3D Thursday Legendary Ride Surprise Box

Hello there! I have a super fun 3D project today. This little box is actually a fancy way to give a gift card to someone. Once you take the lid off, the sides fall down to show a little diorama scene. One flap holds a gift card while the other gives you a place to write a little note to the recipient. 

I make quite a few holiday themed boxes like this to sell at craft shows each year, but I believe this is the first birthday themed one I've done. I'm going to have to play around with some feminine birthday and anniversary themed ones next. 

Measurements: 

• Box lid 8 1/8 x 8 1/8 scored at 1, 2, 6 1/8 and 7 1/8 on both sides. See pattern below and video to trim. 
• Top panel 4 x 4 
• Sides 7/8 x 4

• Box base 12 x 12 scored at 4, 8 on both sides. See pattern below and video to trim. 
• Outside panels 3 7/8 x 3 7/8
• Inside large triangles 3 3/4 square cut in half
• Inside small rectangle 2 5/8 square cut in half
• Bottom square panel 3 7/8 x 3 7/8
• Title banner 1 1/2 x 6
• Motorcycle strip 1/2 x 6 1/2 scored at 1/2 and 6
• Both pocket inserts are 3 7/8 wide. See video on how to measure depth. 
• Back panel 3 7/8 x 7 3/4 scored at 3 7/8

See my E is for Embossing post to see how I made the pattern paper. 

What do you think? Isn't this a nice way to give a gift card to someone? As I mentioned above, this is pretty easy to adapt to other occasions by simply changing out the pattern paper and stamp sets. 

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God's love and blessings!

Technique Tuesday-Legendary Ride

Hello there! I'm here today with a Technique Tuesday. I'm going to show you how I got this multi-colored motorcycle image using our Stampin' Write Markers and the Stamparatus. I've been having quite a bit of fun playing with the Legendary Ride set. I'm excited to have several masculine birthday cards in my stash now. 

Dimensions for this card are:

• Card Base: 8 1/3 x 5 1/2 scored at 4 1/4
• Designer Series Paper: 2 1/4 x 5 1/2
• Front Silver Panel: 3/4 x 5 1/2
• Inside White Panel: 4 x 5 1/4
• Inside Silver Panel 1/4 x 5 1/2

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God's love and blessings!

Fun Fold Friday-A Legendary Slider

Hello there! I'm here today with a super Fun Fold Friday!! I have to admit, I almost didn't post this card though. It took three tries to get the video done correctly (completely user error with the camera). That wouldn't have been a big deal except I only have one pack of the Ready to Ride Designer Series Paper right now (definitely going to have to remedy that quick!) which means I only have two of the gas station panels, so I had to tear the card apart twice to make sure I could get a good video for you. Thankfully our DSP is pretty durable and I was able to make it work. 

As promised, here are the dimensions for this fun card:

• Card base 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 scored at 4 1/8 and 8 1/4 on the long side. Cut slit 1 inch from the 1/4 inch section (see video)
• Gas station panel was cut from DSP
• Inside Panel 4 x 5
• Outside road 1 1/8
• Inside road 1 1/16
• Scrap piece for attaching motorcycle about 3 inch length and 1/2 - 1 inch wide (see video)
• Ribbon 2 1/2 inches

I hope you like it!!

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Throwback Thursday Legendary Ride

Hello there! I'm back today with a little Throwback Thursday for you. My handsome hubby needed a thank you card this week and he wanted it to have a camera on it. So I pulled out my retired Pun Intended stamp set to create the card on the right. 

I cannot take credit for the design as I cased it from Elizabeth over at Seeing Ink Spots. I just changed up one of the colors and used different dies for the background cut-outs. I used Pale Papaya instead of the retired Peakaboo Peach, and I used Tasteful Labels dies instead of the Tags and Labels framelits. I also stamped my camera on separate paper and fussy cut it out rather than stamping it directly on the background piece. 

I then decided I wanted to use the same layout with a current stamp set, so I got to play with Legendary Ride again. For this card I opted to use watercolor paper instead of Shimmery White. I brushed a wash of Smoky Slate, Garden Green and Balmy Blue to simulate asphalt, grass and sky. I stamped the sentiment and the little grass cluster (which you can barely see in this photo behind the front tire) onto the background once it was dry and then die cut two squares from the Stylish Shapes Die set. The squares were popped up from the background on Stampin' Dimensionals. The motorcycle was stamped and cut separate and lifted on another layer of Dimensionals. A simple watercolor on the grass cluster on the inside and this card was done. 

What do you think? This card could easily be done without the die cut shapes in the background, but I think it adds a little more dimension and interest to the card without overpowering it. 

One little note, when stamping on textured paper such as our watercolor paper, or stamping with a solid image like the motorcycle, I HIGHLY recommend using the Stamparatus so you can stamp several times to get a nice solid image.  Also, make sure your ink is dry before you run it through your die cut machine so you don't end up with an ink shadow like my sentiment above. 😣

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Fun Fold Friday Legendary Ride

Hello there! I'm here today with an easy Fun Fold Friday. I knew I had to get the Legendary Ride set as soon as I saw the new mini catalog. I have quite a few people in my life who love their motorcycles (my handsome hubby, being one of them), so I plan on using this set for quite a few birthday cards this year. 

This is actually a flat card in that it doesn't open up like usual, but it does have a fold in it, actually a couple of folds. It's super easy though. Let's see how to make it. 

As promised in the video, here are the measurements: 

• Card base- 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 score at 2 3/4 after adhering Smokey Slate layer
• Smokey Slate layer- 4 x 5 1/4
• Front white panel- 3 1/4 x 5 score long side at 1/2 and 4 1/2 before stamping
• score at 2 1/2 after stamping
• Back white panel- 4 1/8 x 2 5/8
• Pumpkin Pie strip- 1 x 6 1/2
• DSP strip cut between tire marks 6 inches long

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God's love and blessings!