Eat, Drink, and Be Scary

Eat, Drink, and Be Scary

Materials

• Paper and Cardstock
• Bazzill Singles, Smooth Texture
• Lime Crush    ( BAZ-5-5127   $0.59)
• Breaker Bay    ( BAZ-7-7136   $0.59)
• Black     ( BAZ-10-1075   $0.59)
• Orange Slice     ( BAZ-3-383   $0.59)
• Kraft     ( BAZ-10-1075   $0.59)
• Cherry Splash     ( BAZ-2-235   $0.59)
• Stamps
• Penny Black Clear Stamp Set, Spooky!     ( PNY-CS-30041   $14.99)
• Inks and Embossing Powders
• Versafine, Onyx Black     ( TSU-VFP-Blk   $8.99)
• Tools
• Martha Stewart Crafts Punches
• 3-in-1 Hydrangea     ( MSC-PU-283031   $10.59)
• Heart     (Not currently available)
• EK Success Nesting Circle Punches
• 5/16" circle     ( EK-PSP-01   $4.59)
• 1/2" circle     ( EK-PSP-02   $4.59)
• Fiskars Hand Punches
• 1/4" circle     ( FIK-hnd-1/4   $6.95)
• 1/8" circle     ( FIK-hnd-1/8   $6.95)
• We-R-Memory Keepers Corner Chompers
• Rounder     ( WRM-CAD-CRNR1   $24.99)
• Angle     ( WRM-CAD-CRNR4   $24.99)
• 3" Round Yellow Hydra Sponge     Hydra Sponge   $0.55)
• Reverse Action Bent Tip Tweezers     ( TWEEZ-reverse   $3.99)
• Adhesives
• Aleene's Tacky Glue     ( ALE-glue-quick   $3.99)
• Miscellaneous
• toothpick
• Ultimate Gel Pen, White Pastel     ( AMC-ULT-wht   $1.59)
• Ultimate Gel Pen, Black     ( AMC-ULT-blk   $1.59)
• Tombow Dual-tip marker, Sap Green     ( TOM-245   $2.59)

Instructions

• Make The Frankenstein's Monster:
• Cut a rectangle of green card stock about 1 1/4" x 1 1/2". Holding the rectangle in portait orientation, use the Angle corner chompers to trim the bottom corners, forming a tag. Sponge black ink around all of the edges. Cut a rectangle of black card stock about 1 1/4" x 1/2". Cut one edge to form hair for the monster. Glue to the base of the monster face. Cut a small rectangle of green card stock to serve as a neck. Punch the hydrangea out of green card stock. Punch three 1/4" circles out of green. Punch two 1/4" circles out of white. Punch two 1/8" circles out of black. Cut one of the petals off the large hydranea for a nose. Cut one of the green 1/4" circles in half to form eyelids. Sponge black ink around the edges of each of the pieces. Glue a black circle to each of the white circles to make eyes. Add a small mark with a white gel pen to each of the black circles. Glue a green half-circle to the top of each of the eyes to form eyelids. Glue the head onto the neck of the monster. Glue each of the small hydrangeas into place on the underside of the neck, forming the neck bolts. Glue the nose into place. Glue the eyes into place. Glue the remaining two green circles to the underside of the head to make ears. Draw a crooked smile and a couple of little scar lines, using a black gel pen.
• Make the vampire:
• Cut a rectangle of blue cardstock, about 1 1/4" x 1 1/2". Cut a rectangle of black paper about 1/2" x 1 1/4". Use the heart punch to punch the hairline in the black rectangle. Glue the hair to the blue rectangle. Corner round all of the corners of the rectangle using the 1/4" side of the rounder chomper. Punch two 5/16" red circles. Punch two 1/4" white circles. Punch two 1/8" black circles. Punch four 5/16" blue circles. Cut one of the blue circles in half. Sponge black ink around the edges of all of the pieces. Glue the white circles to the red circles. Glue the black circles to the white circles. Add a little dot of white gel pen to the black circles. Glue the half circles to the eyes to form eyelids. Glue the eyes in place. Glue a blue circle below the eyes to form a nose. Glue the other two blue circles to the underside of the face to form ears. Draw a smile using the black gel pen. Draw white fangs with the white gel pen. Cut a rectangle of black cardstock about 1/2" x 1 1/2". Wrap it around the bottom of the face to form a cape. Glue it into place.
• Make the Mommy Mummy:
• Cut a rectangle of white cardstock, about 1 7/8" x 2 3/4". Tear 9 strips of white cardstock about 1/4" wide and about 2 1/4" long. Sponge the edges of the strips with black card stock. Adhere 8 of the strips to the white cardstock, going off the edges, horizontally crisscrossing the rectangle. Trim the strips so they are even with the edges of the rectangle. Corner round all 4 corners using the 1/4" side of the rounder corner chompers. Sponge black ink lightly all over the mummy's body. Punch two 1/2" circles out of green cardstock. Punch two 5/16" circles out of black. Punch one 5/16" circle out of white. Sponge black ink around each of the pieces. Adhere the black circles to the green. Add white dots to the black circles. Adhere the eyes to the mummy. Adhere the white circle to the mummy, just below the eyes. Tie a knot in the remaining strip, and glue into place.
• Make the Baby Mummy:
• Cut a rectangle of white cardstock about 1" x 1 1/2". Tear 5 strips of white cardstock, about 1/8" wide, and about 1 1/4" long. Sponge black ink along the edges of each strip. Adhere all of the strips to the white cardstock, going off the edges, horizontally crisscrossing the rectangle. Trim the strips so they are even with the edges of the rectangle. Corner round all 4 corners using the 1/4" side of the rounder corner chompers. Sponge black ink lightly all over the baby mummy's body. Punch two 5/16" circles out of green. Punch two 1/4" circles out of white. Punch two 1/8" circles out of black. Punch one 1/8 circle out of white. Ahdere the 1/4" white circles to the green circles. Adhere the black circles to the white circles. Glue the eyes into place. Glue the 1/8" white circle below the eyes to form the nose. Glue the baby mummy onto the mommy mummy.
• Make the grave stone:
• Cut a piece of craft cardstock to 3"x 2 1/4". With the piece in landscape orientation, corner round the top two corners using the 1/2" side of the corner chompers. Stamp the spider and web in the top right corner. Stamp the saying centered. Sponge black ink all over the grave stone.
• Make the grass and pumpkins:
• Cut a rectangle of green cardstock 5 1/2" x 1 3/4". Cut grass blades as desired. Draw lines in in the grass with the fine point side of the green marker. Stamp the pumpkins onto orange cardstock. Cut them out carefully. Adhere to the grass, just above the bottom edge.
• Make the card:
• Cut a piece of black cardstock to 5 1/2" x 11". Fold in half to form a square card.
• Assemble the card:
• Glue the monster and vampire in place first. Adhere the gravestone in place, covering the very bottom edges of the monster and vampire. Glue the mummies in place. Glue the grass in place.

Get Better...

My mom, who lives three thousand miles from me, was hospitalized this past weekend. She had to have surgery to install a stent just below her kidney to deal with a blockage caused by a very large kidney stone. The stone has not yet fully resolved so she is still in some discomfort, but she is being medicated and was sent home yesterday.

I wanted to make her a somewhat special card to let her know I was thinking about her. I wished I could be there to do things for her, but that just isn't possible right now, so I decided to send her some soup from here. Well, not real soup, but some virtual soup. Here, you can see what I mean...



The soup can is one of my favorite pop-up mechanisms, the cylindrical pop-up. Here is a view that shows how much it pops off the page. It really made a wonderful soup can, don't you think?



I am not going to tell you how I made the whole card, but I did think you might like to know how I made the soup can. I didn't take pictures as I made this card, and I didn't actually measure my mechanism as I made it, so I have made a second soup can to show you how I did it.

For this new can I started with a piece of card-stock 4 1/2" x 8 1/2". With it in the landscape orientation, I scored it at 3/4" and at 3 3/4". I then cut it according to the following template:



The most important parts of this template is that the little cutout parts on the left edge align perfectly with the long tabs on the right edge, and that the cutout parts go right to the score line at 3/4".

Once I had cut out my mechanism, I decorated it. I simply hand-sketched my can and colored it with COPIC markers. I used a scrap of card stock from which I punched a circle to help me make the gold medallion at the center of the can. Everything else is just free-hand.



Next, I trimmed a little wedge off the sides of the small tabs on the left of the mechanism, just to allow the mechanism to glide a little better. I put strong adhesive on the tabs (on the right side), folded on the score line, and affixed it to the right side of my card (this is a piece of cardstock, 8 1/4" x 5 1/4", scored at 4 1/8" in landscape orientation to form a card. It will be glued into a standard sized dark red card.) The mechanism piece now sat near (but not quite at) the bottom of the card, about 3/4" from the fold, with the right tabs extending past the edge of the card, but the score-line on the right of the card was about a 1/4" from the right edge.



Next, I folded back the score line on the right side so that the tabs extend under the mechanism, toward the left. I passed them through the slots formed by the gaps cut between the left tabs, and across the fold.



I pulled on the ends of the tabs until the can started to pop up. When it was rounded enough to look like a can, I made sure the tabs were even, and then with a pencil, marked on the left side of the card where the tabs extend. I marked around the whole end of the tab so I knew where I could place my adhesive.



I placed a generous amount of strong adhesive in the areas marked, peeled off the liner, and attached the ends of the tabs.




Lastly, I carefully closed the card. This allowed the mechanism to return to the flat position, and for the tabs to fold where they need to fold to allow that to happen. Once flat, I carefully went over the card's fold with a bone folder, and over the folds in the tabs from the outside of the card, just to reinforce the folds. If you look carefully at this picture of the card re-opened, you can see the folds in the tabs about a quarter of an inch to the left of the center fold of the card. Those were NOT pre-scored. The mechanism determined where they needed to lie and caused them to be formed.



Once the mechanism is complete, all that was left to do was insert it into my standard card and then decorate the front and inside left. I added a decorative panel to the inside left of the card, being careful that it didn't extend beyond the folds in my tabs, but right up to them, and then added a layer with a saying on top of that.

On the front, I prepared a panel of the same decorative paper with my little moose image (just LOVE Riley!!) layered onto a piece of white card stock whose bottom edge I had punched with a lace border punch. I added three square brads, and a black organdy bow before affixing it to my main card.

I hope you have enjoyed my little "get better" project and will give the cylinder pop-up a try sometime. I hope to be back with a little variation on this mechanism soon... but it does kind of depend on how much I can stand to sit.

Smiles,
Kathy