Merriest Moments Monday #12-14

Adding more detail to my Merriest Moments cards... as the dies set has a large "mat die" which I have used with the gold Metallic Speciality paper...

Mounting up my embossed, die cut and stamped main feature panel with gold mat three ways...

So we have A5 card blanks in Evening Evergreen and then Very Vanilla... and finishing off with a large A5 Very Vanilla blank 

And a tip (and/or a bit of a laugh for you!) You can of course die cut flowers, leaves and even a gold matting panel from the large gold mat before you adhere it to the main feature panel....

But please think about the die placement! I cut lots out where I didn' t mean to!! Though luckily it didn't really show from the front...  In fact it made the gold mat a bit lighter....

Merry Monday - Today's Tiles #3

Love this Today's Tiles one! On about 4 levels...

Multi colour stamping care of Balmy Blue and Night of Navy Stampin' Spots... come back tomorrow for some tips on this...

Then just adding a little twinkle care of Versamark and Silver Embossing Powder overstamping...

Little thing... Big difference...

Christmas greeting care of Perfectly Plaid...

And look at the perfect sizing of the Stitched Shapes die cut square at the centre....

And click here for more information and images of Todays Tiles...

Merry Monday - Clean & Simple Stitched Stars card

Simply does it...

And you don't get much simpler than this...

But still a little starry stunner...

Finished off with a Flower Faceted Gems... not what I went to get initially ... but I reckon just perfect! 

Oh and note the greetings... both parts are on the one stamp (see top left in image)... so you can use as is... 

Or in halves as I have done here... which I did using a sticky note to cover the parts I didn't want... inked up the parts I did... removed sticky note and stamped ... then a good clean... and repeat for the other half on the inside... 

Though I could easily cut this one in half if the mood takes me another day...

Stampin Up! products

Stamps- So Many Stars

Dies - Stitched Stars

Card - Whisper White, Gray Granite

Ink colours - Gray Granite, Coastal Cabana 

Embellishments - Flower Faceted Gems

Merry (Magnolia) Monday

Can't take any credit for the idea of colouring the Magnolia Lane papers in with the Real Red Stampin Blends to create poinsettia flowers...

And annoyingly I forgot to note the name of my fellow clever demonstrator that first shared the idea on out International Demo Only FB site... so please let me know if it was you... and I will quickly update my post...

But thought I should share with you just in case you hadn't caught up with this great idea for getting more out of your papers!!