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Tutorial on SCS - Dahlia Fold

Mar 192008

Donna Moore, aka. Shadowmills, started the craze of the Dahlia fold on Splitcoast a while back. It got even more popular when it was a Technique challenge a month or so ago. Today we are revealing a step by step tutorial on Splitcoast written by Donna for the Dahlia Fold. I finally couldn’t hold out any longer (yes, that’s right…didn’t do it yet!) and had to try it out.

This is going out to Charmaine’s Mother-in-Law today! Keep her in your thoughts and prayers and help us shower her with well wishes and cards.

Are you proud of me? I kept it a rectangle card.

You might not know that, but most of my cards start out as a 4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″ card only to be chopped back down to a 4 1/4″ square because I can’t make them look right!

This is a card with a lot of favorites of mine on there: Paper Piercing, my first LOVED designer paper, white brads, rhinestone brads, white gel pen, striped ribbon…..What’s not to love! LOL

So…back to the card! The card base is a 5 1/2″ x 8 1/2″ piece of Close to Cocoa cardstock folded in half, followed by a 4″ x 5 1/4″ piece of Blush Blossom and a 3 3/4″ x 5″ piece of Petal Patch Designer Paper. I am still sad this discontinued. I like it okay in the new colors (Fall Flowers), but I absolutely LOVED this one.

I taped the Blush Blossom and DP layer together and paper pierced the edges. Next I added the white gel pen lines to make it look like faux stitching.

The inner rectangle layers measure 2 5/8″ x 4 3/8″ for the Close to Cocoa layer and 2 1/2″ x 4 1/4″ for the Certainly Celery Prints designer paper. I added more faux stitching to these layers, tied Bashful Blue Striped Grosgrain Ribbon around it horizontally and stamped the sentiment from Kind Thoughts on the bottom right in Close to Cocoa classic ink.

I used eight 1 3/8″ circle punch outs from the Petal Patch Designer Paper (sniff, sniff) to make my flower and added a Jumbo Pewter Eyelet with a Ice Circle Rhinestone brad in it’s center.

To finish it off, I added three 1/4″ Close to Cocoa circles on the top right with white brads in their center. I can’t help myself. I love doing that!

Swirly Dahlia

Artwork, Stampin' Up! 33 Responses »

Jul 192007

I finally stamped. I have to stamp in between games with Austin. I sure hope he is better soon. His sore throat is getting better, but now the cold is more of a nasty runny nose and cough. It’s always the same. And everytime Austin is over a sickness, he grew at least 1/2″.

I started out by using the So Swirly Jumbo roller with Soft Sky on a 3″ x 4″ piece of Whisper White cardstock. I stamped the big Flower from Fabulous Flowers in Versamark and embossed it with Clear embossing powder.

Next I brayered Blue Bayou Classic ink over the entire piece of cardstock. I stamped the big swirl stamp from Priceless over the blue spaces of the cardstock, wiped the extra ink over the embossed flower away with a paper towel and tied a piece of double stitched River Rock grosgrain around it.

I layered my center piece on a 4 1/4″ x 3 1/4″ piece of soft sky cardstock, then on a 4 1/2″ x 3 1/2″ piece of cardstock and added Giga Scallop Square punches underneath.

The card base is a 5″ x 8 1/2″ piece of River Rock cardstock folded in half. I stamped the background stamp Tres Chic on it in River Rock and sponged the edges in the same color.

RAK from Susanna Boyd

RAK 6 Responses »

Feb 072008

Susanna Boyd sent me this gorgeous card with her Valentine’s cards.

Look at the amazing Dahlia Fold card and the ribbon stem. Absolutely beautiful! I still have to try that fold.

You can check out Susanna’s amazing work on her blog Barefoot Stamper.

(Susanna, sorry about the wrong blog in the watermark!)

Weekend Sketch Challenge #40

weekend sketch challenge 122 Responses »

Mar 212008

Here is the sketch for this weekend:

To participate in the challenge and be entered in the raffle, make a card with this layout and upload it either to your blog, or to an online gallery.

If you upload your card on SCS, put WSC40 (NO SPACE INBETWEEN WSC AND 40) in the keyword section. That way we can look at all of them at once!

Post a link to your card to this blog entry as a comment. Please add your entry# to it.

I will determine the winner with Random.org on Monday at 11:00 a.m.