Thursday Thank yous... Garden Lane Gap Card

Couldn't resist a few more Gap Cards for some of my customer thank you cards...

Just changing up the colourway slightly... as the blue of Bermuda Bay is so much more me...

Click here for the Gap Card tutorial...

Products used are Garden Lane papers, Butterfly Wishes, Daisy Lane & Medium Daisy Punch, Healing Hugs, Leaf Punch, Floral Centres and Stitched Rectangle dies...

Simple for Saturday... Garden Lane Faux Double Point

So time for a remake of the Faux (or Deconstructed) Double Point Card in the Garden Lane papers for my classes this week...

But before I start... Live in the UK? Want crafty supplies at discount? Have a large Stampin' Up! Wish List?

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And so back to my card... now I have to admit that this is definitely the favourite of  the Double Point Cards... as  it is simpler... and quick... and you don't use much paper... so it is a good value card too!

Click here for the Tutorial... 

Other Stampin' Up! products used today include... 

• Nested Label dies....
• Stamped and punched So Saffron Daisy Lane daisies ... with (retired) 3/8" punched circles as centres... 
• Mossy Meadow punched leaves... 
• And greeting from Healing Hugs...

All of which does make for a very quick card... 

Double Point Card - Garden Lane

Another remake for my Garden Lane class this week... a Double Point Card (the stuck down version)

More details on the Magnolia Lane version of the Card here... and there is a link to a tutorial here... 

I just stuck down those folded papers/sides under the Nested Label greeting... which is popped up on 3D foam Stampin Dimensionals...

And added a couple of stamped and punched So Saffron Daisy Lane daisies and a couple of Pear Pizzazz punched leaves... 

And greeting from Sorry for Everything... which is such a useful greeting set for those things that just need to be said when we least want to... 

Garden Lane Gap Card

Back to another Gap Card...

This time in the Garden Lane papers... which are one of the packs on the Buy 3 Get a Fourth pack for Free paper promotion running at the moment...

And these papers are worth checking out... as they are suitable for virtually everyone and every occasion in your life... and can be simple dressed with flowers and leaves as and when required!

Click here for the card tutorial... with these Garden Lane papers pictured... though I didn't make the Scrap Card this time as these papers are 12x12 so I could get another card or two from the strip instead!

Other products used are Butterfly Wishes, Daisy Lane & Medium Daisy Punch, Healing Hugs, Leaf Punch, Floral Centres and Stitched Rectangle dies...

Year of Cheer Snowflake Flowers & Stampin Blends Part 2

Following on from yesterday's post with the details... another quick tip for the Stampin Blends (coming soon!) for you...

Want a coloured Foil mat in a colour of your choice? Well now you can... just colour the edge of your Silver Foil mat using your Stampin Blend marker... in my case, dark Bermuda Bay to co-ordinate with my flowers (on yesterday's card!)

Though I will be honest and say that it works well for a thin mat such as used here... but I wouldn't use this technique for a larger area and it goes quite streaky when you have to go over the same area multiple times...

You will also notice that I have a few mats from my one Silver Foil mat. This is one thing I am always frugal with... just line up at 1 cm (or 3/8") on your Stampin Trimmer and cut from 1 cm at the top to 1cm from the bottom, Turn 90 degrees and repeat... and so on until you have cut out a rectangle from the centre. The larger is on today's card whereas the middle one was used on yesterdays...

And another silver embossed Big on Birthdays greeting to set everything off...

Year of Cheer Birthday Flowers with Stampin Blends...

Today's make is a combination of a colour challenge and a few ideas picked up along the way that I wanted to try out...

First up... a Team Color Challenge ... featuring the 2017-19 In Color, Berry Burst...

Oh ... and a mess up on my behalf that I have just realised...as I thought the green to be used was Garden Green!! Oops... please pretend I have used Old Olive... would have been nicer too!

Second up... Year of Cheer snowflake flowers in more typically floral colours... click here for more details on the flowers... Berry Burst sponged all over one of the Pansy Punch flowers...

Third up... the delivery of my new (coming soon!) Stampin Blends alcohol markers... so outlining and colouring with my Bermuda Bay dark & light markers rather than carrying on sponging... I wasn't sure that it would work over the foil detail... but it does! The foil still shines through... And no inky fingers...

And a Clear Faceted Gem quickly coloured using the brush tip end of the dark Rich Razzleberry Stampin Blend for one of the flower centres... just because I could! Though personally I prefer a clear one!

Fourth up... two step Painted Harvest stamped & Leaf Punch punched leaves given dimension with a quick score along the centre using my trusty Bone Folder and thick Stampin Pierce mat... really makes those leaves pop into life...

And Fifth up... oh that can wait till tomorrow!! Though the eagle eyed amongst you have probably already spotted it!

Set off around a silver embossed Big on Birthdays greeting to match the foiling on the snowflake flowers...

A Year of Cheer snowflake is not just for Christmas!

Just had one of those moments!! And loving what it created!!

So I was asked to demo my Year of Cheer Large Square Double Display card in my next class... and I decided it was time I put a Birthday one together... so I didn't want snowflakes...

But the card looked a bit plain on the front... and then it dawned on me...what was to stop me punching out round a snowflake in the Year of Cheer papers with the Pansy Punch... absolutely nothing!! Works SO well...Though you get less pansies than snowflakes for your money...

I daubed Smoky Slate ink around the white pansy... and coloured the second using a sponge and Cajun Craze ink (and a "dauber splodge" in the centre)... finishing off with a quick shape-ing care of my Bone Folder & Thick Mat. Do remember to rub off the excess ink from the foil parts of  a coloured flower with a tissue if you try one at home though!!

A couple of Clear Faceted Gems later... and couple of Leaf Punch punched Champagne Foil Leaves... veined into shape as described in this post... and the decoration was complete...

Happy Birthday die cut from the Champagne Foil mat before assembly... and the silver embossed TO YOU on the front is from Big on Birthdays...punched with the Classic Label Punch and trimmed to size...

Click here for the Christmas version of this card... or here for an Anniversary one (and the links to the Tutorials)

And I know I will be punching snowflake pansies again sometime soon!!

The Simplified Year of Cheer Wreath card

As a few of you have asked me about CASEing the Year of Cheer & Painted Harvest Wreath card I shared here earlier... I thought I should quickly share the simplified version I have made in the meantime... 

More foil leaves simply punched from the Champagne Foil mat to save time as less stamping... so I used 9 here... though I could punch 10 from that Champagne Foil mat... and there are 4 Copper Foil leaves and 4 stamped and punched leaves...

I did then add veins to every other with my bone folder (using the Thick Mat)... little thing ... huge difference as they say!  And a tip or two for you... do not rush your veining and start from the leaf tip... otherwise most will go wonky!!

And the card itself... just a Large Square card... so mine is a 14.8cm square card (with 14.3cm Foil mat and a 14cm White panel)  ... as that is the largest you can get out of A4 Thick Whisper White cardstock.... so would have to be a 5 1/2" Square if cut from US Letter stock... (with 5 1/4" Foil mat and 5 1/8" White mat)