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Showing posts with label More Than Words. Show all posts

Tuesday, 9 April 2019

Tuesday Tip - Double Stitched Rectangles framing

Returning to this Very Vintage card with double Stitched Rectangle frames ... with a step by step tutorial for you as requested... 

But first... a shout out to the original designer of this card... a fellow Jems team member June Wressell who made this card as her swap for the last Quarterly Training event... 
It WOWed me at the time ... then I added one of the Sale A Bration Butterfly Elements... and then everyone picked it up off my display... and so it just had to be re-done in alternative colourways...! Thanks again June...

And so to the Tutorial... 

Recipe
Card Blank A6 Whisper White
Thin Whisper White 4.3 x 7.6cm
Smoky Slate 5 x 8.5cm
Highland Heather 5 x 8.5cm

1. Ink up and stamp the Very Vintage image in Smoky Slate on 3 sides of the Thin Whisper White panel
2. Colour in flowers with light Highland Heather Stampin Blend (or Aqua Painter and ink pads as per original card!! But Stampin Blend colouring is neater and easier!)

3. Adhere to front of A6 card blank
4. Die cut Highland Heather and Smoky Slate frames using 2 of the nesting Rectangle Stitched dies (these 2 are the 2nd and 3rd smallest in the nest of 8)

Tip - you may find it easier to use low tack tape to hold the 2 dies together... and definitely easier if you are doing a few !!
5. You end up with 3 frames! The middle one is the one to use... but you can make other things with the other 2!
6. Cut Heather frame about half way down on the right hand side
7. Slip the Heather frame "behind" the Smoky Slate frame using the cuts to the right hand side to just slip behind! 

8. Adhere 2 frames in place... and then onto card around the stamped panel...
Or if you would like to add some more colour.... you could colour in the leaves on the stamped image  using (say) Granny Apple Green Light Stampin Blend...

9. Punch butterfly from Botanical Butterfly papers (rough cut around a butterfly... place butterfly on post it note... insert as required into punch..and punch) OR stamp & punch butterfly using Butterfly Gala 

10. Add greeting as required... I used (the now retired) More Than Words at the time! In Highland Heather & the darker Gorgeous Grape...


Enjoy! And thanks again June...

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Sunday, 31 March 2019

Needlepoint Nook Mothers Day card trio

So... seeing as it is Mother's Day in the UK today... here is the Needlepoint Nook Mother's Day trio...  

But before I start.... Don't forget it is now the last few hours of the Sale A Bration promotion.... Finishes 10.30pm tonight in the UK... 

And so back to the cards...

First up the Neutrals Butterfly Simple Z Fold Card ... 
Although the simplest... this proved to be the overall favourite in classes... proving I am always safest with blues and greens with my groups of ladies!! 
More details and Simple Z Fold Card Tutorial on this post here... 

Secondly... the favourite amongst my purple fanciers! 
The Highland Heather Joy Fold card...

And last but not least... the Double Z Joy Fold card in whites that I shared here on Friday... 

Though most ladies made the Crushed Curry (yellow) version posted here with the Tutorial... 
So there you have my Mother's Day trio... which I am posting as I hope that these cards (all with tutorials) prove inspirational to someone in the rest of the world for their 12th May makes... although too late now for my UK readers... 

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Friday, 29 March 2019

Needlepoint Nook Fun Fold Friday

Change just one colour and this Double Z Joy Fold card changes a lot!! 

But before I start... just sayin!! 
So I had a remake of this card to do as unfortunately I had to postpone a class last week and one of my lovely ladies, Sarah couldn't make the new date this week...  

And Mother's Day is this Sunday in the UK... so time was of the essence!!
But I happen to know that yellow is Sarah's most hated colour... so a re-think was required... and this is the result... 

Doesn't that look so much cooler (as in cold!!!) and only the card blank, a few flowers and a "happy" changed...
Though I will laugh if Sarah's mum's favourite colour happens to be yellow!!
Rest of the card details and Double Z Joy Fold card Tutorial on this post here... 

PS Which one do you prefer??? I have to admit that (unusually as I do like my white!!!) the yellow version does it more for me...

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