Make Your Own Clay & Resin Embellishments CardMaker September 2012 Handcrafted Greetings for All of Life s Occasions make a Scene with Ink, PaPer & StamPS Quill It Easy Autumn Leaves, page 18 New Ways With Basic Punches! Autumn Cards Copic Coloring Basic Blending Techniques 2013 Media Kit
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Print Online SIMPLY QUICKLY NEATLY Chocolate Therapy DeSIgn by Anne House CREATE YOUR WORLD. XYRON CREATE a STICKER MAX Project note: Use brown ink to stamp images; use light brown ink to ink edges of cream pieces. Form a 51/2 x 4-inch top-folded card from brown card stock. Adhere a 5 x 31/2- inch piece of Spring Blossom paper to a 51/4 x 33/4-inch piece of cream card stock; adhere to card front. Stamp main image toward center top of a 23/4 x 31/2-inch piece of cream card stock; stamp Chocolate, on lower right corner. Adhere to Easter Bonnet paper; trim a small border. Adhere to brown card stock; trim a small border. Tie ribbon around rectangle; trim ends. Attach pearls to upper left corner of rectangle. Adhere to card front as shown. Cut a piece of Spring Blossom paper to fit inside card; adhere. Stamp it s cheaper than therapy. on a 31/2 x 11/2-inch piece of cream card stock. Adhere inside card. l Sources: Card stock from Die Cuts With A View; printed papers from Rusty Pickle; stamp set from Inkadinkado; fine-detail ink pad from Tsukinkeo Inc.; self-adhesive pearls from Kaisercraft; ribbon from Michaels Stores Inc. XYRON CREATE A STICKER LETS YOU QUICKLY AND SIMPLY APPLY EDGE-TO-EDGE ADHESIVE TO ALMOST ANYTHING UP TO 5 WIDE WITHOUT HEAT, ELECTRICITY OR BATTERIES. Best of all, there is no messy glue to clean up or hot surfaces to worry about. What Will You Create? Inside detail shown above. For more information visit XYRON.com From CardMaker magazine, July 2009, Vol 5, No. 4, 52, Copyright 2009 CardMaker magazine * Materials FR0037 Card stock: brown, cream White Chocolate bunnies doublesided printed papers: Spring blossom, easter bonnet Chocolate Therapy stamp set Ink pads: light brown, brown fine-detail 5 brown self-adhesive pearls in varying sizes 14 inches 3/8-inch-wide brown decorative ribbon Paper glue Full Trim 85/8" x 103/4" Bleed 87/8" x 111/4" Live 75/8" x 93/4" Two-Thirds ical 45/8" x 91/2" 7" x 61/4" 1/12 1/2 Full 1/4 1/3 2/3 One-Third ical 21/4" x 91/2" 7" x 31/8" Square 45/8" x 45/8" One-Half ical 31/2" x 91/2" 7" x 45/8" 1/4 1/6 1/3 2/3 ical 1/6 One-Fourth ical 31/2" x 45/8" 45/8" x 31/2" One-Sixth ical 21/4" x 45/8" 45/8" x 21/4" One-Twelfth Square 21/4" x 21/4" 1/2 1/3 Square XYRON CREATE a STICKER Available at AC Moore, Amazon.com, JoAnn Craft and Fabric Stores, Hobby Lobby, Michaels, Office Max, Roberts Crafts, StickerMaker.com, Walmart and independent retail stores. Full-page ad placement within our free pattern downloads 17,000 monthly paper-crafting downloads Advertisers receive first full page before pattern Online Unit Size (Pixels) Leaderboard 728 x 90 Wide Skyscraper 160 x 600 Medium Rectangle 300 x 250 Full PDF Download 8" x 10.5" (144 350 dpi) Submitting Materials Materials can be submitted via SendMyAd (www.annies.sendmyad.com). Proofs and CDs can be mailed to: Follow us on Facebook! 14,000 fans and growing! www.facebook.com/cardmakermag Annie s Malinda Webster Ad Sales 306 East Parr Road Berne, IN 46711 Contact us with questions: Malinda Webster Ad Traffic Coordinator (877) 282-4724, ext. 309 Malinda_Webster@Annies-Publishing.com Visit Card-Making Connections (www.cardmakermagazine. com/blog/), our NEW CardMaker blog that is dedicated to all things card making. Electronic Media Annie s operates on a Mac platform. Files must include ALL original files, images (linked, placed or supporting EPS files) and fonts. Fonts All fonts used are to be supplied or converted to outlines. Images Supply high-resolution images (300 dpi or better). Photoshop files, PDFs,.TIFF, JPEG or EPS files are accepted. (Annie s does not accept responsibility for the quality of lowresolution files.) Colors All colors must be CMYK. Spot or Pantone colors will be converted to CMYK. Black needs to be 100% black. Specs
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