give the impression of a ‘trophy wall’.

The greeting was stamped in Misty Moonlight and cut using the Three Banner Punch.

There are many more projects yet to be made using the Waterside Retreat Suite Collection in the plan – so, stay tuned.

Next week, I will have a new collection of projects to share with you.

Until then, happy stamping and memory keeping.

If you live in Australia, you can order any of the products I used to make this card by going to my online store. Just click on any of the images below.

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3D THURSDAY – A SHADOW GIFT BOX

I seem to be making lots of shadow boxes of late. They are fun to make and I love the thought process required to visualise and then ‘draft’ the layout and measurements needed to create them.

My philosophy when crafting is ‘measure twice – cut once’. This helps to minimise ‘mistakes’.

This shadow gift box is more masculine in style.

The box is made with a Lost Lagoon base and outer band.

I added a Designer Series Paper panel to the top of the outer band.

I stamped and coloured the adironack chair using Lost Lagoon – Classic Stampin’ Pad and Stampin’ Blends. The Colour Lifter was perfect to create some more colour gradation.

The sentiment was stamped and then punched using the 1 3/4″ circle punch. A 1 7/8″ circle punch was used to cut a Lost Lagoon circle to place behind the greeting.

I wrapped a length of White Textured Ribbon around the box base and tied it in a bow. This provides an easy way to slide the box base out.

Now I just need to find something special to pop inside the gift box.

Tomorrow I have a final masculine card to share with you.

Until then, happy stampin and memory keeping.

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HAVE A GREAT BIRTHDAY MASCULINE CARD

This card was inspired by an amazing new fun fold card that Rose Coleman created – a Funky Diagonal Fun Fold Card.

This is the card that inspired me –

My card uses the Waterside Retreat products and it is similar to Rose’s creation.

This card gave me an opportunity to stamp, colour and die cut the adironack chair using the Pecan Pie Stampin’ Blends and a Colour Lifter Pen.

I stamped the greeting and used the Modern Oval Punch to cut it out.

Several buoys and liferings were fussy cut and added to the card front.

Finally, I wrapped some Linen Thread around the diagonal element and tied a Loose Anchor Trinket to it.

Huge call out to Rose Coleman for sharing her creation so that other crafters, like me, can be inspired.

Tomorrow I have a gift box to share with you.

Until then, happy stamping and memory keeping.

If you live in Australia, you can order any of the products I used to make this card by going to my online store. Just click on any of the images below.

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