Embossed Quilted Note Card Set By Robin Messenheimer

This is a set of 4 note cards with quilt patterns; a template for an envelope for the note cards (all four use the same envelope template); and a box to hold the cards and envelopes. The envelopes AND the box are made using the Stampin’ Up! Envelope Punch Board!

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Embossed Quilted Note Cards By Robin Messenheimer

This is a set of four note cards using the same set of colors in squares and right triangles. The papers used in this tutorial are from the Stampin’ Up! Sweater Weather Designer Series Papers set in the 2013 Stampin’ Up! Holiday Catalog. Any colors may be used, but all three patterns should have a different value. There should be one color each of a dark, medium and light value. If any of the two papers are close in value, the pattern will not show up well.

Supplies: Dark Patterned Paper: 1 piece 12” x 2-1/4”, cut into 3 strips 12” x 3/4”; 1 piece 12” x 1-1/4” Medium Patterned Paper: 1 piece 12” x 3”, cut into 4 strips 12” x 3/4”; 1 piece 6: x 1-1/4” Light Patterned Paper: 1 piece 12” x 3-3/4”, cut into 5 strips 12” x 3/4” 1 piece 12” x 1-1/4” 1” Square Punch Standard white copy paper: 4 pieces cut 3-3/4” square Card Stock: 4 pieces of different colors that coordinate with the patterned papers, cut 4-1/2” x 9”, folded in half to make cards that are 4-1/2” square Card Stock: 4 pieces of different coordinating colors cut 4-1/4” square Textured embossing folder with a small or medium even texture pattern to simulate stitched quilting Buttons and/or ribbons to decorate front of card Adhesives: Glue Stick or removable adhesive; double sided tape or adhesive of choice for putting cards together; transparent tape (“Scotch” tape) Paper Snips

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Instructions: 1. Punch 1” squares in the 1-1/4” wide pieces of paper: 6 squar es Dar k, 4 squar es Medium, 6 squar es Light. Set aside. 2. Tape two 3/4” strips of paper together by using transparent tape on the back. Push the long edges of both pieces together as closely as you can get them—no space in between!!! These are the combinations you need to make:  Dark Strip and Light Strip: 2  Medium Strip and Light Strip: 3  Medium Strip and Dark Strip: 1 Embossed Quilted Note Cards Set by Robin Messenheimer—September 2013

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3. Using the 1” Square Punch, begin at the bottom of a double strip and punch with the center join line of the strips on the punch’s diagonal. (This double strip will make 8 squares if they’re punched fairly close together; but don’t let the punches overlap!)

4. After each diagonal punch, cut the loose ends with paper snips. Do NOT just tear the ends off as that will make it difficult to get the punch aligned to punch the next square.

5. Punch 6 more squares the same way as the first. Don’t trim the ends after the 7th square. Instead turn the double strip around and punch the 8th square from the other end of the strip. This way you can hold on to the loose ends from the 7th punch to arrange the paper for the 8th punch.

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6. Draw a pencil line about 7/8” from the top and from the left side of the piece of plain copy paper. The idea here is that, when the squares are put together, the height and width of each row will be 4”. I like the paper base to be just slightly smaller than the finished “quilt” layer, and this makes that happen. Also, once you have the top row and the left row lined up to those lines, everything will line up pretty well with them.

7. Apply glue to the top section—left to right from the top of the paper down to the pencil line. Using a glue stick allows some maneuverability of the squares after you put them in place.

8. (For this step and the next, I’m using the third design from the left on page 1.) Following the template for the card you are making, adhere the first square of the design in the upper left corner. Align the bottom with the horizontal pencil line and the right side with the vertical pencil line.

9. Add the second square to the right of the first and fill in the whole top row. Repeat down all four rows, applying one row’s worth of glue and then adding each square in that row before applying glue to the next row down.

Make sure that the right edge of the first square on each row is up against the vertical pencil line.

Patterns for all four cards are on the next page Embossed Quilted Note Cards Set by Robin Messenheimer—September 2013

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Quilt Square Outline Drawings by Robin Messenheimer

You can be creative in your designs. Just remember you’ll need 16 small squares for each quilt square

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Envelope Liner for Embossed Quilt Cards By Robin Messenheimer

U. S. Postal Service regulations require that the width of an envelope be larger than the height. If that is not the case, then there is a 20 cent surcharge applied to the mailing of that envelope. While it might seem fun to make a square envelope with the Stampin’ Up! Envelope Punch Board, it will cost in the mailing. So I have made the envelope for the 4-1/2” x 5-1/2” card. These cards will fit nicely into them with no extra cost to mail. On the other hand, if your embellishments make the card rigid or cause it to be more than 1/4” deep in any place, you have to pay the 20 cent surcharge anyway. Since you only pay the surcharge (which is for hand-canceling) once, I’d say go for the square envelope!

When using standard copy paper to make envelopes, I like to make a liner that covers the inside of the addressed side of the envelope as well as the envelope’s flap. I then insert the card into the envelope with the front of the card facing towards the address side of the envelope to give it a bit more protection—with that extra paper—than the plain paper would. On the next page is a full-size template for the insert for the Envelope Punch Board’s envelope for the 4-1/2” x 5-1/2” liner. This is the shape with the measurements.

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Envelope Liner Template for 4-1/2” x 5-1/2” Card Envelope By Robin Messenheimer

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Box Made With Envelope Punch Board to hold envelopes made for 4-1/2” by 5-1/2” cards and their cards

Supplies for Basic Box: Stampin’ Up! Envelope Punch Board Designer Series Paper cut 10” square Paper Snips Sticky Strip Instructions for using the Envelope Punch Board to make your box template. I do not have photos for the use of the punch board. The instructions and illustrations provided by Stampin’ Up! are best for taking you through this process. Step 1: Insert your paper into the punch board with the left edge at the 4-3/4” mark. Continue around your paper following the basic Punch Board Instructions. Step 2: Reinsert the paper to start another set of punches and scores. The side that you should insert first is the side where the punch is about 5-1/4” from the left corner of the paper. Do NOT insert the side where you first started Step 1. Line the paper up at the 4” mark. Punch and score your paper and continue going around the paper making sure to line up your NEW scores to make your 2nd, 3rd and 4th punch/score. Your paper will look like this (I’ve used a pencil and ruler to highlight the score marks in this photo).

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Step 3: Crease all your score lines. Designate one of the long sides as the top and one as the bottom. A good way to keep this in mind is to punch the point of the top side with the Envelope Punch. Step 4: Cut out the inside corners of the top part of the box. Step 5: Cut along the horizontal lines at the inner corners of the bottom part of the box, leaving a flap attached at each side.

Step 6: Mark 1” from the bottom point of your paper and draw a line (I’ve enhanced the line in the photo).

Step 7: Cut the point off as shown.

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Step 8: Apply Sticky Strip to the bottom edges of the left and right sections of the envelope.

Step 9: Fold the bottom flap up, making sure to square off the bottom. Then fold the sides in one at a time and adhere them to the folded up bottom flap.

At this point the basic box has been constructed. I created a belly band for my box using the left over strips from cutting the 12” square DSP into a 10” square. The belly band should be 12-1/2”. I used the shorter strip of DSP and added enough of the longer strip to make that length. Crease the 12-1/2” belly band at 2-1/8”, 3”, 8-1/8” and 9”. Adhere the ends of the belly band.

I made the rosette with the remaining strip of DSP, cut in half lengthwise.

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