Aprils 2nd Christmas card

Back as promised with another quick tutorial for using the left over foam from yesterday snowflake card. After you have die cut the snowflake you are left with the waste part, I die cut that again using a plain circle die. In the Sweet Dixie set there is a smaller snowflake, I die cut that from more of the foam and then covered both that and the circle with more of the Wow Fab Foil in teal.

 
 I had this idea of filling in the gap between the two with glitter, so I die cut a circle from some double sided adhesive and attached that to my piece of white card that I had already cut with the Presscut stitched rectangle die. I made sure I put it further down the card so I could draw a line with a fine liner pen to make it look suspended.

I then peeled the sticky off the circle and then placed my circle of foam on top so it sticks to card. My next step was supposed to be to add the small snowflake in the middle before throwing glitter over it....but in my excitement I did glitter first then had to add some pva glue behind the smaller snowflake to stick it to the glittered area. So its a case do as I say not as I do...it would have been easier to stick the snowflake to the sticky double-sided. So pretending that I did it in right order it looks like this

 

Next I repeated the same process of die cutting some Holly leaves from a Sue Wilson die set from last year and then covering them with silver foil.

 

 

These were attached to the top and three more of the pearls I made for yesterday card were added in a cluster and one more in the centre of the snowflake. The sentiment is from Crafters Companion. In theory you could make three of these cards from the waste from yesterday card, that's three off your list.

 

 

 

 

 

Hope you enjoyed this idea, back again tomorrow with non Christmas cards I promise. 

April Christmas Card

 

Good morning, its the 25th so time for my monthly Christmas card. Its a bit of a twofer this month, I made two cards using the Craft Plus Uk product of the month Wow Fab Foils. I am posting one today and one tomorrow as they are quite photo heavy. The card uses Sweet Dixie Snowflakes die, but you can do this technique with any die as long as its not too detailed. I found some Xcut ejection foam in the shop. This is supposed to be used inside dies to help the cardstock fall out after its been cut. If you had the original Quickutz machine and dies, the same system was used for those as well. Its a thin self adhesive foam and can be cut with thin metal dies. So once you have cut it out one side has a removable sticky side. Lay your foil colour side up on top of the sticky die cut and rub all over and gently pull off.

 

 

I used the teal foil, keep the waste foam I have used it for my other card I am posting tomorrow. The sentiment was typed on a computer and then printed off using a LASER printer....not an inkjet. If you don't have one of those just type out a whole A4 sheet of lots of sentiments on your computer, print off on your inkjet and take along with some cardstock to your local printer and they can do it for you. It doesn't cost much, just make sure you leave some spaces in-between so you can trim or die cut out.

 

 

I used the silver foil, again just lay a piece over the sentiment and run it through a foiling machine if you have one or a laminator. I find it helps putting it through with a carrier sheet , if you don't have one copy paper will do. Put it through folded side first so I doesn't get caught inside machine.

 

 

 I used my Presscut stitched rectangles die on white cardstock and matted onto some black card. Arrange three of the snowflakes across the card, I used a fine tip glue applicator to get a little PVA on back of snowflakes. I wanted to add something in the middle of the snowflakes so I made some white pearls using Creative Expressions White PVA glue. Put some drops onto a non stick mat and leave to dry, I usually do it night before and come back to it in morning. Using a pokey tool lift them off and apply to card with a little drop of glue.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hope you like these techniques, back tomorrow with my second Christmas card.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Craftwork Cards Scrumptious part 3

Few more cards from the Scrumptious kit today. First one I die cut a circle in the card base and the patterned paper and attached a piece of vellum in between. the circle was then surrounded by candi on foam pads and a circle sentiment attached in the middle with some flowers. I also die cut a circle the same size as sentiment to go on back to cover glue.

Next card uses one of the rectangular toppers cut in half to extend it to size of card base. Then on top and bottom one of the borders from the patterned papers and two circle dies in the centre with flowers cut out from one of the papers and a sentiment in the middle. The leaves are from Sue Wilson.

Third one is a C6 card, it has a simple rectangle of paper down the side matted onto some mocha card. One of the toppers again and some die cut flowers. Two of the sentiments and the Sue Wilson Itty Bitty Bow again.

 

Last one uses the Vines die from Sue Wilson that I have used a lot in previous classes. Just cut out in white card this time and back with patterned paper. I sandwiched some acetate behind and added the sentiment in the middle and some of the last die cut flowers.

 

 

Hope you have enjoyed seeing all these cards from the kit.

 

 

Wow powder on acetate

My card today uses Pink Fizz Wow embossing powder embossed onto heat resistant acetate from Crafters Companion. The stamp is Rose Wreath from Woodware and it was stamped with embossing ink. Once I had embossed the image I cut it out and added Mark Richards Black pearls in the centres and some small round foam pads behind them to attach to the card. The background is die cut and embossed from the Sue Wilson pierced squares. Sentiment is from Crafters Companion.

Creating a background with Versamark

Todays card is a simple card showing how to use Versamark ink to create a watermark background. The flower stamp is called small flower embellishments is from Stamps by Chloe as is the sentiment/ The little leaves are from a Honeydoo stamp set. The have been stamped on the wonderful Ombre pad from Craftwork cards. I used a strip of the paper down the side and stamped with Versamark to create the background. Some little gems were added in the middle to finish off.

Cards for men

Todays post is from a class making cards for men. The first one uses the technique of applying distress ink to an acrylic block, spraying with water and applying to watercolour card. The stamp is from Woodware and comes in a block of stamps, I cut the block up and used 6 of the 9. Sentiment is from Crafters Companion.

The second card uses another great stamp from Woodware called Time to wine down. I stamped the image onto watercolour card and coloured with distress inks with a water brush.

The last card is a great card for any sports loving men. The stamp is from Dovecraft and I die cut some papers from a Papermania pad using a hexagon Spellbinders die. The number 1 stamp comes with the trophy stamp and the sentiment is again from Crafters Companion. The frame was created with the Sue Wilson stitched square dies.

Shaped card class

A few weeks ago I did a shaped cards class, here are the cards we made.

First one is a box card, can be adapted to any height....just bear in mind what size topper you are going to make. I used Scumptious card from Craftwork cards, the flower die is from Crafts Too.

Second card, is my first go at a bendy card. I used papers from Kaisercraft and one of the X Cut tiny dies...3D butterfly on the front. Sentiment s from Crafters Companion.

Lastly, a sort of stepper card in reverse....don't know what it's being called. I used the Sweet Paris papers and dies from Dovecraft. Sentiment is from Woodware and the border die is from Sue Wilson mini Gemini range and the flowers are from her peony set.

 

 

 

Mothers Day cards

Here are some cards from a recent class, they were designed to be for Mothers Day or a general birthday.

First one uses the Sue Wilson Italian background die that has been coloured with Scarlett Women Cloud ink. The sign die is from Spellbinders and the little flowers are Sue Wilson Petite Peony dies.

The next card uses a dress stamp from Stamps by Chloe, papers from Craftwork Cards Scrumptious paper pack. Mothers Day sentiment is from Woodware and the background die has been attached to double sided adhesive and covered with glitter.

Last card  uses flower stamps from Stamps by Chloe that's have been stamped and embossed with Wow powder on Woodware vellum. The background is a Crafts too Butterfly embossing folder, the sentiment is also from Chloe and the leaves is the Frond die again by Sue Wilson. Mothers Days sentiment again Woodware in a set of 2...the other one being used on the first card

 

 

White one White part 3

Last card from class at Craft Plus UK, this time using vellum and acetate. I knew from the size of the stamps the card would need to be bigger than the usual 6" square, so to be able to use A4 sheets I cut out 2 7" squares and embossed a line down the right hand side of both and then backed them wrong sides together and punched 2 holes to thread ribbon through. The acetate is heat resistant and is stamped with the branches stamp from Chloe and embossed with Wow white embossing powder, I then cut the branches out. The vellum has been stamped and embossed with a white/silver embossing powder and the Christmas Rose stamp from Chloe. I die cut the Fronds die by Sue Wilson from card topped with double sided adhesive and sprinkled with glitter. To finish, the sentiment has been filled in with glitter and the edges dipped in glitter using a Zig pen.

 

Products used:

 

Dies: Sue Wilson Fronds

Stamps: Chloe Christmas Rose small, Crystal Branch & Christmas is...

Embossing powders/Glitter: Stampendous Winter Wonderland, Wow Bright White, Honeydoo Glitter

Extras: Creative Expressions adhesive sheets, Crafters Companion acetate, Woodware Vellum, Zig Chisel tip pen, White organza ribbon

 

Have a lovely weekend, hope you get some time to craft....good luck if you are Christmas shopping !!

 

White on White class part 2

Second card from this weeks class at Craft Plus UK. Very quick and easy one but shows the fab embossing on the Spellbinder's Create a Flake 6 dies. Great for mass producing and flat for postage if you put something smaller than my glitter domes.7

 

Products Used:

 

Dies: Spellinders Create a flake 6

Stamps: Crafters Companion Let it snow sentiment set

Extras: Mark Richards glitter domes

 

back tomorrow with the last one, which is a bit more involved and a mix of materials.

White and White class part 1

Today I am sharing the first of my cards from this weeks class at Craft Plus UK. It uses a embossing folder from Sara Davis collection and the lovely Spellbinders ornaments die. I cut them out of card with some adhesive doubled sided paper on front so they could be glittered afterwards. The little cute bows are cut from felt, using a die from same set.

 

products used:

 

Dies: Spellbinders Lattice Ornaments

Embossing folder: Crafters Companion Sara Davie Festive Frames

Stamps: Woodware sentiment

Extras: Felt, adhesive paper, gems, glitter, fine liner pen

 

 

 

back tomorrow with card no.2

 

 

Spellbinders class part 3

The last card from this class at Craft Plus Uk  uses the Spellbinders Shapeabilities Flurries. I decided to use acetate and glitter so you can see through the card. I die cut and embossed the die then using the cloud ink and sponge rubbing the ink over the snowflakes and around the edge. I then attached the panel to some double sided adhesive and the sprinkled and burnishes with glitter. This was the attached to a piece of acetate and attached to either sides of the card blank that I cut away in the middle to fit the panel.

 

Products used:

 

Dies: Spellbinders Shapeabilities Flurries and Circles

Stamps: Crafters Companion Let it Snow stamp set

Glitter: Creative Expressions Ice Snow

Ink: Creative Expressions Cloud ink Clear Day, Archival Black

Extras: A4 Creative Expressions double sided adhesive sheets, Acetate, gems

 

 

Spellbinders class part 2

Another card from this weeks Spellbinders class at Craft Plus UK this time using the Create a Flake 6 combined with A2 Scalloped edges.  I cut and embossed one of the edge dies top and bottom and mounted these panels onto some patterned paper and mirror card. Then I cut some snowflakes from a selection of papers from the pad and added a mounted together selection in the middle and

more on the white panels. Finished off with a sentiment and some gems.

 

Products used:

 

Dies: Spellbinders Create a flake 6, A2 scalloped edges

Papers: First Edition Silent Night paper pad, Mirror card

Stamps: Crafters Companion Let it Snow set

 

 

 

Back tomorrow with the last one using a create a card die