I love making waterfall cards and I have made several of them over the years, but first time with a Halloween set called Potions and Spells. I saw this cute card idea on
Ruth's Stamping Corner and wanted to make one too. Mine is almost exactly like hers, but I added different ribbon. I used the 1/2" Night of Navy & Gold Glittered Ribbon. I had a lot of the Flowering Zinnia DSP to, so I liked the color combination she used. My CARD club made these on Sunday. Most of them have made waterfall cards with me before, but at least one of them had never made them before. I made this one with my 9-year-old granddaughter last month and she did a great job.
Here are my instructions:
Stamp
Set: Potions and Spells
Cardstock: Berry Burst, Basic White, Flowering Zinnias
DSP
Scraps: Pool Party, Crushed Curry, Pecan Pie, Festive
Glimmer Paper (new in September)
Ink: Tuxedo Black Memento, Berry Burst
Stampin’
Blends: Berry Burst, Flirty Flamingo,
Smokey Slate, Granny Apple Green (cat eyes),
Other: Stampin’ Cut and Emboss Machine, Paper
Trimmer, Bone Folder, Season’s Greetings Dies, Tear and Tape, Multipurpose
Liquid Glue, Paper Snips, Stampin’ Dimensionals, Night of Navy & Gold
Glittered Ribbon
1. The base of the card is
Berry Burst cardstock cut at 4-1/4” x 5-1/2”.
2. The second layer is from
the Zinnia DSP cut at 4” x 5-1/4” and adhered with Multipurpose Liquid Glue.
3. The third layer is a strip
of Berry Burst cardstock cut at 1” x 4-1/4” and adhered with Tear and Tape only
at the ends. Adhere it leaving about an
inch at the bottom of the card.
4. The waterfall mechanism is
Berry Burst cardstock cut at 2” x 8-1/2” and scored on the long side at 2-1/2”,
3”, 3-1/2” and 4”. Use the Bone Folder
to burnish each scored line.
5. At the bottom of the
mechanism (the longest part), you will use the Season’s Greetings Die (largest)
to create the decorative edge with a hole for the ribbon, but you only use the
end part by putting a plate over just it and not take it all the way through
the Stampin’ Cut and Emboss Machine.
You can add your ribbon through the hole and tie a knot and cut off the
long ends if needed.
6. Cut four Berry Burst CS
squares at 2-1/2” x 2-1/2” and four Basic White CS squares at 2-1/4” x 2-1/4”
with the Paper Trimmer.
7. Decorate the Basic White
squares as shown. The top square has a
little Basic White strip you stamp “A Little Hocus Pocus” with Berry Burst ink
and attach it just at the top of the square with Stampin’ Dimensionals. Stamp the books at the bottom of this square
with Tuxedo Black Memento and color with the Stampin’ Blends of choice.
8. Ink up the “Double Double
Toil & Trouble” with Berry Burst ink before attaching the potion bottles.
9. Ink up the cat with Tuxedo
Black Memento. The cat uses the Smoky Slate Blends. Color his eyes Granny Apple Green.
10. When you add the “Happy
Halloween”, it is one stamp so you will have to ink “happy” first” and clean
off the stamp and then do “Halloween” below.
Attach the broom handle to the broom being careful not to add to much
Multipurpose Glue. Attach at an
angle. Trim of the broom handle and the
broom with Paper Snips.
11. When finished, you may attach to the Berry
Burst squares with Multipurpose Liquid Glue.
12. Attach the Berry Burst
squares to each of the rectangles in the waterfall mechanism but make sure you
don’t adhere over the scored lines but just barely below them. Be sure they are lined up on the sides and
just add Multipurpose Glue or Tear and Tape on each rectangle to attach them.
13. Insert the mechanism under
the 1” x 4-1/4” so that the ribbon end is under the strips and just barely
above the bottom of the card. Apply glue
only on the middle of the 1-1/4” x 4-1/4” Berry Burst strip and adhere the Happy
Halloween square with the broom to the middle of this strip only. This is where the mechanism will be held in
place so make sure it is straight in the middle of the card.
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