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.
The card I shared on the 31 August that Tricia designed using a fun fold and this cute pear based paper from SU had leftover pieces of both cardstock and the patterned paper and I wanted to put them to good use – so here are the cards I made.
I obviously had to add the card bases, sequins and the sentiments but the paper elements and the coloured cardstock were leftovers from the kit Tricia sent.
This one covers the entire front of a standard card base and with those reverse strips mounted I think it makes for quite a cool design – may even revisit this at some point as a sketch.
I added the three gold sequins for shine and then the Altenew thank you sentiment.
This one I went overboard with the sequins adding them to the flower centres. Otherwise a simple two panel design.
Really happy with these cute cards and how nice I got three cards out of the kit Tricia kindly sent me.
I was sorting through some of the stuff on my desk – my projects half done (PHD) – and came across this floral stamped element which I did back in July (I stamped two in case the first one didn’t work out) stamping it with Brushos. The other card I made was a sympathy card – I decided for this one to go with a thank you card!
I mounted the stamped image onto navy cardstock and then onto the white card blank.
I made some matching cardstock using the Prussian Blue brushos painted onto the card and then dried off with the heat tool.
I then used the spellbinders glimmer plate to create butterflies and then die cut them.
I added the one on the front and then another on the inside with a little strip of the painted paper.
I then added the sentiment to the front of the card. This is one of the Dina Wakely press plate and die and I stacked it a few times to make it nice and chunky.
I then added the pale blue enamel accents.
Loved using this stamp set to create something pretty and those butterflies are so gorgeous!
This time I went with glimmer foiling to add some other elements!
It started with the stripes on the sketch which went behind the top paper element and it made me think of the stripe glimmer plate so decided to foil this one – but once I had the glimmer out I went through and looked at other sketches where I might add the same stripes to do them all at the same time!
So this first one I added the purple foil directly onto the patterned paper element.
As I chose the square card blank I turned the back panel to ground the panel and then added the floral stamped image to link the two sections of the card.
Adding texture to the background panel with the Painted texture embossing folder gave a nice finish too!
The second card I added the foil on the banner panel of the patterned paper using the satin gold.
My learning point on this card is I should have checked how straight it was and trimmed it accordingly as the stripes are slightly off kilter!
For all three I used a stamped flower made from the two size of images layered up. On this and the third card I also added leaves but by masking the flower so it is one piece not separate leaves layered up.
Card Candi make perfect flower centres for all three cards too!
The final one I added the purple foil to the background cardstock.
This sketch has all the circles with just two circles of the patterned paper. Adding the foiling really helped to step up the card into something special.
I changed up the colour of the flower and the leaves to coordinate with the papers and the cardstock. Apart from turning the sketch I kept this one very similar to the sketch and although I added it to the square card blank it worked well. Adding the sentiment across the topper and the base helps to connect them.
Also that foiled cardstock of the circle behind the flower works so nicely to have the pink foiling as well as the purple in the background.
It is good to get another three cards made for my series and of course a big thanks to Kendra for the fun sketches!
I absolutely adore these cute light garlands in the Kingston Crafts acetate and vellum kits and decided I wanted to make a card with them strung over an aperture.
I chose the green cardstock from the pastel card and die cut a slim rectangle. I then added the acetate garlands across the gap securing with double sided adhesive.
Then I added a flip it inside that I had cut down to fit behind the panel.
Inside I added the glittery snow and then secured it with adhesive. I added more green cardstock behind and then added the panel to a white DL card.
I decided all it then needed was a sentiment so grabbed one from the kit and used the Kingston Crafts tape runner which works so well with both acetate and vellum to adhere it.
Such a fun and I have to admit simple card to make!
Also it is one of the ‘as seen on tv’ cards too! 😀Here was Dave holding the card – genuinely can’t believe the bargain on those vellum and acetate kits – promise you I have loads and loads of them left to use so suspect you will be seeing quite a few cards featuring them over the next few months!
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.
Hi! Thanks for visiting my blog – it really enjoy sharing my creations here and it is lovely to have visitors pop by to see them and comment on them! ❤️
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!
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