Hi everyone! I'm back again this month with my featured favorite product from Helmar and which is the Helmar 450 Quick Dry Glue & some exciting, fun projects that seem to be all the rage in a lot of crafting communities at this time! I myself belong to a Facebook group called Rolodex Addiction. So the following projects were made for a swap that I joined up this week. I was anxious to use some paper that I had purchased last year sometime along with a stamp set from the same collection called Recollections Enchanted. So the theme for this swap is this, Unicorns & Mermaids! Requirements are 4 rolodex cards, the word "Magical" on a card, pearls , flat back pearls, etc, ocean theme for mermaid, rainbows for Unicorns, Pastel colors. So this paper pad was the perfect one for this swap! Hope you enjoy! *Note: I made this without a Rolodex card die or punch.
I first picked out the paper collection I would be using and color of card stock. I then cut my cards at the required width, the height is optional but should be at least 3in, mine measure 3.5 X 4 on all (4) cards. Since I don't have a die for these cards nor a punch, I have used the measurements from rolodex cards I had in my stash from an old Dex Card holder that my husband was gonna toss away. I grabbed it instead .
So with my ruler and a marker I mark a small dot on the 1.5 & 2.5 , you can measure how you would like. My measurements across weren't specific. Just want to be able to run (2) lines down diagonally @ 1.5 & @ 2.5 .I used my We R Memory Keepers corner punch to punch in the holes on my card. I had made a line up 1/2 inch up from the bottom so I know where to make the holes .
I then selected the papers from the 12 X 12 paper pad that I want to use on my (4) Rolodex Card bases. In total I will be making (2) extra cards for my swap partner. But have made for now the (4) for this project! After I have chosen my papers, I matched them up for the front and the back. Since my project today I was to use a featured product from Helmar, I have to say that even though I love all the products my favorite would be the Helmar 450 Quick Dry Glue. I love that it is clear and also I can use it for a wide range of projects. After I applied the glue to the card stock and then added the pattern paper, I used a Brayer to spread out the glue to the edges and corners of my cards for better adhering.
After I've papered the front & back of my cards I used my WeRMemory Keepers corner round punch on the top of my cards, you can also make them higher, used design punches or die's etc to get desired look to your card. Once I finished with that I like to put in a small piece of left over matching scrap on the back to act as a sort of belly band where I can make a tag with scraps as well and write down my social media info, the name of the swap mo./year, crafting style, plus whatever you want to write on this tag for whoever you are sending this card to. Its almost similar to an ATC card.
So I measured my scrap to make sure it didn't go all the way to the bottom on the back side so its not in the way of my punched out holes. These holes are to be able to store them in a Rolodex Holder, here is some examples of some I found on Pinterest photo #1, Photo #2, Photo #3 & Photo #4
I again used the Helmar 450 Quick Dry Glue and just adhered the top and bottom so that you can slip your info. tag in the center. *Before adhering it to the card I inked it with some inks from Martha Stewart and inked the cards all around as well. Tried to coordinate the colors of my inks to colors in my cards. I love how they looked with this added feature.
After I've done everything up to this point, now its time for the fun part!! Embellishing, stamping, etc. I love using up every part of the paper pads when I can so I cut out some of the cut outs and borders from this paper pad. I also used the matching stamp to stamp out some images I thought of adding on my cards. I love using my Tim Holtz Stamp Platform , I stamp using water color paper and Ranger Archival Ink in Black. After this I colored some of the images, for this project I used some Tim Holtz Distress Inks, Lindy's Sprays & Recollections Inks. I also used some of the Helmar Scrap Dots on a couple of my cut out sentiments . I used a variety of flowers and embellishments on these cards.
I hope that you enjoyed this step by step tutorial and I hope that you will give this a try . Many of us crafters don't have certain dies or punches to make things easier for us so we improvise how we can. I tried to make this tutorial short and sweet but I have proven that hard for me to do with any of my picture tutorials!!
Also there is a big announcement just incase you missed it over the weekend. We welcomed in our newest members of our Creative Team!! I hope you will check out this link where you can catch the post , please feel free to leave your comments! They are greatly appreciated! Till next month....sooner rather than later! ~Hugs~
