Ooh La La Lever Card

Hi everyone, it's Bridget here with my Design Team post for November..I am still trying to figure out where this year has gone!

Today I have made a Step Lever card. I found the tutorial on a card making site I have followed for many years.

I have made the card to their exact measurements and the card came out perfectly & is a good size too. Go grab your Ooh La La stash and play along.

Step 1
Cut two 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" pieces of cream cardstock
Score the first piece of cardstock at 4 1/4" and fold in half. This will be the card itself. On the side that is the front, cut out a square window, 1” from all 4 sides.

Step 2
Score the second piece of cardstock at 4 1/4" and 6 3/8”. Go in 2 1/8” from the left edge and score down to 1” from the top and up to 1” from the bottom.

Note:
This will be the inside of the card.

Step 3
To cut the “lever” that will fit through the card front “window”, go in 1” from the left edge and cut a slit that starts 1” from the top and goes down to 1” from the bottom.

Step 4
Cut from the top and bottom ends of that slit over to the 2 1/8” score line. This produces the “lever” that will fit through the front window.

Step 5
Fold on all score lines. Folds should be valley/mountain/valley folded.

Step 6
Add adhesive to the “backside” of the left and right panels of the cardstock you just scored and glue it inside the card. The “lever” tucks inside of the front “window”. If this is a tight fit, trim a sliver off the top and bottom of the lever so that it will move freely through the window.

Step 7
Cut a 4” x 5 1/4” piece of patterned paper for the front of the card. Cut in 7/8” from all 4 sides to make the decorative layer for the front of the card.

Step 8
For the inside of the card, cut 3 strips of patterned paper 1 7/8” x 5 1/4” tall. Cut a fourth piece 3 1/8” wide by 5 1/4” tall.
Adhere two of the 1 7/8” pieces to cover the two right panels inside the card. The third will be used to cover the left side of the panel after you shape it.

Step 9
On the remaining 1 7/8” x 5 1/4” piece, cut in 1” from the RIGHT side, 7/8” from the top and 7/8” from the bottom. Make a vertical cut that connects these two cuts, so that the remaining piece of patterned paper looks like a “C”. Adhere this to the LEFT panel of the inside of the card.

Step 10
On the 3 1/8” x 5 1/4” patterned paper, cut in 1 1/8” from the LEFT side, 7/8” from the top and 7/8” from the bottom. Cut down from the top and up from the bottom to meet these two cuts and remove those two small squares of paper. This creates a shape that will cover the “lever” part of the card.

Adhere inside the card on the remaining panel.

Step 11
Once the main component of the card has been assembled die cut all your embellishments to decorate the card. I used the Elemental Corner Set from Ultimate Crafts (Ooh La La). The Tessa Doiley Die Set from the same collection created the centerpiece for the front of the car, along with the hand cut butterfly from the patterned paper.

Thank you for joining me once again. I hope to see you all again soon.

Hugs, Bridget

Products Used:

ULT157566 Elemental Corner Set Die

ULT157555 Tessa Doiley Set

ULT157610 Ooh La La 12x12 Paper Pad

Tools used:

CO724824 Couture Creations Go Cut & Emboss machine

CO721957 - Self Healing Cutting Mats

CO724037 - Turbo Precision Glue Pen

Peacock Feather Sympathy Card from Ooh La La

Hello everyone, Bridget here again for another project to hopefully inspire you. 
This one is for the cardies out there. 
I have used the absolutely gorgeous stamps and dies from the Ooh La La range.

Today’s offering is a quick Sympathy card to make for when you need one in a hurry. Let’s get started.

For the peacock feather cut a piece of cardstock 3”x 6”. Cut a piece of the double sided adhesive paper from Couture Creations to the same size. Stick the adhesive sheet to the cardstock and remove the top tape revealing the adhesive. Cover this with the superfine glitter.

Now that you have created your own ultra sparkly glitter paper, cut one peacock feather die.

The next step is equally easy.

Using your non-stick craft mat directly apply ink from 3 shades of blue you want to use for your “watercolour” background. Using an aqua brush randomly apply the colours to a 5 3/8” x 3 7/8” piece of watercolour paper. Set aside to dry. 






Add more water to the remaining ink on the mat and rub a piece of seam binding in it to create a matching piece of ribbon for your bow. Set aside to dry.

Cut a piece of vellum 1” x 6” Using an embossing ink pad, stamp the “With Sympathy” stamp on it and heat emboss it with the Silver Super Sparkles embossing powder. Take care not to overheat the vellum with the heat tool to avoid warping. Cut a fishtail on the right hand side of the sentiment.

Cut a piece of teal/turquoise cardstock to 5 ½” x 4” and stick the watercolour piece to the front of it.

Place the vellum to the front of the card, placing tape on the back of the turquoise cardstock to hide it.

Tie a bow in the ribbon and place it on the bottom left corner of the card, using tape on the back of the card to adhere it to. Stick this piece to the front of the card. 





Lastly, using the Turbo Precision Glue Pen apply glue to the pack of the peacock feather and glue it to the front of the card.

And there you go, your card is ready to go.

Hope you had fun joining me for a quick project today using the beautiful products in the Ooh La La range.

See you soon,

Bridget

Products Used:

ULT157567 Ooh La La Peacock Feather Die

ULT157658 Ooh La La stamp set

AD90019 150 x 210mm - White Cards & Envelopes- 50 pack

AD50017 A4 Double sided adhesive paper

CO725016 Superfine Glitter

CO724990 Super Sparkles Silver Embossing Powder

Tools used:

CO723828 - Non-Stick Craft Mat

CO721957 - Self Healing Cutting Mats

CO724037 - Turbo Precision Glue Pen

Vintage Layout with Ooh La La range by Bridget

Hello crafty people, 

Bridget here with a single layout done with the fabulous Ooh La La range from Ultimate Crafts.

The range lends itself to vintage pictures and the photo of my mother as a toddler works perfectly with the colour scheme.

I have supplied the measurements etc below should you want to make a layout like this on.

To start off we used the Chocolate cardstock from Ultimate crafts as the base page.

To create the layers we cut as follows:

I trimmed 1/8” off each of the sides of the Baroque Bronze patterned paper and glued it to the Chocolate cardstock.

The next layer measures 8 ¾” wide x 7 ½” high using Wrapped in Gold patterned paper

Onto this, center a piece of Chocolate Swirls measuring 7 ½” high x 6” wide:

Create the photo mat 4 ¼” x 6 ¼” from Butterflies & Lace

These papers are all from the 12”x12” Ooh La La paper pad (ULT157600)

Before you stick the photo & photo mat down on the layout, place a piece of the lace across the center of the page and add a piece of the luscious velvet ribbon above it. Once this is done stick down the photo & photo mat.

To colour up the flowers, I put some water in a mister bottle, added some brown ink from a re-inker and then added some Anna Griffin Mix & Match Pigments-Brown. This made the most beautiful shimmery brown colour. Use this to mixture to colour up one of the Cottage Pollen Flowers.

Lightly sponged the same brown shimmer onto the edges of Paper Magnolias flowers.

While the flowers are drying make another batch of the Anna Griffin Mix & Match Pigments-Brown but do not add brown ink, this should make a lovely gold shimmery paint which must be applied to one of the beautiful heart shaped doilies.

Set aside to dry.

Die cut the following dies: (see which ones I have used from the photo above as the dies come in sets)

ULT157558 Intrinsic & Ornamental Set Die

ULT157568 Art Deco Border Set Die

I die cut them from plain white smooth cardstock as I wanted to ink them to get a slightly mottled effect.

Using the Happy Lives stamp set, cut a piece of Butterflies& Lace 2 1/8” x 1 5/8” and stamp the “happy” sentiment on it using black ink. Glue this to the ornate piece from the Intrinsic & Ornamental Set Die (see photo above)

For the metal butterfly, I used glue in all the wing recesses and then added Anna Griffin Fine Glitter Collection-Copper

Use the photo at the top of this post to place all the elements on the layout. Add some final touches using the beautiful pearls included in this range.

Products Used: 

ULT 157610 Ooh La La 12x12” Paper Pad (Papers Used: Bronze Baroque, Chocolate Swirls, Wrapped with Gold & Butterflies & Lace)

ULT157655 Pearls

ULT157639 Ribbons & Lace Pack

ULT157630 Paper Doily Set

ULT157558 Intrinsic & Ornamental Set Die

ULT157568 Art Deco Border Set Die

Ult157658 Happy Lives stamp

CO74864 Anna Griffin Mixed Media Collection | Fine Glitter Collection 

CO724866 Anna Griffin Mixed Media Collection | Mix and Match Pigment

ULT200040 Chocolate Cardstock

CO724295 Cottage Pollen Flowers

ULT157508  Magnolia Lane, Paper Magnolias

Tools Used:

CO723828 - Non-Stick Craft Mat

CO721957 - Self Healing Cutting Mats

CO724037 - Turbo Precision Glue Pen

Thank you so much for joining me today.

Stock up on the beautiful Ooh La La range, it’s going to sell like hotcakes & you don’t want to miss out.

See you soon.

Bridget

Sea Breeze No Cut Gift Bag

August has sped by at such a pace. I cannot believe its time for my last Guest DT post for Couture Creations for the month.

I have made a very quick and easy Gift Bag for you to whip up at home when you need a quick gift solution in a hurry. The best part about this project is it requires no cutting, just a sheet of paper and a scoring tool or scoreboard. 

I had a trip to Melbourne and have had to photograph the steps for the project in my craft room at night so huge apologies for the poor colour quality.

We start off with a piece of patterned paper measuring 8.5"x11".

Score as follows" On the 11" side: 3/4", 4 1/2", 6 1/2" and 10 1/4"

On the 8.5" side score at 2" and at 6 1/2"

There are 4 diagonal score lines required too and these are marked on the diagram below.

Fold all four diagonal lines to the inside and glue down the flat pieces with double sided tape.

Next up we need to start decorating the gift bag. I cut out one ULT157545 Ultimate Crafts Background Gallery Collection Floral Lattice die and cut it in half.

 I then cut out 2 pieces of patterned paper at 4 1/2" x 1 1/2" and adhered the Lattice die cut to it. This will form the edge of my gift bag.

Attach it to the top edges of the gift bag.

We will then punch two holes on both sides of the gift bag and attach the ribbon for the handles with a brad.

The last step is to decorate the front of your gift bag as you wish.

These gift bags take very little time & effort to assemble and make such wonderful gifts for all occasions. I hope you will try to make one. 

Once again, I apologize for the poor colour quality of these pictures.

 Here is a list of the wonderful Couture Creations & Ultimate Crafts products that I used.

PRODUCTS USED

C0724905 Sea Breeze Collection Pack 

ULT157508  Magnolias (bunch of 5)

ULT157545 Ultimate Crafts Background Gallery Collection Floral Lattice

Tools

 CO721955 - Painted Non-Stick Scissors (14cm)

CO723828 - Non-Stick Craft Mat

Adhesives 

CO723899 - 3D Foam Strips

CO721985 - 6mm Double Sided Tape

CO724037 - Turbo Precision Glue Pen

Thank you so much for looking & happy crafting

Bridget

Noteworthy Layout with Couture Creations Sea Breeze Collection Pack

I am so excited to be a Guest Design Team member for August for Couture Creations. I got given some OH SO HEAVENLY things to play with. I could not pass up the opportunity to do a beach themed layout to scrapbook one of my favourite photos of my kidlets. I hope you like what I made and will feel motivated to get creative. Your local scrapbook stores should already have these items and if they don't, NAG!

Choosing papers for this layout using the Sea Breeze Collection Pack (C0724905) was very difficult as all the papers are just lovely. I cut out all the papers I need to create this slightly distressed layout. I dusted off my sewing machine and ran a straight stitch around all the edges.

Once this was all done I cracked open a lovely set of stamps by Ultimate Crafts Background Textures 2 Wire & Oil (ULT157632). I wanted to try inking/stamping with gesso and boy, did I love it. A thin layer of gesso on your craft mat and then put the stamp in it and apply randomly to the layout..Easy as pie and very effective.

Here is the stamped gesso all done & dry.

 Next up I got out my edge distressing tool and went around all the edges of my layered pieces. Ink them afterwards and you will already start having a very lovely looking layout.

Time to start sticking your layers down. Leave off the layer that goes behind your photo. We need to add a little bit of cheesecloth there and in the top left corner of the layout.

Once the glue has dried, add the photo mat layer.

Now comes one of my other favourite things to do..die-cutting and I cut these VERY detailed dies with the amazing Go Cut & Emboss machine from Couture Creations. Once they were cut I inked them up as I decided I wanted them to be dark brown. I did not end up using the leaves and stems but watch this space as I will be using them on another project soon. The scroll one is a beautiful die from the Ultimate Crafts Background Gallery Collection called Floral Lattice (ULT157545).

Assemble the layout with all your bits and pieces. I cut the shells from the paper in the Collection Pack called Navigating At Sea (C0724669) and then using a flower shaping tool I made them a bit more dimensional. Add 3d Foam tape and stick down.

These flowers are just amazing and hold up to intense inking and misting without falling apart like some other flowers do. Some pearls on a beach layout work beautifully.

I had to include a close up of how gorgeous the Floral Lattice die is.

PRODUCTS USED

C0724905 Sea Breeze Collection Pack 

CO724295A  Cottage Pollen Flowers

ULT157508  Magnolias (bunch of 5)

ULT157545 Ultimate Crafts Background Gallery Collection Floral Lattice

ULT157632 Ultimate Crafts Background Textures 2 Wire & Oil  

Tools

 CO721955 - Painted Non-Stick Scissors (14cm)

CO723828 - Non-Stick Craft Mat

Adhesives 

CO723899 - 3D Foam Strips

CO721985 - 6mm Double Sided Tape

CO724037 - Turbo Precision Glue Pen

Thank you so much for looking & happy crafting

Bridget