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Amazing Paper Grace Snip it Grid and Calendar Card

On By patriciamanhireIn Patricia's CreationsLeave a comment

Kia ora Koutou

Today I am using the Amazing Paper Grace Die of the Month – June 2020 Snip it Grid and Calendar Creator dies for my project. This is a fabulous die set that can be used to create special handcrafted calendars, invitations and so much more and I love how it includes an alphabet as well as numbers to personalise your projects. Here I have made a card that is going in my wedding album as a special memento of my wedding day. This would be perfect as a keepsake for a wedding album and the two extra sentiment dies help make it easy to use as an invitation or as a decorative introduction to the album – or even wedding stationery. I have used this for a wedding but it could be easily used for many other occasions as well. Check out how Becca Feeken has used the letters to make a crossword puzzle card here.

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

My Project

For my project I have created a side folding base card out of white cardstock. I cut a piece of gold cardstock 5″ x 7″ and added it to the front of the card. I then cut a piece of pearlised ivory embossed paper slightly smaller and added it to the front of the gold card.

I die cut two grids from the Amazing Paper Grace Die of the Month June 2020 Snip It Grid and Calendar Creator Etched Dies – one from gold cardstock and one from cream cardstock. I stacked the two dies together with the gold die on top. I cut a piece of ivory pearl card to fit behind the grid.

I die cut the letters and numbers from the same set twice – one from gold and one from cream cardstock. I stacked the numbers and letters together with the gold die on top and then added them to the grid. The grid was then added to the top of the card as shown.

I cut a piece of gold card 5″ x 1 1/2″, scored at 1/8″ along the long side and then added to the bottom of the card. I cut a piece of ivory pearl card 5″ x 1 1/8″ and added it to the gold strip. I die cut two banners – one from gold cardstock and one from ivory pearl card. I trimmed the gold banner in half and added it behind the ivory banner slightly offsetting the gold at each end. I die cut two sentiments – one from gold and one from cream cardstock. These were stacked with the gold die on top and added to the banner.

I die cut the flowers and leaves using the flower and leaf dies from this set out of soft flower shaping paper. I coloured the flower petals using a soft peach and pink ink and the leaves with green inks. I spritzed the petals and leaves with water and then shaped them. Once dry the flowers were assembled with two petals of each size and the flowers and leaves were added to the front as shown.

To finish I added some Frosted Lace Stickles to the petals and leaves and pearls to the centres of the flowers and empty grid squares and on each end of the banner.

Amazing Paper Grace Products Used:

Die of the Month June 2020 Snip It Grid and Calendar Creator Etched Dies

Other Products Used:

Heartfelt Creations Luxe Gold Cardstock

Close to My Heart Colonial White Cardstock

House of Paper Cardstock – White 300gsm

Dress My Craft Soft Flower Shaping Paper

Pearlised Ivory Embossed Paper from my stash

Creative Expressions Pearl Card – Ivory

Fun Stampers Journey Pearls

Spellbinders foam

Stickles – Frosted Lace

Pink Fresh Studio inks – Peach Fuzz, Cherry Blossom, Grassy Knoll, Key Lime, Olive

My Sweet Petunia Precision Glue Press

Bearly Art Glue

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Patricia

My calendar

On By patriciamanhireIn Crafts, Creative Memories, Digital Art, Photography, Scrapbooking2 Comments

Hello again.

Today I was thrilled to receive my calendar in the post and it has turned out beautiful.  It did not take long from order to delivery either, especially at this time of the year as well.  This month Creative Memories has a sale on calendars with 20% off so it is a great time to get them completed.

It is really important to not only organise, protect and save your photos, but actually bring your photos out into your life and share them with family and friends.  There are so many different options now from printing them off to put into quick albums, traditional scrapbook albums or in Everyday Displays to doing photo books, page prints, posters and calendars.  So make it your New Years resolution to get your photos sorted and start bringing them to life!

Here is a couple of examples of my pages:

My calendar My calendarHappy Scrapping.

Patricia

Enchanted Calendar

On By patriciamanhireIn Crafts, Creative Memories, Digital Art, Photography, Scrapbooking4 Comments

Hello there again

I have just been completing my first calendar using the CM Enchanted Digital Kit. The Enchanted Range is gorgeous and I find it difficult to put large photos or embellishments on the pages and cover up the beautiful papers, so I try to work around the backgrounds to enhance my photos.  The colours go well with the flower photos that I have used.

I have just got a new camera and have been enjoying learning how to do macro photography using flowers as my subject matters.  I love flowers, but I am not able to keep any in the house as I get bad hayfever.  Even taking photos can be difficult with my eyes streaming from the pollen.  But when you get an amazing photograph it is worth it!

I used to show roses but now only have two roses that we inherited with the house.  One of the roses is Josephine Bruce (I think) and I love photographing it as there are so many different colours that come out depending on the light and conditions.   In fact I walk past it every day to get the mail and the neighbours must think I am mad when I rush inside to get my camera out to take catch the roses in different light conditions.  And the bonus is that it is pink, which is my favourite colour.   I had to restrain myself to just using three images of this rose in this calendar.  The other rose is a deep red (I am not sure if it is Loving Memory) but I find red a much harder colour to photograph as the strong light washes out the colours, unlike the other rose which highlights yellows and pinks.  This is a work in progress to get this mastered.  Lots of trial and error coming up.

I don’t have a big garden so I just make do with what I have including the bindweed which is trying to take over my garden.  However, the bindweed flowers make beautiful images.  There is beauty all around us if we go searching for it, including the weeds.

My intention next year is to take photos every month of the flowers in bloom and then put them into a calendar so it is more seasonal.

Here are the pages and I have included instructions on how I have achieved these layouts on my Digital Creations page.  Please feel free to contact me if the instructions are not very clear or you would like further clarification of what I have done.

Happy Scrapping

Patricia

Enchanted Pohutakawa December 2013 Enchanted Magnolia November 2013 Enchanted Green Succulent October 2013 Enchanted Rose September 2013 Enchanted Bindweed Flower August 2013 Enchanted Succulents July 2013 Enchanted Bee on Rose June 2013 Enchanted Nasturtium May 2013 Enchanted Daisy April 2013 Enchanted Geranium March 2013 Enchanted Bee and Flower February 2013 January 2013