Tri-Fold Card: Birthday

Here is another tri-fold card I made for a friend's birthday. She just had a baby so she got 3 cards that day lol but since this was for her birthday, I used bright colors & lots of glitter instead of the pastel and baby girl colors... I thought it'd be a nice change. I used prima flowers, flourishes from making memories, and stickles. One of my favorite ways to use stickles is to use them on flowers to make them glitter, so I did that on here too. TFL!

Thanksgiving Tri-Fold Cards

I have a new obsession with tri-fold cards. I think they're a really nice, different, and creative type of card & it's nice to give people something different and really great to see the excited they have when they get a card like this. Almost all the cards I made for Thanksgiving this year were Tri-Fold cards. They are actually really easy to make and really only require a ruler & a bone folder... I will put a tutorial up later incase anyone else wants to make these beautiful cards
Here are some of the cards that I made

I just loved this paper & thought it was perfect for Thanksgiving. I also added some prima flowers and flourishes from Making Memories for embellishments. To make the "Happy Thanksgiving" for the front... I printed it out on the computer and cut it out in an oval. I cut this out on a white piece of paper since I didn't really have any that matched the leaf paper, which is where ink can be a life saver. I inked the paper all over using Tim Holtz ink in tea dye and then did the edges using vintage photo. Then to make the boarder, I glued it to another piece of paper & cut around it using scalloped scissors, leaving a bit of room. Then dotted around the circle with stickles. I used 3d or pop up adhesive to give more dimension.

This card is actually a never-ending card and I'm upset I didn't get any pictures of the inside before I put it in the envelope and mailed it off..

And those are just a few of the tri-fold cards I made for this thanksgiving. Now to start on Christmas cards... I'll post a tutorial with the Christmas cards... because I know things are much easier to learn/do when you have pictures to go along with them.

Baby Lily

This little beauty is Lily. She was born November 16 and was 8 lbs 3 oz of absolute perfection. She's my best friend's daughter (and in a few months, my God-daughter, which is why I will spoil her to death). She's a perfect baby, very content, and so soooo adorable. She'll soon be the main focus of my scrapping so here are a few adorable pictures in the mean time:

Never Ending Card

I love these never-ending cards... I think they're so creative and cute and they make perfect cards since most people think they're awesome. And they're so easy to make. Here is one I made for my best friend who just had her baby girl, Lily, on Nov 16. Here are some pictures of the card...

Front/Back

#1 or #4

(depending on which one you use as the front)

Inside Views

1.

2. 3.

The front flips opens to reveal view #1, which then flips opens to reveal #2 or #3, depending on which side you start with, and then flips again leading to #4 & ends up at the beginning

These are really easy to make. What makes these card unique and really cool is that you continue to fold each side back, revealing another side and continue to fold the sides back. There are a total of 6 views of the card and the views are different depending on which side you open first. As seen above, when opened one way the writing is shown by itself; when opened the other way, the baby girl & duck stickers are shown by themselves. The only problem is when you open it from the opposite side the images will be upside down... as shown below:

But depending on how you decorate it, it may not be a problem.

And if it's upside down like mine... it'll still look fine once you flip it again.

Now for how to make the card...

You'll need:

• 4 pieces of cardstock: 6 inches by 3 inches
• A bone folder
• Glue or Adhesive
• Whatever you want to decorate your card with... Paper, Ribbon, Stickers, Ink, etc.

Directions:

• Cut the pieces of cardstock to the measurements above
• Use the bone folder to make two creases 1.5" in on the horizontal/6" side and a crease at the 1.5" mark on the verticle/3" side (going down the middle)
• You should have two 1.5" x 1.5" squares at the top and 2 at the bottom of each piece
• Lay 2 of the pieces of cardstock horizontally on your table or work station and apply glue or adhesive to the outter squares (if you look above or below at my card, place the glue where the hand and foot prints are)
• Lay the other 2 pieces of cardstock on top vertically (in the opposite direction) and glue the outter squares together.
• Let dry
• When you're done you will have a card that is 6" x 6"... except in the 3rd view, which has 3" x 1.5" gaps missing on each side, making the measurements a little bit different (see pictures above)
• Decorate

Tip: you can decorate it any way you wish but its easiest to know the measurements first. Its best to figure out how the card folds first before decorating it, just making it easier to decorate.

I used 2.75 in x 2.75 in squares on all 4 sides, along with either 2.75 in x 1.25 in squares or 1.25 x 1.25 squares... but you can decorate it anyway you want

Different views of the card:

Ways to fold the card open:

1. 3 of the 4 layers of the card

2. Opening the front of the card... showing the inside

3. Opening the inside to reveal the other inside, cut off view

Sorry there are no pictures to go along with this tutorial, I made this card in kind of a hurry... I'll post pictures with the next one, which I will be making soon with pictures of my beautiful God-daughter Lily!!! Hope you enjoy!!

Beach LO

Here is a new LO... The photo is of me and my dad at the beach when I was a baby. I LOVE the beach!!! I had this beach paper for awhile and had no idea what to do with it but it went perfectly on here so I just cropped it in half so it was just the waves. I also layered other paper on, including that really thin green paper that I really liked & it reminded me of seaweed (really nice seaweed). I stamped the title & added some embellishments to make it pretty :-) I did some distressing to it by curling the blue paper & tearing it just a little bit and by inking the edges of the blue & green paper. Thanks for looking!!

I tied the ribbon in a bow and put it behind the flower, the twisted it across the top and down the side, securing it with glue. Here are some close ups of the ribbon and alpha brads

Cupcakes

I saw these cupcakes on Ingvild Bolme's Blog http://www.spinnvild.com/ and thought they were just so cute I had to make them. They're card holders so they make great gifts and you can make the slot inside as big or small as you want so they're good for either a small tag or a gift card. With my friend's first baby arriving soon, I figured that'd be a perfect reason to. I did a trial run first and here's what I came up with. I'm glad I did because I definately learned things I should've done differently, areas to improve on and ways to make it better... so the trial cupcake was a good idea. But I did like how it came out so I ended up giving it to my friend for her birthday and she loved it. And they were surprisingly easy to make it... I can't wait to try it again!!

Left: close up of the top: layers of fabric, lace, and ribbon, topped with paint, buttons & a cherry on top

Right: with the card pulled out

I'll post a tutorial for these when I make the next one. In the mean time, if you'd like to try to make them there are tutorials on Ingvild Bolme's Blog and on YouTube. I used steps from both and put them together to make mine. They're pretty easy to make and you can't burn them! haha...

Baby Shower Goodies

My Best Friend is having her first baby, a girl in November (basically any day now). I helped her mom with her baby shower and here are some goodies that we made for it...

Card & Tag for basket

Gift Basket and Diaper Cakes

Memere Layout

Here is a LO I did for my friend of her mother and daughter, part of the book I'm making for her daughter Reese. I used a lot of prima flowers on here and bright colors.

Flashback of some LOs

I plan on posting the new work that I do but in the mean time here are some of my favorites from the book that I made for Reese, my friend Shannon's daughter...

All Here is Reese sleeping when she was 6 weeks old. I love this picture because she looks like such a little doll. I used a lot of Tim Holtz distressing ink in Broken China on this LO and even inked the ribbon on the right.

Here is Miss Reese at the hospital when she was 4 hours old. I clipped her birth announcement from the paper for it too. I framed the picture using prima flowers, cutting them in half & gluing them under the photo. I distressed the edges of the paper & stamped the corners and added some pearls.

I love this colorful LO. This is Reese playing outside this summer. My favorite thing about this page are the ribbon and eyelets. I wanted to fit all the pictures bc they were all so cute so I cut them in circles to get them to fit. I then punched eyelets and threaded blue ribbon through to create a border around the circle. I added more circles with the pps & flowers.

An all purple LO... I wanted to use purple to match her shirt and it turned into all different shades of purple, which is fine because I love the color. This was my first time using cardboard, I love the look of it on LOs and you can do so much with it. I painted it purple obviously and used it to matte the photo. I also inked it with Tim Holtz ink in Dusty Concord and did a lot of inking of the rest of the page. I added some flowers and pearls, eyelet letters from Making Memories, and spelt her name with the playing cards. I tried to make it look distressed while still keeping it bright and girly.


Reese's Firsts. I love this picture of her, she was 6 months old here but I wanted to use it on this page with a list of her firsts (up until August). I kept it simple because the journaling is supposed to be the main focus and added a few other details. I tore & inked the journaling to make it look distressed & aged and inked the edges of the page. I did a big tear in the paper with stitching just to add a little something so it wasn't too simple. I've been trying to think of a way to add a journaling card so her mom can write down more of her firsts (she'll be walking soon) but I just can't come up with anything good so for now it'll stay like this and maybe make a new LO for her next firsts... :-)


Those are a few of my favorite LOs... to see more check out my gallery at scrapbook.com:

New Blog!!

This is my first post as I've decided to start my own blog devoted to my new favorite hobby: scrapbooking. Its a wonderful way to share ideas and get creative and I look forward to viewing other's work & blogs & whatever else is out there. I'm new at this so it may take some time to learn but hopefully I'll get it down soon!!