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Digital Divas Sensational Sunday Tutorials ~ September

Sunday, September 20, 2020

Whimsy friends,
we have the lovely Ute Berger sharing a digital tutorial with us today
and I absolutely LOVE what she's chosen to do!

Who doesn't need storage for their gorgeous crafty creations right?! We spend so much time and energy creating beautiful cards and if you're like me, wind up with a whole bunch on your desk gathering dust until it comes the date to give them away to family and friends for birthdays and Christmas and other special occasions.

What do you do with your gorgeous handmade cards to store them? Ute has designed a fabulous card storage box for us all to create. She's also created storage dividers that she's separated into several different categories. Such an absolutely fabulous idea!! I know I'll be making one and hope you will too. Be sure to share your finished storage box with us, we'd love to see it!

Products Used:

12 x 12 Thick Cardstock for Base

Scissors or Cutting Tool

Scoring Board and Tool

Decorative Patterned Paper

Ribbon or Lace

Letter Dies for Box Title

Strong Cardstock in Different Colours for Dividers

Distress Ink, Gouache or Gesso for box finishing touches

Cut and score your box base following the directions in Ute's accompanying tutorial from the 12x12 cardstock. Ute has used a kraft cardstock base, but you can choose any colour you like. Using your choice of strong glue, adhere all the corner tabs and allow to dry very well. Ute preferred to use a liquid glue here for strong adherence, but any strong glue of your choice will work.

You can distress the edges of the box, or paint with gouache or gesso for a nice finished look, before adding your choice of decorative paper and trimmings to embellish the box. This gives such a lovely really 'finished' look to the box. Whimsy Stamps has a large range of both Physical Papers and Digital Papers, so you're spoilt for choice! Ute used paper from our lovely Otter's Paper Set, which is now available in our Digital Paper Collection.

Once you've decorated your finished box base with the papers of your choice and lovely ribbons or lace or other embellishments, you can create a label for the front of your box. Ute used two of the Whimsy Stamps Wonky Stitched Rectangles to create her box front label and used some lovely (now retired) alphabet dies to create the 'Cards' label. Whimsy has a wide range of word dies and alphabet dies, you can check those out here. Ute then added in the lovely brightly coloured dividers with category labels. So now you can always know where to find that special card you created months ago when the right celebration comes up! No more huffing and sighing, hunting for that card you know you created, but can no longer find! Oh I SO need to make one of these storage boxes, hehe!!

You can download a copy of Ute's full tutorial with all the directions and measurements of how to create this wonderful card storage box, by clicking on the banner below. Visit her Blog too for another step by step sharing of this wonderful tutorial.

If you make your own version of this fantastic storage box, be sure to come and share it with Ute in the Whimsy Stamps Facebook Group, I know Ute would love to see what you're inspired to do and I sure would too! So don't be shy to share! Hugs and happy crafting from Ute, me and all the Whimsy Stamps Digital Design Divas!

Sweet Sunday ~ Digital Team Tutorials

Sunday, January 19, 2020

Whimsy friends, we're bringing something new

and fun and fabulous to you today.

This is the first of our brand new

Sweet Sunday Digital Team Tutorials!

Our talented Digital Diva Ute Berger, has created the most wonderful tutorial

for this beautiful box frame card with a shaker card front.

She shows two versions are possible, a beautiful understated white on white version

and a stunning full colour version using distress ink blending.

Ute's tutorial is a step by step tutorial available in full here via this link.

You can download and print the tutorial and use it as a guide.

Please if you give this a go, be sure to share it with us,

on the Whimsy Stamps Facebook Page,
and be sure to tag Ute!

Here is the beautiful front of the card in the 'white on white' version

Now the colour version with beautiful distress ink background

Ute created a box card inside that has beautiful depth and dimension when opened up.

This is the stunning white on white version, which is serene and gorgeous just as it is.

Here is the decorated colour version, with it's enchanting moonlight scene.

Two ways to create this one card design, both breathtaking.

You can see a wonderful overview video of Ute's process below.

Pause the video along the way, if you want to craft along with it.

We really hope you love the first of our Digital Team Tutorials.
We will be bringing you a new tutorial every month,
so be sure to come back and visit often!

All the Whimsy Stamps elements Ute has used
are thumbnail linked below for quick and easy reference
and you can read all about Ute's creative journey with this tutorial
on her personal blog which is linked via her image below.

Huge thanks to our amazing Digital Diva Ute Berger
for this fabulous first Digital Team Tutorial.

We'll be back with you next Sunday with a round up of our
January adventures with the latest Digital Release.
So many gorgeous creations to share,
so come on back then.

Wishing you all and wonderful week,