Spring is in the air - time for pinwheels!

The Wednesday Tutorial at SplitcoastStampers this week was the Pinwheel Fun Fold Tutorial. When I saw it, I thought Anna might enjoy making it, so she and I tried it out today when we finished our school work. 

The picture above is the one I made. Here's what it looks like opened up - 

Here's the one Anna made - 

And here's her's opened up - 

If you look close you can see that her pinwheel is thicker than mine. That's because we made them a little different. I wanted to get a picture of the two of them together to clearly show the different but Anna took off to give her's away as soon as she got it finished.  :-)

In the tutorial, they use the Simply Scored tool and the Simply Scored Diagonal Scoring Plate to make the pinwheel card. I don't have either of those, though I wish I did, so I had to improvise.

First I decided we should try it using the Stampin' Trimmer and the Envelope Punch Board. That's what we used for Anna's card.

It made the pinwheel a little thicker and the center inside a little smaller, but it worked fine.

I just used the Stampin' Trimmer for mine. To make the diagonal score lines I just placed the corners of my paper at the 2 1/8 mark.

The worse thing about a funfold card like this is you have to give the person you give it to instructions on how to open it and how to close it again, so you kind of need to give it to someone in person, or else send written instructions with the card. They are fun though, and the pinwheel seems perfect for this time of year, when Spring is in the air.

Both the paper and the stamp set we used were products from this year's Sale-a-Bration and, unfortunately are no longer available for purchase, but any double sided paper and stamp set would work.

Mother's Day Wiper Card

Card closed

Card opened

Here's a very short video showing how it works:





I never heard of wiper cards until I came across the Wiper Card with Dawn You Tube video. I had to try it. Check it out. The instructions are easy to follow.

I used the stamps from A Mother's Love stamp set with Baked Brown Sugar and Strawberry Slush inks. I coloured the flower on the left using Blender Pens and Strawberry Slush and Pistachio Pudding. The card base is made with Whisper White Cardstock. The pop-up greeting was stamped with Whisper White Craft Ink using a stamp from the *Good Greetings stamp set, and then sprinkled with white embossing powder and heat embossed using the heat tool.

Yes, I know there is a smudge in the upper left hand side of the card. I'm so sad about that. It happend just as I was putting the finishing touches on the card. I decided to post it anyway because it happens, and mom's would love a card even if it did have a smudge on it.  :-)

The Mother's Love Stamp set is on sale right now, so it's a good time to grab it up.

Don't forget to check out the Jac's Stampin' Points page before you order to find out how you can earn points towards free product.

*The Good Greetings stamp set was a limited time stamp set and is no longer available.

Peek-a-Boo Balloon Birthday Card

This fun card was inspired by SplitcoastStampers Peek-a-Boo Card YouTube video, which is also available on the Peek-a-Boo Card Tutorial page. I absolutely love the card she made in the video and wanted to try the technique but didn't have any stamps and punches or die cuts that I thought I could use. Then I had a thought. Maybe I could do it with the Celebrate Today stamp set and the Balloon Framelits dies. I decided to give it a try.

To make things even harder on myself, I decided I wanted a normal 5 1/2 x 4 1/4 card, rather than the larger card she made in the video. It took some time to figure out the measurements I needed but I finally figured it out.

Here's what the card looks like opened up:

You really don't get the full experience of the card until you watch it open. I wanted to do a video to show that so I asked my "almost double digiter" to help. Sorry for the quality, but it gives you an idea of what it's like.




I sponged the background for the card using three colours - Bermuda Bay, Lost Lagoon, and Coastal Cabana. I used very little of each and just played with it til I was happy with it. I sponged the edges for a little more punch. I stamped the butterflies in Blushing Bride using a stamp from the Perpetual Birthday Calendar stamp set. The string was stamped with Baked Brown Sugar, the streamers with Hello Honey, the balloons with Pistachio Pudding, and the word Happy with Wild Wasabi. All the stamps in those colours are from the Celebrate Today stamp set.

The card looks a little funny standing on it's own but it's not too bad:

If you are interested in the measurements for making this card, let me know.