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Hello Happy Birthday Peonies

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This year it has been my mission to learn how to colour with alcohol markers. I have been taking lessons with Alyce at Kit and Clowder and I am so enjoying them and I am finding that I they are so much easier to use and the colouring is much quicker – better for my neurodivergent brain lol. Anyway, I have been purchasing different floral stamp sets to practice with and one of the sets I purchased was the Gina K Designs Majestic Peony Cling Stamp set. This is such a beautiful design and great for practice. Here is one of my first attempts at colouring using Copics on Neenah Classic Crest 80 Ib paper and I have used a colour combination from one of the classes that I have taken. (I have since discovered I prefer to use X-Press It card as it is much easier to blend). I have done a similar card design to this a few years ago. I had completed an Altenew class – All About Layering 4 (2) and I used all Altenew products then. You can see the post here.

I must admit that I do struggle with adding sentiments to coloured images as I feel that I have spent sooo much time colouring the images and don’t want to cover them up. Here I feel I have made a compromise by adding the die cut ‘hello’ and adding the stamped sentiment to the bottom right of the card just covering a small portion of the coloured image.

My Project

I have created a top folding 4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″ base card out of white cardstock. I cut a piece of gold cardstock 4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″ and adhered it to the front of the card base. I then cut a piece of black cardstock 4 1/8″ x 5 3/8″ and embossed it with a diamond embossing folder from my stash. This was then added to the front of the gold card.

I stamped the peony image from the Gina K Designs Majestic Peony Stamp set in Tuxedo Black ink on Neenah Classic Crest 80 Ib cardstock. I coloured the image in with Copic markers and then fussy cut the image. I went round the edges of the image with a Memento Tuxedo Black Marker to get rid of all the white edges and then adhered the entire image on the black embossed card.

I die cut four ‘hello’ dies from the Altenew Fancy Hello die set – three from black cardstock and one from gold cardstock. These were then stacked together with the gold die on top and then adhered to the centre of the card over the flowers.

I stamped the sentiment from the Altenew Dotty Blooms stamp set in gold pigment ink on black cardstock and heat embossed it with gold embossing powder. I die cut the sentiment out using a banner die from the Altenew Featured Sentiments Die Set and die cut another plain banner from black cardstock. I adhered the stamped banner on the plain banner and added the sentiment to the bottom right of the card as shown with some foam strips.

To finish I added some gold pearls around the die cut ‘hello’.

Products Used:

Gina K Designs Majestic Peony Stamp Set

CTMH Diamond Embossing Folder

Altenew Fancy Hello Die

Altenew Dotted Blooms Stamp Set

Altenew Featured Sentiments Dies Set

Pink Fresh Studio Gold Pearls

Memento Tuxedo Black ink

Memento Tuxedo Black Marker

Copic Markers – RV10, RV21, RV23, FV25, RV29, YG11, G21, G94, G99, B05, B12, B000

Heartfelt Creations Luxe Gold Cardstock

Spellbinders Essentials Cardstock – Snowdrift, Onyx

Neenah Classic Crest 80 Ib

Bearly Art Glue

Ranger Gold Embossing Powder

Encore Gold Pigment ink

Heat gun

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Amazing Paper Grace Perfect Marriage

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I have a wedding to go to coming up in about three weeks and I thought I would get in early and make a card for the bride and groom. (I am normally leaving everything to the last minute lol). I decided to go with a white and gold theme using the Amazing Paper Grace Clipped Nested Squares as a base for more handcrafted flowers. The sentiment from the Amazing Paper Grace Beautiful Inside and Out Sentiments Stamp set is just perfect for a wedding card (pun intended) and I have used Amazing Paper Grace Candlewick Rosebud and Petite Floral Potpourri dies to created my flowers. I will make a box to coordinate with this card to make it extra special.

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

My Project

To make my card I have created a top folding 5 1/2″ x 5 1/2″ base card out of white cardstock. I then added a 5 1/2″ x 5 1/2″ gold card to the front of the card. I cut a piece of white cardstock 5 1/4″ x 5 1/4″ and scored along all sides at 1/4″ and 3/8″ to create a frame. This was then added to the front of the gold cardstock. I then die cut two large clipped nested squares out of white cardstock and embossed them with the Amazing Paper Grace Orange Peel Embossing Folder. I die cut two large gold frames using the two largest dies from the clipped nested Squares dies and then adhered them over the front of the card overlapping in the middle. I then used the inside nested square from one of the larger gold frames and added it to the centre of the overlapped clipped nested square panels. I die cut a smaller clipped square out of white cardstock and after stamping the sentiment from the Amazing Paper Grace Beautiful Inside and Out Sentiments Stamp set with Jet Black ink in the centre, I adhered it to the front of the gold nested square. I die cut four frames using the next two size down clipped nested squares – three out of white cardstock and one from gold cardstock. These were stacked together and witht the gold die on top. This was then added to the front clipped square panel framing the sentiment.

I then die cut the corner dies from the Amazing Paper Grace Callista Rectangle Shadow Box Frame Dies out of gold cardstock and added them to the corners to finish the frame.

I made the roses from the Amazing Paper Grace Candlewick Rosebud dies which were coloured with Lemon Whip and Ballet Slippers for a soft romantic look. I then added some Cosmic Shimmer Luna Paste – Moonlight Gold to the edges to give the roses an antique shabby chic feel. The large leaves were from the Amazing Paper Grace Cinch and Go IV dies and were die cut from green cardstock. The leaves were also given some shine and glitter using the Luna Paste and were added around the roses. The small yellow and pink flowers were made using the dies from the Amazing Paper Grace Petite Floral Potpourri Dies. I coloured the yellow flowers with Lemon Whip ink and the pink flowers with Raspberry Bliss ink. The lighter green leaves were also from the Amazing Paper Grace Petite Floral Potpourri Dies set. These were added around the flowers and the nested square dies to create a pretty floral bouquet.

To finish my card I have made a butterfly from the Amazing Paper Grace Butterfly Bliss Garden Shutters dies out of vellum and gold cardstock. The vellum was coloured with Saltwater Taffy Distress Oxide ink and worked in perfectly with the antique-look roses.

Amazing Paper Grace Products Used:

Clipped Nested Square Dies

Beautiful Inside and Out Sentiments Stamp set

Candlewick Rosebud Dies

Petite Floral Potpourri Dies

Cinch and Go IV Dies

Callista Rectangle Shadow Box Frame Dies

Butterfly Bliss Garden Shutters Dies

Orange Peel Embossing Folder

Other Products Used:

Spellbinders Essentials Cardstock – Snowdrift, Rainforest, Peridot, Onyx

Heartfelt Creations Deluxe Flower Shaping Paper

Heartfelt Creations Luxe Gold Cardstock

Rajni Chawla’s Flowerite Vellum

Dress My Craft Soft Floral Paper

Dress My Craft wire pollens

Bearly Art Glue

Pink Fresh Studio inks – Lemon Whip, Ballet Slippers, Raspberry Bliss

Ranger Archival ink – Jet Black

Distress Oxide ink – Saltwater Taffy

Scor-Pal score board

Small and medium ball stylus

Medium Groove Golf Tool

Cosmic Shimmer Luna Paste – Moonlight Gold

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Wow I am so excited to announce that my card has made the finals of the Card of the Month competition at Creative Scrapbooker Magazine. I would love your help to become the winner of the Card of the Month and I would appreciate it if you could vote for me here:

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Card of the Month: September 2023

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Amazing Paper Grace Forever in Our Memory

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Today I have an elegant sympathy card featuring the beautiful Amazing Paper Grace Forever in our Memory from the Amazing Paper Grace Beautiful Sentiment Vignette collection by Becca Feeken. I have kept to a blue and white palette with a touch of silver accents. Lilies are often associated with sorrow and grief and I have used the Amazing Paper Grace Layered Lilies Dies to adorn this card. I love how quick and easy a card can come together when you use these sentiment vignette dies.

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

My Project

To make my card I have created a top folding base card of 5 1/2″ x 6″ out of white cardstock. I cut a piece of blue cardstock 5 1/4″ x 5 3/4″ and score two lines down each side 1/8″ apart 1/4″ inside each side and adhere to the front of the card.

Die cut the shadow die from the Amazing Paper Grace Forever in Our Memory dies out of blue cardstock. Die cut the decorative die from the same set in white cardstock and emboss it before adding to the blue shadow. Adhere this to the front of the card. Die cut the shadow inner panel out of blue cardstock and two decorative sentiment dies out of white cardstock. Stack the two sentiment dies together and then add to the blue shadow before adding to the centre of the decorative frame with foam tape.

Die cut the lilies from the Amazing Paper Grace Layered Lilies Dies out of white cardstock with the stamen out of yellow cardstock. Colour the inside with Lemon Whip and Sunshine ink and assemble as per instructions. I added some Key Lime ink to the bottoms of the flowers.

Die cut the leaves and stems from green cardstock. Trim the stems and add around the decorative sentiment. Add the lilies and leaves to the stems. Die cut the stems from green cardstock and flowers from yellow cardstock from the October 2021 Die of the Month Flourished Fleurit Dies and assemble. Add these around the lilies and leaves. Die cut the stems only out of silver cardstock and add as accents around the flowers and leaves.

To finish add some silver pearls to the corners of the card and on the decorative die as shown.

Amazing Paper Grace Products Used:

Forever in Our Memory Dies

Layered Lilies Dies

October 2021 Die of the Month Flourished Fleurit Dies

Other Products Used:

Spellbinders Essentials Cardstock – Snowdrift, Rainforest, Chamomile, Peridot

Spellbinders Brushed Silver Card

Heartfelt Creations Deluxe Flower Shaping Paper

Bearly Art Glue

Foam Tape

Pink Fresh Studio Silver Pearls

Pink Fresh Studio inks – Lemon Whip, Sunshine, Key Lime

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An English Country Garden

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Today I have a very special card to share with you. I was asked to make a very special birthday card for a very special Grandma who is about to turn an incredible 94 years old and she lived in England. The brief was for roses and alstroemeria flowers as these were her favourite flowers and I thought that I would do a English country cottage scene with different flowers, a lovely seat to sit on and admire the garden and some sweet birdies to fill the air with song. The Heartfelt Creations Gateway Fold cards were perfect for this occasion. I have used many different products from Heartfelt Creations and as I did not have a lot of time I die cut the images from the paper collection rather than colouring them. I am so happy how this turned out and Olya if you are reading this I really really enjoyed making this. Thank you so much for asking me to make this card and I hope your Grandma really loves and cherishes this very special card/gift that has come from the heart from New Zealand.

Scroll past the photos for a full list of the products that I have used in this card. I will also have a video tutorial on my YouTube channel showing you how I have made these roses coming soon.

Products Used:

Heartfelt Creations 5″ x 7″ Gateway Fold Card

Lattice Flourish Gateway Die

Heartfelt Sentiment Stamp set

Eyelet Frame Gateway Die

Tear Drop Lattice Gateway Die – outer frame die

Cut Mat Create 1B die – sentiment

Spellbinders Victorian Numbers die

Cottage Tree’scapes – leaves and floral spray

Countryside Cottage Paper Collection

Hollyhock Stem and Bloom Dies

Hollyhock Garden Paper Collection

Wishing Well Oasis stamp and die – chair

Hollyhock Fence – hollyhock

Floral Fashionista dies – small flowers

Rustic Sunflower Bucket Die – bucket

Rustic Sunflower Paper Collection

Clematis Birdhouse and Trellis Dies- birds

Climbing Clematis Paper Collection

Classic Rose dies

Sweet Pea dies – alstromeria

Garden Lily Die- alstromeria

Leafy Accents Dies

Countryside Cottage Collection – pot plants – fussy cut (Cottage Summer’scapes

Hollyhock Garden Paper Collection

Ranger archival inks – Vivid Chartreuse, Leaf Green, Olive, Rosey Posey, Magenta Hue, Sunflower

Artline black pen

Petite Pollen Stamens – medium

Wow embossing ink

Ranger gold embossing powder

Pink Fresh Studio Jewels – pink, yellow

Foam tape

Bearly Art Glue

Deluxe Flower Shaping Paper

Luxe Gold cardstock

Rajni Chawla’s Flower Shaping Paper

Copic markers – C7, C5, C3, C1

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Have a Wonderful Day with Roses

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I love love love roses and when I saw the new Crafters Companion Vintage Rose 3D Embossing Folder – Timeless Rose I had to get it and it is just gorgeous. I have coloured the image with Copic Markers and then added a stunning frame to showcase the beautiful roses. Of course I had to add some cute butterflies made from Memory Box dies that I have had for many years. I really love this sentiment as it is so versatile and can be used for so many different occasions.

My Project

I have created a side folding 5″ x 7″ card base out of white cardstock. I then cut a piece of X-Press It paper 4 3/4″ x 6 3/4″ and embossed it using the Timeless Rose embossing folder. I coloured the roses and background with Copic markers and adhered it to the card front.

I cut a piece of white cardstock 5″ x 7″ and die cut the frame using the Nos. 3 and 4 dies from the Heartfelt Creations Fancy Classic Oval Dies. I wanted to keep the decorative frame see through so I cut a piece of acetate 4 3/4″ x 6 3/4″ and adhered it behind the whole frame. I then added the decorative frame to the acetate inside the outer frame and cut the inner oval out using scissors (I found it much easier doing it that way). To complete the decorative frame I have die cut the outer decorative frame from gold cardstock and added it to the frame as shown. The frame was then added to the front of the card with foam strips.

I heat embossed the sentiment from the Heartfelt Creations Heartfelt Sentiments on black cardstock using gold embossing powder. I then die cut the sentiment out using a die from the Altenew Featured Sentiments Die Set and added it to the front of the roses with foam strips.

I die cut the butterflies out using Lawn Fawn Pearlescent Paper and Heartfelt Creations Luxe Gold Cardstock. These were assembled and added to the card front.

To finish I have added gold pearls around the frame.

Products Used:

Crafters Companion Vintage Rose 3D Embossing Folder – Timeless Rose

Heartfelt Creations Fancy Classic Oval Dies

Memory Box Pippi Butterfly Dies

Memory Box Isabella Butterfly Dies

Altenew Featured Sentiments Die Set

Heartfelt Creations Heartfelt Sentiments

X-Press It Paper

Spellbinders Essentials Cardstock – Snowdrift

Heartfelt Creations Luxe Gold Cardstock

Heartfelt Creations Black Cardstock

Lawn Fawn Pearlescent Vellum

Spellbinders Acetate

Pink Fresh Studio Gold Pearls

Bearly Art Glue

Bearly Art Foam Strips

Wow Embossing Ink

Ranger Gold Embossing Powder

Copic Markers – G28, G07, YG25, YG23, B00, B000, R39, RV25, RV23, RV21, R81, E93

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Amazing Paper Grace Sympathy Card

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My card today has been inspired by a card that I saw on Pinterest and I immediately thought the beautiful Amazing Paper Grace Emmeline Treillage die would make a beautiful background to some gorgeous handmade flowers using the Amazing Paper Grace Cinch and Go Blossoms Dies and leaves and a butterfly from the Amazing Paper Grace Summer Label Motif Dies. I have kept the colours very muted and limited to blue, green and white with a touch of lemon to keep with the sympathy theme of the card.

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

My Project

I have created a 4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″ base card out of white cardstock. I cut a piece of pale blue cardstock 4 1/8″ x 4 3/8″ and adhered it to the inside back of the card. I then die cut the lacey front out using the beautiful ‘daisy chain’ die from the Amazing Paper Grace Emmeline Treillage die. I die cut another decorative die from a piece of 4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″ white cardtock and adhered it to the front of the card for more strength.

I die cut three decorative ovals from the Amazing Paper Grace Double Halo Oval dies and stacked the decorative frame together and adhered it to the front of the card. I then stamped the sentiment in black ink on one of the inner ovals and adhered it to the inside of the frame.

I die cut the leaves out of two different colour green cardstocks using the dies from the Amazing Paper Grace Summer Label Motif Dies and adhered them to the left of the oval. I then made the dimensional flowers from flower shaping paper using the flower dies from the Amazing Paper Grace Cinch and Go Blossoms Dies. The blue flowers where coloured with French Ultramarine ink and the smaller flowers were coloured with Citrus Burst inks. Once these were assembled I adhered them over the leaves.

I made the butterfly out of white, blue and black cardstocks using the butterfly dies from the Amazing Paper Grace Summer Label Motif Dies and adhered it to the right of the oval as shown.

To finish the card I have added some white pearls to the centres of the flowers and the daisies on the decorative background die.

Amazing Paper Grace Products Used:

Emmeline Treillage Dies

Cinch and Go Blossoms Dies

Summer Label Motif Dies

Double Halo Oval Dies

Other Products Used:

Spellbinders Essentials Cardstock – Snowdrift, Onyx, Rainforest, Peridot, Glacier

Rajni Chawla’s Flower Shaping Paper

Beccy’s Place Stamp – Magnolia

White pearls

Bearly Art Glue

Ranger Archival ink – Jet Black, French Ultramarine

Altenew ink – Citrus Burst

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I am so happy to announce that my card has been selected for the Creative Scrapbooker Magazine Card of the Month competition.

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Just a Little Note from Honey Bee Stamps

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I have been going through my considerable craft stash and found this Stitched Lattice Frames die from Creative Expressions. I do love the gorgeous stitched trellis background and thought it would be great to have this as a background for some pretty dogwoods and a sweet little birdie from Honey Bee Stamps. My inspiration again has come from Dawn at Wplus 9 Designs.

My project

I have created a side opening base card of 5″ x 6 1/8″. I die cut a piece of blue cardstock using the second smallest die from the Stitched Lattice Frames die and adhered it to the front of the card. I die cut two lattice frames using the lattice and smallest frame dies – one from blue and one from white cardstock. These were adhered together and adhered to the front of the blue card front. I die cut two white frames using the two smallest frame dies from the Stitched Lattice Frames dies and adhered the together and added it to the front of the card using foam strips.

I stamped the sentiment from the Beccy’s Place Magnolias stamp in Jet Black ink on white cardstock and die cut it out using the smaller Stitched Scallop circles die from Pink Fresh Studio. I die cut another two circles and adhered three outside circle frames and two inner circle frames together and added them to the front of the card. I finished by adding the stamped image to the centre of the frame.

I die cut the dogwood branches out of white cardstock and coloured the branches with brown copic markers before adding all the flowers to the branches. I added one branch coming from the top right and one branch coming from the bottom left triming the ends of the branches.

I die cut the birdie out of grey, black, white and brown cardstocks and assembled them according to the instructions on the Honey Bee Stamps website. I added the bird to the left of the circle frame with foam squares. I added some more spare flowers and leaves to the base of the bird and the branches.

To finish I have added some blue iridescent gems around the sentiment.

Products Used:

Creative Expressions Stitched Lattice Frames Die

Honey Bee Stamps: Lovely Layers – Dogwood

Honey Bee Stamps: Lovely Layers – Winter Birds

Beccy’s Place Stamp – Magnolia

Pink Fresh Studio – Scallop Stitched Circles Die

Heartfelt Creations Deluxe Flower Shaping Paper

Spellbinders Essentials Cardstock – Rainforest, Black Onyx, Portabello, Snowdrift, Lunar Gray

Pink Fresh Studio Jewels – Glacier

Bearly Art Glue

Ranger Archival ink – Jet Black

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Amazing Paper Grace Cozy Home Scene

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Today I have a special card to share with you that I have made for someone that has moved into our neighbourhood and in my street. I wanted to make a card to welcome her to our friendly neighbourhood and Amazing Paper Grace had the perfect dies to do this. I have used the Amazing Paper Grace Make a Scene collection – in particular the Amazing Paper Grace Make a Scene – Cozy Home Dies. I just love all the details and textures in these dies. I have also added a couple of cats from the Amazing Paper Grace Rolling Along Scene dies as these are coming soon to the household. And to finish the card I have added some Amazing Paper Grace Layered Cherry Blossoms to remind her that it was spring when she moved in. These are not colours I normally use but I am really pleased at how they worked together in this card.

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

My Project

I have used grey cardstock to make the card base using the Amazing Paper Grace Make a Scene Card Base dies. I have added some scenic pattern paper in the background to create my scene background and used acetate to hold the sentiment so the background is not blocked. For the house I have added yellow cardstock behind the windows and white trims to the windows and a white door. I also die cut the bottom half of the house out again in green cardstock to create grass. The fence has been die cut in white and I also added some green grass in front of the fence using the grass die from the Amazing Paper Grace Rolling Make a Scene Along Dies.

The measurements for the inserts are:

Back insert – acetate is 4 3/4″ x 3 1/4″

Middle insert – House is 4 3/4″ x 2 3/4″

Front insert – Fence is 4 3/4″ x 1 3/4″

For the front of the card scene I have added a white scallop frame and a blue rectangle decorative frame from the Amazing Paper Grace Scallop Facade Frame Dies. The blue frame is the same colour in the background paper and tides the whole card together.

To finish the front I have added some pink and yellow cherry blossoms from the Amazing Paper Grace Layered Cherry Dies.

The Make a Scene interactive section has then been added to a top folding 5″ x 7″ grey card base. Inside the card I have added a piece of white cardstock to write on and made a label using the Amazing Paper Grace Elegant Adornments dies out of white and grey cardstock. I have also hot foiled the ‘Welcome to the Neighbourhood’ sentiment from the Amazing Paper Grace You Are My Home Hot Foil Plates on grey cardstock in blue foil.

Amazing Paper Grace Products Used:

Make a Scene – Cozy Home Dies

Make a Scene – Card Base Dies

Make a Scene – Rolling Along Dies

Elegant Adornments Dies

Scallop Facade Frame Dies

Layered Cherry Blossoms Dies

You Are My Home Hot Foil Plate

Other Products Used

Spellbinders Essentials Cardstock – Graphite, Snowdrift, Rainforest, Chamomile, Onyx, Portobello

Creative Expressions Foundation Cardstock – Duck Egg Blue

Heartfelt Creations Paper – Hollyhock Garden

Spellbinders Acetate

Spellbinders Foil – Blue

Lightweight white cardstock from my stash

Pink Fresh Studio inks – Ballet Slipper, Lemon Whip

Distress Oxide inks – Mowed Lawn, Frayed Burlap

Pink Fresh Studio Jewels – Ballet

Bearly Art Glue

Foam squares

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