DT Teresa - Romance 2

Hello! I hope you all enjoyed your Valentine's Day yesterday, whether or not you celebrated the day designated for love!

Today I am sharing a card that fits the bill for Romance, our theme for February here on the Auzz Trinklets and Crafts blog.

This card uses Neenah Classic Crest 110lb Smooth Solar White Cardstock for the base which is cut with a paper trimmer at 4 ¼“ x 11” and scored with a teflon bone folder at 5 ½“ to make a top folding card of 5 ½“ x 4 ¼”.

I chose My Favorite Things Cookie Crumbs and the coordinating My Favorite Things Dienamics set You're the Milk to my Cookie for this project.

I used the sprinkles/hundreds and thousands stamp meant for a cookie and stamped it multiple times onto the card base with Altenew Crisp Dye Ink in Frosty Pink. 

The layered frames were die cut from Neenah Classic Crest 80lb Smooth Solar White Cardstock with Simon Says Stamp Stitched Rectangles dies. I lined up the outside die with the third largest die to create the first frame and then used the outside die with the second largest die to create the top frame and adhered them together using 3M Scotch Double Sided Foam Tape and stuck these to the card base with double sided tape.

I cut four milk bottles from Neenah Classic Crest 80lb Smooth Solar White Cardstock and glued them together to create a dimensional piece and did the same with kraft cardstock to create the cookie, using the larger of the two circular dies in the set.

My Heidi Swapp Minc machine then came into action. I foiled Heidi Swapp Minc Sheets using Heidi Swapp Reactive Foil in Light Pink, iCraft Deco Foil in Red and iCraft Deco Foil in Gold. I then used dies from the MFT set to diecut the pieces I needed from the different colours of foil using my Sizzix Big Shot machine. The heart dies came from the Sizzix dies set that coordinate with Tim Holtz's Stampers Anonymous Crazy Things stamp set. The foiled pieces left over, I put away for future projects. I used a shim when cutting the lid for the bottle so the debossing was a little deeper and more obvious. 

I took the label for the milk bottle and heat embossed the word milk from the MFT stamp set using Versamark ink, Hero Arts white embossing powder and Wagner heat tool. Prior to stamping, I used an EK Success Powder Tool on the foil to prevent stray embossing powder from sticking in places I did not want it, then wiped away the powder once the embossing had cooled with a microfibre cloth. I was not sure how the foil would react to the great heat of the tool, but was happy to see that it provided an interesting effect and a wonderful texture. I think I will be using this technique again as it would be perfect for a vintage look. 

I glued all the pieces together and placed them onto the card base using Ranger Multi Medium Matte before stamping and heat embossing the sentiment from the MFT stamp set with Hero Arts white embossing powder onto a strip of black cardstock which I adhered with 3M Scotch Double Sided Foam Tape. Again, I used the EK Success Powder Tool prior to stamping on the black cardstock, wiping the powder away with a microfibre cloth after the embossing was done.

I showed this to my husband once I had finished and he asked if he could write in it and give it to me. Ha!

Thankyou for following along with me today. Please feel free to ask questions if anything needs clarifying. If you cannot find the items I have used (listed below) in the Auzz Trinklets and Crafts store, be sure to drop Neha a message via email or Facebook and she will do what she can to order the product in for you.

Happy crafting and have a great day! 

Teresa

Products:

Neenah Classic Crest 110lb Smooth Solar White Paper 

Paper trimmer

Teflon bone folder

My Favorite Things Cookie Crumbs

My Favorite Things Dienamics You're the Milk to my Cookie

Altenew Crisp Dye Ink in Frosty Pink

Neenah Classic Crest 80lb Smooth Solar White Cardstock

Simon Says Stamp Stitched Rectangles dies

3M Scotch Double Sided Foam Tape

Double sided tape

Kraft cardstock

Heidi Swapp Minc machine

Heidi Swapp Minc Sheets

Heidi Swapp Reactive Foil in Light Pink

iCraft Deco Foil in Red  

iCraft Deco Foil in Gold

Sizzix Big Shot machine

Sizzix/Tim Holtz dies set Crazy Things

EK Success Powder Tool

Versamark ink

Hero Arts white embossing powder

Microfibre cloth

Wagner heat tool

Ranger Multi Medium Matte

DT Clarinda - Romance

Hi Everyone!!

DT Clarinda here. *waves*  I just want to take this opportunity to say a huge thank you to Denielle for posting my last two posts for me whilst I was away on vacation. I am back now and looking forward to being able to share lots of creations with you.

This months theme is romance, so I have created a lovely little shaker card for valentine' s day. 

This is a photo of the items I used to create the card.  I will make a list below.

Firstly I stamped the Gorjuss image onto some blending paper that I had cut to 10cm square and used copics to colour the image.

I then created the box frame using my scoring board and a piece of white card stock cut 11.5cm square. I cut in diagonally from the corners approx. 1 cm and scored two lines. Fold the card on the scoring lines and stick the image to the base of the frame (if it is a bit tight, just trim it down). 

Then add your shaker items, and cut a piece of acetate to fit on top and secure with double sided tape or glue.

Using a stanley knife and metal ruler, I cut out a frame from red card stock. This I embossed with hearts, rounded the corners and inked the edges. Attach on top of the acetate. I used a white and a pink Kirarina Wink pen to colour odd hearts to help them stand out a bit.

I then cut white cardstock to twice the length, scored and folded that, and rounded off the corners. Glue the frame to the white card being careful to line it up so the frame is sitting to the edge of the card.

Add ribbon around the edge to hide the gaps. Add greeting and flowers to suit.

Inside was very simple, I just layered a white die cut piece of card on top of a red die cut piece of card and stamped with a matching sentiment.

I hope you have enjoyed seeing my creation. Below is a list of the products I have used. Many of these are available to purchase from Auzz Trinklets n Krafts or can be ordered in by Neha.

Thank you for visiting.

Clarinda xx

Tools:

• Big shot 
• Cuttlebug heart embossing folder
• Tim holts scissors (medium and small) (love these and have multiple pairs - best scissors available in my opinion :) )
• Stanley knife and metal ruler (I don't use paper trimmers)
• Small scoring board
• Corner rounder
• Scotch tape glider (I love this tool and it's big enough that I don't lose it)
• Acrylic blocks for stamps.
• Gorjuss stamp - the scarf.
• Sentiment stamps. 
• Stitched rectangular die set. (I cut the rectangles then adjusted the paper and sent them through a second time to get squares)

Consumables:

• Tacky glue
• Fast drying glue with precision tip
• Memento ink
• Distress ink (barn door)
• Heart shaped confetti
• Assorted flowers
• White blending paper
• White and red cardstock
• Kirarina Wink pens
• White sharpie pen

Copic colours:

• E -  0000, 000, 11, 21, 23, 31, 34, 35, 37, 39, 41, 50, 53
• W - 3, 5, 7
• BG - 70, 72, 75, 78
• Colourless blender