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The Valley High card kit is available tonight at midnight EST at
Studio Calico for non-subscribers (available now for subscribers)! I made 9 cards just with the kit you see above - this is the main card kit! Isn't it fun?
On this first card, I used the floral stamps in the kit and stamped onto the lighter blue patterned paper to create a background. The big background flower was die cut with the
Lovely Layers dies by Papertrey Ink. To make the ribbon ruffly, I stitched on it with my machine a little bit and pulled on the strings to ruffle it. Then I wrapped it around the card front and folded it over in the front a bit and stapled it for a soft look. The top piece is cut with Papertrey Ink's
Edgers #3 dies.
Here I wanted a white background, but with a textured feel, so I cut the white cardstock with a
Parisian Lace Doily die.
I have a butterfly punch by Martha Stewart that is an oldie, but still a goodie! Punches are a great way to add lots of pattern and color. I stamped the "hello" speech bubble with Harvest Gold ink by Papertrey Ink, but trimmed off the extra and just used the hello part.
I wanted to use the stamps in the kit to create a fun and colorful background, so here I used Sweet Blush ink, Raspberry Fizz ink, Aqua Mist and Hawaiian Shores ink by PTI. To get the stamped off look, just keep stamping the saying without reinking.
A quick and simple one layer card, but yet it has lots of dimension to it.
I wanted to feature this gorgeous paper, one of my favorites in the kit, so I used it as a background here and stamped the two flowers and "friends" sentiment onto the tag.
The heart is cut with a
Heart Border die.
Isn't this chipboard fun? I had to use it up on a card. To keep the design simple, yet fun, I wanted to punch circles and add lots of color.
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The stripe is actually from the 6x6" paper pad front!
This one was very simple also, I layered some of the papers in a crooked manner for a fun feel and punched a big 2" circle for the center. There is an index strip in the 6x6" paper pad which shows all the fun patterns in the pad, so I cut a piece of that index strip to use on this card to add lots of color.
Another cute chipboard piece from the kit...you could paint these, but I left mine plain.
On the baby card, I used a
Button card die to cut the little squares and a
Wonderful Words: Baby die for the word. You could also use your Cameo die cutting machine to cut a saying if you don't have these dies!
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I love using my dies on my cards and use my Cuttlebug machine to cut them, it's so easy, love that I don't have to turn it on...simply layer my paper and my dies on the plate and hand-roll it through the machine.
Next, I decided to use the rest of the paper pad cover on a card! ha Just love those stripes!
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I used the Button Card Die again and trimmed around the negative to make a frame. The "happy" was cut with the
Wonderful Words Die Collection.
Are you still with me?! :) The papers in this kit are so cute, aren't they!
Last, but not least the sunburst or floral stamp was used as a border. I stamped it half way off the edges with Classic Kraft ink to create a frame around the design.
The ribbon in the kit was used to make little ribbon roses, and the leaves were cut out of white cardstock with the
Turning a New Leaf die. Here's a little video I made a very long time ago on making these
rolled ribbon roses. Skip ahead to the 2 minute mark! Or I have
this video also with crepe paper rolled flowers, but it's the same idea.
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