Are you ready for World Card Making Day? Just in case you're not familiar with this holiday, it's held each year on the first Saturday of October and it officially kicks off the holiday card making season! Join me as I walk you through a quick and easy set of holiday cards using a fun strip pieceing technique.
Fancy Pants Designs Supplies: Home For Christmas: Stamps Home For Christmas: Chipboard Frames Home For Christmas: 6x6 Paper Pad Home For Christmas: Buttons
Other supplies: cream cardstock kraft cardstock red ink pad
Thanks for stopping and be sure to come back every day this week for lots more card inspiration!
Hey Fancy Fans! It's Amy here, again. Today, I'm sharing a little technique from my layout above, using craft foam (those spongey sheets of foam you can find at most crafts stores) and our The Good Life stamps! Take a look!
Here are a couple more detail shots, so you can get a closer look at what the different stamps with different textures look like. Fun, huh?
This technique would also be fun to use for accents on cards, tags, or I could even see these little round accents hot-glued to some hair clips for a little girl.... Hmmm, I may need to get on that one for stocking stuffers for my girls. :-)
I hope you enjoyed the technique. If you try it out for yourself, please share it on the Fancy Pants Designs Facebook page. I'd love to see what you create!
Today I will be showing you how I turned a simple, inexpensive acrylic frame into this cute desk center, featuring my granddaughter! This would make a great gift and is a great addition to your home or office décor!
other supplies: stapler acrylic frame adhesives (I used Tombow Power Adhesives, Stamp Runner and Foam Tabs) twine or crochet thread needle gems brown ink sticky note pad
Instructions: Don’t forget to ink your pieces as you go if you like! 1. The base pieces are cut to 5”x7”, (Big Boy Guy & Snacktime) and I’ve added some layers with the striped Recorder paper (1 ½” x 7”) and our border glitter cuts from the Little Sprout line. Slide these into your frame.
2. For the sticky note pad base, cut a blue piece of Buddy paper to 3 ½ ” x 3 ½ ”, and take a 2” piece of the Childish Things woven ribbon and staple to the bottom of the square to make the pen loop—tuck a pen in to make sure it isn’t too small or too big before you staple! Adhere to the right side of the frame. This is where it gets fun, because we are adding dimension by layering on top of the frame itself!
3. For the photo mat, cut a piece of the Strips paper (green side), to 3 ¼” x 4 3/8”. For the inner mat, cut a piece 3”x4”. To make it so that you can change out the picture, add clear photo corners to the smaller mat and adhere together.
4. From the Cards paper, use a circle punch to punch out the phrase “you have my heart” and tuck just behind the green photo mat at the lower left edge. Adhere this to the left side of the vertical portion of the frame.
5. Tie the green lace trim all the way around the bend in the frame, putting your bow just under your picture. You may need to put some adhesive behind the knot to hold in place!
6. Add a small chipboard heart to the lower left corner of the photo mat, just sticking to the photo corner. Personalize the picture with the blue chipboard banner, using the Childish Things rub-ons and the Double Alpha rub-ons. I only attached it to the green photo mat and where it hits the frame. Because the back will still be sticky you can dust a bit with powder and get rid of the stickiness.
7. Make two rolled flowers out of patterned paper. Click here for a great tutorial from Scrapbook and Cards Today—except that I only used 2” & 3” circles!
8. I also made a yo-yo flower using the coordinating filter embellishments. For a step-by-step tutorial click here. Attach a button with the string and tie in a bow.
9. Decorate your desk center with the flowers and chipboard pieces. Notice that I used the alpha stickers on the base paper that is slid into the frame. This gives another element of dimension to the product as you decorate with your chipboard pieces on top of the frame. For the little horse chipboard piece I stacked a couple of foam squares on the back to keep it standing up.
10. You’ll find the template for the blank calendar here. You can slide each month in the frame, or build a tear off calendar on top of the frame using brads or staples.
11. My frame was a bit top heavy because of the chipboard banner—the solution was to attach two mini buttons to the bottom corners of the paper to stabilize it, and a small piece of tape on the back at the bend will keep the top paper from sliding down!
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-Lisa Tenney
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Fancy Pants Designs opened business in November, 2004 and has grown quickly over the years with the help of many creative people, detailed designers and dedicated fans! It was started by a scrapbooker, for scrapbookers that appreciate the value of preserving memories through creativity and art...and it remains that way today. Fancy Pants Designs specializes in creating unique and innovative products for scrapbookers, paper crafters and creative people worldwide! Every member of our team loves what they do and it shows in every product we release!
