Shadow Book Cards
Posted on | July 25, 2009 | 13 Comments
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Until I made this card, I didn’t understand why stamp companies release Christmas stamp in summer. I mean why would I want Christmas stamps in July! I have tons of other pretty stamps that I’m dying to get my hands dirty. Winter stamps can wait till end of the year! But, now that I’ve made few winter cards, I’m liking the idea.
Last Tuesday, I went to my somewhat local stamp company, Angela’s Happy Stamper in Reston, VA. It’s about 20 minutes ride via toll road, but it’s kinda close to an outdoor swimming pool my son loves, so I stoped by the AHS. I had to get few EZ mount foams cuz I was expecting lots of unmounted red rubber stamps from Purple Onion Designs (I won $50 gift certificate from Caardvarks challenge, WOOHOO! BTW, POD is having an ANNIVERSARY SALE right now!).
Well, AHS had a special, spend $30 on new A Muse Palooza products (or was it just any A Muse? Hmmm…) and you will be entered into a drawing to win a goodie bag. Well, I can’t say no to goodie bags, so I bought four new A Muse winter themed stamps even though I had no intention of making any christmas cards till December. I didn’t win the goodie bag (boohoo!), but aren’t these cute!
Juggling Snowman, Snow Fort, Winter Houses, Girl with Sled.
Just yesterday I found out Cupcake Craft Challenges has a Christmas card challenge, so I decided to use my new A Muse stamps.
Size: 3×3
Patterned papers: A Muse
Gorilla glue to bind the spine and Tombow Mono and Sakura Quickie Glue for everything else.
Inspired by my kids’ book.
Coloring: Copics;
Snow: Layer and layers of Smooch, Sakura puff, and glitter pen.
Urmmm… It was my first time using the Gorilla glue to bind a book. And look what it did to the inside the pages! Hehe. Arghhh~. Heehee. I had to cover it up with another layer of paper. But I didn’t want to cover the last page, so I added snow accent paint all around the houses. Also, the houses were stamped too high, so I added another row of houses.
Book pages were created by binding several 120 lbs. cardstock (4 or 5 sheets) and the patterned papers cuz I was using a paper punch (Stampin’ Up! Curly Label) to cut the windows out.
Maybe I’ll coat the cover with Modge Podge glue later.
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Well, today we all went to the swimming pool again. And I had to stop by the Angela’s Happy Stamper since it was kinda in the same area. Got another A Muse Palooza stamp, hehe. This was my third visit to the store to buy new AP products, heehee.
“Snowy Peaks”
And here is another shadow book card. This time, I made a thinner one.
*Whew* I think this has been my longest blog post. =)
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July 25th, 2009 @ 7:11 AM
Super brilliant idea! Thanks for playing along with CCC this week
July 25th, 2009 @ 7:28 AM
How CUTE!!! What a great idea with the board book!
July 25th, 2009 @ 3:06 PM
This is just the cutest idea and so well done. Thanks for sharing your creative process.
July 25th, 2009 @ 3:59 PM
Wow, these are just the cutest little books and will make such wonderful gifts…thank you for joining us this week at CCC
Donna x
July 26th, 2009 @ 4:20 AM
This is gorgeous so much work gone in to it and a fabby idea, i love all the images and the way you have made your book, thanks for joining us at Cupcake, hugs Pops x
July 26th, 2009 @ 9:24 AM
Gorgeous creation. Thanks for joining us at CCC.
Liza x
July 26th, 2009 @ 11:05 AM
What fantastic little books. They definitely look like they took a lot of work. Fantastic dotty papers and the stamps are adorable. Thank you for joining us at CCC this week. Hugs, Denise x
July 27th, 2009 @ 11:28 PM
Absolutely adorable! I told you this is your thing.
August 14th, 2009 @ 9:39 PM
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August 14th, 2009 @ 9:41 PM
This book is so adorable! I am close to Reston and I love going to Angela’s shop. It is a fun, happy place
August 19th, 2009 @ 1:25 PM
WOW! This is fantastic! Great job!
February 28th, 2010 @ 7:00 AM
This is so incredible. We have a couple of those kids books & I’d love to try one. Thanks so much for the step by step & the photography is beautiful.
March 2nd, 2010 @ 11:56 PM
WoW! These are amazing- thanks for sharing.