Category: Winter

Background Check Day Six

The Day Six Online Card Classes Background Check lesson focused on card designs using backgrounds shown on Days Four and Five. I created a card using the Gap Background technique shown by Kristina Werner along with other “texture techniques.”

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Using an embossing folder by Sizzix for Stampin’ Up, I dry embossed two ends of a card panel leaving a gap in between. Within the gap, I added the Avery Elle die cut sentiment (cut from foil and adhered to white cardstock) using dimensional adhesive. I wasn’t planning on making a holiday card, (and Kristina used completely different supplies for her sentiment), but the Season’s Greetings worked well for this technique.

Supplies:

Reverse Confetti Pretty Packaging Blog Hop

Welcome to the Reverse Confetti Pretty Packaging Blog Hop! The Reverse Confetti designers are sharing a whole range of packaging ideas.

For the hop, I created glitter-stenciled muslin treat bags using the Let It Snow Confetti Cuts. Let’s take a look at the process.

To begin, cut a 4″ x 5″ piece of freezer paper (cut to the size of the muslin bag front) with the Let It Snow Confetti Cuts. I ran the freezer paper through the Big Shot first with all three snowflakes and again with the two smaller snowflakes.

Remove the cut out snowflakes from the panel. Iron the freezer paper panel (shiny side down) onto the muslin bag. The iron should be set on medium heat.

Apply glue to the open snowflake areas. I spread Aleene’s Jewel-It Embellishing Glue with a foam brush.

Shake glitter onto the open areas, covering generously. I used Martha Stewart blue iridescent glitter. Allow the glitter to dry, shake off excess and remove stencil.

To create matching gift tags:  Make a tag base with a circle die. Cover the tag front with a scallop piece cut from silver foil, using a die in the Circles ‘n Scallops Confetti Cuts set. Attach a blue cardstock circle embellished with a glitter snowflake, cut with the Let It Snow Confetti Cuts.

Stamp and heat emboss (using silver embossing powder) the inside of the tag with a sentiment from Seasonal Sentiments. Punch the finished tag and string with metallic twine.

Fill treat bags with whatever your heart desires – chocolates, caramels, small toys, nail polish, soaps, …

Taylored Expressions Holiday Neighborhood

Today I’m sharing a holiday card featuring the Taylored Expressions Neighborhood Border die.

I decided to keep the colors simple, as if the neighborhood had recently been carpeted with snow (and from the looks of the dry embossed background, it’s still snowing!). I backed the neighborhood border die cuts and the evergreen die cuts with a soft yellow cardstock. I almost always include a sentiment on the card front but decided to leave it off this time to preserve the tranquility!

Hope your first week of December has been humming along – I can’t believe how fast this fall is flying by!

I’m linking up to the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge – the theme this week is Holidays and Christmas.

Supplies: TE Dies: Neighborhood Border, Little Bits-Christmas Tree, Build a Scene – Rolling Hills; TE Stamp: Welcome Home; TE Snowfall embossing folder

25 Days of Christmas Tags from the Confetti Crew

Tracey McNeely is hosting a 25 Days of Christmas Tags event on her blog this year for the 4th year! Tracey invited the Confetti Crew members to join in as her guests! We were asked to make a Christmas Tag using some awesome Reverse Confetti products.

For the first tag, I heat embossed a sentiment from the Seasonal Sentiments set, adding it to a tag cut with the Tag Me, Too Confetti Cuts die, which I decorated with cuts from the Circle Garland Confetti Cuts die.

For the second tag, I glued chevrons cut with the Triple Chevies Confetti Cuts die to plain cardstock and then cut the panel with the Tag Me die. I stamped a sentiment from Seasonal Sentiments on a banner, cut with a die in the Tag Me set. I also added some glitter snowflakes cut with one of the dies in the Let It Snow Confetti Cuts set.