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Autumn Tea Party in a Tag Tutorial

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Autumn Tea Party  in a Tag Tutorial with 49 & Market Country Heart Cafe

Hello, Friends!  Thanksgiving is looming on the horizon, so I thought it would be nice to share an Autumn Tea Party in a Tag Tutorial with you today.  These lovely little tags are filled with fall charm, and perfect for your Thanksgiving table scape, autumn birthdays, craft fairs, or hostess gifts.  It’s also a great friendship, thinking of you, or get well item to have on hand.

Once again, we are working with 49 & Market Country Heart Cafe.  I hope you’ve enjoyed our month of projects with this rustic collection.  I know I have!  Today’s tea party in a tag project is a really fun make, so I’m excited to share it with you.

Butterflies, Sunflowers and Paper Lollipops

There’s a lot to love in this sweet little number!  The party gets started with a clever gatefold slider on the front of the tag.

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Open the gates to read this sweet message inside.  And do you spy the sweet little dangle charm?  It’s the little details that really make this tag special.

Treats and Sweets

The back side of the tag is a box pocket filled to the brim with sweets and treats.  There’s even a hidden paper clip bookmark clipped onto the pocket edge.  This design is soooo simple and takes about 5 minutes to  make.  I’ll show you how in the tutorial.

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Fill your box pocket with anything you can dream up.  I chose a tea party theme with chocolate, cookies, tea, honey stick, demitasse spoon, mini note card and a paper lollipop.  But if you were making this for a scrapbooking buddy, you could add ribbon, stickers, small tags, lace, buttons. or foam tabs.  Wouldn’t these be fun to make for a crop?

Autumn Tea Party Tag Tutorial on YouTube

Would you like to learn how to put these cuties together?  Then please grab a cuppa and a snack and join me on my YouTube channel for the tutorial.

I’ve tagged products in the video for your shopping convenience.  And you can find a linked supply list and basic measurements in the description box below the video title on my YouTube channel.

What’s Up for October?

Next month we’ll start sharing out Christmas tutorials with you.  I know it’s early, but this way you’ll have time to get them made before the holidays.  If you haven’t seen the papers and dies I’ll be using this year, you can check out this paper haul video on my YouTube channel.  Shopping links are provided in the description box.

Thanks for stopping by, friends!

Cheerio,

kathy

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Supply List:

  • Country Heart Cafe Collection (check Button Farm Club for the 12×12 pad)
    12×12 Paper Pad
    Laser Cut Elements
    Floral Laser Cuts
    Graphic 45 Regular Ivory Tags (tagged in the video)
    Staples G45 Regular Tag Dies (tagged in the video)
    110# Cream Cardstock (tagged in the video)
    Sunflower Dies: I used Heartfelt Creations Rustic Sunflowers. Try this die instead:
    Embroidery Floss in fall colors (tagged in the video)
    Brown Buttons from your Stash
    3/8″ Copper and Cream Gingham Ribbon (tagged in the video)
    Rosette Die

Stamperia Whispering Woods Pop Up Book Tutorial 5

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Stamperia Whispering Woods Pop Up Book Tutorial 5:  Pop Out Boxes and Flip Up Pages

Hello, Friends!  I think you are going to enjoy this Stamperia Whispering Woods Pop Up Book Tutorial 5!  Can we really be on tutorial 5 already?  This month has gone so fast!  But today’s pop up is a sweet and simple pop out box that I know you’re going to love.  No muss, no fuss, and comes together in a jiffy!

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This is a great pop up element for any turn page.  This one is located between this flap page element.  It’s the first page in Signature 4.

Flip Up Pages

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Have you ever wondered how to make a 12×12 page fit into a 6″ x 8″ space?  Would you like to learn how to keep those gorgeous, scenic page layouts in one piece?  I’m going to show you how to do just that in Signature 4.

Hidden Side Pocket

Sometimes an image is so beautiful, you don’t have to do a single thing to it.  That’s how I feel about this precious scholarly fairy.  So I just matted her on Cocoa Bean Cardstock and called it a day.

Quick and Easy Faux Windowpane Effect

Here’s a neat trick for creating a faux windowpane effect.

  • First, cut out a panel of (4) 3×4 journal cards as one piece.
  • Next, cut out some 1/4″ x 12″ strips of patterned paper.
  • Place the strips between both the horizontal images and the vertical images.
  • Now add a focal image in the center of the page.

Easy peasy!

Stamperia Whispering Woods Pop Up Book Tutorial 5 on YouTube

There are more fun surprises in this week’s video.  Would you like to see them?  Then please grab a cuppa and a snack and enjoy this video tutorial on my YouTube channel.

Next Wednesday will be the final installment of our October special project.  It’s time to finish the cover!  It promises to be a grand finish to a really fun month.

I’ll be back later this week to share the paper collection we’ll be working with in November.  Think Christmas!  Yay!

You can find a linked supply list below this post.

Thanks so much for stopping by, friends!

Cheerio,

kathy

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Fall Tiered Pop Up Cards Tutorial

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Fall Tiered Pop Up Cards Tutorial for Choose Your Own Adventure Wonderful Wednesday

Hello, Friends!  How you do feel about a Fall Tiered Pop Up Cards Tutorial?  It’s a Choose Your Own Adventure Wonderful Wednesday, which means we will be making two cards using two different paper collections and one unique card design.  This is fast becoming one of my favorite Wonderful Wednesday features.  I hope you are enjoying it, too.

This week we are working with Simple Stories Simple Vintage Autumn Breeze and Graphic 45 Celebrate the Seasons September papers.  It’s Autumn Fest at its best, and I think you are really going to enjoy the pop up feature on these pretty cards.

So let’s get started, shall we?

Card Adventure #1:  Graphic 45 Season to Celebrate September Tiered Pop Up Card

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The base for both cards today is a simple 6×6 top fold.  Each cover features an altered Prima Resin Frame, and the exact same layout.

TIP:  When working with bold colors, busy patterns and large images, it is often a good idea to keep your card design very simple.  For this card I matted layers of Patterns & Solids and 8×8 papers with plain cardstock to help separate the patterns.  Embellish a simple framed image with flowers, vintage button, postage stamps and a twine bow.

Inside the card folio, I’ve created a lovely pull down flap.  When the magnetic flap opens, this tiered pop up feature is revealed.  Once you learn how to make these, you’ll want to do it all the time!

Card Adventure #2:  Simple Stories Autumn Breeze Tiered Pop Up Cards

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Can you see how this card layout is identical to the G45 card?

TIP:  Need to save time?  Use the same card recipe on multiple cards and you’ll be amazed at how many cards you can create in a short time!

Here you can see the interior pocket and the front of the pull down flap.  The pop up feature is hidden behind.  I’ll show it to you and teach you how to make it in the video tutorial.

Tiered Pop Up Cards Tutorial on YouTube

If you’d like to take a closer look at this month’s Choose Your Own Adventure tutorial, please grab a cuppa and a snack and enjoy the video tutorial below.

I hope you’ll give this tiered pop up design a try as it’s loads of fun!

I’ll be back next week with our Wind Back Wednesday tutorial featuring Graphic 45 Autumn Greetings.

You can find a linked supply list below this post.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Cheerio,

kathy

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Beautiful Autumn Breeze Fall Banner Tutorial

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Beautiful Autumn Breeze Fall Banner Tutorial

Hello, Friends!  This beautiful Autumn Breeze Fall Banner Tutorial is our Wonderful Wednesday project of the week.  Rustic burlap pennants, handmade flowers, antique lace, and rich layered papers make it the perfect bit of fall home decor.

Handmade Sunflowers and Burlap Equals All the Fall Feels

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Rustic burlap pennants and handmade sunflowers really amp up the autumn vibe of this fall banner.  Stitch the pennants onto pretty tan gingham ribbon and top with vintage ivory lace to add even more texture to the design.

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TIP:  Add star anise in with your embellishments to make your banner smell as lovely as it looks!

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TIP:  Layer Floral Ephemera Bits to create a pretty autumn scene.  Then tuck in die cut ferns and  handmade flowers to bring it to life.  Can you spy the star anise?

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TIP: Mix and match handmade flowers on a die cut wreath.  Use a circle die to cut images from 4×6 journal cards and place in the center of the wreath.

Copper Tones

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Copper tones add warmth and richness to any autumn project.  I’ve incorporated them on this banner in three ways:

  • First, tie bows with copper taffeta ribbon and add copper satin ribbon streamers to the bow clusters.
  • Next, paint antique bronze pumpkin embellishments with a little copper acrylic paint.  It’s amazing how that light coating of copper paint makes the pumpkins stand out!
  • Finally, spritz your floral papers with a bit of copper mist.  This is subtle, but oh, so beautiful!

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Beautiful Autumn Breeze Fall Banner Tutorial on YouTube

If you’d like to see this banner come together, then I cordially invite you to grab a cuppa and a snack and join me over on my YouTube channel for the tutorial.

As I mentioned in the video, many of the flower dies I used are retired.  But I bet you have some beautiful flower dies tucked away in your stash.  Why not pull them out and use them to dress up your own beautiful banner?  If you don’t have any flower dies in your stash, I highly recommend Elizabeth Craft Designs as a source.  There’s a lot to choose from there.

You can find a linked supply list below this post.

I’ll be back next week with our Choose Your Own Adventure Card Tutorial of the Month.  I’m feeling a pop up card coming on….hope to see you then!

Thanks for stopping by!

Cheerio,

kathy

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Stamperia Forest Slimline Card Folio

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Stamperia Forest Slimline Card Folio for the Really Reasonable Ribbon Autumn Hues Blog Hop

Hello, Friends!  This Stamperia Forest Slimline Card Folio is my inspiration piece for the August Really Reasonable Ribbon  Blog Hop.  Welcome to the Hop!  You should be coming here from Gloria’s lovely blog.  Our theme this month is “Autumn Hues” and I have some scrumptious fall ribbons to share with you. So grab a cuppa and a snack and let’s take a closer look.

Copper Hues

When i think of autumn hues, I always reach for copper accents.  And that’s exactly the course I followed when I put this Stamperia Forest Slimline card together.  Here’s a quick “recipe” for this card design:

  • First, score an 11″ x  8 1/2″ panel of brown cardstock at 4″ and 8 1/4″.  Fold on the scored lines to create the card folio base.
  • Line the panels with slightly smaller panels of copper metallic cardstock.
  • Next, line the copper metallic cardstock with slightly smaller panels of patterned paper.  I used wider margins that usual so that the copper paper would really show up.
  • Now, wrap the left hand side of the front panel with Brown Double Sided Satin Ribbon.  Use 1/2″ Scor-Tape to hold it in place.
  • Then wrap a layer of Copper Metallic Satin Ribbon over the Brown.
  • Cut focal images from the paper pad, mat on copper cardstock scraps and back with foam tape.
  • Stamp and heat emboss a sentiment to go between the focal images.
  • Create a dangle charm with copper leaf, acorn and enamel leaf charm.
  • Top with a Copper and Cream Gingham Bow, Burlap String Bow and some Reneabouquets Fall Chips.

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Embellish with buttons and natural elements like feathers, green peppercorns, Spanish Moss and a little acorn.

A Peek Inside

I love the way the ribbon border wraps around the left hand panel of this card.  Add a belly band and slip a little bookmark over it to add a gift feature to the card.

When the card is fully opened, you can see the gift card pocket and note card in the center.

One of the things I love about t his card is that it can be used as a masculine card, too.  The autumn hued ribbon and woodland accents really work either way.

On With the Hop!

Now hop on over to Cheryl’s lovely blog to see what autumn treats she has in store for you.  Then be sure to finish up the hop over on the RRR blog.  Answer Bonnies “Question of the Month” and you’ll be entered in a drawing for a $10 Gift Certificate and the free digital stamp set of your choice.

You can find a linked supply list below this post.

Enjoy the hop!

Cheerio,

kathy

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