I hope you are all enjoying this
blog tour as much as I am. I am so proud of my team. They are all working to win the
$50 NEW SU! IDEA BOOK gift certificate from my
upline Janet
Wakeland, who is leading the blog tour. I am giving $20 certificate if one of my team members wins! Yeah! So far
Jen, Hsiao-hui, Carol and Celestine have entered and I am so excited.
Carol was the first to submit her blog tour report. See the
post below for the blog tour report and the scavenger hunt and then don't forget to cc me so I know you submitted. In addition, I will be awarding a prize to some lucky reader of my blog who enters. So lots at stake!
So here is my submission for
Blog Tour Day 3. It is called the
File in the Middle card. My
downline Katie Ford showed us how to make this card at class this past
tuesday.
This is the outside of the card. I have used
Razzleberry Lemonade as the designer paper on a card base of the new
IN COLOR dusty durango. My stamp set here is my new
For All You Do that I have featured in blog tour posts 1 and 2. I stamped the flowers just like I did in yesterday's post and added them to the stems that I stamped in
always artichoke and cut out. I like to leave a little white showing as it helps to see the images better. I also used the
scallop edge punch which is on
special this week at
30% off.
This is why the card is called
file in the middle. There is a
divider on the inside that you can see at the top of this card. In this view you also get a better look at my flowers. I took the
rhinestones out of the
rhinestone brads by SU! and adhered them with glue dots. I also used a
2 way glue pen to put
dazzling diamonds glitter on the flowers.
The way to make this card is to cut the cardstock lengthwise so that it measures 5.5 by 11.5
Score this cardstock at 4.25, 7.25, 10.25 inches Fold them so that you get the mtn. in the middle. Punch out a designer punch (I used the curvy label punch, Katie used the circle punch in her sample below) from the two sides that make the mtn. Next, adhere the mtn with sticky strip so it stays closed. Next stamp or place an image so that it can be seen on either side of the divider (see next image).
Do you see that I can flip the center divider so that you see an image on each side. By the way the ink colors for the flowers and other images are
dusty durango and
crushed curry.
This is the opposite side. The sentiments are also a part of the
For All You Do stamp set.
Here is another sample of a
file in the middle card using the new
dsp Tall Tales and the stamp set
Animal Stories.
The base card stock is
old olive. The sentiment is from
teeny tiny wishes another new stamp set and I used a
rhinestone brad to balance the image on the front. The elephant is set on
soft suede card stock.
The sentiments inside are from
On Your Birthday and
On A Pedestal. They are stamped in soft suede.
Now there is something funny about this card. Can you guess what? Well it is that my elephants inside the card, on either side of the file, are slanted. My
upline Janet
Wakeland wanted to know why I made them that way. I laughed to myself and told her they are standing up as if they are at the circus on the pedestal. I tried to make them stand straight but I started tearing them so I left them alone. So please imagine that they are standing on that pedestal.
Here is Katie's original version of the card. Now she is not the original designer, although I wish she was. She made this card herself but she learned about file in the middle card from another demo Dawn Griffith. You can see her original card on
her blog. 
By accident I deleted the card front from this post, so I am posting it below. Katie used the melon mambo card stock and
razzleberry lemonade dsp. The images are from the new level 3 hostess set the
More the Merrier and the cupcake set
Crazy for Cupcakes.
I love these cards and can't wait to see more of them. Thanks
Katie for teaching us how to do this card.
I used crushed curry for the card base and then layered it with that awesome razzleberry lemonade doublesided designer paper. The cupcake stand is stamped in basic brown permanent ink which is great if you want to watercolor or color with marker. I colored the cupcakes with markers. I added crystal effects and also SU! chunky glitter. The cupcakes look so good that I could eat them. The happy birthday is from teeny tiny wishes set. It has every wish you could possibly imagine. That was also stamped in basic brown. By the way - I used SU! watercolor paper to stamp the image on. You get a really bold look and nothing smears since the paper absorbs the ink. These are great because they are already precut. I just cut this one in half, because I needed a smaller piece.
Here is my envelope. I always stamp an envelope. Happy Birthday Olachi, even if it is a little late!
