Love Birds or Snowbirds?

Over at Simon Says Stamp they are featuring Concord and 9^th products (also here or here).  One I have of theirs is a lovely set of love birds called By Your Side.  I was going to use it for a St. Valentines card but I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to get on the band wagon and show case them as well.  The dies cut so nicely in my Cuttlebug.  

I think this relatively simple card looks so regal with the “slide-through” die design by Concord and 9^th die and the dimensional flower embellishments by Anna Griffin. 

 I Love how the silhouette of the birds is showcased on the inside of the card with double sided paper. 

The pop-dotted flowers and the slide behind die give this card a distinctive 3D look which is perfect for the layered challenge over at Die cut Divas’ blog

Products and supplies:

• Card base – in cream
• Gems – in tan for eyes
• Ink – Studio G in magenta (VP0030)
• Ink dauber – for edging
• Printer – for inside sentiment
• Double sided paper (pattern on one side, solid on flip) – I used an Anna Griffin layer for this and slid it behind the birds but over the top of the rest of the card base.
• Gold foil paper – for tiny die cut butterfly
• Rose stickers 3D “kiss-cut” - Once again I have used an Anna Griffin product for this.  Anna has some beautiful “print then cut” flowers available on Cricut Design Space as well.
• Die – Birds – “By Your Side” from Concord & 9^th
• Die – Butterfly  - “Up inthe Sky” cut and emboss dies by Cricut  
• Adhesive – I use Tombow tape runner

Place I am sharing this:

• Simon Says Stamp – Wednesday anything goes challenge
• Die Cut Divas – Layered challenge
• PDE Linky Party – Ch# 149 Anything goes
• Anna Griffin (facebook) - Sunday Share

Hope you enjoyed my card today.  God Bless and Happy Scrappin’!

Happy 50th - Guy

Shutter/Tri-Fold Card

Here is a wedding card - it was a little late (by 6 months); so I made it a ½-anniversary card.

 I used Designer’s Calendar for the for the rings cut @ 1.7 by 1 and the “U2” (not to be confused with the band) was cut from Cursive 101 @ 1.2 by 1.4.  Both were cut in silver cardstock.  The harts were also punched from silver cardstock. 

For the gift card holder, I used my new die from Emma's “My Creative Time” Embossed gift Card Holder .  I Just Love her Stuff ! (see link on side bar).

                                                                                     The label and frames are from a spellbinder’s nestablities die set and  the sentiment typed.

Add ribbons, pearls, a gem and  Presto!

                                                                              I made a matching envelope using my Martha Stewart scoreboard and Friskers corner punch for the flap.

Don’t remember where the red floral paper came from - sorry.  The black and gray papers are both from DCWV La Crème Matstack.

Directions For the tri-fold/Shutter card:  Basically you take a 6 x 12 (or 5 ½ X 12) sheet of card stock and score it at 2”, 4” 8” & 10”.  Then you cut from the 2 inch score line to the 10 inch score (at 1 ½ inches in on each long side).  Then play with it a little bit and fold to your liking.  My measurements were a little different, as I wanted it to fit Emma’s Gift card Die.

Happy Scrappin’ & God Bless!