Scrapping by Design

This birthday card uses yellow card stock and two patterns of scrapbook paper.

I dry embossed the yellow polka dot background with the Birthday Cuttlebug Embossing Folder

The three circles are cut with the Spellbinders Nestabilities Classic Scalloped Circles Die Template. I colored the outer scalloped circle with pink chalk ink along the edges. In the inner scallop, I fit a purchased pink paper flower with  a pink and white dotted sticker for the center.

Lastly, I added a few pink rhinestones for trim.

I did the embossing and the die cutting with my Sizzix Big Shot Cutting-and-Embossing Roller-Style Machine
. If you haven’t used this wonderful tool, please check out my video tutorial of the Big Shot.

This easy Halloween card is inspired by a Make and Take at Making Memories, a local craft store. The Make and Take item was a black, gray and silver wedding card. I thought the style would work well for a Halloween card, so this is what I came up with.

The card requires black card stock and four different patterns of Hallowe’en themed scrapbook paper. I used the double sided kind which gave me four patterns.

For embellishments, I used a black ribbon, an orange button, a stamped sentiment and a heat embossed stamped image.

If you haven’t tried heat embossing, you might want to take a look at my video demo of heat embossing. This technique requires a Embossing Heat Tool or heat gun. (And no, a hair dryer will not work. We have all tried that at one time or another. It just isn’t hot enough to melt the embossing powder.)

In the video demo below, I make the scores and cuts using a Fiskars Paper Trimmer. I also have a video demo of the Fiskars Portable Trimmer at this link.

Here is my video demonstration showing how to make the Halloween card.

I think this easy Halloween card would be a suitable project for older kids to make, and its surely easy enough and fast enough for busy card makers to assemble in a short time.

This “Especially for You Card” includes dry embossing, stamping and a punch art paper flower with a rhinestone center.

The yellow card is made with Bazzill card stock, the shiny kind.

The first step, after cutting the card stock and scrapbook paper,  was to stamp the sentiment on the scrapbook paper. The stamp is Especially for You by Great Impressions. I suggest stamping before embossing, otherwise the stamped image will be uneven.  You should probably make your paper flower first, so you can use it as a guide to place the stamping on the paper.

I embossed the scrapbook paper using the Sizzix 655268 Big Shot Cutting-and-Embossing Roller-Style Machine and the Cuttlebug A2 Embossing Folder, Spots and and Dots.

If you are new to this die cutting and embossing tool, I have a video tutorial of the Sizzix Big Shot.

I made the paper  flower using the technique shown in my video demonstration  called  how to make paper flowers with a craft punch.

The white scalloped circle that the paper flower sits on is made with the Big Shot and a Nestabilities die. I tinted the edge with a chalk ink.

The yellow border with white polka dots is a ribbon.

On the inside of the card, I used a paper transfer to place a sentiment on another strip of scrapbook paper. I plan on making a video tutorial demonstrating how to do an image transfer soon.