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Saturday, July 7, 2012

Sewing on Cards: by Britta Swiderski!

Happy Saturday bloggers! How are you spending your weekend? I hope that you are with those that make you happy and doing something fun! And speaking of fun...

When blog hopping a bit ago I came across this fabulous tutorial from Britta Swiderski on her tips and tricks of sewing on cards. Rather you love to sew or just like the look of it without the work, we have an entire category devoted to SEWING FUN! To see Britta's tutorial in its entirety, please click HERE. I'd like to provide a sampling of it...read on!

Here are some must have supplies:

Sewing with Sew Easy:

Sewing with Sew Ribbon:

Changing the thread width:

Straight versus Running Stitch:

Wow! You really can get a lot of different looks on cards if you decide to use sewing as an added element. Big thanks to Britta, once again for these awesome tips & don't forget to check out her blog to get the tutorial in its entirety!

Ingredients to make the cards above:

Steph

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Friday, July 6, 2012

August Card Kit of the Month Reveal "Flower Girl"

Wow! Next month's card kit shouts VALUE! Please help us welcome "Flower Girl" to the kit club family. This gorgeous kit is positively loaded with flowers and papers and fun embellishments. The My Mind's Eye Indie Chic Ginger paper collection is absolutely stellar! It served as Kristina's inspiration for the entire kit.

Along with My Mind's Eye "Pictures" stamp set, the kit includes a custom made for Simon wood veneer bicycle, entire tin of Velvet flowers and resin flowers by Maya Road. The May Arts Ric Rac, Basic Grey white alphabet stickers (perfect for custom coloring with your Distress inks - or you could leave white!), Bazzill textured papers, Simon Says Stamp 120# Cardstock, Jillibean Soup Cardstock stickers and 2 Ranger Industries Tags can all be held together with Claudine Hellmuth's matte multi medium.

We are including an entire tin, yes - the whole tin - of almost 100 velvet flower blossoms by Maya Road! The tin is a perfect storage container when you use your flowers (ummmm. IF you ever use them all - there are tons!)

The studio multi medium in matte by Claudine Hellmuth is the perfect adhesive for your resin flowers and the wood bike! It's slow to dry, but once dry - it serves as a permanent waterproof bond. It's matte, so once dry, you won't see shiny glue from behind your flowers (or bike!). This stuff is awesome! (For a cool video Kristina created about these studio products, click HERE.)

Above and below are two cards that Kristina designed using her "Flower Girl" Card Kit. We can't wait to see what you make with yours! Please feel free to share on the right sidebar of the blog. Each month we choose random people who have posted their art there and send a goody bag in your next month's kit box!

We will begin shipping this kit to our Kit Club Subscribers next week. If you'd like to subscribe, click HERE. Subscribers receive a special discounted rate of $19.95 + S+H on the kits. That is an incredible BARGAIN and we are thrilled to be able to offer this price! If you choose to purchase only this kit, you can add other items to your shopping cart and have them all shipped together. The kit price is slightly higher that way, but you can save on shipping. Remember, we only have a limited supply of these kits on hand.

For general card kit questions & answers, please click HERE.

THANKS SO MUCH for your support of this extraordinarily fun kit program!! We love hearing your feedback and seeing your creative hands at work!

:) Heidi

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Thursday, July 5, 2012

UR Delightful (Flip It Card)

Morning, all! Kristina here with another card. :)

For today's card, I wanted to use the Sizzix Circle Flip It die to create a unique card...

Flip It cards are action cards, so you get to decorate different surfaces of the card...

It's a fun way to change up the usual card idea. :)

After cutting the card base, I used a scallop circle die to create a window in the center circle of the card. For further instructions, be sure to watch the video below. :)

I also use the PB&J 6x6 pad from BasicGrey to add more color to the card. Enjoy!

Watch video below | Watch at YouTube