Month: September 2023

Dogwood Birthday Wishes

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I am really enjoying branching out into different brands and one of the brands I keep coming back to is Honey Bee Stamps. I love their 3D Embossing Folders and their Lovely Layers including flowers and birds and today I have teamed these up with Amazing Paper Grace Frame dies and Heartfelt Creations Dogwood Flowers.

I really struggle to put sentiments on cards and this card was no exception. I spend a lot of time on flower making and putting a card together and sentiments are often the last thing on my mind and this card sat here for a couple of weeks before I finally sorted out the sentiments. I purchased the Honey Bee Stamps Mini Messages 6″ x 6″ Stamps and coordinating Honey Bee Stamps Mini Messages – Banners Honey Cuts and these were perfect to add to the card without detracting from the overall card.

Products Used:

Amazing Paper Grace Petite Picot Ovals Dies

Amazing Paper Grace Elegant Twist Ovals Dies

Honey Bee Stamps: Lovely Layers – Dogwood

Honey Bee Stamp: Lovely Layers – Spring Birds

Honey Bee Stamps 3D Embossing Folder – Dogwood

Honey Bee Stamps Mini Messages 6″ x 6″ Stamp

Honey Bee Stamps Mini Messages – Banners Honey Cuts

Heartfelt Creations Flowering Dogwood Dies

Rajni Chawla’s Flower Shaping Paper

Spellbinders Essentials Cardstock – Snowdrift, Portabello, Black Onyx, Dahlia, Alabaster

Ranger Archival inks – Vivid Chartreuse, Leaf Green, Olive, Jet Blac

Pink Fresh Studio inks – Lemon Whip, Sky Blue, Summer Shower

Foam Tape

Green wire pollens

Allenes Tacky Glue

Bearly Art Glue

Clear gloss gel medium

Art Glitter Ultrafine Crystal glitter

Small and medium ball stylus

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Please Vote For Me!

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Wow I am so excited to announce that my card has made the finals of the Card of the Month competition at Creative Scrapbooker Magazine. I would love your help to become the winner of the Card of the Month and I would appreciate it if you could vote for me here:

https://creativescrapbooker.ca/card-of-the-month-sept-2023/#/bracket

Card of the Month: September 2023

Thank you so much for all your support – I couldn’t do this without you.

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A Sparkly Rainbow Birthday Card

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I recently won a challenge in a Facebook group for one of my cards and I was thrilled with my prize that I received. In it was this gorgeous stencil with no branding on it but I loved it. I am relatively new to stenciling and ink blending so I had another go at a rainbow design but this time I added some sparkle to the ink blending with some Nuvo glitter paste – Moonstone. I was thrilled with the result and I will definitely do this again. I have kept my card very simple so as not to distract from the pretty sparkly pattern and just added a simple white border from the Amazing Paper Grace Hemstitch Rectangles and a white flower die that I embossed from Spellbinders that I have had for quite a while. A simple hot foiled ‘Hello’ from Pink Fresh Studio and a stamped ‘Happy Birthday’ from Honey Bee Stamps finished off this card. I was inspired for my card from a card on Instagram – however that card featured a plain dramatic ink blended background and white accents. I am in my happy space with pastels and sparkles.

Scroll past all the photos for a list of the products I have used.

Amazing Paper Grace Hemstitch Rectangles dies

Spellbinders Asters and Poppies Dies

Honey Bee Stamps Mini Messages 6″ x 6″ Stamps

Honey Bee Stamps Mini Messages Banner Honey Cuts

Pink Fresh Studio – Perfect Sentiments Hot Foil Plate and coordinating die

Distress Oxide inks – Picked Raspberry, Saltwater Taffy, Squeezed Lemonade, Twisted Citron, Tumbled Glass, Shaded Lilac

Ranger Archival ink – Jet Black

Spellbinders Foil – Gold

Nuvo Glimmer Paste – Moonstone

White cardstock from my stash

Heartfelt Creations Deluxe Flower Shaping Paper

Bearly Art Glue

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Amazing Paper Grace Forever in Our Memory

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Today I have an elegant sympathy card featuring the beautiful Amazing Paper Grace Forever in our Memory from the Amazing Paper Grace Beautiful Sentiment Vignette collection by Becca Feeken. I have kept to a blue and white palette with a touch of silver accents. Lilies are often associated with sorrow and grief and I have used the Amazing Paper Grace Layered Lilies Dies to adorn this card. I love how quick and easy a card can come together when you use these sentiment vignette dies.

Dies were provided by Amazing Paper Grace for today’s creations.

My Project

To make my card I have created a top folding base card of 5 1/2″ x 6″ out of white cardstock. I cut a piece of blue cardstock 5 1/4″ x 5 3/4″ and score two lines down each side 1/8″ apart 1/4″ inside each side and adhere to the front of the card.

Die cut the shadow die from the Amazing Paper Grace Forever in Our Memory dies out of blue cardstock. Die cut the decorative die from the same set in white cardstock and emboss it before adding to the blue shadow. Adhere this to the front of the card. Die cut the shadow inner panel out of blue cardstock and two decorative sentiment dies out of white cardstock. Stack the two sentiment dies together and then add to the blue shadow before adding to the centre of the decorative frame with foam tape.

Die cut the lilies from the Amazing Paper Grace Layered Lilies Dies out of white cardstock with the stamen out of yellow cardstock. Colour the inside with Lemon Whip and Sunshine ink and assemble as per instructions. I added some Key Lime ink to the bottoms of the flowers.

Die cut the leaves and stems from green cardstock. Trim the stems and add around the decorative sentiment. Add the lilies and leaves to the stems. Die cut the stems from green cardstock and flowers from yellow cardstock from the October 2021 Die of the Month Flourished Fleurit Dies and assemble. Add these around the lilies and leaves. Die cut the stems only out of silver cardstock and add as accents around the flowers and leaves.

To finish add some silver pearls to the corners of the card and on the decorative die as shown.

Amazing Paper Grace Products Used:

Forever in Our Memory Dies

Layered Lilies Dies

October 2021 Die of the Month Flourished Fleurit Dies

Other Products Used:

Spellbinders Essentials Cardstock – Snowdrift, Rainforest, Chamomile, Peridot

Spellbinders Brushed Silver Card

Heartfelt Creations Deluxe Flower Shaping Paper

Bearly Art Glue

Foam Tape

Pink Fresh Studio Silver Pearls

Pink Fresh Studio inks – Lemon Whip, Sunshine, Key Lime

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An English Country Garden

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Today I have a very special card to share with you. I was asked to make a very special birthday card for a very special Grandma who is about to turn an incredible 94 years old and she lived in England. The brief was for roses and alstroemeria flowers as these were her favourite flowers and I thought that I would do a English country cottage scene with different flowers, a lovely seat to sit on and admire the garden and some sweet birdies to fill the air with song. The Heartfelt Creations Gateway Fold cards were perfect for this occasion. I have used many different products from Heartfelt Creations and as I did not have a lot of time I die cut the images from the paper collection rather than colouring them. I am so happy how this turned out and Olya if you are reading this I really really enjoyed making this. Thank you so much for asking me to make this card and I hope your Grandma really loves and cherishes this very special card/gift that has come from the heart from New Zealand.

Scroll past the photos for a full list of the products that I have used in this card. I will also have a video tutorial on my YouTube channel showing you how I have made these roses coming soon.

Products Used:

Heartfelt Creations 5″ x 7″ Gateway Fold Card

Lattice Flourish Gateway Die

Heartfelt Sentiment Stamp set

Eyelet Frame Gateway Die

Tear Drop Lattice Gateway Die – outer frame die

Cut Mat Create 1B die – sentiment

Spellbinders Victorian Numbers die

Cottage Tree’scapes – leaves and floral spray

Countryside Cottage Paper Collection

Hollyhock Stem and Bloom Dies

Hollyhock Garden Paper Collection

Wishing Well Oasis stamp and die – chair

Hollyhock Fence – hollyhock

Floral Fashionista dies – small flowers

Rustic Sunflower Bucket Die – bucket

Rustic Sunflower Paper Collection

Clematis Birdhouse and Trellis Dies- birds

Climbing Clematis Paper Collection

Classic Rose dies

Sweet Pea dies – alstromeria

Garden Lily Die- alstromeria

Leafy Accents Dies

Countryside Cottage Collection – pot plants – fussy cut (Cottage Summer’scapes

Hollyhock Garden Paper Collection

Ranger archival inks – Vivid Chartreuse, Leaf Green, Olive, Rosey Posey, Magenta Hue, Sunflower

Artline black pen

Petite Pollen Stamens – medium

Wow embossing ink

Ranger gold embossing powder

Pink Fresh Studio Jewels – pink, yellow

Foam tape

Bearly Art Glue

Deluxe Flower Shaping Paper

Luxe Gold cardstock

Rajni Chawla’s Flower Shaping Paper

Copic markers – C7, C5, C3, C1

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Hats off to You Congratulations Card

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Today I am sharing a quick and easy graduation card that my daughter requesting for her flatmate when she graduated with a PhD. For my card I have mixed and matched some Amazing Paper Grace dies with Spellbinders dies to create a simple yet very elegant graduation card. I have used red accents as this was the colour of the faculty where the friend studied.

My Project

For my card I have created a top folding 4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″ base card out of white cardstock. I reversed foiled the background using the Spellbinders Glimmering Swag Glimmer Plate using gold foil. This was trimmed to 4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″ and adhered to the front of the card. I then die cut the frame using the Amazing Paper Grace Rectangle Fluted Classics die and adhered it to the front of the card using foam tape for some dimension. I die cut the inner panel using the next size down rectangle Fluted Classics die and adhered it to the centre of the card inside the frame. Finally, I die cut the smaller panel and embossing it with the Cuttlebug Swiss Dots Embossing Folder and adhered it to the front.

I die cut the graduation hat out of gold, black and red cardstocks using the Spellbinders Hat’s Off To You Dies and adhered it to the top right of the card. I decorated the card with the ‘congrats’ sentiment from the Amazing Paper Grace Die of the Month March 2020 – Elegant Infinity Dies, the stars from the Spellbinders Parcel and Post Christmas Decorations Dies and the numbers from the Spellbinders Victorian Numbers Dies.

Products Used:

Amazing Paper Grace Rectangle Fluted Classics Dies

Amazing Paper Grace Die of the Month March 2020 – Elegant Infinity Dies

Spellbinders Hat’s Off To You Dies

Spellbinders Glimmering Swag Glimmer Plate

Pink Fresh Studio Hot Foil Plate

Spellbinders Parcel and Post Christmas Decorations Dies

Spellbinders Victorian Numbers Dies

Cuttlebug Swiss Dots Embossing Folder

Spellbinders Gold Foil

Spellbinders Essentials Cardstock – Snowdrift, Onyx, Phone Booth

Heartfelt Creations Luxe Gold Cardstock

Bearly Art Glue

Foam tape

Pink Fresh Studio Gold Pearls

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Amazing Paper Grace Halloween Boo

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This week I am totally outside my comfort zone with a Halloween card using the Amazing Paper Grace Halloween Add Ons by Becca Feeken. I normally work with soft pastel shades and dark purples and blacks are totally alien to me but it is good to challenge and stretch oneself. Also, Halloween is not a very big tradition here in New Zealand and I have never really done Halloween cards before so it was time to play with the Halloween dies by Amazing Paper Grace and use some newly learned techniques such as ink blending to make this card.

Dies were provided by Amazing Paper Grace for today’s creations.

My Project

To make my card I have created a top folding 4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″ card base out of white cardstock. I cut a piece of white cardstock 4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″. I die cut a small circle using a small circle die out of masking magic paper. I added the small circle to the top right corner of the card before ink blending using Distress Oxide inks – Salvaged Patina, Shaded Lilac, Villainous Potion, Hickory Smoke and Black Soot. I sprayed some glimmer mist and white pearl paint to create a sparkly night sky effect and I then took the circle mas off and added some Antique Linen Distress ink to the circle for the moon. I used the outer masking paper to mask around the moon and added some Pearl stencil paste to the moon for a pearly finish. When this was dry I then added the coloured panel to the front of the card.

I die cut the tree, fence and bats from the Amazing Paper Grace Spooky Boo and Spooky Cottage dies sets. These were then adhered to the front of the ink blended card to create a back scene.

I die cut a frame using the largest dies from the Amazing Paper Grace Hemstitch Rectangles Dies out of black cardstock and a shadow frame out of purple glitter card.

I stamped a scrap piece of card with Wow embossing ink and heat embossed with silver glitter embossing powder and then die cut the cobwebs out of the glittery silver card. I adhered the cobwebs behind the top left and bottom right corners of the black frame and then adhere the purple shadow frame behind the black frame. I cut a piece of acetate 3 3/4″ x 5″ and adhered this behind the frame. I added silver star and pink/purple sequins to the front of the card and then adhered the frame to the front of the card with foam strips to create a shaker card.

I die cut the spiders and cat out of black cardstock and added them to the front of the card and also added the Boo sentiment which was die cut from the embossed glittery silver cardstock.

To finish I coloured two small bitty sparkles with a dark purple Copic marker and added them to the cat for eyes.

Amazing Paper Grace Products Used:

Spooky Boo

Spooky Cottage

Hemstitch Rectangles Dies

Other Products Used:

Purple glitter card from my stash

Hammermill Cardstock

Heartfelt Creations Deluxe Flower Shaping Paper

Heartfelt Creations Black Cardstock

Wow Embossing ink

Ranger Silver glitter embossing powder

Foam strips

Lawn Fawn Pearl Stencil Paste

Distress Oxide inks – Salvaged Patina, Shaded Lilac, Villainous Potion, Hickory Smoke and Black Soot

Distress ink – Antique Linen

Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist

Kuretake Gamsai Tombi Watercolour Paints

Gina K Designs Masking Magic

Trinity Stamps Star sequins

Craft Medley Sequins – Princess

CTMH Bitty sparkles

Copic Marker BV08

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Let’s Celebrate Honey Bee Stamps

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I have another card featuring Honey Bee Stamps products and this time I have used the Spring Greenery and Birds dies. These are just fabulous and so easy to make cards with.

My project.

I have created a 4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″ top folding base card. I then die cut a piece of light blue cardstock 4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″ and adhere it to the front of the card. I have then cut a piece of white cardstock 4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″ and die cut it using the Honey Bee Stamps Honey Bee Stamps – Delicate Daisy A2 Cover Plate Base – Honey Cuts. I sponged around the edges with Sky Blue ink and then adhere it to the front of the card. I die cut two dies using the Honey Bee Stamps – Delicate Daisy A2 Cover Plate Top – Honey Cuts, stacked them together and adhered it to the front of the card.

I have die cut the bird using blue, red, black, grey and cream cardstock. I have sponged blue ink on the winds and body of the bird before assembling it and adhering it to the top right of the card.

I have die cut a range of leaves from the Honey Bee Stamps: Lovely Layers – Spring Greenery and adhered them on the bottom left of the card. I die cut the flowers out of blue and purple cardstock and sponged the edges with Lavender Fields ink before assembling them and adding them over the leaves.

To finish I have stamped the sentiment from the Pink Fresh Studio Perfect Sentiments stamp set in Jet Black ink on white cardstock. I have die cut this with the coordinating die and also die cut another plain die. These were adhered together with the stamped image on top and adhere to the bottom right of the card.

Products Used:

Honey Bee Stamps – Delicate Daisy A2 Cover Plate Base – Honey Cuts

Honey Bee Stamps – Delicate Daisy A2 Cover Plate Top – Honey Cuts

Honey Bee Stamps: Lovely Layers – Spring Birds

Honey Bee Stamps: Lovely Layers – Spring Greenery

Pink Fresh Studio Perfect Sentiments Stamp and coordinating die

Heartfelt Creations Deluxe Flower Shaping Paper

Spellbinders Essentials cardstock – Rainforest, Fern, Peridot, Dahlia, Raindrop, Lunar Grey, Black Onyx, Glacier, Alabaster, Lilac Blossom

Archival ink – Jet Black

Altenew inks – Lavender Fields

Pink Fresh Studio inks – Summer Shower, Seaside

Clear Wink of Stella

Bearly Art Glue

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It’s a Cat and Mouse Father’s Day Game Father’s Day Card

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Today I am sharing a Father’s Day card that I have made for my husband for Father’s Day. This was another quick and easy card to make as I already had all the foliage and flowers die cut and the cat and mouse were easy to die cut and add to the card. This cat die looks exactly like our cat from the back.

My Project

For my card I have made a top folding 4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″ base card out of white cardstock. I ink blended yellow and blue inks to the centre of the card front to provide a backdrop to the leaves and animals. I cut another piece of white cardstock 4″ x 5 1/4″ and die cut the oval aperture out using the Amazing Paper Grace Oval Elegant Twist dies. I stamped the sentiment from the Gina K Designs Hole in One Stamp set to the bottom of the panel in black ink and then adhered this panel to the front of the card using foam tape.

I die cut a range of foliage from the Honey Bee Stamps Honey Cuts – Spring Greenery from a range of green cardstock and white cardstock which was coloured with inks. These have been trimmed and added to the centre of the oval frame.

The cat has been die cut out of black cardstock and added to the centre of the oval with foam tape for dimension. The mouse has been cut out of brown cardstock and I sponged the edges with Frayed Burlap ink before adding it to the front of the oval with foam tape for dimension.

Products Used:

Amazing Paper Grace Oval Elegant Twist Dies

Spellbinders Cat and Mouse dies

Honey Bee Stamps Honey Cuts – Spring Greenery

Spellbinders Essentials Cardstock – Snowdrift, Onyx, Rainforest, Fern, Peridot, Portabello

Neenah Solar Crest Cardstock 80Ib

Pink Fresh Studio inks – Fresh Pear, Key Lime, Grassy Knoll, Lemon Whip, Summer Shower, Sky Blue

Distress Oxide ink – Frayed Burlap

Altenew ink – Obsidian Pigment ink

Foam tape

Bearly Art Glue

Gina K Designs Hole in One Stamp Set

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Amazing Paper Grace Romantic Slimline Borders Birthday Card

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I love lacy dies and these Amazing Paper Grace Romantic Slimline Borders Dies are just stunning to add some pretty edges and decorative backgrounds to add some flowers and a butterfly. These border dies can be used in so many ways and today I have done a 4 1/2″ x 5 1/2″ card. I had some flowers left over from a previous project so this card was so quick and easy to put together. You can see the other card card here and on that post there is a link to a video tutorial on how I have made these flowers on YouTube.

Dies were provided by Amazing Paper Grace for today’s creations.

My Project

To make my card I have created a top folding 4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″ base card out of white cardstock. I then cut a piece of white cardstock 4″ x 5 1/4″ and scored at 1/8″ intervals down the long side of the card and then adhered it to the front of the card.

I cut the following pieces of card:

Blue card – 4 1/2″ x 4″

White card – 3″ x 4″

Pink card – 2″ x 4″

I die cut each end of the blue card with the ‘broderie anglais’ edge and stitch edge dies, the white card with the scallop and stitched dies and the pink card with the lacy decorative edge dies. I then layered the pink strip to the white strip to the blue strip and adhered them to the front of the embossed layer on the front of the card.

I cut a strip of white card 7/8″ x 4″ and embossed a line at 1/8″ along each long side to add some interest to this panel. I then stamped the sentiment from the Amazing Paper Grace Lyrical Layers Floral Stamp Set in Jet Black ink to the right side of the strip. This was then added to the centre of the pink lacy edged strip.

The flowers were made using the Amazing Paper Grace Primrose Heart Facade Dies. I have ink blended pink and yellow inks on white cardstock before die cutting the flowers out and assembling them. I have also used the same flowers on another card that you can see here. The small sprays are from the Amazing Paper Grace October 2021 Die of the Month Flourished Fleurit Dies and have been die cut out of yellow and green cardstock. I added some gold pearls to the centres of the open flowers.

To finish the card I added a blue, white and gold butterfly from the Amazing Paper Grace Butterfly Bliss Garden Shutters Dies.

Amazing Paper Grace Products Used:

Romantic Slimline Borders Dies

Primrose Heart Facade Dies

October 2021 Die of the Month Flourished Fleurit Dies

Butterfly Bliss Garden Shutters Dies

Lyrical Layers Floral Stamp Set

Other Products Used:

Spellbinders Essentials Cardstock – Snowdrift, Rainforest, Glacier, Beeswax, Chamomile, OnyxBee

Concord & 9th Cardstock – Ballet Slippers

Heartfelt Creations Luxe Gold Cardstock

Ranger Archival ink – Ranger Black

Distress Oxide inks – Squeezed Lemonade, Kitsch Flamingo, Saltwater Taffy,

Bearly Art Glue

Scoreboard

Pink Fresh Studio Gold Pearls

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