Greeting cards and other paper crafted items made by a hobby paper crafter.
Description of process with pictures, text and sometimes video links. See cardsbyheidiangelika.com for more examples of cards and paper crafted items.
Meet Horace the Horse!😍 Sam Calcott from Mixed Up Craft, www.mixedupcraft.com, recently released her own collection of stamps, dies, papers and embossing folders, Made To Surprise. Sam's devoted crafting fans, and Sam herself, quickly made Horace the Horse and Geri the Giraffe their absolute favorites in the collection. They have also become mine.
Geri the Giraffe😁
So when I went to make another Impossible Box, the choice stood between Horace and Geri when it came to what to decorate the box with. This time the choice fell on Horace😉. But I have colored and die cut Geri as well, so he/she(?) will end up on something else in the near future!
The first time I used any of the stamps, were to decorate another Impossible Box. I have posted a variety of Impossible Boxes before, check out these previous blogposts: Impossible Gift Boxes and Impossible Popper Boxes, to see how it back then was the Paper Pixie from thepaperpixie.com who inspired me to make them.
An Impossible Box and an Impossible Popper Box á la the Paper Pixie.
Sam Calcott had gotten many requests to share how to make an Impossible Box in a Facebook Live, and she finally did last week. She made very different sizes then the ones I had made before, so I was inspired to make yet another Impossible Box. Here is the tutorial she has posted on YouTube:
Thank You For all that you do and all that you are.
I am really behind on my blogging. I have been so busy setting up a new net site, that I haven't found much time to create, let alone blog. However, today I finally published my site, papercraftingbyheidiangelika.com, so now I can concentrate on doing other things. So, now I will try and catch up on updating my blog.
Today's post is a so-called Flip Flap Card. I guess I should write a tribute to Sam Calcott and her wonderful blog mixedupcraft.com, cause more often than not, she is the inspiration for my paper crafting. This card she did on a Live craft-along on Facebook last week, and I try to at least sit and watch and listen if I don't craft-along. This Live I crafted along to, though. I won't claim that I am able to follow her pace, but at least I finished the card not long after the Live. I had a few mishaps along the way, but I was able to cover them up so they won't be too noticeable to an untrained eye😂!
I am fairly happy with the end result of this card, all I have to do now is make an envelope for it, and it is good to be sent out.
Usually after Sam has had a Live, she makes a youtube tutorial and a blogpost in which she shows an edited and much shorter version of how to make the item she made during the Live. Here is her YouTube video explaining how to make a flip flap Card:
Todays card is a card inspired by Natasha Foote and her tutorial on the Ripped Paper Tutorial:
It is a very easy way yo make a card that only requires some ripped paper, inks, some sort of blending instrument and a stamp or two. And of course and idea of what you want your card to look like😉!
My card started out with the green grassy ground and the hills in the background and then when I messed up a bit on the sky...I tried to put in some sunlight that didn't work out at all, and I ended up having to go fairly heavy handed with the blue on top to cover up my mistake. Then when I went looking for a stamp to put in the foreground, I realized that I didn't have any trees in my collection. So I kept searching for an other alternative, and found the umbrella holding woman. Seeing that my sky looked like there was a storm coming, I changed my original idea, stamped the woman out to the side, colored her with Copic Markers, before I went back in with some more blue and added rain-like stripes to my sky, and voila, I had a story😂! I knew what kind of text I wanted to have on the side, but also knew that I didn't have a stamp that said what I wanted, so I went with "There will always be sun after rain", thinking that it would fit as well.
To finish off the card I used the same blue ink (Distress Oxide - Faded Jeans) and created a narrow border on the edges of the card base, before gluing my topper panel onto it. I also added some Nuvo Crystal Drops in Midnight Blue around the stamped sentiment.
Today I am sharing a Waterfall Card, which is a fun interactive card that is really easy to make. What took me the longest with this card, was to decide what I wanted to stamp on the 6 different panels. I guess what I need to do when making a card like this is to land on a background paper first, then go for the stamped images and the rest of the colors. In my mind it looks the best if the six panels all combine to tell a story, and you might very well use actual photos instead of stamps or die cuts. Imagine the card as a birthday card with six different photos of the recipient of the card. That would be a fun birthday card to receive!
Inside the card. (stamped in Norwegian)
Since it is an interactive card, there has to be a movement or an action happening. Here is a short movie showing this cards movement.
Check out Sam Calcott´s easy to follow youtube tutorial on how to make a waterfall card here:
or, visit her blog on mixedupcraft.com and look up her post on "Fun and very easy Waterfall Cards"!
This card was really easy and fun to make. There are many tutorials on how to make it on YouTube, however I first made it crafting along with Sam Calcott of Mixed Up Craft (mixedupcraft.com) on her latest FB Live.
I kept up until it was time to make the rosette, which I have never made before. I struggled for quite some time before I figured out how to do it, although it is not really all that hard.
Seen from one of the sides
Seen from the other side.
Mixed Up Craft is probably working on shooting the tutorial video as we speak, so I can't share a link to that as of now, however, if you want to see the live craft-along you can check it out here:
This card is made using a fun technique in which you make your own stamps from fun foam. I have used different sizes stars and die cut out stars in different sizes. I then attached them to stamping blocks and stamped my stars with a VersaMark watermark stamp ink pad, before heat embossing them in gold. Then I watercolored them and made the finished card front into a card.
I got the idea from Natasha Foote, whom I follow on YouTube and who has a nice card making group on FB which I am a member of.
