First up is a centre step fold card - which I've steered clear of 'cos they looked a tad tricky to me! But I saw LeeAnn's cards here and decided I would have a go - what a fab idea to make a ship's wheel using the Word Window punch! I'll admit my first attempt didn't turn out right but by my second try I'd got the hang of it. Basically a centre step fold is just a matter of 2 cuts and 7 scores - but you do need to score in the right places as I found out! I've CASEd LeeAnn's design pretty closely but I used Cajun Craze, Early Espresso, Crumb Cake and Very Vanilla as my combo. I used LeeAnn's measurements - apart from starting with a piece of 11" x 4 1/8" CS. This way I could get two cards from 1 sheet of A4 CS. I finished off the front by adding gold nailheads to the wheel.
Here's a side view of the centre step card.
I added a Crumb Cake panel inside the card and added a stamped compass and a sentiment.
A debossed and brayered card was next based on this lovely card made by Janice M. Cuttlebug folders are not a great size to fit on A6 size cards, they're not long enough and that can be very annoying. Cutting an embossed panel into 3 and matting onto a layer gets round this annoyance beautifully! I embossed a piece of Very Vanilla CS and then brayered Pretty in Pink ink over the debossed side of the CS. I cut the panel into 3, stamped the sentiment, added the ribbon and matted the panels onto a Night of Navy mat. I used a 1/4" circle punch to add the 3 dots.
The last card was CASEd from a fab design made by LeAnne, see her blog post here. Instead of using a flower die I substituted the SU! Blossom punch. I punched the flower shape out of dotty paper and trimmed it to size so it would fit on a Rich Razzleberry square mat layer. I then stamped the Dot, Dot, Dot stamp onto a piece of white CS with Baja Breeze ink and cut it so it was smaller than the dotty paper piece. I then popped up the dotty piaper piece over the stamped white piece and glued that to the Razzleberry mat. I taped a loop of the dotty razzleberry ribbon - wanted to keep the dotty theme going! - to the Razzleberry mat and added a punched flower with a silver brad to the centre. I didn't like the look of my square on an A6 size card so I opted for a 5 1/4" square card. I stamped the sentiment straight but then applied the image panel at an angle. I took a variety of sentiments from the Sincere Salutations set so the ladies could choose whichever one they wanted. A nice simple card to finish after the rigours of a centre step card and wrangling with a brayer LOL!
Supplies for centre step card:
Stamps: SU! Sail Away, 'Birthday Wishes' from SU! Wow Flowers set, compass from Tim Holtz 'The Journey' set, 'Enjoy Your Special Day' from Woodware 'Sentiments' clear set
CS: SU! Cajun Craze, Early Espresso, Crumb Cake & Very Vanilla
Ink: SU! Cajun Craze, Early Espresso & Crumb Cake
Tools: Circle Nestabilities dies, SU! Word Window & Modern Label punches, SU! Simply Scored
Embellishments & accessories: gold nailheads, SU! Early Espresso Baker's Twine, 3d foam pads
Supplies for debossed 'for you' card:
Stamps: 'for you' from SU! One of a Kind set
CS: Papermania cream A6 card blank, SU! Night of Navy
Ink: SU! Pretty in Pink & Night of Navy
Tools: Embossing folder from 'Friends Forever' Cuttlebug die and folder combo set, brayer, 1/4" circle punch
Embellishments & accessories: SU! Night of Navy grosgrain ribbon
Supplies for Thinking of You card :
Stamps: SU! Sincere Salutations set
CS: PaperMania square white card blank, SU! Rich Razzleberry
Patterned paper: Bo Bunny Ocean Double Dot
Ink: SU! Baja Breeze & Rich Razzleberry
Tools: SU! Blossom punch, Woodware flower punch, square Nestabilities die, paper piercer
Embellishments & accessories: SU! Rich Razzleberry dotted grosgrain ribbon, silver brads, 3d foam pads
OMG that ships wheel is ingenius!!! That is going to be cased for sure!!! As soon as the rest of my crafty goodies are unpacked I'm having a go! Would look great against the woodgrain background!
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