Scrapping for Tranquility : Catherine Pooler inks

Monday, February 20, 2023

Another Fun Fold-Twisted Easel Card for Printable Cuttable Creatables

Hello! Christi here from Scrapping For Tranquility on the blog for Printable Cuttable Creatables today to show you another Fun Fold Card. These seem to be all the rage right now. At the beginning of the month I showed you three fun Folds and promised I would be back today to give you a tutorial on a fourth. We are going to do a fairly easy one so you can hop right to starting your Fun folds!

This one is a Twisted Easel Card. With only a few steps we will master it today on the blog!

Here is what you will need:

1. A solid base color (my white) cut to 8 1/2 X 4 1/4 and score it at 4 1/4 on the 8 1/2 side.

I will look like this when you are done scoring and folding.

2. You will also need a piece of 4" squared pattern paper and another 4" squared pattern paper cut from one corner to the next diagonal.

3. Score from the top left hand corner to the bottom right hand corner on the left side of the card base. Like shown above.

4. Using the pattern paper's piece of 4" squared , glue it to the inside of the card.

5. Take a diagonal piece of pattern paper on the front facing part of the fold.

Here is where I make my paper Piecings I want to use to decorate the card with. I cut out on my Cameo 3 two different files.

The files I used from Printable Cuttable Creatables are:

1.Happy St. Patrick's Day Title

2.St. Patrick's Day Shamrocks

One I had my pieces cut out, I ink my pieces. That is a preference of mine. You can do whatever you want. Some people ink and others do not.

I use only Catherine Pooler Mini Inks and Full size ink pads.

Once I had my card and pieces made and inked, I was ready to assemble my card as I see fit. This is the front of the card laying flat to mail.

This is my finished product with the twisted easel standing up being held by the title. I used pop dots to make the title stand a bit to help hold it in the standing position.

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial and it gives you inspiration to try all the fun folds out there. If you do , let us or me know ! Post it and let us see!

Happy Crafting!

Tuesday, July 14, 2020

What Inkspires You?

I have been asked over the last 25 years why I started to scrapbook and that is such an easy question for me, to leave my family all my wonderful memories of them.

It isn't as easy when someone ask me "Why did you start to make cards?" or better yet..."what was your inspiration?" There was a lot of reasons really. First off, just the pure joy of working with paper, like scrapbooking, but making something I could immediately share with someone else, to make them smile.

Then one afternoon, I was looking up a scrapbooking technique on youtube and came across the Triple Time Stamping Tutorial for making cards and it caught my eye. I really loved it and watched the whole video. I was hooked! I wanted to make something like that!

I would like to say I saved or even took a photo of that first card I made but I didn't. But I used a beautiful rose and leaves as my stamp and used 2 different colors. I thought it was the most gorgeous thing ever!!! LOL I am sure it was secretly awful! LOL. I couldn't wait to give it to someone and that someone was my mother. I was sooo proud to hand it to her and believe you me, she brought me down off my cloud 9 by opening it and looking at it. When she finished she just laid it to the side and never said a word.

Fast forward a couple years I decided to try the technique again for a contest and I won the contest with my card. hahaha. I came home and kept trying. It made me even more determined to be able to make beautiful cards.

Today, I am showing you another Triple Time Stamping card but this is for my best friend from birth. We can go years and not see each other and pick up like we haven't missed a beat. This sentiment by The Stamps of Life,Flip Flops 2, fits us perfect!

The Flip Flops is a stamp from the Scrapping For Less' June 2018 Flavor of the Month/Banana Split. The stamp set is At the Beach by Scrapping for Less.

Recently, I became the owner of the new Catherine Pooler Inks. I found this wonderful ,little, family-based, craft store that sells them a bit cheaper, called Del Bello's Designs. They are the bomb! I used the Midnight, Twilight, Juniper Mist, Limoncello and All That Jazz to do my stamping with. Patty, the owner, is such a helpful, caring ,person and REALLY knows her Lavinia Stamps like the back of her hand! LOL

I topped it off with sequins from another one of my Scrapping for Less Flavor of the Month Kits and called it a day.

I hope you enjoyed my card and how I started making cards. I truly hope it inspires you to never give up even if you have a few you don't care for a long the way.

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