Good Tuesday Tutorial Morning to you. This is Lisa. I hope you had a restful Memorial Day weekend. I called my Marine son this weekend and had a mundane conversation with him...something I am very thankful for. He came back safely from his deployment to Apghanistan last summer. He is healthy and well. I am thankful for all the brave men and women that choose to serve our country and protect our freedom.
Now to my traditional shout out to our Katie....Hi Katie-Kate. Thank you to everyone that left a nice comment on my last tutorial: Sandy Ang, Jan Hunnicutt, Candy Fosta, Grace N, Chrissy, Joie McGill, Robin Burgeson, PAT(mspfd).
Today we'll be making a Toolbox Birthday card. You can make this feminine or masculine by changing the colors. At the bottom of my post are examples from Lori and I of ways to use this file to make a toolbox, treasure chest, recipe box and toybox. So many possibilities.
Supplies Needed
STAMPS: Yard Yabber, Circular Saw, Heavy Metal
PAPER:Night Eclipse, Smoke Stack, Cottonball White
INK:VersaMark, Momento Tuxedo Black Dye Ink Pad, Palette Ink Pads Pucker up, Hot Cocoa
ACCESSORIES:Chest Card Cut SVG/PDF file, Siler mini brads, Clear Embossing Powder, Anti-static embossing pouch, Sure Cuts A Lot, Cricuit Expression, Heat Tool, acrylic blocks, Sponge, Dimensionals
Cut out chest card shape ...I used the SVG file, my Cricuit Expression and SCAL (Sure Cuts A Lot Program) from Night Eclipse Cardstock. I made my card shape in SCAL to be approximately 4 1/4 x 5 1/2. I made card shape by welding two chest outside shapes together in SCAL.
Fold in half using bonefolder.
Cut front pieces. Your black card base will act as a mat for these pieces.
Wipe each piece with the anti-static pouch to keep embossing powder from sticking to places other than your stamped image. Heat emboss using heat tool, Heavy Metal stamp and clear embossing powder.
Next, sponge the edges (I did more on the edges and a little on the rest) with Hot Cocoa Palette Ink pad for a slightly rusty look.
Adhere pieces to cade base.
Take a scrap of Cottonball White cardstock 3 1/2 x 1 1/4 and stamp the Circular Saw Individual stamp in Pucker Up Palette Ink. Then stamp the sentiment from the Yard Yabber set in Momento Tuxedo Black Dye Ink.
Mat with a 3 5/8 x 1 3/8 piece of Night Eclipse.
Place a mini silver brad in center of the saw where the small circle is.
Adhere the sentiment panel to the card front with dimensionals.
Cut out two slightly smaller chest shapes so you have a 1/8" mat all around and adhere to the insides. Then stamp Happy Birthday from the Yard Yabber set by inking up with Momento Tuxedo Black Dye Ink and stamping three consecutive times. I love how this looks.
YAY! You did a marvelous job. What a great audience. See you next time.
MORE CHEST CARD CUT IDEAS:
Stamps/Images: Father's Day, Individual stamps screwdriver, wrench, saw, tape measure, drill, hammer Cardstock/Papers:Night Eclipse, Cottonball White (Clear Dollar Stamps, Junebug and Ambrosia (Basic Grey)
Inks/Markers: Momento Dye Ink Pad Tuxedo Black (from Clear Dollar Stamps), Tim Holtz Distress Ink Vintage Photo, Palette Ink Pads, Deep Sea, Cherry Go Round, Tangelo Smoothie, Lime Juice, Red Velvet Cake, Fresh Papaya, Hot Cocoa (Clear Dollar Stamps)
Accents/Tools:Chest Card Cut SVG file (Clear Dollar Stamps), Brads, Photo Anchor, Cricuit Expression, Sure Cuts A Lot, Scotch dimensional foam tape, Tim Holtz Blending Tool Techniques:Sponging, Digital
The Inside.
Stamps/Images: Baked For You Tags (Clear Dollar Stamps)
Cardstock/Papers:Worn Parchment, Cottonball White (Clear Dollar Stamps)
Inks/Markers:Momento Tuxedo Black (from Clear Dollar Stamps), Copics E37, E11, E31(from Clear Dollar Stamps)
Accents/Tools:Chest Card Cut SVG (Clear Dollar Stamps), Sure Cuts A Lot, Cricuit Expression, 3-D Dots (EK Success), Stapler Techniques:SVG
Inside.
Stamps/Images: Father's Day, Heavy Metal
Cardstock/Papers:Night Eclipse, Cottonball White (Clear Dollar Stamps), Basic Grey Wander, Ambrosia
Inks/Markers: Momento Dye Ink Pad Tuxedo Black (from Clear Dollar Stamps), VersaMark, Tim Holtz Distress Ink Vintage Photo, Copics Y17, Y23, Y21, N4, N7, N10
Accents/Tools:My own handmade toolbox template, Photo Anchor, Screw brad, Dimensional Glaze, Tim Holtz Blending Tool, pop ups, Score tape (from Clear Dollar Stamps), Ranger Clear embossing powder, Heat tool,
Techniques:Heat Embossing, Shape card
THESE LAST TWO BEAUTIFUL CARDS ARE BY LORI
SVG File: Chest Card Cut
CDS Stamps: Treasure Hunt
Other: Cuttlebug distressed lines folder, gold mini brads
CDS cardstock: Mustard Seed, Hot cocoa, Mud Pie
Back.
SVG File: Chest Card Cut
CDS Stamps: Toybox Time
inside
Thanks for the tutorial. Both my DH and DS's personality totally fit that first card with the power saw and the sentiment 'let's cut the cake'. OMGosh I need to make this for them.
Posted by: KellyRae | June 01, 2011 at 02:10 PM
Thanks for the tutorial. Both my DH and DS's personality totally fit that first card with the power saw and the sentiment 'let's cut the cake'. OMGosh I need to make this for them.
Posted by: KellyRae | June 01, 2011 at 01:39 PM
If you turn it upside down you can make aaby card as it looks like a nappy.
Posted by: Mariaan | June 01, 2011 at 02:07 AM
Wowzers, that is awesome, Lisa! Such creativity!
Posted by: Cassie | May 31, 2011 at 12:49 PM
Hi back Lisa Lisa... another fabulous tutorial. You and Lori are doing an awesome job with all your creativity!!!
Posted by: Katie Renz | May 31, 2011 at 11:32 AM