Timeless Plaid – Welcome

I went a bit old school for today’s card with the Rustic Crate set and using an old tool that roughs up the edges and then I sponged them to antique the paper. It was fun to go back to using some old ways of doing things.

To create this card, you just need a few things:

Natural card stock
A brighter color card stock for gloves
Tan card stock to cut the rake
Timeless Plaid designer series paper
Rustic Crate stamp set and dies (Stampin’ Up)
Flowering Rain Boots dies (Stampin’ Up)
Dragonfly Garden stamp set (Stampin’ Up)
Early Expresso Black ink (Stampin’ Up)
Cinnamon Cider ink (Stampin’ Up)
Cinnamon Cider twine (Stampin’ Up)
Stampin Blends
- Old Olive light and dark
- Lemon Lime Twist light and dark
Paper trimmer
Adhesive of choice

Cut your card base to 5 ½” x 8 ½” using the Natural card stock then fold in half to 4 ¼” x 5 ½”. With your Timeless Plaid card stock find the Old Olive green plaid piece, cut a piece to 4” x 5 ¼” and then you should have a piece left that is ¾” x 4” to use for your inside. Take the scrapping tool (if you have one) or scissors and your two pieces of plaid paper and rough the edges, then use your sponge and Cinnamon Cider ink to sponge along your roughed edges. I also sponged the front cover edges of the card. Adhere the 4’ x 5 ¼” piece to the front of your card and the small piece to the left side of the inside of your card.

With some scrap Natural card stock, the plant stamp from the Rustic Crate stamp set and your Early Expresso ink and stamp two of the plants. Use your four green Stampin’ Blend markers to color the plants in different shades, I did Lemon Lime Twist Light, Old Olive Dark, Lemon Lime Twist Dark and then the Old Olive Light from left to right. Use the die from Rustic Crate to cut out your plants. Also cut a small tag with a die from the Natural card stock. Take a scrap piece of Cinnamon Cider card stock and the crate die from Rustic Crate and cut your crate. Use a brighter color card stock to cut the gloves from the Rustic Crate dies. Take a scrap piece of tan and the rake die from the Flowering Rain Boots dies and cut out the rake.

Take your plants and the crate and align the first row of plants to where you want them. If any of the roots are showing then cut them off leaving enough room to adhere to the crate. For the second row of plants, I cut the first two together and then cut the other two individually. Align them along the back spaced to your liking and adhere. Adhere the crate with plants to the front of your card, slightly to the left so you have room for your tag. Adhere the gloves and rake.

Take your tag, Cinnamon Cider ink and the “For a True Friend” greeting from Dragonfly Garden and stamp on your tag. Adhere your tag like it is tied to the plants. Take some of your twine and tie a bow and adhere to the top of your tag. For the inside of your card take the “May good things grow all year long” greeting and the Cinnamon Cider in and stamp on the inside of the card.

That completes your Rustic Crate True Friend card. Give it to a special friend to let them know you care.

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All cards are handmade and photos taken by DaisyChainFun.

Pigs in a Row Timeless Plaid Card

These adorable pigs just won my heart and I had to have this die set. I started thinking last night that I wanted to do a card with some of the plaid paper from Stampin’ Ups Timeless Plaid designer series paper and these pigs just popped into my head and that was it, they were getting used.

To create this card, you just need a few things:

Powder Pink card stock (Retired Stampin’ Up)
Crumb Cake card stock (Stampin’ Up)
Rich Razzleberry card stock (Retired Stampin’ Up)
White card stock
Timeless Plaid designer series paper (Stampin’ Up)
Quite Curvy (Retired Stampin’ Up)
Happy Thoughts (Retired Stampin’ Up)
Row of Pigs Border Cutting Dies (InLoveArts)
Rich Razzleberry ink (Retired Stampin’ Up)
Tip Top Taupe Marker (Stampin’ Up)
Sponge
Paper trimmer
Adhesive of choice
Pop dots

With your Powder Pink card stock cut a card base to 5 ½” x 8 ½” and fold in half to 4 ¼” x 5 ½”. With the Rich Razzleberry card stock cut a piece to 4” x 5 ¼”. Then with your pink plaid paper cut a piece to 3 7/8” x 5” and a second piece to 7/8” x 3 7/8”. Now take your white card stock and cut it to 4” x 5 ¼”.

Grab some spare scraps of your Powder Pink card stock and cut 5 pigs, one with all four and then cut an extra with the one you like the most. Then with the Crumb Cake card stock and cut the wooden pen and then with a small piece cut out a corner with some of the grass cut to 7/8” x 1 ¾” with the grass extending past the 7/8”. Take your Tip Top Taupe market and color the grass areas on the wooden pen.

Now take a piece of spare white card stock and the “Hooray for you!” greeting stamp from the Quite Curvy stamp set. With the curvy die, make sure the curvy greeting is lined up in the same shape as the curved die so that it will line up when you cut it. Stamp it with the Rich Razzleberry ink. Take the die and line it up to cut the bottom of “Hooray for You” and cut which will leave the dots border. Do the same at the top which will cut it straight.

Take your piece of Rich Razzleberry and the large plaid and adhere the plaid to the Rich Razzleberry and then adhere that to the front of your card. Then adhere the wooden pen to the bottom of the front plaid piece. Align four of your pigs along the top of the wooden pen and then adhere each of them. Now adhere your Hooray for You greeting to the center of your plaid.

For the inside of your card, adhere the small piece of plaid to the left side of the white inside piece. If you haven’t already, color the grass hanging out on the small wooden pen you cut and then adhere to the lower left corner over part of the plaid. Adhere your last pig to the to of the wooden pen.

There is your adorable Pigs in a Row Timeless Plaid card to give a cute congratulations to anyone.

All cards are handmade and photos taken by DaisyChainFun.

Rustic Crate True Friend Card

Pigs in a Row Timeless Plaid Card