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  • SSI Friday Favorite–Label Thinlit Cards!

    SSI Friday Favorite–Label Thinlit Cards!

    Yay, I’m back with a project to share with you!  Over on Stylin’ Stampin’ Inkspiration some of the girls are sharing their favorite items from the Stampin’ Up catalog and I had to get in on the action and share a newly re-discovered favorite of mine – the Thinlit Flip Card Dies!

    See, I schedule these technique classes each month but usually have NO IDEA what samples I’m going to be doing in the classes until about a week or so out from the class.

    (Yes, I know I should get better that the whole idea of preplanning and premaking my class samples… I totally will…. someday….)

    But as I was working on the samples for Monday’s Beyond the Basic Flip Card class, I was creating different variations of default Label flip card and the Circle flip card – and holy cow was it super fun!!!

    I love that this type of card is so easy to make thanks to the dies.  I mean, seriously, you get this super crazy cool flipping action and all it takes is one run through the Big Shot?!  Scoring and detailed cutting is done —  SOLD!  Seriously, once I started playing with variations, I ran out of time before I could make them all. Smile

    This card was actually a left over “oops” card where I didn’t mean to cut it short the way I did.  So, when closed it is basically a 4-1/4” x 4-1/4” card.

    To make a Square Flip Card:

    • Cut your paper to 4-1/4” x 11”  (you are actually going to end up with a chunk cut off the end, but you can save it and use it in a different project, right? Smile )
    • Turn it so the short end is lined up in the upper, left corner of the framelit and the long edge is going along the top of the thinlit die.
    • There will be a gap between the bottom of your cardstock and the bottom of the thinlit die.
    • Run it through your Big Shot (or other die cutting machine) and it cuts and scores it all for you! 
    • Decorate and you are done!

    I had fun pairing my cut outs (the I <3 U comes with the flip card die) with the little heart stamp and punch from the Itty Bitty Accents punch pack and Pictogram Punches stamp set

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    If you are coming to my Beyond the Basic Flip Card class (6/30 at 7pm), you’ll be doing a variation on this specific card, only with an added twist!  You’’ll love it!  Don’t forget to RSVP if you haven’t already.

    Not local?  I’m putting together an online class with videos and pdfs going over all the variations we’ll be talking about in class!  Shoot me a message if you want to be notified when the class is ready to go (hopefully very soon).

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  • Fun w/ Thinlits & a Flip Card Class

    Fun w/ Thinlits & a Flip Card Class

    I normally forget to post here on the blog reminders about my upcoming classes and events until the day before, not always the best time to advertise, huh?  But today I’m actually remembering and so I wanted to share a little about my next class that is coming up on Monday June 30th that is all about using the Thinlit dies in fun ways!image

    Beyond the Basic Flip Card

    6/30/2014 – 7pm at Panera in Redmond ~OR~ get the TO-GO class kit my mail
    RSVP here or email me at jennifer@nwstamper.com

    So the idea is that you have your basic flip card (shown above) where you pull open the left flap and the center circle or label shape flips over to reveal a message on the other side.  They are really cute and can be fun to decorate – and did I mention SUPER EASY thanks to the die!  Honestly, I had never tackled this type of card because I was nervous exact-o knives would be involved.  Smile  But once they came out with a die that did it all for me…. heck ya!  I was all over it!

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    The cool part is there are lots of variations you can do with these cards that are really fun and give you lots of variety with the single die.  So, in the class we’ll walk through the basics of using the die for the base card and then jump right in to some fun variations.

    • like changing the orientation of the card
    • to have a spinner in the middle of your flip shape
    • having an extra flap for more space to write your sentiments
    • to even doing a double flip (or more!) card!

    In class we’ll be using both the dies:

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    Circle Thinlit DieLabel Thinlit Die

    I’ll have extra samples of flip cards to give you more ideas, but you’ll go home with completed cards that you made doing the different variations.

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    It should be a lot of fun and a nice change from your typical cards!

    I hope you can join me either in the class or virtually through class videos for the TO-GO option!  RSVP here or email me at jennifer@nwstamper.com

     

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  • Playing with the New Labels Thinlits Flip Card

    When I ran a recent class about cards that flip and pop, I knew I had to share a card using the new Labels Thinlit die.  I mean, the fact that one run through the Big Shot and you have the card almost done, got to love the ease of that. 

    Since the thinlit die comes with a bunch of extra shape dies, I wanted to see what I could come up with that mostly uses those extra shapes.  Have you seen all the options?

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    So, this is what we made:

    I decided to try to experiment – and this is a little hard to see in the picture – but with the main label shape, we actually cut out a label in Coastal Cabana and then cut out a second label shape in So Saffron, but this time, we placed the “hi” die inside the label die so that it would cut out the “hi” leaving a hole in the shape of the word (does that make sense? Smile)  Then we glued the labels together so the Coastal Cabana peeked through!

    To decorate the rest of the card, we added a bit of Washi tape to the front of the card and then stamped an image from the Gorgeous Grunge stamp set.  We stamped the inside, just like the card from last month’s newsletter

    (if you missed it, you can sign up here and I’ll get you a copy of the past newseltter)

    So this is an idea to make a card using just a few supplies…. now I’m off to try out a few more ideas that incorporate more items from your craft room to step up the card even more. 

    Untill then, happy stamping!

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