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The Easiest Twist and Pop Card Tutorial Ever

The Easiest Twist and Pop Card Tutorial Ever with Authentique Alpine and Tammy Tutterow Designs

Hello, Friends! Welcome to Creative Crew Friday with Tammy Tutterow Designs. I am so excited about today’s project, as it involves a fabulous pop up card design. I have a YouTube video to share the Easiest Twist and Pop Card Tutorial Ever!

Twist and Pop cards burst on the scene a little over a year ago and I was instantly captivated by them. The big problem with this amazing fancy fold card was that you practically needed an engineering degree to put one together. The pop up mechanism was complicated and bulky and it was really easy to get discouraged during the creative process.

But I love a good interactive card, so I set my mind on coming up with a design that was less bulky, easier to create and would accommodate a larger card base. First, I spent a whole day watching dozens of twist and pop card videos and reading blog posts. While I gleaned some good tidbits from each video/tutorial I viewed none of them completely met my expectations.

Then I spent an entire day “fussing with paper” until I felt I had a design that was sleek and easy to create. In fact, it was so much fun that I ended up making TWO cards for you today instead of just one. So let’s get this show on the road and dig in to this Easiest Twist and Pop Card Tutorial Ever.

Cold Hands Warm Heart Twist and Pop Card Tutorial

This first card is made with Tammy Tutterow’s amazing Cold Hands, Warm Hearts Cling Stamp. The card base measures a generous 5″ x 6″. This is considerably larger than the 4.25″ x 5.5″ card tutorials that I found online. Goal number one? Make a larger card. Check!

First, I stamped the image onto patterned paper from Authentique’s Alpine Collection Kit. Then I colored it in with a combination of colored pencils and alcohol markers. Next, the stamped panel was stitched onto a navy cardstock mat. Now I created my card base from the same navy cardstock and added a stitched panel of designer paper from Alpine. Then I die cut felt flowers using Bitty Posie and Posie Parts to add to the card along with some ribbon and a cute novelty button. I die cut a couple of banner flags using Tammy’s Frayed Banners and topped them with vintage red buttons from my stash. Card front is done! Easy peasy!

Twist and Pop Card Tutorial: The Party is on the Inside!

There’s nothing more fun than opening up a twist and pop card….unless you are watching someone open one for the first time!

This cheery array of Tammy’s Mini Envelopes and Pockets decorates the pop up mechanism.

I even included a little shaker element!

Each mini envelope has been decorated with stickers or images from the Alpine Collection Kit. The envelopes are held in place with small magnets. Cute images from the 6×6 bundle are tucked inside. Find all the details in the YouTube tutorial below.

Happy Winter Twist and Pop Card Tutorial with Authentique Alpine Collection

How much do we love this winter llama and penguin? Yeah, a lot! This second card is the one that we will build together in the YouTube tutorial below.

Like the Cold Hands card, it has a fun twist and pop design.

This time, instead of adding envelopes, I just decorated each panel of the pop up mechanism. How fun are these images?

So are you ready to dig in and get busy with The Easiest Twist and Pop Card Tutorial Ever? Join me below!

The Easiest Twist and Pop Card Tutorial Ever on YouTube

And Now, A Fond Farewell

I also wanted to share with you that this is my last post as a member of Tammy’s Creative Crew. I have loved every minute of being part of this team. Tammy is the most generous, laid back and encouraging person I’ve ever worked with. The Creative Crew is immensely talented, supportive and fun. It has been a great gig!

Don’t worry! I’ll continue to use Tammy’s amazing dies and stamps in my creations and will share them with you here. Tammy also has some exciting changes going on, so be sure to visit her blog to read all about it. You’ll also find links to inspiring projects from the rest of the Creative Crew.

I hope I’ve shared some tips and techniques that you can use in your own crafty adventures. If so, I’d love to hear from you in the comment section below.

Thanks for stopping by!

Cheerio,

kathy

The Easiest Twist And Pop Card Tutorial Product Links

BOTH CARDS: Authentique Alpine Collection Kit (includes sticker sheet) and 6×6 Bundle

Cold Hands, Warm Heart:
- Cold Hands Cling Stamp
- Notched Mini Envelope
- Window Mini Pocket
- Deco Edge Envelope
- Tabbed Mini Pocket
- Frayed Tabs
- Posie Parts
- Bitty Posies
- Two sheets Navy 12×12 cardstock
- 65# cream cardstock to build mechanism
- Felt, Novelty Button, Glitter, Small Magnets
Happy Winter Card
- Spellbinders Labels 8 Die
- Dusty Olive Seam Binding Ribbon
- Ivory Burlap String
- Petaloo Darjeeling Mini Mix x 8 Blues
- Two Sheets of Grey Cardstock
- 65# Cream Cardstock
- Scoring Tool and Stylus

Frosty Winter Mini Tag Album Tutorial

Tammy Tutterow Creative Crew: Frosty Winter Mini Tag Album Tutorial

Hello, Friends! We’re getting our Christmas crafts on this month! Today, I have the cutest Frosty Winter Mini Tag Album Tutorial to share with you today! Little things make my heart happy, and this itty bitty 4″ x 2 x 1.5″ wintry album is filled with all kinds of teeny tiny cuteness!

See what I mean? Who doesn’t love a snow globe style shaker element on the cover of a teeny tiny mini album?

The base of this adorable album is created with Tammy Tutterow’s Mini Tag Album Die. I’ve made several albums with this sweet die, but this time, I modified the design to create a chunky spine and tabbed pocket pages. You’ll see how I do this in my Frosty Winter Mini Tag Album Tutorial video.

Frosty Winter Mini Tag Album Tutorial: Shake it Up, Baby!

I forgot to tell you how to make the shaker cover in my tutorial video, so I will do that here.

The focal image on the cover is a sticker from Authentique’s Frosty Winter 12×12 Paper Collection. (Product Links below.) Here’s how I created this fun shaker top element:

First, add the sticker to a circular die cut or chipboard piece that is about 1/2″ larger in diameter than the sticker. I painted my die cut white first to make sure that if it showed, it would look nice.
Now, use the corresponding Spellbinder Small Standard Circle die to cut out a clear acetate circle. This will be the cover for your shaker element.
Next, add 1/8″ Scor-tape to the back side of this die cut circle.
Then, add Kool-Tac clear foam tape around the outer edge of the circle with the sticker.
Now, carefully add some Stampendous Shaved Ice Frantage elements to the center of the snow globe base. Be careful not to get any flakes on the Kool-Tac, or it will not stick well.
Next, remove the liner tape from the Scor-Tape and the Kool-Tac tape and press the acetate cover over the sticker base.
Now, hot glue the snow globe base to the album cover.
Then use hot glue to add the white leaf wreath around the outer edge.
Finally, decorate with die cut felt flowers.

Frosty Winter Mini Tag Album Tutorial: Add a Chunky Spine

You all know how much I love tags and pockets and dimensional details. I wanted to add those to this adorable album, but to do that, I had to modify the design a little. You will learn how to turn the mini tag album base into this chunky little album in the tutorial.

I also transformed the mini tag album pages into little pockets.

Frosty Winter Mini Tag Album Tutorial: A Peek at the pages

This album is loaded with interactive elements. It would be a super cute stocking stuffer, and a great way to present a monetary gift as there are lots and lots of little tuck spots, pockets and hiding places inside.

Each itty bitty tag is topped with one of Tammy’s Shortie Tabs.

Sticker stamps make great tuck spots if you back them with cardstock. You can also add stickers to folded cardstock to create these mini file folders.

Page turn elements are made with a die from Tabs 2. And Tammy’s Prim heart makes the cutest little embellishment when cut from felt.

Here’s that Prim Heart again. This time it’s decorating a Tabbed Mini Pocket.

This is the perfect hiding spot for a little cash, tickets or even small jewelry.

Are you ready to get your craft on? Then let’s watch this Frosty Winter Mini Tag Album Tutorial Video.

Frosty Winter Mini Tag Album Tutorial on Youtube

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Prima Amber Moon Thankful Heart Tri-Fold Folio

Tammy Tutterow Creative Crew Friday: Prima Amber Moon Thankful Heart Folio

Hello, Friends! Yes, I know it’s Thursday…but to avoid double posting, I decided to share my Tammy Tutterow Creative Crew post today. When you see this Thankful Heart Folio made with Prima’s glorious Amber Moon collection, I think you’ll forgive me.

This lovely little folio is about the size of a clutch wallet, measuring just 4.25″ x 7″. It all started when I was cleaning up my work desk and ran across a piece of folded brown cardstock. Rather than toss it in my scrap pile, I decided to make it up into a card…which then became a folio. You just never know where a project is going to take you. I have learned to follow along.

The folio has a ribbon closure.

Felt flowers. How I love them! These are created with the following Tammy Tutterow flower dies:

Shabby Posies Etched Dies by Spellbinders
Posie Parts Stamp/Die Combo
Bitty Posies
Pom Pom Posies (for the leaves)

Nothing But Love for Thankful Heart Folio Shabby Chic background

Here’s how to create the background panel for the cover:

First, cut a 4″ X 6.75″ panel of wood grain patterned paper from Prima’s Amber Moon 12×12 collection
Next, stamp Nothing But Love Background with Versamark Embossing Ink.
Then, heat emboss with super fine copper embossing powder.
Now, machine stitch around the edges. Use messy stitching like I did here, or keep it neat and tidy. It’s up to you.
Next, distress the edges and ink with Vintage Photo Distress Ink.
Then, ink up the panel with Spiced Marmalade, Fossilized Amber, Candied Apple, Twisted Citron and Wilted Violet Distress Oxide Inks. Spritz heavily and tip the paper to let the ink run.
Now heat dry until it is still a tiny bit damp.
Then emboss with Tammy’s Blistered Embossing Folder. Before running through your machine, rub Vintage Photo Distress Ink directly onto the flat side of the embossing folder. Then lay your paper panel over the raised side of the folder. By doing this, you will impress the ink into the paper. It’s a very cool effect.
Next, heat dry the paper panel completely.
Finally, rub a barely damp paper towel over the embossed stamped areas to refresh the shine. I actually had to gently reheat with my tool.
Now it’s ready to glue to the folio cover.

Thankful Heart Folio Cover Art

The cover art for this album is from a Gecko Galz collage sheet called Be Thankful for Fall. I printed them out, inked the edges and/or matted them then layered them up on the cover. The circular image is glued to a Prima die cut doily. I raised it up with waste cardboard from a shipping box . This way, I could tuck a little surprise behind it. Read on to find out about that!

From My Heart Tabbed Mini Pocket

What is it about little things that makes us go “awwwww.” That’s exactly how I feel every time I use one of Tammy’s Mini Pockets. Here’s how I put this Tabbed Mini Pocket together:

First, die cut the Tabbed Mini Pocket from Amber Moon paper.
Then ink around all the edges, front and back, with Vintage Photo DI.
Now score the fold lines and glue the pocket together.
Add a bitty posy to the envelope flap along with an acorn charm and a bit of fiber.
Next, use Archival Coffee Ink to stamp “From My Heart” sentiment from Sentiments 2 Stamp set. I stamped with my Tim Holtz Stamp Platform so I could repeat stamp until the image was dark and bold.
Cut out, notch corners, ink edges and mat on brown cardstock.
Then slip behind the doily and attach with a mini clothespin.

Inside this Thankful Heart Folio

Here’s a look at the first opening. There’s a side pocket on the left and a fold out page on the right.

The side pocket holds this magnet that I made with Tammy’s Rejoice Shading Stamp from Happy Grams #4 . After stamping, embossing, and inking, I colored the images with Distress Markers. Then I stitched a magnet between the image and a cardstock mat. I’ve adorned the magnet with Bitty Posies and Posie Part felt flowers. I also used Shortie Tabs to make some little banner flags from designer paper scraps.

Blessed and Framed

I framed this butterfly ephemera card with Tammy’s Rose Border Stamp. Here’s how that worked:

First, cut a piece of the polka dot paper from Amber Moon that is slightly larger than the stamp.
Stamp the image with Versamark Embossing Ink and heat emboss with Superfine Copper Embossing Powder.
Heat Set.
To cut the inside of the stamped image, I placed my ruler on a diagonal line from top left to bottom right corner. Then use a craft knife to cut a straight line. Repeat this process from Top right to bottom left.
Next, place the ruler at the base of one of the resulting triangles. Cut out one flap.
Now that one flap is removed, you can fussy cut around the inside of the frame.
Next, ink up Big Cheesecloth and Dear Ruby with Coffee Archival Ink/Peeled Paint Distress Oxide Ink. Do not place the stamps on a block. Just roll a random section lightly over the ink pad, then roll randomly over the white portions of the Blessed ephemera card. Ink the edges.
Now, back the fussy cut frame with small strips of foam tape and place over the ephemera card. Glue in place.

Die cut the smallest Prim Heart from felt and layer up with felt flowers to decorate the sentiment panel.

Thankful Heart Folio: The Grand Opening

Here’s a peek at the fully opened folio.

The center panel holds this pretty 3.5″ x 6″ art tag. I’ve used another Prim Heart embellishment here.

There’s a sweet little chocolate/gift card wallet in the panel on the far right.

I don’ t know about you…but I’m grateful for chocolate…and so many other good things.

I hope you survived this very long post. But I wanted you to see all the many ways you can use Tammy’s stamps and dies to embellish your favorite paper collections. Thanks for hanging in there with me!

Until next time!

Cheerio,

kathy

Home Family Blessing Altered Frame and Greeting Card

RRR Anything Goes Challenge: Home Family Blessing Altered Frame and Greeting Card

Hello, Friends! Welcome to another “anything goes with ribbon or trim” challenge at Really Reasonable Ribbon. It’s always fun to update one’s home decor in the fall, so I’ve created a rustic Home Family Blessing Altered Frame and greeting card for you today. Once again, I’ve used Simple Stories “Vintage Blessings” to complement my gorgeous Really Reasonable Ribbon.

This 8″ x 10″ frame was in a box at a local yard sale, waiting just for me! It was chipped and worn, but had good bones. For 50 cents, I decided it could come home with me and get a little makeover.

I’m so glad I snapped this beauty up, as it was loads of fun to alter with distress paints, Petaloo flowers, and Rust/Ivory Plaid Ribbon from Really Reasonable Ribbon.

I painted the dark brown chippy frame with Antique Linen Distress Paint. When it was almost dry, I wiped it back with a slightly damp paper towel. This process was repeated with Peeled Paint, and Antique Bronze Distress Paint. Next, I added more paint, then spritzed it with water and let it run. Finally, I thinned out the paints on my craft sheet and spattered paint all over.

TIP: Cover the glass portion of the frame with sticky notes to keep it clean. This saved me so much time and trouble!

The final step was adding these gorgeous Petaloo Magnolia blossoms and a triple loop bow. Adding the bow was the perfect finishing touch!

Home Is Where the Heart Is Greeting Card

While I had my desk all messed up, I decided to go ahead and create a card.

This 5″ x 7″ top fold card has a 1/4″ spine. I used more of my little hand made felt embellies and more of this gorgeous Rust/Ivory Plaid Ribbon to adorn the card.

The inside of the card has a side pocket with a little tag and honey stick tucked inside.

If you are like me, you’re always looking for a way to use up scraps. These little tags do a great job! And, you can add your ribbon scraps to the top. For this topper, simply slip your ribbon through the hole punch. Then tie a square knot with another ribbon scrap to hold it in place.

This larger pocket contains a darling little tea bag wallet to go with the honey stickOnce again, I used scraps to create the belly band and the little ribbon on the tag.

Here’s a peeky inside.

Now it’s YOUR turn!

You can play along in this fun “anything goes with ribbon or trim” challenge, too! Simply create the project of your choice, making sure to add ribbon or trim to the design. Link it up over on the Really Reasonable Ribbon Challenge Blog before midnight on Wednesday, October 18th. You can find all the details HERE.

If you need more ribbony inspiration, pop on over to the RRR Blog where you’ll find beautiful projects from the other members of the RRR design team.

Can’t wait to see what YOU make!

Thanks for stopping by!

Cheerio,

kathy

Really Reasonable Ribbon Vintage Blessings Card Duo

Hello, Ribbon Lovers! I don’t know what it is about fall, but it always inspires feelings of gratitude in my heart. Maybe it’s thankfulness for the cooler weather after a long hot summer. Perhaps it’s the bright blue sky and gorgeous fall colors. Or it could be the promise of Thanksgiving on the horizon. Whatever it is, it sure does make my heart happy. Today I’ve used Really Reasonable Ribbon to add the finishing touches to a Simple Stories Vintage Blessings Card Duo. I hope these cards will stir up that same thankful feeling in your heart.

Vintage Blessings Easel Card

Felt flowers are my latest obsession, and I love the fall color they add to this 5″ x 7″ vertical easel card. (I’ll share product links below the post.)

I searched all through my ribbon cart for something that would pull all these vibrant colors together. This rustic Plaid Ribbon in Rust and Ivory tones was equal to the task.

I love the way this triple loop bow draws the eye to the sentiment on my cute little house. Topping the ribbon with a Natural Burlap String Bow and an acorn adds to the card’s rustic feel.

Like all easel cards, this one folds down for mailing.

Inside, I’ve added a small treat pocket and a sentiment.

A Little Bit of Ribbon Goes a Long Way

I love to find creative ways to use my ribbon scraps. This little piece of Ivory/Rust ribbon left over from tying the triple loop bow was too small to use. Or was it?

As it turns out, it was just the right size to finish off the safety pin embellishment on this 5″ x 7″ card. I simply snipped the ends, slipped it through the circle on the end of the safety pin, then tied it in place with Natural Burlap String.