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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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Pink Fresh Studio Challenge November 2024

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I have been out of action for a while due to having surgery on a couple of fingers and missed last month’s Pink Fresh Studio challenge and it has taken a while to get back into cardmaking again.

This month’s challenge at Pink Fresh Studio is ‘Thank You’ and the following ink shades are the best matches for the colors in the challenge: Waterfall, Begonia, Mimosa, Citron & Storm.

It is always handy to have Thank You cards in my stash so I thought I would have a play with some new products at the same time. I have recently purchased the Pink Fresh Studio Dotted Fancy Frames and thought I would make a shaped easel card with the dies and it just looks gorgeous! My inspiration for adding the flowers to the front has come from one of the Pink Fresh Studio designers on Instagram a while ago.

I have hot foiled the flowers, butterflies and the sentiment using Aura foil and coloured the images with the challenge inks before embellishing the front of the card and creating the easel. A light sprinkling of glitter and some iridescent dew drops add the finishing touches to the card.

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

Products Used:

Pink Fresh Studio Peony Fantasy Hot Foil Plate, Stencils and Coordinating Die

Pink Fresh Studio Small Butterflies Hot Foil Plate, Stencils and Coordinating Die

Pink Fresh Studio Dotted Fancy Frames Dies

Pink Fresh Studio inks – Waterfall, Begonia, Mimosa, Citron & Storm, Licorice

Pink Fresh Studio Wonderful Sentiments Hot Foil Plate and Coordinating Die

Pink Fresh Studio Blending Brushes

Pink Fresh Studio Dew Drops – Iridescent

Spellbinders Foil – Aura

Hammermill Cardstock

Neenah Classic Crest 80 lb cardstock

Foam Squares

My Sweet Petunia Precision Glue Press

Bearly Art Glue

Press’n’Seal

DMC Sparkling Dust

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Sweet Amazing Paper Grace Baby Boy Card

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I have another sweet baby boy card to share with you today. This time I have made a gorgeous shaped card using the Amazing Paper Grace Die of the Month July 2022 – Tiara Trifold Etched Dies and decorated it with some lovely soft knit blue patterned paper by Mintay. Most of the embellishments came from this die set with the ‘baby boy’ word dies from the Amazing Paper Grace My Sweet Friend Etched Dies. This card was so quick and easy to make and so pretty with the gorgeous paper.

Check out Becca Feeken’s video here on how you can make bifold, trifold and many more options on YouTube here.

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

My Project

For my card I have made a bi-fold card usinf the base and decorative tiara inerts from the Amazing Paper Grace Die of the Month July 2022 – Tiara Trifold Etched Dies out of heavy weight pearl cardstock. I die cut two plain panels out of the blue pattern paper and two decorative panels out of pearl cardstock. I adhered the decorative dies to the paper panels and then adhered the panels to the front and back of the card.

I decorated both front and backs of the card using the flowers and leaf dies that came with the Tiara Trifold die set. I added a ‘Hello’ sentiment to the front of the card and also added the small label die to the bottom of the card front with foam tape. This was decorated with some flowers and the ‘baby boy’ word dies from the Amazing Paper Grace My Sweet Friend Etched Dies which I die cut from the pattern paper.

To complete the card I added pearls to the decorative top, flower centres and on the trellis on the front of the card and a sweet bird above the flower on the front of the card.

Amazing Paper Grace Dies Used:

Die of the Month July 2022 – Tiara Trifold Etched Dies

My Sweet Friend Etched Dies

Other Products Used:

Crafters Companion Pearl Cardstock

Concorf & 9th Cardstock – Sprout

Spellbinders Cardstock – Chamomile

Mintay Elodie Paper

Foam Tape

Pearls from Stash

Bearly Art Glue

My Sweet Petunia Precision Glue Press

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Thanks Amazing Paper Grace

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This week I have a simpler card to share with you made using one of my favourite Amazing Paper
Grace dies – Tallulah Frill. This die set is just so beautiful and one I reach for a lot when I want to make timeless and classic cards that will become keepsakes. I have not been able to do much cardmaking lately, but I have been learning how to colour with Copic markers through some classes at Kit and Clowder which I am really enjoying as I have always loved colouring. So I decided to combine my love for cardmaking with my love for colouring and this card was the result.

The image I have coloured here is a digital stamp from Beccys’ Place and the Amazing Paper Grace Tallulah Frill die set went perfectly with it to create a pretty lacy frame to create an elegant card that can be kept to decorate a mantel or table.

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

My Project

I have made a top folding 4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″ card base out of white cardstock and then matted a lifht teal card on top leaving a narrow white mat.

I downloaded the digital stamp onto X-Pressit Paper and then coloured it with Copic markers. I trimmed this to 4 1/8″ x 2 7/8″.

I die cut two outer decorative frames using the Amazing Paper Grace Tallulah Frill die set and one decorative edge out of white cardstock. I added the decorative edge die behind one short edge of the frame before adding the second frame beneath the first frame. I then adhered the coloured panel behind the frame, making sure the white does not show behind the small lacey edge inside the frame. This frame was then added to the card front.

To complete the card I added clear Wink of Stella to the flowers and cup and pearls to the decorative frame.

Amazing Paper Grace Dies Used:

Tallulah Frill

Other Products Used:

Beccy’s Place Stem in a Tea Cup Digital Stamp

Hammermill Cardstock

Spellbinders Waterfall Cardstock

X-Press It Cardstock

Copic Markers R85, R83, R81, RV00, E18, E15, E13,BG45,BG32,BG11,BG10, YG67, YG63, YG25, YG11, B00 ,B000, W7,W5,W3,W1

Bearly Art Glue

My Sweet Petunia Precision Glue Press

Clear Wink of Stela

Pretty Pink Posh Pearls – Marshmallow

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Amazing Paper Grace Hot Foiled Gold and White Thank You Card

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Today I have a very elegant white and gold thank you card to share with you. I have used the Amazing Paper Grace Glimmer Place Card Mini Topper Hot Foil Plate as a base for layering die cuts and added some sweet flowers. I have also used a die – the Amazing Paper GraceA2 Swirl Background Etched Dies – to create the embossed finish on the background

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

My Project

For my card today I have made a top folding 4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″ base card out of white cardstock. I cut a piece of brushed gold cardstock 4 1/2″ x 5 1/2″ and I then cut a piece of white cardstock and embossed it using the Amazing Paper Grace A2 Swirl Background Etched Dies for some texture and added it to the front of the gold card.

I heat embossed both ends of the Amazing Paper Grace Glimmer Place Card Mini Topper Hot Foil Plate and then die cut it with the die that comes with this set. I matted this with some brushed gold cardstock and added it to the front of the card. I then die cut two edges out of brushed gold cardstock using the small topper die from the same set. I added these over the hot foiled images on the front of the card. To hide the join I cut a 1″ strip of brushed gold cardstock, embossed a line 1/8″ each side before adding a strip of hot foiled border using the hot foil plates from the Amazing Paper Grace Elegant Twist Glimmer Borders and Sentiments on top and then adding to the front of the card and folding the edges of the band behind the front panel before adhering the complete panel to the card base.

I die cut three small circles using the dies from the Amazing Paper Grace Elegant Twist Circle dies – one from brushed gold cardstock, one from gold glitter cardstock and one from mirror gold cardstock. I layered these together to show the brushed gold cardstock rim, the gold glitter shadow and the mirror gold elegant twist on top. This was then added to the front of the band and panel with some foam tape.

The sentiment from the Amazing Paper Grace Glorious Glimmer Elegant Occasions Hot Foil Plate has been hot foiled using Aura foil on Hammermill cardstock. This was die cut with the coordinating die and I also die cut two other plain dies to stack together with the foiled sentiment on top. This was then added to the centre of the circle medallion.

The flowers were die cut from white cardstock, coloured with light yellow ink and then shaped using my fingers and then added to the bottom left of the circles. I die cut green leaves using the Amazing Paper Grace Summer Label Motif Etched Dies and the Amazing Paper Grace Layered Lilies Etched Dies, shaped with my fingers and added around the flowers. I also added some gold glitter leaves using the die from the Amazing Paper Grace Holiday Label Motif Etched Dies.

To finish the card I added some Frosted Lace stickles to the flowers and gold pearls to the centre of the flowers and on the decorative dies, corners of the central panel and on the hot foiled border.

Amazing Paper Grace Dies Used:

Glimmer Place Card Mini Topper Hot Foil Plate and Dies

Elegant Twist Circle Etched Dies

A2 Swirl Background Etched Dies- embossed background

Glorious Glimmer Elegant Occasions Hot Foil Plate

Die of the Month March 2021 – Floral Mason Jar Etched Dies – Flowers

Elegant Twist Glimmer Borders and Sentiments Hot Foil Plates

Layered Lilies Etched Dies – leaves

Summer Label Motif Etched Dies – leaves

Holiday Label Motif Etched Dies- gold leaves

Other Products Used:

Spellbinders Essentials Cardstock – Rainforest, 

Spellbinders Brushed Gold Cardstock

Spellbinders Foil – Aura

Heartfelt Creations Luxe Gold Cardstock

Hammermill Cardstock

House of Paper Cardstock – White 300 gsm

Pink Fresh Studio Gold Pearls

Pink Fresh Studio Gold Glitter Cardstock

Pink Fresh Studio Lemon Whip ink

Frosted Lace Stickles

Bearly Art Glue

My Sweet Petunia Precision Glue Press

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Amazing Paper Grace Rolled Flowers Elegant Birthday Cards

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My card today is centred around the beautiful Amazing Paper Grace Flourish Frame die along with some gorgeous rolled flowers from the Amazing Paper Grace Loop Roll Flowers. It is always good to try something different and I was happy with these flowers once I realised that I had to use a very light weight paper when rolling these flowers. I have also had a play with layering different die cuts for the background and I love the different textures I created. And I absolutely loved this pale blue, cream and pale green colour combination and will definitely revisit it again in the future. The hot foiled sentiment in silver really added some elegance to the card.

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

My Project

For my project I have created a side folding 5″ x 7″ card out of white cardstock. I then matted some light blue embossed paper with some cream cardstock and added this panel to the front of the card.

I then die cut the inner decorative dies out of cream cardstock and embossed the small detail die on each end of the inner elongated oval die. These were adhered to the centre of the card.

I then die cut a medium rectangle frame out using the Amazing Paper Grace Hemstitch Rectangles Etched Dies and adhere it around the inner decorative dies on the front of the card.

I then die cut the outer frame out of cream cardstock and embossed the die for more detail. I added this to the card using foam strips.

Another rectangle frame was made this time using the small dies from the Amazing Paper Grace Hemstitch Rectangles Etched Dies and adhered horizontally over the outer frame using some foam strips to keep the frame level.

To finish the background I die cut a circular frame using the Amazing Paper Grace Tiara Rondelle Etched Dies out of cream cardstock and this was added over all the frames and dies.

I hot foiled the sentiment from the Amazing Paper Grace Glorious Glimmer Elegant Occasions Hot Foil Plate in Prism foil on Hammermil cardstock and then die cut it with the coordinating die. I die cut another two plain dies and a silver die and stacked them together before adding the foiled sentiment on top and the silver die slightly offset to show some silver at the bottom. The sentiment was then added to the centre of the frames using foam squares in the centre to keep level.

I die cut one large loop die and three small loop dies from the Amazing Paper Grace Loop Roll Flowers out of pearl paper from my stash. I used double sided tape to adhere the edges together before rolling the dies to make flowers. I added one small flower to the centre of the large flower and added it to the bottom left of the sentiment. I then added another small flower beside that flower and the other small flower to the top right of the frame.

I then die cut the leaves out of green cardstock – some were left intact and some were the outline dies. These were added around the flowers and I had to trim the leaves around the small flower at the top right of the card.

To finish the card I added pearls to the centre of the flowers and on the decorative frame.

Amazing Paper Grace Products Used:

Flourish Frame

Loop Roll Flowers

Hemstitch Rectangles Etched Dies

Tiara Rondelle Etched Dies

Glorious Glimmer Elegant Occasions Hot Foil Plate

Other Products Used:

Blue embossed paper from stash

Cream pearl paper from stash

Heartfelt Creations Luxe Silver Cardstock

Hemmermill paper

Spellbinders Essentials Cardstock – Snowdrift

Concord & 9th Cardstock – Sprout

Spellbinders Foil – Prism

Foam Tape

Pearls from Stash

Bearly Art Glue

My Sweet Petunia Precision Glue Press

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Amazing Paper Grace Congratulations Card

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Welcome back and today I have another card to share with you today that was quick and easy to make using just a couple of dies and an embossing folder for more texture and depth to the background. I had coloured a beautiful foiled floral image with Copic markers and because there is no coordinating die I decided to use the Amazing Paper Grace Bella Luce Oval Etched Dies to die cut the image out with an oval die and make it the centre piece of the card.

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

My Project

For my card I have created a side folding 5″ x 7″ card out of white cardstock.

I then cut a piece of brushed gold cardstock 5″ x 7″ and matted it with white cardstock before adding another layer using brushed gold cardstock and an embossed a layer of white cardstock using the Amazing Paper Grace Orange Peel 3D Embossing Folder with fun foam. I then added gold ribbon to the four corners before adding the entire panel to the front of the card.

I then die cut the decorative frame from the Amazing Paper Grace Bella Luce Oval Etched Dies out of white cardstock and then die cut a shadow frame out of brushed gold cardstock. The gold frame was adhered behind the decorative frame and then was added to the card front with foam squares.

I hot foiled the press plate from the Better Press System with gold foil and then coloured the image with Copic MarkI die cut the coloured image out using the inner plain oval die from the Amazing Paper Grace Bella Luce Oval Etched Dies and then I die cut the decorative inner frame out of white cardstock before adhering it to the coloured oval image. This was then added to the centre of the frame.

I hot foiled the sentiment from the Amazing Paper Grace Glorious Glimmer Elegant Occasions Hot Foil Plate in Aura foil on Hammermill cardstock before die cutting it with the coordinating die. I then die cut another two plain dies before stacking the dies together with the foiled sentiment on top. The sentiment was then added to the frame using some foam tape in the centre of the frame to keep the sentiment level.

I added a gold ribbon bow to the top of the oval frame and pearls to decorate the decorative oval frame and also the decorative oval over the coloured image.

Amazing Paper Grace Products Used:

Bella Luce Oval Etched Dies

Glorious Glimmer Elegant Occasions Hot Foil Plate

Orange Peel 3D Embossing Folder

Other Products Used:

Hammermill Cardstock

House of Paper White Cardstock 300 gsm

Spellbinders Brushed Gold Cardstock

Spellbinders Better Floral Press Plate that comes with the Better Press Machine

Neenah Classic Crest Cardstock – 100 Lb

Neenah Classic Crest Cardstock – 80 Lb

Gold Satin Ribbon

White Pearls

Foam Squares

Fun Foam

Spellbinders Foil – Matte Gold

Copic Markers – YG67, YG63, YG25, YG11, RV09, RV25, RV23,RV21, E99, YR24, YR31

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Sending a Happy Hello with Honey Bee Stamps

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I love making cards with birds, flowers and butterflies and the Honey Bee Stamps Lovely Layers are just perfect for me because they do amazing birds, flowers and butterflies for me to use! Once all the dies are cut and the layers are put together it does not take that long to make the card which makes me happy. I love using sentiments that suit all occasions and this sentiment is just so cheery and sweet.

I am sure that whoever gets this card will be cheered up with the cute bird with the bird’s nest and the gorgeous Dogwood flowers on a gorgeous texture background.

Products Used:

Honey Bee Stamps 3D Embossing Folder – Sandie’s Garden

Amazing Paper Grace Hemstitch Rectangles

Honey Bee Stamps: Lovely Layers – Dogwood Honey Cuts

Honey Bee Stamps: Lovely Layers – Winter Birds Honey Cuts

Honey Bee Stamps: Lovely Layers – Nest

Honey Bee Stamps Mini Messages Stamp Set

Honey Bee Stamps Mini Messages Banners Die Set

Pink Fresh Studio inks – Peony, Ocean Breeze, Waterfall, Lemon Whip, Sunshine, Warm Buff, Detail Black

Hero Arts Hero Hues Pigment Ink – Unicorn

Distress Inks – Mowed Lawn, Scorched Timber, Lost Shadow, Ground Espresso

Spellbinders Essentials Cardstock – Lunar Grey, Onyx, Peridot

Gina K Designs Cardstock – Chocolate Truffle

Creative Expressions Foundation Cardstock – Sky Blue

Neenah Classic Crest 80 lb cardstock

Neenah Classic Crest 110 lb cardstock

Black pen

Foam Strips/squares

My Sweet Petunia Precision Glue Press

Bearly Art Glue

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