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Amazing Paper Grace Christmas Greetings

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Today I am sharing the first Christmas card I have made this year and I am so happy to have made a start on them. The Amazing Paper Grace 3D Vignette Dies make it so easy to make a shaped card with a nifty little hinge by die cutting close to the side edge with the tabs over the fold. This helps with allowing the card to fold over and more space if you wish add extra embellishments inside the card as well. For this card I have used the Amazing Paper Grace Grand Snow Globe Dies as the base and the Amazing Paper Grace Santa Claus Layering Set Dies to decorate the front of the card.

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

My Project

For my project today I created the base card using the outer shadow die from the Amazing Paper Grace Grand Snow Globe Dies out of white cardstock. I then die cut three decorative panels using the shadow and inner decorative dies out of pearlescent cardstock that had a tinge of gold. I then added some double sided paper adhesive to the base of the front and the inner panels. I then removed the top of the adhesive paper before adding the decorative panels and then added some Diamond Sprinkles to the sticky paper for a sparkly finish.

I die cut two decorative circle frames out of gold mirror cardstock and white cardstock using the Amazing Paper Grace Elegant Twist Circle dies. These were stacked together with the gold on top and then added to the top of the circle on the front of the card.

I then die cut the sun ray die from the Amazing Paper Grace Santa Claus Layering Set Dies out of the pearl card. I added some more double sided adhesive paper to some pearl card and die cut it out with the plain circle die. I removed the top of the adhesive paper and then added the sunray die to the circle before adding some more Diamond Sprinkles.

I then die cut the Santa and tree die from the same set out of pearl cardstock and made sure to emboss the die before adding to the sunray circle with foam strips. This was then added to the middle of the gold Elegant Twist frame.

To finish the front I added some gold holly leaves to the base of the card, a gold pearl to the centre of the sun ray and some clear gems with gold dust radiating out from the centre and also the the leaves.

I repeated the same steps to the inside right panel of the card this time using the Christmas Greetings die from the Amazing Paper Grace Grand Snow Globe Dies.

I left the inside left panel blank to write the greeting.

Amazing Paper Grace Products Used:

Grand Snow Globe Dies

Santa Claus Layering Set Dies

Elegant Twist Circle Dies

Other Products Used:

Neenah Classic Crest Solar White 110Ib Cardstock

Crafter’s Companion Centura Pearl Cardstock – Snow White with a Hint of Gold

Lawn Fawn Mirror Gold Cardstock

Jac Double Sided Paper

Pink Fresh Studio Gold Pearls

Pink Fresh Studio Clear Gems – Clear with Gold Dust

Waffle Flower Foam Strips

My Sweet Petunia Precision Glue Press

Bearly Art Glue

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Nautical Christmas Card

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Today I have another downunder Christmas card to share with you featuring a nautical theme with a kiwi twist. When I saw the stunning Fair Winds Collection by Dawn Woleslagle at Spellbinders I had to get this set as it was perfect for masculine cards, for the sailing enthusiasts as well as Christmas cards to send overseas. For the Christmas cards I also stamped, coloured and fussy cut some pohutakawa flowers to add a kiwi flavour to the cards I sent overseas. The pohutakawa tree is a New Zealand native tree that blooms with red flowers at Christmas time and is known as the New Zealand Christmas tree. I have also added some background with the Heartfelt Creations Sea Breeze Collection papers and coordinating dies. Of course I had to add some glitter to the flowers and sea to add some sparkle. Watch out for more Christmas cards to come for Christmas in July celebrations.

Products used:

Spellbinders Uncharted Waters Stencil

Spellbinders Set Sail Etched Dies

Spellbinders Guiding Light Etched Dies

Spellbinders Oh Buoy! Etched Dies

Heartfelt Creations Sea Breeze Harbour Paper Collection and Dies – birds

Heartfelt Creations Sand and Sunsets Paper Collection and Dies- shells

Heartfelt Creations A Day At Sea -Paper Collection and Dies – grass, frame

Heartfelt Creations Christmas Lantern Cling Stamp and Die

Pink Fresh Studio inks – Ocean Breeze, Turquoise, Waterfall,Lemon Whip, Sunshine, Marigold, Clementine, Sage, Eucalyptus, Grassy Knoll, Spruce Tips, Warm Buff – grass

Distress inks – Lost Shadow, Hickory Smoke, Scorched Timber, Ground Expresso

Concord & 9th Cardstock – Clementine, Blueberry

Heartfelt Creations Kraft Cardstock

Spellbinders Mirror Silver Cardstock

Spellbinders Essentials Cardstock – Onyx, Phone Booth, Lunar Grey, Graphite, Raindrop

Pink Fresh Studio Jewels – Glacier

Neenah Classic Crest Cardstock – 100 Lb

Neenah Classic Crest Cardstock – 80 Lb

Foam Strips

Foam Squares

Foam Tape

Memento ink – Tuxedo Black

Copic Markers – Sand E44, E43, E42, E41, Fence – E47, E35, E33, E41, Grass – G94, G21, YG63 Anchor – W5, W3, W1, W0

My Sweet Petunia Precision Glue Press

Bearly Art Glue

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Amazing Paper Grace Butterfly Birthday Wishes

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Today I have a very special birthday card I made for a very special person using dies from the Amazing Paper Grace 3D Vignette Mini Album Collection by Becca Feeken. Shaped cards are so easy when you use a 3D Vignette die and my favourite 3D Vignette die is the Amazing Paper Grace Grand Vaulted Cabinet Etched Dies. I love the shape of the aperture and I especially love the swirls and flourishes in the decorative background too. I have paired these dies with the Amazing Paper Grace Birthday Wishes Vignette Etched Dies from the Beautiful Sentiment Vignette Dies Collection by Becca Feeken to change this to a birthday card. Finally I added a beautiful hot foiled sentiment from the Amazing Paper Grace Heart Felt Sentiments Hot Foil Plate and Dies from the Amazing Paper Grace Sweet Cardlets Collection on the interactive pivot banner for extra meaning and a sweet butterfly from the Amazing Paper Grace Butterfly Bliss Etched Dies to the front.

I have used soft pinks, cream and white with accents of gold for this card for a soft, vintage, romantic and elegant shaped card that the recipient loved.

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

You can watch a video here on how to create the pop up element on a card as well as in the mini album here: https://youtu.be/AMmUn1SxksI?si=xtKsM7mR1UkQKgII. You can also see how adding the shadow die to the edge of folded cardstock creates the shaped card.

Amazing Paper Grace Products Used.

S4-1029 Grateful Thankful Blessed Layering Etched Dies

S4-1032 Interactive Pivot Banner Etched Dies

S5-408 Grand Vaulted Cabinet Etched Dies

S5-455 Birthday Wishes Vignette Etched Dies

GLP-219 Heart Felt Sentiments Hot Foil Plate and Dies

Die of the Month August 2022 Peekaboo Trellis Panels Etched Dies

S6-183 Butterfly Bliss Garden Shutters 5×7 Card Base Etched Dies

Other Products Used:

Spellbinders Essentials Cardstock – Barely Peach, Snowdrift, Onyx

Concord & 9th Cardstock – Ballet Slippers

Lawn Fawn Gold Cardstock

Rajni Chawla’s Flowerite Vellum

Foam Tape, Strips

Bearly Art Glue

My Sweet Petunia Precision Glue Press

Pearls from my stash

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Meri Kirihimete Amazing Paper Grace

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Welcome Back to my blog and since it is Christmas in July I have a very summery Christmas card to share with you that I made last year and never had the chance to post. This card was very quick and easy to made using some gorgeous dies from Amazing Paper Grace to frame the Santa image which I got free from a Facebook page.

My Project

I have used the Amazing Paper Grace Fluted Classic Square Dies and the Postage Edge Square Dies for the frames and decorated it with a poinsettia and foliage using dies from the Amazing Paper Grace Die of the Month November 2020 Pop up 3D Vignette Poinsettia Sleigh Dies.

The sentiment is Te Reo (Maori) and has been printed on the computer and then die cut with the small rectangle from the Amazing Paper Grace Giving Occasions Stamp and Die and matted with some red cardstock and added to the bottom of the frame with some gold pearls.

It is hard to see in the photo but I added some Crystal Ultrafine glitter to the sea and Santa to give the card some sparkle.

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

Amazing Paper Grace Products Used:

Postage Edge Square Dies

Fluted Classic Square Dies

Die of the Month November 2020 Pop up 3D Vignette Poinsettia Sleigh Dies

Giving Occasions Stamp and Die

Other Products Used:

Clipart – Free from Facebook

Creative Expressions Foundation Cardstock – Ruby

Spellbinders Essentials Cardstock – Fern

House of Paper White Cardstock 300 gsm

White cardstock

Heartfelt Creations Luxe Gold 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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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