Never ending card folds

Here is an illustration of the never ending card as the flaps keep folding back. It would be good for children to make or receive as it has a magical and tactile quality.
I have just decorated this quickly for illustration purpose

Never Ending card Tutorial

1. You will need 4 pieces of paper 16cm x 8cm score each piece the same half way (4cm) vertically and 4cm from top and bottom
2. Butt two of the pieces together keeping them vertical as per 2nd diagram and add glue or tape to each of the corners as per 3rd diagram
   

1. stick the second two pieces across Horizontally as per diagram 4
2. Then fold flaps back creasing edges with a bone folder
   
   

Footy Star

Footy card I stamped the background added a football ribbon and a decoupage football star.

I printed the greeting onto a banner in mycraft studio

HSM Birthday

I was asked to make a HSM Card for a 10 year old The picture was bought in the States

I added Hearts and Flowers and printed the greeting in matching colours

Babies 1st christmas

Babies firts christmas card
I used the emboss to impress board and the cuttlebug embossing folder added a 3D shoe.
and embellished with lace ribbon, glitter & xmas bits

Printing in Gold and Silver

If you like to print the front of your card or would like to print your verses in Gold & silver you need to customise the ink colours where it says R G B. you can do this where you change the colour click on more colours or customise colour every programme is different so have a look and play about when you close the programm it should default back to black
The list of numbers

Gold enter the number R 192 G 165 B 104
Antique Gold R 165 G 138 B 82
Copper R 205 G 115 B 0
Silver R 151 G 151 B 168

Remeber they will not be metalic but as near as you can get and ideal for printing Wedding Stationery

Using your Printer to emboss

As you can see from a few of my cards I use my printer for the greetings!
you can also use your printer to emboss the greeting with embossing powder, here's how
You will need to set up your programme to print the front of your card, I use publisher and set the layout of the page to suit my printer.
Printer ink normally dries as quick as it leaves the printer but with some coated and pearlised card the ink can take a while to dry (remember some coated cards are now specifically produced for ink jet printers and will absorb so much ink so that it dries quickly)
dust your card with an antistatic cloth/bag first and place in the printer organise your text and before you click print make sure you have your embossing powder ready print out the greeting remove the card from the printer pour on the embossing powder tap off excess and heat and there you have a professional look!

I usually use pearlised card from Joanna Sheen her service is excellent and the price well I haven't seen it cheaper! so that sold me.

You can try this with vellum I have printed out the Wedding vows and embossed with gold and used this as a backing to the topper on a wedding card.

Happy crafting

Scottish Winter

I was asked to make a card with a Scottish theme, apart from the loch ness, haggis And thistles this is what I came up with. I printed the greeting and because I used pearlised card was able to emboss it with silver. I used a winter Lake scene and embellished with tartan, Holly and gems

Under the Mistletoe

I printed the greeting and used the picture in "My craft Studio to get the tile effect matted the picture onto co ordinating colours and added glitter

Polar Bears

Playful Polar bears in the Snow I printed the greeting matted the picture and added snowflakes and glitter

This is a concertina card I had some pink snowflake papers and vellums left over so I decided to make this I put parcels inside and added tiny bows and scrolled paper strips on the front

Funky Christmas Tree

I stamped this image and coloured it with a mixture of water colours and Sakura. Matted it onto gold and green card and used a peel off for the greeting

Christmas Baubles

Baubles I stamped the baubles onto same coloured card cut them out I used a Stencil and metalic ink for the decorative border.

Holly Cream and Green

A few more cards I have been working on I stamped the holly image and cut it out to layer it onto the card used my worded ribbons, stamped the corners and embellished with peel offs and glitter

Poinsettia

Some of my own xmas cards for work, I stamped the poinsettia using Anitas Stamp Made some worded ribbons using words from xmas songs for the side of the card, stamped the corners and added glitter

Santa's little helper

I used My craft studio for the parcels on the card and printed Santa's helper three times to decoupage it and printed the greeting also with My Craft Studio

Princesses in gold ball gowns

This card I used the disney princess pictures and used several layers I used gold glass paint to enhance the jewellry and glitter on their gems matted it onto gold and red mirri card. I printed the greeting with Publisher

Babies 1st Christmas

I was asked to make a few cards! something you cant buy in the shops, I think this fits the bill! the greeting I printed using Publisher and the rest I did using My craft Studio, the stocking I recoloured to a baby blue and printed it several times so I could decoupage it then added glitter anda ribbon

Christmas winnie

This is for a litte boy who loves Winnie
I printed the greeting and the used three layers of decoupage added glitter and a ribbon

Madhouse Shed

For this card I used the glitter Girls board for the shed a photo of the birthday boy and embelished with sakura pens and peel offs.
I used different shades of green as he is an avid Celtic fan.

Chefs Birthday

I was asked to make a card for a Chef who is 30.
I cut the 30th with DM and Robo and with the help of friends from the imag-ation forum who I got the backing paper and decopaged from this is what I came up with

Well I have been really busy with Card orders for every occasion lol
I will be posting some more tutorials on here! I hope to get some on over the weekend!
I have been spending money again on craft goodies I neither have the room for or need but you know what its like! You see it You want it.

I have been working on christmas ribbon borders for my own christmas cards and hopefully will get the sheet up for you all to use.

need to go

Happy Accident of the week

Well! this was my Happy accident of the week!
I was playing with my Cute companions Christams CD and printing out a few decoupaged street scenes to add the little Mice when the last came out of the printer I noticed the blue ink cartridge had not laid any ink. When I looked there where non of the normal linage and the scene looked like a sunny winter evening so I inked the lampost with Adirondack woodlands rainbow ink used a water brush to difuse the lines and make more sepia and added it to the card. I dont think I could make this one again lol

Any Occasion Card

I did not put a greeting onto this card as it would suit anything from a sombre to a light birthday occasion. The lillies are decoupaged then mounted onto two green rectangles and a ribbon tied around the bottom

Orange Poppies

This Card started as a 5 x 7 but was a little too small so I cut it in half mounted it onto gold mirri and then onto a A5 card.
The Poppies are decopaged added to mirri card then mounted onto a pale peach card with a large gold ribbon. The greeting is printed

New Crafting CDs

Well as you can see I have been playing with my new CDs One for the Boys and One for the Girls from MY Craft Studio! They are easy to work with and they come with there own graphics programme that you can use your own photos and stuff