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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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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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Amazing Papaer Grace Silent Night Shaker Card

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Eek it s only 4 weeks to Christmas Day!! Today I have gone outside my comfort zone with this lovely shaker card made using the Amazing Paper Grace Silent might Make a Scene Dies. My inspiration for this card comes from a video I saw on Youtube. The creator used masked a lovely embossing folder to create a snow hill scene and used pink, green and ink colours for her card. I have used a purple, blue and green colour combination for a non-traditional card that is a lot of fun.

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

My Project

For my card I made a top folding 4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″ card base out of white cardstock.

I cut a piece of white card 4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″ and blended the sky at the top with Shaded Lilac ink. The various size hills out die cut out of white cardstock using the two hill dies from the Amazing Paper Grace Silent might Make a Scene Dies. and were shaded with Tumbled Glass ink.

I used a snow stencil and Allene’s True Snow on the background and added glitter to the snow.

The houses were die cut out of lilac cardstock and shaded with Shaded Lilac ink. The trees are from both the Amazing Paper Grace Silent might Make a Scene Dies and the Amazing Paper Grace November Die of the Month 2018 Christmas Village Dies and were cut out of green cardstock and shaded with Mowed Lawn ink.

I used some lighter weight acetate to create th shaker element and added a mix of clear, iridescent, pink and teal sequins with some small silver stars to create the shaker element.

To complete the card I have added a silver Santa and his reindeer to the top of the card and the sentiment from a dark blue card lined with silver card.

Finally, I added some snow to the top of the acetate with Simply White Nuvo Crystal Drops ansd sprinkled them with glitter.

Amazing Paper Grace Products Used:

S5-462 Silent Night Make a Scene

November Die of the Month 2018 Christmas Village Dies

Other Products Used:

Distress Oxide inks – Mowed Lawn, Shaded Lilac, Tumbled Glas

Spellbinders Essentials Cardstock – Peridot

Concoed & 9th Cardstock – Lilac

White cardstock

House of Paper White Cardstock 300 gsm

Heartfelt Creations Luxe Silver Cardstock

Alex Syberia Stencil – Falling Snow

Allene’s Snow

Nuvo Pure Sheen Glitter – Diamond

Acetate

Sequins

Trinity Stamps sequins – silver stars

Nuvo Crystal Drops – Simply White

Bearly Art Glue

My Sweet Petunia Precision Glue Press

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Honey Bee Stamps Falala Christmas Card

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Gee I can’t believe we are into September already and Christmas is coming whether we like it or not! Today I have used the Honey Bee Stamps Buzzworthy Challenge on Facebook to get some more Christmas Cards done. The challenge was to make a project using stripes and they were perfect for my cards.

For my card I have created a top folding 4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″ card out of white cardstock. I made the stripes for the background using the Pink Fresh Studio Plaid Press Plate on my Glimmer machine using Prism foil on Hammermill cardstock for a more holographic finish to the background. This was trimmed to 4″ x 5 1/4″ and matted to silver cardstock before adhering to the card front. I added a circle frame using the Amazing Paper Grace Hemstitch Oval dies – I have embossed the white circle die cut and added a silver shadow before adding to the top half of the card using some foam strips for more dimension.

I added foliage to the bottom half of the circular frame using the Honey Bee Stamps:Lovely Layers – Winter Greenery Die set – branches, pine leaves, and mistletoe.

The gorgeous poinsettia is from the Honey Bee Stamps: Lovely Layers – Poinsettia Honey Cuts and I have coloured the flower with pink inks before assembling together using some foam squares for more dimension and I used some silver glitter card for the centre of the poinsettias. The poinsettia was then adhered over the foliage using foam squares. The leaves were coloured with green inks and then added under the poinsettia as shown. To finish the poinsettia I have added some sparkle by using a fine tip on my adhesive bottle on the flowers and sprinkling Sparkling Dust to create some subtle sparkle without being over the top.

The robin is from the Honey Bee Stamps: Lovely Layers – Spring Birds Honey Cuts and was perched above the poinsettia on the left of the frame.

I was feeling lazy and added a sentiment from the Pink Fresh Studio Foiled Sentiments 4 Holiday Pack in silver to the top right of the frame with foam squares in the centre to keep the sentiment level. (Actually to be fair I do not have many Christmas sentiments that can be hot foiled).

To complete the card I have added some silver pearls around the sentiment and around the frame.

Products Used:

Honey Bee Stamps: Lovely Layers – Poinsettia Honey Cuts

Honey Bee Stamps: Lovely Layers – Winter Greenery Honey Cuts

Honey Bee Stamps: Lovely Layers – Spring Birds Honey Cuts

Amazing Paper Grace Hemstitch Circles Etched Dies

Pink Fresh Studio Plaid Press Plate

Hammermill Cardstock

Pink Fresh Studio Foiled Sentiments 4 Holiday Pack

Spellbinders Foil – Prism

Spellbinders Essentials Cardstock – Rainforest, Fern, Portobello

Close to My Heart Colonial White Cardstock

Crafter’s Companion Pearl Cardstock

Concord & 9th Cardstock – Cayenne, Nutmeg

Heartfelt Creations Luxe Silver Cardstock

Pink Fresh Studio inks – Ballet Slipper, Sparkling Rose, Peach Fuzz, Warm Buff

Pink Fresh Studio Silver Glitter Card

Altenew inks – Aloe Vera, Matcha Tea, Oak Moss

Neenah Classic Crest 80 lb cardstock

Pink Fresh Studio Silver Pearls

Fine Black Pen

Foam Tape

Foam Squares

My Sweet Petunia Precision Glue Press

Bearly Art Glue

DMC Sparkling Dust

Amazing Paper Grace Sugarplum Tweets Christmas Card

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My Christmas card today is full of layers, textures and dimension created using several different dies from Amazing Paper Grace. The hero of the card is the gorgeous and very versatile Amazing Paper Grace Pop Up 3D Vignette Animal House Dies. This die set can be used as a cat or dog house but can equally be used as a birdhouse because of the circle die that goes with this set. I have paired this bird house with the sweet birds from the Amazing Paper Grace Sugarplum Tweets Dies and Christmas foliage and flowers from the Amazing Paper Grace Holiday Label Motif Dies. The texture on this card comes from the Amazing Paper Grace Holly Flourish Embossing Folder, the background die – A2 Amazing Paper Grace Corner Cotillion Dies and the embossed woodgrain finish on the base of the bird house.

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

My Project

To create my card I have created a top folding 5″ x 6″ base card out of white cardstock. I added a layer of gold cardstock and then added embossed a piece of 4 3/4″ x 5 3/4″ blue cardstock with the Amazing Paper Grace Holly Flourish Embossing Folder before adding it to the front of the card. I die cut two decorative dies from the Amazing Paper Grace A2 Corner Cotillion dies out of white cardstock and added it over the blue embossed layer.

To make the birdhouse I die cut the base die out of brown cardstock and embossed it with an old woodgrain embossing folder from my stash. I then sponged some brown ink on the edges to create more depth to the embossing. I then die cut an inner base out of blue cardstock using the plain die and then adhered it to the base house die. I then die cut two decorative fronts – one from white cardstock and one from gold cardstock. I then die cut the circle out of both dies before adhering them together with the gold die behind the white die slightly offset. This decorative front was then added to the base of the birdhouse using foam strips. I die cut the roof out of brown cardstock and sponged the edges with brown ink before adding the two white edges to create the ‘fringe’. The roof was then added to the top of the birdhouse with foam strips and then the entire bird house was adhered to the card front.

I die cut the birds from the Amazing Paper Grace Sugarplum Tweets Dies out of white, gold and blue cardstocks and then assembled them. I added some holly and ivy to the birds using the dies from this set then I die cut four flourishes from the same die set out of gold cardstock. I stacked two dies together to create two flourishes. I added a flourish to the top right of the bird house and the other to the bottom left of the birdhouse. The birds were then added over the flourishes using several layers of foam tape as required to secure the birds as shown.

I die cut and assembled the foliage dies from the Amazing Paper Grace Holiday Label Motif Dies using brown, red and green cardstocks. These were then added under and over the flourishes and the birds. I die cut the poinsettia flowers out of white cardstock and coloured them with blue ink before assembling them with two layers of petals each. I added a gold centre to each flower and then adhered them to the base of the birds.

I made the sentiment out of white and cardstock using the sentiment strips from the Amazing Paper Grace Sugarplum Tweets Dies and adhered it to the birdhouse with foam strips.

To finish the card I added Simply White Nuvo Drops to the flourishes on the background dies and on the birdhouse front.

Amazing Paper Grace Products Used:

A2 Corner Cotillion Dies

Pop Up 3D Vignette Pet House Dies

Holiday Label Motif Dies

Sugarplum Tweets Dies

Holly Flourish Embossing Folder

Other Products Used:

House of Cards White Cardstock – White 300gsm

Heartfelt Creations Luxe Gold Cardstock

Spellbinders Essentials Cardstock – Portobello, Fern, Rainforest, Glacier, Wild Berry

Concord & 9th Cardstock – Nutmeg

Pink Fresh Studio inks – Doe, Summer Time

Foam tape/strips/squares

Woodgrain embossing folder from my stash

Nuvo Crystal Drops – Simply White

Beartly Art Glue

My Sweet Petunia Precision Glue Press

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It’s The Most Wonderful Time of the Year with Amazing Paper Grace

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Today I have my last Christmas card for Christmas in July and I have used the Amazing Paper Grace May 2019 Die of the Month – Nostalgic Serenade to create a background for the gorgeous bird and snowman and some snowy poinsettias. The very sweet embellishments take the background layering dies to a new dimension for a classic, timeless and elegant card that will delight the recipient for many years to come. And the copperplate script hot foiled sentiment adds the perfect finish to this card.

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

My Project

For my project I have created a top folding 5″ x 7″ base card out of white cardstock. I then layered gold and ivory pearl card to the front. I then die cut the outer frame from the Amazing Paper Grace May 2019 Die of the Month – Nostalgic Serenade out of gold cardstock and adhered it to the front of the card with foam strips. I die cut the inner label from the same die set out of gold cardstock and added it to the centre of the frame using thicker foam tap. I hot foiled the sentiment from the Amazing Paper Grace Elegant Holiday Glimmer Sentiments using gold foil on ivory pearl card before die cutting with the inner plain edge die and added this to the gold label with foam tape.

I die cut two flourishes out of gold cardstock from the Amazing Paper Grace Sugarplum Tweets Dies and adhered one to the top right of the frame and one to the bottom left of the frame. I die cut the bird out of white and gold cardstocks, assembled it before adding it to the top right of the frame over the flourish with foam tape.

I die cut the snowman out of white, blue, orange cardstock using dies from the Amazing Paper Grace Let It Snowman A2 Card Front Dies and assembled it before gluing to some gold cardstock. I cut the snowman out leaving the gold behind the snowman and then added it to the left of the frame over the flourish with foam tape

I die cut the foliage from the Amazing Paper Grace November 2020 Die of the Month – Pop Up 3D Poinsettia Sleigh out of green cardstock and added the leaves around the bird and snowman.

I die cut the poinsettia flowers from the Amazing Paper Grace November 2020 Die of the Month – Pop Up 3D Poinsettia Sleigh out of white cardstock. I coloured the flowers with green and blue inks before assembling with two petals per flower of the same size. I added snow to the flowers using TCW Opalescent Stardust Butter and then when dry added them around the bird and snowman.

To complete the card I added some gold pearls to the centre of the snowman belly, the poinsettias and around the sentiment.

Amazing Paper Grace Products Used:

Die of the Month May 2019 Nostalgic Serenade Dies

Sugarplum Tweets Dies

Let It Snowman A2 Card Front Dies

Die of the Month November 2020 – Pop Up 3D Poinsettia Sleigh Dies

Elegant Holiday Glimmer Sentiments Hot Foil Plate

Other Products Used:

Heartfelt Creations Luxe Gold Cardstock

Creative Expressions Pearl Card – Ivory

Spellbinders Essentials Cardstock – Glacier, Rainforest, Persimmon, 

House of Cards Cardstock – White 300gsm

Spellbinders Fashion Gold Pearls

TCW Opalescent Stardust Butter

Foam Strips

Foam Tape

Pink Fresh Studio inks – Seaside, Summer Shower, Limencello

Beartly Art Glue

My Sweet Petunia Precision Glue Press

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Amazing Paper Grace All Hearts Come Home for Christmas

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I have another Christmas in July card for you today featuring the fabulous Amazing Paper Grace Die of the Month – Die of the Month July 2021 Home Sweet Home along with some Christmas themed die sets from the Amazing Paper Grace Christmas Flourishes Collection as well as a dies from other collections and even including from a Halloween die set – products listed below the photos. I wanted to show how to mix and match different dies to create a single card to show how versatile Amazing Paper Grace dies are and how they can all fit together in many different themes.

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

My Project

To make my card I have created a to folder 5″ x 7″ card base out of white cardstock. I then embossed a piece of white cardstock 4 3/4″ x 6 3/4″ using the Amazing Paper Grace Holly Flourish Embossing Folder and added it on the front of the card. I then die cut a decorative frame out of blue cardstock using the Amazing Paper Grace Eyelet Lace Frame and backed it with a gold frame before adding it to the front of the card.

I die cut the house out of white, yellow, gold and blue cardstock using the dies from the Amazing Paper Grace Die of the Month July 2021 – Home Sweet Home Dies and assembled it according to the instructions. Before adding the house to the front of the card I die cut two trees from the Amazing Paper Grace Spooky Cottage dies out of brown cardstock, trimmed the trees and added a tree and extra branch on the right side of the card and a small branch on the top left of the frame. I then added the house to the front of the card with some foam for extra height in the centre of the card.

I die cut the small birdies from the Amazing Paper Grace Holly Frame Gala Dies out of white and gold cardstock. I trimmed each bird and mixed the gold and white sections. Two birds were added to the top of the tree branches on the right side of the card and one bird to the top left of the card using a small foam square.

I die cut the snowman out of white, blue, orange cardstock using dies from the Amazing Paper Grace Let It Snowman A2 Card Front Dies and assembled it before gluing to some gold cardstock. I cut the snowman out leaving the gold behind the snowman and then added it to the left of the house with foam tape.

I die cut the sentiment banner from the Amazing Paper Grace All Hearts Come Home A2 Card Front Dies from white cardstock and backed it with gold cardstock before adding to the top of the house using multiple layers of foam tape to make it flat. I die cut three sentiment words from the same die set – two from white and one from gold cardstock. I stacked the sentiments together with the gold sentiment on top and added it to the frame under the house.

I die cut the small holly leaves and berries from green and red cardstocks using the small dies from the Amazing Paper Grace Sugarplum Tweets Dies and adhered them to the top of the decorative eaves and either side of the sentiment on the frame.

I die cut snowflakes out of white glitter paper using the snowflake dies from the Amazing Paper Grace Let It Snowman A2 Card Front Dies and added them around the house and on the frame.

To finish I added iridescent gems to the snowman and in the centres of the snowflakes for some sparkle.

Amazing Paper Grace Products Used:

Die of the Month July 2021 – Home Sweet Home Dies

S4-1244 Sugarplum Tweets Dies

S5-533 Let It Snowman A2 Card Front Dies

S5-534 All Hearts Come Home A2 Card Front

SES-046 Holly Flourish Embossing Folder

S4-1071-Spooky-Cottage Dies

S5-428 Holly Frame Gala Dies

S6-184 Eyelet Lace Frame Dies

Other Products Used:

Spellbinders Essentials Cardstock – Fern, Phone Booth, Glacier, Chamomile, Persimmon

Concord & 9th Cardstock – Nutmeg

Heartfelt Creations Luxe Gold Cardstock

House of Paper Cardstock – White 300 gsm

Taylored Expressions Iridescent Gems

White glitter card from my stash

Beartly Art Glue

My Sweet Petunia Precision Glue Press

Foam tape/squares

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Amazing Paper Grace Decorative Gatefold Card

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Here is my second card for my Christmas in July series. This time I have created a gatefold card using the Amazing Paper Grace Delicate Tendril Border Dies to create a stunning, elegant and timeless Christmas card to keep on the mantle all year round. I love how Becca has added two separate edge dies on her border dies and this makes it so much easier to create gatefold cards. Here I have created a decorative gatefold card using the Delicate Tendril Border die, decorated it inside with the Amazing Paper Grace Richelieu Square dies and accented it with the beautiful flourish from the Delicate Tendril Border Dies set. I made a belly band to keep the card together and used the Amazing Paper Grace Splendid Trilliant Dies to decorate the band and although this die set is from another of Becca’s collections it worked really well here as it is a similar motif. The band was decorated with flowers and Christmas accents from the Amazing Paper Grace Holiday Label Motif dies.

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

My Project

Front of Card

For my project I cut a piece of white cardstock 5″ x 10″, scored at 2 1/5″ and 7 1/2″ along the long side before folding the card into a gatefold card measuring 5″ x 5″. I die cut each end of the card using the outer edge die and the inner decorative dies from the Paper Grace Delicate Tendril Border Dies to make the decorative sides. I die cut and embossed two border motifs using both edge dies and the inner decorative die out of white cardstock and adhered these to the sides. I then die cut four decorative flourishes – two from gold cardstock and two from white cardstock. I adhered the white dies behind the gold dies and then added the flourishes to each side by the folds as shown.

Inside Back of Card

For the inside cut a piece of white cardstock 4 3/4″ x 4 3/4″ and adhered it to the inside back of the card. I die cut a decorative frame out of white cardstock using the Amazing Paper Grace Richelieu Square dies and then added this to the inside back. I die cut two decorative square frames from the Amazing Paper Grace Elegant Twist Square dies out of white cardstock and a plain frame out of gold cardstock. I stacked the decorative frames together and added the gold frame behind before adding this to the inside back over the decorative square. I die cut the small shadow circle out of gold cardstock and the decorative circle from white cardstock. I added the decorative circle over the gold circle and then added it to the centre of the square decorative dies. I die cut four flourishes from the Paper Grace Delicate Tendril Border Dies, trimmed them to the central motif and added them around the circle dies. I die cut four sentiments from the Amazing Paper Grace Make a Scene dies – three from white cardstock and one from gold cardstock. I stacked the dies together with the gold die on top and then added the die inside the frame as shown.

To complete the card I added pearls to the decorative dies on the front and inside back of the cards.

Belly Band.

I cut a piece of white cardstock 1″ x 12″ and scored at 3 3/8″ and 8 5/8″ and fold to create the band. I then cut a piece of gold metallic card 3/4″ x 11″ and scored along each long side 1/8″ before adding to the white band. I then glued the band together making sure the band was loose enough to go over the pearls on the card.

I die cut and embossed the motif from the Amazing Paper Grace Splendid Trilliant dies out of white cardstock and adhered it to the front of the band. I die cut two flourishes from the Paper Grace Delicate Tendril Border Dies, trimmed them to the central motif added them to the top and bottom of the central rectangle of the motif. I have handcrafted the green and pink poinsettia out of flower shaping paper and green cardstock using the poinsettia dies from the Amazing Paper Grace Cinch and Go Poinsettias and added it to the centre of the motif. I added some gold flourishes that I had trimmed along with holly and ivy from the Amazing Paper Grace Holiday Label Motifs Dies set and the branches from the November 2020 Die of the Month – Pop Up 3D Vignette Poinsettia Sleigh.

To finish the belly band I added a gold pearl to the centre of the poinsettia and pearls to the decorative die.

Amazing Paper Grace Products Used:

Delicate Tendril Border Dies

Splendid Trilliant Dies

Holiday Label Motif Dies

Cinch and Go Poinsettia Dies

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

Elegant Twist Square Dies Dies

Silent Night Make A Scene Dies

Richelieu Square Dies

Other Products:

Rajni Chawla’s Flower Shaping Paper

Pink Fresh Studio – Gold Gems

Beartly Art Glue

My Sweet Petunia Precision Glue Press

Ranger Archival inks – Magenta Hue, Vivid Chartreuse

Spellbinders Essentials Cardstock – Fern, Rainforest, Wild Berry, Portabello

Spellbinders Gold Metallic Card

House of Paper Cardstock – White 300 gsm

Pink Fresh Studio ink – Gathered Twigs

Pretty Posh Pink Pearls – Marshmallow

Stickles – Frosted Lace

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Patricia