Festive Tree Christmas Dimensionals

Morning Friends and Crafters, I have another project to share with you today. I made this for the launch of the Christmas Dimensionals from Crafters Companion. I know that many of you will have already made a lot of these wonderful cards. I hope you have been having fun with them, they really will be treasured by the  people who receive them.

You will need:

Tree Concept Die

Sparkling Snowflakes 1

Tree Accessories Pack

Fireplace Accessories Pack

Festive Phrases

Sparkling Snow Embossing Folder

Christmas Centerpiece Embossing Folder

12 x 12 Plain Paper Pad

12 x 12 Decorative Christmas Paper Pad

Aged Mahogany Distress Ink

Centura Pearl Silver/White

Tacky Glue

3D Glue Gel

Step 1: Cut your base card, including the tree & window dies. Decorate with the plains and patterned paper pads. Cut the windows from Centura Pearl and secure acetate before securing them in place.

Step 2: Cut the trees from the dark green form the paper pad and cover the 3D tree using Tacky Glue

Step 3: Embellish the room with decorations cut from the die sets to make it look really festive and inviting. Cut a circle to a size to fit the embossing folder, then emboss it. Stamp a sentiment in the centre and add depth to it by adding Aged Mahogany too the raised areas.

Step 4: Cut a patterned paper for the front of your card.

Step 5: Create a layer for the patterned paper from white card, emboss this using the Sparkling Snow embossing folder.

Step 6: From the dark blue card, cut a selection of the snowflakes and the sentiment 'Seasons Greetings' Layer these up on the front of your card using Tacky Glue to finish your card.

Thank you for joining me today, I hope you have enjoyed what I have shared with you today. I hope you will join me again very soon. There is a lot more to come, For no Take care and Happy Crafting.xxx

Merry Christmas Shaker Card

Morning Friends and Crafters, Today I am sharing a card I made for the launch of 'Winter Wonderland, one of Sara's Signature collections. It's jam packed with goodies for all of your Christmas Crafting. So here is a tutorial for a rare shaker card from me.

You will need:

Winter Wonderland Snowflurry

Winter Wonderland Snowflake Quartet

Winter Wonderland Yuletide Sentiment

Winter Wonderland Matt Mirror Card

Winter Wonderland Luxury Glitter Card 6 x 8''

Tissue Paper

Infusions Royal Blood

Tacky Glue

Red Liner Tape

Foam on a Roll

Centura Pearl White/Silver Card

Step 1: Take your glitter card, position the edger die, approximately 1/2'' in from the end. cut out then repeat at the other end. The use Red Liner Tape to secure acetate behind the design.

Step 2: Scrunch and unscrunch the tissue paper and place on to a glass mat, sprinkle with Royal Blood Infusions then spritz with water and let the wonderful colours spread across the tissue. Leave to dry

Step 3: Coat your backing paper with diluted PVA, add your tissue to this and secure at the back.Leave this to dry.

Step 4: Cut snowflakes and the 'Merry Christmas' from the matt Mirror card and secure in place with Tacky glue.

Step 5: Mount this onto a Centura Pearl base with 1/4'' border

Step 6: Run Foam all around the frame, making sure there are no gaps to let the contents spill out.

Step 7: Fill with large Mica Flakes and white Flowersoft 

Step 8: Place and secure the base over the top and your card is complete.

Thank you ever so much for joining me today, I hope you have enjoyed the tutorial and the finished card I have shared today. I hope you will join me again very soon to see some more inspiration. For now take care and Happy Crafting.xx

Exciting Launches on Hochanda Today.

Morning, I hope you had a great day yesterday. There are some amazing new launches on Hochanda today, from Justin & Gordon from Be Creative, some wonderful, high quality rubber stamps along with some brand new, must have crafting goodies. Then at 6 pm there is the launch of the new Easel cards from Crafters Companion with Fiona, she will be showcasing the new designs.

There are some lovely samples of the easel cards from the rest of the design team so I hope you will watch the shows for lot's more inspiration and demonstrations.

Justin and Gordon from Be Creative have been really excited about the new must have crafting goodies. They are also launching some amazing new stamps. These are all available on their website to with many other super supplies, which aren't always brought to the television. It's well worth a visit. Here are the links for the new items: Natures accent background stamp set, Grip Stick Film and Mounting Foam. There are also lots more releases coming very soon. It's incredibly exciting for us.

Their shows are on Hochanda at 4 pm today and tomorrow at 8 am. But if you cant wait or worried that these will sell out, get in early and visit their site direct.

Thank you so much for visiting today, I do hope you have liked the samples I have shared on the blog over the years. Take care and Happy Crafting.xx

Parchment Hearts

Morning, I am very excited to be sharing this project with you today as it's Valentines Day. The lovely Leonie, launched this lovely set of dies on Hochanda a while back but they are wonderful. Leonie designed them especially to co-ordinate with the 'Entwined Hearts' die cutting range. That said they are so versatile and work really well as a stand alone essential or with any of your existing stash.

                          

Beginning with the 'Dotty Heart'  embossing folder from the new collection, I embossed a piece of parchment. To ensure the parchment didn't tear or buckle, I placed it between a folded sheet of copier paper.

                

Next, from black card I cut the ''Folk Heart'' base die as I wanted the frame and one heart, I kept the other for a future project.

                     

I stuck the heart frames onto my parchment using 3D glue gel, to give a different look on each I used the embossed side on one and the debossed side on the other.

            

I then roughly cut out 2 pieces of red 'Silk Art' card and adhered it to the back of my parchment hearts using 'Stick It' adhesive sheets, this allows the colour to show through more where the parchment touches and highlights the embossing. I then trimmed around these using scissors, it's very easy because of the frame.

           

Next, I took one of the heart dies cuts. Using the Flitter Glue from Indigo Blu, I stamped the lovely 'Script' stamp from the range at an angle.

                  

Then taking a sheet of gold foil, I placed over the heart and gently burnished it with a soft cloth. Removed the sheet leaving it beautifully foiled.

                 

For the card front I took a piece of black card stock measuring 7' square. Using the sweetheart stamp and Flitter Glue, I stamped and foiled in the same way as the heart. I then repeated this with a small detail stamp from the collection, to add highlights mainly focused around the top right and bottom left hand corners with just a suggestion in other areas and set aside.

           

Next I took a piece of red 'Silk Art' card, approximately 7 3/4'' square and a piece of parchment large enough to fold around and leave a 5 mm fold for securing at the back. I folded the edges over to mark but did not secure it until later.Taking the parchment and script stamp, I randomly stamped around the edges with white Stazon ink. There's no need to stamp anywhere else as it will be covered.

           

I folded this back over my red card and secured at the back with red liner tape.

            

Next, I arranged my hearts on the card front and secured them with foam tape and 3D glue gel to raise them from the background.

           

I backed the script background with a black card base and secured with Cosmic Shimmer Glue from Creative Expressions.

          

To finish my card, I secured thin organza ribbon across the two opposite corners using red liner tape and added it to my base card with 3D glue gel.

           

I hope you have enjoyed the step by step I have shared and the little taster of the wonderful crafting goodies that Leonie gives us crafters. See you all soon and thank you for visiting today. Please take the time to visit the Hochanda Blog, I am sharing Part 2 of my Floral Embellishment Series. I would love to have your comments there and support. Take care and Happy Crafting.

Always

Morning, Today's project is a scrapbook page made using the lovely artwork from Michelle of MJM Design Studios. Her Lilies and Light triple CD collection was launched on Hochanda a few weeks ago with Crafters Companion. In my opinion it's a must have collection, please don't be put off that it's digital. If you have a printer it really is simple to make a multitude of projects. Here I have done a digital layout and another identical but crafted traditionally to show it really is for everyone.

I planned my original piece digitally. Then to make the traditional page, I printed the sheets of elements i wanted along with photos.

I cut out the pieces along with the backing papers, then put the piece together using Collall Tacky glue and 3D glue gel.

Here are both pieces for you to see the comparison, it's incredibly difficult to tell them apart, unless you are close up.

Do take a look at the collection from Michelle, the artwork and colours really are beautiful. Thank you so much for visiting today. There is plenty more to share so do pop back very soon. Take care and Happy Crafting.xx

French Fancy

Hi all. A French Twist today. Here is a step by step for one of the samples I made for the launch of the Kinetic cards by Crafters Companion. I have also used Stamps from Leonie's 'All the Love' set and Graphic 45 Papers.

I cut the circle pop out base using Ivory Centura Pearl 'Hint of Gold'. On the white side, which would become the front,I used the wonderful script stamp from Leonie. I stamped it over the base using Tattered Rose, Victorian Velvet and Antique Linen Distress Inks.The I blended from the outside in using the same inks, keeping it darker on the edges.

I took a sheet of the script paper from the Graphic 45 'Gilded Lily' paper paper pad and cut it out using the inner panels from the dies set.

From another sheet from the same pad I cut my main image using the circle die, this was for the centre. I also fussy cut a sentiment and some flower bouquets.

I layered the panels onto black card before adding it to the centre circle. I shaped the rose and lily bouquets and secured them with Collall 3D glue gel. The assembled the card as shown.

Thank you ever so much for taking the time to visit today. I do hope that you have enjoyed the step by step and the finished card. If you do enjoy reading my blog and the things I share then I would love your nomination for best blog in the International Craft Awards, the link is here: http://www.craftsbeautiful.com/awards/

Take care and Happy Crafting.xx

Chilli Days, Scarves and Gloves

Morning, Apart from a couple of dies and a piece of ribbon, this card is made from the items launched by Leonie on Hochanda. If you didn't see the shows, they will still be available on catch up via the Hochanda website, so please do take a look as the sparkle really shows better in real life, it's marvellous.

I stamped the snowman, the holly leaves and some berries onto my watercolour card. Then after masking them off with Pebeo Drawing Gum I added colour to my glass mat, spritzed with water and smeared my card across it. 

I held the top of the card up slightly to start with and then placed it on the lightest colours on the mat, I wanted it to have a snowy look. The colours I used were Cobalt from the Frosty Christmas set along with the Iris and Lavender from the Wrapped up set.

I used a Sue Wilson die to cut out, pacing and taping it in place. I chose this die as I wanted the background colours to show through the cut areas. I coloured the berries using the Berry and the holly using the Holly Leaf.

To create the background I took the same colours and wiped them diagonally over my card with a sponge.

When this was dry I took one of Leonie;s Strip sentiments and stamped around the 2 corners, The nice thing is doing it this way you never get any of the words upside down.

I took the same sentiment strip and shaped it on my block and stamped inside the die cut.

I secured the die cut onto my background using Cosmic Shimmer glue.

To finish off the card I added a silver satin edged organza ribbon. Then I backed the project onto blue Centura Pearl card from Crafters Companion, it was from the Darks collection.

Thank you so much for coming to see my step by step, I hope that you have enjoyed it and the finished card. I hope you will stop by again very soon. Take care and Happy Crafting.xx