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All Hearts Come Home for Christmas with Amazing Paper Grace

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Meri Kirihimete

Wishing everyone a safe and happy Christmas Day filled with fun and laughter and the love of family and friends.

New Zealand is the first country in the world to celebrate Christmas Day and I am waking up to Christmas Day here while I know some people are still in Christmas Eve around the world. This is my final Christmas card for this year and it seems fitting that I have used this die set from Amazing Paper Grace – All Hearts Come Home. The sentiments are just lovely and I have only used the one die set and an embossing folder for this very elegant and pretty Christmas card. I have sort of CASEd a card from one I saw on Instagram but I have added some sparkling embossing to make it my own.

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

My Project

For my card I have made a side folding 5″ x 7″ base card out of white cardstock. I cut a piece of Glacier cardstock 4 3/4″ x 6 3/4″ and adhered it to the front of the card. I then cut a piece of vellum the same size and embossed it with the Amazing Paper Grace Holly Flourish Embossing Folder and added some glitter with WOW Embossing Ink for a little sparkle.

I die cut two frames from the Amazing Paper Grace All Hearts Come Home Dies out of Snowdrift cardstock and adhered them together before gluing them to the front of the sparkly embossed vellum. I die cut the house out of Snowdrift cardstock and adhered some gold mirror cardstock on the back which was trimmed to the house. This was added to the middle of the frame. Finally I die cut the banner sentiment out of gold and Snowdrift cardstock and adhered them together and added to the top of the vellum. I added glue to the back of the vellum behind the die cut shapes only and adhered this to the front of the blue card on the card base.

I die cut two sets of the ‘for christmas’ sentiments – one from gold and one from white cardstock. I adhered the gold card sentiment dies to the white sentiment dies and adhered the sentiments to the base of the frame as shown.

To finish the card I have added gold .pearls to the frame as shown

Amazing Paper Grace Products Used:

All Hearts Come Home Dies

Holly Flourish Embossing Folder

Other Products Used:

Spellbinders Essentials Cardstock – Snowdrift, Glacier

Heartfelt Creations Deluxe Flower Shaping Paper

Creative Expressions Gold Mirror Cardstock

Heartfelt Creations Vellum

Pink Fresh Studio Gold Pearls

Wow Embossing Ink

Nuvo Pure Sheen Glitter Diamond

Bearly Art Glue

For those who enjoy watching how I make my cards here is a very quick video tutorial:

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Meri Kirihimete from Aoteraroa New Zealand

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Kia ora Koutou

This is my penultimate Christmas card for the year and I have my final New Zealand themed Christmas card. I have used a similar design that I have used in the past but this time I changed the orientation and I have used the Amazing Paper Grace Victoriana Crest Dies for the background and used pink papers and a pink poinsettia for a more non-traditional feel to go with the summer Christmas themes. Once again I have used the fantail image from Montarga Rubber Stamps shop as my focal point on a background of stenciled clouds. The Honey Bee Stamps: Lovely Layers Poinsettia and Winter Greenery Honey Cuts are just gorgeous and make it so easy to create beautiful bouquets of flowers and foliage on my cards.

Products Used:

Amazing Paper Grace Victoriana Crest Dies

Amazing Paper Grace Hemstitch Circle Dies

Honey Bee Stamps: Lovely Layers – Winter Greenery

Honey Bee Stamps: Lovely Layers – Poinsettia

Heartfelt Creations Deluxe Flower Shaping Paper

Heartfelt Creations Winter’s Eve Paper Collection

Heartfelt Creations Christmas Lantern Stamp and Die Set

Heartfelt Creations Luxe Gold Cardstock

Pink Fresh Studio inks – Grassy Knoll, Key Lime, Ballet Slippers, Sparkling Rose, Bubblegum, Lemon Whip, Sky Blue, Summer Shower

Rubber Stamps by Montarga – 1237G Fantail on a Branch

Memento ink – Tuxedo Black

Copic Markers 

Fine Black Pen

Foam squares

Spellbinders Essentials cardstock – Fern, Rainforest, Phone Booth

Neenah Solar Crest 80 Ib 

X-Press It Cardsz,.

White gel pen

Concord & 9 Cardstock Nutmeg, Sprout

House of Paper Cardstock – Latte

Waffle Flower Cloud Stencil

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Santa in the Sun

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Kia ora Koutou

We are on the last week before Christmas and I have another downunder Santa Christmas card to share with you. We are meant to be in summer here but we have had a lot of rain and storms over the last week so it will be quite a relief if we get a warm summer’s day for Christmas Day. My card today features another image from Montarga Rubber Stamp Shop in Christchurch and I have teamed it with the Amazing Paper Grace Richelieu Square Dies which made a wonderful frame for the festive green, red and gold papers. I have also added some embellishments from the Amazing Paper Grace Noel Mini Slimline Dies on the corners of the square frame. Once I had the image coloured it did not take long for me to make the card once I had sorted the papers and dies.

Products Used:

Amazing Paper Grace Richelieu Squares Dies

Amazing Paper Grace Noel Mini Slimline Dies

Amazing Paper Grace Silent Night Make a Scene

Montarga Rubber Stamps Sunbathing Santa – 2301

Heartfelt Creations Candlewick Christmas Paper Collection

Heartfelt Creations Luxe Gold Cardstock

Heartfelt Creations Deluxe Flower Shaping Paper

Memento ink – Tuxedo Black

Copic Pens – R46, R27, $14, RV23, E43, E21, E40, W3, W1, O, G99, G94, YG225, YG21,

Foam tape

Bearly Art Glue

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A Paddington Bear Christmas Card

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Kia ora Koutou

Christmas is just around the corner and I have a special card I made for a colleague of my husband. the brief was to have Paddington Bear and lots of snow. I purchased a cute Paddington Bear image from Bubblegum Designs from Etsy and printing it on watercolour paper and then made my card around this image. I used the Heartfelt Creations Ornate Window stamp and die set to create a window that can be opened out to look at Paddington Bear in the snow with his presents and Christmas tree beside a cute street lamp. I even added a little robin to the top left of the window frame to further add to the English Christmas theme. I was very happy with how this card turned out.

For the rest of the card I have used other products from Heartfelt Creations and Honey Bee Stamps to add all the embellishments to the card. Scroll past all the photos for the full list of products I have used.

Products Used:

Heartfelt Creations Window Hinges

Heartfelt Creations Eyelet Rectangle & Basics Die

Heartfelt Creations Christmas Holly Accents (bird)

Heartfelt Creations Christmas Lantern (sentiment)

Heartfelt Creations Regal Frame and Accents Die

Heartfelt Creations Holiday Ornament Paper Collection

Heartfelt Creations Luxe Gold Cardstock

Heartfelt Creations Ornate Window

Heartfelt Creations Christmas Poinsettia & Holly

Honey Bee Stamps: Lovely Layers Winter Greenery Honey Cuts

Spellbinders Essentials Cardstock – Peridot, Fern, Rainforest, Phone Booth, 

Concord & 9 Cardstock – Sprout

House of Paper Cardstock – Latte

Crafter’s Companion Centura Pearl Cardstock – Snow Drift

Copic Markers

Neenah Classic Crest Cardstock 80Ib

Pink Fresh Studio Gold Pearls

Pink Fresh Studio ink – Doe

Ranger Gold Embossing Powder

Wow Embossing Ink

Le Pen Drawing Pen 0.5

Spellbinders Acetate

Rajni Chawla’s Frosting Powder

Little Bear London Post Image from Bubblegum Designs

Bockingford 300 gsm watercolour card

Gansai Tombi Pearl Paints

Bearly Art Glue

Nuvo Pure Sheen Glitter – Diamond

Bearly Art Foam Strips

Foam Squares

Memento ink – Tuxedo Black

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Amazing Paper Grace Let It Snowman

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Today I am sharing a card that I have created for a challenge in a Facebook group I belong to and the challenge is to create a card featuring a snow globe from any company’s designs. Of course I had to go to Amazing Paper Grace and the Let It Snowman dies from the Christmas Flourishes Collection by Becca Feeken. The colour combination on this card has been inspired by a card I saw on Instagram. I don’t normally put gold accents with soft blue and white but this combination really does work. This die set is an A2 set by I have made this A5 to really show up the embossed background I have created.

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

My Project

To make my card I have created a side opening 5″ x 7″ card from white cardstock. I have added a piece of 5″ x 7″ Snowdrift card to the front of the card to coordinate with my die cuts. I then cut a piece of soft blue cardstock 4 7/8″ x 6 7/8″ and added it to the front. I cut a piece of vellum the same size and embossed it with the Holly Flourish Embossing Folder. Before adding the vellum to the front of the card I die cut three frames from the Amazing Paper Grace Let it Snowman A2 Card Front Dies out of Snowdrift cardstock and some snow flakes from some white glitter paper I had in my stash. I stacked the three frames together and added them to the embossed vellum. I added some snowflakes above the frame. I then added some glue behind the snowflakes and frame and added the vellum to the front of the card.

I die cut the main body of the snowman out of Snowdrift cardstock and then added gold to the back of the body and trimmed it to fit. I hot foiled Opal foil to some blue cardstock and then die cut the hat and some snowflakes out of the lovely shiny blue card. The accents were die cut from gold cardstock and the nose from orange cardstock. I assembled the snowman and added it inside the frame.

I die cut the sentiment from Snowdrift and gold cardstocks, assembled them and added them to the base of the frame.

I added the blue snowflakes to the frame and more white glitter snowflakes to the centre of the frame around the snowman as shown.

To finish I added gold pearls to the frame, snowflakes and the snowman.

Amazing Paper Grace Products Used:

Let it Snowman A2 Card Front Dies

Holly Flourish Embossing Folder

Other Products Used:

Heartfelt Creations Deluxe Flower Shaping Paper

Heartfelt Creations Vellum

Heartfelt Creations Luxe Gold Cardstock

Spellbinders Essentials Cardstock – Snowdrift, Glacier, Persimmon

White glitter paper from my stash

Spellbinders Foil – Opal

Pink Fresh Studio Gold Pearls

Bearly Art Glue

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A Merry Kiwi Christams

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I have been having so much fun making New Zealand themed Christmas cards using a wide range of different products and I am so happy with how they turned out. My card today features the New Zealand native bird the Fantail or the Piwakwaka in Te Reo. This is a very cute little bird and we have a lot around where I live by native bush and they are almost impossible to photograph as they are always flitting around without stopping. You can find out more about the birds here. This is another stamp that I purchased from Montarga Rubber Stamps in Christchurch which I have coloured with Copic Markers. I thinks this card was my favourite as I just loved how all the colours came together.

Scroll past all the photos for a list of all the products I have used.

Products Used:

Heartfelt Creations Holiday Ornament Paper collection

Heartfelt Creations Luxe Gold Cardstock

Heartfelt Creations Decorative Circle Frame dies

Heartfelt Creations Christmas Lanterns Stamp and Die sets

Heartfelt Creations Deluxe Flower Shaping Paper 

Amazing Paper Grace Circle Hemstitch Dies

Spellbinders SES-026 Embossing Folder – Winter greenery

Honey Bee Stamps: Lovely Layers – Winter Greenery

Honey Bee Stamps: Lovely Layers – Poinsettia

Honey Bee Stamps:  Lovely Layers – Layering Holiday Bells

Amazing Paper Grace Grand Cinch and Go Flowers

Pink Fresh Studio inks – Grassy Knoll, Key Lime, Sky Blue, Summer Showers 

Rubber Stamps by Montarga – 1237G Fantail on a Branch

Memento ink – Tuxedo Black

Altenew Obsidian Pigment ink

Copic Markers 

White gel pen

Foam squares

Spellbinders Essentials cardstock – Fern, Rainforest, Alabaster

Neenah Solar Crest 80 Ib 

X-Press It Card

Concord & 9 Cardstock Nutmeg, Sprout

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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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Amazing Paper Grace Merry Christmas

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Kia ora Koutou

Yikes!!! Christmas is just around the corner!! I really don’t know where the time has gone but I am feeling very organised for my Christmas cards this year. My theme has been white, gold, pink and green and I have another Christmas card to share with you today to inspire you. I have used the beautiful Amazing Paper Grace February 2022 Die of the Month – Marvelous Medallion. I love how easy it is to get the gold shadows with this set. I have paired this die with the Amazing Paper Grace November 2020 Die of the Month – Pop Up 3D Vignette Sleigh poinsettias and the gorgeous birds from the Amazing Paper Grace Holly Frame Gala dies. The sentiment is from the Amazing Paper Grace Silent Night Make a Scene dies. I made a lot of flowers and birds at once so once I did my die cutting this card came together very quickly.

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

My Project:

I made a top folding 5 1/2″ x 5 1/2″ card base out of white cardstock. I layered one gold card and two white layers to the front of the card. The top layer has been embossed with the Amazing Paper Grace Flourished Holly embossing folder.

I die cut the two medallions out of gold and white cardstock and layered the white top layer over the gold layer. These were added to the front of the card . I then die cut two banners out of white cardstock and stacked them together and adhered it across the centre of the medallions. I die cut two Merry Christmas sentiments from the Amazing Paper Grace Silent Night Make a Scene dies and stacked them together before adding them to the banner.

The poinsettias have beenI have handcrafted the green and pink poinsettias out of flower shaping paper using the poinsettia dies from the Amazing Paper Grace Die of the Month – November 2020- 3D Vignette Poinsettia Sleigh.and adhered them to the top right of the banner and bottom left of the banner over green leaves from the Amazing Paper Grace Die of the Month – November 2020- 3D Vignette Poinsettia Sleigh.

I made a pair of birds from the Amazing Paper Grace Holly Frame Gala dies out of gold and white cardstock and added a touch of pink to the bodies of the birds and then added them above the poinsettias.

To finish the card I have added some gold pearls around the flowers and sentiment.

Products Used:

Amazing Paper Grace Holly Frame Gala dies

Amazing Paper Grace February 2022 Die of the Month – Marvelous Medallion

Amazing Paper Grace November 2020 Die of the Month – Pop Up 3D Vignette Sleigh

Amazing Paper Grace November 2020 Die of the Month – Pop Up 3D Vignette Sleigh

Amazing Paper Grace Holly Flourish Embossing Folder

Rajni Chawla’s Flower Shaping Paper

Spellbinders Essentials Cardstock – Rainforest, Peridot, Snowdrift

Heartfelt Creations Luxe Gold cardstock

Pink Fresh Studio – Gold Gems

Beartly Art Glue Ranger Archival inks – Magenta Hue, Vivid Chartreuse

Pink Fresh Studio Gold Pearls

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Amazing Paper Grace Love Hope Joy

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Kia ora Koutou

I have another White and Gold Christmas card to share with you today featuring the stunning Amazing Paper Grace November 2021 Die of the Month – Pop Up 3D Vignette Christmas Tree. This die set has everything you need for a very elegant Christmas card and I have added a Christmas themed embossed background using the Amazing Paper Grace Holly Flourish Embossing Folder and an elegant frame from the Amazing Paper Grace Deco Bloom die. This card came together very quickly.

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

My Project

I have made a 5″ x 7″ side folding card base out of white cardstock. I cut a piece of white cardstock 4 3/4″ x 6 3/4″ and embossed it with the Amazing Paper Grace Holly Flourish Embossing Folder before adding it to the frame of the card. I then made a frame using the Amazing Paper Grace Deco Bloom Die out of white and gold cardstock. I die cut two outline frames in white cardstock to get more of a ‘stained glass” effect and to complete the frame I have inlaid the decorative elements in the frame with white cardstock.

I die cut the tree and presents out of white and gold cardstock using the Amazing Paper Grace November 2021 Die of the Month – Pop Up 3D Vignette Christmas Tree. The tree and presents had their embellishments added and was then added to the front of the card inside the frame.

To finish I added the sentiment from the Amazing Paper Grace November 2021 Die of the Month – Pop Up 3D Vignette Christmas Tree in white backed with gold to go across the tree as shown.

Products Used:

Amazing Paper Grace November 2021 Die of the Month – Pop Up 3D Vignette Christmas Tree

Amazing Paper Grace Deco Bloom Die

Amazing Paper Grace Holly Flourish Embossing Folder

Spellbinders Essentials Cardstock – Snowdrift

Heartfelt Creations Luxe Gold Cardstock

Foam Squares

Foam tape

Bearly Art Glue

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Amazing Paper Grace Christmas Cascade

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Today I have my final Christmas in July themed card. This time I have created a beautiful interactive card using the Amazing Paper Grace Christmas Cascade Collection by Becca Feeken from September 2020. I love making interactive cards and Becca has made it so easy with this collection. All the elements to make this card come with the Christmas Cascade Collection and I just added a frame from the Amazing Paper Grace Deco Bloom Dies for the kinetic element to sit in. I have also kept to my white, gold, pink and green theme for a very elegant card that I am sure will delight the recipient.

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

My Project

For my project today I have created a 5″ x 7″ card base out of white cardstock. I die cut two outer frames using the three outer dies from the Amazing Paper Grace Deco Bloom Dies out of white cardstock and adhered them together. I then die cut a frame out of gold cardstock using the plain outer frame dies and adhered the decorative frame to the plain gold frame before adding the frame to the card front with foam tape. I used one of the leftover inner rectangles and embossed it using the Amazing Paper Grace Holly Flourish Embossing Folder and added this to the centre of the frame. I then used the dies from the Amazing Paper Grace Christmas Cascade Dies (you can find a video tutorial here on how to create the base: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XAL_CovQrE) out of white cardstock. I have then decorated the flaps with embellishments from the Amazing Paper Grace Holly Frame Gala Dies and Holiday Word Blocks Dies from the same collection, and the flowers and leaves are from the Amazing Paper Grace Die of the Month – November 2020- 3D Vignette Poinsettia Sleigh. To keep with my pink, gold, white and green theme I have blended some pink ink on the birds and on some spare white cardstock and then die cut the word blocks out again and inlaid the pink to gold words to highlight the words.

To finish I have added gold pearls to the centres of the flowers and the bird dies.

Amazing Paper Grace Products Used:

Holly Frame Gala Dies

Holiday Word Blocks Dies

Christmas Cascade Dies

Deco Bloom Dies

Holly Flourish Embossing Folder

Amazing Paper Grace Die of the Month – November 2020- 3D Vignette Poinsettia Sleigh

Other Products Used:

Spellbinders Essentials Cardstock – Snowdrift, Rainforest, Peridot

Heartfelt Creations Luxe Gold Cardstock

Rajni Chawla’s Flower Shaping Paper

Pink Fresh Studio ink – Bubblegum

Pink Fresh Studio Gold Pearls

Bearly Art Glue

Foam Tape

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