Greetings From Santa Scene

And not a Santa in sight!!

This one proved to be a very popular Emboss Resist card.... all the images and greeting being from Greetings From Santa... so great to have these in there!

Masked snowline on a piece of Shimmer White card... white heat embossed tree, deer and snowflakes... Night of Navy baby wipe swoosh and baby wipe marbling... Night of Navy trees to left and right... then a dry tissue wipe to remove the ink off the embossed parts.

Finished off with the beautiful greeting in Night of Navy and ...though difficult to see... Silver Metallic Thread wrapped around about 5 times. All stick onto a Whisper White mat and then onto a small square card blank...

And yes for those of you that swapped with me at Quarterly Training... this is slightly different to the swap card... I simplified a couple of parts for bulk production purposes! Will share that one soon....

Partial Bendi Fold Card with Fancy Fold Friday Tutorial

A Bendi Fold card was the first card I HAD to make once I had my Sleigh Ride edgelits in my hand...

But the right panel was too short and I thought there would be a problem with the card in the hands of the receiver... The card will arrive flat in the envelope and I have to hope that they spot both slots and manage to assemble it...

Probably definitely not the back slot... as it is difficult to see and difficult to assemble...

So I changed the card to just have the front slot... as I reckon that one will be managed! And from a distance it looks exactly the same as the Full Bendi Fold version...

Also spot the merry Christmas greeting - it is just using the co-ordinating Jingle All The Way stamp set - merry from "merry everything" and Christmas from "home for Christmas". 

I just covered the words on the stamp that I didn't want with a post it note, inked up the stamp, removed the post it note and stamped...then repeated with the other stamp...

And the background is Baby Wipe Marbled again...on Shimmer White card here - just using Night of Navy ink this time... very subtle so may not show up in the photo...

And  - seeing as it is Fancy Fold Friday - here are the metric instructions for this Partial Bendi Fold version...

Recipe - I used all Shimmer White card 

Back Panel 14.8 x 10.5cm

Front RHS Panel 14.8 x 6.5cm 

Front LHS panel 13.5 x 8.5cm

Marbled Background Panel 14.3 x 10cm

1. With Front RHS 6.5cm panel LANDSCAPE - score at 1cm from both sides

2. Turn the panel over and mark 1 and 2.5cm down from the top on the left score line

3. Cut above and below to form a tab 

4. With Front LHS 8.5cm LANDSCAPE - score at 1cm from one side 

5. With score to Left, line up panel LANDSCAPE at 5cm on Top Bar

6. Cut from 5.5 to 7.5cm

7. Die cut houses on Front LHS 8.5cm panel

8. Die cut trees on Front RHS 6.5cm panel

9. Trim down score line as necessary

10. Bone fold scorelines

11. Ink up & stamp merry Christmas on Front RHS Trees panel

12. Adhere Front LHS Houses panel (to LHS) and Front RHS Trees panel (to RHS) to the front face of the larger Back Panel using the 1cm sections/tabs

13. Emboss & Baby Wipe Marble smaller 14.3 x 10cm background panel 

14. Adhere background panel to front face of Back Panel ( duly covering up those 1 cm tabs)

15. Make sure your small tab fits in the slot. Trim if necessary...

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Baby Wipe Marbling Technique for Technique Tuesday

Now this card was such serious fun! 

After my Baby Wipe Swooshing on yesterdays Sleigh Ride card... I had another thought whilst the baby wipes were out...

And so  - for Technique Tuesday - can I now introduce you to the Baby Wipe Marbling Technique... 

The photos definitely do not do justice to the marbling effect and texture on this card...seriously amazing... almost looking like suede on some... though every make is different!

So first the image was heat embossed onto a Whisper White card panel... I used white embossing powder- though clear would work too... I also used the thinner coated Whisper White card as the coating just gives you a bit more "swooshability"... (probably not a real word...but a good one!)

Lost Lagoon ink was picked up with my baby wipe and swooshed over the whole panel...

Then the baby wipe was scrumpled, more Lost Lagoon ink picked up and the ink dabbed onto the panel...

Keep the baby wipe scrumpled, pick up Night of Navy ink and again dab away... building up the colour until you have the effect you want...

Then do a bit of Night of Navy baby wipe gentle swooshing around the edges...

Then pick up more Lost Lagoon ink and swoosh away solidly at the bottom to form that solid horizon and panel...

And finally, pick up a piece of kitchen towel and clean off the embossed image... and then it all really pops!

Leave to dry... and then stamp your greeting in Night of Navy ink...

Try it... you may become addicted... we all were...

And here is another version with the greeting pre-embossed in white too...

Love both versions.... Which do you prefer??

And still loving this Hostess set, Six Sayings - available in clear and wood mount...

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