Joy Clair Chain Breaker

Hi, I'm here to show you a quick, fun project using the "MISTI" from My Sweet Petunia and "Chain Breaker" from Joy Clair. I used the chain stamp to make a fun card wrap to keep my pop up Halloween card from opening before the recipient is ready to open it.

 

To make the card wrap:

• Take a piece of vellum (1.5 inch x 11 inches) and rub an embossing bag over it. (Embossing buddy, talcum powder or a rosin bag to keep the static down so the stray powder doesn't stick to the outside of the stamping.

• Taking the MISTI lay the vellum in it and arrange the stamps with the part you stamp with facing down.
• Close the lid to pick up the stamps on the MISTI door
• Open the lid
• Ink the stamps with VersaMark
• Close the lid and stamp the image by pressing down on the lid over the stamps to make contact with the paper with your stamp.
• Open the lid, tilt the MISTI so you can see your stamped image, make sure it is completely stamped, if not just re-ink and re-stamp.
• Take the strip out and sprinkle with silver embossing powder
• Heat with heat gun
• Place the strip back in the MISTI with half the strip sticking out of the door.

 

• Peel the stamp off the door and rearrange on the strip to overlap the previous chain a little bit
• Close the door to pick up stamp
• Open door and ink, close door, stamp, remove powder, heat
• Repeat for other side
• Now your strip is finished.

 

• Take your trimmer and trim the extra vellum off the sides so the wrap is the thickness you would like
• Make your card (see my blog for more info on how to make my Halloween card)
• Take your card and wrap your wrap around the card and turn it over, overlap the strips and then tape it shut.
• Don't tape it tight, you want some play room to get the card in and out without bending the card.

Making card wraps is always fun and an added element to your card. You can make them with stamps, border dies and punches or decorative paper. I am using my wrap to keep my pop up card from opening up when you set the card on the table.










 I hope you got some good ideas from today's post! Happy Crafting!

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Miss Kate Cuttables Challenge

Today's post is a quick card I made for Miss Kate Cuttables Challenge for March. The challenge is "Anything Card". As always I made one of my favorite holiday cards, Halloween.

Before we get into the card, don't forget to hop on over to Miss Kate Cuttables for the Daily Freebie!!

Now for my card:

• Download Haunted House from Miss Kate Cuttables 
• Cut it out at 4 inches from black card stock.
• Card base 4.25 x 5.5 white card or A2 size blank card.
• Cut some black card stock for hill place on card front.
• Lay the die cut on the card and trace lightly the windows and moon for placement, remove die cut.
• Using some dye inks and a sponge dauber, rub some colors where your windows will be. 
• Cut a circle out of some scrap paper the size of the moon and place the open hole over where you want the moon and use yellow dye ink to color the moon circle shape.
• Cover the moon with the other part of the circle you cut out to keep the moon from getting ink all over when you do the black sky.
• Add some colors in the sky with some dye ink and a dauber.
• Using some black dye ink and a dauber, rub black ink over all sky area even over color spaces. 
• When you have the sky looking the way you like, remove the moon cover and add a little black over it to mute the moon a little. 
• Next erase all pencil lines from window areas.
• Add adhesive to house die cut and glue in place. Make sure you position over moon and windows. 
• Add some white gel pen dots for stars.

•  For some additional glitz, add some glossy accents over the windows and some Wink of Stella over the sky.

Thanks for stopping by!!
Jen

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