Thursday Oct 29 10 minute card challenge, Mini Card Holder

It's Thursday again and the 10 minute card challenge

that Sandi MacIver and Carole' Anne Sluchinski

do each week keeps my mojo going.

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I just had to make one of Jan Farring's Mini Magazine File.

I've seen these being paraded around the web

and put it in the too hard basket because I'd never seen

a tutorial before hers.

She was so correct when she said they looked

confusing but once you've done one

they are easy peasy!!

Here's Blythe's version

I made 13 in 2 hours.

Now I had to alter mine abit because it would

not fit our card size which is slightly larger

than US size. Jan kindly gave me permission

to post up my version of the tutorial.

Ingredients: 1 of 12" x 12" textured cardstock

1 of dsp 1" x 12"

1 of dsp 1" x 5 1/2"

1 of dsp 1" x 4"

Red liner tape

Score 1 1/2"and 6 1/2"

Turn around and score 5" x 7"

Cut the 1 1/2" and 6 1/2"lines up to the 5"mark

turn cardstock and cut to the 7"line

This is what it should look like,

Score the middle piece at 2", 3 1/2", 8 1/2"and 10"

Make a pencil mark 1"up the top part

and 1 1/2"on the right side of the 7" score

Cut that triangle off

Do the same on the other side where the 5"

score is

Cut just a small piece off the middle section

...............and the other side

Make your folds with the middle piece

valley, valley and mountain fold as shown

Fold the 1 1/2"part up as in photo

Tuck the middle piece over like this

Turn around and do the other side, no tape needed for this

Flip over and lay red liner or sticky strip

tape as shown, if you don't use

the sticky strip it will pop open

believe me I was being stingy

with the first one and everything

fell apart LOL

Remove sticky strip backing and hold

the section and shown and slowly

let it stick to the smaller section

Lay it down and smooth it out

...turn over and do the other side

Stick the 5 1/2"dsp to the back of the card holder

you can be stingy here and use the snail

Take the 4"dsp and place it on the back as shown

Lastly place the 12"dsp over

Here are some of the ones I did

ok I skipped lunch to do these

it's now 2.30pm and my stomach is rumbling hee hee

Mojo Monday Week 109 Challenge and Thursday 10minute card challenge

I combined the Mojo Monday Week 109

and Sandi MacIver and Carole' Anne Sluchinski

Thursday 10 minute challenge today

they have this as an official challenge

now with a Mr Linky

you've got until Oct 27 to play

to win

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Ingredients:

Stamp: Snow Swirled

Cardstock: Whisper White, Gold Metallic, Basic Black

Ink: Basic Black, Versamark

Basic Black Grosgrain ribbon

1 1/4 inch round punch

I didn't have black embossing powder

and I also dislike how it goes all over

the cardstock especially white,

so this is what I do to keep my cardstock clean.

Ink up on versamark and then basic black

this makes your dye ink a temporary

pigment ink image.

If you are doing multiple images you will have

to clean your stamp each time.

I use a dedicated versamark pad for this so

of course it isn't clean after that treatment

I had to try gold embossing and black

Testing to see what works

gold embossed disc

Testing black embossed disc

When I attach ribbons to my card I normally

put the double sided tape on the cardstock.

I always line it up using my craft mat,

more often if I dont line it up it's always

crooked, then its hard to remove the ds tape

As a rule I also adhere the ribbon to

the card if it isn't on top of a layer

then I cut it, I have cut it prior and

it has been short after I tape it down.

Not nice and too hard to fix

What a mess!!

Uh Oh I didnt even take a photo of the finished card

hahahahaha

ok it's going to appear first in the post

blogspot is weird like that

Thursday 10 minute card challenge Oct 15

Is it Thursday already!!!!

Time flies when you are having fun.

This is what I've been doing since last Thursday

.........and then some.

By the way I do not get up at 3am like

Carole'Anne Sluchinski

who by the way is on holiday in Greece, lucky lady!!

............that clock is showing 3.30pm

can you see the sunlight streaming in the window!!!

I can't show you the front of the cards yet

because it's my next Thursdays 10 min card

and it is also a swap that I am swapping

on Sunday 18th, so I don't want to give

the design away.

I also have to make my Thursday cards

in advance because my In Laws are arriving

from Michigan US of A on 19th Oct

so I'll be playing tourist with them for the whole week

and it would be rude of me to go and craft huh!!!!

....ahem....cough.....cough...I can hear DH in the

other room disagreeing with me, he knows

I never give up my craft unless I have only

one arm which will happen on Nov 12

when I go in for shoulder surgery to repair

a rotator cuff...I'm trying not to think about it.

So this is my Thursday 10 minute card challenge

by Sandi MacIver and Carole'Anne Sluchinski

Ingredients: Ribbon, crystal effects, Horizontal Slot punch

tweezers, dauber.

Ink: Old olive

Stamp: Inspired by Nature

Cardstock: Chocolate chip, Old Olive, Very Vanilla

Cut out your slots

Stamp up your reeds in Old Olive ink

Use your tweezers to hold the horizontal punch piece

I could not do it with my fingers

I found I needed to use another implement to

help me hold down the slot in place

Use your dauber and daub the side of the card

I do this to give it some body and depth

but not all cards need this

Which ribbon to use...that was a hard choice

5/8" Chocolate chip grosgrain

1/4"chocolate chip grosgrain

Taffeta chocolate chip

........what about a bow............I love bows but they

do have their place

I love cutting the base card lengthwise

this allows the card to stand up

but this shape has its place as well

and doesn't suit all card styles

Voila all done

IRL this was the best looking ribbon

1/4"chocolate chip grosgrain

I also did one in Baja Breeze, Not quite Navy

and stepped it up with the sentiment

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