Start simple with a One Sheet Wonder 6 x 6

I don't know about you, but in lockdown I seem to have been busier than ever. I've enjoyed having the children at home and with some very nice weather we've enjoyed the time in the garden and finally bringing the right kind of floral life and fruit and veg back into it.  When I snapped my Achilles tendon two years ago I couldn't do a thing and as the lead on things gardening it all went to pot.  However this year we will be feasting on tomatoes, beans, courgettes, red and black currants, pumpkins, squash to name but a few.  Not forgetting my hanging baskets and pots which if I say so myself are looking rather beautiful.  

This has however distracted me from crafting, but today I'm joining my fellow international Stampin' Up! demonstrators to bring you our versions of the One Sheet Wonder.  I've never actually done one before so started small with a piece of 6" x 6"  designer series patterned paper and started cutting.  My cut plan is below and you could use any papers you have in your stash or indeed you can stamp your own using any stamps and colours. 

 It's easy to do and is a great way to use up those papers that we all have lurking in the craft box and it's a quick way to make cards once you have a layout to follow.  It's even simpler if you stick with just a couple of colours and simple sentiment stamps.

 Here's the plan I made of my cutting.  You can see just two tiny strips weren't used but look at my Bee Happy post you can see that even those bits can be put to good use.  You can then matt your cut pieces like I have with coordinating card stock, add embossed layers and punched shapes or could even do more stamping beyond the simple sentiments I've added, but this gives you a great starting point and you can take it where you want.

Simple stamping for the sentiments and a little embossing on a couple adds some differences.You could step it more with twine, ribbon or embellishments.  

I used sentiments from Stampin' Up! sets Well Said, Lovely You Bundle and Rooted in Nature,  the Tin Tile embossing folders, Stitched Shape dies and my trusty trimmer.   The paper is part of the In Good Taste pack where each design is a photographic image depicting visual textures, great for various types of projects.  

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Thanks for stopping by and keep safe and KEEP STAMPING!!

Zoe x

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Shaker Card Tutorials from the Totally Techniques Demonstrator Blog Hop Team

Our Totally Techniques Team are sharing shaker cards this month. The choice was  from Lynsay in Canada.  I've made mine in readiness for my lovely little neice's birthday. She's a girlie girl and loves pink and purple.

I was inspired by my lovely friend SJ who created a shaker card and used vellum to cover the 'hole' for the shaker part.  You can see here card here.  I've used vellum to give a frosted glass look for my shaker bottle from the Bottles and Bubbles Stampin' Up! framelit dies and coordinating Stampin' Up! stamp set Bubble Over.

I started by stamping the large bottle onto a piece of whisper white card. Then die cutting the bottle out to create the aperture for my shaker. I stamped the bottles to the left and right of this one and all the other stamping on this layer, before adding any vellum to give the whole project depth and make it look like the bottles are behind.

I then stuck a piece of vellum on the reverse using tear and tape to cover the aperture. I've added the striped paper just so that you can see the vellum more easily. To add the straw, which I die cut from the Saleabration Botanical Butterfly Designer Series papers, I made a very small slit in the top of the vellum to slide the straw through and have it in the bottle.

 I then flipped it over again and  added foam adhesive strips around the rectangle of vellum.   I added some sequin assortment prior to removing the backing strips on the foam. Removing the backing I added a piece of whisper white card to seal in the sequins.  I added extra foam strip to add this layer to a matting layer of Lemon Lime Twist card.

To finish my design I added other bottles which I had stamped and die cut to the design along with the die cut 'birthday' from the Well Said Stampin' Up! bundle in the spring catalogue and also some rhinestones. You'll see I also stamped and die cut bottle labels including one in sparkle glimmer paper which I coloured with a Lemon Lime Twist Stampin' Write Marker.  I also used the two different sized bottle top dies to add silver foil caps to all the bottles.  To make it easy to stick these on I added double sided adhesive sheet to the back of the foil card prior to die cutting.  Quick Tip keep offcuts of foil that already have double sided adhesive sheet for mini die cuts like this, it saves breaking into a larger piece of foil.   A handful of rhinestones amongst the bubbles add to the 'pop'.

I'm really pleased how this turned out and I know that my neice will love this purple and pink pop bottle card. 

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