Glitter Snowflake Card

I also couldn't do a Christmas card series without a snowflake card.  I love snowflake cards, there is something very beautiful about the shapes, symmetry and the variety.  

This card I have done with non-traditional colours, really it would look good with any colours, you could do it in pink, soft blue, electric blue, it would look stunning in red and white, lots of possibilities. 

I have used a range of snowflake dies, there are lots out there, and arranged four of them onto a card panel that is slightly smaller than the purple glitter card piece I have to go behind it, which in turn is just slightly smaller than the card base.  

I ran the dies through my Ebosser, but I made sure I left all the dies and pieces still in the dies.  I flipped it over and put glue on all the internal pieces and the circumference of the dies and card and then flipped it back over and stuck it down on to the glitter card, making sure it was centred.  

Then came the tricky part,  I used my pockey tool to push through the holes of the die, to stick the little internal bits onto the glitter card, so that I just pulled off the snowflake die cut leaving all the negative pieces.  If they came away, I stuck them down using the snowflake die to align it where I could.  This was a bit fidly especially with the large die, as it is very intricate, but I managed to do it, and I think it looks beautiful!

The next thing I did was cut out a few more of the dies and then glued the die cuts onto and around the negative snowflakes to fill in the areas.  

Finally a purple satin bow and a sentiment and then gluing the panel onto the card base and the card is finished.  

If you would like to see the video of making this card it is here

The materials I have used for this card are

Range of snowflake dies in different brands

Card base White linen card 5 x 7"

Purple glitter card slightly smaller than this

White linen card panel 4 5/8 x 6 5/8"

Spare card for the snowflake die cuts

SSS Warm Wishes stamp set

Versafine Onyx black ink

Ranger clear embossing powder

Heat tool

Misti stamping tool

Cosmic Shimmer glue

Quilled precision glue bottle

Washi tape

Ebosser

2cm or 3/4 inch purple satin ribbon

Pockie or Deet tool

Quick stick tool

Rubber, pencil and scissors

EK success tweezers

Double sided tape

I hope you enjoyed this card and video,

I wish you all a very merry Christmas and a wonderful holiday season

I will be back with more posts and videos early next year.

Christmas Scene Bauble Card

I couldn't do a series of Christmas cards without doing a shaker card.  This one I have tried to create a winter tree scene for inside the bauble and to have snow for the shaker material.

  

I started doing my shaker background with a piece of Tim Holtz water colour card, and masked off an area for a snow bank at the bottom, and the moon/sun and then blended a background using tumbled glass, salty ocean and blueprint sketch distress inks.  Then removed the snow bank mask at the bottom and lightly with the tumbled glass blended in another slightly different shaped snow bank below the first one.  

Then I replaced the top snowbank mask and stamped two trees using an old wooden tree stamp I had, and then removed that snowbank mask, and replaced the second one and stamped two more trees, so they looked like they were more in the foreground.  

Finally I put some snow using a Simon says stamp stencil called falling snow and some texture paste mixed with some iridescent glitter.

To make the actual card, I cut out a circle with a circle die out of the front of my card panel and also with a slightly bigger circle die, I cut a circle into a piece of craft foam.  I stuck down a piece of acetate over the back of the cut circle on my card panel, and then stuck down the craft foam onto that.  I made sure I went thoroughly around the aperture with double side tape on both sides of the craft foam, as I didn't want any of my chunky glitter to fall out.  I had forgotten to put my sentiment onto the card front, so with my misti I stamped the sentiment.

Finally I put the background onto my card base, filled the card panel up with some chunky white glitter that looked like snow and adhered them together.  

Finally I used the very top 'hanger' part of a Christmas ornament die I had to make a hanger for this bauble. and that was the card finished.

If you would like to see the video of making this card it is here

The materials I have used for this card are

Spellbinder Circle die in two sizes

Card base and panel is White linen card 5 x 7"

Small piece of silver foil paper

Paper Artist 3 Lacy ornaments dies

SSS Warm Wishes stamp set

Versafine Onyx black ink

Ranger clear embossing powder

Tim Holtz water colour card

post-it notes for masking

Distress inks tumbled glass, salty ocean & blueprint sketch

Ranger mini blending tool and sponges

Misti stamping tool

Craft Foam 

Acetate

Ranger Non stick mat

Stampfantastic wooden tree stamp

SSS falling snow stencil

Ranger texture paste

Iridescent glitter

White chunky glitter for snow

spatula

I hope you will have a go at making something similar to this card, it was really quite easy, and everyone loves a shaker card at Christmas.  

Happy card making 

Warm Christmas Wishes

This card is for all the people who live in countries where you have a warm Christmas instead of a winter Christmas.We usually have between 25C - 30C, but today was already 28C, so it may be even warmer than that this year.  

This card is using the Warm Christmas Wishes stamp set by Simon says stamp, and has a very cute santa in board shorts and sunglasses!

I stamped the stamps I wanted to use with momento tuxedo black ink and coloured them with a selection of Copics if I had them, or the Reno art alcohol markers I have.  See below for the full list of colours for each image. I then fussy cut them out right to the stamped edge, went around the edge with a black pen.  

To make the background I made a cloud stencil with a post-it and then inked the clouds onto a piece of card with tumbled glass distress ink and a mini blending tool.  I also cut out two curvy shapes that could be sand at the bottom of my scene and inked them with antique linen and a touch of mustard seed.

To do the frame I cut a stitched rectangle into the centre of a card panel the same size as the card base, and then used the inside edge of the same die to cut a rectangle out of the red card, so that it was an even amount on the inside of the frame.  

Then it was a matter of mounting the background to the card base, then the sand on top of that, then the frame over that.  Finally I mounted the scene how I wanted it and think it turned out very cute!

Here is a video to show how it was made

The materials I used are

SSS Warm Wishes stamp set

Momento tuxedo black ink

White card base and front panel 5 x 7"

Card for background, stamping and sand

Distress inks tumbled glass, antique linen & mustard seed

Ranger mini blending tool and sponges

Acrylic block

SSS stitched rectangle dies

craft knife

Emboss black pen

Foam tape

Cosmic simmer glue

Quilled pecision glue bottle

Wink of stella pen

Glossy accents

Cutter bee scissors

Copic and Reno art alcohol makers

Surf board: Copics R22, R35, R49, B00 & B02

Reno art 237, 270, 271 & 273

Beach ball: Copics R22, R35, R49, YG17,

Reno art 158, 224, 225, 24, 240, 242, 192 & 193

Santa: Copics R22, R35, B00, B02, YG17,  E00, E02, E11 & RV 02

RA 259, 260, 225, 192

Drinks Table: Copics E11, E35, YG17, R22, R35, B00, B02

RA 24, 27, 192 & 193

Palm tree: Copics E11, E35, YG17 & R49

RA 24, 248, 192, 225, 242 & 158

I hope you enjoyed this card and video, and I managed to inspire you for something for your Christmas cards this year.  

Happy card making 

 

Christmas Music Book card

This card is part of my Christmas 2016 series by request.  When I first said I was going to do some card videos, I got asked by some friends if I could do a card using this open book die and show how I did the music on it.

I traced around the centre part of the book die with a pencil onto scrap paper, and then cut just inside the lines to make myself a template for cutting out the music.

The faboulous site that I downloaded the music for the book was http://www.remodelaholic.com/25-free-printable-vintage-christmas-sheet-music/, she has them to download for free.

I made a copy of the two jpgs of the sheet music I wanted to use, and put them 

on a document, then shrunk them down in size until they would fit into the centre part of the book die.  I also made sure I made a text box behind the two sheet music jpgs, so that it there were areas beyond the music that needed to fill in space on the die it would look like it was part of the open page.  

Here is a video showing how I made the card

The materials I used for this card are

The supplies I used are:

Creative Expressions Sue Wilson Filigree poinsettia additions stamp set

Creative Expressions Sue Wilson Poinsettiea additions die set

Marianne Designs Open Book Die

Marianne Designs Holly Branch die

Some Christmas music sheet jpgs from http://www.remodelaholic.com/25-free-printable-vintage-christmas-sheet-music/

Pinflair Buff-it Gold

3mm red ribbon

Cheery Lynn Poinsettia die strip

red paper

Gold micro beads

Ranger Gold embossing powder

Versamark watermark ink

Vellum

3mm red flatback pearls

Heat gun

double sided tape

Green card base

White card

Gold foil card

Crafts too Fancy frame embossing folder

Cosmic Shimmer glue

Quilled precision glue bottle

Emboss resist background with vellum poinsettias card

This card is using the Emboss resist technique once again, I am going to stamp poinsettias and mistletoe stamps on half of a front card panel with White embossing powder and also some of the largest poinsettia flowers onto vellum.  I cut these out with the matching full petal die. I then blended red distress ink over the stamped panel, going from dark at the outside edge and then lightening the blending towards the middle of the card panel.  

Once I have the blending finished I can trim the panel to fit my card base.  I then stamped the sentiment towards the bottom and to the right of the card, leaving enough space for the vellum poinsettias. 

I had intended to just use the single petals of the poinsettia, but they were a bit lost on the background, so I went with using two layers of the vellum petals, and liked that much better.  I finished off by putting a trio of white flatback pearls into each of the centres to finish the card off.  

Here is a video on how I made the card

The supplies I have used for this card are

Creative Expressions Sue Wilson Filigree Poinsettia additions stamp set

Creative Expressions Sue Wilson  Poinsettia additions die set (kindly provided by http://www.fatcatscardcorner.com.au/store)

Joy crafts Banner Sentiment stamp set

Kaisercraft Mistletoe stamp set

Versamark watermark ink

Ranger white embossing powder

Card base 5" x 7"

Ranger Water colour card front panel

Vellum

double sided tape

Heat tool

Candied Apple Distress ink

Ranger mini blending tool

Ebosser

White 5mm flat back pearls

Cosmic Shimmer Glue

Quilled precision glue bottle

This card can be done with other Christmas stamps instead of the poinsettias, and is not necessarily a Christmas card only, you could use other flower stamps and make any other kind of card.  I hope it has given you some inspiration.

Happy card making

Silver and white poinsettia Christmas card

Another card for my Christmas 2016 series.

This one is an elegant poinsettia card using just silver and white.  I love these simpler colour schemes for Christmas. This card I did for Fat Cats Card Corner back in August, they kindly provided the Sue Wilson Poinsettia additions die set, but I thought it would be a good card to have as part of my Christmas series.

The card front and top panel were both cut out with the stitched frames from the Sue Wilson Lattice frame die set, using the largest and the 3rd size in the set.  

I used the Kaisercraft 'Yuletide' stamp set for the sentiment done in Silver embossing powder.  The top panel was then put onto the card base with fun foam.  

The poinsettias were made with the Sue Wilson Poinsettia Additions die set which has solid dies and outline dies.  So I cut out 1 large and 2 small of the full petal dies with silver glitter card, and then 1 large and 2 small of the outlines dies in each silver mirror card and white card.  I shaped the petals slightly and then glued the mirror die cut onto the silver glitter die and then finally the white on top and finished it off with a silver dazzler gem for each of the flowers.  

The pine bough is an Impression Obsession die and I cut 5 out of them, and then trimmed them down a little.  

Here is a video showing how I made the card

The materials I used for this card are

The supplies I used are:

Creative Expressions Sue Wilson Lattice Frame die set

Card base cut to the same size as the larges of the frames from the frame set

Creative Expressions Sue Wilson Poinsettiea additions die set

Impression obsession Pine bough die

Kaisercraft Yuletide stamp set

Ranger Silver embossing powder

Versamark watermark ink

Heat gun

Fun foam

Ebosser

double sided tape

Silver glitter card

Silver mirror card

White card

Silver dazzler gems 

Cosmic Shimmer glue

Quilled precision glue bottle

I hope this inspired you to look at your poinsettia dies a little differently and maybe to use different types of card together with beautiful results. 

Rudolf and Santa's list Christmas Card

This is the first card in my Christmas 2016 series and I have kept this one fairly simple

The stamp is from Wild Rose studio and is just called Santa and Rudolf.  I have stamped it, in alcohol marker friendly ink, and then coloured it with the copics I have and some of the Reno Art markers to fill in the gaps of my very small copic collection.  

The sentiment is from a Kaisercraft stamp set called 'Mistletoe' 

Once all the stamping and colouring was done I used the Simon Says Stamp 'falling snow' stencil and with some Ranger texture paste made a snowy background but masked the santa and rudolf off, as I didn't want snow on them.  While the texture paste was still wet, I sprinkled it with some polysparkle embossing powder, and then set it aside to dry completely before heating the embossing powder with my heat tool.

This was then trimmed down and mounted with fun foam onto a card base.

I have a  video on how I made the card.

The supplies I used are:

Rudolf and Santa stamp by Wild Rose Studio

Momento tuxedo black ink

Misti

Kaisercraft Mistletoe stamp set

Ranger texture paste

Simon Says stamps Falling snow stencil

Ranger polysparkle embossing powder

Heat gun

5 x 7 card base

double sided tape

Alcohol markers: Browns Renoart 246, Copics E11, E35, E37, E55

Reds Copics R22, R35, R46 & Renoart 159

Green Renoart 13 & 27

Greys Renoart 259, 260, 261, 270, 271, 272

Blues Copics B00, B02

Purples Renoart 192, 195

Yellow Renoart 225

Skin Copics E00, E02, E11

White jelly roll pen

I hope this card inspired you to get started on your Christmas cards, its always a great excuse to make some cute cards. 

Emboss resist blended Persian Motif Card

There's something almost magical about the emboss resist technique, the way the design appears when you do ink blending over it. It reminds me of the magic paint books I got as a child, where you painted on water, and then a picture magically appeared. 

This card I have used the Altenew Persian Motif stamp set to stamp an all over design in two triangular patterns on the top and bottom of the card, leaving a strip in the middle where I am to put the sentiment. 

I stamped two of the flowers from the stamp set with versamark ink and then embossed it with white embossing powder.

The ink blending I used Distress inks in pretty jewel colours and then stamped a sentiment which would go with my die cut 'thanks' sentiment. I trimmed the panel down, so it would leave a little strip on the left hand side, to do a strip of black and white washi tape. 

I have made a video on how I made the card, although it is a very simple card, depending on what colours you use, the effects are really lovely.

The materials I used to make the card

Card base 5 x 7 inches

Panel also same size

Washi tape

Altenew Persian Motif stamp set

Versamark watermark ink

Ranger white embossing powder

EK success powder tool

Heat tool

Ranger mini blending tool

Distress inks wilted violet, picked raspberry, salty ocean & blueprint sketch

Poppystamps Fancy thanks die

paper xtra sentiment stamp

double sided tape

Misti

Versafine onyx black ink

Clear embossing powder

Yet another way to use any stamps you might have in a different way.
I hope I have given you some inspiration, happy card making

Graciellie Designs Fall Fest Blog Hop and giveaways

I have made another card for Graciellie Designs as a guest designer.  This time it is for their Fall Fest Blog Hop.  This month they have got a 3 day extravaganza with giveaways, sales and inspiration!  Each day you have a chance to win a lovely digital stamp sets of your choice from the Graciellie Design's shop by following their blog hops.  All of the designers have prepared some beautiful projects for your crafty inspiration so we invite you to join in the fun!

Welcome to day 2 of the fall fest blog hop, if you missed day 1, make sure to visit Graciellie Designs blog from the start here, and all the other hops along the way, leave a comment on each of the hops and be into win a digital stamp set of your choice. 

Graciellie Design

Barbara

Autumn

Gloria

The digital stamp I am using is

This is the card I have made.

I reduced the size of the digital image on the computer to fit the Spellbinder labels 4 die I wanted to use, and printed it out onto water colour paper.

I used my Stabilo 68 water colour pens to paint the image and then attached it with foam tape to my die cut background which I had mounted onto mauve glitter paper. 

The sentiment I cut out with a fancy tag die and finished the card off with a bow I had hand dyed the ribbon for and some flat back pearls. 

Continue with the hop and remember to leave a comment to be in the draw.

The next hop is Karen at Kaleidoscopic Sparkles and visit Graciellie Design on Facebook to have an extra entry by liking, sharing and leaving a comment on today's post.

Please come back tomorrow starting at Graciellie designs where you will get the next hop participants. Please visit the Graciellie Digital shop to see the sales that are going on during Fall Fest.

Winners will be announced on Graciellie Design's Facebook page on October 29th. 

Small flower from Beautiful Day stamp set Thank you card

This card turned out to be a wee cutie, I wanted to 'hero' one of the smaller stamps in the Altenew Beautiful day stamp set, and so I made this card.

I stamped the Thank you sentiment first onto a scrap of water colour paper, and then stamped the little sprig of flowers from the stamp set, all around it with versafine onyx black ink and embossed it with clear embossing powder.

I then set to and coloured the flowers and leaves with my Stabilo 68 water colour pens.

I cut a frame with the Memory box stitched square dies and raised it up with some fun foam.  A sprinkling of sequins and it was done.

A really quick card, and a great one if you like sitting down and colouring.  

A video on how I made the card

The materials I used were

Altenew Beautiful day stamp set

Ranger water colour paper

No 4 paint brush

Versafine Onyx black ink

Ranger clear embossing powder

Heat tool

Stabilo 68 watercolour markers

Joy crafts Banner sentiment stamp set

Fun foam

White linen card

double sided tape

Sequins

 Another way to use the smaller stamps in your stamp sets that get a bit forgotten.

A quick way to make a very sweet card.

Happy Card making