Love you Forever

Just a quick tutorial for you today, my inlaws are visiting for my daughter's graduation so it's been a hectic week. The new Love You Forever stamp set is just so adorable that I couldn't help but by it. Have you ever read the Love You Forever children's book? Please do and bring your Kleenex with you when you do. It goes perfectly with the Topstitch paper because it just reminds me of babies. Cut your paper as follows:

Pink cardstock - 5 1/2 by 4 1/4
Blue cardstock - 5 1/4 by 4
White cardstock - 2 3/4 by 4 1/4
Patterned paper - 2 1/2 by 4 1/4
Pink cardstock - 2 1/4 by 2 1/2
Pattern paper - 1 by 1
Card base - 5 1/2 by 8 1/2

Using your dry embossing tool and the groove in your paper trimmer, "draw" lines down your blue cardstock about 1/4" apart then sand them to expose the white core.

On scrap paper, stamp the birds, branch and flowers and color in by using your blender pen and the colors that match your paper. I used baby pink, heavenly blue, chocolate, and sweet leaf. Remember not to "scrub" the color on or it will wet your paper. Cut it out carefully.

Dry emboss the smaller pink paper like you did the large blue cardstock except this time in a grid pattern, sand it to show off the white core.

Distress every part of the card with chocolate ink. Glue the blue cardstock to the pink card front. Attach the blue patterned paper to the white cardstock and then attach those two to the card front about 1 1/2" from top of the card. Attach the pink embossed cardstock 1 /2 " from the bottom of the card, 1/2" from the left hand side. Glue the stamped image to the pink cardstock as shown. Attach the three small squares as shown below, exact measurements are always a suggestion but you can put these about 3/4" from the top of the card for the first two (about 1/2" from right hand side of the card). For the third square, attach it about and inch from the left hand side and 1/2" up from bottom of the card. Glue the whole thing to your card base. Easy card, now you try it and don't forget to check out the special today at 11 a.m. EST at this link.

New Card Box - Part Three

Sorry about the photo quality on some of these, here are the inside dividers for the card box. Cut your colonial white cardstock five inches by six inches. Cut pattern paper from the Topstitch set 4 inches by 6 inches. Glue the pattern paper to the white paper as shown and then distress with your chocolate ink.

I wanted to make this box with dividers for birthday cards that I could pre-address then send out as the months progressed so I made the dividers labeled with the months instead of with categories of cards.

Cut twelve 1 1/2" circles out of colonial white cardstock and distress the edges with chocolate ink. Using the Save the Date stamp set, stamp the months on the top of in vineyard berry ink. Stamp the butterfly from the Friendship's Flight stamp set in Heavenly Blue and then in vineyard berry for the outline.

Glue January, April, August, and November on the left side of the cards, letting the bottom edge of the circle touch the top of the pattern paper. Glue February, May, September, and December in the center of the cards and March, June and October on the right hand side. This will make them easier to flip through.

Here's how they should look when you are finished.

I liked the whole distressed, country feeling of this paper so I used twine to decorate the handle. I used a little Tombow glue on the center two inches of the handle. Fold a very long piece of twine in half and wrap the center of the twine around the center of the handle. Wind the right half of the twine out to the right and the left half of the twine to the left then cross them over and tie in the middle. That's all there is to it, hope you enjoyed this tutorial.