September 2006
Projects - Jackie Mooney's Cards.
On our Crafter's Forum, Jackie Mooney has the title
of our Stamping Queen!! Jackie estimates that she owns over 2,000 stamps
and has been card making and crafting for nearly 10 years. She inspires us
all with her constantly inventive and innovative use of stamps, papers and other
embellishments. Give Jackie a stamp or any kind of other embellishment,
and in 5 minutes time she'll have a stunning and unique card put together,
scanned and posted up on the forum!! We are thrilled to have her on board
and part of our team. Her talent knows no ends and we hope you'll be as
inspired by her projects as we are.
Project 1 - Baby Pink Girl's Card
Skill Level -
Middle
Materials and Tools
used:
Square white card Blank and Envelope
Bazzill Card Stock (or
similar) Rosey ,Cameo, Lima
Bean.
Fabric flowers ( pink)
Mixed pack ribbon ( pink)
Small light pink bow
Butterfly Sticker
Provocraft Baby Stamps - Christening
Gown and " For
Baby" Stamp
Versamark Clear Ink pad, or Encore Gold ink pad.
Gold embossing powder, Heat embossing
gun.
Instructions:
1. Fold a square card blank
2. Cut two pieces of gingham pink ribbon and
stick to card with a glue roller .*
3. Glue two pink flowers and a butterfly on the overlapped
ribbon glue.
4. Stamp the dress and " for baby" images using the gold
or clear inks.
5. **Heat emboss the stamped images using gold embossing
powder (or clear embossing powder if you have stamped using a gold
ink).
6. Cut out the images around the outline of the dress and
a frame around the " for you" image. You can do this using a sharp paper
scissors or
paper knife and cutting mat.
5. Layer the dress image onto a 2" x2" square of Bazzill
Card in Cameo and then onto a 3" x3" square of Bazzill in Rosey.
6. Layer the “ for baby “ image onto a slightly larger
Bazzill Cameo rectangle then a slightly larger Bazzill Lima bean
rectangle.
*Use a ruler as a
guide
**For more detailed instructions on heat
embossing, see our online class on our forum here.
Project 2 - Baby Boy Blue Card
Skill Level -
Middle
Materials and Tools
used:
Square white card Blank and Envelope
Bazzill StarMist Blue
Cardstock
Basic Grey Urban Lustra Paper
White Tracing Paper
Provocraft Baby Stamps - Christening
Gown and " For
Baby" Stamp
Pastel Blue Brads
White Organza Ribbon
Sakura 3D Roller Pen (white)
Self adhesive Blue Gems
Black Stazon or Color Box Ink Pad or
Instructions for Blue boys card.
1. Fold a square white card .
2. Stamp a piece of 5" x5" StarMist Bazzill randomly with
“baby shoes “ and “ boy oh boy” images using black stazon ink .
3. Fix onto card with glue roller or double sided
adhesive
4. Highlight front of shoes with white gel roller
pen.
5. Cut a piece of white card 3 ¼ x 3 ¼ then a piece of
vellum slightly larger , fix together with four blue brads,.attach layers to
card
6. Stamp pram image with black stazon onto a square of 2x2
“ basic grey urb Lustre”
7. Layer onto a slightly larger square of misty blue
bazill then layer on top of vellum
8. Stick two self adhesive blue gems to wheel centres
9 Finish off by punching two holes to top and bottom of
card , thread white organza ribbon through holes and tie with a
bow.
Project 2 - Accordian
Card
Skill Level: Middle -
Advanced
Materials and Tools used:
Square white card Blank and Envelope
Bazzill Card Stock (or similar) Rosey
,Cameo, Limeade,
Petunia, Hillary
MAMBI Honeysuckle Paper
Mixed pack ribbon ( pink)
Provocraft Baby Stamps
Sakura 3D Roller Pen (white)
Self adhesive Pink Gems
Super 2" Round Punch, Regular 3/4" Round Punch
Rectangle Envelope Punch, Regular Foot Punch
Pink and Green Flower Garland
Black Stazon or Color Box Ink Pad
Double Sided Foam pads
Glue Roller
Heart Brad, Button
Instructions for accordian card…
1. Fold a square card in half then fold the
front in half then the same with the back of the card to making an accordian
fold.
2. Crease down the edges well to make a sharp
edge then open out flat.
3. Cut four 4 ½ x 2 ¾ pieces of lime and pink
card from Bazzill or similar card stock.
4. Punch a semi-circle on the top edges of
each piece, two with a the smallerl round punch and two with the 2 inch
punch.
5. Attach each punched piece to each folded
card panel using an adhesive roller or thin strips of double sided tape , Making
sure you apply
the adhesive to the
three edges of the coloured panels leaving enough room for the tags.
6. Cut four 4 ¼ x 2 ¼ pieces from coloured
Bazzill for the tags,
7. Punch each top corner with the small round
punch to shape tags. Punch a small hole for ribbon in two of the
tags.
8. Decorate the tags with stamped sentiments,
stamped images, gems, brads etc. Private messages can be added to the back of
tags.
9. Add ribbons to tags through punched holes
or with staples.
10. Decorate coloured panels with stamped images, punched
flowers/circles,/feet, buttons gems etc.
11. Make a stitched design around circles with a white gel
roller pen …
12. Punch a vellum envelope and attached to a card panel
.
FRONT OF ACCORDIAN CARD
1. Cut a piece of 5 ½ x 2 ½ card from Lime Bazzill
2, Stamp “ Welcome little one“ with black ink. Ink attach
panel to card front.
3, Cut a 16 inch strip from a pink and green flower
garland .
4. Attach one of the flowers with a double sided foam
pad.
5. Tie the remaining strip around closed card.
