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Wednesday, 22 December 2021

Season's Greetings Holiday Card

This is likely to be my last holiday card this year--where has the year gone?!--and so I decided to try a new technique and a new colour scheme.

Gift Card Wallet #TGIFC347

The #TGIF challenge this week is a project challenge to create a gift card holder. I have just finished purchasing a bunch of gift cards for teenager gifts next week and this challenge made me think of a great way to make them have a bit more impact--a gift card wallet!

Creation Station Anything But A Card

I am beyond excited to share that I have been invited to be part of the Creation Station Design Team Blog Hop! Today is my very first hop with this wonderful group of people and I am thrilled to be here. Thank you for stopping by my little piece of the internet. :)

Our theme today was "Anything But A Card"--which is right up my alley! I love making 3D projects and may have gone a bit overboard here....but I couldn't help myself! I have been admiring the tiered tray trend for awhile now, and wanted to do something extra special for my first hop, so I made a multitude of Stampin' Up! inspired tiered tray decorations to share with you today.

Stampin' Friends Celebrate the Season Blog Hop

I would not usually think of black and gold for a holiday card, but I really wanted to stretch this month's blog hop theme of celebrating the season to include some surprise elements. And I love the final result:

TGIF Challenge Place Cards

It's time for another post inspired by the #TGIFC site! This week we were challenged to make place cards or table settings. Since I just created a table setting for Canadian Thanksgiving here, I decided to go with place cards:

#TGIFC342 Sketch Challenge

I'm back for another #TGIF Challenge this week, with an amazing sketch for inspiration! Here is my card, and the sketch:

Stampin' Friends Sentiments Blog Hop

Welcome to the Stampin' Friends Blog Hop! I'm thrilled to be a new participant with these talented people who very kindly allowed me to join in their fun. Each blogger makes a card AND a project every month--right up my alley!! Our theme this month was Say It With Sentiments.

Snowflakes & Buffalo Check Z-Fold (Blog Hop)

It's mid-August already! Where does the summer go? Of course I say that as I am knee-deep in holiday projects and new supplies from the mini catalogue--and Sale-A-Bration freebies!! We are focusing on some of the great products you can get for free during Sale-A-Bration in our blog hop today. My card showcases the great buffalo check paper from the Peaceful Prints DSP pack (free with a $60 order!):

Noel Tidings & Trimmings (Blog Hop)

We are already mid-month and more than half-way to Christmas--where is the year going?!! It's time once again for our Stamping Symphony Blog Hop. Our theme this month was to create a tone-on-tone card with a pop of colour, and which was just the inspiration I needed for this card:

Gift Card Holder (Blog Hop)

Happy Holidays Everyone! It feels waaayy too soon to be saying that, especially with the beautiful weather we've had in Cambridge this week, but the holiday season is upon us despite the balmy temps. Every year I buy more and more gift cards as it becomes harder and harder to buy the perfect gift, and I always worry that it's a bit of a let down for the recipient...where's the fun?! So I was really excited that our theme this month is gift card holders--we are bringing back the wonder!

I am once again featuring the colourful and fun Coming Home bundle and DSP--because I can't get enough of it!! The DSP includes two sheets of this full 12x12 scene.

I'm not a scrapbooker but this is such a great scene that I knew I wanted to feature it somehow in a card, and this pull out design was the perfect choice.

It took a bit of fussy cutting to get everything to line up just perfect, but I think it was worth the effort. :)

I followed a tutorial from 2018 on Patty Bennett's blog for the original pull-out dimensions, but I altered the gift card holder to be a full pocket, so that the scenic design wasn't interrupted.

I also decorated panels on the back of the pull-out and the card base, so there was a space to write a holiday message without disrupting the design.\

I have loved colouring these little houses and trees! They are very simple designs and the perfect size to practice shading with our Blends alcohol markers.

This design was so easy and fun I made another one featuring the Poinsettia Petals bundle, some traditional green/red DSP, and some of the Forever Gold Laser Cut specialty paper elements.

It's hard to see the shine from the gold elements, but in real life it provides such an elegant touch.

Please continue to hop along and be inspired by the other designs this month, and as always I'd love to hear from you!

LollyandSand (Sandy)

SimpLeigh Stamping (Leigh)

Stampingjen.BlogSpot.com (Jennifer)

A La Cards (Leena)

Laurel Davis Crafted (Laurel)

Tuesday, 15 September 2020

Happy Holidays Blog Hop

The fall weather has definitely arrived! I love the crisp mornings and emerging colours, but it sure seems like Labour Day came and a switch was flipped this year. It will be Christmas before we know it, so this month we are showcasing holiday cards with product from the new August-December mini catalogue.

One of my favourites is the Poinsettia Place Suite. It has everything you need to make beautiful cards--stamps, dies, paper, embellishments, ribbon AND specialty paper. My card is a fun fold that showcases all that pretty paper, and would be great for using up every last scrap!

This is a tri-fold shutter card and is the easiest fun fold you'll ever make--it's really all about the mountain/valley folds. Start with a 5.5" x 12" piece of cardstock and score it at 2", 4", 8", and 10". Give the paper a quarter turn and use a craft knife to cut a line between the first and last score lines at 1.5" at the top and bottom. You can see the full tutorial that I followed at Splitcoaststampers.

From there it's just a matter of alternating folding some score lines (valleys) and out (mountains). The truly easy great part of this fun fold is that you end up with sections for DSP that are consistent in size, so you just cut strips of paper to fit and don't waste anything!

I used Crumb Cake ink to stamp my poinsettias, and added soft Sahara Sand shading. The leaves are Old Olive with Sea Foam Green shading. I could have highlighted the centres of the flowers with the Beaded Pearl embellishments included in the suite-it doesn't get more elegant than those--but instead I made my own with a combination of Basic and Metallic Pearls.

I used the same stitched die for the "inside" of my card to create a space for a personalized message, and added some soft stamping as embellishment.

I love the shading for this stamp set...they are separate pieces so you can use them or not, and they are almost like a watercolour, not intended to completely fill the stamped outline.

Continue the hop to see the other Christmas cards in our collection this month!

A La Cards (Leena)

LollyandSand (Sandy)

SimpLeigh Stamping (Leigh)

Stampingjen.BlogSpot.com (Jennifer)

Wednesday, 15 July 2020

Watercolour Technique (Blog Hop)

It's Christmas in July everywhere you look these days, so I was inspired to add a twist to our blog theme this month! Our focus this month is on techniques and I had to use my very favourite technique--watercolouring--on this Christmas card.

I repurposed my Good Morning Magnolia stamp into a poinsettia!

I heat embossed the flower image in gold and then used several ink colours to add depth and dimension. This really is the EASIEST way to watercolour. The heat embossing keeps the water and ink contained so you never colour outside the lines!

I layered the coloured and die cut image on a Forever Gold Laser Cut frame (with a rectangle of white cardstock behind to help it pop), and put it all on a card base of Shaded Spruce.

Some added gems helped anchor my sentiment as well as provide the sparkle every Christmas card needs.

I kept the inside of my card simple with some more gold embossing.

For some added fun I decided to watercolour a matching envelope! I used my (retired) Envelope Punch Board to create the envelope out of watercolour paper, and repeated the gold embossing and colouring on the front and back.

I think this will make a wonderful holiday surprise for someone when it really is Christmas. ;)

Please continue hopping along to see all the other wonderful techniques showcased this month:

A La Cards (Leena)

LollyandSand (Sandy)

SimpLeigh Stamping (Leigh)

Stampingjen.BlogSpot.com (Jennifer)

Sunday, 15 December 2019

Christmas Gift Card Holder (Blog Hop)

As we head quickly towards to the single-digit countdown to Christmas I have LOTS of gift cards on my holiday list! When you have teenagers and young adults in your life they are an essential, but they can leave the giver and recipient wishing they were a little...more. That feeling of "not having something to open on Christmas morning" lingers, even when you know it's what they really want. Today on our blog hop we have the solution--beautiful gift card holders!

My gift card holder is a "Corner Pop Up" style I first saw on Lisa's Stamp Studio and just knew I had to make this year. It's so easy to do but a real wow! Lisa has a great video with easy to follow directions on her blog as well as still pictures and all of the measurements, so be sure to check out her page as well.

This holder is beautiful inside and out with lots of pretty paper, and can stand up for display.

I started with an 8" square of Very Vanilla and scored it vertically and horizontally at 4". Then I scored a diagonal from corner to corner as well. I burnished all the folds with my bone folder, being sure to fold the diagonal score mark "up." Once you do this the card easily starts to fold onto itself with very little effort.

Each of the quadrants is 4" square, so that makes it super easy to decorate. I used four different patterns from the Toile DSP and the Tidings All Around Bundle (stamp set and dies) to make my holder, but this style would work well with any paper and embellishment.

I layered two of the detailed wreath dies, one in Garden Green and one in Mossy Meadow, together, and then added some gold glitter embellishments. I was inspired by a card I received at our team swap several weeks ago, loving the gold accents and filling the centre of the wreath with a sentiment for the season.

I stamped some foliage on a vanilla circle and layered it on a Real Red scalloped circle with a bright and cheery sentiment.

Tucked inside on a pull out card is the gift card (shh, this is a secret for my niece!) and a little more stamping.

I thought the hardest part of this holder would be creating an envelope to match the 4" square, but then inspiration struck! I used one of Stampin' Up!'s gold foil striped envelopes and I will never stress about unusual card sizes again! These particular bags are no longer available, but there are some great copper ones you can use instead. ;)

I decorated a vanilla panel on my envelope with the new 3D Brick & Mortar embossing folder and some Real Red accents, and then layered another two wreaths (in Garden Green and Mossy Meadow), popped up with dimensionals, and gold accents.

I tied a tag to the bag with some gold and vanilla twine and voila--a beautiful and unique gift to open on Christmas Day!

Here's one last look at the holder front before you hop on by to see what everyone else has for you today:

Thanks for stopping by, and Merry Christmas!

A La Cards (Leena)

LollyandSand (Sandy)

JustBStamping (Barb--you're here!)

Stampingjen.BlogSpot.com (Jennifer)

Sunday, 18 November 2018

The Elves Have Arrived!

Our Elf on the Shelf arrived this week and has already been causing quite a stir. It seemed only appropriate then that elves inspired my card this week too!

Isn't this snow scene too much fun?! I had a great time colouring my elves all different colours and pretending they worked in different departments at the north pole. ;) I used my Blends alcohol markers, which make blending and shading so easy.

Here's a closer look at the elves....