Is it too early to start Christmas cards yet? are you in autumn/ fall crafting at the moment? Or are you team Christmas at any time?
Today I'm sharing the 2 cards I made during my recent Facebook Live over on our Facebook page and wondering what's your opinion
Here are the cards...
Which do you prefer? Do you make autumn/fall cards ? Or do you go straight for Christmas?
Sorry I'm a little late with today's, ohps yesterday's post but I've been rather busy 🤪
But here it is a card using the fun Curved Occasions stamp set. The tip I'm sharing with you today is about holographic paper and stamping on it.
My first top tip is to remember that holographic paper is one of those papers that has a nonporous surface and as such many inks will just sit on top and not dry. My tip is to use versamark and heat emboss your image. No this can be tricky so always use a scrap to practice on first. As the surface is slick there is a tendency for thw stamp to slip so make sure to go straight fown then up when stamping. Also heat from behind to try and preserve the holographic side. It's not always goingnto work so check by practicing first.
The second way to stamp onto a shiny surface is to use an ink pad like stazon. Stazon is a solvent based ink that works well on nonporous surfaces. But the slipy surface rule of straight up and down still remains. The ink will also not dry immediately so be patient it's not too long a wait.
Anyway here's the card ...
I hope you'll give stamping onto different surfaces a go you never know what you'll get but it sure is fun to try 😁
Hello 👋 and welcome to the first of my blogs this week. I hope you're all keeping well. I'm melting due to the unexpected heatwave we're experiencing in my part of the UK 🫠 . The weather is supposed to get a little more manageable after today although it does include the prospect of rain 🌧 can't satisfy us can she mother nature 🤣. Anyway back to the crafting. This week I'm using a stamp set from the new September to December mini catalogue from Stampin' Up!. Called Curved Occasions.
This is a super fun stamp set made in photopolymer. Which means that the stamps are see-through perfect lining things up easily.
They are also perfect for slightly curving a sentiment to fit the space you want it to fit! Which is exactly what it I did for today's card!.
As you can see above some of the sentiments are already curved which is great. But I bent mine a little more to fit the circle shape that I wanted.
I started by drawing, with a pencil, around a circular object. I then carefully curved the happy birthday sentiment to fit my circle. Then I stamped it using the circle pencil mark as a guide.
My circle was only big enough for 2 full sentiments but I filled the gaps by only inking the word happy. With a photopolymer stamp this is super easy as you can see where the ink goes before stamping and can clean off any excess super easily.
Well, here we are and it's Friday already. Doesn't time fly when you are having fun? Today's card is one that I fully intend to use for all of my grand-children. It is called Festive and Fun and I have used this lovely set in full.
Using an A4 sheet of Shaded Spruce I cut it in half lengthwise that is 10.5cm by 29.7cm long. I then scored it at 14.85cm and 7.4cm on one side only on both of the pieces. I folded the 2 scored panels on each piece to face outwards. I slid the 2, C6 panels together and glued them in position. When I folded the sides into the middle, the centres met and it gave me a shallow and wide, Gatefold card base. I then cut another piece of Shaded Spruce at 14.85cm by 10.5cm ( a standard C6 mat). This was then attached to the left front on the gatefold card base.
I cut white mats to size for each of the green ones starting with the front panel which I obviously embossed first then added fussy cut images and the sentiment onto.
Above is the inside left panel. I added 4 small panels on the insides of the card with DSP from the Merry Bold and Bright range of papers. Aren't they cute?
The finished card complete and from above so that you can see the whole of the layout.
That is it from me for another week. Cary is back from Las Vegas now and will be sharing her creations with you next week so please do pop by and see what amazing things she will be making.
Thank you as always for joining me this week, I so hope that you have been inspired in some ways to make your own cards. Have a good week and I will be back the following week. Until then ....
Have I had fun this week! I really have and today's 2 cards are no exception. Again as always there are 2 cards for the Thursday so please let us know which is your favourite please. Today's cards I have used the lovely Circle Sayings stamp set for decoration and as I said warlier, I've had fun!
THIS... The THIS card is a simple one where I stamped 5 cakes onto a white mat and coloured them in using my Stampin' Blends pens. I added some silver ink from a retired ink pad for this one. I added a piece of Vellum cardstock to the front which I embossed with the circles from the twin folders called Cheery Patterns NEW embossing folders. I added the cakes to a blue piece of card in Tahitian Tide and then punched out using the new circle punch 2,3/8". I stamped onto the punched vellum circle my sentiments and using tombow glue, fixed it to the punched, blue circle.
THAT
My alternative card, THAT is another using the same stamp set but this time I stamped of the cakes onto Basic White card, punched each of them out using one of my old punches in 1,1/2". Once again I had fun colouring them all in and then deciding on how to set them onto the card. I had to use a bigger card base this time because of all of the cupcakes! I used a piece of the Holographic Foil which I embossed with the Splatters from the Stripes and Splatters embossing folders. A further circle stamped and decorated completes this card. I used the Alphabet A La Mode dies for the number 12 in some more of the foil.
Well, today's card started somewhat odly. I started off by laying several rows of low tack tape across a cutting board and sliced each one into 4 pieces across the length. I wasn't fussed that they were all different widths either. I added each strip randomly across a white card base then I stamped a block onto each colour of ink pad. I added water to each colour and watercoloured all of the shapes. It was really a lot of fun! I used the stamp set called Biggest Wish as I thought that it needed a really BIG sentiment across the front and using the little stamp in the set, stamped the 13, for the teenager's birthday.
To make the lines pop on the card, I cut thin strips of white card and glued them across the lines to accentuate the shapes.
