Dungarees - Cap and Gown Card

With graduation season quickly approaching, I thought it would be fun to share an origami folded card design. I found this clever video tutorial on Youtube and couldn't wait to try it. I plan to give this card to my cousin Courtney, who will be graduating from high school at the beginning of June.

Let's take a look at some of the details.

1. Trim Dungarees Dark Blue papers to 10x12 and 4x4". Trim the Cream Plain to 2-7/8x6-7/8". A 1/2" cream print belly band (not shown) was wrapped around the finished card and trimmed to the appropriate length.

2. Stamp the Big Deal quote and sentiment onto the cream paper with Sapphire hybrid ink.

I just loved how the open card forms a box!  Plenty of room for some cash or gift cards.

3. Stamp the Big Deal numbers onto the Cream print belly band with Sapphire ink. Tip: Match pen ink color to stamped image by rubbing the nib of a similar shade marker onto the Sapphire ink pad.

4. Create a tassel by wrapping white embroidery floss around two fingers. Before removing your fingers, carefully wind a section of the floss around and through your fingers to create the top of the tassel. Use a needle to thread the end up through the top of the tassel and secure with a knot. Leave a tail for threading through the cap. Don't forget to cut the long end loop to form the bottom of your tassel.

5. Secure the tassel with a metal brad and cover the brad prongs and tassel end with a bit of adhesive on the back of the "one size fits all" tag embellishment.

Thanks for stopping by and enjoy your weekend!

Julie

New Formulas for Dungarees Papers

If you have your hot little hands on a Dungarees Club Stamp paper pack, you're set to create six spectacular cards. All you have to do is follow the trimming and scoring instructions, exercise your craft knife skills, do a little origami-style folding, and stamp your heart out!

We'll make two 5.5x8.5" pop-up cards . . .

. . . and four great "dress shirt" cards just in time for Father's Day!

1. Trim one 8.5x11 Dark Blue, Russet, Kraft and Light Blue Plain horizontally at 10.75 and 5.5". Cut the 5.25x8.5 horizontally at 8.25 and 4". Trim the 4.25x5.25 horizontally at 4.5 and 2.5". Cut the 2x4.25 horizontally at 4 and 2.25". Score and fold the 5.5x8.5 horizontally at 4.25".

2. Cut one 8.5x11 Text Weight Print vertically at  4.75 and 3.75". Trim each 3.75x11 horizontally at 6 and 5".

3. Score (do not trim) one 8.5x11 Kraft and Dark Blue Plain horizontally at 5.5".

4. Trim each 8.5x11 Ivory Print vertically at 8.25". Score horizontally at 2.75, 5.5 and 8.25". Measure and mark 1-3/8" from the top and bottom edge. Cut a vertical slit 2.75" from the left and right edges, stopping at the marked guideline. Score at 1-3/8" to connect the slits. Accordion fold the base sheet with valley folds on the outside and a mountain fold in the center. Accordion fold the inner section with folds reversed.

5. Trim one 8.5x11 Light Blue and Russet Plain horizontally at 10.25, 7.75, and 5.25". Cut the 5.25x8.5 horizontally at 8.25". Trim each 2.5x8.5 horizontally at 7.5, 5 and 2.5". Cut the .75x8.5 horizontally at 5.25".

6. Trim the remaining 8.5x11 Ivory Text Print vertically at 4.25". Cut each 4.25x11 horizontally at 5.5" to separate the artwork into four equal sections. Origami fold each 4.25x5.5" piece into a shirt. Click HERE to see a larger image of a folding tutorial, or simply search "origami shirt" in your browser. Work with your paper vertically, and the shirt will come out just fine.

Stamp the large rivet and cut a slot with a craft knife. Slide the .75" strip through for a neat look.

Enhance the sentiment with your white gel pen.

The 2.5" squares matte perfectly onto the 2-3/4" sections of the accordion-folded paper.

Stamp the squares, or add photos for a true keepsake!

Note how the folds of the center row are the opposite of the upper and lower rows.

Insert the pop-up mechanism into the folded 5.5x8.5" card base. Apply adhesive to the outside edges only to allow the pop-ups to function.

Distress the outside edges of the printed panel with a Tonic Paper Distressing Tool.

Interchange the pattern of the origami shirt with the pattern in the background.

Use a contrasting pen to add faux stitching. Cut a chevron onto the smallest panel.

Add buttons to the shirts with Dazzles Jewels Stickers, and attach accent buttons with blue jute.

The cards are a little "involved," but well worth the effort.

Happy cardmaking!
Tricia

Dungarees Greetings to Go Guest Artist

Last fall, Ruth Ann originally suggested the theme that eventually became our May collection, so we asked her to be our Guest Artist for May's Dungarees Greetings to Go. Take it away, Ruth Ann!

I'm very excited about this kit! It feels like I've been waiting forever for it. With eight grandsons it's perfect! 

The stitching pattern in the corners was done with a Timeless Touches template.

I attached most of the buttons to the cards with stitching.

The most difficult part was finding a needle with an eye big enough for the thread or fiber,
but small enough in diameter to go through the button!

Since the kit didn't have plaid flannel paper, I felt like it was calling out for a t-shirt or two. The English Garden Library Card Pocket stencil makes a great t-shirt -- if you ignore the fold lines and shorten it a bit. 

I dug out a couple of embossing folders and ink to "decorate" a couple of the shirts. (I'm happy to see that my plaid flannel idea made it into Dungarees digital, though!)

The small flower stamps on this shirt are from the We Are Aware UM.

I should thank Jac for the Retreat class when she taught me how to use a craft knife. I needed that skill to cut around the overalls so I could put the t-shirt underneath and the fiber "belt" through the loops. (I think I was the only one in the class who required a band-aid. Ironically, I cut myself putting the cap back on the knife!)

I felt like the pockets were calling out to hold something. Since there are several gift-giving occasions this time of year, I used a gift card in one and a seed packet in another. 

Although I purchased the seeds, I think it would work equally well, or even better, to make your own seed packet using the Farmer's Market stencil, if you have it. Then you could put a smaller gift inside that!

 The Dungarees stamps feature fun images and phrases.

Dungarees Greeting UM.

Dungarees Greeting UM.

The Greetings to Go Cutaparts and elements from the Embellishment Pack make putting cards together super easy:

Dungarees Embellishment Die Cut.

Printed Cutapart from Embellishment Pack.

Greetings to Go Cutapart and Embellishment Die Cut.

Other than the fact that I felt totally incompetent and worried the entire time that I was working on them that they would be the worst Greetings to Go cards ever done by a guest artist, I'm pretty happy with the way the cards turned out. (And, just for the record, I want you to know that my overalls had a belt before I saw Tricia's card with the same treatment!)

Ruth Ann

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Greetings to Go Guest Artists are given the current month's Club Scrap materials to work with:

• Greetings to Go Pack
• Embellishment Pack
• Collection Unmounted Rubber Stamp sheet
• Greeting Unmounted Rubber Stamp sheet
• Art Nouveau Unmounted Rubber Stamp sheet
• Extra 8.5 x 11" plain papers from the monthly kit

The artist may also choose to incorporate items from their own craft stash, as well as different inks and art mediums. We do our best to make note these additions in the card descriptions whenever possible.

Rag Quilt Technique and Free Sketch

First order of business . . . .please join me in congratulating the winner of our (Inter)National Scrapbooking May 2014 Challenge 1 -- Ink Stained Roni! We will be in touch about getting you your prize.

My daughter's rag quilt.

I love my daughter's rag quilt that her grandmother made when she was little, and it got me thinking . . . could I recreate this effect in paper? I grabbed my handy Tonic paper distress tool and paper from the Dungarees kit and got to work on this card.

I also made a set of free instructions to go along with the May 2014 card sketch provided by my friend Anne Marie at the Coffeehouse forum and used it as the basis for my rag quilt card.

Follow the steps below to create the card.

1. Download the free cutting instructions and assemble your cards.

2. Trim twelve 1 x 15/16" pieces from a sheet of the Dark Blue Print from the Club Scrap Dungarees kit. Don't freak when you see the 15/16" measurement; it's just a little shy of 1". (The squares are not from the cutting instructions listed above.)

3. Fray the edges of each square with a Tonic paper distressing tool.

4. Rub Silver Gelatos along the edges of each square.

5. Adhere squares vertically onto to the Light Blue panel for a perfect fit, and attach the matted Dungarees Greeting quote during final card assembly.

Hope you will give this technique a try. Enjoy your freebie!

P.S. Stop by my Cape Cod Scrapper blog for a peek at three more cards created with the sketch.

Julie