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Honey Bee Stamps Sending a Hug

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I really loved colouring this image from Honey Bee Stamps Everything Beautiful Stamp set and thought I would try a different colour combination of yellow and pink. I am still getting to know the Copic colours and combinations and this was a good lesson using colours and also to practice light sources from classes I have taken from Kit and Clowder.

My Project:

For my card I have created a top folding 4 1/4″ x 5 1/2 base card from white cardstock. I have die cut both the top and bottom plates using the Honey Bee Stamps Delicate Daisy Top and Bottom cover plates. I ink blended some green ink on the bottom cover plate before adding some green cardstock behind the coloured card. I die cut two top cover plates and adhered them together before adding it to the front of the card.

I stamped the floral images on copic friendly paper with Tuxedo Black ink and coloured them in with Copic Markers before die cutting them with the coordinating dies. I die cut another die out of white cardstock and adhered it behind the large floral image and then added this to the front of the card with foam tape. I added the small flowers behind the main flowers as shown.

To complete the card I stamped the sentiment from the Everything Beautiful Stamp set in Tuxedo Black ink on white cardstock. I die cut this out with the coordinating die plus another out of plain white card. These were stacked together with the stamped image on top and then placed over the flowers.

Products Used:

Honey Bee Stamps Everything Beautiful Stamp & Die Set

Honey Bee Stamps Delicate Daisy Top and Bottom Cover Plates 

Spellbinders Essentials Cardstock – Rainforest

House of Paper Cardstock – White 300gsm.

Memento ink – Tuxedo Black

XPress-It Card

Copic Markers – Y67, YG63, YG23, YG25, E99,YR24, YR23, Y11,R85, R83, R81.RV00, E93

Distress Ink – Mowed Lawn

Bearly Art Glue

My Sweet Petunia Precision Glue Press

Foam Tape

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Amazing Paper Grace With Love Fleur de Lis Grandeur

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I have another Amazing Paper Grace beautiful, timeless, and elegant shaped card to share with you today using the Amazing Paper Grace Die of the Month May 2020 Fleur de Lis Grandeur Foldover Die set. This die set is a quintessentially Becca Feeken design with the decorative inlays, the ability to layer dies in many ways and even to be able to make beautiful boxes to create a stunning ensemble. You can also make a shaped card, a 6″ x 6″ card or an envelope, and also use the inner square dies to make a note card. What more can you want from a die set! There is even a flower die to help you complete your project. For my card I have made a shaped 6″ x 6″ card and used the inner square decorative frame dies to create a very pretty aperture for my sentiment. And I love this sentiment as it can be used in so many different settings such as birthdays, weddings, anniversaries etc.

You can watch Becca creating a notecard with matching decorative envelope here.

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

My Project

To make my card I made a top folding shaped card out of blue cardstock by diecutting the card using the large shadow die and leaving one side of the die slightly over the edge of the fold. I then die cut two decorative large square dies using the four decorative corners out of ivory pearl cardstock. These dies were stacked together and then added to the front of the card. I then die cut one small plain square die out of blue cardstock and four small decorative dies with the centres removed. I stacked two of the decorative dies together and then added it to the plain blue square and added it to the centre of the card front. I then stacked the remaining two small decorative square dies together and rotated them around 90 degrees and added it to the front of the card using foam strips.

I die cut three sentiments from the Amazing Paper Grace With Love Regalia dies – two from ivor pearl card and one from gold glitter card. I stacked these together with the gold die on top and then added it to the centre of the frame.

I die cut some foliage from the Amazing Paper Grace My Sweet Friends Dies out of light green cardstock, trimmed and added it to the top right and bottom left of the frame.

I die cut the leaves from the Amazing Paper Grace Cinch & Go IV Dies out of green cardstock and shaped them using my fingers and added them over the light green foliage.

To make the flowers I used the flower die from the Amazing Paper Grace Die of the Month May 2020 Fleur de Lis Grandeur Foldover Die set and die cut the petals out of flower shaping paper. I coloured the petals with yellow and pink inks, spritzed them and shaped them using a medium ball stylus. Once the petals were dry I then assembled them with two layers per flower. I then die cut the small stamens out of the same paper using the die from the Amazing Paper Grace Cinch and Go Blossoms Dies, coloured them with yellow ink and shaped them before adding them to the centre of the flowers. I added three flowers to the top right and bottom left over the leaves.

To complete the floral bouquets I added some leaves from the Amazing Paper Grace Summer Label Motif Dies out of gold glitter paper and added them around the leaves and flowers.

I die cut the butterfly from the Amazing Paper Grace Summer Label Motif Dies out of cream and yellow pearl cardstock and the body out of gold glitter cardstock. I assembled the butterfly and added it to the card as shown.

To complete the card I added yellow gems to the centres of the flowers and pearls highlighting the background dies and some Star Dust Stickles to the flowers and butterfly.

Amazing Paper Grace Products Used:

Die of the Month May 2020 Fleur de Lis Grandeur Fold Over Dies

Cinch & Go IV Dies

With Love Regalia Dies

My Sweet Friends Dies

Summer Label Motif Dies

Cinch and Go Blossoms (stamens) Dies

Other Products Used:

Pink Fresh Studio inks – Cherry Blossom, Limoncello

Spellbinders Essentials Cardstock – Glacier, Rainforest, Peridot

Creative Expressions Pearl Card – Ivory

Pink Fresh Studio Gold Glitter Cardstock

Pearls

Star Dust Stickles

Beartly Art Glue

My Sweet Petunia Precision Glue Press

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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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Pink Fresh Studio July 2024 Challenge

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I am enjoying playing with the Pink Fresh Studio Challenge July 2024 this month. This month the challenge is using Geometric designs on your projects and the coordinating inks are: Cherry Blossom, Mimosa, Marigold, Summer Shower & Eucalyptus.

I have gone totally outside my comfort zone with my first (hopefully) card for this challenge and gone with a black and white theme using the Pink Fresh Studio Stained Glass Die as my geometric element. I have die cut two dies – one from silver glitter paper and one from white cardstock and mixed up this die by putting the white die on top of the silver die upside down to create even more patterns with the die. I have also used the Pink Fresh Studio Essentials Stitched Scallop Square Dies as a diamond in the centre of the card to tie in the diamond geometric theme and also provide a focal point for the sentiment which has been heat embossed with white on black cardstock.

I have coloured the floral images from the Pink Fresh Studio Delighted For You Stamp set using a no line colouring technique and after die cutting the images I have gone around the edges with black Copic marker to help the images blend into the black background. I am not a fan of using grey colours to colour flowers white and for the flowers I used the colours that Dawn from Wplus9 Design demonstrated here and I was very pleased with my first effort. I also used Dawn’s method of adding glitter to the images but next time I will use a much finer glitter but it still looks stunning in real life.

Some silver pearls finish the card and focus on the sentiment.

Products Used:

Pink Fresh Studio Delighted For You Stamp and Die set

Pink Fresh Studio Stained Glass Die

Pink Fresh Studio Essentials Stitched Scallop Square Dies

Pink Fresh Studio Silver Glitter Paper

Pink Fresh Studio Metallic Pearls – Silver 

Memento ink – Tuxedo Black

X-Press It Card

Copic Markers E00, G20. BG70, YG00, E00, B20, G99, YG24, Y15, Y11

YG67, YB63, YG25, YG23, 100

Foam Tape/squares

Heartfelt Creations Black Cardstock

House of Paper Cardstock – White 300 gsm

Versamark ink

Ranger White Embossing Powder

Heat Gun

Nuvo Pure Sheen Glitter – Diamond

My Sweet Petunia Precision Glue Press

Bearly Art Glue

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Amazing Paper Grace Christmas Village

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It is the 1st July here in New Zealand and I have my first Christmas card to share with you today. I absolutely love the flexibility of the Amazing Paper Grace 3D Vignettes and how they can be made into a 3D vignette or can be added to a card front. For my card today I have used the Amazing Paper Grace Die of the Month November 2018 3D Vignette – Christmas Village as a card front but still creating some dimension between the layers using foam tape. I love how the gorgeous decorative frame which I have done white on white really highlights the colourful scene inside the frame. To finish the Christmas theme I have put this frame on an embossed Christmas background using the Amazing Paper Grace Embossing folder Holly Flourish.

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

My Project

For my project I have made a top folding 5″ x 6″ card base out of white cardstock. I cut a piece of gold card 5″ x 6″ and added it to the front of the card. I cut a piece of white pearl cardstock 4 7/8″ x 5 7/8″ and embossed it with the Amazing Paper Grace Holly Flourish embossing folder and added it to the front of the gold card.

I die cut one shadow frame using the frame die from the Christmas Village die set out of white pearl cardstock and adhered it to the front of the card. I die cut one frame using one of the inner hill dies and the outer frame out of white pearl cardstock and added it to the shadow frame using foam tape. I die cut the inner panel out of white pearl cardstock and ink blended it with blue and yellow inks and adhered it to the centre of the frame. I die cut the Santa die three times – two out of white cardstock and one from gold cardstock. I stacked these dies together with the gold die on top and then added it to the frame.

I die cut all the village elements out of white pearl cardstock and coloured the tree with brown ink, the trees and ivy leaves with green ink and the church and house with pink inks. I added coloured sa piece of scrap white pearl cardstock with yellow ink and then added a small piece of coloured card behind the church and house to look light light shining out the windows and a gold cross at the top of the church steeple. I added the tree to the background and the houses and trees and white fence in front of and behind the hill with foam squares for more stability for the elements.

I die cut a frame using the sentiment inner die and the outer die out of white pearl cardstock. I die cut the sentiment out of gold cardstock and trimmed it to fit the base sentiment die. This layer was added to the frames using foam tape. I added the leaves around the sentiment.

To complete the vignette I die cut two plain outer frames – one with white pearl cardstock and one from pearlescent vellum and a decorative frame out of white pearl cardstock. I adhered these three frames together with the plain frame, vellum frame and the decorative frame as the sandwich. This was then added to the front of the vignette with foam tape.

To finish the card I added a small white bow out of seam binding at the base of the frame and pearls to the leaves, on the decorative frame and on the holly berries on the embossed background and drops of Crystal Stickles on ink blended background for some snowy sparkle.

Amazing Paper Grace Products Used:

Die of the Month November 2018 3D Vignette – Christmas Village

Amazing Paper Grace Embossing Folder – Holly Flourish

Other Products Used:

Creative Expressions Pearl Card – Icicle

Lawn Fawn Pearlescent Vellum

House of Paper White Cardstock 300gsm

Pink Fresh Studio inks – Sky Blue, Summer Shower, Peony Begonia, Grassy Knoll, Eucalyptus, Gathered Twigs, Lemon Whip, Seaside

Crystal Stickles

Spellbinders Gold Foil

Pearls

White Seam Binding

My Sweet Petunia Precision Glue Press

Bearly Art Glue

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Pink Fresh Challenge Card No. 2

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This is my second card for the Pink Fresh Studio Monthly Challenge for June 2024. This month the challenge is to create an ombre or gradient element and the ink colours are Waterfall, Slumber, Sparkling Rose, Mimosa, Lemon Whip & Soft Lilac.

This card ended up quite different to what I had planned – I made so many mistakes that I had to cover up but in the end the card turned out ok I guess… I was trying to do a different gatefold card after watching an older video of Jennifer McGuires but I ended up gluing the right side flap down and adding the frame on the inside back of the card to cover up some excess glue but this actually gave a good space to write sentiments in the end.

My Project:

I cut a piece of white cardstock 5 1/2″ x 8 1/2″ and scored at 3″ and 7 1/2: to create a gatefold card. I used the Pink Fresh Studio Diagonal Plaid Press Plate by hot foiling with Spellbinders Opal foil to create the resist background for my rainbow ink blending using the challenge inks. I then trimmed this panel to two pieces – 2 7/8″ x 5 3/8″ and 1/18″ x 5 3/8″ and added these panels to the left and right side flaps. I ended up gluing the right flap down to the inside back of the card. I die cut 3 frames from the Pink Fresh Studio Notched Corner Frame dies out of white cardstock and stacked them together. I then die cut a piece of vellum to fit behind the frames an I die cut a plain frame out of white cardstock and added it to the back of the frames to neaten the back before adding it to the left side panel and overhanging on the right side.

For the inside back of the card I die cut a panel out using the medium size dies from the Pink Fresh Studio Notched Corner Frame dies out of white cardstock and adhered it to the inside back.

I stamped the floral image from the Pink Fresh Studio Delighted For You Stamp set in Wow embossing ink and heat embossing with gold embossing powder. I coloured the images using the coordinating stencil set using the challenge inks before die cutting the flowers out. I die cut another plain floral die and added the coloured image on top and added it to the right of the frame using foam squares inside the frame.

I stamped the sentiment from the Pink Fresh Studio Delighted For You Stamp set and gold embossed it before die cutting. I die cut another three plain dies and stacked them all together with the stamped image on top. This was then added to the bottom left of the frame using some foam tape to ensure the sentiment is flat.

I finished the card by adding some Glacier gems around the sentiment and flowers.

Products Used:

Pink Fresh Studio Diagonal Plaid Press Plate

Pink Fresh Studio Delighted For You Stamp, Stencil and Die Set

Pink Fresh Studio Notched Corner Frames

Pink Fresh Studio inks – Waterfall, Slumber, Sparkling Rose, Mimosa, Lemon Whip & Soft Lilac

Pink Fresh Studio Jewels – Glacier

Spellbinders Foil – Opal

Heartfelt Creations Vellum

Wow Embossing Ink

House of Cards Cardstock – White 300 gsm

Ranger Super Fine Detail Gold Embossing Powder

Heat Gun

My Sweet Petunia Precision Glue Press

Bearly Art Glue

Foam Squares

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Amazing Paper Grace Snip it Grid and Calendar Card

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

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

My Project

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

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

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

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

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

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

Amazing Paper Grace Products Used:

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

Other Products Used:

Heartfelt Creations Luxe Gold Cardstock

Close to My Heart Colonial White Cardstock

House of Paper Cardstock – White 300gsm

Dress My Craft Soft Flower Shaping Paper

Pearlised Ivory Embossed Paper from my stash

Creative Expressions Pearl Card – Ivory

Fun Stampers Journey Pearls

Spellbinders foam

Stickles – Frosted Lace

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

My Sweet Petunia Precision Glue Press

Bearly Art Glue

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Amazing Paper Grace Rose and Filigree Slip In Card

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I have another very simple and yet very dramatic card to share with you today. I am normally using pastel colours but here I have used a black background to highlight stunning watercoloured roses using the dies from the Amazing Paper Grace Die of the Month December 1919 Rose and Filigree Duo Slip in Card. I have taken my inspiration for this card from a YouTube video that showed how to watercolour images by using a die to emboss watercolour paper then watercolouring the embossed image and adding the outline die over top. I kept the background and sentiment very simple to highlight the gorgeous roses.

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

My Project

For my card I have created a top folding 6″ x 5″ base card out of white cardstock. I die cut the black frame using the rectangle frame and the slip in rose filigree die from the Amazing Paper Grace Die of the Month December 1919 Rose and Filigree Duo Slip in Card. I then die cut another rose filigree shadow die out of watercolour cardstock and embossed it using the decorative insert. I watercoloured the image using watercolour paints and then adhered the painted image behind the black outline die.

I then cut a piece of gold cardstock 5 1/2″ x 4 1/2″ and a piece of old green wood pattern paper 4 3/8″ x 5 3/8″ and adhered to the front of the gold card. I then slipped this panel behind the filigree slip. This card front was then added to the front of the base card.

I die cut three ‘best wishes’ dies from the Amazing Paper Grace Make a Scene Bold Greetings – two from black cardstock and one from gold cardstock. I stacked these together with the gold sentiment on top and then added the sentiment to the bottom right.

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

Amazing Paper Grace Dies Used:

Die of the Month December 1919 Rose and Filigree Duo Slip in Card

Make a Scene Bold Greetings

Other Products Used:

Spellbinders Essentials Cardstock – Onyx

Heartfelt Creations Luxe Gold Cardstock

Tim Holtz Watercolour Cardstock

Altenew Artist Watercolour Paints

Mintay Peony Garden 6” x 6” Paper

Spellbinders Fashion Gold Pearls

My Sweet Petunia Precision Glue Press

Bearly Art Glue

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I love ‘twofor’ cards where I can make two cards out of one lot of die cutting. A little while ago I made a card using the Amazing Paper Grace December 2020 Die of the Month – Rose Garden Promise – you can see it here. I die cut the die set out of gold cardstock and just used the gold inlay pieces on the frame for that card but I still had the frame and the rest of the inlay rose and leaf pieces left over. So it was so easy to create a second card using these pieces and some flowers left over from another project. The result was an elegant congratulations card that was so quick and easy to make and so easy to post as well.

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

My Project

For my project I made a top folding 5″ x 7″ card base out of white cardstock and then I added a piece of 5″ x 7″ cream cardstock to the front of the card.

I added the gold frame and the gold leaves and roses inlays from the Amazing Paper Grace December 2020 Die of the Month – Rose Garden Promise to the front of the card.

I die cut three sentiments from the Amazing Paper Grace March 2020 Die of the Month March 2020 Elegant Infinity Etched Dies – two from cream cardstock and one from gold cardstock. These were stacked together with the gold die on top and then added to the centre of the frame as shown.

I die cut the flourish from the Amazing Paper Grace December 2020 Die of the Month – Rose Garden Promise out of gold cardstock and trimmed it in half before adding the flourish to both sides of the sentiment.

The flowers from the Amazing Paper Grace Layered Happily Ever After Die set were die cut out of ivory pearl card and added over the flourish. To finish the card I added a gold pearl to the centres of the flowers.

Amazing Paper Grace Dies Used:

December 2020 Die of the Month – Rose Garden Promise Etched Dies

March 2020 Die of the Month March 2020 Elegant Infinity Etched Dies

Layered Happily Ever After Etched Dies

Other Products Used:

Spellbinders Mirror Gold Cardstock

House of Paper Cardstock White 300 gsm

Close to My Heart Cardstock – Colonial White

Creative Expressions Ivory Pearl Card

Pink Fresh Studio Gold Pearls

Scor-Pal Scoring Board

My Sweet Petunia Precision Glue Press

Bearly Art Glue

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