Frantic Stamper News

The Frantic Stamper Design Team is thrilled to present to you our latest release video, Christmas, Part One.



The September Christmas release and so much more are available for purchase at www.franticstamper.com.

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We would like to thank Brenda, Sarah, Kathi, and Chrissy for their really great work for us as guests over the past four months! We have loved having you with us!

We are thrilled to tell you that Chrissy will be staying on with us for the rest of the year, replacing Mary Prasad who was unable to continue in her role with the team. And we are thrilled to welcome four new guests through the end of the year. Here is a little about three of them, in their own words.

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Hi. I'm Marleen. I'm just a typical crafter who loves getting inky and messy. I love stamping and diecutting.. and inks.. and paints.. and and and lol.. Just a girl who loves making pretty things, even if nobody cares.

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Hello, crafty friends! My name is Nakaba Rager; most people call me Naki. I am so very excited to be a guest designer here at Frantic Stamper! ( Thank you, Fran, Kathy, and Jen! )

I have been married to my sweet, intelligent husband for almost 19 years now, and together, we have 4 beautiful kids! ( 7 yr boy, 4 yr boy/girl twins, 3 yr girl ).

My craft style is once described by my friend "messy but organized like my brain", and this pretty much sums it up! I can't wait to create something fun with Frantic Stamper Products and share with you all! Hope you'll enjoy my work!

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My name is Birgit Norton and I live in a small town in Maine with my high school sweetheart of 34 years and married for 28 of them. We have two fabulous grown children who are both married but no grands as of yet. I have always crafted ever since I could hold a crayon. I started as a scrap-booker about 15 years ago and morphed into card making about 10 years ago. My cards mostly consist of layers and dies but I also enjoy a CAS style all the way to vintage shabby. While my craft time is spent mostly on cards, I enjoy getting my creative juices flowing with altered art on occasion. I'm super excited to be joining Frantic Stamper as a guest designer for the next three months! Thanks Kathy and Fran for this amazing opportunity!

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Hi. I am Keia. I love all things papercraft related. I enjoy the inspiration and joy found within the crafting community. You can find me designing, blogging or teaching papercrafting to other fabulously crafty individuals. I have been seriously crafting for the last three years, and have recently rekindled my love of scrapbooking through Project Life. I am looking forward to having an opportunity to share my passion for papercrafting with you. Happy Crafting!

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Mom's Card-2016 (Kathy Berger)

Mom's Card 2016

The time has come for me to share my mom's 2016 Christmas card. As you may or may not know, my card for mom is the first card I tackle when I start to make my Christmas cards. It is always the most challenging one to make, and the most unique.

This year I decided to jump on the chibi light band wagon and make a card with lights. I wanted to make the card a pop up, with back lighting for each of the main elements on the inside of the cards. And, of course, I wanted to use only Frantic Stamper Precision Dies!

I decided I wanted to make a village for my card, so I started off by die cutting several of the buildings and multiple trees from the FranticStamper "village" dies, using 110lb white cardstock.

I also die cut a few tree and hill edgers for the background.

Next I die cut Santa's Sleigh and his reindeer out of black cardstock, and punched a 1.25" circle out of pale yellow card stock.

It is far too complicated to fill in all of the tiny details of how I made the pop ups, and how I wired the chibi lights but I will give you a brief of a description of the steps I took.

Since the card is 5 1/2" x 7" I knew I could easily get away with about 2.5" of pop up elements without having to worry about anything extending too far. So, the four pop-up bases are each 1/2"x7" box mechanisms. I started with a 7"x2" strip of cardstock and scored it lengthwise at every .5". I used strong tape on the first and last of the four areas of the mechanism created by the scores. I aligned the two edges of the box piece with the fold of the card and closed the card to affix them in place. When the card was reopened, there was a 1/2" tall and 1/2" deep box across the base of the inside of the card. I glued the very bottom of the church to the center of the front of the box, very close to the top of the box. I then repeated the process with more 7"x 2" panels, creating boxes that become attached to the base of the card and to the box behind it, and adding buildings and evergreen trees to the boxes. I used a total of four box mechanisms. On the last box I attached a few trees and a hill cut with the stitched hill Edgers.

The wiring followed the Chibi directions for multiple lights on a circuit, with the positive and negative copper tape winding in parallel lines from the top right of the card inside down the inside of the card front, then meandering through the village. I covered the wiring with strips of 1/2" 80lb card stock with 1/8" holes punched at each light.

I created the snowy base with texture paste smeared onto the scene with a finger, and then sprinkled liberally with diamond dust.

The battery is housed in a pocket made from a rectangle of card stock folded over the battery. The copper tape connects to both inside sides of the folded rectangle. The battery itself sits on the negative lead but is surrounded by 3 layers of foam tape, ensuring that the connection to the positive side of the battery can only be made by pushing the top of the folded rectangle.

The blue layer was made by sponging blue inks onto white cardstock. It is attached with 3 layers of foam tape at the top, to align the top with the level of the tape around the battery housing. The panel was attached with glue tape at the bottom. The tree lines and snowy hills were attached with foam tape, building up to 3 layers of foam tape thickness, making the top and bottom of the card flush with each other. The moon was place over the battery to mark its position as well as to add another feature to the image. The stars were cut from white cardstock (covered with Tulip glow-in-the-dark paint) using the starfall  and the Northern Star dies and then were affixed randomly.

The last element I added to the inside of the box was the Script Merry Christmas, die cut from deep red cardstock.

The front of the card was made by layering a piece of glow-in-the-dark painted cardstock onto a dark blue piece of cardstock, and then layering on top of that a piece of cardstock that I sponged dark blue and die cut with the same star dies as used inside of the card. Finally, the Peace on Earth was diecut from white cardstock and added to the card front.

I hope you enjoyed the card. I know Mom did!

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

Village Church FRA-Die-09540	Village School House FRA-Die-09542	Village Candy Shoppe FRA-Die-09543	Village Grocery Shoppe FRA-Die-09544
Village Book Shoppe FRA-Die-09545	Village Victorian FRA-Die-09546	Village Cottage FRA-Die-09547	Village Shrubs and Trees FRA-Die-09546
Hill With Pine Trees Edger FRA-Die-09178	Evergreen Forest Edger   FRA-Die-09446	Stitched Scene Builder Edgers FRA-Die-09403	Santa's Sleigh FRA-Die-09622
Northern Star FRA-Die-09246	Starfall Background FRA-Die-09614	Script Merry Christmas FRA-Die-09249	Large Peace on Earth FRA-Die-09248

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