New Home Card | Avery Elle - Happy Home

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The card today is for my niece who just bought her first home! She is a young nurse (at 24) who has been saving every penny to put towards a down payment on a house and kudos to her - she did it! This square Z-Fold card measures 5.5" (short folds 2.75") and features the Avery Elle "Happy Home" dies and "Shut the Front Door" stamp set.

The dark blue card base was scored at 2.75" & 5.5". I used Lawn Fawn's "Cloud Border Die" to create a template from heavy weight card stock, sponged the clouds onto a piece of white card stock, sprayed it with shimmer mist and cut the following pieces: (2) 2.5 x 5.25" (1) 5.25 x 5.25". These cloud background pieces were adhered onto the coordinating scored panels. The grass panel was die cut with Lawn Fawn's "Grassy Border Die" and scored at 5.5 & 8.25". Both sentiments were stamped into place with the MISTI.

The pieces for the house were die cut, embossed, and glued together onto a piece of white card stock to ensure stability. The flowers were embellished with small floral sequins and a tiny brad was added as the door "knob". The house was then glued onto the center of the large grass section and the entire piece was glued onto the left card panel only with very strong liquid adhesive. The opposite side of the grass border was aligned and glued as well to the right edge of the card - thus creating the "Z"-Fold mechanism. I created an additional interior tab behind the house, adhered MFT's "Stitched Sun" to one end of a 1/2" piece of acetate and taped the other end to the tab to create the floating sun in the sky behind the house. 

I submitted this card in the "Celebrate - Friends - Family - Life" Challenge on the "time out" CHALLENGES site.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Rachelle ♥

Christmas Card | MFT Stamps - Lawn Fawn - Sunny Studio Mash-up

Happy Fri-YAY!

Who doesn't love a good Christmas Card Mash-Up??? And this one features some of my favorite products from MFT, Lawn Fawn and Sunny Studio!

I started off by creating the interactive card panel (4.25" x 5.5") with Distress Oxide Inks and pearlized watercolor, which was lightly sponged through MFT's "Snowfall" Stencil. The slider mechanism was cut using Sunny Studio's Sliding Window die and the score lines reinforced using a bone folder. I adhered a piece of white shimmer card stock onto the front of an A-2 top-folding card base and blended a little oxide ink at the bottom where the sliding window would reveal the sentiment. I placed the panel over the shimmer paper and lightly marked the margins of the opening with a pencil. The sentiment was then stamped using a MISTI.

I die cut all of my snowman pieces (hat, scarf, and head) and then die cut a circle slightly larger for his body. I wanted to keep the background simple so I blended a piece of cardstock with darker oxides and cut it with Lawn Fawn's Forest Border die at the top. I adhered this to only the bottom half of the slider window so that it would pop-up when the panel was pulled.  I cut a snow drift using Lawn Fawn's Hillside Border die, blended it with the same Oxide inks and glued it to the bottom of the background panel. The snowman was assembled/glued down and finished off with black jewels for his eyes and buttons. I cut a piece of black card stock to use as the slider piece and rounded the top corners with a punch.  Two punched circles were glued to the top of the card and a piece of baker's twine finished off the pull tab.

I ♥ LOVE ♥ this simple interactive card!

Thanks for stopping by!

Rachelle ♥

Christmas Card | MFT's "Filled with Joy" Card Kit

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Well we had a couple of very early snow days this week here in central North Carolina and it definitely got everyone in the mood for Christmas! This great card kit got my holiday card making MOJO going way back in October and the possibilities are endless...I LOVE it! ♥

I started with a horizontal top-folding A-2 white card base. I cut a 5.5” X 3” piece of white card stock and sprayed it with blue shimmer mist – after it dried, it was glued onto a 5.5” X 3.25” piece of black card stock. The snowman pieces and letters were die cut from card stock and glitter paper. I lightly sponged rosy cheeks onto the face and then assembled the snowman image. I positioned the negative die cut for the word “joy” onto the center of the sprayed panel and used it as a template to align/glue down the letters…it works like a charm every time! This panel was adhered onto the card base and the snowman was popped into place with foam tape. Moonshine snowflakes were added and the card was finished off with a thin strip of the same red glitter paper glued down on top of the pin striped paper. I really like the clean, graphic feel of this card and hope you do, too!

This card was entered in the "Joyful" Time Out Challenges #124. 

I have several other card designs using this same set that I will be sharing in the next few days. Enjoy!

Thanks for joining me!

Rachelle ♥

Christmas Card | Essentials by Ellen - Julie Ebersole's "Mountain Holiday"

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I’m schussing straight into Christmas with Julie Ebersole’s "Mountain Holiday" Stamp Set from the Essentials by Ellen Line – Ellen Hutson, LLC. I blended a distress oxide background panel, spritzed it with shimmer spray and sponged a snow fall pattern with pearl ink onto the sky using MFT’s “Snowfall” Stencil. I really like the graphic feel of this snowfall with these simple skiing designs. The images were all stamped, colored and die cut – I stacked/glued several cuts of the skier image together to give it a bit more “weight”.

I cut the ski slope panel from white card stock, sprayed it heavily with shimmer mist and then added texture with the stitched dies at the bottom - the sentiment was stamped in the corner using the MISTI. The snowfall panel was adhered onto the front of an A-2 top-folding card base and the mountains were glued into place on the panel. The ski slope was adhered on top and the skier was popped off using foam tape. I brushed a generous line of Wink of Stella behind her skis to indicate her trail down the slope.

Thanks for joining me today!

Rachelle ♥