I am an on-the-side and increasingly up front papercrafter who loves nothing more than getting inky and creating pretty things with paper and stamps!
I am also a wife to lovely hubby and mummy to a wonderful 14yr old princess.
I love making little notecards from patterned papers and fun elements like a butterfly or a flower. So I of course had to do a set using the Kingston Crafts everyday paper pad. And what’s more the top one was featured straight up on the Hobbymaker.tv show with Martin a few minutes ago!
I chose the blue as the base with the hello paper as the main element but then added in other colours and papers from the pack.
I chose the spellbinders butterfly set to foil the image and die cut the shape out.
I chose different colours of foil for each.
Foiling works really well on the patterned paper and die cuts like a dream!
This was my first try with the Matt black foil – it’s almost like it’s been stamped!
For this one I took a panel I had die cut from another project using the holiday shimmer spritz. Super fun!
And that purple foil 💜
Really love this set of little 4×4 notecards.
As always I’m buzzing when I see my samples on tv …
Whilst I had a few scraps of paper leftover from the patterned paper project from the beginning of the month I decided to make these start on a tag for this months decorated tag swap at UK stampers forum.
Totally different finish to the project I made at the beginning of the month with mixing up papers and then doing some rough and fun glimmer stripes in the background using the Matt white foil and the stripe of colour glimmer plates.
I then added a panel of the blue cardstock to ground my elements on to as it was such a busy background.
I chose to stamp and emboss the leaves from the Splendid thoughts stamp set and then fussy cut them.
These were my stamped elements on which to then add the textural fabric flowers.
I also added the stamped and die cut sentiment to the centre of the tag.
I then added lots of the lovely sequins from a Hey Little Magpie embellishment kit and the trim at the top of the tag is also from a kit.
Love this funky and fun tag. Definitely a little bit different but I think it works!
I realised yesterday I hadn’t done my scrappin Saturday post and so after a little afternoon nap post work I grabbed a page kit I had put together (a few papers and the photo were all that were in the kit at this point) and set to! I recorded it as a video and you can find that over on YouTube!
I used as the main background the fabulous green page from the expressions of ink set from Stampin Up – these are a good few years old and I have been hoarding them as I love them but it was time to get this used!
I teamed it with black elements and then a pop of the coral.
I also added in the white trim from a Hey Little Magpie embellishment kit and then lots of stickers and bits from the box of embellishments I have.
I love the gold puffy sticker picking up the gold foiling in the paper.
It wasn’t a difficult page to put together – to be honest that background paper did all of the work really! Didn’t want to cover too much of it!
I did add a few enamel accents blobs to finish off as again I didn’t want gems to take away from the gold in the background and just wanted a few spots of black to finish off.
So there you go – a lovely page documenting a date night with the hubby!
Here we go – this is the first since CIJ where I haven’t just been using up bits leftover and so I decided to film it! Of course some of the papers are the same used yesterday for that card but hey it is a different design and a different feel with mainly the crumb cake ones rather than the focus on the red.
I have new Christmas papers on order so I am on a mission to try and finish up more of these older papers before they arrive!
I chose ones I thought went together and then decided to layer them without cardstock mats by separating them by inking the edges.
I then stamped the cute Avery Elle reindeer and coloured him with ink and added the gold wink of Stella for the collar.
I also added the foiled sentiment and sequins.
I love this cute card and enjoyed putting it together – a lovely 25 minute activity.
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So today’s blogpost is a design team creation for Creative Knockouts where the challenge is ‘lots of layers’ … and I interpreted that in a few different ways.
I used the gorgeous Jolly Santa image from Polkadoodles who are sponsoring the challenge this fortnight… and isn’t he gorgeous?
So how did I make this – well I started by printing Santa four times at the same size – and then colouring him (and the cute penguins) with alcohol markers and then a gold podcast pen for his belt and the star. ⭐️
I die cut one using the circle die and this became the base of the image.
I then selected different parts of the image to cut out … the snowbank under Santa, the whole of Santa and the sack over his shoulder, santas coat up to his hat brim, and then his nose, beard and splendid moustache.
I then used two layers of scrap cardstock between each layer as I adhered it to the base panel- so I got a few layers for the decoupage effect. I used scrap cardstock rather than foam adhesive to reduce the dimension but it still ends up being quite chunky!
So that was my first response to lots of layers … next my background to the image was lots of layers of different patterned papers.
I chose papers I thought worked together that are left in my stash after a significant depletion in papers following Christmas in July (don’t worry I have a plan to rectify the depletion soon!) and created two square panels to fit on the 6×6 card base.
Then die cut a circle to go underneath the main image and two strips cut into banners for the left hand side.
So that’s a lot of layers!
Didn’t quite stop there though – the sentiment die cut is stacked a few layers of die cuts and there are layers of die cuts under the stamped strip die cut too!
Inside the card I used the leftover strips of paper to create little banners, a circle punched element and then cut the little penguin out of the leftover bits from the image I had cut layers from and added him!
I finished off the card with the card Candi and lots of the clear glitter glue to make Santas outfit sparkle along with the snowdrift.
Seriously in love with this image and how it came out on this card. Will admit when I originally coloured the four versions of the image that the intention was to make four cards but actually I love how this became a more special card with all those layers!
So sometimes things don’t quite go to plan … mainly when you lose a piece of the paper needed to make the sketch … so you only do half the sketch and then randomly make stuff up!
Yes that’s what happened with today’s card using the magazine kit I’ve been working through and using KCC19 to create some cards. The triangle panel should be twice the size it is as a full background but ended up losing a triangle and so only did half the panel!
I then added the torn paper to the background and decided this worked as a fun card regardless of not being the actual original plan!
I decided to ignore the rest of the magazine kit then and added a crocheted flower and leaves from Hey Little Magpie embellishment kits.
I also added some sequins and then the Altenew sentiment.
So a cute card – and although frustrating I can’t work out where the other triangle went I still love how this came out!
Didn’t end up putting the magazine kit stuff away for very long! Grabbed it again! So this card turned out to be far more involved than I originally planned as I turned a KCC19 sketch into a fun fold card -yes that’s right I did another fun fold! Seriously what is wrong with me?
I’ve been working through using up papers from the Crafters Companion magazine kit as part of a series on YouTube and then did a #Kcc19 which I am slowly working through.
This is one of the sketches with the fab pinwheel type of design. I turned the sketch to make a landscape design and added embossing to the pink background panel. I also added some scrap ribbon from the stash.
As I went to make the card blank I had the idea to make a sort of gatefold card so it became a fun fold!
Inside I added another panel of embossed card and then some other cut apart elements from the magazine kit … I struggle a little with these sorts of cut apart elements so it was good to get so many used on one card!
Yes you read that title right I made fun folds again!
I loved doing the tutorial that Tricia put together and I shared yesterday and I thought it would be the perfect way to make up the Patterned Paper cards using the large landscape type toppers that were in the cut aparts so I went for it … and even amended the direction for the second one to make use of the landscape topper.
This one I chose a teal and a turquoise cardstock to go with the moody image and the graphic papers.
I followed all the same directions as the original one although did have to cut the main image down a little as the dimensions were not quite right so it has more of a border to the left and right than the top and bottom.
I kept the rest of the card simple – a foiled sentiment from the stash and a single card candi in black to embellish!
A lovely way to use up these papers and the topper I think!
This one had a landscape image but I realised the card still worked if I turned it so again I kept to similar directions as the original – but turned it so the topper could remain orientated correctly.
This one I made an effort with the inside of the card as it becomes more visible with the white insert and more of the star themed papers.
I added the stamped and embossed sentiment on green and then two silver card Candi to finish off!
Tricias tutorial came along at exactly the right time for me to make these as I really don’t think I would have ended up with anything as cool as these cards without it and the papers and toppers I think are elevated as a result of the fun fold!
So thanks again to Tricia and please do consider her as your SU demo if you need one and are Europe based.
And there we go – another pouch of old magazine papers used up!
I bought some stuff from Stampin Up a week or so ago all because I spotted this gorgeous Harvest Home Garland kit and I couldn’t resist it!
And today after doing quite a lot of the day job on the weekend (I was behind on a big piece of work) I decided it was time burn away my fingerprints – aka use a glue gun – and construct it!
I haven’t yet decided on where it will be displayed for Autumn but for now it is hung on a hook next to my work desk and in the window and it is splendid!
You can see on this close up that it is a mix of rose gold and then different textures of card and paper in different colours and it is just gorgeous!
I am struggling to get a good picture so hopefully the video helps …
I love the little acorns!
I think I may actually turn it the other way round and add a nice bow at the top to finish up – or maybe find somewhere I can have it be more horizontal – it’s longer than I thought so our bannister on the landing which would have been where I thought to put it originally won’t be right. – but for now I think it looks fab and catches the light nicely this afternoon!
So a bonus post for today but SU heavy given the previous post was the card I made using the kit Tricia gave me using Painterly Pears! 🍐
Yes I have a fun fold card to share with you but the work behind this one came directly from my friend Tricia who sent me a couple of tutorials when she sent my SU catalogue … so thank you so much for the tutorial Tricia – and any European friends who want SU stuff please do consider Tricia for your orders. 😀
I did switch up the design a little from her example… I moved the front panel to the left and switched the paper to the B side as I wanted the die cuts and pear image to pop a little more … but otherwise the whole card was her design.
As you can see there is a stepped element and then a top card panel so it gives it so much dimension and fun. A true fun fold!
As you know I am not great at doing fun folds but this was an easy one to put together – only a little bit of measuring and so I enjoyed doing it!
I did switch out the sentiment for one I already had to hand rather than stamp one on the label she provided and also I went with tiny pearls for the centre of those cute flowers. I’ve saved the sparkly enamel gems Tricia sent for another project.
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