CAS Happy Home Card

Making Happy Home even simpler.... single white Hearth & Home die cut window on a standard Sahara Sand card... 

Tree scene stamp inked up with marker pens... and stamped on a small panel... then my masks and sponges used to colour in the sky and grass...

And a quick tip for you...the tree is set very centrally in the stamp image...so when you pop it behind a window the central vertical slat covers the tree trunk... so I just moved my small panel off to the left so you can still see it is a tree!!

Happy Home - Pop Out Swing Card

Clean & simple standard sized Pop Out Swing Card for you today .... featuring a simple framed Hearth & Home window scene ... 

Sky and grass care of Timeless Textures...and sea care of my trusty Aqua Painter... and of course sea and clouds Wink of Stella'd to finish ...  

Happy Home - Triple Scene in a Triple Window...

 

I think a lot of you will have known this one was coming.... this was one of my most pinned Hearth & Home projects back in September. So much so I had re-made a Christmas version... but I have now just realised that very strangely I never blogged that one! So I will make up for that at the end of this blog post....

So a Spring Summer version of a triple scene through 3 windows on a standard DL sized card...

The windows are 3 separate die cut white windows each decorated with a snipped out Sahara Sand frame (from a Sahara Sand die cut window) Left and right are stuck on flat and the centre one is 3D foam padded over the top....

Masks for above and below the horizon created... To make a mask - I stamp each of the scenes onto small pieces of card and simply cut along the middle of the horizon lines to create the 2 parts... And a little extra tip for you... I usually label the lower (grass) part as which is which is not always obvious when you come to use them...

Sky sponged with Soft Sky & Lost Lagoon... and grass sponged with Pear Pizzazz & Mossy Meadow.

Cherry Blossom tree coloured in using dabbing motion of Pink Pirouette marker pen (lots of times!) and clouds coloured in with white Signo gel pen

And here is the Christmas version I made using the Happy Scenes stamps that are now sadly retired....

Still can't work out why this did not get shared pre Christmas... sorry about that... but better late than never...

Don't know if you can see but the tree in the middle is very heavily snow laden care of Tombow & Dazzling Diamonds glitter...loved that effect...

Happy Home - Double Scene in a Double Window card

Been working with the Hearth & Home dies again with the Happy Home stamps...

Doubled up Happy Home scene... masks created for above and below the scene... grass and sky sponged and white gel pen blossom this time...

Simple little double window as this earlier card here...

Covering the joins with a simple heart and planter of flowers this time... 

I did try off-setting my cut plates/die to get a double window without a join... it did work but with a wider centre window frame... I prefer this version...and it is SO much easier to create!

More Timeless Textures & Happy Home - Simple Square Easel Card

Another card from my Happy Home classes this week. 

Again using the Timeless Textures Faux Watercolour background as on yesterday's card... but on a Shimmer White card panel this time... which really adds a subtle finishing touch...

My Circle of Spring stamp set also had it's first outing on this card  for the greeting and the bow. And the flowers are care of the Pictogram Punches stamp and the co-ordinating little Punch Trio

The card format is another Simple Easel Card variant... More details on the specifics to come in the near future... 

But as background... I have decided to re-look at some of my more popular Fancy Fold cards/tutorials and try to re-design so you have something similar but even simpler to make... This one is based on the Swing Easel Card... Looks pretty similar but ... it just doesn't have the swing!

One thing to note - the papers are from the retired Subtles 12x12 Paper Stack - I went to get my Soft Sky and Pear Pizzazz papers from the current Subtles Paper Stack... and the cupboard was bare! Oops... Lucky I had a fall back option for the class....

Timeless Textures Faux Watercolour Effect

 

Oh gosh... how do I love Timeless Textures!! Here is a very simple  - but very effective - card to show why...

The sky and grass background is all stamped care of Timeless Textures and Soft Sky and Pear Pizzazz ink pads... 

Top first...then sides...plus some secondary stamping as a filler for the central area... then upside down for the grass... and then the tree image from the Happy Home stamp set was stamped... 

This will make some of my ladies VERY happy... the ones that HATE doing the Clear Block Stamping Technique... randomness all gone this way...

And the blossom is just splatting my Pink pirouette marker pen on the tree image... lots of times!!!

Wording from the Sale A Bration promotional Perfect Pairings set... 

Missing you at Night-time!

This is a somewhat darker - or night-time - version of this card shared earlier in the week... so worth sharing straight after my watercoloured framed trio..... keeps them altogether...

Water-coloured using Night of Navy and Mossy Meadow inks instead of Pool Party & Pear Pizzazz...

Even smaller heart on the bench....

Very Pink Cherry Blossom Tree in the Happy Home Series

So here is the group picture of this trio of Happy Home framed water-coloured cards...

The third card being a very pink Cherry Blossom tree.... amazing how bright Blushing Bride with Rose Red highlights can be!

In fact it proved so pink...that I had to quickly grab my trusty white gel pen and add white blossom over the top!

This card is also Aqua Painter brush water coloured using Pool Party and Pear Pizzazz on Water Color Paper... 

Missing You So Much - Happy Home Series

Second in the Happy Home Water Colour series....

Happy Home meets Perfect Pairing (Sale A Bration promotional set - free with a £45 order!)

Image stamped in black Staz-On and water coloured using the Aqua-painter on Watercolor paper...

3D Frame die cut using Squares Framelits... one size larger today than yesterday...

And a small punched heart using the Hearts Confetti Border punch....

So simple...so sweet...

And apologies for the smudge!! Just spotted that.....

Happy Home Series... Kite flying on the Beach...

 

A clean & simple water-coloured series using Happy Home starting today....

Part 1 is kite flying on the beach... complete with a sea-scape...

 

Image stamped in black Staz-On and water coloured using the Aqua-painter on Watercolor paper...

3D Frame die cut using Squares Framelits... 

Simplest Easel Card Tutorial

Remember this Simple Easel Card from earlier in the week... well I promised you the How To Make This Card... and here it is... although don't blink as you may miss the Tutorial...

1. Pick up a piece of A4 card

2. LANDSCAPE. Score at 10.5cm

3. LANDSCAPE. Score at 21cm

4. Bone Fold

5. Decorate as required and pop in a DL envelope!

Only taken me 12 years of papercrafting to think of this Simplest of Simple but a bit more special than a single score card!!! I think you may see a few variants pop up here over the next few weeks... my girls loved it for its simplicity!!

Apologies to my US readers... DL probably doesn't mean anything to you... (and I don't know if you have any equivalent) but it is a standard size envelope over here - commonly used for business purposes - but nice size for greeting cards too... 

Rose Red Birthday Blooms

Here is another card based upon our last Quarterly Training projects. This in turn was CASED from the Spring Summer catalogue...

The flower is coloured in using Blushing Bride with Rose Red highlights...gorgeous in the flesh!

I then finished off the colouring with my white Signo gel pen on those seed heads...

And  - as the pale gold sample shared yesterday - the finishing touch being the Paper Toled flower

Oh... plus an extra greeting punched out with the Washi Label punch.... 

And a story about this punch... I use it all the time as the size and shape is just right for so many projects... but I did not get it initially...no, not at all!! It was a big NO NO.... Not so now... Proving yet again that things are often worth a second look! Or even a third....

Gold Birthday Blooms.... and new Weekly Deals...

Whilst I was finishing off my cards from last Quarterly Training... I stamped a couple more...and had a bit of a play....

And this one I love.... though the photos really don't do it justice...

The flowers are coloured using the Gold Wink of Stella pen... I scribbled the gold Wink of Stella on a clear block and just added a bit of water to it ... and used the Aqua Painter to colour in my flowers... The seed heads were then coloured in using the Gold Wink of Stella pen direct.... It is very subtle ...but stunning! 

Especially when I winked over the top with my clear Wink of Stella pen! Subtle pale gold shine became VERY sparkly.... a complete WOW in the flesh!

And then I didn't stop there.... I paper-toled the flowers (again no craft knife being involved...)... so it has texture as well as shine... complete feel-ability on a card! Double WOW... 

Though you may have to try one of your own to see how good this combination is!!!

Oh and before I go.... check out this week's Weekly Deals.... some items on quite a few Wish List's on there....

Kissing Beetles Simple Easel Card AND New Sale-A-Bration Products

You have seen the Beetles  - and how to make them - before... post here

But they have been dressed up slightly for Valentine's Day...

And now reside on the simplest folded card ever... it is an Easel Card ... though not sure I can really call it a Fancy Fold... as it is just too simple.... maybe just Simple Easel Card... more details on Friday!

But for today... here are the 3 new Sale A Bration promotional items that have been added today... one free for every £45 ordered... Check out the product videos just released by Stampin' Up! too...

First off... Party Pants... fabulous for all our balloons! Balloons with greetings on certainly makes my day!

And here is the Party Pants video.....

Secondly... Metallics Glitter Tape... glitter washi tape springs to mind.... 

And here is the Glitter Tape video...

And last but not least... Pedal Pusher...lots of these images are going to work so well with my favourite Beautiful Ride Beetle car.......

But the tandem bike is rather cute too! Here is the video....

Can't wait for my next box to arrive with these new goodies in !!

Though I will miss the following 3 Sale A Bration promotional items - which are now officially no longer available... Sky's the Limit, Hello and Perfectly Artistic papers....