My craft room

Good morning crafters. I have been pretty busy
this week and I haven't had much time to make
cards. I do have some photo's to share of my
craft room. Mind you this was originally our
craft/computer room where my son had his
computer set up. I somewhat took the space over
( he didn't mind). I still have his artwork (gaming posters)
on the walls.
I turned the closet into a useful storage space. I have 1 shelf
with 4 x 5 papers and card stock, finished cards, my heat
embossing gun (inside the old metal cake pan) and binders
with ideas and pictures of my stamps. Did you know that
the heat embossing gun works better if you lay your object
on top of a piece of aluminum foil or an aluminum pan? I
have designated an old cake pan and it helps to control the
mess too. A smart tip I learned from my Stampin Up
demonstrator. On the top of the dresser I have my card
stock and inside the dresser I have my stamp sets,
punches and some embellishments. I have a hanging
organizer with odds and ends too. My desk has my ribbons
(which I can't seem to stop buying) on my Ribbon Rods
which I designed and sell at my Etsy site. I finally finished
labeling my inks (upside down,) because they keep longer
that way. Now it is so much easier to find the ink pad I am
looking for. I also have some desk top organizers labeled
with my embellishments, embossing powders, glitter and
faux jewels. I am a very visual person, if I see my items I
get inspired to use them. Otherwise I forget what I have.
I pick up a lot of my stuff on clearance and save it for the
perfect project, which never happens when I bury it
somewhere. I am going to work on my card projects this
weekend. I have a few ideas now thanks to the inspiration
from reading http://creationsbyar.blogspot.com/. She
has some gorgeous cards that really have me thinking.
I will post them next week when their finished. Have a
good weekend.

Pop Up Card

Hello. I have some pictures of a card I made for a friend for her Mother in Law's 92nd Birthday. I will give you step by step instructions as I make another card similar to my friends. This is a beautiful pop out card that really wow's anyone you send it to. You can improvise with any color card stock or any object to put in it. I will give you some easy step by step instructions. I used all vellum butterflies to pop up on one of them, instead of the flowers. On one of these photos you will see one of the butterflies.

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Instructions
Choose your cardstock, score, fold and cut to desired size. Do the same with another sheet of cardstock or heavy paper. (but do not use your bone folder on the crease of the inside card yet) Also fold your inner card in the opposite direction so the pretty stuff is on the inside. I like to pick something for the inside of the card with a matching theme. If you have a word window punch from Stampin Up you can close the inner card on its fold, and use the punch pushed up as far as it will go from the bottom of the card, find the halfway of the punch and make a punch (so when you open up the folded piece you removed it will be the same size as the window punch itself) Repeat from the top of the card. (picture) Or use an exacto blade to cut. With the pattern side facing up using a ruler score a line from the outside of the bottom slot to the top slot and repeat on the other side.(picture) Now you can bend the score lines so the inside of the card has a shelf. Now you can use your bone folder inside the card. I use two sided tape to attach the inside to the outside of the card. Now find some colorful cardstock and stamp it with flowers. Use different colors of cardstock and different sizes of flowers. You will need triple the amount of small flowers. Use black ink, and begin cutting out each and every flower (this is the fun part). Use 3 large flowers to start, bend a corner on 2 of them, (picture) and use a glue dot to attach to the shelf.(picture) Now all you do is continue adding flowers to the flowers and build this out. TWO VERY IMPORTANT NOTES. Always be sure the glue dot is covered by the flower you are working on so that they don’t stick the card shut. And keep closing the card to make sure your flowers are on the inside and not creeping out. For the card front I added 2 flowers that I used the 2 way glue pen to cover and then added glitter and a rhinestone flower to the center from Joann's. I used my Provo Craft Cricut, with the Accent Essentials cartridge to cut frames, 1 regular and 1 shadow. I then glued and glittered them. For the finished card I used Die Cuts With a View (DCWV) Blossoms and Butterflies premium stack cardstock for the inside and outside of the card. I love the DCWV premium stacks, this one already had a lot of glitter detail on it. I used Stampin Up stamps; Doodle this, Delight in Life and Wonderful Wings for the vellum butterfly) thatI used white ink and Jacquard products powder on. I hope you try this and have fun with it like I did.
Thanks for looking.  ~Diane 
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