Christmas Card Club - Christmas Wreaths

 

Hi lovely crafty friends so close your eyes for a moment and pretend it's Sunday and then open your eyes and join me and the girls for our fortnightly Christmas card share.  I'm late, but the weekend was so busy with all sorts going on and i made this yesterday with poor light for taking any pictures.  It was a great weekend though and the week has started slow for me as like many I'm fighting off a cold which I'm hoping won't knock me out. Hope you are all well and ticketty boo!

For my card I've used an early release set of dies from the Spring, yes shocking to be thinking of that already, catalogue and I love it.  The Collection is called Eden's Garden and currently includes papers, gorgeously lush gems, cotton paper (like a stiffer tissue paper!) and a stamp and die bundle.  You can see additions here from Forever Flourishing dies and my sentiment if from Words of Cheer and simply embossed in gold.  

I've mixed Evening Evergreen and Soft Succulent card and added some brushed metallic gold die cuts too. I just love this brushed foil.  It changes shade as the lights catch it from different directions.  

To add to the Christmas feel I've added some of the new limited release Garden Gems which are Cherry Cobbler and Soft Succulent, and coordinating ribbon to finish.  This die makes a wreath so easy and offers a variation on the theme of the traditional circle. 

I'm using the papers from this suite in class this week so will share more, but do note the papers (DSP), Garden Gems and cotton paper are all only available while stocks last and won't actually feature in the Spring catalogue.  

Hope the week continues well for you all.  Keep warm as they report it getting colder and keep well.  

Keep stamping

Hugs Zoe x

Garden Gems

Eden's Garden Collection

Eden's Garden bundle

Ever Eden 12" x 12" DSP

Cherry Cobbler and Gold ribbon

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Delightful Day Bundle for simple stamping

Delightful Day Bundle from the Stampin' Up! annual catalogue 2019 2020

Hey lovely people I hope if you are in the UK you are avoiding damage from the storm today. Keep safe my friends and enjoy the enforced craft time. It's a tough job, but someone has to do it!

Today I have a simple share for you.  The base card is from a  super set of pre cut scalloped edge cards.  You get 20 in a pack with envelopes and they come in 4 colours - Old Olive, BalmyBlue, Light Pink and Terracotta Tile.  They are the perfect size to make a gift card / certificate look so much more exciting.

I've used the Delightful Day stamp set which you can purchase as a bundle with the new Delightful Tag Topper punch.   This is a perfect stamp set for quick and easy cards with a good selection of sentiments to suit various occasions including new baby, wedding and birthdays.  No fluff or frills but fun, simple and straight forward.  I made a tag and stamped the flowers and sentiment in Rococo Rose and Old Olive. Added some background stamping to the card base and a strip of patterned paper   and was done bar stamping the envelope and adding some ribbon.

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Keep those end bits you cut off rolls of ribbon when tying bows to loop through a tag like this and secure with some bakers twine. No waste and you get your monies worth from your ribbon roll.

You could make  a whole set of these cards and box them up as a lovely thank you gift or use them individually to make the packaging of a gift card more exciting.

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Have a great weekend but keep safe.

Hugs Zoe x

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Emboss Resist Technique Tutorial - Have you tried it?

stampin' up! Colourful Season perfect for emboss resist technique

Welcome to the July 2019 Totally Techniques Global Stampin' Up! Demonstrators Blog Hop.  Today we are sharing ideas for using the emboss resist technique as chosen by Satomi Wellard our team member in Japan.

Seems crazy that at the moment in the UK and Europe we are having mega heat waves so why would I choose autumn leaves to share, but they just came to hand and they are from the Stampin' Up! set called Colourful Seasons and that is certainly what we are experiencing right now.  

This is how to create this colourful scene. 

Start with a piece of white card and sponge your chosen colours across the card. I used Old Olive, Pumpkin Pie, Cajun Craze, Real Red, Cherry Cobbler and Crushed Curry.  I used sponges and daubers to add the colour.

Next you need to stamp images across the sponged card with versamark ink.  I used a mixture of the solid and line stamps to cover the card to make sure I got various looks once the rest of the process was complete.  

Add clear embossing powder to the stamped images and heat in the usual way for heat embossing.  

Once this is done take a colour darker than all your other colours used, so I used Early Espresso, and sponge brayer it all over the card.  You can take excess ink off the embossed images with a kitchen towel.  

The final element is to place a piece of copier paper over the whole piece and use an old iron to iron off the melted embossing powder.    Of course you could leave it on also as that works just be sure to take excess ink off the images using the kitchen towel mentioned above.  

You can then finish your card by adding copper die cuts and a sentiment.  To create veins on the solid copper leaf I used my stylus  from the Simple Scored Scoring Tool to emboss the foil card. 

I stamped and embossed the sentiment also in Stampin' Up! Colourful Seasons with white powder onto Soft Suede card and smudged the edges gently with Early Espresso ink and some 2nd generation leaf stamping.  

The artwork is matted onto Cherry Cobbler card and onto Very Vanilla thick card base.  

It's a fun and easy technique and allows you to make bold designs.  I hope you'll give it a go!

You can find all the products used in my online Stampin' Shop and don't forget you have until the end of July to get bonus coupons for use next month.  You'll receive an email coupon code for every £45 spent on a single order.  T's & C's apply but check out more details on my Stampin' Up! Offers Promotions page.

Now it's time to visit the other lovely ladies in our share of this technique around the world.  

Thanks for stopping by 

Happy Crafting 

Zoe x

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Christmas Card Club - Star of Wonder

Another fortnight so it must be time for another Christmas Card Club challenge and this time it is my challenge. I aimed for something a bit different but then wish I hadn't as I've really struggled with Star of Wonder. What was I thinking!!!!! Martin suggested a pick of George Clooney as an alternative although I think secretly he was meaning himself as he is in jest referred to as George Clueknee on occasion.

However I've persevered and have come up with this card using the fab 'star' from the Kinda Eclectic stamp set. The stars, stipples and sentiments are from Holly Jolly Greetings and Crazy About You sets.

I started the card by embossing the big star with clear embossing powder and then used a sponge to add layers of ink onto a piece of Stampin Up  whisper white card.  I started with the palest colour soft sky and then moved through the shades of pool party, marina mist, dapper denim and ending with night of navy.  I also used the night of navy marker to gently put colour on the very edge of the card.  Using my embossing buddy I finally added some stars and stipples in versa mark and then embossed with silver.  The design is then matted onto night of navy card and then on a pool party base.

What do you think of the ruched new ribbon in dapper denim and the cute enamel stars?

Having realised I was struggling I added  a let out for the challenge of anything goes so you might see some different themes from the ladies, but they are so organised they probably had theirs done weeks ago and maybe more stars. Do take a look around as we all have very different styles and I'm sure you'll find some inspiration.

Have a great Sunday, and don't forget if you are in Hampshire come and see us at the Sincerely Yours craft show at the Mountbatten centre 10am to 3.30pm.

Zx

Christmas Wrap over at MAWTT

It's time for another challenge at MAWTT and it's a theme of anything listed in the song from The Sound of Music - Raindrops on Roses etc etc.......

I went for the brown paper packaging tied up with string to gift wrap a parcel in the vein of Jane Means, the gift wrap guru, with a co-ordinating card made using Stampin' Up! set Your Presents which is great for building piles of gifts either for Christmas or birthdays.  It's a super set for the 'kissing' technique.

My sentiment is from the Stampin' Up! winter catalogue set Oh , What Fun which co-ordinates with the Oh What Fun Tag Project Kit.   Some baker's twine and linen thread and you have all the makings of brown paper packages tied up with 'posh' string.

Step over to the challenge and take a look at the other design team inspiration before you have a go at the challenge.

Meanwhile today I'm at day one of the Stampin' Up! European Onstage Live event in Brussels with some of my lovely team The Tantalizing Stampers.  If you'd like to attend fun events like this and love Stampin' Up! why not contact me to find out about joining the team.

Have a great day!
Zx