Category: cardmaking

Neat & Tangled November Release Day Four

Welcome to Day Four of the Neat & Tangled Release! Today’s featured stamp set “You & Me” is  perfect for cardmaking, traditional scrapbooking, and Project Life.

Neat & Tangled November Release Day Four

For my card, I heat embossed the set’s “You Are Awesome” sentiment to add to a Webster’s Pages Mini Bag in which I’ve placed a gift card. I finished it with a Webster’s Pages speech bubble paperclip.

Head on over to the Neat & Tangled Blog to see the rest of the Design Team projects and to enter the giveaway for this set!! The November release stamp sets go on sale tomorrow, November 22.

Did you catch the first three days of the release? There’s still time left to comment for a chance to win Day One’s “Everyday Labels,” Day Two’s “On the Edge,” Day Three’s “On the Corner.”

Holiday Card Camp Day 5

Today’s Online Card Classes Holiday Workshop lesson was all about feminine and masculine cards. I crafted the cards shown by Debby Hughes with a few modifications.

Holiday Card Camp Day 5

The card size is 3 1/2″ x 5″ with a panel of 3″ x 4 1/2″. I’ve never crafted a card this size before, but I must say I like it a lot. I cut a Crafter’s Workshop blank template with the Savvy branch die, through which I applied the embossing paste. I tried using cardstock, as Debby did, but ended up placing the branch too high on the card. I heat embossed the branch. Key to this idea is using an embossing buddy on the cardstock before applying the paste. I used one of my new favorite Hero Arts sentiment sets heat embossed in white. The Savvy snowflake die was heat embossed with silver several times.

Holiday Card Camp Day 5

I took a shortcut with the feminine card by dry embossing the background rather than using paste. I also have fewer snowflakes on mine than Debby had on hers. I can only do so much bling! With two sons, I actually have an easier time crafting masculine cards than feminine ones.

Today was a fabulous class loaded with inspiration to which I’ll turn in the coming weeks!

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Neat & Tangled November Release Day Three

It’s Day Three of the Neat & Tangled Release! Today’s featured stamp set “On the Corner,” designed by Miriam Prantner, includes a fun signpost and sentiments for a variety of occasions.

Neat & Tangled November Release Day Three

I stamped four sign posts and added a variety of the sentiments from the set, finishing the card off with a heat-embossed strip at the bottom.

Head on over to the Neat & Tangled Blog to see the rest of the Design Team projects and to enter the giveaway for this set!! The November release stamp sets go on sale Friday, November 22.

Did you catch the first two days of the release? There’s still time left to comment for a chance to win Day One’s “Everyday Labels” and Day Two’s “On the Edge.”

Penny Black Joy to the World

Today I’m sharing a card in which one of the holiday die cuts from Penny Black takes center stage. I really like adding metallic accents to my holiday cards, and in this case, my starting point was the outline of the Xmas Tree die cut in silver.

Penny Black Joy to the World

I die cut the Xmas Tree [51-012] in both white and silver cardstock. I pieced the two together and adhered the completed tree with dimensional adhesive onto a circle cut from cardstock stamped with the Penny Black Crystal Pattern [40-162] background stamp. I adhered the circle to a dry-embossed card base, and then I added a banner on which I heat-embossed a sentiment from Penny Black’s Season’s Wishes set [30-201]. I finished the card off with some sparkly jewels.

 

 

Holiday Card Camp Day 4

The focus of today’s Online Card Classes Holiday Workshop lesson is “stretching your stamps,” as in using them in less obvious or unusual ways. It’s a drizzly, cold November Monday here in the Pacific Northwest, so I’m a bit on auto-pilot. 🙂 I followed one of the cards shown by Shari Carroll almost to a “T.”

Holiday Card Camp Day 4

I loved the colors Shari chose for the tree line – and they make me happy! I heat set the stamped trees before I heat embossed the sentiment in silver across them. I tried stamping the sentiment without heat setting the trees, and the trees picked up quite a bit of the embossing powder, even though I used an “embossing buddy.” I used papers from October Afternoon’s “Midway” collection.

There were more terrific cards shown using the Lawn Fawn “Peace, Love, Joy” stamp set in today’s lesson that I plan to craft in the upcoming weeks.

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