Memorialize your Places in Time with Cards

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Happy Tuesday G45ers!

Thanks for joining us this week! The "Graphic 45 Celebrates Five Years" Celebration continues on our Facebook and Pinterest pages, so make sure to join us there as well. Today, we have some Valentine's Place in Time cards that will surely give you great ideas just in time for Valentine's Day! We have cards from Arlene Cuevas, Nancy Wethington, Susan Lui, and TWO tutorials today! What a treat!

First, let's enjoy the tutorial from Arlene Cuevas using Place in Time. She creates a gorgeous circular card for Valentine's Day and also gives a brilliant tutorial to wow your love this Valentine's Day! "These cute little circle easel cards are popular and easy to make. I really like how you can display the card easily on your desk or countertop with this design. I thought I’d share with you my way of creating the base of the circle card." - Arlene Cuevas

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Take the video tour and tutorial of Arlene's gorgeous card:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6Hf47B0Hos&feature=youtu.be

You can use any size circle. But for my project, I’m using the medium circle from my Spellbinders 

Grand Scallop Circle Die set. The scallop circle is approximately 5 ½ inches in diameter.

Step 1: Take a sheet of cardstock and fold it in half.  
Step 2: Run through your die-cutting machine with the scallop circle die, with the die lying slightly past the 
crease line. Die cut an extra circle.
You’ll end up with the following…



Step 3: Use a scoring tool to score a line down the middle of one side of your scallop circle card. 
The score will look like this:
 

When folded, it will look like this:


Here’s what the Spellbinders die looks like, along with the pieces you’ve die cut:


Step 4: Use your Spellbinders Grand Circle Die to cut a circle that nests nicely in the scallop circle.



Step 5: Take some Place in Time paper and die cut it to create a layer.  



This is how the layered piece will look on your card:


Step 6: Edge all of your elements with Ranger Distress Ink in Vintage Photo. It will give the card 
a very vintage, worn look.



Step 7: Take a 4 inch paper doily and cut it in half.



Step 8: Glue the doily pieces to the circle, one on top, one on the bottom. The Place in Time layer 
will go over the doily pieces, allowing the doilies to “peek” out from the top and bottom of the card.


Step 9: To assemble the card, add ScorTape or a strong adhesive, to the top of the score line as 
shown in the photo below.



Step 10: Adhere the single scallop circle piece to the area you added the ScorTape. The card will
 look like this when it’s ready to be embellished:



I hope you enjoyed this tutorial. Give a circle card a try with your next Graphic 45 project!
Supply List:
Place in Time collection: February Cut-Aparts
Staples: Ornate Metal key
Spellbinders Gran
Petaloo flowers
White Paper Doily
Ranger Distress Ink - Vintage Photo
Scrapbook Adhesives - 3D Foam Squares

Wow! That tutorial was loaded with great tips and brilliant ideas. Thanks, Arelene Cuevas!
The inspiration continues a gorgeous Place in Time "Thinking of You" card by Nancy Wethington! 


Supply List:
Place In Time January Foundation (12x12 collection)
Place In Time April Cut Aparts (8x8 collection)
Place In Time January Cut Aparts (12x12 collection)
Place In Time Tags 1
Spellbinders Shapeabilities Botanical Swirls S5-154
Spellbinders Romantic Rectangles S5-090
Spellbinders Decorative Labels 8 S5-148
Hug Snug seam binding
Ranger Inks: Broken China Distress Ink
Ranger Stickles: Star Dust; Yellow
Bazzill cardstock
 Next, we have a brilliant Valentine's card tutorial from Susan Lui! The ideas do not stop here on the blog today! 
 

 








"Here's a quick Valentines Day card I created using a single sheet of Graphic 45's Place In Time
 February Cut-Aparts, together with some Graphic 45 Staples, lace, flowers and leaves. "-Susan Lui
 Instructions:

1. Trim your beige cardstock paper to a bracket shape measuring 6"x5".





2. Attach Graphic 45's Place In Time February Cut-Aparts patterned paper to the front of the cardstock.



3. Stick the scallop-edged border strip from the Place In Time stickers to the card as shown.



4. Attach the May Arts pearl trim lace to the card, overlapping the border sticker.



5. Cut out two tags from the Place In Time February Cut-Aparts. Tie seam bindings to the tags 
and attach the Graphic 45 Staples Stamped Metal Brads.
 

6. Attach the tags to the right of the card, as shown.



7. Arrange a cluster of seam binding, flowers and leaves to the tags.



8. Adhere a flower to a small Graphic 45 Metal Butterfly.



9. Attach butterfly to the bottom left of the card and you're done!
 

The completed card:
List of Supplies:


Graphic 45 Place In Time February Cut-Aparts
Graphic 45 Place In Time Stickers
Graphic 45 Staples Stamped Metal Brads

Graphic 45 Staples Metal Butterflies
May Arts Ribbons Lace
Beige Cardstock
Flowers & leaves
Seam Binding



It's been a wonderful day on the blog. If you try out the tutorials, make sure to share them with us 
on our Facebook page or Ning!  Thanks for joining us today and see you tomorrow!
Your Pals in Paper,
Graphic 45

Comments

[Jean A Marmo]

Stunning!!!

[Sue B.]

Very beautiful! Lots of detail! Thanks for sharing.

[Valerie]

Gorgeous stuff!!!!

[Sammiej]

Hi there!

Wauw such an amazing thechnique!!!
Im gonna try that! Sooo lovely! And stunning!

Kiss sammiej

[Solveig]

Love the circle card! Great tutorial!

[Ritva S.]

Absolutely fabulous projects - breathtaking !!

[Colleen Weinert]

Super Beautiful

[Amy Kluchesky]

Really love the cards today. TFS.

[Mary Jane W]

Today's cards are all very beautiful. I think Arlene is the queen of layering!!

[karen]

Great tutorials! Love the circle easel card!

[sue settera]

Beautiful projects! Happy Anniversary Graphic 45!!

[Mjfischercla]

Stunning Cards!! Love the easel Card.

[Maxine Hodges]

What beautiful cards!!! I can't wait to get my order because I ran out of Place in Time during the class I took at CHA!!

[Sharon Young]

Wonderful cards! Thanks for sharing the details on the circle-easel card.

[Linda]

Lovely

[Barbara Ford]

Love all of these projects, and I just happen to have these papers already!!Yay!

[Barbara Diane]

Hello!

Oh my - a jackpot day! What wonderful creations and tutorials! Inspiration to the nth degree! Love it all! Love your papers and blog! Love it! Thank you and wishing you a happy day!

Hugs,

Barbara Diane

[Jackie QH]

Absolutely stunning!

[Dorothy]

Beautiful!!

[Chris Dring]

Simply stunning projects today!

[suzie]

Awesome, as always. Great cards and ideas.
Suzie Halbert

[DebbyL]

Wonderfully inspirational.

[Jimmie Bright]

They were just beautiful.

[Robyn C.]

That circle card is gorgeous! And what a GREAT idea! I will be trying that one for certain - thanks!

[Laurie]

Simply gorgeous cards, such inspiration TFS

[Michelle Salazar]

Beautiful cards and I need to get inspired it is this week and still do not have card done for Valentines Day!

[Yvonne Boucher]

what gorgeous cards; I really can't say which I love the most; koudos to all three designers

[Mandie Wade]

Love the inspiration! I wanna go create now!

[Kelly Massman]

GORGEOus!

[Emily Keaton]

Great tutorials and projects. :-)

[Caryn S. (Scrapnsing)]

Oh my goodness I love these! Vintage valentines are absolutely the best.

[Melissa]

Beautiful cards.

[Rita P.]

Arlene, Susan, and Nancy: wonderful cards. Beautiful details. Thank you for the inspiring work.

[Gitte]

Beautiful cards. Thank you for great tutorials.

[barbara macaskill]

I am speechless. What beautiful projects on today's blog. I don't have words to describe how these cards affected me. I am so impressed with them. The tutorials make it look so easy to do this but mine never turn out quite as gorgeous as the designer's do. Thank you for inpsiring me to make such beautiful projects.

[Wendy Wakefield]

As much as I would love to dig into my craft space and make all of these cards, receiving one would be most awesome too! Thank you G45 for more outstanding tutorials and inspiration to get me through another day.

[Paula]

Never disappointed. Just beautiful. Thanks for sharing :)

[{vicki}]

simply lovely!

[Kathy Jo]

I am so going to try those cards this week! They are AWESOME!

[Barb Wagar]

Beautiful Cards and thank you for tutorials!