Amazing Paper Grace With Grateful Thanks

Kia ora Koutou

I have just purchased a new hot foil machine so of course I had to try it out and yes I am much happier with this machine. I really love the border hot foil plates from the Amazing Paper Grace Delicate Impressions collection by Becca Feeken. The Amazing Paper Grace Diamonetta Background Hot Foil Plate creates the perfect background to add some gorgeous fussy cut coloured flowers from the Amazing Paper Grace Sweet Blooms Border Hot Foil Plate. Add these to a very pretty decorative floral border and a ‘heartfelt’ sentiment and the card is complete.

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

My Project

For my card I have cut a piece of cardstock 6 3/4″ x 8″ and scored at 5″ along the long side leave a front flap of 3″. I die cut the decorative floral border from the Amazing Paper Grace Graceful Floral Border Dies out of white cardstock and adhered the side under the front flap. I cut a piece of white cardstock 6 3/4″ x 2 7/8″ and adhered it to the underside of the front flap hiding the end of the decorative border. I then cut a piece of gold cardstock 2″ x 6 3/4″ and adhered it to the right side of the inside back of the card. I cut a piece of gold cardstock 6 1/2″ x 2 3/4″ and adhered it to the front flap. I cut a piece of white foil friendly paper 6 1/4″ x 2 1/2″ and foiled it with with Amazing Paper Grace Diamonetta Background Hot Foil Plate with gold foil. This was then applied over the gold panel on the flap. To finish the panel I die cut decorative edges out of gold cardstock using the Amazing Paper Grace Graceful Floral Lace dies and adhered them to the panel to add a decorative finish to the panel.

I hot foiled the Amazing Paper Grace Sweet Blooms Border Hot Foil Plate onto Hammermill white cardstock with gold foil. I then coloured the flowers and leaves with Copic markers and fussy cut the images out. These were then added over the diamond background within the border as shown.

To finish the card I hot foiled the sentiment from the Amazing Paper Grace Heartfelt Sentiments in gold foil on white cardstock and diecut it with the coordinating die. I also die cut two plain sentiment dies from white cardstock and stacked all three dies together with the foiled sentiment on top. This was then added to the front of the decorated panel on the card.

Amazing Paper Grace Products Used:

Graceful Floral Lace Border Dies

Diamonetta Background Hot Foil Plate

Sweet Blooms Border Hot Foil Plate

Heart Felt Sentiments Hot Foil Plate and Die

Other Products Used:

Crafter’s Companion Centura Pearl Snow White Cardstock – Hint of Gold

Heartfelt Creations Luxe Gold Cardstock

Hammermill 100 Ib White Cardstock

Spellbinders Foil – Gold

Copic Markers – RV55, RV63, V000, E99, Y38, Y11, B00, G99, G94, YG25, YG03

Bearly Art Glue

Heartfelt Creations Climbing Clematis Flowers Two Ways

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Today I am sharing a card made with Heartfelt Creations Climbing Clematis that has been shaped and coloured in two different ways to make a beautiful floral birthday card. I was inspired by a card on Pinterest that used the beautiful Marianne Creatables LR0300 die to create a stunning but simple base for some hand made flowers. This die is one of my favourites as you can emboss it to get some amazing texture and depth to the die cut. Plus I have had numerous requests to do more flower making tutorials and today I have a video on my YouTube channel showing you how I have made these clematis flowers and how to put them on the card.

My project

For my card I have made a top folding 4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″ card out of white cardstock. I then die cut the gorgeous Marianne Creatables LR0300 die out of white cardstock and adhered it to the front of the card using foam tape.

I hot foiled the sentiment from the Spellbinders Everyday Sentiments Glimmer Plate on white cardstock using silver holographic hot foil and die cut it with the coordinating die. I then matted it lightly with silver cardstock and adhered it to the bottom right of the card.

I then die cut the flowers and leaves, coloured them and shaped them and allowed them to dry. Once assembled the flowers and leaves were then added to the top of the card.

To finish the card I added some white pearls to the decorative die.

Products Used:

Heartfelt Creations Climbing Clematis Dies

Heartfelt Creations Garden Lily Dies

Marianne Designs LR0300 Dies

Spellbinders Everyday Sentiments Glimmer Plate and Coordinating Die

Spellbinders Essentials Cardstock – Snowdrift

Spellbinders Silver Metallic Cardstock

Rajni Chawla’s Flower Shaping Paper

Spellbinders Hot Foil – Holographic Silver

Ranger Archival inks – Vivid Chartreuse, Leaf Green, Olive, Periwinkle, Violet, Buttercup

Medium and Large Ball Stylus

Soft flower shaping mat

Dress My Craft Micro Thread Stamens

Dress My Craft Yellow Wire Pollens

Upholstery thread

Bearly Art Glue

Foam tape

White pearls

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Patricia

A Kiwi Christmas Card

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Today I have another Kiwi Christmas card to share with you. This card is a little outside my comfort zone with ink blending and silhouette stamping but I was so pleased at how it turned out. Once again I have used a couple of Kiwiana stamps from Montarga Rubber Stamps shop but gave it my twist with die cutting a gorgeous frame for the silhouette image, trees with lights and of course a poinsettia flower to celebrate Christmas down under. Plus there is a cheeky kiwi peeking out from behind the Christmas tree with a wee present. I have used a mix of Heartfelt Creations, Honey Bee Stamps Lovely Layers and Amazing Paper Grace dies to complete my card – scroll past the full list of products I have used.

Products Used:

Heartfelt Creations Holiday Ornament Paper collection

Heartfelt Creations Luxe Gold Cardstock

Heartfelt Creations Deluxe Flower Shaping Paper 

Heartfelt Creations Simply Classic Rectangle Frame die

Honey Bee Stamps: Lovely Layers – Trees Honey Cuts

Amazing Paper Grace Die of the Month – Pop up 3D Vignette Sleigh (poinsettias and leaves)

Amazing Paper Grace Silent Night Make a Scene dies

Spellbinders Essentials Cardstock – Rainforest, Fern, Phone Booth

Rubber Stamps by Montarga 2304- Christmas Kiwi

Rubber Stamps by Montarga 3457 NZ Silhouette

Copic Markers 

Small clear sparkles coloured with Copics

Pink Fresh Studio Gold pearl

Altenew Obsidian Pigment ink

Pink Fresh Studio inks – Key Lime, Grassy Knoll, Lemon Whip, Sweet Mustard, Marigold, Apricot, Clementine

Heavy cardstock

Foam tape

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Patricia