Beautiful Ride Beetle Gift Card Holder in A Box!

So here is the other version of the explosion box with its tutorial posted yesterday... 

Half my ladies did the boat...and the other half did the Beetle Gift Card Holder....

Everything was the same apart from that centre square... so go here for the main box tutorial (ignoring the For the Boat parts) - and here is the Gift Card holder bit...

1. Cut a piece of 13.2 x 6cm Bermuda Bay cardstock (5 1/4" x 2 1/4")

2. Score PORTRAIT every 1 cm (ie 54321) ( 3/8", 3/4", 1 1/8", 1 1/2", 1 7/8")

3. Concertina fold ( note-valleys on outer and central section)

4 Adhere outer sections on the back .... and about 1.5 cm (1/2") on inside from either side of central section

5. Cut squiggly paper square diagonally

6. Adhere diagonal to outer sections of the gift card holder

7. Trim at ends

8. Adhere to Bermuda Bay Square

Happy Father's Day... Going Places & Beautiful Ride Square Swing Arm Card

Here is another Square Swing Arm Card ... this time for my Dad... no secrets as to my family's passion and love of VW Beetles... (more on that here!) so it has to be...

And here is the link to the card created by & pinned by Pam Allen at The Serial Stamper that inspired my series of Swing Arm Card makes with the Going Places paper stack for my Men's cards this week... Unfortunately I cannot find the card on The Serial Stamper blog - hence Pam's Pinterest link for a change... but 4300 of us pinners can't be wrong!! Fabulous card Pam.... 

SU! Products Used

Stamps - Beautiful Ride, Guy Greetings

Papers & Card - Going Places stack, Basic Black, Very Vanilla, Shimmery White ( for the Beetle)

Inks - Archival Black, Soft Sky & Aquapainter

Pens- Signo gel pen ( for my road markings - did think about adding gemstones too for the cat's eyes!!!), Basic Grey Marker, Sharpie silver metallic pen(non SU!)

Beautiful Balloons Ride Celebration by Jane

We had a special moment in classes this week... We were all poised to make this card...when Jane said can I add a Beetle!? Well of course Jane...

 

Isn't it fabulous!! I just had to share... 

I love it Jane! And I am absolutely positive that your friend about to celebrate her 40th Birthday will too....

And I hope you have a bit of your Wink of Stella pen left!!! 

Simplest Easel Card Tutorial

Remember this Simple Easel Card from earlier in the week... well I promised you the How To Make This Card... and here it is... although don't blink as you may miss the Tutorial...

1. Pick up a piece of A4 card

2. LANDSCAPE. Score at 10.5cm

3. LANDSCAPE. Score at 21cm

4. Bone Fold

5. Decorate as required and pop in a DL envelope!

Only taken me 12 years of papercrafting to think of this Simplest of Simple but a bit more special than a single score card!!! I think you may see a few variants pop up here over the next few weeks... my girls loved it for its simplicity!!

Apologies to my US readers... DL probably doesn't mean anything to you... (and I don't know if you have any equivalent) but it is a standard size envelope over here - commonly used for business purposes - but nice size for greeting cards too... 

Kissing Beetles Simple Easel Card AND New Sale-A-Bration Products

You have seen the Beetles  - and how to make them - before... post here

But they have been dressed up slightly for Valentine's Day...

And now reside on the simplest folded card ever... it is an Easel Card ... though not sure I can really call it a Fancy Fold... as it is just too simple.... maybe just Simple Easel Card... more details on Friday!

But for today... here are the 3 new Sale A Bration promotional items that have been added today... one free for every £45 ordered... Check out the product videos just released by Stampin' Up! too...

First off... Party Pants... fabulous for all our balloons! Balloons with greetings on certainly makes my day!

And here is the Party Pants video.....

Secondly... Metallics Glitter Tape... glitter washi tape springs to mind.... 

And here is the Glitter Tape video...

And last but not least... Pedal Pusher...lots of these images are going to work so well with my favourite Beautiful Ride Beetle car.......

But the tandem bike is rather cute too! Here is the video....

Can't wait for my next box to arrive with these new goodies in !!

Though I will miss the following 3 Sale A Bration promotional items - which are now officially no longer available... Sky's the Limit, Hello and Perfectly Artistic papers....

Kissing Beautiful Ride Beetles - and a Tutorial

Just realised I haven't yet shared my Quarterly Team Training swap card... perfect for Valentine's Day... or just because!

So without further ado... here it is... and please feel free read on to the end for the long story behind these!

But to be brief... I call this my Kissing Beetles- or Beetles have feelings too- card...

So before I start rambling with the full story... A quick photo tutorial of how to get the Beetle mirrored image..

1. Ink up and stamp  Beetles on vellum using black Staz On

2. Hand cut both

3. Turn one Beetle over...

4. Job done!

Note that you could just do one Beetle on vellum, cut out and flip... but they "match" better if you want them both clean/white in style! A Beetle stamped straight onto the white card panel does look different..

And if you want to colour in...

1. Flip both over so you are looking at the reverse of the images

2. Colour in using Marker pen... I just used Soft Sky, Smoky Slate and Basic Grey..

3. Turn back over...

Note that you can colour in on the front of the image... but it is quicker and neater to do on the reverse..

And so the full story... one in 2 parts...

The idea for the kissing Beetles is triggered from the Mini advert from way back when... remember the strap line... "Minis have feelings too"... For those of you feeling nostalgic... or curious... I quickly found the Christmas advert on You Tube by Googling "Kissing Minis"

Why do I remember this so well!

I used to be a Austin Rover sponsored student and work down in Northfield, Birmingham at the time... where they made the Mini cars...

I met my (now) husband back in those days... as he worked there too... and one of his first jobs... was to go and get a pair of shiny chrome spare bumpers from the production liner for the filming of the advert!

And the second side of the story... well where do I begin...

VW Beetles mean a lot in my family!

My first car... a silver one... nicknamed Chuggle Bug!

My brother's first car... second car...and probably third car!

The only car my father could draw... and he did very good job of it too...

We used to play spot (and count) the Beetle on the drive to school and back everyday... usually getting well over 20s in the count! How times have changed...

My brother (and usually father too!) was constantly in the garage fiddling with something in or under a Beetle!

I used to get messages under the windscreen wiper everytime I borrowed my brother's Beetle... everyone wanted to buy it!

My brother's souped up Beetle won competitions... yes it looked cool! And it was white!

But... my husband HATES VW Beetles!

So be warned.. over the next few months I will make lots of Beautiful Ride Beetle projects!!! Call them close to my heart..

I even have a plan/wish to make 50 projects and ship over to my brother for a surprise for his 50th birthday in September!!! Though if anyone would like to donate any Beetle projects to this cause... I would be forever in your debt!!

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