Category: cardmaking

Penny Black Simplicity – Tree of Love

Penny Black has recently released fabulous dies perfect for Valentine’s Day creations. I created a card with 51-100 Tree of Love as the centerpiece.

I cut the Tree of Love out of white, red and pink cardstock. With 2-way glue, I attached the pink and red hearts to the white hearts on the tree. The sentiment from Penny Black’s 51-093 Heartfelt was cut several times for additional depth. I added two birds, cut from gold paper with 51-094 Tweets, to the tree, attaching them with dimensional adhesive.

Retrosketches #137 + ColourQ #274

Today, I’m sharing a card created for two current challenges – Retrosketches #147 and ColourQ #274 – using Penny Black dies.

I’m enjoying fresh color combinations. We’ve got a heavy fog that hasn’t lifted for several days so I’m dreaming of someplace warm and colorful!

Penny Black Supplies – 51-038 Hooray, 51-032 Pennant, 51-016 Dancing Leaves, 51-002 Leaves and 51-050 Tweet Things.

Reverse Confetti Blog Hop

The wait is over! REVERSE CONFETTI has just released SIX stamp sets, EIGHT Confetti Cuts and Quick Card Panels!! There’s something for everyone in this release – whether you’re working on Valentine’s Day cards, putting together classroom or party treats, documenting your everyday or special days with scrapbooking, …

To begin, I’m sharing a Valentine’s Day card that combines several of the newly released Pretty Panels – Heart Love and Big Chevron.

Next, here are Pocket Scrapbooking pages using Here’s the Story, Right Here Right Now and the Documented Confetti cuts.

I used the round-corner rectangle die in Documented to cut out journaling cards and photographs. I printed my journaling onto cardstock and then stamped the lines, from the Right Here Right Now set. For some variety, I heat-embossed one of the sentiments from Here’s the Story and added it to the journaling card. (As an alternative, I could have simply stamped the sentiment and the lines on a card and hand-written my journaling.) For the embellishment in the lower photo, I cut an arrow with Documented and added “love” from the Heart Love Pretty Panel.

For the card in the upper-left, I heat-embossed the “Today” from Right Here Right Now. The cut out heart embellishment (bottom photo) was created with the Love Note heart die and a die in the Class Act set.

To embellish the quote card, I used the arrow in Documented topped with the stamped “on this date” from Right Here Right Now.

Countdown to Confetti Day Three

Welcome back to the final day of Countdown to Confetti! I’m sharing projects created with Love Blooms, which has its own corresponding Confetti Cuts set, along with Sugary Sweet Sentiments and a Square Tag Confetti Cuts set.

Let’s take a look at the gorgeous Love Blooms!

The coordinating Confetti Cuts set makes creating a bouquet of blossoms easy! The sentiments in Love Blooms work for a variety of occasions including Valentine’s Day, a card to a friend or a card congratulating a newly-engaged couple!

Now for a fun treat packaging idea that could be used for classroom treats or a party favor. On tags cut with the Square Tag Confetti Cuts set, I heat-embossed several of the Sugary Sweet Sentiments. I chose colors for the tags that coordinated with the various candies, which are the movie-size boxes. I tied the tags onto the boxes with baker’s twine.

Countdown to Confetti Day Two

Welcome back to Day Two of the Countdown to Confetti. There are two stamp sets being previewed today – Right Here Right Now and Here’s the Story – along with the Documented Confetti Cuts set.

I’m sharing Pocket Scrapbooking pages created with the Right Here Right Now stamp set and several of the dies in the Documented Confetti Cuts set.

With the rounded corner die in the Documented set, I cut one of the Quick Card Panels for a Pocket Scrapbooking card, to which I added hearts cut with a die in the Love Note set. I used the rounded corner die to cut the photos and all of the base cards on my pages. The cut out heart embellishment (upper right) was created with the same Love Note heart die and a die in the Class Act set.

I stamped the date of our wedding with the perpetual calendar stamp and a month stamp from the Right Here Right Now set, and used the smaller rounded corner die from the Class Act set to cut it out. I added the stamped “On this Date” and attached the combination to a patterned paper rectangle. For a filler card, I added the ampersand, cut with the Documented set to a rounded corner rectangle, which I adhered to a patterned paper rectangle.

These sets make it easy to quickly pull together Pocket Scrapbooking pages, no matter what your scrapbooking style. I’ll have more pages to show Thursday during the Blog Hop.