Your Weekly How To.
Hello there crafter's. We hope that you are all enjoying this fabuous weather and that it's inspired you to do some summer crafting, but if it hasn't then we've got just the thing that will!
You may have already guessed (thanks to the title) what type of card the ladies were making this week. It's a wonderful, quirky kind of card that's not only fun to make but offers you so many possibilities!
Here's the penny slider card that the ladies have made...
To Make This Card You Will Need:
- 2 x A4 White Card
- Floral Patterned Paper
- 1 x A4 Purple Card
- Shaded Lilac & Brushed Corduroy Distress Inks
- 2 x 1p pieces
- Punches of your choice
- Stix 2, Foam Pads and Strips
To make the base card: Take an A4 piece of white card and place it on your MNF fold board landscape. Score on line 6. Cut a piece of floral patterned paper 20.5 x 14.5cm then matt and layer it on to your base card.
To make your slider: You will need to cut a piece of white card 19.5 x 4cm. Distress the card using your Ranger Distress Ink Pads. Cut a strip out of the middle of the card measuring 18 x 1cm using your craft knife or prefered cutting tools. This is where your penny will slide.
Attaching the slider and pennies: Place a penny on the table and stick a round foam pad in the middle of it. Place your slider over the penny making sure that the foam pad doesn't stick to the sides. Leave your slider where it is and place another penny on top of the first. Attach your chosen image using foam pads and now it will slide!
To attach the slider to the card, cut 2 foam strips 19.5 x 0.5cm and stick your slider roughly 1.5cm from the bottom of your card (see image above).
The finishing touches: Cut a piece of purple card 6 x 4.5cm. Then cut a white piece of card 5.5 x 4cm and stamp out your sentiment using one of the inks you used to distress. Matt and layer these 2 pieces together and stick it on your card with foam pads. (The small butterfly is a Woodware mini punch.) Punch some different sized daisies (Woodware) out of patterned and purple card and stick them onto your card. Now you can go over your card using your Stickles and highlight the card to make it really shimmer.
Now, with that out of the way and looking fabulous we can move on to our second card. This card makes a great man's card but with a change of colour could easily be a woman's card as well...
To Make This Card You Will Need:
- 1 x A4 White Card
- 1 x Sheet of Checkered Paper
- 1 x Sheet of Dark Green Core'dinations paper
- 1 x A4 Gold Mirror Card
- 1 x A4 Plum Card
- 1 x Pack of gold brads
- 'The Cafe Riviera' stamp set from Creative Stamping issue 18
- Glue Gloss by ColourBox
- Archival Ink Pad
- Stix 2 Foam Pads
To make the base: Take a piece of A4 white card and cut it down so that the width of the card is 15cm. Place the piece of card landscape on your MNF fold board and score on line 6.Cut your checkered paper down to measure 14.5 x 14.5cm. Matt and layer it on to your white card.
Next, cut down your core'dinations to measure 7 x 14.5cm and put it through an embossing folder. This will give it texture. Stick this length ways down the middle of your card.
The topper: Die cut a shape that is about 8.5cm wide and 7cm high. This will be enough surface to stamp on. Stamp outyour image using Archival Ink, Please keep in mind that this is an oil based ink and therefore you cannot use your alcohol based markers to colour in. We used distress markers which are water based markers. Now colour your image :)
Put your topper to one side. Cut a piece of gold mirror card 10 x 8cm. The cut a piece of plum card 9.5 x 7.5cm. Matt and layer these together.
Bring your topper back and attach it to the matt and layered piece using small, round, gold brads. You can now attach the whole thing to your card using foam pads.
The sentiment: Cut a piece of gold mirror card 9.5 x 2.5cm. Then cut a piece of plum card 9 x 2cm. MAtt and layer these together. Now stamp out the banner that you get with your stamp set onto white card, and then stamp your chosen sentiment inside it using the same archival ink form before. Cut around the banner and stick it onto your matt and layer piece. Stick this to your card using glue or souble sided tape.
Now you're done! And we hope that you have once again enjoyed our how to and that you are looking forward to us getting our video tutorials up and running. Please feel free to go onto our Facebook page and leave a comment or a review and/or our Twitter page
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