Once again I have a design team project featuring the fabulous acetate and vellum kit from Kingston Crafts.
For this one I took one of the striped panels I made from scraps that went with the colours of the stars and used that for the base panel.
I really like the stripes with those solid and checked pattern stars.
I also love how the acetate shines when the light hits it!
I kept the card quite simple because the stripy panel and those stars do a lot of the work! I added two panels of the coordinating cardstock underneath and then a die cut word to the top with a cute foiled sentiment!
I did end up adding some glitter to the die cut sentiment just to add some sparkle.
Once again I will admit I made this some time ago – and it even has been on tv back in September!
Today’s challenge at Creative Knockouts is to make something with the theme of Outside Fun and I thought these elves certainly look like they are having fun in the snow! The image is a digital stamp from Dr Digi who are sponsoring this challenge.
I did my usual trick of printing multiple of the same image onto one piece of card and then colouring them all in – so in addition to these two, I’ve got another two images coloured ready for a future point where I want to sit down and craft and just grab the ready coloured images!
I kept these super simple …
Coloured with alcohol markers
Trimmed the images down
Found scraps of cardstock big enough to mount the images
Found two pieces of cardstock already foiled with the fab pine plate and trimmed them to fit the card blanks
Grabbed acetate sentiment banners from the stash
Mounted them onto white cardstock (they were a little too see through and the image was distracting from the sentiment)
Glued down panels and adhered sentiment with foam adhesive
Added card Candi to embellish and bring out a bit more red
And that was two cards done! I actually did these in my lunch break – that’s how simple they were!
Ok if you had to foil the backgrounds as part of the make that would have taken longer but these were made when I first got the plate and was obsessed with trying it out so I had these panels already done!
So cute! And love these quite clean cards – a bit of a different approach to my normal crafting – but when the image is fun it is good to have that be the dominant element on the card!
So I decided to keep the cards simple for this months Make it Masculine as I hadn’t much time and to be honest I have had little crafting time recently so I’m a little out of practice!
I hadn’t really got a theme but I think geometric sums up what I created!
I stamped using the stamp wheel the backgrounds with the word stamps and then added the balloons and sentiments with doodles as focal points.
I kept to aqua/blue/green colours but changed them up a little with both positioning and the colours.
Really happy with them and although the doodles were a surprise when I added the first strings I really like how they ended working!
So some simple stamped cards – definitely suitable for both male and female recipients – so these are my Make it Masculine cards for this month! 9 months completed! 👍
I decided I wanted to put a few of the papers from the Christmas pad together to create a card – and so I am sharing this sample I made as my Festive Friday for this week!
I created the four 2.5” inch squares and then lightly inked each of them with navy ink at the edges.
I then glued them onto the dark red solid I had from the pad – I trimmed it down so it was just the small border. I decided to use a ready made card blank for ease so stuck that down.
I chose the two presents from the acetate kit and the deer. I decided to mount the acetate sentiment onto some white cardstock and cut it out – this helped strengthen this element and give it a little dimension.
The presents I adhered directly to the background and then the deer to the banner.
I found some glossy enamel dots that coordinated with the colours in the papers and added these.
Confession … This card was made so long ago … it actually was also one of those “as seen on tv” projects too! Here it was on Hobbymaker on the 7th September!
I decided to use a big floral stamp image for this card and then make a really fun background from the pastel cardstock.
This time I chose peach tones of cardstock for the card.
I ripped the strips of the cardstock to make the background which exposed the core and then stuck them together. I then embossed it with the wood grain effect embossing folder.
Then I used a bit of ink to blend the edge and give it a frame.
I stuck this into place on the card base I made which is 6×6 using the palest of the peach tones cardstock.
Then onto the palest cardstock I stamped and embossed the Altenew Eclectic Bouquet image and used the stencils that come in the set to colour the image.
I then decided to add some of the coral colour ink in a splatter to the background too although it is quite subtle on the photos.
To ground the floral element and the sentiment I created I added the sand colour strip – again I lightly inked it to blend in with the others and tore it at one edge.
I love the torn edges with this white core cardstock. So pretty!
I stacked the sentiment up with about three layers of the cardstock to make it chunky and help it stand out and also inked the edge to make sure it felt in keeping with the rest of the card.
This is such a lovely colour scheme – really like working with peach colours and this cardstock has two of the creamiest peach/coral colours. Gorgeous!
Another DT project to share for you that I made for the September show on Hobbymaker.tv for today’s Scrappin Saturday – I can’t believe I hadn’t shared this until now!
This one was using the fab Summer Fun kit and my main thought was to use a few of those fab borders that are in the kit – there are loads in this particular kit!
I started with the picture as always – a pic of hubby and teenager watching the waves eating ice creams (you can’t see that but I know it was happening!) from our holidays in Menorca in October 2023.
The blues in the photo mean I immediately gravitated to that for the base and I had known I wanted to use the borders so grabbed three of those that were relevant for the photo.
I decided I wanted to capture the splashes and also bring some white onto the page so used a mixture of gesso and Kraft ink on the page with blending foams and splashes. Was quite a messy but fun process to get this down!
I then added the three borders across the page towards the bottom.
Next I worked on the photo and added some mats underneath to create some interest and separate it from the patterned borders.
Once that was all layered together I added it using foam adhesive to raise it up. It helped again to give it some dimension.
I added some scraps to the top right to add interest there and then went through the die cut ephemera pieces in the kit to add the title and the interesting extra bits like the camera and the geotag.
I added my journalling and some extra bits of white using a white paint pen to add doodles round the blue patterned paper which helped lift it from the background panel too.
Decided against adding twine (although I was tempted) or the adhesive enamel dots as the mixed media in the background felt enough!
Loved this day out in Menorca and loved reliving the day through scrapping it – I think this is one of the joys of scrapping is the memories it evokes when making the page and then looking back at it!
Hello! Three days on the run of Christmas projects – feels like July again! Especially as I went back into the box of half made stash and found the #kcc19 envelopes I had cut and organised during my Christmas in July and decided to make a couple more of them up.
I decided to pull out the Woodward deer stamps and colour them in, fussy cut them out and use them for my focal points – I love that there are two different sizes.
Sketch 13 suggested circles in a horizontal stripe but I turned it into a diagonal stripe instead.
I also decided against the mat and background layers of plain cardstock and went for an abnormal amount of white space for me! Just not like me to leave so much plain!
I added the waxed thread under the sentiment banner and then added some of the dotty card candi.
Really love how this looks.
Next up is sketch 15 and again I did change it up a little!
There should have been a horizontal stripe with the sentiment on but instead I added three of the deer and then the two Tim Holtz sentiment stickers.
Embossing the back panel of the card topper meant I got some nice texture in the card front as well as those lovely deer.
Inside both cards I added a spare deer to finish off … I also added a small off cut leftover of one of the papers to one rather than throw it away!
Another lovely pair of cards made for the Christmas stash!
So to keep our focus on Christmas crafting all year round our Christmas in July Facebook group decided to have a monthly prompt and this months was Trimming the Tree.
And my response to this prompt was to go full on shine and texture and well a bit mad really!
Here is my card…
I used the background die elements from a Spellbinders stitching die set as I thought baubles should feature heavily – but wasn’t in the mood for stitching – so instead a foiled background used for the die cut and then I used red for the baubles.
For the main element in the middle came a tree / but this time one of those die cut trees I had in the box and I went to town on inking it with different green colours and then cut a shiny black pot for the base.
I used gold for the tops of the baubles and then some red gems to finish off the tree.
There is so much shine on this and the dimension from the tree which I popped up on foam. I then added the die cut sentiment – I thought Deck the Halls was the right one for this prompt!
Now the final question is do I like this card? Well not 100% – I wish (hindsight is a wonderful thing) I had inked up the foiled background die elements to tone down the colour as the green is too bright I think – I also think that a different red for the baubles would have been better – although I did ink them so they are better than they started.
But I don’t dislike the card – I think it is fun and certainly eye catching and I love the inky tree and will never not love the foiling!
So a little bit mad as cards go – but sometimes that is what happens!
If you want to join our Facebook group please do … hopefully the inspiration from all the makes in there will help you with your festive creations too!
Hello! Back with more Christmas cards using up the #kcc19 I did the cutting up and organising for way back in my Christmas in July series – and this time they are my Design team contribution for Addicted to Stamps and More where our theme is Christmas!
I chose to stamp and colour and fussy cut a lot of stockings using an old magazine kit and they became the focal features on both the cards I made.
I chose to use sketch 9 which has this fun pinwheel type effect using squares of patterned paper interspersed with the solid red cardstock.
As the panel behind I chose plain white I decided to emboss it … and then also chose to emboss the card blank behind it too.
So lots of snowfall textured white!
The second one I used sketch 10 which had two panels of the patterned paper with the rest using plain colours. I decided to add the Tim Holtz stickers and then doodles with a white gel pen.
I again chose to emboss the card blank.
For both cards I added a foiled sentiment that was die cut and some fun shimmery gems from the stash.
Inside both cards I added more of the stockings as I had some leftover. Just a simple addition but it both uses up the stash I had and helps decorate the insides of the cards.
Loved making these funky cards and love using Kendras sketches to do something a bit different.
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