{"id":2551,"date":"2010-01-06T05:00:02","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T10:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/?p=2551"},"modified":"2011-12-16T14:35:49","modified_gmt":"2011-12-16T19:35:49","slug":"hot-4-hybrid-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/2010\/01\/hot-4-hybrid-wednesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot 4 Hybrid Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello, I can’t tell you how excited I am to be doing the first Hot 4 Hybrid<\/strong> blog post of 2010. There are going to be fantastic challenges, inspirations, tutorials, ideas and ‘how to …’ posts every Wednesday from the Hybrid Babes so keep checking back \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Today I have a card tutorial for you. If you’re anything like me then finding time to create anything has to fitted in amongst 20 other things that all take priority so hopefully this might make things easier for you.<\/p>\n

The first thing you need to do though is grab a drink, find a chair, clear your desk of all that clutter and half finished projects – oh yeah I know it’s all there because I have a desk just exactly the same – and plan a half hour of ‘me’ time!<\/p>\n

This is a mini tutorial to make a boy themed birthday card but really it could be adapted to suit any occasion by switching out the papers and the embellishments.
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\nI used Lauren Grier’s Birthday Monsters <\/a>kit and Countdown to 6 doodles <\/a>available in the store to make my 14.5 cms square card.<\/p>\n

Step 1<\/strong>
\nIn photoshop create a new file at 14cm square, 300dpi. Place papers, elements and wordart directly onto your document resizing where necessary. Merge the wordart doodle with the blue paper to create one layer. My document looked like this (I create lots of my cards in this way and I use photoshop almost as a planning tool to move things around, add and remove elements etc. so that I am happy with how my card will look before I print and I don’t waste my ink, paper or my time)
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Create a new document the size of your printer paper and drag each layer on to it, print and cut all ready to create your card.<\/p>\n

Step 2<\/strong>
\nGather your supplies – blank card, printed papers and elements, ribbon, buttons, twine and embellishments
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Step 3<\/strong>
\nAdhere the orange paper to white cardstock, trim leaving a narrow border. Adhere the blue paper to white cardstock leaving a narrow border then join the two pieces using foam pads
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See how the wordart doodles have printed directly onto the blue paper giving the effect of a stamped sentiment<\/p>\n

Step 4<\/strong>
\nWrap a length of ribbon around the blue paper piece then tie twine through the button and around the ribbon. Carefully pull tight and knot, this will nip in the ribbon anchoring it to your crad
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Step 5<\/strong>
\nNow it’s time to build your card. Adhere the spotty paper to the blank card and add the orange and blue piece with foam pads.
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Step 6<\/strong>
\nAdhere the journalling block (I removed the lines in photoshop) and then the monster and his party hat
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Stick the gemstone star to the clear acrylic star, knot twine through button and glue to the centre
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Carefully position a glue dot, dab of glue or a foam pad behind the button so that it can’t be seen through the star and attach to the card
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So now you’ll have a finished card \ud83d\ude42
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Materials used:<\/strong>
\nBirthday Monsters<\/a> and Countdown to 6 doodles<\/a> both by Lauren Grier available at Sweet Shoppe Designs
\nButtons – Basic Grey
\nTwine – Papertrey
\nGemstone star – Zva Creative
\nAcrylic star – craft store
\nRibbon – May Arts<\/p>\n

I’d love to see your cards, have fun
\nAndrea x<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hello, I can’t tell you how excited I am to be doing the first Hot 4 Hybrid blog post of 2010. There are going to be fantastic challenges, inspirations, tutorials, ideas and ‘how to …’ posts every Wednesday from the Hybrid Babes so keep checking back \ud83d\ude42 Today I have a card tutorial for you. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":156,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[135],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2551"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/156"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2551"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10242,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2551\/revisions\/10242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}