Crafty As L

Welcome to my DT post and this week, I’ve been busy making an interactive card featuring the Nuts About Squirrels stamps and dies .   I do love an interactive card, particularly one that doesn’t require any specialist dies, which allows you to make it any size you like.   This one was for my husband for our wedding anniversary. To begin, I made a panel to chop up for the background.   I applied Deco Transfer Gel Duo through the  Leafy stencil and left it to dry before placing a Deco Foil green and gold foil sheet over and running it through my Big Shot.   The ‘Duo’ part of the gel is that either pressure or heat can be used to fix the foil so you can use a die-cutting machine or laminator to complete the process. Next, I stamped the squirrel, leaves and acorns and coloured them using a variety of alcohol markers.   After die-cutting them, I added some clear Nuvo Drops to the squirrel’s eye, nose and to the acorns for some extra shine. Now for the ca...

This week’s card is inspired by a card made by Therese Calvird from www.lostinpaper.com in this  post - I really loved the repeat stamping of the kitties!  To make the card my own, I wanted to make the upside-down kitty into a wiper element on a Z-fold wiper card. First, I repeat stamped the kitty by using masks to protect the lower line of cats.  I used MFT’s I Knead You stamp set. Next, I adhered these panels onto my card base, which is 3” longer than my standard card front and scored at 1½” and 3” from one end.  The Z-fold section is 1¾” wide and the same length as the base and scored in the same places.  The extra panels were decorated using the Meow stencil from Newton’s Nook. The wiper element was next.  I coloured one of the kitties in greys (like my tabby cats) and cut out a small rectangle for the wiper mechanism. Now, I watched many YouTube videos to try to get my head around the wiper mechanism!  This way seem...