BOO Rosette Tutorial (Ann Greenspan)

BOO Rosette Tutorial

by Ann Greenspan


I used the Chevron Borders and Edgers  die by Frantic Stamper to make the pointy edge on my rosette. I also used the Round Scalloped Vignette
and the Round Vignette BOO Insert, also by Frantic Stamper, for the top of the rosette,

To make the rosette, I first cut a strip of paper that was 1.5" wide by 12" long.  I then cut along one of the long edges of the paper with the Chevron Edge die.  After that was done, I placed the paper on a scoring board horizontally (landscape) and scored every 1/4", scoring down in each of the valleys and at the very top of each of the peaks.  I had to reposition the paper every now and then so the peaks and valleys would line up perfectly with the score lines, but that was easy enough to do.



The next step was to fan fold the strip of paper along each of the score lines:



Bring the two ends of the strip together to see if the last section of each strip has a peak or a valley fold.  You want one of each so if you have two of the same fold, just cut one off along the score line.

Place a strip of double sided tape or use liquid adhesive on one of the ends of the strip and adhere it to the opposite end of the strip, overlapping the two so the folds are continuously peak/valley/peak/valley, etc.






Now you need to decide which side of the rosette will be the top side that will show on your card and which will be the bottom.  You want to take a punched out circle that is about 1.5" diameter (or hand cut one, it doesn't have to be perfect) and hot glue it to the center of the side that will be the bottom of the rosette.  Push down on the "bracelet" ring until you have a flat circle, then adhere the punched out circle with hot glue:




While the glue is drying, flip the rosette over carefully, trying not to let it pop up, and press down on the good side, making sure it lays flat on the table.  It will look like this from the good side:



Now you can cover the center with whatever you choose.  I used the Round Scalloped Vignette on mine.  Here are some other rosettes, all with the pointy edge from the Chevron die:




I filled the center of the Round Scalloped Vignette with the BOO Insert.  I love the drippy goo look to this die:

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*** Materials for this project available at www.franticstamper.com.

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Sun Rays Quilted Card Panel Tutorial (Ann Greenspan)

Sun Rays Quilted Card Panel Tutorial

by Ann Greenspan


The Frantic Stamper Sun Rays Quilted Card Panel cuts out both the frame with spokes attached to it and the stitched rays which go back into the frame, all in one swipe through the cutting machine.

Before you start making your card, decide on what colors of cardstock you will be using.  I normally cut the frame using a solid color of cardstock and then cut the rays with either pattern paper or different colored cardstock from what I used for the frame.  For my first card, I chose to use a solid black frame and dotted orange and dotted black dsp for the rays.  I am using a white card base to mount the frame on.




The 3 tools I use to make this card are a pair of tweezers, a paper piercer, and a glue pen.

I cut my solid black cardstock with the die.  To remove the paper from the die, poke the holes in the four corners on the back of the die.  This will lift the corner of the frame that has the spokes attached to it.  Carefully remove the frame with spokes, trying not to stretch the paper as you are pulling it out of the die.  This is critical that you gently pull the frame and spokes, trying not to bend or stretch the paper.  After your first card, you will easily get the hang of it.



After the frame is removed from the die, then remove the stitched rays and put them aside to use on another card we will make later.  I want to have dotted orange and dotted black rays on my card so now I need to cut a piece of each of those papers with the die.  After the cutting is done, this is what you will have (I put the black stitched rays aside already; they are not shown in this photo):



I won't be using the dotted orange or dotted black frames right now, so put them aside for the cards we will make later.

Before adhering anything on the first card, I like to place the stitched rays back into the frame to see how it will look.  Do not glue anything yet.



Put the leftover rays to a side for now so you don't get them mixed up with the rays that you have in the frame temporarily.  Now we have just our frame, card base and 12 rays to work with.

To adhere the black frame to the card base, use a glue pen and only apply glue to the four outer sides of the frame as indicated with the red dotted lines in the photo below.  Center it as best as you can on the white card base.   I  do NOT glue down the spokes or center circle.



Begin adhering the stitched rays back into the frame, using tweezers and a glue pen.  When adhering the rays, adhere the outer edge first, lining it up perfectly with the black frame.

Also, when adhering the rays, gently lift the black spokes of the frame so the spokes don't get glued under the rays, if needed.  This normally isn't needed.



After all the rays are adhered back into the frame, if the black spokes between the rays are sticking up, simply run your glue pen under them and press them down.  I rarely ever have to do this though.  It depends on if the frame stretched at all when it was being taken out of the die.

Embellish the center circle area however you want and finish off the card.  I used the Frantic Stamper Stitched Coved Labels to cover the center circle, then cut out the EEEK from the Scary Words set.  I then adhered two spiders and a bat from the Cute Halloween Icons set.

So now that your first card is done, what do you do with the two extra frames you have and all those extra rays?  Make more cards.  I used the frame from the orange dotted paper along with all of the solid black stitched rays to make my second card:



Then I used the black dotted frame that was left over along with the orange and black dotted rays to make a third and final card:



So, with just one die, three different colored pieces of cardstock, and three swipes through the die cutting machine, I was able to make three different cards, then added the embellishments.  Imagine if you wanted to have more than just two different colors of rays on your card.  You could use three different colors which yields even more cards.   Be careful though; this gets very addicting once you make the first card and have pieces left over to make more, and more and more.

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*** Materials for this project available at www.franticstamper.com.

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Ivy Thank You (Ann Greenspan)

Ivy Thank You

by Ann Greenspan


This is the first card I've ever made with a curvy edge to it.  I've seen similar ones online but I never had the opportunity to try it out until now.

I used one of the dies that comes in the Stitched Scene Builder Edgers and positioned it so it would cut off some of the edge at an angle.  Then I cut out two of the Spring Ivy die and layered them with the darkest on the bottom to give the appearance of a shadow.  I stamped the Thank You from the Wavy Banners and Greetings Clear Stamp set which was easy to do since the stamp itself is curvy, and I wanted it along the curvy edge.

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*** Materials for this project available at www.franticstamper.com.

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Flamingo Hugs (Ann Greenspan)

Flamingo Hugs

by Ann Greenspan



It seems like flamingos are so popular right now.  When I got the Lawn Flamingo die from Frantic Stamper, I knew I wanted to cut it out with a mirror image and pair the two facing each other to make the heart out of their beaks, heads and necks.

The "hugs and kisses" are from the Accessory Word dies.  The Accessory Word dies are great for cards since you can mix and match them to make a lot of different phrases.  I wish I knew of a program where I could enter all the Accessory Words to see how many different phrases could actually be made; it would be a lot.  Then if you paired the Accessory Words with the single word dies that Frantic Stamper has, the list gets even bigger.  What I like about these Accessory Word dies is the font on them and the fact that the script is wide enough to actually use a glue pen on the back of them.  So many times I've purchased word dies elsewhere that come in being so skinny that you can barely adhere them to anything!

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*** Materials for this project available at www.franticstamper.com.

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Countryside Forsythia Bushes (Ann Greenspan)

Countryside Forsythia Bushes

by Ann Greenspan


I used this photo of my neighbor's yard as inspiration for my card:



Every year my neighbor's yard blooms with various colors as the season progresses.  First come the yellow daffodils and forsythia bushes, then the cherry blossoms, red buds and magnolias, and then it's time for the azaleas.  My card is a little late for the season but I wanted to wait for the Rail Fence ribbon die to make the card complete, and I didn't own that die until just recently.

I find it easier to make scene cards when adhering the scene dies to a card panel just slightly smaller than the actual card base.   This way the sky doesn't go right up to the top of the card; there is a little bit of white framing behind it.   I used a card base that was A2 sized or 4.25 x 11" folded in half giving it a folded size of 4.25 x 5.5".  The top white panel was cut to a size of 4 x 5.25".

Once the top white panel was ready, I die cut the hills using the Stitched Scene Builder Edgers.   I then cut one of the Medium Bare Elm and Medium Base Ash trees, manually cutting both down to a shorter height so they looked more like shrubs.

I used the tiniest of the Petite Layering Posies for the flowers on the bushes, cutting them out of yellow card stock and filling in the centers with a white gel pen.   Next I used the Rail Fence ribbon die and ran that through a wood embossing folder to give it just a little texture, but that is hard to see in the photo.  I added the tiniest of the birdhouses and the hummingbird from the Small Birds collection.  The final step was to cut out the Little Clouds and adhere them with foam tape to give a dimensional look.

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*** Materials for this project available at www.franticstamper.com.

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