Styrofoam Snow

Styrofoam Snow

By Thrifty Stamper
For this card you will need:
Stamp sets: Oh, Deer; Scenic Selections
Cardstock:
White for base: 5 ½” x 11”
Black mat: 4 ¾” x 3 ½”
White focal panel: 4 ½” x 3 ¼”
Ink: Black and gray
Sponge
Elmer’s Craft Bond or other wet glue (not shown)
Container with lid. I used recycled dog food container
Grater- Optional
Dryer Sheet-Optional
Markers
Scissors
Small piece of Styrofoam. I used a piece of packing for my Big Shot. You can use any Styrofoam you have on hand. Examples: Styrofoam ball, packing peanuts

You can use a grater to make very fine snow.
Rub the Styrofoam over the grater. The fine snow will cling to everything. You may wish to wipe out the container and your hands with a dryer sheet to stop the cling.

If you choose not to use the grater you can break off or cut with scissors a small portion of the Styrofoam and rub it back and forth on the larger piece. This will result in larger flakes.

When you have about 5 tablespoons of the snow you can put the lid on the container. This is plenty with enough for another card!
Stamp images or scene onto the focal panel. Color in images with markers.
Use Elmer’s Craft Bond or other wet glue to cover the areas you wish to have the snow. Don’t forget to put snow flakes on the trees or in the sky.

Dip the focal panel into the container with the snow. Gently brush the snow onto the focal panel making sure to cover where it is wet from the glue.

This is how the focal panel should look with the snow.

Finished project.

Faux Tearing

FAUX TEARING TECHNIQUE

By Sue Wisniewski

A fun technique that uses ordinary post-it notes to create a fun and easy layer.

Supplies:
Post-it notes
Stipple brushes
Stamps – MFPaHC Wealthy Fish
Inks – Ranger Adirondack stonewash, denim & lettuce
Instructions:
1. Rip post-notes and stick to 5 x 3 ¾” cream cardstock.

2. Stipple Adirondack stonewash ink inside the ripped post-it notes…about halfway across.
3. Stipple Adirondack denim inside ripped post-it notes the rest of the way across card.

4. With the ripped post-it notes still in place stamp the fish once with Adirondack denim ink then remove post-notes and stamp the fish one more time.
5. Stamp the bamboo with Adirondack lettuce ink in the middle of the two stamped fish.
6. Stamp saying with same denim ink in the top left corner.
7. Outline the edge of the stamped card with Marvy oriental blue marker then layer onto 5 ¼ “ x 4 cream cardstock.
8. Layer stamped card onto navy blue top fold note card.
9. Stamp bamboo with lettuce ink on inside 5 ¼ “ x 4 cream card then layer inside navy blue top fold card.

A2 Crimped Envie Pocket Card by Pam Stang

A2 Crimped Envie Pocket card

by: Pam Stang
Gather supplies making sure that you have a crimping tool and an A2 envelope, your stamps, punches, sponge and whatever else you want to use to decorate your card.

Take your A2 envelope and seal it.

Using your paper cutter, from the short end, cut off 1 ¼”…set aside…don’t discard.

Decorate the outside as you wish. I like to sponge the outside edges.

This is an important part. In order for the “lid” to fit, you need to crimp this piece as shown as it becomes a bit smaller with crimping. I like to crimp it both ways for the texture

Finish decorating the outside as you wish.

For the insert, cut your base piece to 4 x 4 ¼” and then layer more on top, if you’d like.

Here is the finished product. These are fun to stick in your neighbors mailboxes without being in another envlope. Have fun!

For this A2 Crimped Envie Pocket card I used the following stamps: Marsh Silhouettes, Just a Note and Daffodil Greetings.

Paper coastal cabana, vanilla A2 envelope, vanilla, crisp cantaloupe

Ink: baked brown sugar, coastal cabana, crisp cantaloupe, black

Accessories: button, ribbon, modern label punch, sponge, crimper

Using Fabric on Cards by Thrifty Stamper

Using Fabric on Cards

by Thrifty Stamper
To make this card you will need:
Stamp set- Be Proud
Sheet of heavy cardstock 140lb Premium White Card stock from www.marksfinestpapers.com was used here. Use dark cardstock for dark fabrics.
3 ¼” x 4 ½” fabric covered background
3 ½” x 4 ¾” blue cardstock
3 ¾” x 5” red cardstock
½”” x 2 ¾” white cardstock
¾” x 3” blue cardstock
4 ¼” x 11 white cardstock for base
Spray adhesive 3M General Purpose 45 spray adhesive was used here. You can try other adhesives too. Wet glues like Gorilla Glue, Elmer’s, and book making glues work best.
Ink
Markers
Fabric 1/4yd of Wally World fabric was used here. You can use any fabric scrap. I have used the following for fabric on cards: old dress from a garage sale, old worn out colored sheet, scarf from the Good Will, stained fabric napkin!
Various die cuts
Scissors

Spray adhesive/or if not using spray you can apply your wet glue to full sheet of card stock. If using dark fabric use dark cardstock.

Press fabric onto the adhesive covered cardstock. You can press out wrinkles easily if you use heavy cardstock. 1/4 yard of fabric will cover at least 2 sheets of cardstock.

Cut fabric covered cardstock into sizes that will work as panels on your cards.
I got 6 decent sized panels from my cardstock.

I used a piece of fabric as a ribbon on my card. I snipped a small area on the edge of the fabric about ½” wide. I tore along the cut to get the fabric strip.

Finished project.

Peek a Boo Tutorial by Davi Reid

Check out our newest tutorial on MFP SpeedyTV brought to us by the Tutorial Time on SpeedyTV Challenge. 

Peek a Boo Card

By: Davi Reid

Will need two pieces of paper of your choice

6 3/4” x 5 ½”

5 ½” x11”

1. Score the 6 3/4” piece at 4 ¼”
2. Score the 11” piece at 3 1/2 ” and7”

3. Run a bone folder along your folds
4. The 11” piece is folded like a z with the short
Side to the back.
5. Next use a 1 1/4” circle punch to punch a hold
On the 6 1/8 piece right up against the edge
Of the piece that was folded over.
I didn’t have the right size circle punch so
Used a die close in size but it did make it
Harder. I suggest using the circle punch if
You have it.

6. Next line up the edge of the 11” with the edge
Of the 6 1/8 and then line up the punch and punch
Thru the second piece, and again thru the layer
underneath that one.

7.Stamp whatever you want to go in the two openings
Onto another piece of paper.

8.On the front fold of the 11” cover it with
Your choice of adhesive. You will then adhere
The back side of the 6 1/8” to it making sure
You line up the right side of the papers soyour
Holes line up.


9.You will now open your card and the short fold
on the 6 1/8” move over behind the second hole.
Adhere the image of your choice in that window.

10. Now take an adhesive and run it down
The back inside fold of the 11” piece. It
Will be along side the back image. This
Keeps the sliding piece of the 6 1/8 piece
Inside and allows it to slide.

11.Now decorate your front and or inside as
Your want, and you now have a peek a boo card.
front of card


As you can see when you open the slider
Brings over the image into the window
Covering the first image.
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Basic Color Stippling

Here's Today's Featured Tutorial:

Basic Color Stippling

By Bonnie R

I've often had people ask how do I get my color coverage by stippling. Today I'm going to show you how to do just that. It's actually really easy once you know the basics and it's a great way to fill in open spaces (i.e.: sky, grass, trees,). You can also distress a project using this technique as well.
To start off, you need some ink, stipple brushes, and stamped images.

Once your images are colored and cut out you need to pick up the ink onto your brush by lightly "pouncing" the brush onto the ink pad , and then you can begin to stipple the ink over and around the colored images.



Once you are satisfied with the color coverage, you can move onto the next color, ect., etc.



Here's a sample of what your stippled project looks like before assembling.


To add a vintage touch to your project, tap your brush onto a caramel inkpad,


and pounce the ink onto the edges of your card until you are again satisfied with the color coverage.


Here's the completed project.