Tuesday Tips - with Bokeh Dots...

Following quickly on from yesterday's post with a few added extras and a few Tips as we go along...

Here are a couple more variants of this simple little christmas seasonal card featuring the long term favourite Lovely as a Tree along with the new favourites Bokeh Dots and Itty Bitty Greetings...

And first up... an essential tip for you... make sure you stamp your trees far enough up so that the sky area is completely filled in with the Bokeh Dots stamps... you don't want a white gap at the top!!!

Or at the bottom... Or else you will have to do this...

Though I do rather like the add of a Blueberry Bushel glittery lake!! In fact it will probably get repeated... The subtle glitter on the lake being care of the clear Wink of Stella brush pen... and do check out the textural effect of the starry Bokeh Dots stamp

And here is the same base card but with a punched 3/4" circle mask over a tree before Bokeh Dots stamping ... and finished off with Wink of Stella for the silvery moon as well as on the snowline...

Card Blank = 10.5cm Square ( US Letter 4 1/4") with Black Mat 7.9cm (3 1/8") Square and White panel 3" Square

Merry Monday - Bokeh Dots & Lovely as a Tree

So it has taken me a while to decide on my first christmas season pre-purchases from the lovely new Autumn Winter Catalogue... and I have finally ordered this weekend... so no box has arrived as yet...

But in the meantime I have some new christmassy makes with my lovely new Bokeh Dots stamps for you in any case...

So these may be simple...but effective... and they are what you get when you just mix something OLD (Lovely as a Tree) with something NEW (Bokeh Dots)... a BORROWED card layout design from earlier days... click here to see the full all-year-round range!.. and (last but not least!) with something BLUE (Balmy Blue)...

Greeting from the wonderful workhorse of a greetings stamp set, Itty Bitty Greetings...and snowlines finished off with a subtle but sparkly layer of Wink of Stella glittering... 

Oh christmas cards could be very quick & easy this year!

Dragonfly Dreams - the Stained Glass one...

Following on from Sunday's post... another super CAS (clean & simple) little partial die cut card...

But this time I added colours using the Stained Glass Technique for the dragonfly wings...

Die cut a detailed cardstock and a solid Vellum dragonfly... scribble your marker pens on the vellum one as you desire...

 And then cover with the detailed one... 

Simple but stunning effect... especially when you hold up to a light source.... 

And the dragonfly is finished off with a stamped body part...

And here is a photo of the simple little dragonfly partial die cut duo....

CAS Butterfly Basics

Keeping it simple for a Beginners Class I taught the other week... using Butterfly Basics stamps and Bold Butterfly dies...

Background care of a baby wipe picking ink off the Pool Party ink pad lid and swooshing across Whisper White card... Mint Macaron leaves, Sahara Sand honeycomb, Tip Top Taupe postmark on both cards. 

Rich Razzleberry wording and top small butterfly, Sweet Sugarplum small butterfly and die cut white butterfly aquapainted with Sweet Sugarplum & Rich Razzleberry on the right...

Pool Party dashed border, Tip Top Taupe greeting and diecut white butterfly on the right hand side card.

And as my display of the set of cards was SO popular... we will be making these (amongst others) again this Wednesday... couple of spaces left.... but if you let me know today so I can prep...

Balloon Celebrations Bermuda & Plum Trio no 2

A quick card to show off Balloon Celebrations - and part of the new Sale A Bration promotional stamp set, Party Pants... which can be yours for free with a £45 Stampin' Up! order! A really lovely little set with great greetings - for on your balloons  - or not!

All finished off with a few Bermuda Bay sequins off the roll... Simple but oh so effective!

Happy Home - Double Scene in a Double Window card

Been working with the Hearth & Home dies again with the Happy Home stamps...

Doubled up Happy Home scene... masks created for above and below the scene... grass and sky sponged and white gel pen blossom this time...

Simple little double window as this earlier card here...

Covering the joins with a simple heart and planter of flowers this time... 

I did try off-setting my cut plates/die to get a double window without a join... it did work but with a wider centre window frame... I prefer this version...and it is SO much easier to create!

Keeping Valentines Day simple

Can't get much more CAS than this... which is really all you need with a heart as beautiful as this...

But this is such a WOW in the flesh...

Red Glimmer heart cut from the centre of the red glimmer mat... look no waste again!

Banner from Number of Years/ Large Numbers dies...

Greeting from Teeny Tiny Sentiments... still one of my favourite greeting sets (until a Humongously Huge Sentiments set comes along!!!! Note... VERY wishful thinking on my part here!!!!! )

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