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Wednesday, 17 May 2017

Viewfinder Masculine Card for KB's International Blog Highlight

Hello everyone and welcome to my blog! Today I have a masculine card for you. Often people say they struggle with coming up with cards for the men in our lives but Stampin' Up! make it easy with fabulous stamp sets like Guy Greetings. This is one of the first stamp sets I ever bought and I was so happy to see that it was going to continue to the new catalogue, so many great images!

This card is being entered into Kylie Bertucci's International Highlights competition. I entered last month and got into the top 10 because wonderful people voted for my entry. Getting into the top 10 then allows you to participate in an international blog hop, something I love to do. If I could please ask for a little bit of your precious time again to vote for me this month please click HERE. My entry is number 8 and to vote all you need to do is click the little heart in the top right hand corner of where my piccy is. Easy!

I made a fun interactive card, not sure if they have a name but I'm calling it my viewfinder card! I think boys should like this one as you don't just look at it, you also get to play with it and turn the dial and make the man have different hats!

The way I made this card was to firstly cut the little view finder hole above his head. The little rectangle framelit from the Up & Away thinlits was the perfect size for all the hats. Next was to make the dial, the 7.5cm circle framelit was the perfect size. I then evenly spaced the six hats around the circle by dividing into six. You could probably just eyeball this but me being a little OCD had to google "how to divide a circle into 6"! If you have a geometry set at home with a compass go right ahead, I'm certainly not judging!!

These are just my templates for figuring it all out, on the original I stamped the hats directly onto the dial. You then need to attach your dial behind your card front, I attached it with a brad from my stash, its hidden behind the banner. I then cut a notch at the top of the card front with a circle punch, be sure you don't cut it so deep that you can see your images as they whirl by or make sure the images are stamped in far enough to not be seen. I really recommend making up a template with scraps so that you don't waste valuable supplies. I could give more exact measurements but for every project it will be different depending on how many images will go on the dial and which stamp set you use. I would love to see other creations so make sure you let me know if you make or have made something similar!

I also decorated the inside too! From this view you can see the the card front is mounted on top of adhesive strips this helps the dial to go round easier.

And finally here is a little video to show the card in action!

I do hope you have enjoyed my post today and again if I could ask you to vote for me, I would be so appreciative. Just click HERE!

Cheers Megan xx

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Wednesday, 10 May 2017

Wedding Card for Top 10

Remember last month, when I made a card for a competition to take part in an international blog hop? Well thank you to all those lovely people that voted for me because I got into the Top 10, number 7 actually, not too shabby I say! Thank you so much, I really appreciate it. To see my winning card click HERE.

The theme for our winners blog hop is Wedding also, so I had to think of something really special, if you are going to give a card to commemorate such a beautiful occasion, you need a really gorgeous card .

What do you think? I'm really happy with how it turned out. You can't beat cream & gold or in Stampin' Up speak, Very Vanilla, Gold Foil & Fabulous Foil Designer Acetate. What makes this card so special and perhaps me a little crazy, is that the flowers when cut out are usually a filigree/lacey type cut out, you can see it HERE on this card. What I did though was cut it out again in Gold Foil and used all the negative pieces (the ones you would normally throw away) and pieced them into the vanilla piece to give a embossed look. Yes that's right, I sat there and glued each of those pieces of gold back into the Vanilla frame. Some would say it's crazy but I find it quite relaxing doing intricate work like that and the end result is so satisfying!

The inside needed some attention too!

The So Detailed Thinlits and So In Love Stamp set are retiring at the end of this month but they won't be retiring from my stash! Now, I'm not too sure if they are still available, you should check out all the retiring products at my store, there are some HUGE discounts. I've been on holidays in Tasmania for my daughters birthday and am writing this post in a little block of time before going to work this morning. We didn't fly in until late and I didn't get to bed until 1am and then up at 6am, it is going to be a long day! My apologies for lack of knowledge on stock availability and perhaps this post having some errors!!

Thank you so much for stopping by today and again thank you to all that voted for me.

Cheers Megan xx

Here is a list of the participants you just click on each name and check out each persons blog and fabulous creation!

And of course a product list for you to see the products used in my project.

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Monday, 1 May 2017

Pop Up Box Card for Colour INKspiration #08

I have a very special card to share today, that I made for my daughters birthday, she turns 17 this week and is my eldest, where did that time go?? Come birthday morning, it is a big thing to see what creation Mum made for your birthday card. Don't get me wrong, my kids are normal & look forward to all the other festivities that come with your birthday, like cake & pressies but the card is a big part of it.

As you can see it is a pop up box in a card, so the choice was quite easy as I had made the pop up box in the tray for my son's birthday in February, you can see that post HERE. My gorgeous friend Lou Kitzelman was in turn inspired by my creation and created a version that could be sent in a normal envelope in the mail, my daughter admired Lou's card so I in turn took inspiration from Lou and made my version of the card, you can see Lou's beautiful card HERE. That is one of the best things about the Stampin! Up community, is all the sharing of ideas, inspiration and wonderful friends that you make.

This is the front of the card closed and held shut with a ribbon. When she opens it, up pops the 3D cube inside the card. Additional to the colour palette of Delightful Dijon, Tip Top Taupe, Soft Suede, Early Espresso & Very Vanilla, I have added Copper, aaahhh Copper so so pretty in real life.

Another view of the inside, proving flowers don't have to be the typical pinks,reds, purples etc.

A close up of the elements on the front. I love how you can take wooden embellishments and modify them with embossing powder or inks. Here I have taken the Sending Love wooden embellishments and pressed them into versamark ink before dipping into copper embossing powder. Hit them with the heat gun and voila you have coordinating metallic embellishments!

I hope you have enjoyed seeing my card today, I have to fly and pack for our secret birthday trip, it's driving her crazy not knowing where she is going but I can't wait to see her face when she finds out!

As per normal, below you will find the list of most of the things I have used to make this card. You can click on any of the items to be taken direct to my shop where you can shop 24/7 and in your jarmies if you so choose or if I can help you out in anyway please contact me direct.

Cheers Megan xx