Interactive Mom Birthday Card and Gift Bag

 Hi all, 

Hi everyone, Today's tutorial is a bit different as I'm sharing a gift bag and a unique interactive birthday card I created for my daughters birthday. My granddaughter had asked me to create a card she had seen on a video and so we worked on this card together. I hope you enjoy todays video. The music that goes to this is by Meghan Trainor named Mom. It is a super cute song. You can check my video tutorial for more details.

August Scrapbook Kit

To get started on the gift bag, I just took a bag I had in my stash  and now we are going to alter it with the items from the Scrapbooking kit. The bag is from shopping at Parks Coffee, if you've not tried their coffee it's really good. lol  Cut you paper down to the size of the bag you have unless you would like a border, I left a 1/8 inch border. I distressed the edges of my pattern paper and then adhered on top of the bag. And now you can decorate.

Here is how I decorated the front of my bag. I fussy cut out the words and birthday banner from the paper collection. I adhered some faux flowers from my stash and the butterflies. I added more items later.

Now for the Birthday Card. 

For the card base you will cut one piece at 6 inches (not 6 1/2) by 8 1/2 inches, score 1/2 inch on left side of the 6 inch across the scoreboard. Fold one piece of 8 1/2 x 11 inch cardstock in half. 

Next adhere the 6 x 8 1/2 inch piece inside the card. Placing adhesive to the 1/2 inch scored piece.

Next I used oxide inks on the flower pattern paper, as shown below, inking the paper with colors that coordinated with the paper.

I then added the flowers I fussy cut from the paper collection and added the birthday sentiment, along with some other items from my stash. 

Here is the front of the card decorated. 

Now for the inside portion of this card. The words are lyrics to a song by Meghan Trainor named Mom. It is a cute song. My granddaughter saw a video and asked me if I would help her create the card she saw in the video. So I typed out a few of the lyrics and printed them out and then cut them. 

On the right hand page we created a  little bomb that opens up and pulls back together, and the hand page has a heart that lifts upwards. You can see more details on the video on how I created these pages.

On the next page we had to create a slider. So I cut a piece of paper of that is 3 1/2 x 5 inches and in the middle I traced a 1x 4 1/4 inch area to cut out as this will be a window. 

After cutting out the window place foam tap on the back 

Next cut out a strip that is 1 1/4 x 5 1/4 inches to slide in and out of the window. Next add some foam tape to end of the strip on the left side and add a flower or an image this will be the stopper when you slide it over. You can view more details on my video tutorial.  

Next I arranged the remailing words and added some ephemera from the card kit and adhered down my words above the slider.

The last page we added a little flap with the remaining words and adhered a photo of my granddaughter with my daughter underneath. 

Here is what both finished items look like. I really like this paper collection as the paper has some beautiful colors and perfect for backgrounds for this card or any card. Both of these just turned out nice and my daughter just loved her card and the gift bag. 

I hope you enjoyed today's step by step tutorial, remember I have the video tutorial for your convenience. I had a great time using this months August Scrapbook Kit, you really get a ton of fun crafty stuff inside. I am really pleased on how the card turned out and the  beautiful gift bag brings a smile to anyone's face when receiving a gift from you.  I hope you felt inspired to create an altered gift bag or birthday card using this month August Scrapbook Kit. 

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 For more details you can always view the video tutorial process, which is at the top of the page. 

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Hello Peeps Easter Cards

 Hi Peeps 

I hope you all are doing well. Easter is on it's way can you believe it. So with that being said I have some fun Easter Cards you can create for Easter using Clear Scraps 5x9 Flowers Layering Stencil, Bunnies Chipboard Embellishments and the 4 x6 Hello Peeps Stencil. 

I hope you enjoy the step by step tutorial below. Down below I have the products I used along with the name & links, just click on the name and you'll be directed to the store. 

Here's a photo of the finished cards. 

Bunnies Chipboard Embellishments                                 5x9 Flowers Layering Stencil

                                

4 x6 Hello Peeps Stencil

Card #1

To start create a regular card base measuring 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches. I place a piece of removable tape diagonal, as shown below. 

Next take the  5x9 Flowers Layering Stencil place it a little above the tape and stencil your first flower, after you have the first scoot the stencil over and ink the next flower down and keep going all over the white space. 

Once you have finished the top of the card move the tape a little bit down so you have about a 2 inch diagonal space between the top and bottom flowers you're stenciling. 

Next I decided to use brown flock for the Bunnies Chipboard Embellishments. You can either use double back tape as shown below or use your glue. I do prefer the glue over the tape I feel it's just easier. After your done applying the adhesive you can place the chipboard piece in the flock and cover it all over. 

Here is the end result. One bunny I used glue and the other bunny I used double back tape. But you can decorate your Bunnies Chipboard Embellishments however you'd like, even paint them. 

Next I covered the midsection with yellow glitter paper and layered with pink cardstock. I added flap back enamel dots from my stash. I also used a Happy Easter metal die from my stash for the sentiment. 

Now the card is finished. 

Card #2

For card #2 we used the 4 x6 Hello Peeps Stencil . This stencil is so cute. I laid it down and just applied my ink as shown below. The size of this card is 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches.

Here is what the front of the card looks like after I was done inking with the stencil. I did the cute bunnies in different colors and the words to match. Now you can decorate it. 

I thought it would be nice to use the  5x9 Flowers Layering Stencil and then fussy cut these out to decorate around the card. For the centers of the flowers I used Nuvo flower pollen, but you can use enamel dots or what ever you have in your stash. 

Here is where I place a thin piece of green glitter paper and pattern paper on the top and bottom of the card just to give a little bit of nice border to the card. Below you can see I fussy cut some of the flowers.

Here's the finished card. Super easy peasy right? I added a few enamel dots on the left side and a pink butterfly from my stash to the card. This card is so cute I just love the 4 x6 Hello Peeps Stencil inked with fun bright colors, so full of Spring and Easter. 

Card #3

The size of this card is 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches. The yellow glitter cardstock mat is 5 1/4 x 4 inches, the blue polka dot mat measures 4 7/8 x 3 3/4 inches. After you cut the mats  you can glue together. 

For this card I created my own picket fence out of the wooden pattern paper I had in my stash. I cut 4 pickets at 1 x 3 inches and snipped of the top portion to form the picket fence. 

The slat that goes across the pickets measures 1 x 5 inches. I inked each piece with ink to make them a little dark around the edges. I did add foam tape to the back of each picket fence and then laid the long slat piece on top (there is no foam tape on this piece).

Adhere the mat to the card base and decorate the front as you would like. I added the second little Bunnies Chipboard Embellishments on top of the fence along with the remaining stenciled flowers I fussy cut. I found the carrots and grass in my stash and added them. This turned out so adorable. 

I hope you liked today's step by step tutorial. I like that these cards were so easy to create and you can create the flowers from the stencils cut them out and use them to decorate your card, tags or layouts. Just another way you can use this fun 5x9 Flowers Layering Stencil along with the Bunnies Chipboard Embellishments Embellishments and the 4 x6 Hello Peeps Stencil. 

I wish you all a Happy Easter and Happy Crafting. 

Simple Vintage Essential Cards for Tres Jolie

 Hi everybody,

I hope you all are doing good this Sunday Morning. Today I am happy to share with some easy cards but with some really fun techniques you can do that make your cards look fantastic. 

Here is the step-by-step video tutorial I did in case you want to follow along and see more details.

To create these cards I used scraps from the Simple Stories Simple Vintage Essential Collection along with the some of of the elements inside the Scrapbooking Kit Club for July.

I did 2 cards for you today so let's start with the beautiful Celebrate card. The first card you will need a piece of your pattern paper measuring at 7 3/4 x 4 3/4 inches and your second piece of pattern pattern paper measures at 3 3/4 x 41/2 inches. Below is a photo of what you'll to create this card. 

Next you're gonna fold the large piece measuring 7 3/4 x 4 3/4 inches in half this is your base card. I distressed the light light brown piece of paper and inked the edges of all my pieces for this card using black ink and vintage photo distress ink. For the book page piece I tore the edges, lightly sprayed with water and crumpled up and inked with vintage photo ink. Once you adhere down you use your fingers to rub off some of the paper on the right side edges and down at the bottom to create a worn look. Take your ink and rub some ink on the edges lightly. 

Next we use our rub on numbers on the right hand side.

Next we peel off the numbers carefully and add adhere an ephemera piece from the paper collection kit. 

Next we add our flowers and layer them one on top of the other one. I did cut the leaves off and adhered them around the flowers. I added the sentiment across the top of the flowers. 

Card #2. 

We start off with black cardstock measuring 8 1/2 x 7 inches fold in half. The pattern paper is from the scrap pile and measures 4 x 6 3/4 inches. In the photo below I am distressing the sides and inked the edges with black ink.

After inking the edges fold pattern paper in half and in the middle where the fold is cut down 2 1/4 inches. I also added doily that is cut in half and inked. 

Once this is cut roll the flaps down ( as shown below) you can use a pencil or pen to help get the paper started to roll. 

Next adhere the pattern paper down to card base. Place the doily inside the card on the left side. Adhere down the flaps. (as shown below)

We are gonna start on our chipboard clock found inside the July Scrapbook Kit. First we gesso the clock with clear gesso. Let dry for a bit.

Next I added a few drops of the Botanical Stain Woad Blue to the chipboard clock, then added Tumble Glass Distress Ink and added more of the Woad Blue on top of that. I mixed around with the fingers and added some the Marigold Botanical Stain and last added just a few tiny drops of the Black Bean. These Botanical Stains can be found in the Mixed Media Kit for July. I really like how the clock turned out it had a bit of a green blue tint which was so pretty. 

Applied Marigold Botanical Stain.

Applied Black Bean Botanical Stain 

Here is the finished clock. I did go around the numerals with a black pen to make them a little darker. I added a clock arm from my stash. 

Next I placed the clock inside the card added the flower in the middle. 

I added the rest of the flowers and some ephemera pieces behind the flowers. The black piece from the ephemera packet I placed foam tape behind so it would add bit of a lift so it wouldn't look so flat. I then found an ephemera piece and stamped "To Someone Special" on it. 

Placed some foam tape on this sentiment I stamped and adhered down. 

Here are both cards we created using the July Scrapbook Kit. I just love how they turned out. 

Thank you all for joining me today. Please take a look at the video tutorial above for any further instructions. Head over to the Tres Jolie Store to look at this months Kits. I have all of the information below for you to join us on our social media. 

Take care

~ Debbie

 

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