Tutorial for Pear Pizazz Lever Card

Lever Card Tutorial

Thank you to everyone for asking for these intructions. 

All Products used are from Stampin' Up! and available in the UK from

 Cary or Gill (her or me!)

or from your local Stampin' Up! Independent Demonstrator.

 

I have used Daffodil Delight and Elegant Eggplant card stock for this card.

This is a C6 card base - 21 cm x 14.85 cm, scored and folded at 10.5 cm

Using the Layering Squares Framelits I die cut a 7.2 cm Square from the centre front of 

the Daffodil Delight card base.

 

 

 Using an alternate colour, (in this case Elegant Eggplant) I cut a Square 8.2 cm and die cut the centre out of this too

 I added the outer edge of the Square around the aperture in the card.

                                         Keep the square that you cut out to one side .

The central piece of the card. 

 

Cut another piece of card, 13 cm x 14.5 cm and score at 2.5 cm, 8 cm, and 13.5 cm. 

Stick tape as shown on the edges.

I used Stampin' Up! Brights Designer Series Paper Stack. (DSP)

 Each stack has 40 sheets of 12" by 12" DSP. 2 sheets of each double sided designs in 10 colours. An absoloute bargain at only £20 a pack. All those beautiful colours so you can use 1 piece of each design and stroke the other if you are so inclined!     

Cary!!

Sorry, I went off on a different tangent!

Using the square piece of Elegant Eggplant cut from the frame, trim about 1 or 2 mm from the edges on 2 sides only. This will help the square to stay in place when the card is opened.

Cut a piece of DSP 6.5 cm x 6.5 cm and stick centrally on the square. 

Add tape or glue of your choice to a little over half on the reverse and on one side as shown above.

Using the Daffodil Delight centre piece with the 2.5 cm border away from you, 

centralise the edge of the square onto the 8 cm fold of the inner piece.

Add some small pieces of tape or glue inside the edge of the 2.5 cm scoreline or as shown.

Remove the tape on the 2.5 cm edges and line the whole of the central piece and line the square up with the aperture on the card base. Press to seal

 

 Remove the tape on the other side of the central piece keeping the card front closed, then close the back of the card over this tape or glue.

Mats and Decoration

 

Using your contrast colour card, cut 2 mats 6.8 cm x 14.5 cm. Lay one piece inside the front of the card so that you can see it through the aperture.  

Mark this with a pencil and add 2 mm to make hole bigger, cut out the rectangle. This should give a little border around the mat on the inside. 

Cut 2 pieces of DSP 6.3 cm  x 14 cm. Add one to the whole mat and cut the centre rectangle out as before. Taking out the rectangle but making it larger again to show the mat as below. 

 

 Cut a piece of contrast cardstock 5 cm x 12.5 cm  and a piece of DSP 4.5 cm x 12 cm. 

Layer these mats together and add onto the right hand side on the central piece of card.

To decorate, I used the Botanical Builder Framelits. There are so many to chose from in this set.

Hence the reason that I marked where each die fits!

 

 I chose these 5 dies. I cut 2 large flowers, 1 small and 3 leaves in the card base colour. 

Then 1 small stamen and 2 large stamen in the contrasting colour. 

I think that's what they're called.

 

My finished card in the new colours.

 

 Please don't hesitate to contact either Cary or me by email, Facebook or Blog for any help.

Thank you again for looking. 

Gill 

2 Big Girls Crafting

All Products used are from Stampin' Up! and available in the UK from Cary or Gill (her or me!)

or from your local Stampin' Up! Independent Demonstrator.

We now have demonstrators all over the world! 

So please look for Stampin' Up! near you.

Hello again.

Today is another fairly simple card.

 Yes, I do tend to make those and Cary loves to do the intricate and messy ones!

This time with some sparkle to it.

I have used the Star confetti punch on both sides of a piece of Pear Pizazz

 and 3 lengths of Blushing Bride Sequin Trim. 

The front of the card was cut back about 3 cm from the edge and a

 3cm trim was put on the inner piece of the card.

A few stars were die-cut and a simple message inside to finish it off. 

Hello again. 

Today I have gone Pear Pizazz mad!

 I used the card and the coordinating papers from the wonderful Subtles range, Designer Series Paper Stack.

I've seen this style of card made many times but never attempted one. 

Until now!

 Much easier than I thought it would be!

The flowers were made using the Botanical Builder Framelits in Very Vanilla.

A simple message and Basic Pearls to finish off the card. 

For today's card I have used the Pear Pizazz card stock for the card base and the mat behind the message.

The ink used is also Pear Pizazz.

As I said yesterday, I love the clean and fresh images you get with this colour.

I used the amazing Rose Wonder stamp set and Rose Garden Thinlets for this. 

Unfortunately, my picture isn't the best as it looks much flatter than it actually is. 

I clearly need to take photography lessons!

The rose has silver foil for the leaves and Very Vanilla for the centre of the rose with Real Red as the outline.

The versatility of the Rose Garden Thinlets is that you can mix and match different colours of cardstock for different aspects of the rose and the leaves.

I hope you like it.

I hope that you can pop by tomorrow. 

Gill

Pear Pizazz

Pear Pizazz is the colour that I am working with this week. 

One of my favourite shades and my go to green. 

It's clean and fresh and blends in with most of the Stampin' Up! colour collections.

The following 2 cards were made a while ago using Pear Pizazz as a Mat behind the 2nd card and as an accent to the flowers which were made using the baby wipe technique.

          

Saving your favourite till last....

I've saved my favourite  of the five sentiments in the Feel Goods set for the last!
Today's sample is a floating card that uses the Sunburst Thinlits die from Stampin ' Up!
I hope you've enjoyed  the inspiration that I've shared this week and shall be sad to see this set retire ...but the  other side to that is that there's  lots of new goodies to be found in the new annual Stampin ' Up!  Catalogue! , WAHOO!
Well have a great weekend and then pop back Monday to see what beautiful creations Gill will have for us
Cary ☺ xx

Elegant fun...

Well its that time of year again....graduation!
For today's sample I created what I think is an elegant card with a touch of fun....its a shaker card!
I hope you like it 😊