This is a gate-fold card with magnetic closure under one of the white petals.

Variations on a theme. Both cards say Happy Birthday, Punkin'! on the inside. The Pumpkins and nested shapes were cut with my Silhouette, and the grass and fences were cut using Fiskars punches.

This card is for a Marine Reservist being deployed to Afghanistan after two tours in Iraq.

I made the first card to demonstrate the Out of the Box/Out of Bounds technique at the October Stamp Club meeting at The Scrapbook Page in Shawnee, Kansas. That card is colored with Copic Markers.
Roof: YR04, YR09
Door: V12, V15, V17
Window: Y11
Background: C00, C1, C3, C5


The second card, although you can scarcely tell, has the scalloped circle perched halfway across the fold of the card. I made the dotted papers using a dot-patterned stamp. I discovered that if I stamped once and then did a second-generation stamp at a slightly different angle (discovered when I accidentally dropped my stamp!), that I liked the results for this project.

I just love this Rufus stamp by Magnolia! I had been admiring it for a long time and finally indulged myself and bought it. The dog house stamp in the background is not a Magnolia stamp, but the online company from which I bought Rufus featured the stamps together. Again I have masked Tilda in Lace Jeans with Rufus. I added a little fence made with a Fiskars punch in the background.

I think that this was the first card I had made since attending Suzanne Dean's Copic Coloring class (she taught classes all weekend September 24 and 25 at the Scrapbook Page in Shawnee, Kansas).

The side view shows the layering with dimensional foam dots.

A card made with an embossed background and a Spellbinders Nestabilities die. I used the "Out of the Box" (also called "Out of Bounds") technique to have the girl's head pop slightly out of the oval. See the Splitcoast Stampers web site or YouTube for instructions. The image is colored with Copic markers.

Girl's hair: E29, Y28

Skin: E00, E000, E0000, R20

Clothing: C1, R20, R24, R46, Y11, Y13, Y15

Bird: B91, B93, Y?

Turtle: YG95, Y28

Bee: C1, C7, Y13

Tools: C1, C3, R46, YG17, YG67

Wheelbarrow: C1, W1, W5, W8

Flowerpot: R08, R24, W8

Garden: B21, B23, G21, V12, V15, W1, W3, Y13, YG03, YG17

Well, this isn't a card at all--but you can see that for yourself! I used my Spellbinders Nestabilities ("Peony") to make a flower to go on a package, and I embossed it using an embossing folder.