Happy Happy Birthday, DD

 

Inspired by Lisa Curcio's Interactive Slide out Pocket Card,

this front cover contains a foiled sentiment from HoneyBee  Stamps

and a beautiful zebra from the Creative Fabrica Site, collection "Beautiful Animals"

This is a pop-up balcony card with a 3D effect--also inspired by Lisa Curcio's Stamp Studio

The inside sentiments read:  I asked the  Zebra, "Are you black with white stripes, or white with black stripes?" And the  Zebra asked me, "Are you good with bad habits or bad with good habits."

And

"There's no limit to how much you'll know---depending on how far beyond zebra you go"

 

Fun with BOTTLES

 The Redstone Oil (and Vinegar) Company had a little special on the little 6oz bottles of oils and vinegars.  I made little card and attached box for them.  They turned out WONDERFULLY, were easy to do and with the help of Clareene (in Reene's Room) She got perfect measurements for this little gift project. See her project HERE

The Olive branches and bottles papers came from a kit at creative fabrica.  All had the name of the oil or vinegar on the inside panel and all had Peace and Friendship (symbols of the olive) on the cover.  

Watercolor Gnomes

 

This collection of little watercolor gnomes is just adorable. They came from the "Digital Curio" store at Etsy.  Almost all are touched with clear gloss or glitter or edged with lie stickers or other detail. The top ones are card fronts, some with sayings, some without and the bottom one is another of the 3x5 tablet folios

Having a Blast with little 3x5 tablet folios

 Gnomes are from Laurie Furnell Designs on Etsy called "Bumblebee Gnomes".  Designer paper is from Graphic 45's "Let it Bee" collection. And the folio design is by Michelle Allen from a tutorial found on her utube channel A Creative Operation.  The 3x5 tablets are inserted into the pocket on the right inside of each folio.

These folios were inspired by my friend Clareene, and info can also be found on her blogspot

And the project can be seen at A Creative Operation (Michelle Allen)

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A note and gift are tucked behind the "Hello Sunshine" clock

Inside contains a plain paper pad and "Hello Sunshine" flat pen.

These are quite quick and very easy to  do and finding perfect embellies is fun. 
The tablets are ruled and are 3x5" available at office supply stores and Amazon.

The following measurements and steps are changed a bit from the way you find the 

project at Maymay Made It's utube presentation.

 7 3/4”x 8 1/8” cardstock.  With the 7 3/4” at top,

score at 1/2, 3 3/4,  4, 7 1/4. Rotate, score at 5 1/4.

Create pockets:  Fold both 1/2” scores on both sides.

Draw diagonal line from side fold to horizontal score line. 

Do not cut into 1/4” vertical lines.  Cut on both lines and snip

off 1/4” piece.  Miter all corners as well as triangle piece.

Glue top 1/2” down on both sides.
  Run a line of Cello tape down the back "spine" for strength an durability.

Cut and adhere-- Outside patterned paper:  (Cut 2)  3 1/8” x  5 1/8”.

Cut and adhere --Inside patterned paper:  (Cut 2)  3 1/8” x  5 1/8”.

Fold side tabs in to

form pockets. Carefully fold up matching sides carefully burnish firmly.
Then add glue to the flap and hold in place.   
Inside angle corners : pocket matting:  Cut 2   2 7/8” square. Trim to fit corners if necessary.

Decorate the cover  using a sentiment or artpiece that measures  4 7/8” x  2 7/8”

Watercolor Garden Gnomes by Digital Curio at Etsy (and Little Things papers by Graphic 45)

Mark's Father's Day Card 2023

 

This adorable pop up card folds flat. It was inspired by Lisa Curcio's Tutorial

 for these Interactive Pop-Up cards

A  little push on the top bar reveals the popup out of a little box all set up for display