Month: December 2024

A Kiwi Amazing Paper Grace Christmas

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I live in New Zealand and we have warm Christmases here and snowy Christmas scenes are not relevant, so I have found some fabulous free A1 generated kiwi Christmas images from a Facebook group to create some kiwi Christmas cards. I love this sweet kiwi on the beach surrounded by our New Zealand Christmas trees – the pohutakawa, and created a quick and simple Christmas card using layering of coloured cardstock and a lovely frame die. The Amazing Paper Grace Richelieu Square Etched dies was perfect to frame the image and I added some gorgeous red poinsettia and green foliage with a simple Merry Christmas die to complete the card.

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

My Project

My card base is a top folding 6″ x 6″ white base card. I have layered white and red cardstocks to create the background with the top matted red and white layer raised with fun foam.

I die cut the raised frame using the dies from the Amazing Paper Grace Richelieu Square Etched diesusing white and red cardstocks and then added the image to the centre of the frame. To get the raised effect of the frame I die cut three frames out of white cardstock and adhered it over the red base.

I added glossy accents to the light bulbs and glitter to the sea, flowers and background.

I die cut the postage image using the die from the Amazing Paper Grace Christmas Postman Etched Dies out of dark grey pearl cardstock and adhered it over the top left corner to provide a base for the flowers.

The poinsettias and foliage are from the Amazing Paper Grace Die of the Month November 2020 Pop up 3D Vignette Poinsettia Sleigh Etched Dies and have been die cut out of red and green cardstocks. To add a bit of shimmer to the flowers I have used Lisa Horton Cloud 9 Interference ink Crimson Cheer to the edges of the petals and Lisa Horton Cloud 9 Interference ink Festive Fir to the foliage and green petals before assembling them with a gold pearl in the centres of the flowers.

To complete the card I added the sentiment from the Amazing Paper Grace Make a Scene Silent Night Etched Dies set. To get the dimension for the sentiment I die cut three sentiments out and stacked them together before adding it to the base of the image as shown.

Amazing Paper Grace Products Used:

Die of the Month November 2020 Pop up 3D Vignette Poinsettia Sleigh Etched Dies

Richelieu Square Etched Dies

Make a Scene Silent Night Etched Dies

Christmas Postman Etched Dies

Other Products Used:

Clipart – Free from Facebook

Creative Expressions Foundation Cardstock – Ruby

Spellbinders Essentials Cardstock – Fern, Rainforest

House of Paper White Cardstock 300 gsm

White cardstock

Lisa Horton Cloud 9 Interference ink – Festive Fir, Crimson Cheer

Fun Foam

Glossy Accents

DMC Sparkling Dust

Pink Fresh Studio Gold Pearls

Bearly Art Glue

My Sweet Petunia Precision Glue Press

Double sided tape

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Patricia

Merry Christmas Amazing Paper Grace

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The final countdown is on for Christmas and today I have a Christmas card made using the Amazing Paper Grace Die of the Month June 2020 Snip It Grid and Calendar Dies to create an advent calendar with the 25th December highlighted. I have kept to traditional Christmas colours of red and gold and some beautiful Christmas papers and allowed the dies to look like an advent calendar.

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

My Project

My base card is 6″ x 6″ and I have layered red and patterned paper on the base card. I also added some red satin ribbon across the top left and bottom right of the card.

I then added a layer of gold and red cardstock with black foam to create dimension. Following this I then layered some pattern paper with gold cardstock and added this to the top of the card with more black foam.

I die cut the calendar frame from the Amazing Paper Grace Die of the Month June 2020 Snip It Grid and Calendar Dies out of red cardstock and adhered it to the pattern paper and then matted it to gold cardstock before adding it to the front of the card leaving space above and below for the sentiments and month with more black foam.

I die cut the numbers and the word ‘December’ from the Amazing Paper Grace Die of the Month June 2020 Snip It Grid and Calendar Dies out of red cardstock and adhered the numbers inside the squares. I die cut another frame out of gold cardstock and snipped it to a single square which was added over the 25th square. I die cut the numbers 2 and 5 out of gold cardstock and then adhering them to the highlighted square.

To finish the calendar I added red squares to the empty squares and then some gold pearls to complete the bottom row.

I die cut the sentiment from the Amazing Paper Grace Happy Occasion Words Dies twice – one from red cardstock and one from gold cardstock. I adhered the red words over the gold words slightly offsetting the gold sentiments for a shadow and then adhered the sentiments to the card under the calendar frame. I repeated the same procedure for the word ‘December’ which was place above the calendar frame.

I added a red ribbon bow to the top left corner and added a poinsettia and foliage made using the Amazing Paper Grace Cinch and Go Poinsettias Dies to the bow. A gold pearl to the centre of the flower finished the card.

Amazing Paper Grace Products Used:

Die of the Month June 2020 Snip It Grid and Calendar

Happy Occasion Words Dies

Die of the Month November 2020 Pop up 3D Vignette Poinsettia Sleigh

Cinch and Go Poinsettias Dies

Other Products Used:

Dress My Craft Christmas Bells Paper

House of Paper Cardstock – White 300gsm

Heartfelt Creations Luxe Gold Cardstock

Creative Expressions Foundation Cardstock – Ruby

Spellbinders foam – black

Pink Fresh Studio inks – Key Lime, Olive

Memento ink – Lady Bug

Spellbinders Essentials Cardstock – Fern

Pink Fresh Studio Gold Pearls

Bearly Art Glue

My Sweet Petunia Precision Glue Press

Double sided tape

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Amazing Paper Grace Away in the Manger

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I really love the versatility of the Amazing Paper Grace 3D Vignettes and I also love the beautiful vignette scenes as well where you can layer a 3D scene very quickly, including the sentiment for any occasion. Today’s Christmas card has a nativity scene made using the Amazing Paper Grace Grand Lattice Arch Dies with the Amazing Paper Grace Nativity. Layering Set Dies in a classic and elegant white and gold combination. I have made the nativity scene the focal point of the card by using foam strips to layer the vignette in the centre of the card and making it pop from the stunning background die. I have finished the card with some white and gold poinsettias from the Amazing Paper Grace November 2020 Die of the Month Pop up 3D Vignette Poinsettia Sleigh Dies.

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

My Project

My finished card is 5″ x 5 1/2″ and the base is layered in gold and white card. I die cut a plain frame and a gold frame using the Amazing Paper Grace Grand Lattice Arch Dies and adhered them together.

I die cut two star ‘ray’ vigentte dies – one from gold card and one from white card and adhered them together with the gold slightly offset. I then die cut the nativity scene from white card and two sentiment vignettes from gold card. I adhered the two sentiment vignettes together and then layered all the vignettes together with foam strips.

I die cut a plain insert out of white card and ink blended yellow and green inks and added it behind all the vignettes.

I then added the frame to the front of the card with foam tape and then added the vignettes to the centre of the frame.

To finish I added some pearls to the star ‘rays’ and the white poinsettias and gold foliage to the top left of the card.

Amazing Paper Grace Products Used:

Amazing Paper Grace Grand Lattice Arch Dies

Amazing Paper Grace Nativity. Layering Set Dies

Amazing Paper Grace November 2020 Die of the Month Pop up 3D Vignette Poinsettia Sleigh Dies.

Other Products Used:

Lawn Fawn Mirror Gold Cardstock

Neenah Classic Crest Cardstock 80 Ib

House of Paper White Cardstock 300 gsm

Altenew foam tape

Foam strips

Bearly Art Glue

My Sweet Petunia Precision Glue Press

Pink Fresh Studio Gold Pearls

Pearls from my stash

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‘Tis The Season with Amazing Paper Grace

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Wow Christmas is just around the corner and I have some more Christmas card inspiration for you using the fabulous Amazing Paper Grace Die of the Month November 2019 – Solstice Snowflake Die. This is an amazing layering die set and I have used different silver finished cardstock to show up the layers beautifully on a layered blue and silver base card. To complete the card I have just added a silver reversed hot foiled sentiment to let the layers of silver and texture to shine.

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

My Project

My finished card ia 6″ x 6″ and I have laywered dark and light blue patterned paper with silver to create the base for the decorative dies.

I have used a mix of brushed metallic silver card, matte metallic silver card, two different glitter metallic Cardstock and some silver cardstock on the different layers of the dies. I have also used foam tape to create dimension with the outer frame and also the snowflakes in the centre of the frame.

To finish the card I have added some Glacier gems for some sparkle and an iridescent reversed hot foiled sentiment using the Amazing Paper Grace Christmas Damask Jubilee Hot Foil Plate and die cut using the label die from the Amazing Paper Grace Giving Occasions Stamp and Die Set. For an extra snowflake oomph I added a snowflake die from the Amazing Paper Grace Snowflake Splendor Dies to the centre of the frame as shown.

Amazing Paper Grace Products Used:

Die of the Month November 2019 – Solstice Snowflake Die

S5-429 Snowflake Splendor Dies

GLP-120 Christmas Damask Jubilee Hot Foil Plate 

SDS-054 – Giving Occasions Stamp and Die Set (die used to cut the sentiment)

Other Products Used:

Heartfelt Creations Luxe Silver Cardstock – matting and small snowflake

Heartfelt Creations Festive Winterscape Paper Collection

Spellbinders Brushed Metallic Silver Cardstock (Small hexagons x 2)

Spellbinders Matte Metallic Silver Cardstock (large decorative hexagon)

Spellbinders Glitter Metallic Cardstock (shadow of large decorative hexagon)

Pink Fresh Studio Silver Glitter Cardstock Large Snowflake

Pink Fresh Studio Gems – Glacier

Spellbinders Foil – Prism – reversed foiled with Pink Fresh Studio Foil Plate

Altenew foam tape

Bearly Art Glue

My Sweet Petunia Precision Glue Press

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Merry Christmas Amazing Paper Grace

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I am late posting this card because I had an incident last week and have had to rest and also be careful with using devices and my computer for a few days. I am slowly starting to feel a little better but I will make sure I do get rest when I need it.

Today’s card is a very quick and easy card using just three die sets the Amazing Paper Grace Die of the Month July 2021 Home Sweet Home with a sentiment from the Amazing Paper Grace Fluted Classics Rectangles Dies and small holly embellishments from the Amazing Paper Grace Sugarplum Tweets Dies and festive paper for a more traditional Christmas card. This card is a standard size 4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″ and folds flat for easy posting.

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

Amazing Paper Grace Dies Used:

Die of the Month July 2021 Home Sweet Home

S5-475 Fluted Classics Rectangles Dies

S4-1244 Sugarplum Tweets Dies

Other Products Used:

Dress My Craft Paper – Welcome Santa

Heartfelt Creations Luxe Gold Cardstock

DMC Sparkling Dust

Bearly Art Glue

My Sweet Petunia Precision Glue Press

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