Happy Mother’s Day

Kia ora Koutou

Tomorrow it is Mother’s Day here in New Zealand and in many countries around the world. I thought I would share another Mother’s Day card with you today made using the beautiful Altenew Vintage Lace Embossing Folder and the coordinating stencil.

My card is a clean and simple 5″ x 7″ card with the beautiful blue roses framed with an oval cut using the Amazing Paper Grace Oval Fluted Classic die. I have added a foiled sentiment in silver from the Spellbinders Happy Parents Day Hot Foil Plate and Die set. I finished the card off with some pale blue iridescent gems from Pink Fresh Studio.

Products Used:

Altenew Vintage Lace 3D Embossing Folder and coordinating stencils

Altenew inks – Prickly Pear, Blue Mountains, Shades of Purple

Spellbinders Essentials Cardstock – Snowdrift

Spellbinders Happy Parents Hot Foil and Die Plate

Pink Fresh Studio Jewels – Glacier

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Patricia

Pink Roses for Mother’s Day

Kia ora Koutou

I would like to wish you all a happy Easter. I hope you all have a lovely weekend celebrating this occasion with family and friends.

Mother’s Day is not far away and I have a sweet Mother’s Day card to share with you. I fell in love with the Altenew Vintage Lace Embossing Folder and the coordinating stencils because the honeycomb background is just gorgeous and I just love roses! I tend to gravitate to roses all the time… I have made a step card using a retired die from Spellbinders – Decorated Birthday Pop Up die and decorated the front with strips made from die cutting white card with the Lawn Fawn Quilted Background die. I then embossed a piece of white cardstock and coloured the roses with the coordinating stencil. I trimmed this down and added a frame using the Amazing Paper Grace Oval Fluted Classics with foam tape to put the focus on the roses.

I reverse hot foiled the Mother’s Day sentiment from Spellbinders Happy Parents hot foil plate and die cut it with the coordinating die.

To finish I have added pink jewels to the intersections of the quilted background.

Products used:

Altenew Vintage Rose Embossing Folder and Coordinating Stencils

Amazing Paper Grace Oval Fluted Classics

Spellbinders Happy Parents Day Die

Spellbinders Decorated Birthday Pop Up Die

Spellbinders Rectangle Foil Plate

Lawn Fawn Quilted Backdrop Die

Spellbinders Essentials Cardstock – Snowdrift

Pink Fresh Studio Jewels – Pink

Spellbinders Gold Foil

Gina K inks – Medium Carnation, Medium Spruce,

Foam tape

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Patricia

Celebrate with Antique Roses!

Kia Ora Koutou

Today I have something very different to share with you. The Craft-A-Flower layering dies from Altenew are just beautiful and I could not resist the Antique Rose layering dies. These dies do make flower making so incredibly easy and a lovely break from making dimensional flowers.

I have created the base of the card using the Altenew – Diamond Stars 3D Embossing Folder.

I have created a band across the card using the Altenew – Creative Edges: Lace Die. The diamond foil is from Amazing Paper Grace Diamonetta Background Glimmer Hot Foil Plate from Delicate Impressions Collection by Becca Feeken and the sentiment is from the Pink Fresh Studio – Perfect Sentiments.

I have used a combination of cardstock from Spellbinders and Creative Expressions Foundation cardstock. I have also die cut some leaves from vellum for a different texture.

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Patricia

Wedding Wishes

Kia Ora Koutou

Welcome back and today I have a wedding card and a coordinating basket using the gorgeous APG dies – Doily Round and Richelieu Square finished with some handcrafted roses.

This set would be perfect to take to a wedding – the basket is big enough to put in a gift voucher or s small gift.

Products Used:

APG dies – Doily Round, Richelieu Square

Heartfelt Creations – Wild Rose, Oakberry Lane, Ornamental Tags, Black Cardstock

Dress My Craft – Soft Floral Oriental Paper, Satin Off White Ribbon, Sparkling Dust, Thread Stamens – Green, Styrofoam buds – 7mm 5mm, Drop Shape Wire Stamens No 2 and 3, Curved Flower, Foliage & Leaves #10

Altenew Vintage Roses Stamp Set

Inks – Memento Summer Sky, Bamboo Leaves, Versamagic Pretty Petunia, Ranger Archival ink – Vivid Chartreuse

Cardstock – Neenah White Solar Cardstock – 180 LB, 220 LB

Fun Foam

Foam Strips

Pearls

Stampendous Opaque White Embossing Powder

Hero Arts Embossing and Watermark ink.

I will be doing a video shortly on how I made the basket shortly and will post here so keep coming back to check.

Happy Crafting

Ka Kite Anu

Patricia

Thinking of You with Marianne Designs and Heartfelt Creations

Kia Ora Koutou

Welcome back and today I have another elegant white on white card with some pretty handmade Wild Roses from Heartfelt Creations.

For this card I have layered white card on a 5″ x 7″ base and added the gorgeous Marianne Designs Die LR0236 with the centre die cut out. My Gemini die cutting machine embosses the Marianne Designs dies so beautifully. the flowers are made using the Wild Rose dies from Heartfelt Creations using Dress My Craft Soft Floral Oriental paper. I have used the leaves from the Create a Flower die set from Dress My Craft. The sentiment is from the Best Sentiments stamp set from Altenew.

I hope I have inspired you to create today.

Happy Crafting

Ka Kite Anu

Patricia

You are the Best!

Kia Ora Koutou

Welcome back and today I thought I would share a card made during our lockdown. One of my favourite stamp sets from Altenew is the Beautiful Day set and it is perfect combined with the Beautiful Heart stamp set.

This card is sitting on my desk to keep me inspired on my papercrafting journey.

To make this card I have created a 4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″ card base from white cardstock. I have cut a piece of pearlescent vellum from Lawn Fawn 4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″ and embossed it with the Tufted embossing folder from Stampin Up and adhered it to the front of the card. I have then cut the edge using the Lawn Fawn Reversed Stitched Rectangle die and adhere to the card front.

I have stamped the images from the Beautiful Day and Beautiful Heart stamp sets with Ranger Archival Jet Black ink on Iris cardstock. I have then coloured the images with Zig Clean Colour Brush markers and die cut with the coordinating dies. I played around with the images until I found a pleasing arrangement and then adhere to the front of the card.

To finish the card I have stamped the image from the Altenew Best Sentiments stamp set in Jet Black ink on white cardstock using the Misti. I trimmed the sentiment leaving a small white edge and then adhered to the flowers as shown with some fun foam.

I love how I can mix and match the stamp sets and be so creative with them. And I love this sentiment and why not make a card to inspire you to challenge and inspire yourself!

Happy Crafting

Ka Kite Anu

Patricia

Sending Love and Hugs

Kia Ora Koutou

Welcome back.  Today I am sharing a card for everyone out there that has been impacted by Covid19.  In New Zealand we have finally started coming out of lockdown to a very different world and it is still very scary out there despite very low numbers of new cases in NZ.  I have spent the time at home working on my colouring skills and different flowers using different techniques.

I have been looking for this LR026 decorative die from Marianne Designs for some time and was thrilled when I was able to get it from E-Bay.  I know that I am going to get a lot of use with it as it is the perfect backdrop for lovely flowers.  I was inspired by Uma Didwania with her Heartfelt Creations.Wild Roses created using Dress My Craft Soft Oriental Paper.

Materials Used: 

Marianne Designs LR0236

Marianne Designs LR0272

Altenew Best Sentiments Stamp set

Heartfelt Creations Wild Rose – Small stamp and die set.

Heartfelt Creations Oakberry Blossoms stamp and die set – leaves

Dress My Craft Create a Flower – leaves and flowers

Dress My Craft Daisy die

Dress My Craft Styrofoam Buds

Dress My Craft Stamens

Dress My Craft Pollens

Dress My Craft Soft Floral Oriental Paper

Distress ink – Spun Sugar

Memento ink – Lilac Posies

I hope that I have inspired you and cheered you up.

Happy Crafting

Kia Kaha  – stay strong and stay safe and well.

Ka Kite Anu

Patricia

Altenew Academy Classes – All About Layering 4 (2)

Kia Ora Koutou

I have another card inspired by the Altenew Academy (All About Layering 4).  This class has so many techniques being shown with lots of different flower stamp sets.  I loved the use of the black background to make the coloured images pop and I have used a different stamp set to what was shown in the class.  I loved this technique and will be using it again as it was so quick and easy to make stunning cards.

 

 

Instructions:

I have stamped the images from the Altenew Forever in Love stamp set in Obsidian Pigment ink on Iris cardstock.  I coloured the image with Zig Clean Colour Brush Markers and then die cut with the coordinating die.  I coloured the edges of the image with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and then placed this on a 4″ x 5 1/4″ piece of black cardstock.  This was then matted with a piece of gold cardstock 4 3/16″ x 5 6/16″.  I then adhere this to the front of a 4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″ card base with a piece of heavy cardboard 4″ x 5 1/4″.

I die cut three Fancy Hello die cuts from black cardstock and adhered them together.  I then die cut the die from gold cardstock and adhere to the black die cut slightly offsetting it to create a shadow and then adhere the sentiment to the card as shown.

I hope you like this card and I really encourage you to look at the Altenew classes.  There is always something new to learn!

Happy Crafting

Ka Kite Anu

Patricia

Altenew Academy Classes – All About Layering 1 (3) Purple Roses

Kia Ora Koutou

I have been practicing my layered stamping with the Vintage Roses stamp set as part of my class at Altenew Academy (All About Layering 1) and I am getting more confident with lining up the layering stamps and getting the angles better.  I have also used some techniques from the All About Layering 4 class to add some texture and interest to the card.

 

 

 

 

To create the base for the flowers  I have cut a piece of white cardstock to create a base card 4″ x 6″.  I then cut a piece of lilac card slightly smaller on each end and adhered it to the card front.  I then cut a piece of white cardstock and die cut the ends using the beautiful Creative Edges Lace die and adhere this to the front.  I cut a piece of white cardstock and I have used textured paste  tinted with Minty Mint ink with the Deco Wallpaper stencil and then heat embossed with Bridal Tinsel embossing powder for some sparkle.  I matted this with some lilac card and then added this to complete the front of the card.

I have stamped the rose images from the Antique Roses set on Neenah Solar white card with Soft Lilac, Lavender Fields, Deep Iris and Midnight Violet inks and the leaf images from the Antique Roses set with Minty Mint, Sweet Leaf and Green Fields inks.  I found this colour combination to work well and was very pretty.  I then die cut with the coordinating dies and layered the flowers over the embossed card.

To complete the card I have stamped the sentiment from in Jet Black ink and after trimming the sentiment I have added to the card as shown with foam tape.

I hope you like this card and I really encourage you to look at the Altenew classes.  There is always something new to learn!

Happy Crafting

Ka Kite Anu

Patricia

Altenew Academy Classes – All About Layering 1 (2)

Kia Ora Koutou

I have been practicing my layered stamping with the Antique Roses stamp set as part of my class at Altenew Academy (All About Layering 1) and I am very happy with my progress so far.  I am getting more confident with this stamp set and I am looking to complete the class for my Altenew Educators Programme soon.  In the meantime here is another card made with this stamp set.  I love the pink and green combination I have used here.  The green really makes the pink roses pop on the crisp white background.

 

 

 

 

To create the base for the flowers I have die cut the quilted background die from Lawn Fawn out of white cardstock to fit on the white base card 4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″.  I die cut two frames using the Handstitched Accents Die from Heartfelt Creations and adhered them together before adding to the card front.

I have stamped the rose images from the Antique Roses set on Neenah Solar white card with Pink Diamond, Coral Berry, Ruby Red and Grapevine inks and the leaf images from the Antique Roses set with Firefly, Grass Fields and Shadow Creek inks.  I found this colour combination to work well and was very pretty.  I then die cut with the coordinating dies.

Before placing the stamped images on the card I die cut two ornamental frames from the Heartfelt Creations Ornamental Tags die set out of white cardstock and adhered them together.  I have then stamped the sentiment from the Antique Roses stamp set with Hero Arts embossing ink and heat embossed with gold embossing powder.  I have then die cut the sentiment out using the inner tag die and then adhere the tag to the front of the card with foam tape.  I trimmed the leaves and placed them under the tag and then added the rose and some leaves on the top of the tag as shown.

I hope you like this card and I really encourage you to look at the Altenew classes.  There is always something new to learn!

Happy Crafting

Ka Kite Anu

Patricia