The Rubber Cafe' - Love Fest!

We're having a blast of Valentine cards and ideas coming to you from the whole team today!  So be sure to check it out The Rubber Cafe' Blog and see what the other Design Team members have to share.

For my project - I wanted to share a quick tutorial on how I made my cute little 3 x 3 card envelopes!  I got my Scor-Pal out as well as my Scor-Envi which works along with the newest Scor-Pal.

First of all here's my little Valentine-

 

 

 Here's how I made these envelopes.  These are all cut from 5 3/4" square, so that is perfect for this little 6" pads.  So before I started scoring each piece was cut down a 1/4" on each side.  As you see below.

 

Next with the add-on accessory Scor-Envi, push that up into the RH corner of your Scor-Pal.  The beauty of this little piece is that along with helping you score your sides it also tells you all the measurements you need based on your finished card size - how large to cut your paper, and where to make your score lines.  All the math is figured out for you already!  See below- I placed the scor-tool next to the 3 x 3 card measurements under the Square Cards section. 

 

 

 so following the Score-line measurements you'll be scoring 4 1/4" on the LH side, to get the correct line, use horizontal measurements along the top of the Scor-Pal, the next score line is at 7 3/4" this time you'll find the measurement on the Env-Buddy itself, see how below in the picture in the center, how I have paper placed and located the correct line to score by.
Turn your card a 1/4 turn, and repeat this scoring again, so all four sides have been scored.

 

Now that all 4 sides have been scored since this is a square card, you should have an evenly balanced section on all your flaps and leaving an 3 1/2"square inside. 

You'll also notice these little triangle at each crossing.  Take your scissors and cut these out.  As you see in my first corner above.

 

Here's my first finished Envelope! 

 

As you can see above, I've folded all 3 sides in and adhered them closed.  I am leaving the top side open for my card.  If you are doing prints like I am be careful of how the pattern or print is so you don't have them up-side down.

 

To finish my envelopes, I stamped some postage graphics from the stampset in our Creative Cafe' - Kit last month. So cute!

 

Thanks for stopping by- please be sure to check back at The Rubber Cafe' blog today and see what the rest of the Design Team has to share ~ Have a sweet day!



 

Supplies:

Stamps:  The Rubber Cafe'- Creative Cafe- January kit 'For the Love of Cats and Dogs

Paper:  BoBunny 6x6 pad of Love Letters; Kraft cardstock all from the kit

Ink:  Archival Black; Memento Lady Bug(Red); Versa-Mark; White Signo gel pen; Spica Pink glitter pen

Embellishments: Pink photo corners from the kit

Tools/Dies:  Scor-Pal; Scor-Envi;



Telescoping Card from The Rubber Cafe' - Creative Cafe, January kit of the month

Hi - It's the weekend, and today I have a fun card I believe is called the 'Telescoping' card. The circle elements from the Add-on stampset really leant itself well to this card design. And I also am featuring the darling 'pups' from the set For the Love of Cats and Dogs - which comes with your kit.

Here's my card... fully extended. It's so easy to do - just prepare your layers, and join with brads so you can fully extend this card with ease!

 

to see more details head on over to the Rubber Cafe' blog here!

 

 

Spirelli technique from The Rubber Cafe-

Hi - today's card is featuring the fun Spirelli technique of winding twine, in what appears as almost a kalidescope look. I saw Susie Nelson's technique on Splitcoast and Beate Johns does a video tutorial, but I'm going to share my own tutorial with you today, as I tweeked it a bit by doing it with a heart scallop shape instead of the usual circle!

First heres' my finished card, overall it's almost a bit busy compared to my usual designs, but I love how it turned out so hope you agree.

 

See more details and my tutorial featured over at The Rubber Cafe' blog here!

I Love You - Accordian card

Hi Everyone!
I'm have an accordian card to share today - with a little extra fun as it also has some 'shape' to it! I can't take credit for this design and unfortunately I don't recall where I first saw it. I just was reminded of it when I went through my files of card ideas.

Here's my card - today I'm featuring the BoBunny Love Letters' 6x6 paper pad and the stampset "For the Love of Cats and Dogs" - both found in this month's Creative Cafe' Kit of the month.

 

 

 

See the tutorial and more details over on my post today at The Rubber Cafe' - here!

 

Pyramid Tree card

Today - I'm sharing a Pyramid card featuring last months Creative Cafe' kit stamp set. 

 

I made this card with (3) 4" square pieces- but the fun part is you can use any size you want as long as they are all the same. My mass production set was made with 3" square pieces. One 12 x 12 pc of cardstock or Patterned paper will give you 4 cards.

Here's a look at my finished Pyramid card, using 4" squares- You can see it all the details here!

Here's another set - I made and gave for a bunch of my croppin' buddies!- These are also based on 4" squares.  I used a large brad to hook my left flap behind, and covered with a 5/8" scallop punched circle.   These were a base of Kraft cardstock, and I covered each triangle section with patterned paper from "My Mind's Eye" holiday line.

 

Finally these are my Christmas card mailings - I also gave a small group of these away to my fellow team members at work.   I just love how they all look standing together!

 

 

Here's a view of the inside as well...

 

 

Thanks for stopping by !

 

Telecscoping Card -Featuring December's Creative Cafe' Kit of the month

Hi Everyone! I'm back today to share a card techinique that I believe is called the Telescope card.

I've wanted to try this out for awhile now, and this seemed to be the perfect stampset to give it a whirl. I'm again featuring our Creative Cafe' - KOM for December Wish Big!

Here's a look at my card from the front.

Card dimensions:

This is a top folded 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 card - stamped on 4 x 5 white card stock

and backed with the Pink Print floral cut at 4 1/8 x 5 1/4.

 

To get the rest of the tutoiral and more details -head over to The Rubber Cafe' blog here!

 



Creative Cafe Dec kit of the month - Wish Big!

Hi Everyone!

This December kit of the month for the Creative Cafe' - has definitely been fun - and I know you're going to love all the projects and cards the team have been preparing to share with you!

Today - I'm going to share a couple of quick fun tutorials. My card is using the 'Wiper' Card technique which pops up an image or message but lays flat for easy mailing. On the front, I've made a 'faux' Pinwheel that I thought perfect for the front of my card so just had to share that with you as well. So grab your beverage of choice and we'll get started!

Here's a look at my card - as it stands when opened.

And when pushed flat... you can see it will fit nicely in an envelope.

To see more details and a tutorial on how to make the card base and the 'faux' pinwheel head over to the Rubber Cafe' blog here!