Hello Friends!
Since it’s too hot to do much outside today, I’ve spend my day playing in my craft room. I still have lots of products from the holiday mini catalog that I’ve yet to explore and so today seemed a good day to bring out some of those new toys and “break them in”!
I’ve been wanting to use the Halloween Magic Dies for a non-Halloween card since I got them. There are two nesting labels included in those dies that are quite elegant-appearing and so I opted to use them today to create a layered opening for a gate-fold card. All of the die-cuts featured on this card are from the Halloween Magic Dies with exception of the small, Cajun Craze flowers (Small Bloom punch), and the center sentiment label which is also a punch (Timeless Label). So, let’s do a little Country Home with some Halloween Magic!
I love a little bling, so out came the Wink of Stella to glitter up the Crushed Curry Flowers, Champagne Rhinestones for the flower centers, and Gold Embossing Powder to make the sentiment shine!
LET’S GET INKY!
Materials:
Stamp sets used:
- Country Home
Metal Dies:
- Halloween Magic
Paper:
- Very Vanilla (8 1/2″ x 5 1/2″) – score and fold at 2 1/8″ and 6 3/8″.
- Very Vanilla – small scrap for sentiment to be punched out with Timeless Label Punch.
- So Saffron (5 3/8″ x 4 1/8″)
- Crushed Curry – scraps for 4 flower outline cuts using Halloween Magic Dies.
- Cajun Craze – scraps for 10 Small Bloom punched flowers.
- Mossy Meadow – scraps for 10 leaf clusters cut using Halloween Magic Dies.
- Plaid Tidings DSP – 4″ x 2″ to crop with smaller label die from Halloween Magic Dies.
Ink:
- Versamark
Accessories:
- Small Bloom Punch
- Timeless Label Punch
- Wink of Stella marker
- Champagne Rhinestones
- Stampin’ Dimensionals
- Gold Embossing Powder
- Heat tool
PUTTING IT TOGETHER:
- Score and Fold the Very Vanilla card base as noted above.
- Lay the smaller of the two labels in Halloween Magic Dies in the center of the front, making sure the center of the gatefold is running down the center of the die. Use some craft tape to hold the die in place on ONE side.
- Open the gatefold with the die still taped to one side, and run through Stampin’ Cut & Emboss Machine.
- Close the gatefolds and keeping the die lined up with the side you just cut, tape the die to the opposite side (uncut side).
- Open the gatefold and run through Cut & Emboss Machine again.
- When closed now, your opening should line up perfectly on both sides.
- Tape the larger label die from Halloween Magic Dies to the center of the So Saffron panel and run through Stampin’ Cut & Emboss Machine. Save the center label you just cropped out for the inside of the card.
- Run the cropped So Saffron panel (with the hole in it) through the Stampin’ Cut & Emboss Machine in the Tasteful Texture 3D Embossing Folder.
- Cut that embossed panel in half lengthwise at 2 1/16″
- Use a metallic gold paint pen (I like the Uchida DecoColor Premium paint pens – available on Amazon) to highlight the openings on both the Very Vanilla and So Saffron edges.
- Adhere the So Saffron panels to the Very Vanilla gate-fold fronts.
- Crop out 4 of the outline flowers using Halloween Magic Dies from Crushed Curry CS. Use a Wink of Stella marker to add glitter to them.
- Crop out 10 outline leaf clusters using Halloween Magic Dies from Mossy Meadow CS.
- Use the Small Bloom Punch to punch out 10 flowers in Cajun Craze and slightly curl petals for dimension.
- Arrange the flowers and leaves around the So Saffron “frame” and adhere.
- Use the So Saffron label made in step 9 on the inside, centering it under the window made by the gatefold.
- Crop a piece of Plaid Tidings DSP with the smaller label die from Halloween Magic Dies.
- To get that center in your gatefold window, close the gatefolds and after applying some adhesive, lay it in the middle of your gatefold. It’s the same size as the opening, so it fits perfectly.
- Stamp the sentiment from Country Home on Very Vanilla, in Versamark and sprinkle with gold embossing powder, tapping off the extra. Set it with heat tool.
- Use the Timeless Label Punch to punch out the sentiment. Apply sentiment label using dimensionals to the center of the Plaid Tidings Label.
- Apply Champagne Rhinestones to the center of the flowers.
DONE!
I’m looking forward to cooler weather again; fall will be a welcome change! My last several projects seem to reflect this by the colors I’ve chosen to use! Come on cooler temps!!!!
Until next time, my friends,
I HOPE YOU GET INKY!
Janet
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