Embedded snowflake Card

This card is a variation of a card I did in 2016, and I still get comments about it.  This is one that has a clean look and quite elegant.

I started by making a standard card base and then cut a front panel a little smaller.  I then used a large snowflake die and cut that out on the bottom right hand side of the card panel, and a small one at the top left hand corner, making sure I kept all the little bits when I took the diecut out of the die and saving the white diecut snowflakes for another card.  I used some wax paper in between the card and the die, to make this a little easier, as I had real problems getting it out of the die the last card. 

I then cut a second version of the two snowflakes, this time out of mirror gold card. I also went ahead and stamped my sentiment onto the front panel in between the two snowflakes but towards the top.

I then put some ‘stick-it’ paper onto the back of the card panel behind the cut out snowflakes.  Then from the front, it was just a matter of putting the gold snowflakes into the cut out part of the same snowflake on the panel, and then putting the tiny bits from in between of the white back into place, so that it ends up all one layer. This isn’t too fidldely, if you want to make sure it is all nice and flat you can use a bone folder to rub over it to make sure it is all sticking to the sticky paper backing. 

Lastly some craft foam on the back of the front panel and that stuck down onto the card base to make the card up.  I finished it off with some flat back white pearls in 3 different sizes dotted across the blank areas and that is the card finished. 

Here is the video on me making the card.  If you prefer to watch it on my YouTube channel on full HD, then go here.

The materials I have used to make the card are:

White card base 5” x 7” or 12.7cm x 17.5cm

White Card panel

Snow flake dies

Kaisercraft stamp set (sentiment)

Gold mirror card

Versafine onyx black ink

Ranger clear embossing powder

Embossing buddy

Misti

Double sided tape

Stick-it paper

Jewel picker

Craft foam

Nuvo glue pen

Bone folder

Flat back white pearls in different sizes

Christmas Wreath Card

This card is a more traditional Christmas card with a Christmas wreath. I have seen lots of different wreath cards online, but this one is pretty much using the Impression obsession Christmas Wreath die very normally. 

I have made a card base the size of an A4 card folded in half and then trimmed the other way to make a square card.  I then cut out a gold paper stitched square and a white stitched square to be layered on top of the card base. 

I cut out two of the main wreath die in brown card, which I will layer on top of each other to give a more full look to the wreath, and that is when I decided if I got a circle die slightly bigger than the wreath opening, and cut that in the top white layer, then I could recess the sentiment slightly, to make a bit of a feature of the sentiment.  So that is what I did.  I could then stamp the sentiment on to a scrap piece of card and trim it down to fit behind the circle aperture I have cut out.  Then I could stick the gold layer down onto the card base, then the sentiment where it needed to go to see it through the aperture, then the white layer was stuck onto some craft foam, then stuck down onto the gold layer.  That was the card base done, and now I could get onto the wreath part.

I stuck down the two brown wreaths, cut out a bunch of the two different leaves, one holly and one a pine sprig, in two different greens.  I then started gluing them onto the brown wreath alternating the two types on the bottom half of the wreath, Making sure I overlapped them to give a more full look.

Finally I topped it with a red satin and organza bow, slightly off centre, and then decorated the holly leaves with a few red berries made with some liquid pearls.

Here is the video of me making the card. If you prefer to watch it on full HD, then pop over to my You tube channel here

The materials I have used to make the card are:

Card base 5 3/4 “ square, or 14.5cm

Stitched square dies in 5 9/16” or 14cm & 5 1/8” or 13cm

Circle die

Gold paper

Impression Obsession Wreath die

Vintage Christmas stamp set for sentiment

Brown card, two tones of green card

Craft foam

Double sided tape

Ranger Gold embossing powder

Versamark ink

Red ribbon bow

Glue dot

Liquid pearls – Rouge

Scrap of sticker paper backing

Nuvo glue

Jewel picker

Heat tool

Acrylic block

Poinsettia Corner die Card - 2 cards

This time I am making two cards with 2 die cuts but mixing up the positive and negative parts to make them look different.

I start by getting two card bases and cutting out 2 card panels with a stitched square die, one white and one black.

I then cut out two of the die cuts, one in gold foil card and one in silver foil card. Saving all the poinsettia petals as well.

Next I stamp a sentiment on each card panel towards the top right hand corner, using silver embossing powder for the black one and gold embossing powder for the white one.  

I then glue the die cut outlines down onto the card panels, the silver one on the black panel and the gold onto the white panel.   

I now can start to glue all the poinsettia petals into the negative spaces on each panel, but putting the gold into the silver outline and the silver into the gold outline.  

Once this is done, all I need to do is mount some craft foam onto the back of each of the panels and then they can be stuck down onto the card bases.  

And that's the card finished.

Here is the video on making the card, if you would prefer to watch it in full HD then hop over to my You Tube channel here. 

The materials I used to make this card are:

White card base 5 11/16" by 5 11/16" or 14.7 cm x 14.7cm

A white panel 5 1/4" x 5 1/4" or 13.2 cm x 13.2 cm

Memory Box Plush Poinsettia corner
Kaisercraft Yuletide stzmp
Stitched square die (any brand) 

Silver and Gold mirror card
Versamark ink
Ranger gold and silver embossing powder
Heat gun
Embossing buddy

Craft foam

double-sided tape

Cosmic shimmer glue

applicator bottle

Sizzix Big Shot

I hope you are enjoying making your Christmas cards, and this might have inspired you to do something like this.

Christmas series 2018 Christmas Shaker Card

The first card for my Christmas Card series for 2018 has a clean and simple look.

I have used an Impression obsession christmas die called Christmas Circle Cutouts die, it comes with 6 different cutouts which I thought would be great for making christmas tags, but for this card I will use just 3

I have a white card base and a red and white card panel.  I will do the die cutting on the white panel, so towards the lower half of the card, evenly spaced, I cut out the 3 circle dies.  

Before I put some acetate on the back of this panel, I will cut our the craft foam that will be sandwiched between the red and white panels, and will make the room for my shaker beads.  I drew around the circle cutouts onto the craft foam so that I can see where they will be, so that I can then cut out some circles slightly bigger than the cutouts. I will put a square of holographic foil paper behind each of the circles in the foam tape and then that can get mounted on the red panel, which I have mounted onto my card base.  

Lastly I can fill each of the circles in the craft foam with the same coloured seed beads that the foil is, and then the front panel can be stuck down.  

For the sentiment I have cut out 2 die cuts out of red card and one cut out of red foil card of a Merry Christmas die, glue them together on top of each other with the foil ones at the top and that will be glued onto the card panel above the shaker portion.  

That is the card finished, quite a quick one to do and nice and clean looking. 

Here is the video of making the card, If you would prefer to see it in full HD, then pop over to my You Tube channel here.

The materials I used to make this card are:

White card base 5" x 7" or 12.6 cm x 17.6 cm

A red card panel  4 3/4" x 6 5/8" or 12 cm x 16.7 cm

A white panel 4 5/8" x 6 3/8" or 11.6 cm x 16.3 cm

Impression obsession Christmas Cutout die 

Poppystamps Folk Merry Christmas Die

Cottage Cutz stitched circle dies (any circle die will do)

Craft foam

double-sided tape

red, green and silver holographic foil

red, green and silver seed beeds

Cosmic shimmer glue

applicator bottle

Acetate strip

Sizzix Big Shot