Today I have another quick and simple card to share. I am only just home from Orlando and still getting back into the swing of things. I have use the large letters for the "H" in and Ho Ho Ho. A quick snip with paper snips to shorten the letters and it has completely changed the look of them, hasn't it?
Kate is hosting the Heart of Christmas blog this week and she has links for all the other ladies participating.
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I am sharing a card I made for my husbands work collage who recently retired at 72! I thought it was only fitting to share while I was away at On Stage in Orlando and have yet to return home to Melbourne. Speaking of On Stage, if you'd like to see some updates, drop by my Facebook business page for snippets of my day.
I didn't have the right stamps (or enough time to individually stamp letters) so I cheated and printed a sentiment on my computer for the happy retirement sentiment onto the balmy blue cardstock. I used the water image from high tide stamp set in pacific point which helps make the water look realistic doesn't it?
Inside the card, the verse reads:
We're so sorry that you're leaving us,
but you've earned the right to take,
the time to put your feet up,
and enjoy a well-earned break!
Wishing you all the very best from all your friends & colleagues.
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Our twenty second colour we are focusing on for the colour collections blog hop is grapefruit grove from the 2018 - 2020 collection. I have chosen grapefruit grove, merry merlot and pool party from the color coach to work with today.
I mixed grapefruit grove and pool party with the angled backgrounds technique to come up with todays card. I threw in falling flowers and graceful garden stamp sets along with some gold foil and a merry merlot die cut to complete the card.
Close up
Have you made a card with the angled backgrounds technique before?
Catherine is hosting the colour creations blog hop each week and she has links for all the other ladies participating.
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Tonight the Art with Heart team are sharing creative projects featuring the colour pink. We hope our blog hop inspires you to get creative with the various shades of pink that Stampin’ Up! offer in our collection of 53 different colours available.
You may have come to my blog from Tina Gillespie. Blog hops are full circles, so start blog hopping here and and at the end of my post (and everyone else's) there is a link to the next post.
Tonight, I have created a ombre card in shades of pink which was personalised with the fabulous layering alphabet edglits (and big shot) and finished off with the lined alphabet stamp set. Did you know that these two products are available in a bundle at a saving of 10%?
I know that this bundle is on the pricey side of things but to be able to make personalised cards with the many different ways to spell names these days, I think it is worth it. For example, how many different ways is there to spell Hailey?
Onto my card
Close up
Now it’s time to hop on over to our next participant, the very talented Catherine Proctor
If you find a broken link or have come to this blog hop from a different entry point, you can view the participants below:
Sharon Davern
Kate Morgan
Andrea Roberts
Tina Gillespie
Ros Davidson
Catherine Proctor
Caroline Manwaring
Rachel Palmieri
Sue Madex
Rebecca Jacovou
Alisha Watson
Claire Daly
Rachel Woollard
Monika O’Neill
June Kempster
Stampin' Up! materials used:
Stamps: Lined alphabet, pick a pennant, tabs for everything, broadway birthday
Cardstock: Basic black, sahara sand, lovely lipstick, melon mambo, flirty flamingo, blushing bride, petal pink, very vanilla
Inkpads: Memento, sahara sand, lovely lipstick, melon mambo, flirty flamingo, blushing bride, petal pink
Accessories: Big shot, layering alphabet edgelits, broadway lights framelits, basic rhinestone jewels
Punches: 3/4" circle, 1/2" circle, ballon bouquet
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This week I have a shaker card to share with you all. Heavily inspired by a present with the designer series paper doing most of the work and shock horror, no stamping on the card front at all! The beautiful Merry Christmas thinlet dies make up for the lack of stamping I think.
The multi purpose adhesive sheets as usual were the best thing to adhere the fine die cut lettering to the window sheet. No need to mess around with glue when you have those on hand.
Don't forget Claire is hosting the Heart of Christmas blog hop each week and she has links for all the other ladies participating.
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Our twenty first colour we are focusing on for the colour collections blog hop is granny apple green from the brights collection. I have chosen granny apple green and highland heather from the color coach to work with today. I couldn't make balmy blue work with the other colours I have chosen so I left it out.
I used serene garden stamp set mixed with stampin' blends and the happy birthday thinlets for my card, keeping it very simple and finishing it off with basic rhinestone jewels. A touch of wink of stella on the butterfly adds a tiny bit of bling.
I have been quite busy of late and it was late at night when I finished this creation (not long before this blog hop) and I sadly didn't make the time to decorate the inside. Now that I have packed up the supplies, I have to go back and finish the inside of the card. Lesson learned, decorate the inside no matter how busy you or (or how late at night it is!)
Catherine is hosting the colour creations blog hop each week and she has links for all the other ladies participating.
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Today’s card shares the amazing tarnished foil technique using the Seasonal Wreath 3D dynamic textured impressions embossing folder along with basic stamping, punched shapes, layered circles and stampin’ dimensions. I love it when it doesn’t take much to create a real WOW card. This was made in my October Techniques classes and all class attendees have loved it also.
Did you know that if you get Staz On ink on a portion of the card where you don’t want it (in my case anywhere there wasn’t an impression from the embossing folder) rub some staz on remover onto some fabric and apply it gently to the silver foil and it removes the ink. Perfect for ink clean ups!
Claire is hosting the Heart of Christmas blog hop each week and she has links for all the other ladies participating.
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Our twentieth colour we are focusing on for the colour collections blog hop is gorgeous grape from the brights collection. I have chosen gorgeous grape, early espresso and granny apple green from the color coach to work with today.
I made today's card for my eldest daughters birthday (she turned 14 last week) and when thinking of what to make for her card, a mobile phone (cell phone) was top of my list. Her mobile is always close by (and if she is not on that it's her laptop!) Teenagers!
I made a shaker panel for the mobile phone portion of the card and again used the retired large number framelits. Don' forget the numbers from the broadway bound speciality designer series paper are a great substitute when you need numbers (except I needed larger numbers for my phone image.) I stamped the background with buffalo check in gorgeous grape for some added interest as well. A simple happy birthday sentiment (from picture perfect birthday stamp set) punched out with the classic label punch completed the greeting and finished off the card nicely.
Close up (to see the rest of the bits in the shaker panel)
To create your own mobile phone shaker card, cut a 11.3cm x 6.6cm (4 7/16" x 9/16") rectangle and cut out a 8.7cm x 5.7cm (3 3/8" x 2 1/4") approx. 1cm (3/8") from the top. Mat it on a 12cm x 7.2cm (4 3/4" x 2 3/4") rectangle. Round all the corners if you wish.
Use punched circles to create a button at the bottom of the phone (I used a 3/8" circle and one from the owl punch, sadly both retired Stampin' Up! punches).
To complete the inside of the card, I googled and found a verse that had words about Facebook and Twitter but Nikki doesn't use those. I modified it to read what she does you and included this inside the card:
"I thought about texting you, snapchatting you or tagging you on Instagram, but some things are better the old-fashioned way… so I emailed you instead!"
Made both her and I giggle and she appreciated my lack of social media tagging.
Catherine is hosting the colour creations blog hop each week and she has links for all the other ladies participating.
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For today's Heart of Christmas creation, I have a shaker card to share.
I have used the Christmas staircase thinlets die to cut the shape of the tree and be shaker panel. I filled it with sequins and seed beads. Basic colouring with Stampin' Blends helped complete the card front quickly.
Another view to see all the shaker pieces
Inside card
Claire is hosting the Heart of Christmas blog hop each week and she has links for all the other ladies participating.
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Our nineteenth colour we are focusing on for the colour collections blog hop is garden green from the regals collection. I have chosen garden green, early espresso and so saffron from the color coach to work with today.
The colour colour garden green really stumped me for a while this week. Everything I was thinking off had green as the minority and not the focus and I kept on dismissing idea after idea. Eventually I settled on stamping a buffalo check pattern and decided to add in some lines with stampin' write markers to bring in the early espresso and so saffron and make my own DSP. I still had no idea what I was going to do with my DSP other than I was going to use it on my card some how!
After abandoning my card for a while, the John Deere logo/colours came to me. They were close to the colours I was using and I decided to try and make a punch art tractor to work with my DIY background paper. I went with a quick and easy typewriter sentiment for simplicity to complete the card.
To recreate the punch art tractor, these are the following punches (or substitutes) I used:
Letter “L” from large letter framelits for the seat (so saffron)
Letter “T” from little letters thinlets dies for the steering wheel (retired) (early espresso)
4cm x 3.5cm (1 10/16” x 1 3/8”) rectangle for the tractor body (cut the left hand side off with paper snips and round top right hand corner off) (garden green)
Layering circles framelits for the wheels (except the smaller so saffron circle is the 3/4” circle punch and [retired] 3/8” circle is used for the very centre of the wheels) (early espresso and so saffron)
Classic label punch for the back panel and roof section (garden green)
0.6cm (1/4”) strip of cardstock for the chimney cut on the trimmer and cut on an angle with paper snips (early espresso)
Inside card
Catherine is hosting the colour creations blog hop each week and she has links for all the other ladies participating.
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