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Parcel Shaped Card + Template – First Posted: Friday, January 15, 2010

Todays card is a perfect excuse to break out the ribbon and is a handy way to use up your scraps of patterned papers that if you’re anything like me you can’t bear to throw away.

I inserted my image into Word and sized it to 4 inches wide, the important part is to align the image to the far RIGHT hand side of the page before you print it onto your card stock. I scored along the dotted line and folded to form my card and trimmed round the outside edge of the other 3 sides to form the shape using scissors and a craft knife. I measured the 4 areas on the front of the card and cut the 2 larger ones from co-ordinating patterned paper and the 2 smaller ones from purple card, I added some matching ribbon and attached to my card. I printed my sentiment onto lilac card and punched it out using a tag punch and layered onto more of the purple card, I added an eyelet and attached to my ribbon with some embroidery thread. The finished card will fit into a standard sized envelope.

2 parcel card

Here is your template:

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2 Parcel card template

by Bird
Free Digital Stamps

New Digital Stamp anyone? – First Posted: Thursday, January 14, 2010

My new Digital Stamp is a bunch of roses in a vase. It is quite a versatile digi and can be used on valentines cards as I have here or on birthday cards, mothers day cards, thank you cards etc and the roses can be coloured to suit the occasion.

I sized my digi in Word to approx 4″ x 3″, printed it onto white card stock and coloured with markers chosing red for my flowers as it is meant for valentines day. I wanted it to look as though my image was a painting on an easel or display stand so I backed the image with brown card stock and added a die cut from one of the small dies in the Spellbinders Lattice pendant at the top and two from a small die in the Spellbinders In Spades pendant on the bottom corners. I sponged all of the brown pieces with Rangers Seashells Ink in Sandal to add depth and a wood like finish. My backing paper has a heart pattern over it although it can’t really be seen and layered onto some matching card stock, I added a deep red ribbon and attached to my cream 5.5″ square card base.

roses in vase card

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roses in vase

by Bird
Free Digital Sentiments

Trying a new technique – First Posted: Wednesday, January 13, 2010

I made this card a couple of days ago but I’ve been having some teething troubles with my new camera, it has lots of settings and features that I need to get used to but I think I have settled on a combination of settings that I’m happy with for now and I’ll tweek it a bit over time.

I want to try some new techniques so I had a peek at the technique challenge section on the Splitcoast Stampers Forum and chose Quilting for this card.

I picked 4 sheets of co-ordinating paper from the same paper pack and punched lots of squares from each using a square paper punch. I covered some lightweight card stock with double-sided sticky tape and stuck down my squares alternating them as I went until the whole area was covered. I popped it into my bigshot to shape it using the large spellbinders nested Butterfly which I shaped a little to add some dimension, I added some ribbon to represent the antennae and punched some small hearts from a glitter sticker sheet to use as a trail.

quilt butterfly

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you make my heart

by Bird