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TODAY IS TUESDAY AND IT’S TIME FOR SOME TIPS & TECHNIQUES

Today I have a simple GATEFOLD CARD with BELLYBAND to share with you, using products from the Season of Elegance Suite Collection.

I use a cardbase that measures 5 3/4″ x 4 1/8″ which is slightly smaller than a half A4 sheet of cardstock.

TIP: To achieve these two very even and aligned folded panels, I use my Simply ScoresScoring Tool with the coordinaing Metric Scoring Plate. I score each side, along the 5 3/4″ side at the 5.25mm mark.

After scoring and folding the Gatefold card base, I adhered panels from the Seasons of ELegance 12″x 12″ Designer Series Paper to the front and inside card flaps.

A pane of Thick Basic White card was glued inside the card and a strip of the same paper was adhered to the insert. The back of the envelope also had some of the DSP added.

For the bellyband I used a 9 1/2″ x 1 1/2″ piece of Pretty Peacock cardstock and scored it at 2 1/4″ and 6 1/2″.

I cut a tree using the smallest of the full trees from the Peaceful Evergreens Dies..

TIP: Cut a piece of Pretty Peacock and a piece of the Designer Series Paper and glue them together. After die cutting the tree, it will be firmer and stand better when the band is removed.

After the tree is adhered to the band, I added the Christmas greeting.

TIP: Add Adhesive Sheet to the back of the Gold Foil – it will make it easier to adhere the greeting to the band.

TIP: Keep the panel from where the greeting was cut away. Position this on the band, where you want to place the greeting, and secure it with some Post-it tape.

TIP: Peel away rhe adhesive sheet backing from the greeting and position it inside the negative space. This will help ensure that the greeting maintains its original shape and length.

To finish the card I added some gold pearls from the Blooming Pearls

To finish the bellyband I used gold embossing powder to heat emboss ‘merry’ onto a small strip of Pretty Peacock card. After trimming it I added some Mini Stampin’ Dimensionals to the back of the strip and popped it on.

Romorrow I will have another Christmas card to share with you.

Until then, happy stamping.

If you live in Australia, you can order any of the products I used to make this card by going to my online store. Just click on any of the images below.

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IT’S MONDAY AND THAT MEANS IT IS TIME TO HIGHLIGHT SOME NEW STAMPIN’ UP! PRODUCTS

This week I plan to showcase the Season of Elegance Suite Collection, from the September – December 2024 Mini Catalogue.

This suite collection includes two bundles, but more about the features on Friday.

As you can see there are lots of gorgeous goodies included in the suite.

Today I have a textured Christmas themed card to share.

I took a 5 3/8″ x 3 3/4″ panel of Basic Beige card and used the Painted Trees 3D Embossing Folder to add texture to it.

After embossing the panel, I used my Mossy Meadow small Blending Brush to lightly build up colour on each of the trees. I also used an empty Wink of Stella brush to add colour into more specific areas to darken the green on the trees.

After the ink was dry, I painted Clear Wink of Stella across the trees to add shimmer to the card front.

I used another empty Stella brush to paint Pearlixed Enamel Effects onto the trees for a wintry, snow effect.

After the ink and enamel dried, I adhered the Basic Beige panel to a Mossy Meadow panel.

The greeting, from the Peaceful Season Stamp Set, was stamped in Mossy Meadow and then cut using a die from the Peaceful Season Dies.

A length of Basic Beige Bordered Ribbon was threaded through the die cut piece and Stampin’ Dimensionals were placed on the back of the greeting. The greeting was positioned on the front of the trees and the ribbon was wrapped around the layered card panels. The ribbon was tied into a simple know and trimmed.

These layers were then adhered to a Basic Beige card base.

I added a strip of Basic Beige paper, from the Season of Elegance DSP, inside the card and to the back of the envelope.

Finally, I added some Blooming Pearls to the front of the card.

Tomorrow is Tuesday and I will have a project featuring some tips and techniques to share with you.

Until then, happy stamping.

If you live in Australia, you can order any of the products I used to make this card by going to my online store. Just click on any of the images below.

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IT’S FRIDAY AND TIME FOR SOME FEATURES & A FUN FOLD CARD

I was only able to share images of the new Splendid Autumn Suite Collection, from the 2024 September – December Mini Catalogue, from Wednesday of this week. That was when customers were able to start ordering new products.

This Collection is made up of the Autumn Expressions Bundle – a stamp set made up of 9 cling stamp sets and 8 coordinating dies.

The stamp set has three images and 6 greetings. The greetings use two fonts, one smaller upper case block style font and the pther is a larger beautifully cursive font.

The Autumn Expressions Dies include 5 leaf and timber shaped dies and three dies that cut elements that can be used to create a bag. These pieces can also be used to cut frames and panels.

The Designer Series Paper is perfectly named – Splendid Autumn. The colours and designs are truly autumnal.

To complete the collection there are 200 Faux Glass Dots, 75 Woven Golden Leaves, and a roll of Wild Wheat Rustic Striped Ribbon.

For my Fun Fold card today I have used another card template, from page 22 of the Annual Catalogue, and gave it a Fun Fold twist.

The template I used can be found on the second row and is the fifth from the left.

I used a Gard Green panel and attached a piece of DSP. A second piece of the same DSP was trimmed down to be added to panel of Garden Green card. This resembles the ‘spotlighting’ technique.

A small Garden Green card base was cut and folded. I attached the ‘spotlight’ panel to the front of the small card.

Using the largest banner die, from the Stylish Shapes Dies, I cut a Garden Green banner. I scored at approximately 1″ along the righthand side of the banner and adhered this section behind the small card base.

Then I glued the small card to the base panel, aligning the images.

I used a pair of small magnets to create a closure for the banner flap. One magnet was placed on the banner fold using a mini glue dot to secure it.

The corresponding magnet was positioned on the inside left half of the card. Then I adhered two pieces of DSP, the floral design covered the second magnet.

I added a piece of Basic White cardstock inside the small card to provide a place to write a personalised message.

To finish the card, I stamped the greeting on to a small pice of Basic White card and cut it with one of the banner dies from the Stylish Shapes Dies. The right hand end of this banner was trimmed and the greeting panel was added to the Garden Green banner.

The back of the envelope had more of the DSP added. Then I added some of the garden Green gems from the Blooming Pearls pack.

This was a fun card to create.

I’m not yet sure what I have for you tomorrow, but I will have something.

Until then, happy stamping.

If you live in Australia, you can order any of the products I used to make this card by going to my online store. Just click on any of the images below.

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Paper Snips
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