I was asked recently to make some New Zealand Christmas themed Christmas cards and I thought it would be a great opportunity to use the Amazing Paper Grace Graceful Borders – Graceful Frame Maker Etched Die to create a frame for this cute kiwi on a beach scene. I was really happy with how this card turned out. And I love the cute Santa kiwi too!
Dies were provided by Amazing Paper Grace for today’s creations.
My Project
I am so amazed at the ingenuity of this die to create so many different frame combinations and for this card I have used the Amazing Paper Grace Graceful Borders – Graceful Fans Etched Dies to make a fan border for the image. I have also used the Amazing Paper Grace Classic Fluted Square Etched Dies to complete the frame. I have added some poinsettias and foliage from the Amazing Paper Grace Die of the Month November 2020 Pop up 3D Vignette Poinsettia Sleigh Etched Dies and the I have mounted the foiled sentiment from the Amazing Paper Grace Die of the Month November 2020 Pop up 3D Vignette Poinsettia Sleigh Etched Dies on the banner from the Amazing Paper Grace Vintage Pierced Banners Etched Dies. To finish the card I have added some sparkle on the sea and the flowers using some Diamond Stickles and to the hat with Stickles Frosted Lace and some gold pearls to the corners and flower centres.
You can see how this die works in this video that Becca Feeken has made here:
Amazing Paper Grace Products used:
S4-1151 Fluted Classics Squares Etched Dies
Die of the Month November 2020 Pop up 3D Vignette Poinsettia Sleigh Etched Dies
S4-820 Vintage Pierced Banners Etched Dies
S6-112 Graceful Borders – Graceful Frame Maker Etched Die
S4-703 Graceful Borders – Graceful Fans Etched Dies
This month’s Pink Fresh Studio Challenge theme is Tone-on-Tone & Monochrome Magic. ✨ Pick a single color and bring it to life by layering different tones and shades—or explore the tone-on-tone technique for added depth and dimension. To spark your creativity, we’ve provided a color palette to choose from—just pick one hue as your star and let it shine!
Our monthly challenge is an Anything Goes Challenge: While the theme and colors are here to inspire you, feel free to enter any NEW project that primarily uses Pinkfresh Studio products. Whether you use the theme, the colors, both or none—it’s up to you. At the end of the day, we just want you to get crafty and have fun!
My card today would fit into the Anything Goes Challenge but I feel it can also fit into the Monochromatic Magic theme as I have used purples and grey colours with a touch of silver for a soft and subtle colour palette.
My Project
My card is a standard side folding 4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″ card with a twist. I have trimmed the front panel down and added a lace border and a grey plaid strip tone on tone card to the front panel. I have hot foiled the Magnificent Magnolia image on white cardstock and coloured it with purple and grey inks. I added some purple inks to the leaves to keep with the tone on tone theme and then added it over the front edge.
For the inside back of the card I have used the Magnificent Magnolia Press Plate to add some interest on the panel by using grey ink on the grey card to tie in with the plaid front and floral image.
I added silver accents with the lace on the front panel and also with the base layer of the sentiment panel on the inside back panel. The sentiment has been reverse hot foiled as well to allow it to stand out on the white background.
Finally, I have added silver pearls to the front and back of the card as shown.
Products Used:
Pink Fresh Studio Magnificent Magnolia Press Plate, Stencils and Die Set
Pink Fresh Studio Plaid Press Plate
Pink Fresh Studio Fancy Edgers Die
Pink Fresh Studio Dotted Fancy Frames Die
Pink Fresh Studio Wonderful Sentiments Hot Foil Plate and Coordinating Die
One of my favourite papercraft techniques is hot foiling and I do it a lot – particularly for sentiments. I have purchased a Better Press machine but I tend to use the plates for hot foiling instead. Amazing Paper Grace has the most beautiful and elegant hot foil plates and today I have used the Amazing Paper Grace Merry Filigree Quatrefoil Hot Foil Plate as a base for my Christmas card. I have used non-traditional colours for my card and I love the how the colour combination of pink, gold and green work with the pops of traditional red berries.
Dies were provided by Amazing Paper Grace for today’s creations.
It is scarily close to Christmas now and I have another Christmas card to share with you using the Amazing Paper Grace Oval Coronet Etched Dies as a beautiful frame for a pretty poinsettia image I found on Facebook. I have used vellum for the insert to add texture but still allow the image to show through. I have added some embellishments around the frame (listed below) and a fabulous full silver bow to finish off the card. I love the clean simplicity of this card and the red poinsettia really pops through the white and silver accents of the card.
Dies were provided by Amazing Paper Grace for today’s creations.
Cardmaking is so easy when you have beautiful decorative dies that do all the heavy lifting resulting in timeless, classic and elegant cards. My card today features the stunning Amazing Paper Grace February 2019 – Enchantment Tall Flip and Gatefold Etched Dies by Becca Feeken as the base. This die set is so versatile and I have used it several times as a gatefold card but here I have created a 5″ x 7″ card with it. I have used a classic white and gold combination which goes well with the pink flowers and green leaves from the Amazing Paper Grace Layered Cherry Blossoms Etched Dies and the gold sentiment from the Amazing Paper Grace Adoring Fleurette Card Builder Etched Dies. To finish my card I have added a white sating bow and glittery gems to the centre of the open flowers and to the decorative die itself.
Dies were provided by Amazing Paper Grace for today’s creations.
Amazing Paper Grace Products used:
Die of the Month February 2019 – Enchantment Tall Flip and Gatefold Etched Dies
Today’s card has been inspired by a reel from Instagram and I have given it an Amazing Paper Grace Twist by using the Amazing Paper Grace Curvy Labels Etched Dies to create a ‘tunnel’ aperture and I added a pretty edge using the Amazing Paper Grace Floral Tiara Topper Etched Dies which has been lined with the same pink on the butterflies and the base of the card front. I have added foam tape between the layers of white card to create more depth and dimension to the card front and also to the flowers. I think the finished card is so crisp, fresh and also quite elegant and can be used for so many different occasions.
Dies were provided by Amazing Paper Grace for today’s creations.
My Project
I have created a base card of 6″ x 6″ out of white cardstock. I then added matted pink and white cardstock to the front of the card. I cut two further pieces of white cardstock each 1/8″ smaller and also die cut the aperture out using the Amazing Paper Grace Curvy Etched dies – the bottom card is slightly smaller aperture to get the ‘tunnel’ effect. I also die cut the decorative edge out of the bottom of the top layer using the dies from the Amazing Paper Grace Floral Tiara Topper Etched Dies using the outer edge cutting die only. I die cut a shadow out of pink cardstock and added it to the back of the decorative edge and added another white complete decorative edge to the top of the previously cut edge for extra strength and depth. On the second layer I have used my scoreboard to score lines 1/8″ to the bottom for more interest. I have created the base for the aperture by hot foiling the Amazing Paper Grace Glorious Glimmer Elegant Background Hot Foil Plate with Opal foil and then sponging pink over it for a resist effect. The layers were all added together with foam tape and I added some acetate behind the bottom layer before adding the pink resist background onto the card front.
I have made the flowers using the dies from the Amazing Paper Grace Spring Label Motif Etched Dies. I have used pink inks to colour the flowers and then added green foliage and small yellow and green flowers which were added around the left side of the aperture.
To finish the card I added a decorative swirl to the top of the card using the flourish die from the Amazing Paper Grace Delicate Tendril Border Etched Dies and a motif at the top of the decorative edge from the Amazing Paper Grace Marquise Diamond Pendant Etched Dies and added pearls to the decorative dies as shown.
Finally I have added a couple of sweet butterflies from the Amazing Paper Grace Summer Motif Etched Dies and the sentiment from the Honey Bee Stamps Mini Messages Stamp set has been stamped in black and cut small to fit the decorative edge using foam strips.
Amazing Paper Grace Products Used:
S4-930 Curvy Labels Etched Dies
S4-994 – Marquise Diamond Pendant Etched Dies
S4-1220 Summer Label Motif Etched Dies
S4-1238 Spring Label Motif Etched Dies
S4-993 – Floral Tiara Topper Etched Dies
S4-996 – Delicate Tendril Border Etched Dies
GLP-041 – Glorious Glimmer Elegant Background Hot Foil Plate
Today’s card features some layering with the Amazing Paper Grace Candlewick Sampler and Candlewick Classics collection by Becca Feeken. These collections are among my all time favourite collections because they work so well together and create beautiful designs and textures that are timeless and classic. I have added some soft pink handmade flowers and very pale lemon flowers on green leaves to continue the romantic feel to this card. Who wouldn’t want to receive this card!
Dies were provided by Amazing Paper Grace for today’s creations.
My Project
The base card is a side folding 5″ x 7″ card made from Alabaster cardstock. To create the base for the layered dies I have matted gold and Alabaster card to the front of the card and for extra interest I have scored a border using my scoreboard on the top Alabaster layer. I then matted gold cardstock with some ivory embossed paper from my stash and added it to the card front.
I have used the Amazing Paper Grace Rectangle and Square Candlewick Classics dies to create frames out of the Alabaster cardstock. I have added a medium rectangle frame on the card front and added the plain centre. I then added a square frame to the front of the rectangle frame. but turning it around 90 degrees with foam tape. I die cut two of the Amazing Paper Grace Candlewick Canopy Etched Dies – one from gold cardstock and one from Alabaster card. I stacked these together with the gold frame on top and then wrapped the Canopy frame around a small rectangle frame to the top of the previous frames with foam tape. To finish the layering I have added the plain insert for placing the sentiment on the card.
I die cut four ‘With Love’ sentiments from the Amazing Paper Grace With Love Regalia Card Builder Etched Dies – three from Alabaster cardstock and one from gold cardstock. These were stacked together with the gold sentiment on top and then added to the middle of the layered frames.
I have die cut the leaves from the Amazing Paper Grace Cinch and Go Flowers III Etched Dies and Cinch and Go Five Etched Dies out of two shades of green cardstock. I added some Mowed Lawn inks to the leaves and then added them around the top left of the frame.
The flowers have been made using the Amazing Paper Grace Cinch and Go Five Etched Dies and Grand Cinch And Go Flowers Etched Dies using some soft flower shaping paper. For a harmonious colour palatte I have coloured the big flowers with pinks and light green/yellow inks and then used the same light green/yellow ink on the smaller flowers. I have added flowers over the leaves and added Crystal Stickles to the larger flowers and Frosted Lace for the smaller flowers and pearls to the centre of the small flowers.
To finish the card I have added pearls to the Candlewick Canopy die, the square and rectangle dies and some pearl trim from my stash around the top matted layer and a single pearl flower inside the frame by the sentiment.
Amazing Paper Grace Products Used:
S5-399 Candlewick Rectangles Etched Dies
S4-1034 Candlewick Squares Etched Dies
S4-1016 Candlewick Canopy Etched Dies
S4-995 Cinch and Go Five Etched Dies (small flowers and leaves)
S5-492 With Love Regalia Card Builder Etched Dies
S5-436 Grand Cinch And Go Flowers Etched Dies
S4-867 Cinch and Go Flowers III Etched Dies (leaves)
Other Products Used:
Lawn Fawn Gold Mirror Cardstock
Spellbinders Essentials Cardstock – Peridot, Rainforest, AlabasterBearly Art Glue
My Sweet Petunia Precision Glue Press
Bearly Art Glue
Foam Tape
Foam Squares
Dress My Craft Soft Floral Flower Shaping Paper
Dress My Craft Stamens
Distress ink – Mowed Lawn
Pink Fresh Studio inks – Lemincello, Cherry Blossom, Peony
Time has got the better of me this month so I am rushing to get a second entry into the Pink Fresh Studio Challenge for August in the Anything Goes Challenge category.
The Pink Fresh Studio monthly challenge is an Anything Goes Challenge: While the theme and colors are here to inspire you, feel free to enter any NEW project that primarily uses Pinkfresh Studio products. Whether you use the theme, the colors, both or none—it’s up to you. At the end of the day, we just want you to get crafty and have fun!
My Project:
My card has been inspired my Emily Midget’s use of soft brown and pink colours on a bisque betterpress card base. While I have used the Pink Fresh Studio Warm Buff ink on the bisque card I have added some sparkly elements using the Pink Fresh Studio Blush Glitter Paper for some sparkle in the frame, leaves and to mat the striped card. I have used a different pink combination of Pink Fresh Studio inks – Cherry Blossom, Peony, Begonia, and Sparkling Rose while still using the Warm Buff and Doe inks for the leaves. To finish I added some butterflies and a hot foiled sentiment and Ballet Slipper gems.
Products Used:
Pink Fresh Studio Magnificent Magnolia Press Plate, Stencil, Die
Pink Fresh Studio Plaid Betterpress Plate
Pink Fresh Studio Perfect Sentiments Press Plate, Die set
Pink Fresh Studio Small Butterflies Hot Foil Plate, Stencil, Die Set
Pink Fresh Studio Fall Leaf Die
Pink Fresh Studio Nested Elongated Oval Blanket Stitch Dies
I have another card to share with you that has been inspired by The Gilded Age television programme. This time I have used the fabulous Amazing Paper Grace Tiffany Lavaliere Etched Dies from the Vintage Treasures Collection by Becca Feeken. For this card I have added a handmade rose and small filler flowers to complement the gorgeous dies that I have used. I played on the blue and gold theme again and also added some white shadows for a bigger contrast. To finish the card I have added a foiled sentiment that is so versatile and can be used for many different occasions.
Dies were provided by Amazing Paper Grace for today’s creations.
My Project
My base card is a top folding 5 1/2 x 5 1/2″ white card and I have added gold card to the front. I then added a matted white and light teal card to this using fun foam to keep the weight down. To add more interest to the light teal card I have added an embossed border using my scoring board.
I die cut the outer frame, inner frame and decorative middle out of gold cardstock. I added the outer gold frame out to the card front with foam squares. I die cut the white layer using the middle decorative dies and then added the gold decorative frame on top and added this inside the frame. I die cut two more inner frames out of white cardstock before stacking these together and then adding the previous gold frame to the top and added it to the centre of the frame. I die cut one white shadow inner motif and two decorative motifs out of gold cardstock. I added one gold motif to the white shadow die with foam squares and then rotated the other gold motif 90 degrees before adding it to the other motif with foam squares before adding to the base card as shown.
I hot foiled the sentiment from the Amazing Paper Grace Glorious Glimmer Elegant Ovals Foil Plate using Aura foil on white cardstock. I die cut this out using the banner die from the Amazing Paper Grace Just a Note Sentiments Tag Clear Stamp Die Set and added this across the centre of the decorative dies using some foam squares for more shape.
The leaves have been cut out of different green cardstocks using the Amazing Paper Grace Candlewick Rosebud, Petite Floral Potpourri and the Die of the Month December 2022 Sweetheart Envelope and Notecard Set Etched Dies. I added the light green foliage around the left side of the frame and then I have inked the larger green leaves with Mowed Lawn ink and shaped them before adding them over the light green foliage.
The rose has been made using the Amazing Paper Grace Candlewick Rosebud Etched Dies. I have used flower shaping paper and dipped this in some water with pink re-inker ink to colour the petals pink. Ater shaping the rose and assembling it I added some TCW Stardust Butter – Opalescent for a porcelain look at dusted it with some Micro Sparkling Dust for some shimmer and this has been added to the left side over the sentiment banner to anchor it.
The small flowers are from the Amazing Paper Grace Cinch and Go Blossoms Etched Dies. I have kept the larger flowers white and added some blue ink to the smaller flowers that matched the light teal cardstock. The white flowers have had some Frosted Lace Stickles applied and the blue flowers have had Crystal Stickles applied and then the flowers have been added over the leaves and foliage. To finish the flowers I have added some pearls to the centre.
To complete the card I die cut the small motif from the Amazing Paper Grace Nobel Chatelaine Etched Dies out of gold cardstock, trimmed then and added them to the four corners of the card. Finally I added some pearls to the centres of these corners.
Amazing Paper Grace Products Used:
S5-393 Vintage Treasures -Tiffany Lavaliere Etched Dies
S5-394 Nobel Chatelaine Etched Dies
S4-1015 Candlewick Rosebud Etched Dies
Die of the Month December 2022 Sweetheart Envelope and Notecard Set Etched Dies (leaves)
S4-1163 Cinch and Go Blossoms Etched Dies
S3-420 Petite Floral Potpourri Etched Dies
GLP-030 Glorious Glimmer Elegant Ovals Foil Plate
SDS-169 Just a Note Sentiments Tag Clear Stamp Die Set
Other Products Used:
Spellbinders Colorwheel Cardstock – Breeze, Fern,
Spellbinders Essentials Cardstock – Peridot
Dress My Craft Soft Floral Paper
Neenah Classic Crest Solar White – 110 Ib cardstock
I have another card inspired by the television programme The Gilded Age to share with you today. I love all the opening credits on this programme and the Amazing Paper Grace Nobel Chatelaine Etched Dies from the Vintage Treasures by Becca Feeken reminded me of the ornate necklace at the start of the credits and then to finish the card I have added some flowers and foliage to represent the ornate decorations at the end of the credits. The colour combination I have used here was used on a lot of the decor at the different mansions that are featured in this programme. I have kept the sentiment low key in order to highlight the stunning dies, flowers and foliage.
Dies were provided by Amazing Paper Grace for today’s creations.
My Project
My base card is 5″ x &” and I have matted white and light blue/green cardstock to create a background using fun foam to add some dimension in the top matted layer.
I die cut a shadow decorative frame from the Amazing Paper Grace Nobel Chatelaine Etched Dies out of white cardstock and then die cut a decorative frame with the centre die cut out from gold cardstock. These were stacked together and added to the front of the card with foam tape and squares. I then added a small scalloped frame to the centre of the gold frame with foam squares for more dimension. I die cut two motifs from the same die set – one from gold cardstock and one from white cardstock. These were stacked together with the gold motif on top and then added into the centre of the frame as shown. I added a small white diamond to the centre and a gold pearl to the centre and sides of the motif and pearls to the centres of the flowers. To further enhance the feel of a necklace I added some iridescent gems from my stash to the decorative frame for lots of bling and sparkle.
I die cut some leaves from the Amazing Paper Grace Summer Label Motif Etched Dies out of gold cardstock and added them to the left of the decorative frame. I then die cut three different leaf shapes out of three different green cardstocks using dies from the Amazing Paper Grace Candlewick Rosebud Etched Dies, Sweet Cottage Flowers Etched Dies and the Layered Daisies Etched Dies. I added depth to the leaves with Mowed Lawn ink and then added them over the gold leaves.
The large flower has been made using the Amazing Paper Grace Sweet Cottage Flowers Etched Dies out of white flower shaping paper. I have dyed the paper a very pale pink and then shaped two petals similar to the flowers on the decor in The Gilded Rose television programme. Once dry I added some TCW Stardust Butter – Opalescent to the petals which gave the flower a shimmery porcelain finish. To finish the flower I added some gold edging to the petals with Cosmic Shimmer Luna Paste – Moonlight Gold. I used a styrofoam bud for the centre and added some gold pearls to the bud before adding some pearl stamens around the base of the stamen. The flower was added over the leaves using a foam square.
The small flowers have been made from the Amazing Paper Grace and the Petite Floral Potpourri Etched Dies and the Die of the Month March 2020 – Elegant Infinity Etched Dies. I have coloured the larger flowers with yellow ink and the smaller flowers with a pale blue ink that matches the colour of the background blue/green cardstock. These were shaped and added around the larger flower and I have added gold pearls to the centre of the yellow flowers and oyster pearls to the centre of the blue flowers. To finish the flowers I added some Stardust Stickles to the blue flowers and Stardust Stickles to the yellow flowers.
I stamped the sentiments from the Amazing Paper Grace Seasonal Motif Sentiments Clear Stamp Set and the Becca’s Place Magnolia Stamp Set using Versamark ink on white cardstock and then heat embossed them with gold embossing powder. I die cut them both out using the small tag die from the Amazing Paper Grace Cascading Etched Die set. I added a gold thread before attaching the tags to the card under the large flower. To finish the tags I die cut another motif out of gold cardstock and trimmed it to decorate the top of the tags and then added two small iridescent gems to them.
I die cut another two motifs and trimmed them in half and added these to each corner of the card over the blue/green cardstock to show the ornate decorative elements that were widely used in ‘The Gilded Age’. I added some oyster pearls to the centres of the flowers to tie in with the rest of the card.
Amazing Paper Grace Products Used:
S5-394 Nobel Chatelaine Etched Dies
S4-1025. Sweet Cottage Flowers Etched Dies
S4-1193 Layered Daisies Etched Dies
S4-1015 Candlewick Rosebud Etched Dies
S4-1220 Summer Label Motif Etched Dies
STP-150 Seasonal Motif Sentiments Clear Stamp Set
Die of the Month March 2020 – Elegant Infinity Etched Dies
S3-420 Petite Floral Potpourri Etched Dies
S6-945 Cascading Grace Etched Dies
Other Products:
Spellbinders Colorwheel Cardstock – Breeze, Fern,
Spellbinders Essentials Cardstock – Peridot
Dress My Craft Soft Floral Paper
Neenah Classic Crest Solar White – 110 Ib cardstock
