Blue Flower Butterfly Card

Hi everyone!

Today's card uses some beautiful paper tole.

Items used:

• Paper tole flowers and butterfly by Hot Off The Press
• papers by Crafters Companion - Downton Abbey Line
• Gold Glossy card
• Blue Silk Foil Card
• Anna Griffin pop up die - Banner
• Powder blue pearls
• Map paper - Hunkydory
• Pearl Letters - Michaels Craft Store

I was using a die for another project and there were these little stars in the waste so I used them here.

Don't you just love pearls!

The surprise inside...

I really liked the map paper.  The picture doesn't show it well but the color of the sea is really a pretty blue.

Thanks for stopping by!
Lis

Birthday Butterflies Card

 Hi all,

Today's card is a little different with a two-page front.



Items used:

• Patterned paper -  Maja Designs
• German scrap - gold border
• Paper Tole Butterflies and frame - Hot Off the Press
• Gold Foiled Acetate - Kanban (Create and Craft)
• Rubber stamps - Hampton Arts
• Red line or wonder tape

To make my card:

• I covered my card front (card measures 5 x 6 1/2) with patterned paper
• I prepared my acetate so that I could put it on my card without attaching it so that I could position the gold foil borders correctly
• I added the vertical gold foil border
• I stamped the tea pots border with distress ink in dark purple
• I stamped the tea cups so that the paper tole would cover them.  The person receiving this card (my sister) will open the first page and see the tea cups.
• I added the horizontal gold foil border

• I stamped the inside with a sentiment "Where there is tea there is love"
• My last step is attaching the acetate to my card

To make the acetate layer:

• I took a piece of acetate and added about 3/4 inch additional (horizontal measurement) to the size of the card.
• I scored it on the left.
• I added red line tape (very sticky and strong clear double sided tape) to the back of the small scored side (left)
• I added this to my card and attached it to the left backside. (NOTE: I did this AFTER I finished the card front.)
• I added the paper tole to the right side of the acetate

 Here you can see the effect of the acetate with the card front.

Thanks for stopping by,
Lis

This Way , a Halloween Card

Today's card includes:

• Rubber stamp (Michael's - two potion bottles)
• Silver embossing powder
• black crinkle ribbon May Arts
• Dazzles from Hot off the Press (Red dots and black sparkle border)
• Skull - Idea Ology - Tim Holtz
• Border Punch Martha Stewart - Skulls
• Paper Tole - from Hot off the Press
• Bazzill Orange for card base
• patterned paper
• Kraft Core card stock in black crackle design (Cor'dinations)

Close Ups!
The skull went nicely over the center knot on my bow. I used glue dots to attach.

Thanks for stopping by!
Lis

Merry Kitchmas Santa!

Its getting closer to Christmas.  I still haven't finished everything but inst that like me every year?  At least I sent out my cards on time this year!

Today's card is a bright and fun one to do using Anna Griffin papers and paper tole.  I used red glossy for my card base which I almost never do.  This is because glossy tends to crack when you bend it - so you have to score it very carefully.
I used some of the Santa paper and added a paper tole holly branch to the right.

I added some snowflakes die cut from white glitter card.  The picture doesn't do them justice. They are SO sparkly in person, especially with the lights low.  Its just magical!

I added a Merry Christmas in red glossy to match my card base.

Both the snowflake and word dies come from Frantic Stampers own line of dies.

Well, back to cleaning my apartment!

Lis

Washi and Paper Tole Christmas Card

Today's card uses some Christmas washi tape to create a background for some paper tole (the present).

I've noticed that washi tapes can be oriented with a white background or an ivory background (at least the ones I have), so I use them with either an ivory or white card base.  (I used white card for the card today.)

I decided to do plain stripes and chose a few designs and repeated them until I filled up the card base.  I was going to trim the edges but decided to fold the ends over which made a nicer finish.

I added some gold glitter glue to my present's ribbon (gotta have some sparkle!).

Thanks for stopping by!
Lis

Paper Tole Christmas Cards

I wanted to share some paper tole Christmas cards. I don't normally do paper tole (I don't like cutting out all the little pieces).  But companies like Anna Griffin and Hot off the Press are now offering paper tole that is die cut.  All I have to do is punch them out, stack and attach them with mounting tape.  What I like most about paper tole is the three-dimensionality of the piece when I am done.  It's quite beautiful!

Paper Tole starts out with the full image as the bottom layer. There are usually 3-5 layers, each layer is a copy of part of the full image and each next layer is smaller.  As you adds each layer using mounting tape or foam dots/squares, you develop a 3-D design.

The first three designs come from paper tole that I bought at Paper Wishes (aka Hot off the Press).  Paper Wishes offers these foil paper tole which are just gorgeous.

This first card turned out to be my favorite.  I used silver glitter card and tore some white pearl design paper for the "snow hills".  The paper tole snow people are so cute!  The silver glitter card worked out extremely well and looks like its snowing!

My next card is really simple.  I used a white card base, red shimmer paper and white glitter card (fine).  I added the Santa paper tole and that was about it.  It came with its own greeting!

The third paper tole I made was Santa's sleigh.  You would think it would be an easy card but for me it wasn't.  I had trouble visualizing how best to create my card around this one.  I finally settled on what you see below - with Santa pointing toward the greeting which I added.  I think the gold glitter card really helps the sleigh stand out.

My last paper tole card is a little different (and much less sparkly).  Both the paper tole and the background paper are from Anna Griffin.  (HSN sold a package of Anna Griffin Paper Tole - and when they said it was die cut, I jumped on it! LOL!  I really love Anna Griffin's classic style and I knew that her paper tole would be great.)

The only thing I added to my card was a silver star (Tim Holtz Idea-Ology).

I hope that you enjoyed my paper tole today!
Thanks for stopping by!

Lis