Friday, 23 October 2015

Christmas Gift Card Holder

It is getting closer to Christmas so I have been on the look out for some great ideas for packaging gift cards.  Dawn Griffiths has a terrific video on her blog here, showing how to make this great little gift card holder.

I used the Winter Wonderland Specialty DSP, with a colour scheme of the Basic Black, Whisper White and Gold.


Thursday, 22 October 2015

Some Gold Cheer

Hi everyone, the card that I am sharing with you today is one that I made for the Mojo Monday challenge.


The DSP that I used is from the Winter Wonderland Specialty Designer Series Paper pack.  I had the beautiful black and gold strip sheet left, I just love the bold contrast.


The leaf images are from the stamp set "Lighthearted Leaves" which I stamped with Versamark on Basic Black cardstock and Gold embossed.  I used the matching Leaflets Framelits to cut out the leaf images, these were adhered to a tag made using the Scalloped Tag Topper punch  and a piece of DSP from the "Winter Wonderland" paper pack which had a piece of 5/8" Satin Gold Ribbon attached to the top.  A large gold button from the Basic Metal Buttons pack was added to the top of the leaves, a piece of Gold Corded Trim was added to the button before attaching to the tag.    The Basic Black background was embossed using the "Boho Chic" embossing folder.  A large gold Metallic Foil Doily was put behind the tag and the word "Cheers" created using Gold Foil Sheet and the Greetings Thinlits


Monday, 28 September 2015

Reason for the Season

Hi everyone, just sharing with you the little gift boxes I made using the Large Pillow Box Thinlits, stamp sets Reason for Season and Circle of Spring, Festive Flower Builder Punch along with the Tags & Labels Framelits dies.

After watching a Stampin' Up presentation by Katie on Youtube, I made the first box for a Christmas gift.  In the presentation Katie showed a flower that she had made to show how versatile the stamp set and punch were.  My second box was inspired by Katie's blue flower.

For my large pillow boxes I have used the exact same layout, just changing the theme from Christmas to Birthday and using different DSP.



I have used the Merry Moments DSP on this box with a colour scheme of Real Red. Mossy Meadow, Whisper White and Silver


On this box I used a colour scheme of Soft Sky, Whisper White and Silver.  I did create the flowers using Shimmery White as I misted the stamp images with water before I built the flower.

Wednesday, 16 September 2015

Just Swimming Around...

Hi everyone, just sharing a card that I made using the rock salt technique.  I had no idea what I was going to do with the background piece when I started playing with the technique but it reminded me so much of an underwater scene that turned it into a nautical themed card.

I used the stamp sets "By the Tide" and "From Land to Sea" along with the colours of Lost Lagoon, Island Indigo and Night of Navy.


Thursday, 10 September 2015

Have a Beautiful Birthday

I had this piece of background I made recently using the diamond mask sheet from the Happy Patterns mask set and decided to use to make a card that I got inspiration for from a card made by Michelle Corlett that was published in a recent edition of the Cardmaking, Stamping and Papercraft magazine.  It is not the exact same card, however I did get inspiration using the card layout and the some of the colour combination in the card.  I have used Mint Macaroon, Basic Black, Tip Top Taupe and Whisper White.


Just a Lighthouse

Hi everyone, sharing a card with you made using the "From Land to Sea" and "Traveler" stamps sets. I just had to have the "From Land to Sea" stamp set when I first spied it in the Annual Catalogue because of the lighthouse image, but have just been able to figure out how to incorporate the lighthouse into a card.

I got to playing around this afternoon using the reflection technique and the ship image from the "Traveler" stamp set and this is the result.


Tuesday, 1 September 2015

Just Prancing About...

Hi everyone, just sharing a quick Christmas card with you today.  I had a lot of left over fawn cut outs from when I made my Christmas Tags, using the Home for Christmas DSP. They have just been prancing about my craft table for the last week.  Anyway they met up with some Cherry Cobbler and Very Vanilla cardstock, and this is the final creation.