Just a Note to Cheer You
Just a Note to Cheer You
Other Products: Card stock: white, blue and gold metallic; Ranger Distress Ink, Broken China, Wild Honey; Ranger Distress Oxide, Abandoned Coral; StazOn, Saddle Brown; Prismacolor Pencils; 5" x 8" note pad; seam binding; hot glue; craft foam; blue brads; Stickles, gold; blue glitter gel pen
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Instructions: To create folio, use a piece of white card stock 8 1/2" x 11". Score at 5 1/4" and 5 3/4", fold on score lines. Cut 4 pieces of white card stock 5" x 8 3/8" for both outside and inside. Ink the edges with Abandoned Coral and adhere to front and back and inside of folio. Cut 3 pieces of design paper 4 7/8" x 8 1/4", adhere to front and back and inside left. For spine, cut a 2 pieces of white card stock 3/8" x 8 3/8", ink edges with Abandoned Coral, add to outside and inside spine. Cut a 2 pieces of design paper 1/4" x 8 3/8", add to spine, outside and inside. From white card stock, die cut 2 corner pieces, 1 label, 1 tag, and squirrels. Cut with coordinating dies. Also cut squirrels from craft foam.
Color squirrels with Prismacolor pencils. Add the craft foam to the back of the squirrels and then add to the folio. Stamp flowers on white card stock with Wild Honey, die cut and shape with 3D Shaping Mold. Click here to see how to use the flower shaping molds. Add Bright Pearl-Small Flower Stamens and gold Stickles.
Stamp sentiment from the Cheerful Notes Sentiment stamp on white card stock with Jet Black, cut with the Ornamental Tags Die. Also cut the circle from blue design paper with the same die set. Trace inside the label die with a blue glitter gel pen and ink the edges with Abandoned Coral. Cut hole reinforcers from gold metallic paper. Add 1 to the tag and 1 to the label. Add blue brads. Layer the tag and circle to the label with foam tape. Adhere to the folio and add the bow. Add the flowers with hot glue.
Inside: Using the largest tag die from the Album Tags and Accents Die, cut from white card stock. Cut the inside piece from blue design paper and adhere to white piece. Die cut the banner from white card stock. Score at 3/4" and 1" from both ends. Fold in a banner shape. Center the sentiment from Cheerful Note Sentiments stamp set and stamp with Jet Black. Add foam tape to center of banner and add to tag. On white card stock, stamp the cottage 3 times. Also cut 1 from craft foam. Shade the windows on the first layer with blue Prismacolor pencil. Add the craft foam to this layer. On 2nd layer, color the entire image. Die cut the window from this image with the coordinating die. Add the colored image to the white layer. Also cut the window frame from craft foam and add to window frame. On 3rd layer, color squirrel and die cut with coordinating die. Also cut from craft foam and adhere to squirrel. Add these layers to the cottage. Die cut the background from coral design paper and adhere the cottage. For pocket, cut a piece of design paper 2 1/2" x 5 7/8", score at 1/2" and 5 3/8", fold tabs back and adhere to bottom of left side. Adhere cottage to pocket.
Right side: To create sleeve for note pad, cut a piece of blue card stock 4 3/4" x 6". Score 6" side at 1/2" and 5 1/2", fold back and adhere sleeve to folio, 1 1/8" down from the top. Cut a piece of design paper 1" x 5", add to top of note pad. Stamp 'Hey Friend' on white card stock with Broken China. Cut with oval tag die, add gold hole reinforce and blue brad. Add to note pad with foam tape. Stamp 'With All My Love' on white card stock with Jet Black and die cut with 3 1/2" arrow die. Stamp the rest of the sentiments on the note pad with Jet Black, Broken China, and Abandoned Coral. The sentiments are from the Cheerful Note Sentiments and For My Friend Sentiments stamp sets. Slip the note pad in the sleeve. If the note pad is too tight, trim off 1/16" from each side of the chipboard back.