The Olympics have been on the TV at my house every night since opening ceremonies. Wanting to be near my family and all of the Olympic action, I decided to create some Whirligig cards on the table in front of the couch rather than in my overstuffed craft room.
I brought up my trimmer, a binder of stamps, ink, my ALCM Idea Deck, adhesive, Scor-it Board and a few other odds and ends. (Sticking with the one-trip up and down the stairs rule, right?) I used a total of three formulas and cranked out some REALLY fun cards. What's nifty about this paper and tag collection is that the raised and non-raised printing is already done. If I cut and assemble the papers into cards, the work is basically complete.
Before I finally get to the cards, I'd like to show you how COOL the die cut tags are! They produce awesome "resist results"!
There are two types of ink pre-printed on the tags...pearlized thermal (embossed/raised) and varnish. Each ink provides a unique resist property. Firmly rub the ink directly from the pad onto the tag in a circular motion.
Hold the inked tag with one corner of a paper towel and rub the excess ink away with the other. Look at how the colors re-appear! The varnish is around the perimeter of the tag, and the raised ink exposes the blue cardstock underneath.
Add a paper clip to the tag and attach to your card. Cool!
Well, here are the cards. And...the first person to correctly identify the ALCM idea deck formulas used in the cards by writing it in the Comments section below will win a prize!!!!
Whirligig Retro: (Double Batch of the Formula with four colors and slightly modified...scrap used.)
Whirligig Oceanic:
Whirligig Spring Fling: (Formula slightly modified.)
Sorry for the longest blog in the history of mankind. And Michael Strong...you're pretty awesome.
Tricia
djenns
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... Awesome.......and I'm supposed to be "cutting back on spending"........I want to know how to get that little paper clip (next to bottom row and 3rd from lt) made. Thanks for enabling more  |
neith
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... Retro is 2 of Diamonds, a favorite of mine! Oceanic is 3 of Diamonds with the great colorblocking! Spring Fling is King of Clubs, love the strap hinges! And it's all gorgeous! |
CS_Kay
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... Very fun, feel free to give me one these cards anytime...even if it's not my birthday. |
CS Tricia
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... The paper clip is from the sheet of die cuts that will be included with the kit. The die cut sheets will also be sold separately as a package of six. It's so much fun to do the ink resist technique! |
neith
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... So, uh... when are they hitting GHM? I keep refreshing your link and the "What's New" page, hehee Playing hookie from Girl Scouts since I'm not feeling well and ordering a kit will greatly cheer me up! |
djenns
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... Well, I was looking through my deck of cards trying to figure this out, guess I wasn't fast enough |
Arizona_Crab
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... Wow! I jumped up and grabbed them as soon as I saw them! I really liked the resist technique on the Joyful kit. Yep Tricia - Michael is pretty awesome...but so are you!  |
KnitterPam
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... The ALSBs included with each set - are they the same, or is one for 12x12 and one for 8.5x11? Is it all layouts? Just curious... |
neith
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... Oooh I hadn't even realized they came with ALSB instructions. I just followed me order link and the instructions do expect that you have both the 12x12 and 8.5x11 in matching color schemes... and of course I bought different sets for each! Ah well I can mix and match with solids that I already own But if you want to do the ALSB as given you'll want both the 12x12 and 8.5x11 in the same color scheme and it makes 10 pages... at least for Retro and Oceanic! |
paddlegal
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... Fell hook, line and sinker for the Retro! Tricia your cards are what reeled me in and really did the papers justice. Sheesh!  |
