Stampin' Dreams Blog Hop: Masculine Card - Sailing Home 3D Cube Pop Up Card

Welcome to the monthly Stampin' Dreams Blog Hop.  This month our theme is: Male card (any occasion).

You are currently visiting Stephanie Fischer (The Crafty Thinker) from Australia.  I hope you enjoy my card and then click on "Click here to enter" and click through the little images to see all of the other great projects in the hop!

This Sailing Home 3D Cube Pop Up card is a suitable masculine card

I have cheated a little bit with this entry.  I do believe it's a good masculine card, however, I actually made it as a Bon Voyage card for my wonderful Stampin' Up team member and friend, Satomi Wellard who is about to call a yacht in the Mediterranean home for an adventurous new phase in her life!

The closed 3D Cube Card fits into a square envelope

This fabulous fold is called a 3D Cube Pop Up Card and I learned how to do it from this video tutorial by the very talented Jay and Barry at Mitosu Crafts.  Jay also made a special box for the card but, as I was sending it through the mail, I just popped mine into a square envelope.

I hope you've enjoyed the card you've seen here on my blog today.  You are currently visiting Stephanie Fischer.  

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'Til next time!
Stephanie

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Ink it! Stamp it! Design Team Blog Hop : 3D

Welcome to the Ink it! Stamp it! Design Team Blog Hop - we hop every month so be sure to pop back and visit us again!  Today our theme is 3D projects - something I find quite challenging!

You are currently at my page - Stephanie Fischer, The Crafty Thinker.  At the end of my post there is a full line up of team members, please click on the name after mine in the list to continue the hop.

3D is not my natural habitat so I sought help and found it in Kirsteen Gill's blog.  She has very generously provided a tutorial for elongating the Window Box which is currently the most underused item in my craft room. 

An 8 1/4" tall box that I think is gender neutral

Following her instructions, I used one 12" sheet of Basic Black cardstock and 8" x 1.75" strips of Petal Passion Designer Series Paper. 

A little flower, tassel and Glitter Enamel Dot decorate the front of the box and assist with lifting the lid

I made a little tag by elongating the smallest of the Lots of Labels dies and scored it in the middle.  Half is adhered to the top of the box and the other half supports a tassel and a little gold flower.

The gold flower on the top is paper-pieced - Multipurpose Adhesive Sheet makes the process quite straight forward

The decoration for the top of the box is cut in Whisper White and I've added a layer of Rich Razzleberry underneath it.  Using a little scrap of leftover Gold Foil Sheet (with Multipurpose Adhesive Sheet attached) I paper-pieced the flower in the centre of the top.

Although there are flowers all over this box, I think that the colour scheme keeps the project gender neutral.

I hope you've enjoyed this project and I welcome your comments.

Thank you so much for joining us today.  We hope you'll join us again next month for our Technique-based Projects!  I'm Stephanie Fischer and to keep hopping arouond, see the list below to see who is up next with another great project!

Thanks for visiting.
'Til next time!
Stephanie

Product List - available in my online store

Window Box Thinlits Dies

$63.00

Petal Passion Designer Series Paper

$19.25

Gold Foil Sheets

$7.00

Multipurpose Adhesive Sheets

$17.00

Mini Tassels Assortment

$13.00

Bloomin' Heart Thinlits Dies

$41.00

Glitter Enamel Dots

$12.25

Ink It! Stamp It! Design Team Blog Hop - 3D

Welcome to the Ink It! Stamp It! Design Team Blog Hop - we hop every month so be sure to pop back and visit us again!  Today our theme is 3D - always a challenge for me!

You are currently at my page - Stephanie Fischer, The Crafty Thinker.  At the end of my post there is a full line of team members, please click on the name after mine in the list to continue the hop.

A simple exterior in Basic Gray and Crushed Curry

The front of the card is quite simple.  I used Smoky Slate Embossing Paste with the Pattern Party mask on Basic Gray card.  Then I simply added a few bits of ribbon, a bow and some Glitter Enamel Dots.

The inside of the card is another story altogether!

A double pop up card with traffic-laden streets!

 
The idea for this card came to me when I first saw the new Holiday Catalogue - specifically the Hometown Greetings edgelits.  However, since 3D is not in my comfort zone, I wanted to get started straight away.  So rather than wait until I could get those products, I used something I already had - the In The City stamp set.  I'll probably make another card with my original idea later.

I used Basic Gray cardstock for the roads and drew the lines with my Chalk Marker and a ruler.

I stamped two rows of buildings, coloured and fussy cut them in two strips.

I stamped, coloured and fussy cut the vehicles and attached them to the road with pieces of Window Sheet (attached to the back of the vehicle and under the road through a slit).

The side view gives a better idea of the dimension and the pop up mechanism

The base card is Basic Gray and the Double Pop Up mechanism is made with Soft Sky cardstock.  I added a strip of Emerald Green to hide the pop up mechanism.  I could have placed the first row of houses at that level but I wanted to maximise writing space.

Double Pop Up Mechanism:

Step 1

Step 2

Finished and opened up.  Adhere to inside of card.

I hope you've enjoyed this this technique and these cards and I welcome your comments.

Thank you so much for joining us today. We hope you'll join us again next month for our Holiday Catalogue projects! I'm Stephanie Fischer and to keep hopping around see the list below to see who is up next with another great project.

Thanks for visiting
'Til next time
Stephanie

Product List

In The City Photopolymer Stamp Set

[143771]

Pattern Party Decorative Masks

[144103]

Embossing Paste

[141979]

Glitter Enamel Dots

[144200]

5/8" (1.6 Cm) Burlap Ribbon

[141487]

Crushed Curry 3/8" Mini Chevron Ribbon

[144197]

1/4" Copper Trim

[144179]