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Marlon Brando Card

By admin On October 29, 2009 No Comments

Hi Everyone

It’s been a while since I last posted and Today I have decided to post up the instructions on how to make the Marlon Brando Card.

So what you need is :

Brown Card (Cut 6×6in)
12×12 Black Market Paper Society- Vintage Romance – Fletching Paper
Cream Cardstock
Brown Cardstock
Copper Krylon Pen
Die Cut Swirls
Ancient Copper Embossing Paper
Clear Ink (Versmack)
Heat Gun
Marlon Brando Clear Stamp
Vintage Sepia Versafine ink

You can get all the the items listed above in my shop www.simplycraft.com

So now you know what to get heres how you do:

1.Cut the fletching 12×12 Paper 14cmx 14cm
2.Edge the paper with a copper krylan pen or you could edge with clear ink and sprinkle on copper embossing powder and heat it with a heat gun.
3. Use Doube tape to stick it to the brown Card
4. Ink Swirls a over with the clear ink sprinkle on the copper embossing powder. Tap off any excess and heat it with the heat gun.
5. Stamp the Marlon Brando in Sepia Ink onto the cream card and then cut it to size.
6. Edge the card with sepia ink to frame the image
7.Mat iit onto the brown card and edge it with the copper krylan pen.
8. Arrange the card.
9. Stick swith with glue such as glossy accents or PVA.
10. Mount the Marlon Image with 3d Pads and allow swirls ends to overlap the image.

Thats how you do it… If you have questions or comments. Please feel free to contact us or leave a post.

We do run Workshops that you can attend if you are interest. Check our Workshop page for Updated Dates.

Thanks for reading and please do comment..

Thanks

Erica

Elvis Las Vegas Card

By admin On October 13, 2009 No Comments

When making men’s cards it is always difficult to come up with a new theme, this card adds a touch of old fashioned glamour while still being a masculine card, perfect for the aging rocker!

Using the clear stamps available exclusively at Simply Craft they make for perfect positioning allowing you to pre cut the layers with the confidence that the stamp will fit perfectly.

For best results when stamping it is important to choose an ink like Staz on especially on acetate to ensure it dries.

Materials used:

Elvis clear stamp exclusive to Simply Craft

Acrylic block

A4 sheet of black card

12 x 12 sheet of Sandylion ‘Vegas nightlife’ (cut into 19.5cm x 13cm)

Black card cut into size 8cm x 11cm

Linen silver card cut into size 10cm x 7cm

Acetate cut into size 10cm x 7cm

4 star shaped brads

Silver stickles glitter glue

Black Staz on ink

Die cut alphabet words – Viva Las Vegas – (I have used Cricut machine and cartridge ‘Storybook’)

Double sided sticky pads

Double sided sticky tape

PVA glue and cocktail stick

Fold the A4 black card in half, this is your base card (turn horizontal). Layer Vegas Nightlife paper onto this.
Stamp Elvis onto the acetate and use the brads to attach this to the silver linen and black card.
With double sided sticky pads attach Elvis image to the left hand side of the card.
Glue the words ‘Viva Las Vegas’ to the right hand side with PVA glue.
Add tiny little dots of silver stickles glitter glue to the letters to look like tiny lights on the wording.

Top tips

A cocktail stick is an ideal little tool for adding tiny dabs of glue to the lettering, too much glue will spoil the design. The cocktail stick is also great for adding the glitter glue if you are worried about being too heavy handed.

Before sticking down the wording place them out onto the card first, it can be all too easy to run out of space before you get to the end of the word!

Marilyn Card

By admin On October 13, 2009 No Comments

When making men’s cards it is always difficult to come up with a new theme, this card adds a touch of old fashioned glamour while still being a masculine card, as Marilyn Monroe sang happy birthday to President Kennedy.
Using the clear stamps available exclusively at Simply Craft they make for perfect positioning allowing you to pre cut the layers with the confidence that the stamp will fit perfectly.
For best results when stamping it is important to choose an ink like Staz On or Versafine to get the fine detail on our stamps.

Materials used:
Marilyn clear stamp exclusive to Simply Craft
Acrylic block
A4 sheet of black card
Silver card cut to size 15cm x 11cm
Smooth white card cut into 10cm x 14cm
Black line peel off stickers (goldlabel 633)
Black music note peel off stickers (gold label 592)
Black Happy Birthday peel off stickers (goldlabel 642)
Black Staz on ink
Diamond acrylic gems (small round and heart shape)
Glossy accents
White marabou feather
Double sided tape
New red sakura glaze pens (code 822)

1. Fold the A4 black card in half this is your base card.
2. Stamp the Marilyn image on the top half of the smooth white card (I chose smooth white as this will give the best impression).
3. Stick the black peel off lines around the edge of the white card, and then use the music notes and birthday words underneath the Marilyn stamp.
4. Mount the Marilyn image onto the silver card and attach this to the base card all with double sided tape.
5. Attach some thin double sided tape to one side of a marabou feather and trim away at the spine, you then have a trim of feather on tape, remove the other side of the sticky tape and attach to the neckline of the Marilyn image.

Spiderman Birthday Card

By admin On October 13, 2009 2 Comments

Heres How to Make a Spiderman Card for someone special.

Children love spiderman, If you have someone who loves spiderman then this card is perfect for them. It’s always nice to make a card for that someone special.

This is what you are going to need:

A4 Blue Card

A4 White Card

12×12 Comic Strip Paper

Spiderman Stickers

3d sickypads

Black Border Peel

Peel of messages

And Here how you do it:

Fold the A4 Blue Card in half.

Cut the 12×12 comic strip and add to the blue card.

Stick Spiderman to the white card and cut it out.

Add Spideman to the Card on top of the Comic Strip paper with 3d Stickypads

Use the Black Peel off’s to line around the edges of comic stripe paper

Then use the black peel off’s as web lines.

Lastly add Peel off Messages to your card.

Then you will have a fantastic Spiderman Card.

Hope you enjoy making it as much as I have.

Thank you for reading and if you have any questions or comments please feel free to post a message below.

Have a great day
Erica