Magic Card How Too / Tipnique Tuesday

I first saw this in one of my children's books over 15 yrs ago and ended up dismantling the book so I could see how it was done :o). I'm not sure what the actual card or technique is called but I used to call it a magic card. This card looks pretty plain from the front but as you pull it out from it's pocket the colour is revealed like magic!

MATERIALS

• 30cm square piece of card stock (or 12 in square)
• A 10x15cm piece of scrap white card stock plus a small scrap piece of white card stock
• Stamp of choice
• Pencils or colour medium of choice
• A piece of acetate about 12x17cm in size
• Stazon black ink or other ink suitable for non porous surfaces
• Small and large circle punches
• Hole punch such as Japanese screw punch with small bit for eyelets and brads
• One eyelet and eyelet setting tool of choice
• 2 brads
• Pencil, rubber, ruler, craft mat, craft knife, bone folder and glue

HOW TOO

1) Start with the 30cm square card stock. Fold it in half and run bone folder along the folded edge.

2) Open card stock and have it so the fold is running left to right. On top and bottom edge measure and mark a dot at the 10cm and 20cm mark. Use bone folder and score along these marks from top to bottom

3) Cut away the lower left and right side with your ruler and craft knife to make a large "T"shape

4) Trim the lower remaining panel at the sides a few mm and about 1cm off the bottom.

5) In middle top panel make a 2cm wide frame so it looks like the image below.

6) Use small hole punch and punch a half circle at the top of the frame. Repeat on other top panels if you like

If you fold the bottom up and then the two side panels in it makes a pocket and will look like this

7) On the 10x15cm white card trim a few mm of each long side. Place it in the pocket to check it will slide in freely. Trim further if the fit is too tight.

8) Trim a further few mm off the long sides but leave a little wedge at bottom to make an upside down "T

9) Stamp image of choice on the upside down "T" and also onto the acetate. Put acetate aside till dry. While waiting for it to dry colour your image as  desired on the upside down "T"

10) Place the acetate back on top and completely align the two images. Be very careful, hold the aligned pieces firmly and use a ruler and your knife to trim the acetate to the same size as the upside down "T"

11) Use paper clips to keep the acetate over the image in correct alignment. You are not seeing things....the image colour has changed in the next photo as I was making three of these at once and picked up the girl in black instead of the the one in purple but the step is just the same for both :o)

12) Punch a larger circle from scrap card. Fold the circle in half and place it mid way across both the acetate and the card. Hold it firmly and punch a hole thru all layers. Set an eyelet in the hole

View from back

 13) Fold the bottom panel of the large T up.

Slip the upside down "T" and acetate over the top of the folded up central piece so acetate is at front toward the frame and coloured image behind

14) Fold in that panel. Fold left side in and apply glue to the back and  fold right panel in on top of glued area.

 15) Punch a small hole at top left and right and insert bards. The upside down "T" part will catch on these and stop the slide panel falling out.

There you have it your very own magic card :o)

These are awesome cards and really simple to make. I did do a video and shall try to add it later in the day :o)
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Annette In Oz xxxx

Mixed media card-purple blue

I'm still loving creating mixed media cards that have been inspired by classes with Finnabair that I did last year and this year. I wanted to make a card for a friend and this is what it ended up looking like.

It has LOADS of glued on embellishments. The colour is more purple then blue and VERY shimmery as I used Luminarte Primary Elements Polished pigments. The amazing thing is when this card arrived at Glenda's house she sent me a thankyou message and told me she used to do ballet and her favorite colour is purple!!! How serendipitous was that LOL
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Annette In Oz xxx

Shaker Card How Too / Tipnique Tuesday

It's Tipnique Tuesday wahoo. I'm really enjoying going back to my paper crafting roots and sharing some old techniques and tips. When I do these I'll keep the end result fairly simple so new folks to paper arts are able to achieve similar results. Of course if you are already an advanced paper crafter go ahead and use mixed media materials :o). This week I'll share how to make Shaker cards. These have an area that has acetate put behind them and then items placed in the small built up area behind it so the items can move as the card is titled...hence why they are called shaker cards.

                       MATERIALS

• A4 sheet of card stock
• Rubber stamp of choice or images of choice
• Ink pad-I used Stazon on black
• Colouring medium of choice-I used Luminarte Twinkling H2O's and an aquash brush (water fillable brush).
• Sharp craft knife (I use a scalpel blade attached to a scalpel handle available at art shops and Chemists...its the sharpest craft knife ever). pencil, ruler, rubber, craft mat and bone folder.
• Grey or black art pen
• Small sheet clear acetate
• Double sided tape and double sided foam tape
• Glitter, tiny beads, sand etc to place in window
• Spare scrap of contrasting card or patterned paper

                        HOW TOO

1) Choose stamp or images to use. Ones that have an area that can be removed are good such these. The mirror oval or inner frame of either would be great to use.

Or the sky, sand area or even the light house on the one on the left and any of the glass bodies on the right image.

2) Work out how big the panels will need to be. You are going to divide the A4 card into thirds so if its a large image you may want to use larger card stock. I decided to use an Easter stamp and added 1cm on either side of it to get my dimensions of 9.7cm wide by 12cm tall

3) Measure and mark 9.7cm three times across the top and bottom of the card stock and make the card 12cm high. Cut this area from your A4 card stock.

4) Score the 9.7cm lines.

 5) Stamp image in CENTRE panel.

6) Fold right side under then left side and score folds

7) Fold card flat again image side up. Colour card as desired and stamp or use rub ons to add a sentiment if desired.

8) Use a sharp craft knife and remove the area where you want the shaker part to be. Run a grey or black marker along inner cut edges to make the cut areas less visible.

9) Turn card over and place double sided tape around cut panel. If you have a bent area as I did use smaller pieces of tape to achieve the bend.

10) Remove backing from the tape and attach acetate. I have run a pen around mine so you can see it LOL.

11) Place double sided foam tape (it's raised up a few mm) around cut panel and on top of the acetate. Be sure to butt the tape up close to each piece so there are no gaps for the shaker bits to fall out.

12) Adhere contrasting card to the left side as shown.

13) Place glitter, tiny beads, fine sand or whatever you wish to use on the acetate.

14) Be VERY careful and remove the backing tape from the foam tape. You don't want the card to move while doing this or you will get glitter on the exposed adhesive and the card wont seal properly. Press the left side of the card down onto the exposed adhesive of the foam tape.

Now you have a shaker card!! I just added some ink to the edges of mine. Add an insert, rub out any remaining marks that can be seen and you are done.

 I used to be totally addicted to these and I reckon I have made over a hundred LOL. Of course you can use a single fold card, make the shaker part separately (frame style stamps like the one at the start are good for this) and then adhere it to the front of the card too. Or add two or more layers of foam tape so the recess is deeper and add things like Smarties, coffee beans etc. The only regret I am having revisiting these old techniques is I haven't kept information on where I saw or learnt them from.

If you wish to know what I am up too but forget I exist ..how could you LOL...I have now added an e-mail notification gadget to my blog at the right under my contact e-mail....thanks Elizabeth for asking me about this. Just enter your e-mail, confirm you wish to subscribe and then every time I post you will get an e-mail telling you so :o). If there is a paper crafting technique or tip you are itching to know about just pop me an e-mail and I'll try to do a Tuesday tip/technique just for you! Off to make some metal magic :o)
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Annette  In Oz    

Give Away Winner

The winner to my Luminarte Primary Elements Polished Pigments is ...

 and number 27 is Sharon Fozard

Thanks to everyone who entered and congratulations Sharon. Just send me your snail mail and I'll pop it in the post for you. I must do more of these give aways as they make me happy :o)
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Annette In Oz xxxx