Trusty Tools #3 - Double Diorama Card

 

Third in my series of Fun or Fancy Fold cards created using the Trusty Tools dies and stamps along with the Trusty Tool box papers...

But before I start... the Bonus Days promotion is now live... 

When you shop between 3 and 31 July and spend £45 you will earn a £4.50 coupon! One coupon/code for every £45 spent... A code will be sent for each "coupon" by email right after a qualifying purchase has been made.  Then you can redeem them between 1 and 31 August. 

So back to today's card... this time a Large Square (aka 6" Square) Double Layer Diorama card...

Sadly the retired Trusty Toolbox papers were an exclusive free-to-earn product during the Sale A Bration promotion last January and February... and so are not available to order any more... 

But the images in the Trusty Tools stamps & dies bundle produce most of those tool images... 

The tool-box is die cut using the Trusty Tool Box dies... greeting using the fabulous Wanted to Say dies... and silver background texture care of the Metal Plate embossing folder...

Trusty Tools Diorama Card to say Happy Fathers Day...

First in a series of Fun or Fancy Fold cards created using the Trusty Tools dies and stamps along with the Trusty Tool box papers...

A simple Large Square (aka 6" Square) Diorama card...

Sadly the retired Trusty Toolbox papers were an exclusive free-to-earn product during the Sale A Bration promotion last January and February... and so are not available to order any more... 

But the images in the Trusty Tools stamps & dies bundle produce most of those tool images... and you can die cut a pegboard background to achieve the same... 

You could also use a small scrap off a grid sheet for the tape measure element! Fathes Day greeting from the Trusty Tools stamp set... and the tool-box is die cut using the Trusty Tool Box dies...

And had to smile to myself when using the "So Happy You're Here " greeting... as my father is always saying " If I am still here then"... so the greeting had to be used!! It certainly made him laugh out loud!!! FYI - both small greetings from the long retired Well Said stamp set

Petal Passion meets Stitched Squares

Same layout and recipe as this card... but using the Petal Passion papers instead... with the leaves coloured using the light Old Olive Stampin Blend... and the white papers stamped with Pool Party flowers...

Finished off with the lovely stamped, die cut & Blends coloured rose image from the Petal Palette bundle & Stylised Birthday greeting

Plus a stamped mat on the inside...

Sorry for such a late... and quick... post today...  needs must!

Jems Blog Hop to celebrate lots of new Spring Summer & Sale A Bration products!!

Hello and welcome to The Craft Spa in the UK... to 2018... and to the Jems Blog Hop to welcome the new Spring Summer Catalogue and Sale A Bration! 

And for those of you that visited me yesterday... no it is not Groundhog Day... just my double Blog Hop for the first weekend in the month!

So ... staying with one of my favourite suites in the new Spring Summer (aka Occasions) catalogue... Picture Perfect Party... 

This suite is light & bright with photographic images & co-ordinating photopolymer stamps & Stampin Spots to get the party going... and keep it going... definitely perfect for birthday makes... and for making you feel happy whilst you are making them!

But 2 very different cards for you today... with some extra peeks of some non Picture Perfect Party Suite products!

First up... a card for a special birthday event... I couldn't resist cutting out the 1 & 2 balloons on the one piece of paper... and instead of doing the more obvious 12... I went for a sparkly 21st birthday celebration instead...

Couple of embossing folders used here... the Picture Perfect Party Suite Simple Stripes for the large mat... and the blink and you will miss it, Scattered Sequins from the Sweet Soiree Suite. Easy to miss as I have then covered the embossed sequins with the tiny hexagonal Gold Glitter Flakes from the Painted With Love Suite... 

And a tip for you as these tiny flakes were really easy to apply! Little dot of Tombow on the blunt end of my pokey tool (aka Paper Piercing Tool)... followed by a teeny tiny dot on the embossed sequins... Pick up a flake on the blunt end of the pokey tool and place onto embossed sequin ... and voila! So easy I put a flake on nearly every embossed sequin!

Mounted onto Gold Foil and Berry Burst cardstock... And finished off with glittery Gold Trim for the string ... also from the Painted With Love Suite...

Second up... a simple DL sized card... with proof that the photographic images on the paper are really life-like and clear!! As I don't think you will spot why I made this card!!

Well the central hat does not have a pom pom in the papers... so here is a perfect use of the Mini Gift Bows for you... giving a very 3D pom pom to finish it off... honest! Maybe you can spot it on the next photo...

Greeting from the fabulous Picture Perfect Birthday stamp set in Bermuda Bay, paper and stamped white card mounted onto Lemon Lime Twist...and then onto my Whisper White DL card blank... and Gold 1/8" Ribbon to finish off as it is about the same width as the frill on the hat. 

If you like what you see... and want to see more of this Suite... please pop back back a day's post for the other Blog Hop featuring more projects using the Picture Perfect Birthday suite... as once I started I just couldn't stop! But do remember to hop round this Blog Hop first!

And if you are in the UK and want to see and touch your own papers, ribbons and embellishments from the Spring Summer catalogue without spending a fortune... then click here for details of my Product Shares and/or Paper Swatch books... current round closes this Tuesday, 9th Jan... 

And if you need to know more about the Spring Summer catalogue and the Sale A Bration promotion... then just click here...

And now it is time to pass you onto the creative talents of  the lovely Uma... Just click on the arrow below to get to the next stop... and see you tomorrow... or next time we hop...

Global Stampin Friends Blog Hop welcoming Sale-a-bration and the Spring-Summer/Occasions Catalogue

Hello and welcome to The Craft Spa in the UK... to 2018... and to our Blog Hop to welcome the new Spring Summer Catalogue and Sale A Bration!

I have picked one of my favourite suites in the new Spring Summer (aka Occasions) catalogue to feature today... Picture Perfect Party... and decided to start with just one piece of the 6x6 Designer Paper stack as a base image... and make a trio of cards for you...

This suite is light & bright with photographic images & co-ordinating photopolymer stamps & Stampin Spots to get the party going... and keep it going... definitely perfect for birthday makes... and for making you feel happy whilst you are making them!

So one piece of 6x6 paper (from the stack of 48 pieces) cut into 3 parts... two 3" Square and one 3"x 6"...

First up a Large Square Double Z Joy Fold card... for which you will find my earlier Tutorial here... and that admittedly needed a couple of other pieces of paper from the paper stack to join my base piece!

And I was particularly happy to realise I could just add a gift card to the central section so this card now doubles as a Gift Card Holder too!! Simples! Definitely a go-to card for the rest of the year in these parts! And I love that the Debenhams Gift Card within is so Lemon Lime Twist!!!

Finished off with co-ordinating Berry Burst Silver Edge ribbon... which is perfect but actually from the Sweet Soiree Suite...

Second up... a Split Trio Panel on a standard A6 Bermuda Bay card... 

The 3" x 6" piece of paper being cut down to 11.9cm  high... and then trimmed into 1" (2.5cm) wide pieces...  Mounted onto a 8.1 x 12.2cm piece of Whisper White...and then in turn onto a 8.6 x 12.7cm Lemon Lime Twist panel 

Spot the blower with the greeting... 6" length of 3/4" wide scrap paper curled at one end and a 3/4" Square snipped piece of Lemon Lime Twist card at the other... which was needs must! 

As the Picture Perfect Fringed Crepe ribbon shown in the catalogue is sadly not going to be available... but hey my scissors can do a good job instead...

And last up... a simple Pool Party Small Square card (10.5cm/4 1/8") using the last 3" Square piece... stamped in Archival Black... which I prefer as it is cleaner looking and clearer to see!

Simply mounted onto a Basic Black 3 1/4" mat... and finished off with the 3 of the Tutti Frutti Adhesive Backed Sequins which are a (colour) match in heaven... and a real stash must have in my opinion...

If you like what you see... and want to see more... please pop back here tomorrow for my part in another Blog Hop featuring more projects using the Picture Perfect Birthday suite... as once I started I just couldn't stop!

And if you are in the UK and want to see and touch your own papers, ribbons and embellishments from the Spring Summer catalogue without spending a fortune... then click here for details of my Product Shares and/or Paper Swatch books... current round closes this Tuesday, 9th Jan... You could make a heck of a lot of this card trio from the Shares!!

And if you need to know more about the Spring Summer catalogue and the Sale A Bration promotion... then just click here...

And now it is time to pass you onto the creative talents of  Angelique Nederpel in the Netherlands... Just click on the arrow below to get to the next stop... or alternatively, hop using the Roll Call posted below... see you next time...

Global Stamping Friends #17: Sale-A-Bration/Occasions/Spring

Lisa Ann Bernard
Amanda Farlinger
Anastasia Radloff
Jan Musselman
Karie Beglau
Kimberley Anne Morris
Libby Dyson
Tricia Butts
Ellen Woodbridge
Jenn Curtis Charles
Anita Wifladt
Kristie Neal Walthall
Courtenay Heuston
Rebecca Urban
Mary Ann Kay Rossiter
Lisa Hardie
Cheryl Algie
Marieke Bart
Amanda Bates ( YOU ARE HERE ) 
Angelique Stempelkeuken
Rachel Macleod
Georgia Missy Aubrey-Gaydos
Lisa Henderson
Sarah McDermott

Year of Cheer 20th Wedding Anniversary Double Display card

Very quick share today... as I am up to my eyeballs in spray paint!! Minor exaggeration there... but more on that another day...

Here is the finished 20th Wedding Anniversary double display card I made for Jon using the Year of Cheer papers...

Want to make one of your own? Tutorials are linked in this post here...

A Birthday version shared here... And a christmas version shared here...

Season & Year of Cheer Double Display Card

So a remake was on the cards for this one... something for Christmas this time... but using the same Year of Cheer papers, Foil Snowflakes, Clear Faceted Gems and the old favourite Large Square Double Display card fold... 

But a few other details changed as I went along...

Seasonal Layers snowflakes die cut from the Champagne Foil before assembly...

And if you look closely... some of the snowflake waste was used as pin/brad heads at the corners and centres... perfect little detail... so they are all getting saved now!

Die cut Stitched Frames circle used for the greeting.... which is from Watercolor Christmas...and heat embossed in copper... 

Large Foil Snowflakes cut and stuck the other way round...

Carols of Christmas Poinsettias.... and Three Tuesday Tips

Just realised I forgot to share this card made using the pre-released Carols of Christmas stamp set and Card Front Builder dies...

These are in the Autumn Winter catalogue which will be released 1st September... but this set is available to you to purchase now... Wood mount bundle here and Clear mount here...

Now I have to admit to 3 reasons why I didn't post this earlier...

(1) It is in a different colourway to all my other Carols of Christmas makes so it didn't fit in my series! 

(2) This is in Real Red and Tranquil Tide... and I wasn't going to share until I re-made it all in golds! But then everyone at Team Training liked the colours - so what do I know... so thought I should share in any case...

(3) I struggled to line up the die and stamped images to cut out my poinsettias! In fact I just couldn't do it really... and although they are die cut on this card... it took ages in trial and error.... so I resorted to fussy cutting for some more I now have in stock... yes they are in gold!

But then fast forward 2 weeks to Team Training last week...and suddenly I could see the how! It just came upon me in a flash... so I can happily share the trick with you too....

So Tip Number 1...

Stamp up your poinsettias with the arrow on the stamp pointing to the top....

Place the die over your poinsettia (aligned top of image to the top!!!!) with the corner/90 degree angle of the die to the centre at the bottom... 

Note that there are 2 of these dies.... so you can cut 2 corners of a mat at a time...

So I have now marked the relevant die with a B for bottom as a reminder... note that the Sizzix/number etching is upside down...

And cut! See not so hard.... 

I even managed to space and stamp my four demo poinsettias perfectly for all to (just) be cut out just right! Phew!

Tip Number 2... cutting a smaller poinsettia out! Same theory... but using the other corner die... so Sizzix etching right way up this time... just had to tilt the bottom angle a bit more up to the right to get it to line up...

And Tip Number 3... The new Mini Stampin Dimensionals are the bomb!! So perfectly sized... 

Pop them in the die cut area of where you want your flower to go... remove the protective cover... and pop your poinsettia on top... much quicker and easier to line up right than a flower with a 3D foam pad underneath...