Crafty As L

It’s new release time over at Visible Image!   Tomorrow’s Memories is the amazing new release designed by Mark Alexander and it’s not just stamps and stencils this time.   Oh no!   There’s a gorgeous paper pad, tags and some cool continuous PET tape too.   The full collection can be found here . Today’s make is a Z-fold card and is one of the samples you might have seen during Mark’s Live on You Tube.  I started by stamping and silver heat-embossing the butterfly in Counting Moments  three times on one of the pink/purple paper pad sheets .   They were fussy cut and I neatened the cut edges with a silver Sharpie pen. After silver heat-embossing the butterfly clock on Arden’s Pitch Black card, this was fussy-cut and one of the butterflies from above was glued on. Next, I cut the card blank, 12” x 4”, from a 12” x 12” sheet of Arden Pitch Black linen effect card, scored it along the long side at 3” and 6” and folded it into a Z-shape.   ...

Mr L and I have just celebrated our 10 th wedding anniversary.  I wanted to make him an extra special card for the day so it had to be a fun-fold.   A few years ago, I made a twist ‘n’ pop card from Sam Calcott’s YouTube tutorial so I decided another one of those would be perfect.   I had lots of requests for a video tutorial for my last card so I finally got around to making one to go with this; you can find it here or watch it at the bottom of this post.   This mechanism works for a vertical pop panel in a standard card style or a horizontal pop panel in a tent fold card, like I made here . I started by making a proforma that I could keep for a future reminder of the process and I wrote my notes inside too.   If making the actual card, decorate the pop panel before assembling as it doesn’t lie flat afterwards.   I used a 5¾” square card blank, although a 6” one will also work if that’s what you have.   The other two pieces of card required ar...