Thursday Oct 29 10 minute card challenge, Mini Card Holder Oct 29, 2009

It's Thursday again and the 10 minute card challenge

that Sandi MacIver and Carole' Anne Sluchinski

do each week keeps my mojo going.

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I just had to make one of Jan Farring's Mini Magazine File.

I've seen these being paraded around the web

and put it in the too hard basket because I'd never seen

a tutorial before hers.

She was so correct when she said they looked

confusing but once you've done one

they are easy peasy!!

Here's Blythe's version

I made 13 in 2 hours.

Now I had to alter mine abit because it would

not fit our card size which is slightly larger

than US size. Jan kindly gave me permission

to post up my version of the tutorial.

Ingredients: 1 of 12" x 12" textured cardstock

1 of dsp 1" x 12"

1 of dsp 1" x 5 1/2"

1 of dsp 1" x 4"

Red liner tape

Score 1 1/2"and 6 1/2"

Turn around and score 5" x 7"

Cut the 1 1/2" and 6 1/2"lines up to the 5"mark

turn cardstock and cut to the 7"line

This is what it should look like,

Score the middle piece at 2", 3 1/2", 8 1/2"and 10"

Make a pencil mark 1"up the top part

and 1 1/2"on the right side of the 7" score

Cut that triangle off

Do the same on the other side where the 5"

score is

Cut just a small piece off the middle section

...............and the other side

Make your folds with the middle piece

valley, valley and mountain fold as shown

Fold the 1 1/2"part up as in photo

Tuck the middle piece over like this

Turn around and do the other side, no tape needed for this

Flip over and lay red liner or sticky strip

tape as shown, if you don't use

the sticky strip it will pop open

believe me I was being stingy

with the first one and everything

fell apart LOL

Remove sticky strip backing and hold

the section and shown and slowly

let it stick to the smaller section

Lay it down and smooth it out

...turn over and do the other side

Stick the 5 1/2"dsp to the back of the card holder

you can be stingy here and use the snail

Take the 4"dsp and place it on the back as shown

Lastly place the 12"dsp over

Here are some of the ones I did

ok I skipped lunch to do these

it's now 2.30pm and my stomach is rumbling hee hee

p.s. just moving my creations over from an old blog

Thursday 10 minute card challenge Oct 29th

It's Thursday again and the 10 minute card challenge

that Sandi MacIver and Carole' Anne Sluchinski

do each week keeps my mojo going.

I also wanted to do a challenge which

involved male cards so this actually

qualified for the 10minute card

except it only took me 5 minutes to make.

I even managed to make 15 in an hour so that's

how it came to be 5 minute cards.

The production line is for my contribution

for cards I am sending to the troops in

the battle fields so they in turn can

send home to their loved ones.

Check out this letter from a appreciative

recipient, it makes it all so worthwhile creating

for this cause

From Our Hearts

Mojo Monday Week 109 Challenge and Thursday 10minute card challenge Octo 22, 2009

I combined the Mojo Monday Week 109

and Sandi MacIver and Carole' Anne Sluchinski

Thursday 10 minute challenge today

they have this as an official challenge

now with a Mr Linky

you've got until Oct 27 to play

to win

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Ingredients:

Stamp: Snow Swirled

Cardstock: Whisper White, Gold Metallic, Basic Black

Ink: Basic Black, Versamark

Basic Black Grosgrain ribbon

1 1/4 inch round punch

I didn't have black embossing powder

and I also dislike how it goes all over

the cardstock especially white,

so this is what I do to keep my cardstock clean.

Ink up on versamark and then basic black

this makes your dye ink a temporary

pigment ink image.

If you are doing multiple images you will have

to clean your stamp each time.

I use a dedicated versamark pad for this so

of course it isn't clean after that treatment

I had to try gold embossing and black

Testing to see what works

gold embossed disc

Testing black embossed disc

When I attach ribbons to my card I normally

put the double sided tape on the cardstock.

I always line it up using my craft mat,

more often if I dont line it up it's always

crooked, then its hard to remove the ds tape

As a rule I also adhere the ribbon to

the card if it isn't on top of a layer

then I cut it, I have cut it prior and

it has been short after I tape it down.

Not nice and too hard to fix

What a mess!!

Uh Oh I didnt even take a photo of the finished card

hahahahaha

ok it's going to appear first in the post

blogspot is weird like that

p.s. just moving my creations over from an old blog

LNS Colour Challenge #42 and TSSC92 layout challenge Oct 20, 2009

I'm on a roll here with challenges

see what happens when you have too much

time on your hands LOL.

First challenge is the

Stampin! Up Late Night Stampers Colour Challenge

Really Rust, Ruby Red and Old Olive

I combined it with a layout challenge

of Mary Jo's Techno Stampers Challenge 92

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The card fell over when I tried to photograph it

Ingredients:

Inkpads and cardstock -Really Rust, Ruby Red, Old Olive

Ribbon: Old Olive

Stamp: Snow Swirled

Ruby Red red on old olive cs

Basic black ink on Rub Red

Embossed the tree in versamark and gold ep

onto Really Rust cs

gold embossed the middle sized decor

and stamped the little decor in basic black

Sentiment was embossed in black

I had a hard time using these colours together,

I almost gave up participating in the challenge.

It didnt look right and incomplete so I

had a hard time choosing which embellishment

I persisted and voila, it all came together

I also had a hard time photographing it

so the colours would show

so I took it outside and it was blowing

and here you can see as I clicked

the card flew off, nice picture of the flower though.

I tried another combination with the colours without layers

and this is what I got.

p.s. just moving my creations over from my old blog