Tara's Craft Studio

Paper Crafting Projects

A Sympathy Card

Some­times, sad things hap­pen and we need to express our heart­felt love and sym­pa­thy to our friends and fam­ily.  This card was made using the Spell­binders Sha­peabil­i­ties Pen­dants Fleur De Lis die and was inspired by Eileen at Eileen’s Crafty Zone.  I had the priv­i­lege of meet­ing this lovely lady at a past Lili of the Valley-sponsored Mas­ter Col­or­ing class in Eng­land a year or two ago.  Any­way, I kept the card sim­ple with just die-cut card stock and a short sen­ti­ment on the front of the card.  I’ve included instruc­tions on how to make this card below.

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MATERIALS USED:
Bazz­ill Smooth­ies Wal­nut Cream card­stock
self-adhesive pearls
Spell­binders Sha­peabil­i­ties Pen­dants Fleur De Lis die
Spell­binders Clas­sic Squares Large dies

SIMPLE INSTRUCTIONS FOR THIS CARD:
1.  Fold an 11″ x 5 1/2″ piece of card­stock in half to make your base card. I added a 5 3/8″ x 5 3/8″ card­stock layer to the front, but addi­tional lay­ers are optional.
2.  Cut and emboss 9 of the small Spell­binders Sha­peabil­i­ties Fleur De Lis Pendants 

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3.  Use 3-D pads to attach each of the 9 Pen­dants onto the front of the card as shown on the card above.
4.  Cut and emboss 2 dif­fer­ent sizes of Spell­binders Clas­sic Squares Large dies for the cen­ter front of the card.
5.  Add sen­ti­ment to the small square and attach the smaller square to the larger square with 3-D pads. Center and glue the squares to the front of the card.

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Birthday Card for a Friend

I quickly put together a few cards for some friends and fam­ily mem­bers who have birth­days this month.  This card is one of them.  I just got this new sheet music paper from Pion Design’s For­get Me Not col­lec­tion and love it.  My hus­band calls me a “paper snob” in that I have a dif­fi­cult time using papers other than Pion Design.  

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MATERIALS USED:
Pion Design For­get Me Not, Images From the Past
Bazz­ill Smooth­ies Wal­nut Cream card­stock
Ivory lace
Ivory seam bind­ing
Self-adhesive pearls
Jew­eled but­ton
die-cut roses — Spell­binders Bitty Blos­soms
die-cut doily and swirls — Cheery Lynn

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Decorative Cup with WPC Cutting File and Manual Instructions

These dec­o­ra­tive cups work great for small gifts as well as candy.  I used this project to par­tic­i­pate in the Paz­zles April Chal­lenge “New to You.”  I’m enclos­ing the WPC cut­ting file here for the cup.  The doily base, heart, han­dle, and flow­ers were made using cut­ting files from the Paz­zles Craft Room Library.  Although this cup was entirely cut using the Paz­zles Inspi­ra­tion, I have included easy man­ual instruc­tions below.

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MATERIALS USED FOR THIS PROJECT:
Pion Design Stu­dio of Mem­o­ries
Bazz­ill Smooth­ies Wal­nut Cream card­stock
white cor­ru­gated paper
Tim Holtz Picket Fence Dis­tress Crackle Paint
white lace
var­i­ous sizes of self-adhesive pearls

MANUAL INSTRUCTIONS:

1.  Cut an 11 1/4″ x 5″ piece of card stock and then score down the short side every 1 1/4″ to form 9 panels.  

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2.  Fold along the scored lines and curve your card­stock into a round cup shape.

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3. The han­dle can be made by tak­ing two dif­fer­ent sizes of a Spell­binders Nesta­bil­i­ties and cut­ting them together.  

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4.  Fold the cut han­dle in half or to what­ever length you would like it to be.  Cut the other part to about an inch from the fold line and then glue this 1″ part to the inside of one of the outer pan­els.  If you don’t have a Spell­binders Nesta­bil­i­ties set, you can be cre­ative and design and cut your own handle.

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5.  Glue the outer end of the panel with­out the han­dle onto to the inside of the other outer end to hide the glued handle.

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6.  Use your favorite dec­o­ra­tive round doily as a base and use a hot glue gun to adhere your cup to the doily base.  Take dec­o­ra­tive paper and cut 8 pan­els mea­sur­ing 4 7/8″ x 1 1/8″ size and glue these to the out­side cup pan­els.  You can also cut out pan­els for the inte­rior of the cup as well.  

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