Painted Poppies Thank You cards and Round up...

I realised that I hadn't used the wonderful wreath die cut image in the suite of 9 cards for which I am offering my Painted Poppies free Class in the Mail...

So I thought I had better make a Thank You card to provide some inspiration for using it...

And think this is my second favourite card out of the 25 Painted Poppies & Labels projects I ended up making!!!

So whilst they were all out I played around with a few colour combinations* and images from the Thoughtful Blooms stamp set (Yours for Free with a £45 purchase during Sale A Bration)

And a fun fact... Thoughtful Blooms is the best selling stamp set this year in the UK so far!

That co-ordinates with the Small Bloom punch (yours for free with a £90 purchase during Sale A Bration)

And here are the 9 cards included in the Painted Poppies free Class... 

Live in the UK? Fancy a class for free? Either here "at home" or in the mail... then simply order* the Painted Poppies bundle  (and don't forget to add a free Sale A Bration product as your order will be over £45... and my host code DUCCVEGD when you do) 

Orders in by tomorrow, 2nd March please... You will get a prepped class kit and written instructions for the 9 cards....

Alternatively  - for those of you that can collect and that have financial arrangements already set up with The Craft Spa... I am placing an order on 3rd March... and can add yours onto that! I will also include one of these cards!

* Colour combinations Daffodil Delight & Mango Medley or Grapefruit Grove & Calypso Coral with  Coastal Cabana & Bermuda Bay. Both of which were inspired by the Birthday Bonanza papers...

And greetings from Label Me Bold and Magnolia Blooms

Magnolia Lane Pop Up Front Step Panel Card

What do you get when you combine the Nested Labels with the A6ish Portrait Pop Up Front Step Panel card...

Yup! A new variant for you!

In a few different Magnolia Lane paper-ways... as I had 6 to make... 4 being the same... and then a couple of others...

Back with the specifics another day...

But in the meantime... I just had to share these Nested Labels featuring Magnolia Lane & Magnolia Blooms version with you...

Wishing You an Amazing Christmas...

So whilst I was creating yesterday's card... this idea popped into my head too...

Proving that Everything Amazing is what it says on the tin!! For all year round occasions...

Hope you find this useful in creating a strong festive message this year!

And yes the large greeting stamp is inked up in Versamark then Mossy Meadow... and then embossed with Clear embossing powder...

And be sure to see yesterdays post on how to create poinsettias with your Magnolia Lane papers

Magnolia Blooms card...

So I meant to post this with the card yesterday... as they are almost the same... but...

This was my prototype prior to the class... as I don't have Good Morning Magnolia... but one of my lovely ladies does... so I had pre-made a few cards using my Magnolia Blooms... and then quickly remade a Good Morning Magnolia version whilst I had those stamps in my possession!

Like this one both ways... though if I had to choose... it would be yesterday's!

Good Morning Magnolia & Magnolia Blooms...

So simple...but probably my favourite... why use just one stamp set when you can use 2 co-ordinating ones...

And you may ask why my pearl positioning is as it is... well here is why!! Oops!

And I will be very brief for the next few days... as my mother is now out of pain and at peace... so the family is busy with arrangements...

Tuesday Tutorial - De-Constructed (Faux) Double Point Card

So here we go... the simple way to make a Nested Labels Double Point card... as long as you don't want the "flappy bit" which (for many) is probably a main feature of the original Double Point Card... though not for me...

So this simplified way gives me everything I like in the Double Point design... but at speed... and with less materials being needed....

And I changed this one up after the original Noble Peacock De-constructed Double Point Card posted here... as thinner Magnolia Lane papers meant I could add a co-ordinating mat whilst I was at it...

And please note that for simplicity's sake in the Tutorial...

(1) I kept the paper panel the same size for both of these card variations (the coloured mat being optional and that bit larger...)

(2) I have not altered the panel & mat dimensions for a wider US A2 card (4 1/4" ilo Rest of World A6 4 1/8" wide)... so you will have a bit of a white gap to line up on the top and bottom edge of this version...

But that's nice! So why re-design and complicate matters!! Look at this version here to check out "a bit of a white gap"

Craft Spa Recipe
Stamps - Magnolia Blooms
Papers - Magnolia Lane
Stampin Blends - Mossy Meadow combo, Petal Pink combo, So Saffron Dark

Whisper White A6 Tent Card Blank (OR US A2) 
ie 10.5cm x A4long - scored LANDSCAPE at 14.8cm (OR US 4 1/4" x 11" long - score LANDSCAPE at 5 1/2")
Mossy Meadow Card 7.4cm (2 7/8") Square
Paper Panel 6.7cm (2 5/8") Square
(D) Mossy Meadow 12 x 7cm
(D) Whisper White Thick 12 x 7cm     where (D) is for die-cutting

Craft Spa Tutorial
1. Cut Card and Paper Squares diagonally (point to point!)
2. Adhere to each other
3. Adhere to card blank (with or without a gap round the 3 sides)

4. Die cut 2 x Nested Labels
5. Hand cut white Nested Label (using line inside the stitched line to guide your eye AND do shorter ends first)
6. Ink up & Stamp greeting
7. Adhere to each other and to card blank

8. Ink up & Stamp Early Espresso magnolias
9. Colour in using Stampin Blends
10. Fussy Cut using Paper Snips
11. Adhere

Gold Embossed Good Morning Magnolia & Magnolia Blooms

So this is the gold embossed card that inspired the white embossed card shared here earlier... 

And this card was inspired by many a one I have spotted around the internet... though I think the first one I saw was this one by the lovely Linda Dalke... who has a video tutorial for you there too... 

Though of course what I remembered was a white matted version... so then I searched for that and couldn't find it... so I guess that part was just in my head after all...

But simply... Crumb Cake mat temporarily stuck to an A6 Crumb Cake card blank...  gold embossed magnolias... 

Coloured in with Whisper White craft ink... using my trusty Aqua Painter... and then left to dry...

Then Petal Pink ink applied using Sponge Daubers... and then small mat stuck onto white mat... and onto card blank...

And an admittance... I don't even have Good Morning Magnolia... but I do have Magnolia Blooms... so this was my prototype... 

And then I borrowed the lovely Jill's Good Morning Magnolia when she was here... and quickly re-made the card

Remember that these 2 magnolia stamp sets work really well together... as not only are the greetings in the same script... but the magnolias co-ordinate with each other as they bring in different sizes... 

I personally like to use the largest magnolias in each of the sets on cards like these... but more on that another day...

And here are the 3 cards together... 

Simple Magnolia Blooms Card #2

Simple Magnolia Blooms card using Stitched Nested Labels dies ... with the Subtle embossing folder for the Mint Macaron mat...

And greeting from Dandelion Wishes... inked up with Mint Macaron... and then overinked with Mossy Meadow and Early Espresso markers...

Finished off with Basics Pearls and Mint Macaron 1/4" ribbon...

And yes I do like a bit of fussy cutting in an evening!!

Magnolia Lane Simple for Saturday #1

 

Simple white embossed magnolia images on Crumb Cake card...

Coloured in with Whisper White craft ink... using my trusty Aqua Painter... and then left to dry...

Then Petal Pink and Mossy Meadow ink applied using Sponge Daubers...

So simple, quick but very effective... and very therapeutic to create too!

Magnolia from Good Morning Magnolia...

Greeting from Kindness & Compassion

Magnolia Lane & Blooms Double Point Card

Another A6 Double Point Fold card... featuring the Magnolia Lane papers... and the Magnolia Blooms and Sorry For Everything stamps...

But in landscape orientation this time... 

With an extra paper panel (the striped one!)...

And the front panel part all stuck down... the centre greeting Nested Labels panel being stuck down with Stampin Dimensionals... so as to still give some extra dimension...

Click here for the Landscape version... with that extra front panel part if you like it that way! Tutorial for this (and that one) linked there too...

And click here for my Deconstructed Double Point card version... for which there is another one coming up soon...so I will remember to add the recipe and instructions! As it is somewhat simpler... and achieves most of the effect!!

And a quick update on my mother... still in ITU... but one heck of a lot better! Still a long way to go though... What can I say! Been a LONG week!