Celebrate Card-Making With Style
Hello G45ers,
Saturday is World Card-Making Day! We're celebrating early by bringing you three incredible ideas for handmade cards on today's blog! You can never have enough handmade cards. They are so fun and easy to create and they're always guaranteed to brighten someone's day. Today we're going to share a fabulous Mother Goose card by Nichola Battilana. Then Arlene Cuevas will show you a vibrant and colorful Bohemian Bazaar birthday card. Then we've got a marvelous Steampunk Spells card and tutorial by Clare Charvill! Today's blog has everything you need to get in the card-making spirit! We're going to have a lot of fun!
We begin with this colorful card by Nichola featuring our Mother Goose collection! This is such a fun collection for card-making. This is a great example of a pretty card for any occasion. You can have a great time layering the different patterned papers and adding a few fussy cut elements. A few simple techniques result in a world of beauty. A card like this doesn't take too long to create and it is filled with tons of cheer! Here is what Nichola had to say about it.
"The Mother Goose Collection is so very, very sweet. What I love most about it is its gender neutrality. It really is a perfect mix of patterns and colours, a youthful pallet with a dash of warmth, to create cards and layouts that really celebrate childhood. That’s not to say this collection should be relegated to the nursery... Checkers and Twinkle Little Stars that are calling to me to make a few ‘grown-up’ projects with them." -Nichola
Supplies:
Mother Goose Collection
“The Bohemian Bazaar paper collection is so lively and vibrant in color, it is the perfect ensemble for a feminine birthday card! I created this card for my Mom, who celebrated a birthday in July. The coordinating chipboard, Tags and Pockets made it so effortless to pull this card together. There’s no need to think, it all just comes together nicely!” -Arlene
Supplies:
Bohemian Bazaar Tags & Pockets
Vintage metal brad/ring
Coordinations Signature Series Cardstock
MFT stamp (sentiment)
MFT Dienamics: Fishtail banner
Momento Ink: brown
White paper doilies
May Arts ribbon
Petaloo flowers
Paper Tray Ink Kraft cardstock
3M ATG Adhesive
Hot glue
And now it's time for a great card-making tutorial with Clare! She created this marvelous Steampunk Spells card that's just perfect for any occasion! This is the perfect card to create for National Card-Making Day! All the beautiful colors and whimsical designs of Steampunk Spells really shine in this lovely card. Clare also shows you some fun techniques for working with the Steampunk Spells Cling Stamps! Get ready for some grand inspiration! Take it away, Clare!
I love the mystical feel of the Steampunk lady in this paper collection so thought I design a card with a twist using her as the feature, and this is how it came together:
First I made up a 7” square card blank and then took the 8 x 8 Frightful Folly paper, trimmed it down to 6 ¾” square and layered a plain yellow paper over the top. I trimmed the blue plain paper down to 5 ¾” square and then using Versamark, the clock and text stamps and gold WOW embossing glitter embossed the gold images on the paper before mounting it over the yellow on the card.
Then I took out my fussy cutting scissors and cut out lots of flowers, cogs and leaves from Fanciful Floral and the Steampunk Lady and borders from the back of the left over bits of the cut apart.
I shaped some of the flowers with a ball tool and also creased the lady along the handlebar line to give some dimension to her. I curved her wings forwards too before sticking her into place on the card. Then I arranged and attached the flowers, cogs and leaves.
I didn’t have room on the card to stamp Steampunk in a
straight line, so thought I’d curve the stamp so the image followed the line of
the handlebars. I used Versafine black ink and a left over piece of yellow
paper for this. I think it worked really well.
To finish off the inside of the card I cut a piece of white
card, inked the edges and added the 1” strip I had left over from the Frightful
Folly paper and a spray of the gorgeous orange flowers for decoration.
Supplies:
Papers
8 x 8 Frightful Folly and Fanciful Floral
6 x 6 Patterns and Solids Blue and Yellow plains
12 x 12 cut apart of the lady from Vintage Voyage
Stamps
Steampunk Spells Cling Sets 1 & 3
Inks
Versafine Black ink
Versamark Embossing ink
Vintage Photo Distress Ink
Other Supplies
WOW Embossing Powder – gold
3D Foam pads
Sookwang Scor Tape
Black /White Card
We hope you all had a lot of fun exploring today's fabulous cards! We encourage you all to take some time to create a pretty card for someone you love with your favorite Graphic 45 collection. We want to thank Nichola, Arlene and Clare for their stunning creations today. We've got more pretty crafts to share with you on tomorrow's blog. We hope you'll stop by and see us. Thank you all so much for joining us today. Enjoy the rest of your day, G45ers!
Happy Card-Making!
Your Friends at Graphic 45
Love these cards - the brightness of Mother Goose and Bohemian Bazaar, and the quirkiness of Steampunk Spells. I'm inspired and off to make my own!
Posted by: Karen | October 03, 2013 at 05:27 AM
Love these gorgeous cards!
Posted by: Pam | October 03, 2013 at 06:09 AM
So sweet! Love them! Steampunk has got to be my favorite collection!
Posted by: Anne schilling | October 03, 2013 at 06:11 AM
Beautiful cards. Anyone would be delighted to receive them.
Posted by: Mary | October 03, 2013 at 06:22 AM
thanks!! these are wonderful!!
Posted by: Dorothy McCarthy | October 03, 2013 at 06:23 AM
Cute cards!
Posted by: Sue B. | October 03, 2013 at 06:26 AM
I can't wait to get a great=grandbaby so I can use the Mother Goose collection.
Posted by: marylouh | October 03, 2013 at 06:44 AM
As always such great designs. LOVE G45!!
Posted by: barbara f | October 03, 2013 at 06:57 AM
The cards are beautiful.
Posted by: Carol Mc | October 03, 2013 at 06:58 AM
Very nice ! TFS !!
Posted by: Julie A. Shearer | October 03, 2013 at 07:00 AM
Great cards...TFS!
Posted by: Sleigh | October 03, 2013 at 07:10 AM
LOVE these cards!! Always love Clare's work!! Another inspiring and creative day at Graphic 45!!
Posted by: Mary | October 03, 2013 at 07:13 AM
gorgeous projects! thank you for the tutorials
Posted by: Yvonne Boucher | October 03, 2013 at 07:26 AM
Thank you. Yesterday I asked for cards, and today you gave them to me! Great cards to inspirer us too. Love all three.
Posted by: linda ann murphy | October 03, 2013 at 07:39 AM
Amazing projects!
Posted by: Jeniff Sthory | October 03, 2013 at 08:06 AM
The different lines are showcased brilliantly!!
Posted by: Paula | October 03, 2013 at 08:10 AM
AWESOME!!! Thank you so much Graphic 45 and your outstanding designers for sharing their talents with us! You are all the cream of the crop!
Posted by: Wendy Wakefield | October 03, 2013 at 08:21 AM
Fabulous cards .. and tutorials .. thank you so much for another great day of inspiration :)
Posted by: Jeanann Cavalier | October 03, 2013 at 08:54 AM
You all have impressed me again with your projects! What inspiration!
Posted by: Kathy Jo | October 03, 2013 at 09:09 AM
What fabulous cards!
Posted by: Tona | October 03, 2013 at 09:33 AM
Cards are my favorite things to make. Thanks for the wonderful ideas!
Posted by: Sue K. | October 03, 2013 at 09:45 AM
very pretty
Posted by: donnetta firster | October 03, 2013 at 10:02 AM
Thanks for the great card inspiration today! Judy D.
Posted by: Judy D. | October 03, 2013 at 10:14 AM
Love these cards.
Posted by: Yolanda Gonzalez | October 03, 2013 at 10:53 AM
These are gorgeous cards.Thank you so much for showing the insides Great Job
Posted by: Lori Lange | October 03, 2013 at 11:04 AM
These are all great & reminds me I have a birthday card to make.... TFS :))
Posted by: caroline | October 03, 2013 at 11:12 AM
Gorgeous cards all!! Thanks for the inspiration.
Posted by: Liz Russell | October 03, 2013 at 11:54 AM
These are all so fun, but I have to say that my favorite is the one made with the Bohemian Bazaar. I just can't seem to get enough of that collection because it makes such colorful projects! Love it!
Posted by: Carrie | October 03, 2013 at 12:33 PM
Great cards! Thanks!
Posted by: Sharon Young | October 03, 2013 at 12:39 PM
A wonderful day for creating beautiful cards...thank you for all 3 of these inspirational projects. I have to admit that Bohemian Bazaar is not on my last of things to buy, but I do like this card...I may just pick up this collection after all. Thanks!
Posted by: Martie Rollin | October 03, 2013 at 12:42 PM
beautiful cards with gorgeous paper
Posted by: Debbie Eslinger | October 03, 2013 at 01:41 PM
Nice variety of cards and collections. Lovely.
Posted by: Elizabeth Etheridge | October 03, 2013 at 01:42 PM
These are soooooooo beautiful!!!!
Posted by: Julie Tucker-Wolek | October 03, 2013 at 07:34 PM
Beautiful !! Beautiful !! Beautiful !! Graphic 45 designers are so inspirational xx
Posted by: Patricia Howarth | October 03, 2013 at 11:48 PM
Such lovely cards. thanks for sharing your creativity.
Posted by: Beneta | October 04, 2013 at 02:11 AM
Fantastic!!! Love these cards!
Posted by: Sonia R | October 04, 2013 at 05:44 AM
beautiful cards; I'm so in love w/any of the G45 paper; can't seem to get enough of them!
Posted by: Susan Mac Donald | October 04, 2013 at 06:17 AM
Oh, that Mother Goose card is so darling. I love how she used the paper to create hills and horizon. So clever!
Posted by: kathy/NorthCarolina | October 04, 2013 at 06:30 AM
Wow! Fantastic cards!! Thanks so much for the amazing inspiration!
Posted by: Patricia Molnar | October 04, 2013 at 08:54 AM
Beautiful cards, I love them all! For example, the way Clare Charvill thought of using gold embossing for the background further elevates an already striking composition of (my currently favorite) G 45 papers. Thank you!
Posted by: Danielle | October 04, 2013 at 09:35 AM