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.
Starting the new year with two blogposts – my patterned paper one was earlier today but now I have my design team contribution for Creative Knockouts where the theme is appropriately Celebrations!
I coloured the image using a mix of alcohol pens and tombow pens just to mix up my supplies a bit, and then cut her out with a white border.
Then I went through the scraps pouch to find colours of cardstock that went with my coloured image.
I decided to keep the actual design really simple – no patterned paper or texture or designs in the background – I wanted the focus to be on the image but then with some fun finishing touches.
I love the three bits of blue and green poking out the main topper panel – reminds me of a vision board where you put paint swatches with your fabrics type of thing!
I raised the image up on foam adhesive to give it some dimension and kept everything else flat.
I brought in the ribbon from the stash and all the sequins from a Hey Little Magpie embellishment kit and a foiled sentiment.
I love those iridescent sequins that pick up the different colours.
I also gave the balloons the bow and her hair decoration a coat of wink of Stella to bring some extra sparkle!
Love how this turned out – such a cute card and that starts my Design team contributions for the year off!
I’m carrying on with the challenge of using up my patterned paper as my first of the month project and this year I am thinking that I will try to do a Kendras card challenge each month. I’ve started with the #kcc20 for this month as the latest template has only gone live today and this was made in advance!
I started by just making the first of the five cards.
For all of these cards the patterned papers are random neutral coloured ones from the stash – some are Stampin Up, one papermania and one Maggie Holmes – a real mix!
For this one I chose to use chess based images for my focal points and mixed them up with a few fussy cut out and then the postage stamp image too!
Card 2:
This one I went with the lightbulb image stamped into the postage stamp shape. All these images I actually stamped and coloured a while ago – I think it was inspired by a postage themed card I made for the Christmas in July!
Making themed postage stamps are so much fun and so easy!
Card 3:
The focal points for this one is a bit different as it’s the scribble circles stamp from Indigo Blu. I added some white gel pen marks into this too over the top of the colouring using the promarkers.
I also added in the thread best below the sentiment banner.
Card 4:
This one I added twine both below the focal point panel and also as a bow. I loved this – almost a shame the focal point was so big!
I also love the wonky panels – more from necessity because of the fiddling I did placing them – I think they work well like this – and it’s a lot less pressure to ‘get them straight’ if you do them wonky on purpose!
Card 5:
This final card for crafting session one I went to town on … embossing and die cutting the black panel made the whole thing come to life!
I also added ink to the patterned papers too – this made them look like they went together better. The Waffleflower fall leaves set of dies and stamps and stencils worked so well for this card – and cute to see the Hugs die cut sentiment on the top!
Love these five cards – all of the toppers were mounted onto the Kraft 5×7 card blanks which gave a nice frame to the panels.
Quite a masculine set of cards but I think also suitable for females too!
I love the little pops of colour on the first and second one – and love the gold embossing on the final one!
Hello! Yes I managed another three cards! I kept two very similar – just turned over one of the papers to be the other side for a layer and then slightly changed the positioning of the flowers – but pretty much the same – and then the third one I revisited a technique for using up smaller scraps.
I love the white embossing on the patterned paper – it gives some lovely variation to the colouring of the leaves and petals.
The second one using the more patterned paper is quite busy but it still looks lovely!
This one using scraps and then adding gilding flakes to the cracks I love! Really fun technique. Also love the gold embossing for the double layered flower – so pretty!
So three more made – still some larger scraps and small puddle of smaller scraps left but I am getting there!
And of course the process for making these is up on my YouTube!
I really wanted to use up the magazine by the end of December but then life got in the way and I never got a chance until yesterday – I pulled it out and made a start! Three cards done! Far too many papers left I think to get them all used up but I’m going to give it a go!
I started with just using one of the A4 pieces and some of the cut apart pieces to make three different sized cards – a standard, a DL and a small notecard.
This one was nearly a disaster as I originally stuck the topper element on upside down but then I realised and managed to pull it apart and rescue it! Phew!
I added a little bit of green ribbon to this one and an extra layer of the patterned paper.
This final one is so simple but I like how simple it is! Shows off the texture in the design of the papers.
Quick little project to share with you of the place cards I made for our Christmas table this year.
I used the cute little Polar Bear Pals dies to create five lovely bears. I inked the elements to give shading and then added the glitter glue to the bobble on the hat. It took me about an hour to cut and then assemble these fellas. You could easily personalize them with different coloured accessories or leave the scarves and hats off if you would prefer. I went with them all the same to match the colour scheme in my family room.
Next up I created the little place cards from black and then panels of white. The white panels I then embossed them with the snowflake embossing folder.
I glued them together and then added a bear to each one.
Next I die cut the initial for each of us in red and black and stacked them together. I then glued them in place and added the same glitter glue to them.
This finished off my place cards.
Then for the rest of decorating the table I die cut stars and snowflakes from scrap white card stock. These became the sprinkles for across the table!
Of course the table prettiness was soon destroyed and covered with six million dishes of food which we loved!
This is using some old and mismatched SU papers to make this page of me and my daughter from a couple of years ago when we went to see the Disney100 in concert at Liverpool arena.
Even though the patterns don’t exactly go together I think it works well enough with the colours in the photos and I love how the page came out.
I used some foliage and floral elements and the heart puffy stickers that I got from my lovely friend Helen and also the letter stickers I bought from Hey Little Magpie at the last crop.
The central panel I added some stencilling to usi by an old Claritystamps stencil – I think that helped add some softer pattern in contrast to the bold patterned paper.
So there we go – the last Scrappin Saturday project of the year!
Really enjoyed putting this together and have loved having got lots of scrapbooking done in the past 12 months. Hope you’ve enjoyed them too!
I’ve made this card when I saw the cute Santa in the acetate and vellum kit. I just thought he looked so cute he could be posing for a photo – so I used a sizzix die cuts to create a Polaroid.
I added the sentiment to white cardstock to strengthen it so I could raise it up on adhesive foam across the card.
I made the background using the lovely pastel cardstock from Kingston Crafts and an embossing folder sanding the pattern to expose the white core.
I finished off with sequins just to add some sparkle.
But seriously how cute is the Santa? Just love him! and the amazing thing is that there are so many in the kit I can make many more cards featuring him!
Hope you are having a good festive season!
This is my final festive Friday of the year – and yes I managed a festive project every single Friday! Pretty sure I will keep this up for next year too – so please do join in the fun of making Christmas projects all year round – firstly because it’s fun, secondly it means you have a decent stash by the time you need them!
Just wanted to pop a little post out to wish people a very Merry Christmas – and to share the ‘special cards’ I made for my close family.
Let’s start with this one …
For my parents I went with the Spellbinders Snowcapped holiday birdhouse and then also added a few floral elements from the Alex Syberia Christmas Bouquet to add extra colour – this really is one of my favourite ever die sets!
I added some spots of glitter glue for the flower centres and for the snowy bits on the branch and the roof. Oh so pretty!
I decided to use a foiled sentiment and then some letter stickers for the Mum & Dad element.
Next up I used the same Snowcapped Holidays dies for my card for my hubby.
This time I went OTT with the die cutting of the foliage elements in all different scraps of greens and then die cut a dark purple ring to create a wreath element.
I decided to add in the berries in two colours – a pale duck egg blue and then that dark purple. For each of the berries I gave them a coat of wink of Stella and then a glossy accents coating to give them a shimmer glossy finish.
This time my birds were more like little sparrows and I think super cute!
I added a die cut panel and then a frame of the green to then add this to an 8×8 card blank.
I then added the die cutting Merry Christmas sentiment with some wide emerald green satin ribbon underneath.
This added just the touch of softness I wanted to break up the texture.
But seriously how cute are those little bird die cuts?
I had such fun the day I made this card die cutting scraps and making many cute little birds! I shared this on an instagram story …
Ok last card to share and this is the one I made for my daughter.
It’s another 8×8 card and I went with tartan papers from Indigo Blu which then determined the colour scheme and again went die cutting heavy!
This time I combined not just the Snowcapped holidays and the Alex Syberia Christmas bouquet but also the arrange a wreath dies too!
I went with Kraft, white, rose gold and a little bit of the shimmer green vellum for all the wreath elements and the sentiment with the shadow.
I also found a fabulous ribbon in my stash that coordinated perfectly and I think added a nice extra texture.
The stamped sentiment is from an Altenew set and then the letter does for her name are old ones in my stash.
I chose two papers that I thought worked well together and layered the top panel on the white to separate the layers. I also added plenty of dimension with adhesive foam between the layers and then the wreath and the letters and the flowers.
I know it’s quite a rustic looking card but I think my daughter will like it with the different elements and the shiny rose gold foiled card.
So these are the three special cards I made – a lot of die cutting and some fiddly elements to adhere but I really enjoyed putting these together. I knew those Alex Syberia dies would be something I would reach for time and time again and it turns out the Snowcapped holidays work perfectly with them too!
All I have left to say for today’s post is of course Merry Christmas. I hope you are having a lovely time. I know this time of year can be hard for some people so please do look after yourself and know that I appreciate you for visiting my blog.
Carried on playing with the page kit I shared last week – but for page two I did change up the layout a bit more as I thought this layout worked better with the three photos.
I loved Sarah’s layout with the half circle but chose to align it all to the right and then changed around some other elements and chose different chipboard stickers. I also went with the sequins as my finishing touches!
So there we have another scrappin Saturday project – I have really loved getting back into scrapbooking over the last couple of years and it’s been good to get a weekly post up … one more Saturday of the year … wonder what I will make as I have run out of page kits to play with!
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