Wreaths for All Occasions. *VIDEO*

Hello and welcome back.  I've got 4 cards to share today, all using the Paper Rose Studio Floral Holly Christmas Wreath die, but none of them are Christmas cards.  I love wreaths all year round and I wanted to get the full value of this die by using it for non-Christmas cards.   

Paper Rose Supplies: Floral Holly Christmas Wreath Metal Cutting Die 32469, Rainbow Garden Basics 6x6 Paper Collection 31530, Farmhouse Friends Embossed Die Cuts 31974, Mother's Day Gnomes Embossed Die Cuts 31872, Thanks Border Word Metal Cutting Die 31950, Austin Circle Frame Metal Cutting Die 30225, Leafy Garden 3D Embossing Folder 31506 , Zara Flower Metal Cutting Die 21087, All Occasions Sentiments A5 12pc Sentiment Sheets 22339

So you can see how these cards are for different occasions, and while I did not make one into a birthday card or Mother's Day, they could just as easily have been one.  I hope you'll come join me for the video to see how these were made.  To see the video, PLEASE CLICK HERE.

Thank you for stopping by today and I hope I've given you some inspiration!

 

 

 

Split Fold Style Card

Hello everyone, I hope you all had a very merry Christmas and that the New Year proves to be a good one for you.  I've got a fun, split-fold style of card to share with you today and I have a PDF available if you want to give it a try.  

Paper Rose Studio Supplies used: Vintage Rose 6x6 Paper Collection 33618, Vintage Rose Embossed Die Cuts 33645, Inked Happy Border Metal Cutting Die 31590, Happy Birthday Chunky Script Stamp Set 24640.

This card ends up measuring 4" wide by 5 1/2" tall when its folded down to go into an envelope.  You can make the height of it taller if you would prefer.  I've got a PDF of how to create this card available for you HERE.  It's actually quite a simple card with a mix of valley and mountain folds.  I used #110 cardstock for mine, and added the layers of paper from the 6 x 6" Vintage Rose paper pack.  I added some white cardstock in behind the "happy" die cut sentiment to help it stand out from the background.  The "Happy Birthday" sentiment was stamped with some Cranberry Fizz ink from Catherine Pooler.  

Thank you for stopping by today, and I hope you'll give this card fold a try!
 

Embossed and Foiled Cards

Hello everyone and Merry Christmas!  I've got a couple of embossed and foiled cards to share today.  

Supplies Used: Beautiful Bouquet 3D Embossing Folder 32949, Arch Border Frames Metal Cutting Die 30420, Big Sentiments 1.0 A5 12pc Sentiment Sheets 22336 , All Occasions Sentiments A5 12pc Sentiment Sheets 22339, alcohol inks, foiled cardstock, acetate

Circle Card

To create this card, I cut 3 circles of gold foiled cardstock and  embossed them in the Beautiful Bouquet embossing folder.  I also embossed the white cardstock in the same folder. I have a small paintbrush that I keep with my alcohol inks, and I used this to paint on some alcohol ink onto the flowers and leaves.  It's difficult to get these inks to blend well, so I had to just "let it be" after the inks went on.  Once the ink was dry, I swiped my VersaMark ink pad over the top of the painted pieces.  Then I added some clear embossing powder and heat set it.  The powder landed in various areas of the foiled circles, but I quite liked that and left it that way.  However, you could use a dry brush to remove the powder from the non-inked areas.  Next, I cut black circle mats to back the inked circles and attached them together.  To assemble the card, I matted the white embossed background with black cardstock, and adhered it to my card base.  I pieced the circles back onto the white background where they matched the embossing, and added the sentiment and glitter dots.

Arched Card

This card started off much like the first.  I embossed the gold foiled cardstock and then painted on the flowers and leaves with alcohol ink.  I then swiped my VersaMark inkpad over the front and added the clear embossing powder.  Once this was heat set, I repeated this process.  I had also embossed a piece of acetate, and I found that I liked the look of the acetate over the gold foil so I used a double sided adhesive to attach these together around the outside edges.  Next, I cut the arch out of the black card front, and matted this over the foiled acetate image.  Then I attached this to my card front and added the sentiment.

I hope I've been able to give you a little inspiration today as that is a beautiful embossing folder!  Thanks for stopping by!

 

Gnome Tags

Hi everyone, I am always late at making tags for Christmas gifts and usually have to scramble to find something to use.  But this year, I was inspired by the new Build a Gnome die set from Paper Rose Studio, and am ahead of the game now!

Supplies Used: Build A Gnome Small Metal Cutting Die 32484 , Banner Trio Metal Cutting Die 25921, mini pompoms from the Dollar Store.

I started these by doing all my die cutting first.  I cut the tags from white cardstock and some from foiled cardstock.  After cutting out the noses, hands and beards, I laid them out on a sticky surface and coloured them all in with my Copic markers (C0, C1 for the beards, and E00, R00 and R20 for the hands and noses).  I went through my stash of used scraps and cut out the bodies, arms and hats.

Once everything was die cut, I started assembling all the gnomes, mixing and matching colours.  I punched a small hole on the upper middle of the tags and attached a ribbon or wire before attaching the gnomes to cover the holes.  Finally, I cut the pompoms in half and glued them in place.  I love how colourful and playful these tags are and they can be used for any time of the year.

Thanks for stopping by today, and I hope you're having a great day!

New Larger 5" x 7" Pop Up Box Card. *VIDEO*

Hi everyone, I'm back with another pop up box card, but I've recreated this one to fit a 5 x 7" envelope and to accommodate a lot of images.

Supplies Used: White Christmas Cut Aparts Paper Pack 32886, White Christmas Basics 6x6 Paper Collection 32934
 

So the finished size of this box card is 5" x 7" when its folded down flat.  There are 4 cross pieces where images can be attached, so any die cut images or stamped images would work well here.  It can be used for any occasion too, of course.  So check out your stash of supplies - I'm sure something in there will work!

I've made a video to show you how easy it is to make this card, so I hope you'll come watch it.  

PLEASE CLICK HERE to see the video and the PDF is located in the description box below the video. 

Thanks for stopping by today!

Snowglobe Shaker Card *VIDEO*

Hi everyone, I've got another video for you today.  I've made this style of snowglobe card before and have done videos on it, but I wanted to step it up a notch so I've made it into a shaker card as well!  It's so much fun!!

 

Paper Rose Studio supplies:  Christmas Cheer Embossed Die Cuts 32532, Large Christmas Snowflake Layered Metal Cutting Die 17727.

Now I had used the Lots & Lots of Circles die, but I think it may have been discontinued.  But any set of circle dies will work for this and just in case you want the measurements of  the circles I used, the outside diameter is 4 3/4" and the inside of the white rings is 4 1/4".  I have several more examples of cards made using the  Christmas Cheer embossed die cuts so I hope you'll come take a look.  

To watch the video, PLEASE CLICK HERE.  Thank you for stopping by and I hope you're having a great day!