I was recently asked to make a birthday card for someone who loves alsatian and bichon frise dogs and off course flowers. So I pulled out a mix of different brands to make the flowers and background which worked well together to create a wonderful garden for the dogs. I purchased the dog images from Etsy and printed them on watercolour paper and fussy cutting them to add to the card. The recipient of the card was thrilled with it.
I recently purchased the gorgeous Honey Bee Stamps: Lovely Layers – Amaryllis Honey Cuts and my goodness this is a fabulous flower set to get. I had very few get well cards and this set was perfect for one. Here I have coloured the bowl, flowers and leaves with Copic markers and assembled them using foam squares for more dimension. Because the flowers are so dramatic I just added a white on white background by die cutting the Honey Bee Stamps Burlap Honey Cuts out of white cardstock and adding it to the front of the card. Add a sentiment and some iridescent rhinestone and the card was made very quickly.
This is my penultimate Christmas card for the year and I have my final New Zealand themed Christmas card. I have used a similar design that I have used in the past but this time I changed the orientation and I have used the Amazing Paper Grace Victoriana Crest Dies for the background and used pink papers and a pink poinsettia for a more non-traditional feel to go with the summer Christmas themes. Once again I have used the fantail image from Montarga Rubber Stamps shop as my focal point on a background of stenciled clouds. The Honey Bee Stamps: Lovely Layers Poinsettia and Winter Greenery Honey Cuts are just gorgeous and make it so easy to create beautiful bouquets of flowers and foliage on my cards.
Products Used:
Amazing Paper Grace Victoriana Crest Dies
Amazing Paper Grace Hemstitch Circle Dies
Honey Bee Stamps: Lovely Layers – Winter Greenery
Honey Bee Stamps: Lovely Layers – Poinsettia
Heartfelt Creations Deluxe Flower Shaping Paper
Heartfelt Creations Winter’s Eve Paper Collection
Heartfelt Creations Christmas Lantern Stamp and Die Set
Christmas is just around the corner and I have a special card I made for a colleague of my husband. the brief was to have Paddington Bear and lots of snow. I purchased a cute Paddington Bear image from Bubblegum Designs from Etsy and printing it on watercolour paper and then made my card around this image. I used the Heartfelt Creations Ornate Window stamp and die set to create a window that can be opened out to look at Paddington Bear in the snow with his presents and Christmas tree beside a cute street lamp. I even added a little robin to the top left of the window frame to further add to the English Christmas theme. I was very happy with how this card turned out.
For the rest of the card I have used other products from Heartfelt Creations and Honey Bee Stamps to add all the embellishments to the card. Scroll past all the photos for the full list of products I have used.
I follow WPlus9 Designs on YouTube and I just love how Dawn colours her flowers from Honey Bee Stamps and this card has been inspired by a couple of her cards made using the Honey Bee Stamps: Lovely Layers – Peony and Wildflowers. I don’t have a lot of Honey Bee Stamps cover dies and the flowers I used were rather too big for a small card so I dug out an old Spellbinders die that I really love called Majestic Labels Twenty-Five to create a very elegant background to my pretty flowers. I really like the stamp sentiment as it can be used on its own or could have a specific sentiment added to them such as a ‘happy birthday’ to personalise it.
My Project.
For my card I have created a side folding 5″ x 7″ base card out of white cardstock. I cut a piece of light blue cardstock 5″ x 7″ and adhered it to the front of the card. I cut a piece of Snowdrift cardstock 4 3/4″ x 6 3/4″ and adhered it to the front of the card.
I cut another piece of Snowdrift cardstock 4 1/2″ x 6 1/2″ and die cut the frame and inner using the outer frame and next size frame dies. I adhered the outer frame to the white cardstock using foam strips and then added the inner die inside the frame. I die cut the label out of Snowdrift cardstock and added it over the centre of the frame. I stamped the sentiment from Beccy’s Place Magnolia stamp set in Tuxedo Black ink to the bottom right of the label as shown.
I die cut the light green leaves using the leaf die from the Honey Bee Stamps: Lovely Layers – Spring Greenery Honey Cuts and adhered it to create a base for the flowers to the top left of the frame.
I then die cut the leaves and stems from the Honey Bee Stamps: Lovely Layers – Wildflowers Honey Cuts and added some green ink to create more dimension to the stem and leaves. I used Altenew Shadow Creek ink on the green (Rainforest cardstock) stems from the blue bell flowers and Pink Fresh Studio ink Grassy Knoll and Key Lime inks on the green (Sprout cardstock) leaves for the light blue flowers. I then die cut the flowers using white cardstock and coloured the blue bell flowers with Altenew Crystal Violet and Alpine Aster before adding them to the stem. I adhered this flower stem over the base leaves to the left of the frame.
I die cut the leaves leaves and stems only for the light blue and yellow flowers. I added some Pink Fresh Studio Key Lime ink to the leaves and then added one stem to the base flowers. The light blue flowers were coloured using Pink Fresh Studio Lemon Whip, Crystal Violet, Maple Yellow and Doe inks and then assembled them before added a flower to the stem already on the card with foam squares for dimension. I added a single flower to the left of the foliage and then trimmed the leaves to fit around the flower.
I die cut the peony and bud from the Honey Bee Stamps: Lovely Layers – Peony Honey Cuts and coloured the pieces using Pink Fresh Studio inks – Ballet Slippers, Bubblegum, Sparkling Rose and Wisteria. Once the colouring was complete I assembled the peony and bud using foam squares for some dimension. I die cut the leaves out of Sprout cardstock and added some shading to create shape to the leaves. These leaves were adhered to the base of the frame with some foam tape on a couple of leaves. I added the peony and bud over these leaves.
To complete the floral arrangement I trimmed another leaf from the Honey Bee Stamps: Lovely Layers – Spring Greenery Honey Cuts and added them around the peony and leaves.
I added clear Wink of Stella for all the flowers for some subtle glimmer and shine.
To finish I added some light blue gems around the sentiment and flowers as shown.
I have a cute birthday card to share with you today that I made for someone special. They have this lovely dog so I thought that I would make a card with a fence with lots of flowers and a dog kennel and dog in front of it. I had a lot of fun doing all the layered flowers and foliage and it turned out rather lovely I thought and it was well received which is good.
Scroll past all the photo for a list of all the products I have used to make thi card.
Products Used:
Honey Bee Stamps: Lovely Layers – Spring Greenery
Honey Bee Stamps: Lovely Layers – Dianthus
Honey Bee Stamps: Lovely Layers – Dogwood
Honey Bee Stamps: Lovely Layers – Barn Wood Fency
Spellbinders Ferns & Ivy Dies
Amazing Paper Grace 3D Vignette Pet House
Amazing Paper Grace All Occasions Sentiments Stamp and Die set
Today I am sharing a card I made for my brother-in-law for his birthday. He is a keen sailor and loves the ocean so I made a special card for him using a combination of Heartfelt Creations Sea Breeze and Honey Bee Stamps Lovely Layers dies. The Heartfelt Creations Ornate Window Cling stamp and coordinating die set is one I use a lot and here I have created an ornate window frame looking out onto a seascape with a light house and finished it with dogwood flowers and a cute bird.
My Project
I have made a side folding 5″ x 7″ base card out of white cardstock. I then layered gold and light green paper on the front.
I stamped the light house image from the Heartfelt Creations Sea Breeze Harbour cling stamp set on X-Press It card and coloured it with Copic markers. I stamped a plain image of Magic Masking Paper and trimmed it to cover the image I had coloured. I then ink blended some sky in the background using the Waffle Flower Cloud Stencil and ink blended the sea with pale yellow and blue inks. I then die cut it out with the plain window die from the Heartfelt Creations Ornate Window Frame cling stamp set and adhered it to the front of the card.
I then stamped the window frame image twice from the Heartfelt Creations Ornate Window Frame Cling stamp on gold cardstock and heat embossed with gold embossing powder. I die cut one full frame including the window panes and the window, and one ornate heading from these images. I glued the window to some acetate and then trimmed to fit the window. I added the outside decorative frame to the front of the coloured image with foam tape and then added the window inside the frame.
I die cut the bird from the Honey Bee Stamps: Lovely Layers – Spring Birds Honey Cuts using grey, black and white colours to represent seagulls and added it to the top right of the window frame. I then die cut the dogwood flowers from the Honey Bee Stamps: Lovely Layers – Dogwood Honey Cuts and assembled them and added them to the bottom left of the window frame.
To finish I stamped the sentiment from the Honey Bee Stamps Mini Sentiments Stamp set in Jet Black ink on white cardstock and die cut it with the coordinating die. This was added to the window frame as shown.
Products Used:
Heartfelt Creations Ornate Window Frame Cling Stamp and coordinating die
Heartfelt Creations Sea Breeze Harbour Cling Stamp set
Heartfelt Creations Snowy Pine Paper Collection
Heartfelt Creations Deluxe Flower Shaping Paper
Heartfelt Creations Luxe Gold Cardstock
Honey Bee Stamps: Lovely Layers – Spring Birds Honey Cuts
I have been having so much fun making New Zealand themed Christmas cards using a wide range of different products and I am so happy with how they turned out. My card today features the New Zealand native bird the Fantail or the Piwakwaka in Te Reo. This is a very cute little bird and we have a lot around where I live by native bush and they are almost impossible to photograph as they are always flitting around without stopping. You can find out more about the birds here. This is another stamp that I purchased from Montarga Rubber Stamps in Christchurch which I have coloured with Copic Markers. I thinks this card was my favourite as I just loved how all the colours came together.
Scroll past all the photos for a list of all the products I have used.
Products Used:
Heartfelt Creations Holiday Ornament Paper collection
Heartfelt Creations Luxe Gold Cardstock
Heartfelt Creations Decorative Circle Frame dies
Heartfelt Creations Christmas Lanterns Stamp and Die sets
Today I have another Kiwi Christmas card to share with you. This card is a little outside my comfort zone with ink blending and silhouette stamping but I was so pleased at how it turned out. Once again I have used a couple of Kiwiana stamps from Montarga Rubber Stamps shop but gave it my twist with die cutting a gorgeous frame for the silhouette image, trees with lights and of course a poinsettia flower to celebrate Christmas down under. Plus there is a cheeky kiwi peeking out from behind the Christmas tree with a wee present. I have used a mix of Heartfelt Creations, Honey Bee Stamps Lovely Layers and Amazing Paper Grace dies to complete my card – scroll past the full list of products I have used.
Products Used:
Heartfelt Creations Holiday Ornament Paper collection
Heartfelt Creations Luxe Gold Cardstock
Heartfelt Creations Deluxe Flower Shaping Paper
Heartfelt Creations Simply Classic Rectangle Frame die
Honey Bee Stamps: Lovely Layers – Trees Honey Cuts
Amazing Paper Grace Die of the Month – Pop up 3D Vignette Sleigh (poinsettias and leaves)
Amazing Paper Grace Silent Night Make a Scene dies
Today I have another non-traditional New Zealand themed Christmas card featuring a Tui to share with you. The Tui is a bird native to New Zealand and it is very distinctive with very dark almost black feathers and a tuft of white features on it’s chin. We have a lot of Tuis where I live and one time I counted about 40 to 50 birds in a kowhai tree having a feeding frenzy but they can be noisy and at times drive me nuts!! You can find more information about the Tui here.
For my card I have combined Heartfelt Creations decorative dies and papers with Spellbinders, Honey Bee Stamps and Amazing Paper Grace dies to created this card. The full list of products I used is listed after the photos. I was very happy with how this card turned out as the colours worked perfectly together to coordinate with the purple and blue bird. I have also used Wink of Stella on the bird to add some sparkle and replicate the iridescent blue/purple feathers.
Products Used:
Heartfelt Creations Holiday Star Paper Collection
Heartfelt Creations Luxe Silver Cardstock
Heartfelt Creations Deluxe Flower Shaping Paper
Rajni Chawla’s Flower Shaping Paper
Heartfelt Creations Elaborate Oval Frame
Heartfelt Creations Starry Holiday Greetings Stamp and Die set – die cut the sentiment from the Holiday Star Paper Collection and another plain sentiment.
Rubber Stamps by Montarga 1999 Tui on a Flax Bush
Spellbinders Sealed Holly Sprigs Dies
Amazing Paper Grace Die of the Month – Pop up 3D Vignette Sleigh
