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Heart Breaker Girl Layout

Hello crafty friends,
I wanted to quickly share a layout I created last week, but just never got around to posting.

It uses the new, (Coming soon) PCW Heart Breaker Girl Cut File Set. 
I also used paper from the Paper Studio All Seasons II pad. I will post more details shortly.

You can also find this layout as a kit in very limited quantities at Page-Kits.com

Products Used To Complete
(Coming Soon)

Double Easel Card Tutorial

Hello crafty friends,
So glad you dropped by today. It’s Tuesday and that means another opportunity for me to share a creation for my Scrapyland DT. So I decided to try my hand at a double easel twisted card. The name sounds like a dive or gymnastics move…lol! Anyway, here is what I came up with.

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Here is a closer look at one of the panels. I used the Spellbinders D-Lites Corner Flourishes to create the flourished backdrops as well as the pretty corners on the pink floral layer.


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Here is a closer look at the sentiment. I used the Spellbinders Labels Four dies  to create the label layers. I used the Close To My Heart Family Love Stamp Set to stamp the sentiment. I fussy cut around it and adhered it to the top label. I also used pop dots to give the labels some lift to hold the panels in their place.


How To Make A Double Easel Twisted Card.


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Start with a piece of paper 8” x 8”.
Create a score line at the 4” mark. Turn it and score again at 4” but only up to where the second score line intersects with the first score line.
Cut the 4” score line down to were it intersects with the first one. See above photo. Red line above is the cut line. Black line is the fold line.


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Next take one of the squares and fold the upper left corner down to the crease line and in line with the outer edge. See photo above.


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Fold the other side like the above and you should end up with your base looking like the photo above.

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Fold the flaps back over the center crease line and this is what your finished base will look like.
Next you will cut out two 4” x 4” squares and glue them to the front facing “triangles on each side. Then decorate as desired.

How I made the Flowers.
I used the Quickutz Squeeze and a couple of the 2x2 dies. I used the inside of the flower die

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QQ Flower Die

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Instead of leaving them flat, I rolled them like you would a rolled or twirled flower with my quilling tool
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I  put two of them together, nestling one into the other to make the flower a little bigger.
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I then layered those onto the tiny flower die flowers. I layered four of those together.

Here is one last look at the card.
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Here are the products I used for this project
spellbinders grand calibur
Spellbinders Grand Calibur
spbinders d-lites corner flourish

S4-190LabelsFourDies1
squeeze
Quickutz Squeeze

2x2 tiny flower
2x2 Tiny Flower Die
qk flower
2x2 Flower Die
D1506-family love
z2147-smoky plum

ac glue runner
circle foam tabs
basic grey EVA 6x6-paperpad

ms score board
MS Score Board

flower roller quilling tool imaginisce
Imaginisce Flower Roller Tool
scissors
Tim Holtz Scissors
cotton candy
Robin’s Nest Cotton Candy Dew Drops

Additional Supplies
Pink, White and Medium Pink Cardstock
All the rest of the papers were from the Basic Grey Eva Paper Pad.
Be sure to visit Scrapyland.com where you can find the majority of these products. Don’t forget to look through their huge selection of dies. Especially some hard to find dies too!
Well that about covers it for today. Thank you so much for sharing your crafty time with me! Until the next time,

Sunshine Bendi Card

Hello crafty friends,
So glad you dropped by today. Boy this has been a last crazy week and a half. I have been struggling with lots of computer issues. I am glad to say that I have at least regained use of my blog writing software and that I can now concentrate on some other issues and then get past those too Smile  Today I wanted to share a card I made for the Pazzles DT. The challenge on the Pazzles craft room this month is to create a Bendi Fold card. Here’s my take on this super fun card.


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Here is a look at my finished card. It was created with papers from the DCWV Baby Boy Stack and the DCWV Cotton Bloom Stack as well as some cardstock. I started by using the Pazzles small Bendi Fold Card Base. I took one of the “arms” and substituted it for the dog and fence file. I also made the top of the other “arm” layer wavy.

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Here is a closer look at the pretty little sun. I was speaking with my Sister in law a while back and they recently moved out of state and she said to me…send some sunshine our way….so that is why I went with this theme. So “T” this is for you Smile The sun is made from patterned papers in the DCWV Cotton Bloom Stack.  I just made the eyes and the now in the file bigger and drew my mouth on with a fine tip pen.

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I then used the tree file from the craft room and cut it out of some dcwv paper in the baby boy stack. I added a few tiny butterflies from my MS punch that was quickly and easily accessible. I cut out some clouds from the rainbow and clouds craft room file and inked the edges with some crystal blue ink from the Whimsy Ink Pad Set.


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Here is a closer look at the fence. I created it by using the dog and fence craft room file instead of the base cut that came in the small base bendi file.

I wanted to use some of that popular “wood” looking patterned paper, but I didn’t have any that suited the cut well so I used some diaper paper from the DCWV baby boy stack….YEP that’s right….DIAPER PAPER. That is what gave it that great “wood” painted with lines kind of look.
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Here’s a shot showing you the cuts from the diaper paper. Of course I will save the rest for another project, but I hope this will inspire you to look at your paper differently.

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Here is a view of the card opened. There was a great open spot that I was able to put my sentiment on. I could have really gone wild decorating this card. But I purposely wanted to keep it really clean and simple.


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Here is a closer look at my sentiment. One of the wonderful things about the Pazzles Inspiration software is that it allows you to print right from the program. This is a great design tool-feature in that you know exactly what size to make your sentiments, etc.

Products Used For This Project
pazzle1
Pazzles Inspiration
dcwv baby boy stack-v13-200
DCWV Baby Boy Stack
dcwv Cotton Bloom Stack-200

whimsy ink pad
Whimsy Ink Pad Set
Z1767-chalk marker
basic 10

micron black pen 001
Micron Fine Tip Pen
1514-tombow adhesive
Tombow Adhesive
Z553-chisel tip glue pen
Fine Tip Glue Pen

Z1151-foam tape
Foam Tape
18283036hr
MS Butterfly Punch

Additional Products Used
White, Pink and Cream Cardstock

I hope you will give the “bendi fold” cards a try. There is still plenty of time to enter the challenge over at the craft roomDon’t forget to pop back by tomorrow as I share some more fun, crafty inspiration Smile Until then,
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