Thursday, March 10, 2011

Architecture card



A step pyramid pop up, which won't stay flat without the help of a ribbon tied around the card. The pop up is made of a bit too sturdy paper...

Sunday, March 6, 2011

Bouquet card



A 3d bouquet on the outside, made of store-bought tiny roses, paper, ribbon, cellophane, etc.

Inside, a slightly modified amazing seven flower pop up (made of origami paper), as shown on Extreme Cards and Papercrafting.

With Love


Two cards with quilling and gold outline stickers.

Roses for mothers



Quilled roses and swirls on the outside, a spiral pop-up with punched butterflies on the inside.

Saturday, March 5, 2011

Christmas Fairy



Green & small red cards with a fairy stamped and embossed (crystal embossing powder) on them.



Red ones had a simple Christmas tree pop-up inside:


Christmas squares 2



Tea bag folding and embosed greetings.

Christmas squares 1



Quilled ornaments and stamped & embossed greetings.

Baubles



Stamped and embossed Christmas ornament cards.
(I did these in addition to other kinds of cards one Christmas, because unlike many of my cards, these can be mailed.)

Tri-shutter Christmas



Elaborate Christmas cards, various techniques on a tri-shutter card.



Here's a tri-shutter card tutorial.

Friday, March 4, 2011

Kittens & flowers, and cake



Simple cards, one with a bouquet of flowers, other one with two kittens.
Inside there are pop-ups: A flower pop up in the bouquet card, and a birthday cake in the kitten card.



Flower pop-up is based on the V-fold, cake is based on the box method. Exellent tutorials for pop-ups can be found at Extreme Cards and Crafts: here's the V-fold.

Iris folding clover


Four leaf clover card made with iris folding, decorated with ribbon and stamped congratulations.

Instructions for the iris folding part are here.

Pair of flowers



Two cards with flowers made of wire and beads, decorated with ribbon.