Pop out card

 I don't know if that is the name for this card that is just what I named it for the blog post, we did this card together in our Teams meeting with my stamp group.  I was a little late getting my supplies around and couldn't think of what stamp or dies to use so I just got out one of my Ephemera packs from Hobby Lobby and used that for all my images.

Now I got this wrong the first time around so had to do mine again real quick, so hopefully I have this straight and you can understand my instructions :)  You take two 4 x 5.25 inch pieces of white cardstock, you cut a rectangle frame from the center of one of them and lay that aside.  Put your frame you made and add it to the top of the other piece of cardstock, then add your ink (we used Oxide inks) to the frame and inside the opening. Then add the pieces to your embossing folder,  run both pieces together through your machine (we added a little washi tape to keep them together) and then separate them after embossing and you now have a frame that is embossed (which I used later) and a piece that is white framing your colored area.

We added a Belly band, I didn't have a big enough piece of the colored cardstock that I used for the card back and front left to make mine so I used white cardstock and added some washi tape to it.

• Cuttlebug - Victoria embossing folder, w/Oxide inks, Cracked Pistachio, Vintage Photo and Jaded Jeans
• My Favorite things - Cross - stitch rectangle die
• Belly Band - White cardstock with Ieebee washi tape on top
• Paper Studio - Ephemera pack

With Belly band off

When Opened, we took a 3 x12 inch strip of white cardstock, scored every 3 inches and then added the 2 3/4 inch squares to each panel before adding the sentiment and ephemera. Both inside panels were embossed with same embossing folder before gluing in the scored piece.

So we had the left over frame from earlier so I made another birthday card with it. This time I did do some stamping, Hubby and I had recently went to Barnes and Nobles and I picked up this cardmaking magazine with  tons of stamps inside, I went with the Dragonfly that I fussy cut after coloring and stamped the leaves, directly onto the piece I cut from the first card to make the frame :)

• Creative Stamping Magazine Issue 149 - Summer Florals stamps, colored w/markers
• Spectrum Noir - Clear sparkle pen on wings
• Cuttlebug - Victoria embossing folder
• My Favorite things - Cross - stitch Rectangle die
• Stamps of Life - minis3circles sentiment stamp

You can see a little of the sparkle on the wings there :)

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today,

Connie