Meri's Pop-Up Elephant Card

For her birthday I made my younger sister a card with an adorable ellie and jungle theme. I started with cutting three strips into the folded section of the card. I line these cuts up with the paper that is the background and cut the same sections out. I keep those cut outs and place them under the folds. This gives the appearance of solid sheet and strengthens that fold. I also cut strips of that background (blue swirls) to cover the top of the pop-out piece. Using my gypsy I cut three trees once with green paper and once with the wood grained paper. I complete cut the trunk of the tree away from the tree top. I used an old leaf patterned punch to punch some different colored, textured greens for some dimensional leaves. I attached a row of grass on the pop-out before attaching the two smaller trees on each side. I then put another row of grass in front of the trees. Two rows of grass also sandwich the elephant. He was cute on pearled paper; google eyes, sparkle marker ear details, and silver glitter pen trunk details were added. A tree, grass rows, and Happy Birthday are on the front.

IT'S ALIVE!!!!

In the past months I have been so busy with camp, moving out of the old house into my parents house for a month, then moving to Maryland from Ohio, and starting to teach again. I have finally had some time to update this blog so I will be posting pictures of the few things I made before summer, some camp crafts and then the things I have crafted for my classroom the past few weeks. Check back soon, this blog is about to explode!!!

Mom's Trifold Birthday

For my Mom's birthday card I made a trifold on a 12 inch by 8 inch cardstock. Directions on how to make a trifold is posted here. The patterned paper is from the DCWV Linen Stack, my new favorite. The happy birthday was cut from A Child's Year cart and I used that font and welded "Momma" and the heart to "Alex". I glitterfied :) all of these and stuck them on the large main parts of the card. I kept it completely simple so that the paper and design of the card was what caught your eye.

Trifold Directions

• This template shows you how to make the scores and cuts to achieve the 3-D look of the card.
• The red lines are where a cut needs to be made through the paper that makes the backing of the card.
  
• The blue lines are where a score line needs to be place for an easy, uniform fold and also as a sizing guide when decorating each block.
  
• The best size I have found to work is a sheet of cardstock measuring 12 inches by 9 inches. The smaller boxes are 3x2 and the larger ones are 3x4.
• *Tip* This card can be made using any size, using measurements that are easily divided by 3 work best.
• *Tip* Do not put thick and high raised embellishment on the right 2/3 of the card as it will not fold properly. However, a double scored vertical lines could create more of a book look to allow for larger embellishments.
• *Tip* Score the lines only, do not fold them until all of the paper, and embellishments have been added.

Boss Birthday Card, Cake, & Shirts

I work at a summer camp for people with disabilities. Its our off season so there are only 3 of us until summer. My boss's birthday was coming up and he had just learned that I don't like to be near birds, fake or real. So this is the card I made for his birthday.






































His daughters' birthdays are also on and around his so I made them this cake. They have faerie doors and now a faerie terrarium. The cake has a tree (camp logo) and some spring tulips on it. After learning about the faeries I added a faerie door at the bottom of the tree and some hidden faeries through the leaves and grass.


























I also made the three of us in the office matching tie-dyed shirts that I used freezer paper to screen print the tree and our names on them. We also had Marissa and baby come visit (look at the banner, card, and diaper wreath made for them as well).

25 Years

I made this card for my dad on his 25th Anniversary of being a Judge. (I was 6 months old when he was sworn in!) The green tile background is from the DCWV Metro stack and then just white and textured green squares cut with a 1/8 inch overlap to continue the square theme. I got the little icons at a scrapbook garage sale and wish I had gotten all the judge things. I wrote his name on the gold plate and cut the Congrats and 25 out on gold foil paper. I know 25 is the silver anniversary but the other items were already gold so I stuck with that. I put a note on the inside and my mom and I decorated his chambers that morning.

This card and diaper wreath was made for Marissa's Baby Shower.