Monday, February 10, 2014

Anyhero and Thank You File Folder Cards

I've been following this awesome person on YouTube for quite a while now.  She recently did this really cool technique using the envelope punch board.  I adapted her design for some Anyhero and some Thank You cards I wanted to make to put in my shipment to Operation Write Home.  I will put the link to Schell's tutorial at the bottom of this post but will also note below what I did differently.

I cut my card bases out of the Sam's white card stock.  I cut them at 5.5" x 7.5 " rather than leaving them at 8.5" like Shell did and then trim them later - it works either way.  I used patterned papers from the Proud to Serve collection from The Paper Studio and my solid colors are all Core'dinations card stock.  The stamp set I used is the Fiskars Mini Thank You set for the sentiment and a little $1 set from Stampabilities for the air mail image.  I used several different inks to match my papers - Tim Holtz Distress Ink in Vintage Photo and Faded Jeans and then Momento Dew Drop in Rhubarb Stalk and London Fog.

It does take a little bit longer to make these cards than regular ones since you have a bit of cutting to do and then you need to make an insertable card for someone to write their message.  But I think the uniqueness of the cards makes it all worth it!

Thank you Schell for putting up some awesome tutorials!

Schell's original tutorial:  http://youtu.be/J-105JsjmDg

5 comments:

  1. Wow...
    Fabulous group of cards! Thanks for the link to Shell's site.

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    1. Thanks Diane! I'm sure you will love Shell - she is so creative and her videos are very well done.

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  2. The file folder cards are really cool, what a great idea, TFS!!

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    1. Thanks Cheryl! I'm really loving those file folder cards. Shell is a genius and she makes it so easy to create them yourself.

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  3. All of these cards are fantastic! Thank you so much for the shout out :o)

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