Showing posts with label Marigolds Flower - October. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Marigolds Flower - October. Show all posts

Monday, May 01, 2017

Colorful Tri-Shutter Card

Hi, Lois here today with a card full of bright sunny colors -- and lots of folds!   Yellow/orange/lime green is such a happy color combination.   I used a die/stamp set and several other dies from CottageCutz.


Supplies used on today's card are:

Yellow cardstock - 12 x 5 1/2"
Lime green for the mats
Patterned paper for the panels
Scraps of orange and black for the sentiment and butterfly
Copic markers
Scor-Pal
Foam pop dots
CottageCutz dies - Marigolds - October (stamp/die set), Happy, Birthday, Double-stitched Ovals, Spring Butterfly 1

Cut the yellow cardstock  to 12" x 5 1/2" and score on the 2", 4", 8", and 10" marks.


Place the panel in your paper cutter with the long edge at the 1 1/2" mark.  Cut a slit from the 2" scoreline to the 10" scoreline.  Rotate 180 degrees and cut the same way on the other side.


Fold on the scorelines  as shown in the photo.


I used the card base and traced around the end T-shape section and cut a template.  I then cut 1/16" around the edge to make a template for the mat piece, and again another 1/16" to make a template for the patterned paper piece.


Cut the mat  and patterned paper pieces as follows:

Lime green - 4 pieces 1 3/8" x 1 7/8", 2 pieces 1 3/8" x 3 7/8", 1 piece 2 3/8" x 3 7/8", and two pieces using the larger of the two T-shaped templates.

Patterned paper - 4 pieces 1 1/4" x 1 3/4", 2 pieces 1 1/4" x 3 3/4", 1 piece 2 1/4" x 3 3/4", two pieces using the smaller of the two T-shaped templates.

Layer and adhere the patterned paper to the lime green pieces.  Adhere to the card base, as shown.


Stamp and color the marigolds onto white cardstock and then cut all the die-cut pieces.


Apply the die-cut pieces to your card, and you're finished.


This is such a fun card to make.  I hope you'll give it a try.

CottageCutz dies used on my card are:


http://www.scrappingcottage.com/cottagecutzmarigolds-octoberstampanddie.aspx

http://www.scrappingcottage.com/cottagecutzexpressionshappy.aspx

http://www.scrappingcottage.com/cottagecutzexpressionsbirthday.aspx

http://www.scrappingcottage.com/cottagecutzdouble-stitchedovalsetbasics.aspx

http://www.scrappingcottage.com/cottagecutzspringbutterfly1.aspx






Thursday, February 02, 2017

Flip Calendar - Part 3


Hi, Lois here again with the third and final post explaining how my flip calendar was constructed.   In addition, I will show how I made the base.


Supplies used in this post:

Copic markers
Foam pop dots
Heavyweight cardboard
Scor-Tape
Scor-Pal
Zutter Bind-It-All machine and wires

As I did with the previous months, I stamped, colored and cut the pieces of the scenery for my last four calendar pages.



I then constructed my scenes, as before, adding whatever icons I wished for each month.


Now I was ready to build my base.  It needed to be rather sturdy, so I used heavyweight cardboard.  I cut two panels slightly narrower (5 ¼”) than my calendar pages and 3 ½” longer (10 ¾”).  I scored one of the panels at 7 ¼” and 9”.  The other one I scored at 7 ¼”, but then I cut off 1 ¾” from the end.  This would allow me to be able to fold the base more easily – with less bulk.  In addition I cut a small “hinge” for the top 5 ¼” x 2”, scored at the 1” midpoint.



Using a Zutter Bind-It-All, I punched six holes, centered, at the top of the two base panels and at the mid-point of the “hinge” and then applied two-sided adhesive tape on the “hinge” and the lower panel of the shorter base piece.



Carefully, I attached the pieces together to form the base.

Again, using the Bind-It-All, I punched holes at the top of each calendar page, making sure that they were centered in the machine before I punched.

Using a 1” Zutter wire, I attached the calendar pages to the base.  And my calendar was finished.


At the end of each month, just flip the page and reveal the following month.  After the June page is flipped, all that is necessary is to turn the calendar around for July. 


And, if you wanted to be able to use the calendar again the following year, all you would have to do is make new monthly calendars and carefully replace the old ones.  Here are all the completed pages of my calendar.


I hope you enjoyed the process of making this calendar.  Maybe you'd like to try making one yourself.

CottageCutz stamps and dies used on today's post are: