Patchwork Pals Christmas

These Christmas cards were also in my discovery Christmas box - see previous Christmas posts!  I think the Patchwork Pals Christmas artwork by Kanban is so cute, and easy to work with.

Choose a background and layer up the various die cut bits - brill!

Happy Crafting - Anna :o)

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Christmas Snowmen (& Dove!) - Stickers

More from my discovery box . . .  

I remember having some stickers left over from a previous year and wanting to use them up.  

Just like the stickers on my Purple Christmas - Sticker post, these stickers were small, under 1" and possibly 2 cm square from Docrafts.  Also, these may no longer be available?  

So, as with the Purple Christmas - Sticker post, I mounted them onto card.  This time, red proved to be the best colour for the mat underneath them.  

As the silver border of the sticker was etched, I didn't think that embossing the red mat with a QuicKutz Goosebumpz would work well, just too fussy? So I left it plain.

But, what to do with them now?  I only had a few stickers left and they were nearly all the same.

I had 5" x 5" white cards - the stickers were still small, even after matting them onto the red card and would be lost on the cards - it would help if they were larger.

Looking through my stash, I found a sheet of silver linen effect matt card, which looked like it would go nicely (matching the silver border on the stickers). Using a Nestabilities Square Scallop die, cut it out and used it for the base mat.

Finally, I adhered the layers onto the centre of the card.


All done!

Happy Crafting - Anna :o)

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Christmas Tree & Christmas Wreath

Another card from my Christmas discovery box!

This was really straight forward to make, although it did take time to colour in!

I used Sakura pens - metallic so there is a soft shimmer to the colours, which the photo hasn't really brought out :o(

A white 5" x 5" card - good quality which doesn't mind getting a bit wet, this one is from Kanban.




How I put it all together

I placed the white peel-off sticker down onto the card and started to colour it in by placing some of the ink on the edges of the peel-off.  While still wet, dragging the colour across with a damp paint brush.  So not too much ink was used.

I grounded the tree with black ink.

The trees baubles were given a 3D look with a dot of glitter glue on each one and glitter inside the star. (Suze Weinbergs Pure Glitz and Stickles).

Done!

See below a peel-off wreath completed in the same way.

Happy Crafting - Anna :o)

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Purple Christmas - Stickers

I feel I'm soooo late posting my Christmas cards to far away places this year, they're on their way now, so, I can relax, sit down, and add another post to my blog!  I made most of my Christmas cards earlier in the year, put them away and forgot about them.  So I was pleasantly surprised when I rediscovered them - and even more surprised when I remembered how I'd made them :o))

There is a purple and silver theme to this little set - all due to the stickers - from Docrafts, although I think they are no longer available?


Each sticker is small, under an inch square (possibly 2cm in metric), so they look really lost on a card.  So to help them become more, I decided to mat them onto card stock and  found a matching lilac card.

Some of the stickers have a clear background which meant the pretty image would be lost on the lilac card, so I placed these down on white card first and cut them out.

I cut the lilac card into strips and then into squares, placing a white paper backed sticker on one of them, thought they looked a bit plain, so using a QuicKutz Goosebumpz (GB-013), added the swirly texture - which is just the right scale for such a small sticker.

After lots of hand pressing with the QuicKutz hand press and the Goosebumpz textured plates, I adhered all the stickers in the centre of the embossed squares.

I had a few 3" x 8" cards and played about, laying the stickers out in different configurations until I settled on the ones you can see.  

On some I've added a silver peel-off line and on one used a snowflake border punch (with double sided tape on the inside edge, sprinkled with silver glitter).

Note to self - remember to use the above again for small stickers!




Happy Crafting - Anna :o)


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Cute Rabbit Holding a Daisy

I put this card together for a poorly friend using a little decoupage kit I'd had from Docrafts - it could have been included inside one of their goody bags?


The only thing I added was the card blank, glossy accents and glitter!


Materials and Tools:
Daisy & Dandelion Decoupage kit
5x5 inch white card blank
1mm deep sticky pads for the decoupage layers
Adhesive
Craft knife
Glossy Accents
Ice Stickles - Lemon Ice


How I put it all together:

1. Basically, I followed the layer guide from the decoupage sheet, using the 1mm high pads to layer the rabbit up.
2. From the matching papers, chose the daisy one and marked the size for this mat on the paper using the card blank as a guide - and cutting slightly smaller so I could cut around the pre printed daisy on the ribbon.
3. Placed the layers on the card and thought it looked a little too plain, so tried the matching stripy paper underneath.  I thought it looked much better, so glued the stripy paper down and cut away the excess with a craft knife.
4. Next glued the pretty daisy paper in place followed by the rabbit decoupage.
5. The card still needed something extra, so I used a similar glitter colour to the daisy centres - Ice Stickles (Lemon Ice) - in the centre of each of them
6. Finally, Glossy Accents over the rabbits nose and eyes - I put this on with a cocktail stick as they are so small and the drop of Glossy Accents was so too big!

Happy crafting , Anna :o)

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Cute Doggie Card

So Cute.  Brings back memories of our dog when she was a puppy many moons ago.  She went everywhere with us - and when all grown up - peeking out of rucksack when we were out hiking and the weather had turned so bad!  She knew where the  best place was!

I used all sorts on this card, although I kept to just 3 colour groups, browns, pinks and aqua.

I thought if I split my post into materials and tools, and then how I put it all together, it might make it easier for you to follow? 

So here's the list of materials and tools:

White card to stamp on

6x6 inch white card blank

Pampered Pets stamp by Docrafts

Spellbinders Nestablities, Fleur de Lis Squares for the frame; Square Nesties for the image

Promarkers

Distress Inks, Tumbles Glass, Tattered Rose, Worn Lipstick, Vintage Photo

Silver leaf and glue pen

Stickles - Waterfall (and some clear unbranded glitter glue in my stash for the rose).

Clear Glossy Accents

How I put it all together

1. I used Vintage Photo to stamp the Cutie and coloured in with aqua, pink and brown Promarkers.  The ink on the bag did bleed a little, but I'm okay with that.
2. From white card, cut out the largest Fleur De Lis frame.  I applied Distress Ink Tumbled Glass with a brush, then with my finger spread out the Stickles thinly over it - and set aside to dry.
3. Found the right size Square Nestie which would cut the Cutie out so it would sit behind the frame, the frame edge is so very narrow!
4. Very lightly added with Cut & Dry foam the Tattered Rose around the Cutie
5. Laid all the above down onto the 6x6" card blank to get an idea of size and again with a brush, flicked from the edge towards the centre with Worn Lipstick.
6. Returning to the Cutie - she looked a little flat, thought she might benefit from a bit of metal look for the bag furniture.  So using one of those really useful glue pens, "coloured" over the ring and zipper bit.  Let it dry until clear and placed a small piece of silver leaf over and rubbed away the bits that didn't stick.  It worked quite well.
7. Then mounted the cutie onto the card blank with the frame on top
8. Finally... a little iridescent glue (with pink tones) onto the rose and the tiniest of spots of glossy accents on the dogs nose and eyes to help them pop.

Well, that's about it, I made another after this one for my mum's birthday.  Her favourite colour is yellow, which goes really nicely with the aquas and browns.  I changed the colour of the rose on the bag to yellow too and didn't colour the background of the Cutie.  It was so much easier to make second time around!


Hope you find my post useful, Anna 

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Dark Rosette

Sorry about the photo.  I don't have the rosette anymore - it was made for my friends leaving party.  Beside tulips, she likes most things black (see post Tulip Card).

I used Dovecraft linen 12x12 card stock in Juniper and Pepper Pot and plain white for the centre.

Firstly, with a border punch by EK Success, Scallop Diamond, I punched all the way along one side, put it in my paper trimmer and cut it to a depth of 2.5 inches (5cm for the younger folk).  Then, between each curve of the punch, I scored a line to make folding the card (like a fan) easier. Repeated the whole thing again so I had two strips of folded paper and attached them to each other to a make a tube.

Next came the tricky part of carefully pulling and encouraging the paper folds on one edge to move inwards to form the rosette.  With some very strong and sticky glue dots, I held the rosette in place by glueing a circle on the back (slightly smaller than the one you can see at the front). 

After this, I used my Spellbinders Nestabilities Circle and Scallop Circle for the front of the rosette, cut a strip of paper and attached to the back to look like ribbon.  Finally, I finished off the rosette with another slightly larger circle at the back to cover the ribbon attachment and added dabs of glitter glue on the rosette peaks and around the scallop circle for a bit of bling.


At party, when my friend was presented with the rosette, she absolutely loved it!  So it was a job well done :o)

Tulip Card

My first post! It's a little bit daunting to say the least. So please bear with me as I find my blogging feet so to speak.


My friend was leaving work and I wanted to make her a card.  I used her favourite things as inspiration.  She loves tulips, so I searched around my stash for a suitable image. 


I found an Anna Griffin topper, then looked for papers to bring out the colours in the topper from her range.  I'm not sure if you can see clearly enough in the photo that there are three layers of mats: a plain dark one closest to the topper followed by two patterned mats.


The sentiment was made using Spellbinders Shapeabilities, Fancy Tags Three onto the patterned paper for the base, topped with words stamped in Distress Ink Aged Mahogany onto off white card to match the topper.


I almost forgot, the card base is white and A5 size.  The background colour was a blend of several Distress Inks applied with brushes: Mustard Seed, Wild Honey, Scattered Straw with a flick of Aged Mahogany around the edges.


Well that's about it and the end of my first blog, phew!

Work in progress

Welcome to my blog.

I will post with a project soon  . . .