Although I usually try to come up with golf themed cards for hubby on Fathers Day, I decided to change it up this year with a photo collage card instead. Hope he isn't too disappointed!
I had so much fun using Karen Burniston's Photo Collage Pop Up die to make my granddaughter's birthday card last month that I was itching to use it again, this time with real photos.
I searched the internet for a simple camera icon clipart and converted it into a cutting file for a paper pieced camera for the front of my card.
Then, using Print Shop publishing program I made a mock up layout for the front of my card so I could place and print my greeting in the correct position. Photos were ordered as collage prints from Walgreens as recommended by Karen Burniston in her video tutorial.
As the card is opened...
Eight photos spin and pop up from the center of the card! This is really a fun pop up card with a big wow factor. As mentioned above, the photos were ordered from Walgreens as collage prints that come as nine photos on a 4x4 sheet and are just the right size to use with the polaroid frame die that comes included with the Photo Collage Pop Up die set. The fun push pins and mini binder clips embellishments were also created from dies included in the set.
I really enjoyed putting this card together and especially like that it's almost like a mini interactive scrapbook page.
Just when I thought my brain absolutely could not, would not, come up with another golf themed card for hubby, I somehow managed to pull it off once more just in time for Fathers Day.
Thank you, Karen Burniston and her Rockin' Rectangle die for sparking the mojo! I kept the front of the card very simple, creating a golf course scene using hillside and cloud border dies to create stencils and distress oxide inks applied with cosmetic foundation brushes. I added a window just large enough for my paper pieced golf cart to show through.
When the card is opened, the panel with the golf cart on it pops up and "rocks" to the right, revealing a golfing Yoda. Sentiment reads, "May the COURSE be with you!" Just the card every golfing Star Wars fan would love, right?
Yoda was pieced together using a svg cutting file called Galaxy Cuties from Cuddly Cute Designs and golf cart was cut from Cricut's Everyday Paper Dolls cartridge. Hoping this card will bring a smile to hubby's morning as he and his friends head out to spend an enjoyable Fathers Day on the golf course.
It's Fathers Day and hubby is out on the golf course with his buddies doing what he loves best. Here's the golf themed Fathers Day card I presented him with before he left.
I purchased the svg cutting file for the Golf Cart Box Card from the Lori Whitlock Store, thinking it would make a "par-fect" card for hubby. This view from the top shows the struts inside the golf cart which hold the golf bag and sentiment. On the original template for this card, the right and left side panels actually came up to the roof line of the cart like a box. But somehow I felt it looked a little too "closed in" so I ended up cutting away the side panels down to the height of the struts to give it a more open feel typical of a golf cart.
Love all the fun details like the golf bag, clubs and the putting green, which are included in the cutting file.
And here's the card folded flat to be slipped into an envelope. Started working on this card last minute, late last night and so happy to get it done in time. Thank goodness for downloadable svg files from the Lori Whitlock store for fun and easy cards!
It's Fathers Day, and believe it or not, I somehow managed to come up with yet another golf themed card for hubby. His Fathers Day card this year was an Explosion Box card... it's been quite awhile since I last made one of these, but have you noticed how creative and clever card makers have continued to evolve the look of the Explosion Box card by adding miniature 3 dimensional scenes inside? Of course I just had to try one with a golf course scene, right!
For the focal point of my golf course scene, I purchased a template for a very cool looking 3-D golf cart/gift card holder designed by Lorri Heiling from her blog, Confessions of A Stamping Addict. I'm not exactly sure on the actual size of Lori's original golf cart, but I believe her template creates a cart approximately 5 inches long, and 3 inches high where the gift card sits on the roof of the cart. Lorri's cart even has a place on the back of the cart which can hold real golf tees! But for my purposes here, I needed the golf cart to be really, really tiny so it would fit inside my explosion box. I used Make the Cut design program to shrink the template so the finished size of the cart would not be more than 2 inches in length. I also replaced the tee holder from the original template with a miniature golf bag which I made by rolling cardstock into a tube and filling with mini golf clubs cut using a cutting file created from a coloring book image.
Different than the usual Explosion Box cards where all four sides of the box fall open, I kept two adjoining sides together so they would remain standing to create a corner for my scene. Luckily, golf course scenes are pretty simple to recreate, so most of the landscape was hand cut. The trees are a Doodlebug cutting file from the Lori Whitlock shop and the clouds were created in Make the Cut. I added my sentiment to one of sides that falls open and a pocket for a gift card to the other.
Here's the finished box all put together with the lid on. Thought it looked a bit too plain so I snuck a couple of tees from hubby's stash and added a bow to make it look a little more festive. Not a fancy card, but hoping hubby will like it!
My son in law celebrated his very first Fathers Day last weekend so I wanted to send a card letting him know how very special he is. When I saw the new Instacube cards at the Lori Whitlock shop, I knew it would make a perfect card for him.
Lori Whitlock's Instacube cards are so super COOL! These cubes are rubberband activated...they fold flat to slide into a sleeve for giving, then...POP! open into a cube when pulled out of the sleeve. Totally LOVE THIS!
Decided to make this card extra special by using photos of my son in law and our new granddaughter to decorate the sides of the cube.
I added a poppa and baby bear paper piecing to the front panel and our sentiment to the back panel of the cube. Lori's original file creates a 2-1/2 inch cube, but I enlarged the file slightly to get a 3 inch cube since I was having difficulty getting my paper piecings and cropped photos to fit.
Folded flat, the cube easily slides into it's sleeve, ready to pop back into a cube when removed. Ah! A new favorite card to make! LOL, I've already done a few more of these (so fun to make!) and will share in the weeks to come.
Today is Fathers Day and this is the card hubby got from me before he headed out to the golf course with his buddies early this morning.
Yup, yet another golf themed card and yet another shadow box card. Happily, I had most of the cutting files needed to put this card together already saved on my computer from previous cards I've made. But even so, I struggled with the sizing, placement and welding of each of the images onto the different layers of this shadow box.
Golfer and golf cart images were rendered into cutting files from images found on the internet and the trees are from Cricut Zooballoo cartridge.
To get the right amount of dimension I wanted, I used three layers inside the box. The layers each have a window that gets smaller as they get closer to the back of the box; and I tried to place the layers about a fourth of an inch apart.
Fathers Day sentiment was added to the back of the box. This card actually folds flat to fit in an envelope, but I decided to make a box for this instead since some of the cuts on this were pretty thin and I didn't want to risk the chance of any of the cuts and layers getting tangled.
Enjoy celebrating with all your dads, hubbies and grandpas today. Don't forget to let them know how special they are!
Fathers Day is this weekend and these are the Card In A Box Fathers Day cards I made for the incredible men in my life. The original idea for these cards comes from my sweet blogger pal, Tina Herbeck who created and shared an AMAZING Mr. Incredible Card In A Box on her blog, The Scrappin' Rabbit awhile ago. I immediately fell in love with Tina's card and knew I wanted to do something similar...it's always so hard to come up with ideas for cards for guys!
At our home, hubby's more of a Marvel Comics fan than a Disney fan so I knew his superhero card had to have either Captain America or Iron Man on it. And I guess that's the main reason it has taken me so long to even attempt this card.
I searched the internet for nearly two years, hoping to come across a good Iron Man cutting file, but no such luck. I found a coloring book image I liked, but the thought of having to edit and re-edit it to create a decent cutting file gave me a rash....sooo many tiny piecings involved! Sat down countless times during the past year to work on it but always got frustrated and gave up.
Well last month, I was nearly at wits end trying to come up with ideas for Fathers Day cards, and Tina's Mr. Incredible card kept popping into my mind. I knew then that I just HAD to finish that Iron Man cutting file. Many hours and late nights later it is finally finished.
Everything else about the card came together fairly easily. Found lots of superhero bubbles on the internet which were simple to convert into cutting files in Make the Cut for the flaps of the card. I used Comic Sans and BaDaBang fonts to create cutfiles to customize some of the bubbles. Many superhero building borders on the internet too so that wasn't too hard to render into a cutfile.
Next, a card for my dad. Not sure if he's much of a Marvel Comics fan...always thought of him more as a DC Comics person so I chose to use Superman for his box card.
Happily, I already had cutting file for Superman in my files so dad's card came together really quickly.
I'm sure everyone already knows what a Card In A Box looks like folded flat...
It's kind of a cool thing how these cards open up into a box. About a year ago I saw a short video shared by Steven Franco on SVG Cuts Facebook page on how to make this card even cooler... of course I had to give it try!
Steven made a tool box shaped Card In A Box for his dad and showed how he added elastic thread to the bottom of his card. The elastic thread needs to run diagonally across inside the bottom of the box. The length of the elastic should be the same as the distance inside the box from corner to corner (when the box is open). I wish I knew a way to share his video here, but since I'm not very tech savvy, the best I can do is share my poor quality phone video...
I think you get the idea... Anyways, I think it's pretty neat how the elastic added to the bottom will allow the card to POP open as you open the envelope. Hopefully dad and hubby will think it's cool too!
Here's another Fathers Day card, this one created for my dad. My dad is a man who has had many different hobbies, one of them being raising and breeding tropical fish. I vividly remember growing up with a patio full of aquariums...over fifty of them...all immaculately kept and filled with dozens of beautiful varieties of gouramis, tetras, mollies and barbs. Dad raised and bred his fish, selling them to local pet shops to earn money to buy fish food, supplies and even more aquariums to keep his hobby growing. So when I came across Ilda Dias' fabulous Box Card style aquarium, I was immediately inspired and knew I had to try something similar for dear old Dad.
As you can tell from this top view of the card, the construction of aquarium is basically the same as with the familiar Card In A Box style card that has recently become quite popular. Only difference is that I added the struts on both the top and bottom of the box and cut a window in the front panel. The paper pieced fish were glued onto strips of clear acetate which were attached to the top and bottom struts, to make them appear to be swimming in the aquarium. Coral and seaweed were attached to the bottom struts. After I had everything inside placed where I wanted, I adhered a piece of acetate to fit inside the window frame to enclose the box and make it look like a fish tank.
The cutting file for these cute pair of clownfish was created and shared by Make The Cut (MTC) forum member Berryone in the MTC Gallery. Coral and seaweed are Cricut cutting files from the Life Is A Beach cartridge. And the ocean scene used for the background is a very old patterned paper from Flair Designs which I found in my scrapbook paper stash.
Used the same paper on the back of the aquarium as a backdrop for my sentiment.
And here's the card folded flat. Poor Dad had to spend his Fathers Day this year in a nursing facility recovering from some health issues, but it was nice to see his face light up for a brief moment as he opened this card. And the good news is, his physical therapists decided yesterday that he's finally strong enough to go home next week. Hurray! It'll be nice to have Dad home again and our lives return to some normalcy.
Here's the Fathers Day card that was waiting for hubby before he set out early this morning for the golf course. Yup, another of his favorite golf themed cards...this time it's Winnie the Pooh Bear practicing his putting skills into a hunny jar.
Wanted to try something new, so I finally decided to give this "Shelf Card" a try. Been wanting to make these for awhile now...first saw these cards over at Card Making Downloads, but after watching the video tutorial for assembling them, I felt too intimidated to even try. More recently, I came across and fell in love with the amazing "Slide and Glide" cards created by Chris Peterson of Calla Lily Studio. Right away I noticed how similar her "Slide and Glide" cards were to the once intimidating "Shelf Card". I think the only difference is that the "Slide and Glide" card rocks, the "Shelf Card" doesn't. Chris shares a template for her "Slide and Glide" card on her blog as well as a very detailed and user friendly video tutorial, in which she keeps saying "it's really easy..." So I used Chris' template, removed the rocker and I had my "Shelf Card". Only one thing though....the assembly wasn't as easy...at least not for me.
Here's a closeup of Pooh Bear putting into his hunny jar. Cutting file for this was created using MTC (Make the Cut) and an image I found online. Cut all the pieces using the Silhouette from white cardstock , then colored them up with Copics. Definitely much quicker than having to load and reload the cutting mat for each different color!
Used a cutting file from Cricut Everyday Paper Dolls cartridge for the Hundred Acre Wood sign, and trees are a cut file downloaded fromMiss Kate's Cuttables. Die-namics Grassy Edges die used for the grass borders and a mini punch from Punch Bunch for the flowers.
Pooh Bear, hunny jar and sign were all secured onto the "shelf" by attaching a tab to the bottom of each and threading it through a slit on the shelf. Normally the tabs on the bottom should hang free, but in this case my paper pieced Pooh Bear and the sign were a bit too heavy so they kept leaning forward instead of standing upright. After some experimenting I found that that gluing the ends of the tabs of these heavier items to the bottom shelf helped to get them standing straight.
Here's a side and back view of the card. As you can see my center background panel leans backwards because I made the slot for it in the wrong place! Live and learn. I added a label for my sentiment on the backside of the center panel.
And finally, here's the card, folded flat inside the box I made for it. Hubby seemed pretty pleased with his card, and happily was able to "open" it up easily without any help...yay! I must admit that making this card for the first time was quite a challenge, but I did learn a lot so hopefully the next time will be much easier.
