Don and I visited Lynette yesterday. We enjoyed a nice lunch at Olive Garden. Then we returned and had a wonderful day of visiting and stamping!
Lynette showed me the "Tommy Bahama" Tropical shirt card she had made after seeing Tami White's YouTube: "Tommy Bahama" Tropical shirt card featuring Stampin' Up products . I am grateful that she was willing to help me make two of them! We used navy cardstock cut in half at 4-1/4 inches to get two topfold cards. With another piece of the navy cardstock Lynette cut four-2 inch squares to get 2 sleeves on each of the 2 cards. She also cut two navy collar pieces, 1 x 4-1/4 inches and two white inner collar pieces.
Using the Stampin' Up ink colors Tempting Turquoise, Summer Sun, Only Orange and Real Red, I ink blended the white panels. Then stamped the tall palm trees from Gina K's Ocean Silhouettes using GK's In the Navy ink. On the pocket, I stamped It's Your Day with an old 2001 SU stamp.
Lynette cut two pocket about 1-1/4 x 1-1/2 each. We just trimmed the bottom corners off before ink blending with Tempting Turquoise.
The sleeves were just a 2 inch square adhered to the front of the navy card at an angle, before the "shirt" panel was added.
The shirt panel is cut in half at the center, 2-1/8 inch from the side. The left panel is then prepared with a paper pierce tool. Lynette had a plastic template with tiny holes to get an even placement. The tiny holes make the shirt edge looked stitched. Lynette had navy brads to use as buttons. I added 6 evenely down the shirt front. I inked the edge of the shirt with a dark navy marker.
The collar is folded so that the top corners meet. The white panel is put inside the collar. It should not go beyond the diagonal fold. You cut partially into on the fold, about 1/2 inch up from the bottom. This allows the front part of the collar to be placed over the inked shirt part. You adhere the back part of the collar centered on the top of the blue card base. It will be behind the shirt when you add the 2 shirt panels. I made a mistake on the first card, gluing the collar to the back side of the navy card. So then I had to add a crease in collar back to open the card. It's a bit confusing. I didn't watch the YouTube closely enough! Once this card was done, it really looked impressive. On the inside white panel that is 4 x 5-1/4 inches, I stamped Happy Father's Day with a stamp from Lynette's stash-not shown.
First we inked white paper with Gina K's dusty rose ink. Then Lynette stamped the big rose stamp with Brilliance white ink and used white embossing powder over that for beautiful outline/texture.
We did the same for the leaves, inking white paper with Gina K's jelly bean grean ink. But we added a layer of green stamping with the little 6 circle stamp with dots in the center. Then Lynette did the embossing technique again.
The rose and leaves were fussy cut. We added the strip of black polka dot paper. Then using foam tape added the rose. The leaves were adhered with double stick tape and a little multi medium white for glue.
It was so much fun making this Swing Card. Again, Lynette had made one previously and she was willing to take the time to show me how she did it. She found this YouTube
The card is a regular 4-1/4 x 5-1/2 inch card. The front flap is scored at 2-1/8 to get the fold back flap. We used 2 circle dies and a Cuttlebug machine.
Our circle die that cut just half of the circle in the card was 2-7/8 inches in diameter.
Our die to cut the entire white circle was 2-1/2 inches in diameter.
As shown in the YouTube...we placed our card flat onto the Cuttlebug plate centering the larger circle die evenely between the edge and the fold. We taped it (with low tack, easy release tape) and placed the top plate over, just to the edge of the fold...maybe a tiny bit over the fold as instructed in the YouTube. You hold the plate in place until the rollers grab and then you run everything through.
Stamped a sentiment on the inside white circle (2-1/2 inches wide) and adhered it to the inside of the circle.
We cut a piece of printed paper 2-1/4 wide by 5-1/4 high and left a small border of the cardstock.
I may add a piece of white cardstock next to the printed paper to add a personal note.
All of these cards were so much fun to make! I am so happy that Lynette had such good ideas for our cardmaking day!! Thank you, Lynette!!!
And thanks to my friends who visit this blog!
Peace and all good!
