Autumn Shaker Card

If you love Fall and Cardmaking as much as we do, we thought you'd enjoy 

this lovely Autumn Shaker Card by Design Team Member Nadine Carlier.

Featured Storage:  Deflecto 4-Drawer Stackable Cube Organizer

Nadine's Autumn Shaker Card uses beads, glitter and a lot of various embellishments all conveniently stored in her Deflecto 4-Drawer Stackable Cube Organizer.  

The Stackable Cube Organizers are available with a variety of options to create the perfect storage solution for your craft room or office.  They help keep your workspace clutter-free and your supplies close at hand.

You can read more about the Autumn Shaker Card on Nadine's blog here.

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Thank A Nurse Card

Card Designed By Nadine Carlier

Nurses do a lot and put up with a lot and don't always get the Thanks they deserve.

So if you get a chance, don't forget to Thank a Nurse.

Featured Storage:  Deflecto Stackable Cube Organizer

This is how Design Team Member Nadine Carlier uses hers...

"I do a lot of ink blending and have a lot of different ink blending tools.  Some of them are small and hard to keep organized. I started using the Deflecto Stackable Cube with 2 Drawers and also with 4 Drawers. Because I have so many sponge daubers, I took one of the bigger drawers from the Deflecto 2 Drawer Cube and exchanged it with 2 of the smaller drawers from the Deflecto 4 Drawer Cube to fit all the daubers in and so that all of my ink blenders are all in the same cube."

There are several different styles of Deflecto Stackable Cube Organizers that lets you 

create custom storage.  Keeps your workspace clutter-free and supplies close at hand.

For More fun projects from Nadine you can visit her blog here.

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Coloring a Rainbow

Is rainbow your favorite color?  

Learn how to draw, doodle and color a bright and cheery rainbow with Design team member Beth Watson.   

Featured Storage Container:  Interlocking Marker Organizer

Materials:

• Dual Tip Brush Art Markers
• Fine Tip Permanent Marker
  
• Pencil
• Marker Paper
• Light Box
• Downloadable Version below↓

RAINBOW OF FEELINGS OUTLINE VERSIONDownload

Step #1

Always start out with a sketch.  I have a spiral-bound book that I draw rough outlines of all my doodles and printable ideas.  This is a great way to save all those quotes I randomly come across.  

Step #2 

The Cricut BrightPad is one of my favorite tools when it comes to creating printable files, doodles and drawings.  By layering the rough sketch under the smooth printer paper I can quickly and easily create different versions of the same quote.  Ink in the image with a medium grey pen.  

Step #3

• Next, take the shadow quote and layer a new piece of smooth printer paper on top.  
• Trace around the quote with a fine tip permanent marker.

Step #4

• Color the background in the lightest of blue markers.
• Letter the darker words with the brush tip of the black marker.
• Outline the block letters using the bullet tip of the marker.

Step # 5

• Start out with a sample color palette to make sure the final piece will have the perfect combination.
• Add the rainbow perspective to the word FEELS at the bottom of the quote. 
• Outline the colors and the quote with the bullet tip of the black marker.

For more information on Beth's project and the free downloadable printable.

Visit Beth's blog here.  

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Hello Cards

Just because we can't see our friends and loved ones right now doesn't mean we can't send them a hello.

These bright and cheerful cards were made using alcohol based markers and silver foiled paper.

Materials:

• Alcohol Markers
• Foiled Paper:  Silver and Ebony
• Embossing Folder
• Word Die Cuts
• Cardstock
• Adhesive

The Deflecto Stackable Caddy Organizer with the added Interlocking Marker Organizers is the perfect companion for card makers.

Project Instructions:

• Emboss the silver foiled paper using an embossing folder.
• Color the embossed parts of the silver foiled paper using the alcohol markers in a variety of colors.
• Adhere onto a black cardstock base.
• Adhere die-cut words onto the foiled paper.

For more details on Nadine's cards you can see the full post here.

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Eggstra Special Shaker Tag

Shaker Tag Designed by Sue Eldred

How to make a Egg-stra Special Shaker Tag

Supplies Used:

• Stamps and Dies (from the Maker's Movement)
• Die Cut Machine
• Clear Acetate Sheets
• Double Sided Craft Foam
• Black Ink
• Art Markers
• Deflecto Expandable Marker Accordion
• Heavyweight Watercolor Paper
• Decorative Scrapbook Paper
• Tape Runner
• Ribbon, Twine, Button

• Stamp the chick image with black ink onto white cardstock.
• Stamping on non-porous white card-stock helps the markers blend easier.

• Color in the edge of the chick with the light ochre marker.  Use the pale yellow marker to blend and fill in the rest of the chick.

• Line up chick die with the stamped image.  (cutting side down)  I use a piece of removable tape on my die to hold it in place as I run in through the die cut machine. 

• Using a nesting tag dies, center and tape the two dies together to create a tag frame.

Shaker Tag pieces:

• Cut a large tag from the largest nested tag die.
• Cut a large green dot tag.  Cut a wavy line die on the bottom of the tag. 
• Adhere bottom of the wavy cut tag onto the blue skies tag.
• Cut a acetate tag from the next largest nesting tag die.
• Cut a large purple gingham egg, a floral cracked egg and several small eggs from coordinating scrapbook paper.

• On the back of the tag frame, add a thin line of adhesive around the inside opening of the tag.
• Remove the protective coating from both sides of the acetate and place it on top of the adhesive.
• Cut thin strips from the double-sided foam sheets.  Remove one side of the protective layer from the foam strips and place around the inside edges of the tag.
• Add shaker bits inside tag.
• Remove the second side of the protective layer from the foam strips and adhere to the blue skies layer on the inside of the tag.

• Glue the small floral cracked half egg onto purple gingham egg.
• Add foam to the back of chick and egg and add to front of the card.
• Punch a hole on the top of the tag using the crop-a-dile, add purple and white twine.
• Adhere ribbon bow to top of the tag.

For more details on Sue's project you can read the full post here.

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Quick and Easy Cardmaking

Make quick and easy cards using scrapbooking paper packs.

There are so many fantastic paper collections available with coordinating patterns that help you take the guesswork out of matching designs.

Project Designed by Lorrie McCullers

To make a quick and easy card:

• Choose a theme using a fun paper collection
• Start with a plain white card as your base

• Cut a decorative strip of paper for the top section of the card (approx. 1/4" shorter than the width of the card base). Adhere the decorative strip onto the white card with a double-stick tape runner.
• Cut a second coordinating piece of paper and adhere to the lower section of the card.

• Cut the third pattern as a border strip to adhere to the front of the card.  
• Next, cut a small piece of decorative paper to fill in the gap between the top and bottom pieces.

• To finish up the card, punch a 2" circle from a fourth coordinating pattern from the paper collection. Add an adhesive foam dot to the back of the circle for added dimension. 

You've created a quick and easy card that can be sent to anyone for all occasions. 

For more projects from Lorrie, you can visit her blog here.

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