Fun fold Friday Ornamental Envelopes

 Today's fun fold Friday card is the last card that I'll be sharing this week showcasing the Ornamental Envelopes stamps. 

I have chosen to use another unusual colour pallette for a Christmas card. The rich teal and soft turquoise highlighted with white embossing is rather elegant. 

The card is a 14.85cm x 14.85cm square base with an appature that allows the center to pop through. The center panel is a piece of card measuring 14.85cm x 29.7cm scored at 14.85cm  and then at 7.4cm in from both ends. On one end mark in 2cm from each edge on the short side and cut upto the first score line. Then cut along the score line and remove the panel. The scorelines should be folded mountain,  mountain and valley. The first panel, only the 2 legs are remaining, is  attached to the back of the front of the card. The opposite end of the card panel is attached to the inside right side of the card base.  Please see the photos below for a better explanation 😅 Now it's time to decorate you card. I used circle dies to create a center panel and decorated it with baubles. I used the stamps from the Ornamental Envelopes stamps to create a wresth around the appature.  

Well that's it from me if you'd like to purchas the stamp and any of the other materials I've used this week please click HERE

Please join us next week when Gill will be inspiring us with her creations. 

Have a good weekend and maybe enjoy some crafting .

Have fun

Cary xx

Throwback Thursday Ornamental Envelopes

 Well today's post is a mix of  old and new! I'm sharing a card using one of the first techniques I fell in love with when I started papercrafting nearly 20 years ago.....teabag folding! And I'm combining it with a very short and raw video tutorial of how I made it a very new thing for me so please be gentle 😉. I have of course used the Ornamental Envelopes stamps and dies on both the card and the envelope.

So to the project. I have chosen a bold bright colour pallette of bright hot pink and bold lime green,  magenta madness and granny apple green from Stampin' Up! The white layer is embossed with the gorgeous  winter snow embossing folder also from Stampin' Up!. The pattern paper is from a pack called Artistry Blooms and is full of bold patterns and ombre effect papers.

I hope you like the card and video and will have a go yourself. If you do please share your creations in the comments below.

Video tutorial Here

Watercolour Wednesday Ornamental Envelopes

 Today's card is using a technique I've never used in theis way before. Called Watercolour colour off it envolves using clear embossing powder. It is a variation of the Joseph's coat technique. I used the dies from the Ornamental Envelopes in a non envelope way too....so all in all a mix up of techniques and uses 😅

First I made myself a mask using vellum and one of the dies from the Ornamental Envelopes dies.  I used one of the envelope cut out dies 3 times on the piece of vellum.

I then took a piece of shimmery white cardstock,which is great for watercolour , and created a simple 2 colour watercolour wash. I used a pretty mint colour and a lilac colour. The wash was quick dark and intense with colour.

Next I used the vellum mask. Carefully positioned it over the cardstock and taped both down using low tack tape. Now I took my versamark ink pad and carefully applied ink over the mask so that it went through the holes. Carefully  removing the mask I then used clear embossing powder and a heat tool to heat embossed the area.

Now the fun begins!. With a water brush, clean water, and some kitchen towel to hand, starting at one end drop small droplets of water over the colour and use your brush to reactive the ink. With the kitchen towel dab the ink away. 

The parts covered with clear embossing resist the water and remain the stronger colour. Like magic you now have two colour tones for each colour!! 😀 It might be a bit strange to add colour and then remove it but I love the effect and can think of countless stamp sets and masks that this will work beautifully with. 🙂

I was having so much fun that I decided to decorate my envelope with a watercolour wash and some of the beautiful stamps frombthe Ornamental Envelopes stamp set too. Leave no area undecorated is my motto at the moment 😅

Make it simple Monday Ornamental Envelope

 Wow what a busy weekend!!! World Card Making Day was super fun but now we're in World Card Sending Week so what better time to use a stamp set and coordinating dies called Ornamental Envelopes!!

For today's #simplestamping projects I've created 2 versions of the same card using traditional christmas red and green. The card size is a little different to normal as I have been seeing a lot of long narrow cards around.

My cards are 7cm x 29.7cm scored at 14.85. This allows you to get 3 from a single sheet of A4 cardstock.  My fellow demo and friend Patricia Boxer showed me some cards made at this size and I thought I'd have a go. And I'm pleased I did they are great for #simplestamping, quick cards and making multiples.

As they are a non standard size I created my own envelopes. I made one using pattern paper and another in plain white cardstock. They too are super simple just a few scorelines, a few snips and some strong doubke sided tape!

Well I hope you enjoyed #su2020wcmd and will join in on #worldcardsendingweek2020