Cozy Christmas Bauble card

And here is another of our favourites from my Cozy Christmas class... the Bauble card...

But first - don't forget to check out the new week's Weekly Deals...

 

 Greeting stamped in Real Red on a bit of music paper from the Home For Christmas paper pack...

Circle die-cut from the centre of the top mat...

All stuck together with a bit of dressing from the Real Red Cotton Ribbon bow and a wooden snowflake element to finish...

Another Winter Wonderland Mini Book & Another Tutorial...

 

Another of my favourite simple mini books.... though this looks very dressed up in the stunning black and gold foil stripy papers...

A few pages to add your photos too...

Simple in its decoration for now... the photos should be the main event after all...

So opening up....

Simplest of decoration... Just a triple embossed snowflake element along with a strip of washi tape...

Opening up again...

And again...

So back to the front....

 A simple wrap round ribbon as the closure...

 Covered over at the back...

And a little detail.... difficult to see....but there is a die cut circle behind the gold foil doily...just stiffens up the decoration sufficiently....

And an admittance.... I had to use Hello Honey 12x12 card for the left and right pages... given a choice I would have used Basic Black .... but my supplies had not turned up! And the cupboard was very bare...

And seeing as it is Tuesday.... so Tips, Techniques & Tutorials Tuesday....a tutorial for you....

Recipe

Cardstock 

Basic Black 12" x 6"; 6" Square (x2)

Whisper White 12" x 5 3/4"; 5 3/4" Square (x2)

Hello Honey ( Basic Black!!) 12" x 5 3/4" (x2)

Papers

Black/Gold Stripe 5 1/2" Square (x2)

Wide pages - 5 3/4"W x 5 1/2"H

Narrow Pages - 2 3/4" W x 5 1/2" H

Ribbon Gold Satin x 30"

Large Gold Metallic Doily

Tutorial

1. Score LANDSCAPE 12" Basic Black panel at 2 1/2", 3", 9" & 9 1/2"

2. Bone Fold (all mountains) and lay down with short flaps to front

3. Adhere the two 6" Basic Black squares to the short flaps ( Tip - put your glue on the short flap!)

4. Score other three 12" panels at 3" & 9"

5. Bone Fold (all mountains) and lay down with short flaps to front

6. Adhere White panel to centre back of book

7. Adhere Hello Honey panels to left and right of the Whisper White panel ( ie stick narrower panels together!)

8. Decorate as required....

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Winter Wonderland NOEL - Quad Box Frame Card

Another of the projects from my All Day event last weekend... great card and/OR mantelpiece decoration OR even a hanging decoration if re-orientated... may try that if I get a chance when they are next been made at next week's class....

And seeing as it is Fancy Fold Friday - the directions for you!!!

Make 2 of these...

Attach the 2 duo Box Frame sections together using another 2 x 13cm (5 1/8" x 3/4") panel scored PORTRAIT in half at 1cm (3/8"). 

This time the panel is placed on the back of the 2 duos where they meet at the centre.... fold forward/ie mountain between the 2... adhered flat to the backs... hope that makes sense.... will take a photo tomorrow and add....

I will be back very soon to share the snippity snips of the windows for the NOEL... but technology has  beaten me this week! Which also explains the awful photo quality too!!

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Winter Wonderland Window Card

Time to break out a new stamp set. The lovely Winter Wonderland...

But not time to put away my Hearth & Home dies quite yet!

So this card uses the rectangular window panes left over from my window die cuts. 4 of them every window...so I have a lot of these...

I stuck 16 panes ( 4 x 4)  on a piece of paper using temporary glue. ( Tip: put Tombow on back and leave to dry if you don't have specific temporary glue... as it then turns into a temporary adhesive... a fine one at that!)

Then I stamped Mossy Meadow Winter Wonderland trees and Soft Sky snowflakes.

Then I permanently assembled and glued the small rectangles onto an A6 Soft Sky card blank. Perfect spacing...phew!

Stamped a Mossy Meadow sentiment from the set.

And finished it off with a white embossed Snowflake Element... love these! Subtle glossy white snowflake!

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Woodland Embossing and Heat & Stick Training makes

We had our big team Quarterly Team Training event today - and I was asked to demo some of my earlier shared makes using the Woodland embossing folder and Heat & Stick powder. A real technique based demo if there ever was...

 

So me being me had to remake a set so that the colours actually all co-ordinated! 

And then Julie decided that everyone could make them...and everyone did! What an honour! Think they all liked them  - once some got over their fear of such dark ink on an embossing folder!! And every card was fab....

So here is the set of 5 cards - with some individual photos too...

Unfocused photo above so you can hopefully see how sparkly this one is!

I mainly used the combination of Night & Navy, Smoky Slate and Whisper White - but then I was told that we had gold foil in the training kit - so a quick last minute "goldify" later - and here you have them... though I could not bring myself to put a blue tree on the bottom centre card - so that one went Crumb Cake...

And do check out the glittery Snowflake Elements - they are so gorgeous - whether you use clear Versamark - or Whisper White craft ink - plus Heat & Stick/Dazzling Diamonds - or gold glitter. Think you will be seeing more of those....

This colour combination also defined the colours I used for my swap card (shared yesterday) - as I had to share the Dazzling Diamonds Tile technique too - and that seemed to be the most effective way to get a 6th card using Heat & Stick into everyones' hands

Hearth & Home and Festive Scenes - Looking outside again!

 

Another simple as simple can be... but I have to admit that this is one of the favourite cards I have made... it is simple but stunning in the flesh.... and one that will probably make it to the family annual Christmas card bulk make....

This is a card where I have to thank Stampin' Up! SO MUCH...for finally bringing us Thick Whisper White cardstock... as I can finally revert to my simple on layer(ish) style side ...with a great quality white card in terms of card bases and stamping quality too ... 

Simple stamping of the Happy Scenes image three times across the card...using the fantastic new Archival Basic Black ink pad

Masking off the images below the snow line ( I make a template by just stamping one image on a piece of card and cutting along that snow line!) and sponging using Soft Sky and Lost Lagoon inks.

Adding the snowflakes (open blobs!) using Lost Lagoon ink. Colouring in the snowflakes and snow on the trees with the white Signo gel pen...

Adding glitter on the snowflakes and snow on trees "inside the window image" using the Dazzling Details glue 

Archival Black greeting. (also in Happy Scenes) 

Die cut Hearth & Home window 3D foamed to add depth... 

And all finished off with a Lost Lagoon coloured Snowflake element and an Iced Rhinestone embellishment. My two favourite NEW embellishments for Christmas....

Hope you like this simple card as much as I do!?

Stampin᾿ Up! Supplies

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Happy Scenes Photopolymer Bundle	Happy Scenes Photopolymer Stamp Set	Hearth & Home Thinlits Dies	Snowflake Elements
Iced Rhinestone Embellishments	Whisper White A4 Thick Cardstock	Basic Black Archival Stampin’ Pad	Lost Lagoon Classic Stampin' Pad
Soft Sky Classic Stampin' Pad	White Signo Uni-Ball Gel Pen	Dazzling Details	Stamping Sponges