Purple Onion Design: Faux shadow Box

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So, I have another card here with the ever so cute new Stacey Yacula release ‘A Happy Little Place’ at Purple Onion Designs.

This time I am experimenting with the idea of a faux shadow box card or is it a shaker card minus the shaker window. Hmmm, I’m not sure! What I do know is that the new Stacey Yacula collection with all the buildings, components and critters are perfect for layers and depth. I used a frame die and layered it many, many times to create a deep frame in order to adhere a small image with acetate mid layers and critter in the front.

 
 

There is still a week left to enjoy the special bundle price on the complete 21 stamp collection "A Happy Little Place" (enabler alert) from Stacey Yacula. The set includes a collection of buildings, the adorable critters and “The Around the Town Sentiment set”. This special bundle offer is $105, which is a 30% discount through Friday, May 14th at Purple Onion Designs. Of course all of these stamps can also be purchased separately.

Get the Look:

  • PREP WORK

    • Stamp and colour the bookstore, book rack and Alex.

    • Stamp the bookstore store name a second time with versamark ink and emboss in gold. Colour and cut out.

    • Stamp sentiment in versamark on brown cardstock and gold emboss.

    • Die cut a large frame die about 6 times out of regular thick cardstock and once out of gold cardstock.

  • Layer the gold embossed bookstore sign over the coloured bookstore with foam tape.

  • Adhere the bookstore, and embossed sentiment onto a 41/4”x51/2” piece of cardstock.

  • Time to build the faux shadow box: Glue together a couple of the rectangle frames. Attach the book rack to a piece of clear acetate position and glue book rack to stacked rectangle frames.

  • Layer and adhere the rest of the rectangle frames (including gold layer) ontop of already partially built frame.

  • Position frame over background bookstore and then position and attach Alex.

  • Lastly adhere panel to an A2 card base.

Purple Onion Design: Introducing A Happy Little Place

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Purple Onion Design: Introducing A Happy Little Place

So, so excited to guest design with Purple Onion Designs and introduce you to the new Stacey Yacula release ‘A Happy Little Place’. With the popularity of slim line cards, it is so cool that there are some multi-storey building stamps. I decided to try both a slim line and A2 size card. So what do you think, do you lean towards the slim line or the A2 version of the card?

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Your Next Stamp Fun Folds Series: Day 6

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Your Next Stamp Fun Folds Series: Day 6

So typically I am much more of a single layer kinda card making gal. So the Fun Folds series at YNS was certainly a challenge for me. I started out by taking a look in the internet world to see what type of folding card’s are out there. My goal was to create something that still played on my scene building strength and also wasn’t overly complicated or fussy. I happened to come across Jennifer McGuires Pop Up Shadow Box Tutorial from a few years back and thought perfect. Jennifer McGuire also just recently created a new Easy Shadow Box tutorial. Both of these tutorials are great for getting you started with shadow box cards.

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Your Next Stamp Spring Series

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Your Next Stamp Spring Series

This week Your Next Stamp is running a Spring Series. Each day a couple of design team members will be posting some perfect spring themed cards to inspire your spring and easter card making ideas. I guarantee you there will be plenty of fun Easter ideas, including this one I created for day 2 of the series. To check out all the other designs team members spring cards click back to the Your Next Stamp blog

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Your Next Stamp March Release Preview: Spring Smiles

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Your Next Stamp March Release Preview: Spring Smiles

Heading into the last day of previews. Tomorrow all the wonderful stamp and die sets arrive 11am EST at Your Next Stamp online store, along with a really great discount code (see bottom of the post for code). Also don’t miss the instagram hop with prizes to celebrate the release starting at 11am.

Spring Smiles stamp set has some great spring florals which I think are best showcased by keeping things simple.

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Your Next Stamp March Release Preview: Totally Retro

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Heading into the last day of previews. Tomorrow all the wonderful stamp and die sets arrive 11am EDT at Your Next Stamp and also there is an instagram hop to celebrate the release starting at 11am.

The ‘Crazy For Christmas’ stamp set has to be my favourite from this release. The puppies are super cute and I just couldn’t choose which image to stamp and colour. So I stamped and coloured each adorable puppy.

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