Category: Papermania

Biggest Wish, Papermania, Pinewood planks, Playful Alphabet

Happy Fathers Day

Catherine

Today I am sharing the card I made for my Dad for Father’s day even though I’ve not been able to give it to him as a result of our Covid filled household.

I made the card a few weeks ago, and would have posted it if i had known we wouldnt be soending the day together, but that wasnt the plan!

Anyways … I was hunting through my stash for the components for this card as I knew I had bought a Papermania kit many moons ago that was for Fathers Day and had barely used it. For some reason it felt like 2022 was the year to use some of it!

So the kit included 12×12 papers and some of those papers had sentiments and words on and some had various elements like tags and frames. So I decided to collage them together and also add in some textures and die cuts and stamping. The kit had also included the metal tool charms so I also added those.

I set to on fussy cutting everything out and then when I had enough elements I decided to add panels of cardstock I had embossed. I love the effect of embossing so much and rarely remember to use my folders.

Once everything was cut out (including the die cut letters for Dad which I had stacked 3 deep) I inked all the edges and the embossed panels using Vintage Photo.

Then I started sticking things down, adding foam layers to sime parts for dimension. I then took some brads and attached the charms and then added some larger brads as ‘nail heads’ on two of the frames.

I added a tiny scrap of string to the tag too.

I decided rather than use the Happy that was in the patterned paper to go with a stamped one from the Biggest Wish set.

Inside the card I created a little cluster of the paper and cut out elements with a stamped Dad. I also added some of the paper and a little panel with a cut out element to the envelope too!

Love how this came out. Lots and lots of fussy cutting and inking … but my Dad is definitely worth the effort!

Happy fathers day to my Dad, to my hubby and to all the Dad’s out there!

Wishing I was spending today with my Dad but as a result of our little run in with Covid this past week we have postponed our plans for another week to be on the safe side!

Entering this into the challenge of Masculine/Fathers Day at Moving along with the times blog

Happy crafting!

Catherine

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Biggest Wish, Masks/Stencils, Papermania, Peace & Joy

Christmas in July challenge 1

Catherine

So I have been neglecting making Christmas cards so far this year as I no longer could commit to CHNC and pulled out of the DT, so decided to boost my supplies for this year with a little Christmas in July challenge.

I looked around blogland in advance and couldn’t see any being advertised so I making my own challenge up instead. I’m not doing a daily challenge… just setting myself 12 themes and in some cases will make multiple cards for the theme. I am also aiming to use all existing supplies… no new purchases to do this! After all I have six zillion Christmas supplies!

So here goes… theme 1 … CASE a non- Christmas card to make a Christmas card

OK this one is easy… I am slightly obsessed with a card that Martin from Martin’s Mayhem made … so that was my inspiration. I grabbed VERY old Papermania papers to mainly make up these cards. I then took the card making on a slightly different twist by adding stencilling in the background and twisting the layout…. but I think the inspiration from Martin’s card is still fairly evident.

So super old stash used… and CASE of a non Christmas card achieved.

Check back in a couple of days to see what the next challenge… and if you want to join in feel free and just let me know so I can come and see what you made!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Claritystamps, Decorative Dots, One Sheet Wonder OSW, Papermania, Peace & Joy, Promarkers, Letraset, Ribbons, Sheena Douglass Embossing Folders

One sheet wonder part 4 pointsetta

Catherine

Final installment for my one sheet wonder I’ve been sharing this week… and it was time to grab a flower stamp… the pointsetta from an old Creative Stamping magazine set to create the focal point.

All of them I chose the green 5×7 card base and the white background panel I embossed two of them to give them texture.

I coloured the flower using my promarkers and kept the colouring simple and in blocks as it is quite a graphic image. I also added a layer of wink of Stella over the flower part to give it some shimmer, but it doesn’t show in the photos!

I again raided the ribbon stash for some scraps of ribbon and added enamel dots for the embellishment.

The sentiment I chose the Clarity stamp Merry and the Peace and Joy Christmas to mix it up a bit.

Love how they came out…

Card 12:

Card 13:

Card 14: entering this into the embossing challenge at Dream valley challenges

So that’s all 14 cards shared over the past few days…

I did make one variation to the template

I added a strip from number 5 to number 14 as it wasn’t working with the 4 strips on card 5. Otherwise the template worked well. Especially with the larger 5×7 card blanks. Imagine it would be different again with different size card blanks.

So wonder if anyone else wants to join in and use this template… if so please let me see what you make as I love how different these cards can turn out!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

One Sheet Wonder OSW, Papermania, Peace & Joy, Ribbons, Sheena Douglass Embossing Folders

One sheet wonder part 3… stockings

Catherine

Ok so I may have slightly cheated with this… and one of these cards has been shared already as part of the CHNC challenge of something beginning with S a few weeks ago… but I suppose you know by now I often make ahead of time and write up blogs later!

Anyways back to this blog… this is a continuation of the one sheet wonder I started sharing with you at the beginning of the week where I made 14 cards. Here are three of them in detail.

These ones I chose the green 5×7 cardblanks and added green in my stamping along with basic grey to go with the red and white patterned paper.

I chose stocking stamps from an old Creative Stamping magazine set and fussy cut each out and created a little hanger from twine for each of them.

Then on each card I layered up the dsp panels with a sentiment, the stockings, some ribbon and some rhinestones for bling.

Card 9:

Card 10:

Card 11:

I love the two where I sort of created a mantle piece for the stockings to “hang” from. Also love the embossing on card 10. Nice and snowy!

One more set of cards to share tomorrow so please remember to pop back and see them!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

One Sheet Wonder OSW, Papermania, Promarkers, Letraset, Ribbons

One sheet wonder part 2… cute animals

Catherine

Following on from yesterday’s one sheet wonder explanation I have four more cards to share… the ones using old Making Cards magazine images which I coloured using promarkers.

I love these images and have the stamp set, but they are a lot smaller images than these printed ones. Decided as the card blanks were 5×7 they could cope with the larger focal images so went with the printed ones.

As with yesterday’s I added embossed panels, sewing, sequin stars or enamel dots and the Tim Holtz sentiments. I also added some really pretty trim I found in the stash that I think worked perfectly with the papers and images.

Card 5: entering this into the Christmas animals theme at Christmas 24 challenge

Card 6:

Card 7: entering this in the My time to craft embossing challenge.

Card 8: entering this into the Christmas animals challenge at Christmas craft creations blog

Aren’t those animals wearing jumpers the cutest?

Will be back again tomorrow with some more made for the same OSW project.

Happy crafting!

Catherine

One Sheet Wonder OSW, Papermania, Ribbons

One sheet wonder… 14 cards

Catherine

Hi

I challenged a few of my friends to do a one sheet wonder using up old stash as we are all guilty of hoarding paper. I gave them a template to use if they wished… here it is…

and this is what I made… I chose old Papermania paper (I have a lot of this set of papers left but this stitched design I thought would work well as a one sheet wonder).

Here are close ups of the first four … I’ll share the others over the next few days…

I decided to use some Making Cards Magazine images to create card toppers and chose some scraps of ribbon from the stash to add some different texture.

I also added panels in the background which I either embossed or added some sewing to … again to add texture. I finished off by embellishing them with either sequin stars or the enamel dots I got from the SU Christmas catalogue and some Tim Holtz sentiment chips.

Card 1: entering this into the anything Christmas challenge at CRIMBO CRACKERS

Card 2:

Card 3:

Card 4:

Love how these look. Super cute and fresh and bright. Was nice to play with all the reds.

Will share the next four tomorrow… please come visit again to see them!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Design Team, Papermania, Peace & Joy, Ribbons, Sheena Douglass Embossing Folders

DT: CHNC: something beginning with S

Catherine

Stockings begin with an S don’t they? In which case that’s my contribution for this week’s CHNC.

I chose to make this bright and traditionally coloured but slightly Nordic in design card using some old Papermania Paper, an embossed panel, some stamped images from an old Creative Stamping magazine set and sentiment from Peace and Joy stampin up set (this is by far my favourite one from the mini catalogue … even beating the Merry Moose set at the moment …. all because of those lovely panel sentiments!).

Hope you like it!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Design Team, Papermania

DT: CHNC: bear

Catherine

Anorher week, amother christmas card for the Craftyhazelnuts Christmas challenge. Of course when the challenge was to feature a bear I had to use a polar bear… and what could be cuter than a bear in a jumper?

I chose jumper pattern type paper and kept the image simple and a sticker sentiment.

A cute skiing jumper wearing bear! And that’s my contribution for this week’s CHNC blog.

Happy crafting!

Catherine

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Artful ATCs – book characters

Catherine

This month the theme for the Artful ATCs group is Book Characters and I knew immediately I wanted to join in and use my Roald Dahl stash as I rarely use this.

I started by using some of the patterned paper to cover the whole of the ATC I had cut from mountboard and added a strip of the ribbon from the stash too.

Then I added the stamped Enormous Crocodile and elephant image which I coloured with watercolour pencils. And of course the title of the book.

For the Fantastic Mr Fox I decided to stamp the image all over the background and then chose a printed element as the focal feature which I offset from the centre.

I then added the title onto the black card with embossing powder.

Really love how these came out and it reminded me how much I love these stories and the art work.

Happy crafting!

Catherine