Create Your Card - Create A Selective Stamping Card

Hello. Back with a new Create Your Card video for you today. This week I am showing you how to do selective stamping.

This technique involves masking to get the image you want. 

Here is my {Faux Stitching Tutorial} for how to do the stitched panel. 

I forgot to mention in the video, but I am using Snowhaven Paper from Close To My Heart. The measurements for this card is as follows:

Background 4.25 x 5.5, White Stitched Panel 2.5 x 4.25, and banner .75 x 5.

Here is how to have the Explore cut out the masked images.

I had to use another truck because the stamped truck wouldn't let me weld.

Place you images how you want them and weld.

Then just line up you stamps and there you go.

I hope you enjoyed the video. come back next week for a brand new video.

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Recipe:

Stamps -

   S1506  Ice Cream Dreams

   D1613  Best Christmas

   D1617  Make It Merry

Paper-

   X254  Cards And Envelopes

   1385  White Daisy Cardstock

   X7188B  Snowhaven Paper Pack

Ink -

   Z2105  Black Ink Pad

   Z2155  Topiary Ink Pad

   Z2446  Black ShinHan Marker

   Z2448  Carmine ShinHan Marker

   Z2467  Warm Grey ShinHan Marker

   Z2465  Turquoise ShinHan Marker

Cricut Explore Tutorial - Faux Stitching

I love the look of these new dies that have a faux stitch along the border. So of course I had to figure out how to do this in Design Space.

It shows up a little more in person, but looks beautiful.

 So let me show you how.

 The main component in this is the score line. You can do this on any shape, although doing rounded shapes or circles take a bit more work for placement. For this tutorial I will be using a rectangle. You can find both of these when you click insert shapes.

 Change the height of the score line. If you want longer stitches, make it little longer. I found .1 was perfect for me.

 Click on the score line in layers and choose cut instead of score.

Then start duplicating. I do about 3. We will be doing more later.

You will need to distribute vertically and also center horizontally. This will give you an even stitch.

Now the quickest way to make the line is to copy and paste. Duplicate will change the position so copy and paste is important. Keep doing this until you get the size you want. While doing this, keep using the center and distribute option to keep even and lined up.

 Once you get the amount you want, select and attach. You can always detach if you need to change anything.

Once you place your stitching on your image, remember to select all and attach. If you don't, your stitching will not cut on the image.

How awesome is this? I do recommend saving just the stitching so you can open it up later and not have to go through the steps again. Also do a single stitch, it comes in handy. You will be able to detach to add more or take off.

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Ice Cream Dream - June Stamp Of The Month Blog Hop

Welcome to this months blog hop. This month we are featuring Ice Cream Dream. 

This hop is a circle hop. That means just keep hopping until you start back where you started. If you have been hopping, you will be coming from the amazing {Katy Taylor}. Next in the blog hop is the creative {Melissa Robinson}.

I always try to think outside of the box when it comes to the stamp of the month. Sometimes I can't. This is not one of those stamps. 

This first started out as a one layer card. I sponged the balloon (#M45A50). But I ended up smearing the embossing, and there is no way to fix that. So I cut out the actual balloon and placed it on top. And since I had to add that piece, I use foam adhesive and popped it up.

I used a lot of masking to make the sentiment. I use happy and you from "you are my happy". The "to" was extreme masking. From the large sentiment in this sotm, I use the "t" from "can't" and the "o" from "you". Like I said, extreme masking. Washi tape was my friend.

Birthday is from Joyful Birthdays and I have those stamps cut in half so I can use just birthday, or happy. Otherwise, just mask off the happy part. Don't worry about cutting your stamps apart. It is easy to do and they will fit right back into the rest of the stamp and no one would know you even cut them.

 I embossed after every word so I could see where I stamped, and to make sure the were able to emboss properly. I used my home made embossing buddy, cornstarch in nylons, to help with the stray powder. It doesn't get rid of them all, but its better than not using one.

I wanted to share a sneak peek using this stamp set in my next Create Your Card video. Here is the link to my {video}

I hope you enjoy this blog hop. Keep hopping along with {Melissa Robinson}.

You can purchase this stamp set for $5 with a $50 purchase. 

If you would to like to recreate any of my projects, you can order the materials at {nikkageers.ctmh.com}

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Recipe:

Stamps -

   S1506  Ice Cream Dreams

   B1419  Joyful Birthday

Paper -

   X5927  Ruby Cardstock

   X254  Cards And Envelope

Ink -

   Z2170  Ruby Ink Pad

   Z891  Versamark Ink Pad

   Z1979  Journaling Pen

Other -

   Z1790  Artiste Cricut Cartridge

   Z2068  White Embossing Powder

   Z1151  3D Foam Tape

   Z555  Craft Heater

Yes, I said free cartridge.

Thank you guys. I have reached 3000 views on my popular tutorial. And I am doing a special as a thank you. 

For two weeks only, I am holding a raffle. The winner will receive a free Cricut cartridge of their choosing. Yes, FREE CARTRIDGE.  

You will receive 1 entry for every $50 you spend. 1 entry for every cartridge you purchase. 2 entries for every friend you refer who makes a qualifying purchase. Plus I will be giving out random entries in my {Facebook group} during the 2 weeks. 

You must make a qualifying purchase of $50 to be entered for the free cartridge. You must place your order by June 11th. I will draw the winner June 12 and notify the winner. Order must be placed on the same day for the bonus entries.  

Place your order at {nikkageers.ctmh.com} under free cartridge special gathering. You order will not count if it is not under this gathering. Have any questions, you can pm me on facebook or email at nikkageers@yahoo.com. You must email me to notify me about the friend referral to receive your entries.

And here is a link to the {tutorial} that has me in such a good mood. . Thank you so much.

Create Your Card - Create A Pop Of Color Diecut Card

Welcome to this weeks Create Your Card Video. I will be showing you how to make a pop of color diecut card. 

This technique is pretty simple. The color is what makes it pop. It has an embossed look to it. You can use any diecut, but they need to be smaller. You need a few diecuts to make this work. 

 I am using image #M131512 from Artfully Sent. Make sure to ungroup before you use contour.

 To get my text, I used contour to get it as a positive. Just click the card to get the thanks as a positive.

 To decide my sizing and placement, I used the card option under set canvas. I used slice to remove the exclamation point for the rest of the diecuts. I chose to make the colored diecut slightly larger. Duplicate as many as you choose. 

I want to show you a trick I learned on how to slice multiple images all at once. I forgot to weld a word together to slice and was unable to do so. I welded the word together and was able to slice.  So you can use this technique with anything. Select and weld.

 For this card, I wanted to cut off the excess . Insert and rectangle and size to the size of the card. Select your welded image and rectangle and slice.

There you have it. Multiple images being sliced once.

 Since the words are welded together, it will cut as one. So I placed a strip of blue where the image is on the mat. 

I hope you enjoy the video.  Stop by next week for a brand new card and video.

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To make sure you don't miss out on any new tutorials, artwork, videos or members only specials, as it is easy to miss posts on Facebook and I don't post to all of them, join my {Facebook group}.

I offer one on one classes for Cricut Design Space. Stop by for more {details}.

If you would to like to recreate any of my projects, you can order the materials at {nikkageers.ctmh.com}.

Recipe:

Paper - 

   1385  White Daisy Cardstock.

   X5770  Glacier Cardstock

   X254  Cards And Envelopes

Other -

   Z3017  Artfully Sent Cricut Cartridge

Tutti Frutti At Heart 2 Heart

Hi. We have a new challenge for you over at {Heart 2 Heart}. This week is all about Tutti Frutti. This one is going to be fun. Bright colors, fruit, even the song can be your inspiration. Or you can use our May special, Taste Of Summer. It has bright colors and fruit.

I used Taste Of Summer for my project. I took advantage of the bright fun patterns on the backside and the fruit patterns. This layout is good for using leftovers from other projects because the chevrons use a 1 x 2 inch piece of paper.

This month has been crazy with my hubby being gone, so the plans I had for this paper pack kinda went down the drain. This is one of the layouts I did manage to finish.

No stamping on this layout. I just used images from Artbooking. Hello (#M3D1EE) and the sun (#M3F370) were used as is. I altered the chevron (#M417D1) and sliced endless summer (#M3F95C) so I only had summer.

Here is what I did to the chevron. I used contour to remove the center. Then I unlocked the proportions and made it 2 in by 1 in.

I hope you enjoyed this project. We would love if you were to play along with us for Tutti Frutti challenge. You have all month to play along with this and all of May's challenges at {Heart 2 Heart}.

If you would to like to recreate any of my projects, you can order the materials at {nikkageers.ctmh.com}.

To make sure you don't miss out on any new tutorials, artwork, videos or members only specials, as it is easy to miss posts on Facebook and I don't post to all of them, join my {Facebook group}.

Subscribe to my {Youtube Channel} for updates on new Create Your Card videos.

I offer one on one classes for Cricut Design Space. Stop by for more {details}.

Recipe:

Paper -
   CC1038  Taste Of Summer
   X5929  Whisper Cardstock
   1385  White Daisy Cardstock

Other -
   Z1906  Artbooking Cricut Cartridge

Create Your Card

I apologize. There will be no video for today.  My husband just got back and I am spending some quality time with him. I will be back next week.