4th of July

Decided to make my sister a 4th of July celebration card.  I had seen some napkins and a few doodads I liked in Hobby Lobby and gathered them up for a cardmaking session.

I've always been fascinated by shaker cards but had never made one.  I decided that this was the perfect time to try one out!  Most of the online directions showed you how to make your own box but I've been saving plastic packaging covers for quite some time hoping to use them for just this purpose.  Out of 40+ sites with tutorials I found one that addressed this idea but oddly enough it wasn't for a shaker so I had to make my own adjustments.

I was going to attach the napkin piece as I did in a previous post but changed my mind.  I tried to separate the three layers but only was able to remove one layer so I decided to glue stick it to the front of the card.  This worked great until I handled the card for a while and I noticed that the top layer was coming loose at the corners.  Wouldn't you know it...it wouldn't come off when I wanted it to, LOL!!!  So...I slipped some glue under the edges and things were fine.  The glue stick worked fine so if you use it make sure you really have removed two layers!!!

I finished up the front with the doodads I got at Hobby Lobby and I used confetti red, white and blue stars for the shaker. The three stars are part of a garland and I attached it with brads.  I used double stick tape to attach "July 4th" to the shaker.

I carried to theme to the inside, added a verse and used some of the napkin scraps to make faux photo corners.

I Just Couldn't Resist

I like to rag on my sister on occassion ;-)  So...I made her another fishing card to give her a hard time.

 

I used this picture of a trout that I found on the web and printed it out, backed it with the "salmon" color paper and attached the whole thing to the card base with photo corners I made with Fiskar's Diamond punch.

 I also found the inside picture on the web (which inspired the card idea).  The fish on the front (The Dream) and on the inside (The Reality) were made in Microsoft Word.

For the final touch I added the lure to the top corner.

A Fine Time Was Had by All

This is the card I made for my nephew after the fishing trip to celebrate his success.

 

This time I attached an actual lure with jute string and a picture of a trout.  There are four layers on the front and the last three are attached with more of my "homemade" photo corners.  The punch I used is by Fiskars (Diamond). 

Both the images on the front and on the inside are from a pair of 3D sheets I got from another card group I am a member of (3D Sheets 4 All).

Something Fishy Part Two

As I mentioned in yesterday's post I made a fishing card for my sister.  I also made one for my nephew and here it is!

 

I found some great pictures of fishing lures.  I enlarged them and printed them on glossy banner paper.  These were then attached to the green cardstock.  Again I made photo corners as I did for the last card and used these to attach the green to the base card.  If you look carefully you can see the fishing swivels hanging from the string.

I attached the inside and outside in the same way I did the last card.  I used Microsoft Word to make the inside by adding a greeting and pictures of fishing lures.  As an extra decoration I used my EKSuccess punch (Lines and Dots) to make a border on the right side.

Something Fishy

Last Autumn my sister and her son planned a "Mother/Son" fishing trip to Montana.  They live on opposite coasts and wanted to spend some relaxing quality time together.  I made each of them a card to get them off to a good start.  Here is the card I made for my sister.

 

I bought some pre-made fishing "accessories" to use on the front of the card which I attached to the green cardstock.  Then I attached the green to the base card with photo corners that I created using Martha Stewart's punch.

  

These photo corners are so easy to create and yet add so much depth!  See the tutorial below.

The inside I made using Microsoft Word, left over "accessories" and a couple pictures of flies.  I poked two holes two inches apart in the center and tied the inside and outside together with a piece of twine (to which I added a fish).

PHOTO CORNER TUTORIAL

 

The punch used on this tutorial was made by Fiskars and is called Diamond.