Friday 23 February 2024

My Favourites . . . for a Special Birthday

 This special card combines several of my favourites:
- birthday celebrations
- sparkle
- aqua-coral colour combo
- pre-coloured digital stamps
- layers
... and lucky last, family
I love to personalise cards and as our niece is studying science at university,
this image of a cute scientist with her experiment bubbling away
seemed to be the perfect choice to celebrate her special day.


This card uses the Love Is Chemistry digital stamp from the The Paper Shelter.  I opened the pre-coloured digital stamp in Silhouette Studio and sized it to 5" square then printed on textured cardstock.  I trimmed the image panel down to size, adhered to Scuba weave cardstock, then trimmed to a 1/16" matting layer with a Perfect Layers Ruler.  I cut a 6" panel of Rose weave cardstock, adhered to a 6" card base, then adhered the matted image panel on top.  The matting layers add nice dimension and the colours complement the image perfectly.

Next came the sparkle.  Making our 2023 Christmas cards reignited my love of using Wink of Stella Glitter Brushes.  I used the White brush to add sparkle to the pink chemical and hearty steam bubbling away and the Clear brush to add sparkle to all the other chemicals.  It's such a delicate sparkle and mess free, no chunks of glitter falling off and spreading sparkle everywhere but where you want it.


I matted a panel for the birthday sentiment inside the card too.

   


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INGREDIENTS
Love Is Chemistry digital stamp from the The Paper Shelter
Scuba & Rose weave cardstock - Kaisercraft
sharp craft knife + self healing cutting mat + steel ruler
- for cutting image panel and 6" matting layer
Perfect Layers Ruler - to trim 1/16" matting layers
6" square card base
Helmar 450 Quick Dry
- liquid adhesive - to adhere the layers
Wink of Stella Clear Glitter Brush
- to add delicate sparkle

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I have entered my card in the following challenges:



Wednesday 31 January 2024

One day at a time, together

 Today I have used the Stem In A Teacup digital set
from the Beccy's Place Store to make some special cards.


I designed my cards in Silhouette Studio (no, I didn't use it to cut but it's a handy program to size and design cards and card elements), starting with the Stem In A Teacup digital set from the Beccy's Place Store.  I used the "Wild Rose" pre-coloured digital stamp and combined it with the "one day at a time" digital sentiment from the same set.  My cards are slimline style, so I sized an image panel to 8 1/2" wide x 3 1/2" tall.  

I duplicated and mirrored the image to create my design, an image on each side, with the sentiment in the middle between them.  I added "together" to the sentiment as the cards are going to some couples still going through tough times from the 2022 floods.  I printed the image panel on 300gms smooth white cardstock, scored, folded, then trimmed to size.


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INGREDIENTS
Stem In A Teacup digital set from the Beccy's Place store
"together" sentiment - Caramello Font - Creative Fabrica
300gsm smooth white cardstock - to print card
scoreboard & bone folder - to create top folding card
sharp craft knife + self healing cutting mat + steel ruler
- for cutting the card

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I have entered my cards in the following challenges:
My "F" is Flowers

One day at a time . . .

  Today I had some fun making some cards
using the Stem In A Teacup digital set from the Beccy's Place Store.


I designed my cards in Silhouette Studio (no, I didn't use it to cut but it's a handy program to size and design cards and card elements), starting with the Stem In A Teacup digital set from the Beccy's Place Store.  I used the "Wild Rose" pre-coloured digital stamp and combined it with the "one day at a time" digital sentiment from the same digital stamp set.  As I was making two cards, I duplicated and mirrored the image, so that my two cards are the-same-but-different.  I sized the image panels to 5 1/2" square, added the images and sentiments and they were ready to print.  I printed the image panels on white textured cardstock, trimmed to size, matted with green cardstock, trimmed to 1/16" border with a Perfect Layers Ruler, adhered to 6" square white cardstock panels, then adhered to top folding card bases.


   

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INGREDIENTS
Stem In A Teacup digital set from the Beccy's Place store
white & green textured cardstock - American Crafts
sharp craft knife + self healing cutting mat + steel ruler
- for cutting image panel
Perfect Layers Ruler - to trim 1/16" matting layers
Helmar 450 Quick Dry -
liquid adhesive - to adhere the layers

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I have entered my cards in the following challenges:
My "F" is Flowers

Sunday 31 December 2023

Have yourself a Merry Little Christmas


My wide slimline cards with a trio of jingle bells started in Silhouette Studio.
I opened the "Single Bell" pre-coloured digital stamp and "Merry Little Christmas" digital sentiment from the Jingle Bell digital stamp set by Beccy’s Place.  I replicated the bells so that I had three to work with, I sized them all differently and flipped one so that the bow was facing opposite the others.  I arranged the bells at different heights and sized sentiment to fit nicely together on a 7 3/4" x 2 3/4" panel to go on the front of a slimline card base.  I printed the panel on smooth white cardstock and trimmed to size.  I matted the panel with crimson textured cardstock, trimmed to a 1/16" border
with a Perfect Layers Ruler.  I created the slimline card bases from 300gsm smooth white cardstock.  I printed a single bell and sentiment to finish off the inside of each card, scoring, folding and trimming to size.  The matted image panels were adhered to the card bases.  One last thing was needed to finish it off, a magical touch of sparkle with a Clear Wink of Stella Glitter Brush to all the bells, inside and out.


I love the delicate sparkle from Wink of Stella
but it's so hard to capture it in photos ...
trust me, it's there and it twinkles in the light from all angles.

   


Having the sentiment printed on the inside of each card made it much easier,
a nice sparkling jingle bell accent, a cheery greeting and a lot less hand writing for me.





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INGREDIENTS

I used the following elements from the set:
Single Bell - pre-coloured digital stamp
Merry Little Christmas – digital sentiment
300gsm smooth white - to print the image panel
crimson textured cardstock - for the matting layer
300gsm smooth white Letter cardstock - to make the card base
scoreboard & bone folder - to score and burnish the card fold
Helmar 450 Quick Dry - to adhere the layers
Clear Wink of Stella Glitter Brush - to add sparkle to the bell

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I have entered my cards in the

Saturday 2 December 2023

Sea Sun Greetings from Nigel


Lucky last to the party is Nigel,
he's celebrating a sunny summer Christmas at the beach
with Shazza and Steve.

   

Nigel is a pre-coloured digital stamp from the Sandy Christmas digital stamp set by Beccy's Place.  I sized the image in Silhouette Studio to fit on an A2 card and added my very own "Sea Sun Greetings" sentiment.  The two card panels fitted perfectly on Letter sized cardstock, so all I had to do was send it to print, slice the sheet in half, score the two panels in half and soon had two fun summery Christmas cards.

   


Here are the all the sandy folk together.


Beccy has ticked ALL the boxes with this digital stamp set,
the images are perfect for summer Christmas celebrations
and the pastel colours are delightful too.

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"Nigel" pre-coloured digital stamp
300gsm smooth white cardstock
scoreboard & bone folder - to form the card

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I have entered my cards in the

 

Sea Sun Greetings from Steve


Now it's time to introduce you to Steve,
he's celebrating a sunny summer Christmas at the beach too.

Steve is a pre-coloured digital stamp from the Sandy Christmas digital stamp set by Beccy's Place.  I sized the image in Silhouette Studio to fit on an A2 card and added my very own "Sea Sun Greetings" sentiment.  The two card panels fitted perfectly on Letter sized cardstock, so all I had to do was send it to print, slice the sheet in half, score the two panels in half and soon had two fun summery Christmas cards.

   


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"Steve" pre-coloured digital stamp
300gsm smooth white cardstock
scoreboard & bone folder - to form the card

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I have entered my cards in the

 

Sea Sun Greetings from Shazza

 

Let me introduce you to Shazza,
she's celebrating a sunny summer Christmas at the beach.

Shazza is a pre-coloured digital stamp from the Sandy Christmas digital stamp set by Beccy's Place.  I sized the image in Silhouette Studio to fit on an A2 card and added my very own "Sea Sun Greetings" sentiment.  The two card panels fitted perfectly on Letter sized cardstock, so all I had to do was send it to print, slice the sheet in half, score the two panels in half and soon had two fun summery Christmas cards.

   



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INGREDIENTS
"Shazza" pre-coloured digital stamp
300gsm smooth white cardstock
scoreboard & bone folder - to form the card

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I have entered my cards in the


Friday 1 December 2023

More of what I love . . . Christmas craft for kids


Day 30 - Do What You Love

I love making and giving Christmas cards.
I also love encouraging creativity in kids,
so it was a pleasure to put together some
Sweet Gingerbread Christmas Colouring Cards.

These cards are "half letter" size,
so image on the 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" card front
is quite large for little hands to colour.



I will be making more cards, so there will be plenty of choices,
along with plenty of markers and crayons to choose from.


Full details coming soon . . .

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INGREDIENTS

Gingerbread House digital stamp
from the Gingerbread digital stamp set by Beccy’s Place
"sweet Christmas Wishes" digital sentiment
300gsm smooth white cardstock - to print & make cards
scoreboard & bone folder - to form the cards

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I have entered my cards in the

  

More of what I love . . .


Day 30 - Do What You Love

I love making and giving Christmas. I love trying to make multiple cards with
little differences, so that they are still one-of-a-kind ... maybe two-of-a-kind.
Yesterday I made THIS pretty pair of Poinsettia cards using a delicate cut
file and the "hope it's Merry" digital sentiment from Beccy’s Place.

My latest card uses the same poinsettia cut file (details & link below)
and same sentiment (details & link below),
this time adding a pop of green.

   





Full details coming soon . . .

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INGREDIENTS

"hope it's Merry" digital sentiment from the
Sing Joy digital stamp set by Beccy’s Place
Unfortunately this digital stamp set is no longer available but you can
view projects created with it on the Beccy's Place blog HERE
textured cardstock - to print & mat the image panel
Poinsettia cut file by Nic Squirrell
Silhouette Design Store - Design ID #307557
scoreboard & bone folder - to form the card bases
Perfect Layers Ruler - to trim matting layer
Helmar 450 Quick Dry - liquid adhesive to adhere layers
Tombow Mono Multi Adhesive - to adhere around delicate poinsettia veins

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I have entered my card in the