Fall Themed Tri-Shutter

Just realized I'd not shown you this one... there's no stamping... just a bunch of 3D store-bought fall-ish stickers and some cute metal leaves that came with their own brads... also some "puffy" sticky leaves...

John V's Birthday Card

Our youngest grandson turns 5 next Friday (12/3) and is a huge Cars (Disney/Pixar movie) fan so when I saw a sheet of padded Cars stickers, I thought they'd be great on his card... Of course, I decided I would have to do another tri-shutter card... to have enough room for several of the stickers... The sparkly cardstock on the front panel is really a Christmas paper that was in a stack I had on hand but I thought it would be okay since it just has candies on it. Most of the other papers, borders, letters, and shaped images were punch-out embellishments from a birthday card stack/booklet I had in my stash...

Even the sentiment on the middle panel is from a sheet of vellum quotes I found in the birthday stack of papers.... Hope he likes it...

Blessings and happy crafting!
~Kathy

Brown Flowers Tri-Shutter Sympathy Card

The verse on the center panel was stamped and embossed and says:
"May God's love heal your sorrow, and may His peace replace your heartache with warm and loving memories."
 

One thing I did differently on this tri-shutter was to run the two long pieces through my crimper before adhering to the card base. Adds a little more textural interest... the gold colored leaves are actually "jewel" leaves, so they're my little bit of bling on this card.

This flowered paper has become one of my favorites... it comes in 12x12 scrapbooking sheets and has a subtle small dot pattern on the back side. The two small round flowers that are glued on top of the crimped panels are self-adhesive 3-D stickers off a sheet I had laying around... K&Company I think.

Added small jewels to the center of several of the blooms...

Hope you like it...

Have a wonderful day!

Blessings an happy crafting,

~Kathy

Butterflies & Blossoms Tri-Shutter

Another tri-shutter... fun colors and coordinating glittered cardstock from a small DCWV stack I believe. The butterfies (#D130) are deeply embossed at the same time they're cut and the Pretty Petal Flowers(#C107) from Cheery Lane Designs are in a couple of different sizes, layered, then held together with flower-shaped brads.

I hope all these tri-shuters are giving you ideas for your own designs...

Have a great weekend,

Blessings and happy crafting!

Sunflower Tri-Shutter

This is a tri-shutter I did several weeks ago for the friend of a friend who was going through a difficult time... she loved it... Sorry my pics aren't more professional... it's trial and error with me...

This one has a few store-bought decorations on it... but my favorite is the large sunflower... I found it at Hobby Lobby in their fall/Thanksgiving decorations aisle... I think there were a few in a package... wish I had bought more of them... it is made of several layers of thick felt with zigzag stitching around the center... it's heavy by comparison to other embellishments so I actually hot-glued it to the card...

It really is striking... oh, the thing on the far right panel with the ribbon streamers is a removable bookmark...

I'll have another one I did with another one of these sunflowers for you tomorrow...

Have a great day!

Blessings and happy crafting!

Tri-Shutter Anniversary Card

Good Morning Friends!
Wanted to share this card with you that I made yesterday for my cousin's 50th anniversary. she lives in Canada so I've got to get it in the mail today and took a couple of hurried pics to share with you...

I used a 12x12 sheet from the Mariposa stack of cardstock from DCWV... these are gorgeous designs... the one I chose has a black background with a lot of gold swirled on it and a couple of beautiful blue butterflies and a gold bird...

I just picked the 5.5" swath through the middle of the sheet that I wanted to use for the card base and used some of the leftover to line the envelope...

This photo shows the card, the lined envelope, and a sheet of the cardstock as it appears straight out of the stack... I do not scrapbook but occasionally find a 12x12 stack of paper or cardstock that I like even though many of the designs seem to large to be used for a card... here is a good example of using such a design for your card base... so don't dismiss those patterns too quickly thinking they'd be too big for a card!

Here's a view where you can see the verses a little bit better... I found them all on quotegarden.com and just copied/pasted them each into a Word file (I believe I found them on the wedding and anniversary sections of the site). I changed the font style and size and printed them off on my printer onto a sheet of pearlized blue cardstock that I cut down from 12x12 to 8.5x11.

I matted a few of them with a gold cardstock... some were trimmed using a pair of Fiskars decorative scissors... here's another view from the side so you can see the largest panel in the middle a bit better. Jazzed it up with a lot of bling... in small doses... tiny pearls and a few rhinestones... gotta have a little bling, right?!

My class at Hobby Lobby last night went very well... everyone made a tri-shutter using fall-ish solid color cardstock and a few coordinating prints. I hope to post pics of some of my students' cards for you to see as well.

Have a great day!
~Kathy

One More Baby Shower Tri-Shutter

I'm lovin these tri-shutter cards... this one is my favorite... it's for my daughter's baby shower this afternoon... Claudia is our older daughter... a great wife and mother... she has a 20-yr-old son Lane, an 11-yr-old son Bailey, a sweetie that just turned 3 - Olivia, and come January, she'll add MacKenzie Joy to their brood... I can't wait! It will be such fun to have a baby to cuddle again!

The base of the card is a pearlized green that's gorgeous (I think)... I used 3 designer papers that I felt coordinated well... some of the trims on it are from a package of narrow, self-adhesive, 12-inch strips called Itsy Bitsy Baby Girl adhesive borders (they come 30 to a pkg for about $4) (from K&Company)... They are great! And then there's Maisy KETTO... isn't she cute?

I used the same verse on the large center panel as the other baby tri-shutter I shared with you last week...

As promised, here's another tri-shutter...

I made this one for my Great Aunt Alice who turned 100 last month! She loved it... I actually sent her an envelope with 4 of my cards ... the other three signed by my mother and our two daughters' families... Aunt Alice lives in Peterborough Ontario Canada and I've not seen her many years... she's as sharp as ever and we have great phone conversations!

The cute little fairy person is Maisy KETTO... she is one of the KETTO characters you can find at StampingBella... I bought Kenya KETTO at the same time... I think they're all so cute... I had a hard time deciding which one to get (so of course I got two)... and they are so much fun to color... used some glittery stuff on her wings and some bling on her little crown and the flower center... isn't she cute? Love the hairdo!

Have a great day!

Blessings,

~Kathy

Another Tri-Shutter Card

Ya gotta love these designs... I think the best thing about them is that they stand up and others can enjoy seeing the recipient's card... I would love to display one of these on my desk/workspace (if I had a job)...

This is one I made for a very dear friend who recently retired after 20 years at Marshall University... the over-sized felt sunflower is something I found at my new Hobby Lobby when they first opened... there were several in a package and I wish I had bought all the store had! I've used them on several tri-shutters and think they just make the card so special... I attached them with a glue gun since they are a bit bulkier and heavier than the average embellishment...

The sentiment on the center panel reads "a balanced diet is chocolate in each hand"... don't you just love it... I was hoping it implied that I thought she was gonna retire to her sofa, watch tv, and eat bonbons... ; )

I'll share another tri-shutter with you tomorrow... hope you're having a great day!
Blessings and Happy Crafting!
~Kathy

BUSY, BUSY DAY!

Wow! Seven cards...3 baby shower tri-shutters and 4 pastor appreciation fun fold cards... Although I was pretty productive, if I do say so myself, I still need to make several sympathy cards... guess it will be a late night!

The baby shower cards were very similar, the first two almost identical started with a pearlized pink cardstock (ColorBok), used a couple of coordinated patterned designer paper, a little ribbon, a cute brad, some bling and pearls, several strips from a K&Company grouping of baby-themed scrapbooking strips, and one cute sticker.



Here's the straight-on view of the first card... I have two stamps I wanted to use on these... one was too long to fit on any of the card panels. So I put it on the flap of the card, embossed with SU's silver powder, and lined the envelope.

The other stamp has this wonderful sentiment (God sends His love and joy to earth with every newborn baby's birth) -- I'm very pleased with the finished card... What do you think?

They're coming! They're coming! The VEGGIE TALES are COMING!!!

I can't begin to tell you how excited and honored I am to be designing projects for Dies Direct's new line of Veggie Tales dies for papercrafting! My first couple of projects star Larry (the cucumber) and Bob (the tomato) - just in case you're not familiar with Veggie Tales... you can read about them here on Wikipedia.

As a mother and grandmother, I've been a Veggie Tales fan for many years. I am a HUGE fan of their Silly Songs CD... the Cheesburger song being my all-time favorite. My older daughter Claudia (39) can do an awesome imitation of the French Peas... our family loves the good, clean humor (and subtle lessons) that the Veggie Tales provide for our kids and grandkids. If you're not a Veggie Tales fan, you should be... and if you think you can't enjoy that kind of silly humor... you need to lighten up and tray harder!

The first one pictured here is a stand-alone pop-up type card that can serve as a Thanksgiving Day table decoration. It has a short, 4-line blessing on it. There’s a link to the tutorial on the SplitCoast website to construct this particular style of card…. free-standing, pop-up card tutorial. There’s even a video at the end of it that you can watch before you try it yourself… And for additional inspiration, you can also check out the photo gallery of cards made by others here.

The blessing on this card was found on the very useful quotegarden.com website… it reads: “Gather round the table, thank the Lord above, for food, friends and family, and for this feast of love.”

My second Veggie Tale™ creation is a birthday card…the design/construction is one I had been wanting to try for a while but it wasn’t until my grandson received one from a fellow cardmaker while in the hospital for his appendectomy… that I finally tried making one!

It was much easier than I thought it would be. I found the tutorial for it here on Splitcoast (it’s called a tri-shutter card), printed out the instructions, and went to town… I think it came out rather well… One of the Veggie Tale™ silly songs is sung by Larry – “Oh Where is My Hairbrush” so I printed out a sentiment from my computer that read: “I was hoping for a new hairbrush for my birthday, how ‘bout you?”… May be a bit corny, but I thought it was funny. I’ve made several more tri-shutters since this first one… one of the nicest things about them is that they are free-standing so I feel they are perhaps enjoyed a little bit longer than the “average” card. If you’d like to see some others for inspiration, check out the gallery on Splitcoast here… tri-shutter gallery.

I hope these get your creative juices flowing with ideas for using the new Veggie Tales dies from Dies Direct.

I'll have some more ideas for you tomorrow!

Blessings,

~Kathy

My personal blog: http://www.kathyspassions.com/