Star cards

Made this super-fun card to share at my team meeting last night. we had such a good time I forgot to take any other pictures!! Oh well. I will try to get them to share them on our Facebook page so you can see what all we made. I used the new Star Framelits for the Big Shot to cut layers from Hello Honey and Whisper White, then just adhered them in alternating patterns, with a tiny star punch from Glimmer Paper in the center and a saying from And Many More on the banner. To make the star…

Today I have created for you a gatefold card with an interlocking star mechanism on the front. This card is surprisingly simple to recreate, and so I made a video tutorial to step you through how to make it yourself. It would be a great Christmas project to create for a special friend! Here are a few pics to give you an idea as to how the card opens... And finally, on to the video... I hope you enjoy it!

A Star Fold Card for almost any Occasion: To make this 6" card, you will need to start with a piece of paper measuring 12 X 12. Laying it on your mat you can easily find the center of one of the sides. Mark the 6" point and draw a line down the paper for about 2". Now you can draw a line from the corner left to the center line, making sure it is 12" long, do this again of the other side from right corner to center at 12" point. Now you can trim off the corners using your paper trimmer…

I recently got a shipment from Creative-Depot in Germany, which included this thing which looks like a die but is in fact an embossing gizmo. It made the snowflake impressions for the backdrop to this card. The pass for the second impression flattened the first impression, so I ran the piece of card through the machine again without the 'die', to get both impressions looking similar! I made this card for the challenge at CAS Christmas which this time is calling for plaid! This particular…

Hi crafty friends :) I’m sorry that it’s been a while since my last post, but I’ve been on babysitting duties for my grand children as its been school holidays here. So now everyt…

Happy New Year! Well, I am not a big fan of New Year’s resolutions, only because they seldom pan out, but this year I hope to make more of an effort to post on my blog more frequently. I sta…

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