Card Kits for Brittany

Hi Stampin' Friend!

My special niece Brittany (the one in the middle between the handsome guys in this photo of my brother's family) recently asked me to make her some card kits. I'm putting the card photos and directions here as a way to easily find them when she wants to make the cards, and we'll share them with the rest of you, too!

Here you go, Brittany - have fun and if you have any questions, send me a message.

Card 1: Green truck/Sending you sunny thoughts   

1.       Glue the vanilla circle with stamped trees on the dark green circle.

2.       Glue the green and gold plaid rectangle to the dark green rectangle.

3.       Hold the circle layer against the plaid layer to decide where you want the twine to be wrapped around. Wrap the twine two times around the rectangle layers and tie a bow on the front. You can tape the twine on the back of those layers to help keep it in place, if it helps.

4.       Glue the rectangle layers on the card front.

5.       Use the foam adhesive dots to add the circle layers to the card front.

6.       Use the foam adhesive dots to add the truck to the circle.

7.       Glue the large vanilla rectangle inside the card to write on.

Card 2: – Compass/Happy Birthday 

1.       Glue the printed scenery square at the top of the white piece that has the compass and “Happy Birthday” stamped along the bottom edge. Leave equal white space at the top and sides of the scenery piece.

2.       Glue the white layer to the dark green layer.

3.       Glue the dark green layer on the card front.

4.       Glue the long narrow scenery layer at the left edge of the white piece that has “life is meant for…” stamped on it.

5.       Glue this layer inside the card.

Card 3:  Card 3 – Horse & rider/Birthday wishes  

1.       CAREFULLY apply dots of glue to the back side of the horse and rider die cut. Try to get some all the way around the edges as well as on the larger pieces of the die cut. The front is where the horse and rider are facing to the right.

2.       CAREFULLY Glue the die cut piece to the mountain scene printed paper. They are almost exactly the same size, with the printed piece just a hair smaller.

3.       Glue the die cut and printed layers to the front of the card.

4.       Glue “birthday wishes” to the bottom of the die cut piece.

5.       Glue the white rectangle with “it’s your day” inside the card.

 

Card 4 – Mountain scene, hiker and tent/Mountains of Thanks  

1.       The printed green and purple mountain scene is for the front of the card. The printed green piece with pine trees and plain white rectangle are for the inside of the card, trees on the top and white piece on the bottom when the card is opened and facing you.

2.       Choose the die cut pieces you would like to use.
a. The long green pieces with an irregular edge can be layered across the bottom of the mountain scene to give you some ground to put the other die cuts on. Arrange them as you like, then trim any edges that hang over the bottom or sides of the printed piece.
b. OPEN THE CLEAR PLASTIC ENVELOPE CAREFULLY!!! There are two very TINY walking stick die cuts inside. The walking sticks have adhesive on one side with a white layer over the adhesive. Gently peel the white layer off when you are ready to apply them to the card.
c.  Choose from the tents and people and decide how you would like to lay them out before applying glue.
d. If you want to use the hiker with a walking stick, use scissors to trim the lantern off the die cut before gluing it down.

3.       When you have your scene completed and the edges trimmed so it fits on the card front, glue it on.

4.       Optional – Glue the “mountains of thanks” word piece on the front. If you don’t want to use these words, the card will look just fine without them.

5.       Glue the tree piece and large white rectangle inside the card.

 

Happy Stampin' and Merry Christmas to you all, from Eric, Nellie and me!