Christmas Lamppost Narnia card

As soon as I saw the Christmas Lamppost dies in the Autumn Winter catalogue I knew this card was coming... and I couldn't wait to share it with you today... all set on a simple little gatefold card (14.8cm Square or US Letter 5 1/2" Square as nearest equivalent)

Edited To Add 24th Nov- Tutorial now posted here 

Christmas Around the World papers... Tranquil Tide stamped fir trees from Lovely as a Tree ... Die cut Clear Glimmer (mounted on Tranquil Tide) trees & silver deer using Card Front Builder dies ... Die cut Christmas Lampost lamp .... Greetings from Snowflake Sentiments... all doused with a lot of Dazzling Diamonds glitter...

And oops ...so annoying... forgot to photo the front... so I will be back with that ... and a slight variant I made to speed up the card in class... and more details... sometime very soon... including the little tweak to make the lamp more like the Narnia one....

Making the Hometown Greetings Cityscape Simple...

Love this version of this card... maybe even more!

Time was of the essence for Denise as she had to get off early from our class date.... so no time for all the colouring, cutting out and window making as per the original version... so we just kept it simple!

Just one brightly coloured roof.... and a greeting to match ... with a silver glimmer moon and star to finish... and there you have it... a WOW card in no time at all...

Products used and more details in the original card post here...

Half Full meets Hometown Greetings

Picture the scene... you have 10 minutes(ish) left of class time to make a 30 minute (ish) card...

This is what the lovely Denise made... and I liked it so much I had to then make one of my own....

Christmas Around the World Papers... still on Sale... but only for another week...

House border die cuts care of Hometown Greetings... silver embossed greeting care of Half Full... and moon and stars care of Card Front Builder dies...

Though I did have to add a few Clear Glimmer trees and snowman... and of course draw on my snowman with a Basic Black marker pen to finish him off... though looking at the close up... he does look like he is wearing sunglasses! Or should they be called moonglasses....

And an admittance... for the last week my head has been bursting into the "Let It Snow" song at any opportunity... just can't get it out of my head... must be all this christmas stuff I am surrounded by...

Though today I had a bit of time off off... as the Proclaimers "I'm Gonna Be (walk 500 miles)" song took over instead... care of friends (and blog reader) breaking down miles from anywhere in Scotland... thanks for the break to the song in my head Andrea & Andrew! And so glad that you got on your way (relatively) quickly!!! Hope the new car behaves for the rest of the week!

And an update on my special cards for 5 special young adults... I am waiting for photos to be sent from the last family... and then I am done and can share... patience is a virtue so I am told....

Fancy Fold Friday Cityscape U Bridge Fold Card

Back to my very favourite Hearts Come Home stamps & Hometown Greetings dies...

If this card was the village scene... and this one was the ski chalets in the mountains scene... then this one is the cityscape! 

Can't tell you how popular this U Bridge Fold card is being in classes! And I love it when the final words are "oh that wasn't so hard after all! I will be making some more..." and you certainly get lots of the images from one sheet of the papers to do so!

Resized to fit in an C5 envelope (so quite a bit larger) ... an extra section in the layering... and some hand cut-out extras from the Christmas Around the World paper pack (which are available on the 4 For 3 Paper Sale Offer running in October)

Background paper also from Christmas Around the World papers... plus a bit of marker pen or inkpad & blender pen colouring of doors, trees and roofs... and finally slivers of Foil behind the windows to add glint and shine... plus a silvery glimmer moon using the Card Front Builder dies... and there you have it...

And spot my favourite bit... the exhaust pipe smoke greeting strategically positioned behind the red car!!

And yes the card does fold flat to go in the C5 envelope!

I will be writing up a Tutorial in about 2 weeks time... but though for those of you that have already purchased my Bench Fold Card tutorial (Series One)... you already have the step by step details and the dimensions of the main card!

And before I go... here is an image of the Christmas Around the World papers... which are SO much nicer than I first thought.... I love all the images that you can hand cut out... The bottom two papers on the right being used for this card... 

Or click on the Display Visual below to go to the Autumn Winter Papers Flick-through Video... the Christmas Around the World papers are shown at about 2min35 into the video...

Christmas Around the World papers... on Free Paper Promotion from today...

And another laugh at my expense for you!!

So introducing the Christmas Around the World papers... which are on the 4 for 3 Paper Promotion from today - click here for the details on the October promotional offers...

Love these papers... but I did not feel that way when I first saw them... then someone somewhere shared photos of each sheet... and I was hooked... not only are there 2 snowflakey patterns for background like this... but there are lots and lots of images to cut out and use... and a good bit of tartan... but more on all those another day!!

So back to the card... hope you like my shooting stars around the moon!! Not intentional... but even my adhesive remover (retired sadly!) couldn't get rid of them...

And why... because instead of throwing glitter all over the glued surfaces of my card... my absent mind tipped a whole pot of white embossing powder all over it!! Gritty snow eat your heart out!! 

It was everywhere... so I brushed it all off as well as I could... applied a bit more glue for good measure... and threw glitter over... so now that was all over! As the brushing off of the embossing powder obviously spread a thin layer of glue over every surface of the card!!

My trusty adhesive remover did remove most of the glittery mess... but these shooting stars (streaks!) were left. No time for a remake... so here you have it! Warts (or streaks) and all... 

Some of you will remember this card... 

This is the same card remade with papers instead of the Baby Wipe Smooshed background... so most of the card decoration details can be found here... 

Apart from 4 extra details...

(1) a Silver Glimmer moon (as previously promised!)

(2) Night of Navy marker pen (thin end) window panes...

(3) glue (and then just glitter!!) to the stars and snowline

(4) marker pen coloring of the Dazzling Diamonds Glimmer snowman's hat, face and buttons!! Worked fine on the Glimmer Paper.. who knew... 

Card Front Builder dies meet Lovely as a Tree

A further little play with one of my favourite cards made so far this year.... click here for the original card details... 

After demoing at a lot of my classes.... I had quite a few of the misty panels made up and ready to go... so I thought I would try something different... so the Card Front Builder dies came out and the Lovely as A Tree stamps went away... 

So Tranquil Tide for the trees duo die cut... Silver Glimmer for the die cut little deer.... and a punched Dazzling Diamonds Glimmer circle to finish...

Tranquil Tide greeting from Half Full... which happened to be out at the time...

Carols of Christmas & Merry Music papers

Back to Carols of Christmas today... available in clear mount and wood mount...

Remember this set... this is on early release from the Autumn Winter catalogue and available now... just so you can get ahead with your Christmas card making...

So I thought it high time I shared a lovely Z Fold card using the set...

And this also includes another Sneak Peek for you... as the papers are from the Merry Music Speciality papers (available soon... from 1st September)

A few more musical papers being shown in the shot below...  along with some other lovely products that I will introduce you too later!! Can you spot why I am up my Christmas happy street....

This is a project we made at our last Monthly Training using papers Julie had brought back from her Thailand Incentive Trip... so lovely to get to use something before anyone else.

Though I will be in trouble when Julie spots my mistake... she lovingly selected the Deck The Halls music paper for this card... and I stuck it on the wrong way round... oops!

And for those of you need a further quick reminder on this lovely stamp set and dies... here you go...

Carols of Christmas Group Shot and Round Up

I was asked to put up a group shot of my Carols of Christmas card makes so far...  so here you go... 2 versions!

Out of interest which visual do you prefer? Photo Collage or Wood Caddy? (actually a Gardeners Caddy that I couldn't resist!! Thanks TK Maxx)

Card Front Builder dies and co-ordinating Carols of Christmas available to purchase on early release now... in wood or clear mount bundles with 10% off...

Click on the individual photos below for more details and direction...

And here is another group shot to finish off the post...

Hearts Come Home & Hometown Greetings #3

Keeping to my Night of Navy & White theme....

Two of the three house lined border dies in the set used here... both panels cut centrally and then hand cut to the end

Glimmer trees die cut using the same border dies and added...and small glimmer pieces stuck behind the windows for a bit of extra shine...

Nightsky panel achieved using the Baby Wipe Swoosh (or Swipe) technique and then die cut using the Card Front Builder dies... I used this die twice across the top - starting at the right hand side so that I didn't end up with 2 moons!!

There is a small starry die in the Hometown Greetings set that can be used... but I was feeling lazy and the other dies were still out!

Finished off with a white embossed greeting...

And the one thing I would do different next time... put a piece of silver glimmer behind the moon aperture to get that "by the light of the silvery moon" effect....

And some simple instructions for anyone not familiar with the Baby Wipe Swoosh technique...

(1) Grab a Baby Wipe and an ink pad...

(2) Press the top of the closed ink pad so that ink transfers onto the inside of the lid...

(3) Open up the ink pad and dab your baby wipe onto the lid to pick up the ink...

(4) Swoosh (swipe or wipe!) your baby wipe across your piece of card... 

(5) Swoosh & build up colour & texture until you are happy...

Hearts Come Home & Hometown Greetings available from 1st September... but Card Front Builder dies and co-ordinating Carols of Christmas available now... in wood or clear mount