Welcoming Window #14 - the last one...

Thought it was high time I brought the Welcoming Window series to an end... though I warn you that I still have a very long list of alternative ideas to test and make... so I should be back with more... but for now... a change is as good as a rest!

But before I start on todays card... click here to go to Saturdays post for the Crumb Cake one... for which I messed up the title and link when I posted so not many people saw it... 

So as I was making the double die cut cards.... I made some other alternatives along the way...

This one is the final Double Die Cut Card....

With the double die cut... and the shutters attached so they close over the window on the inside.... much like they would be in real life!

Note that I reveal "the how" in the Tutorials suite.... 

Welcoming Window # 13- Double Gatefold Card

A really simple Welcoming Window double gatefold card... 

Back to Crumb Cake sponged brick wall...

With Highland Heather or Misty Moonlight flowers in the trough... 

But which do you prefer?

 Click here for the details on the Tutorial PDF...

Fun Fold Friday - Welcoming Window #12

Coming almost to the end of my initial spree(s) of Welcoming Window cards... 

With another of the more fancy... but simple... fold cards... 

Don't forget that you can make these "with me" too... whether its a class in the mail (UK only) or the Tutorials in pdf format... click here for more information...

Double framed Daisy Lane card

CASEing me... as this has been one of the favourite cards of the year in classes... but using Daisy Lane this time instead of butterflies...

And spot the stunning Metallic Designer Elements daisy centre... looks gorgeous!

So then had to add gold embossed leaves and Gold Foil to my Gray Granite for the Stitched Rectangles to finish off...

Click here for the card tutorial...

And a quick update - my mother is still critically ill in ITU... so my life is there at present - normal blog service will resume as soon as possible... please bear with me...

Star of Light Double Die Cut Square Card

Quick Share today... but I think some of you will love this one...

I was attempting to make another of these Double-Die Cut card folds but using the Star of Light... but the edges were a bit too precise for a class make... so before I rejected it altogether.... I stuck the front side flaps together and stuck it all on an Island Indigo square card blank... looks effective!

The star in the middle is a 3D one using the die in the set intended for the use... but I found that going over all the scorelines again worked a treat for me... much easier to fold!

Wonderful Wondrous Wreath Scallop Square Double Die Cut Card

Just realised that there are a couple more Wonderful Wondrous Wreath cards I have not yet shared.

So for today, a Clean & Simple card using the Double Die Cut Card Technique. This a personal variant of the Double Punched Technique designed by Robin Armbrecht  and for which there is a tutorial by Julie Davison  here. I have used the Double Die Cut method quite a few times over the years… particularly with flowers & snowflakes… But I appear to have not posted any here before… so I have put a few pictures of last years Festive Flurry version at the end of this post…. there are some better views….

Photos don’t really do it justice! – but I am sure you will get the idea… Though I have to admit… there is actually too much card cut away in the front – so the finished result is a bit floppy when just using Whisper White. Shame as it is effective…. so remakes will have to include that extra layer of paper as shown in the Festive Flurry example…