Surprise: another New Year bell card style

2012-2013 winter holiday cards

Sneak peek at inspirations for trying another bell-theme card:

Tiny Crafts' has a glitter foam sheets with adhesive backing that I discovered out shopping yesterday. They have a pastel color combo set and a bold color combo available. The bold blue glitter foam sheets were used as the theme and color inspiration for this other bell style holiday card.

To get inspiration for the layouts I merged 2 ideas from a purchased book on different techniques to use for card-making (see photos).

Here's the series of photos:

layout inspiration for bell shape opening

layout inspiration for crazy quilt effect

book cover photo: both layout pages are from this book

bell shape traced and cut out for each card's front and slightly enlarging bell shape so that the glittered foam ones on inside will not fall inside the opening when the cards are closed

views of insides completed

close-ups of inside (left) and bottom front cover (right)

completed cards!!

cardmaking challenges: sketch challenge and pleating

More Paper Wishes (PW) message board (mb) challenges to capture! I won't be showing the sketch but it had the diagonal not-quite rectangle going from bottom left corner to upper right corner with a circle inside a square area in the center of that.

My approach to the sketch was to modify the center area to include the circle but to use a raised label tag that had curved elements. For the inside view I put the embellishments on the same diagonal as the front.

My approach to the pleating was to use it for an embellishment. The lavendar cardstock tag was stamped with the happy birthdays and then back side was scored on 1/4" increments for the pleats.

PW/HOTP products include: all the swirl patterned papers, purple crytal jewel sticker embellishments, vintage butterfly brads, all silver dazzles, the purple print label paper, foam square adhesives, and basic white card.