Tuesday Trio - Geraniums....

So as I was kitting out the Welcoming Window Class in the Mail... I thought I should add a simple but fun fold card to the pack... just to say Thank You...

But time was of the essence... so a simple easel card with geraniums fit the bill... and so making a nice little trio of geranium cards for you...

Love how the planter makes the perfect "stop" and greeting label for the card... with those flowers strategically placed below the window...

Bricks stamped repeatedly in Sahara Sand using the brick stamp in the set... and then Sahara Sand ink brush blended (or sponged) over the top...

Missed out on the first round of the Welcoming Window Class in the Mail kit... 

Well never fear... second round requested and now on for the product bundle with the 10 card free class kit in the UK ... Close date 23rd March... though actually the card kits can be with you within 5 days (on a first come first served basis... as I prepped a few more as I was doing the first round)

Live elsewhere or already have your own Welcoming Windows.... you can just buy all the tutorials for not 8... not even 10.. or 14... but actually 15 cards... in a whopping 19 pages of step by step photo tutorials in PDF format...

PS this Simple Easel card is not included in the Tutorials... But just score a LANDSCAPE 21 x 10.5cm piece of card at 5.25 and 10.5cm (or for US Letter.. trim & score a LANDSCAPE 8 1/2" x 4 1/4" piece of card at 2 1/8" & 4 1/4") and mountain bone fold both score lines

Terracotta Pots and Geraniums...

 

I just found another Welcoming Window card that I missed at the time.... check out the simple stamping of greenery for the small pot on the left hand side...

Again another card that takes me back to many a holiday in sunny France... with geraniums in terracotta pots around barns....

Though I had a play with the colours used for the terracotta pots... and decided I like Calypso Coral (large pot) and Terracotta Tile (small pot) the best...

But I also tried Cajun Craze and Cinnamon Cider...

Keeping it simple on white- Welcoming Window #11

This Welcoming Window aperture card... But in reverse!

So Crumb Cake "wood" window and shutters on white walls...

Still loving my Welcoming Window bundle... 

Don't forget that you can make these "with me" too... whether its a class in the mail (UK only) or the Tutorials in pdf format... click here for more information...

The World outside Welcoming Window #10

Had to have a Welcoming Window view out onto the world outside... with leaves and flowers at the window... as well as the arrangements in indoor pots on the window shelf...

Complete with wallpaper care of the lovely Sale A Bration Paper Blooms papers... though anyone that knows me will know that I would prefer the white on blue flowery papers!!! But I fancied a change to the colour combination...

Beautiful script Thank You greeting from the free and exclusive Sale A Bration promotional Heal Your Heart stamp set

Don't forget that you can make these "with me" too... whether its a class in the mail (UK only) or the Tutorials in pdf format... click here for more information...

More on Monday - Welcoming Windows #3

Another day... another Welcoming Windows variant...

An embossed brick wall panel...

Blinds at the window... care of the Sale A Bration free Paper Blooms papers

And a simple double flower bloom in a black planter to match the shutter hinges...

Don't forget that you can make these "with me" too... whether its a class in the mail (UK only) or the Tutorials in pdf format... click here for more information...

Simple Sunday - Welcoming Windows #2

A simple bit of Welcoming Windows perfection (to my eye) today! 

Standard A6 card blank... with a different floral display to that shared yesterday... 

And I can tell you a bit more about the UK Class in the Mail kit today... closing date 15th February

10 card prepped class kit sent by post with step by step Photo-Tutorials PDF... 

Free with any purchase (entering the Host Code JXF3XJNR) of the Welcoming Window bundle £51.70 (£46.75 plus £4.95 P&P) whether you order on line with direct delivery to you or via yours truly... 

Or otherwise free with any alternative product order of £46.75 plus P&P... 

But be sure to email me and confirm that want the Tutorials instead of the usual gift... or order £75+ and get the Tutorials and the gift...

Alternatively you can just have a class kit for £15...

And for those of you not in the UK... or already in possession of Welcoming Windows... then the PDF Photo-Tutorials will be available for just £4 (c. $5.50 USD)... Buy Now link here...

Simple Saturday - Welcoming Windows #1

A new series for you... with the new Welcoming Windows bundle... 

Starting off clean & simple with a small square aperture card design... then expanding the design as we go...

This is my favourite product in the new Jan to June Mini Catalogue... so I may just use this for a while...

Love it too? Live in the UK? Then I am delighted to offer you a Class in the Mail... closing date 15 February so you can be in plenty of time for those extra free Sale A Bration gift(s) too...

More Class in the Mail details coming tomorrow.. as I just want to focus on a project today... 

Though in the meantime... you can register your interest by clicking here... or just order the bundle ahead of time...

But in brief... 10 card prepped class kit sent by post with emailed PDF step by step Photo-Tutorials ... 

Free with any purchase of the Welcoming Window bundle £51.70 (£46.75 plus £4.95 P&P) whether you order on line with direct delivery to you or via yours truly... 

Or otherwise free with any alternative product order of £46.75 plus P&P... 

Alternatively you can just have a class kit for £15... Buy Now link here

And for those of you not in the UK... or already in possession of Welcoming Windows... then the PDF Photo-Tutorials will be available for just £4 (c $5.50 USD)... Buy Now link here...

Oh and FYI... basic spectrum of ink colours used.... Sahara Sand for bricks, Basic Grey for pots, Garden Green for leaves, Seaside Spray and Misty Moonlight for flowers... Alternatively Magenta Madness & Highland Heather for flowers... or Poppy Parade for (geranium) flowers ... or any floral colours that grab your fancy..

Retail Therapy anyone? Best Dressed Bench Fold Shop Window Card

Love these new girlie Best Dressed papers, Dressed to Impress stamp set and the whole Best Dressed Suite... not like anything that I have had before!

And love the new Bench Fold Card design that they inspired... call this one the Shop Window!

Been wanting to make a window for a while! And these images just gave me the perfect excuse... I can see a few variants of these over the months and years ahead!

And yes it does fold up flat to go in an envelope... though I think I will have to pop this one in an extra large square one to fit the canopy in...

Want the know how? Click HERE to order the tutorial...

Only been three years since the first series!

And I wonder where that list I wrote 3 years ago is... of nearly 100 different projects for my Bench Fold design! And I have to admit that I have thought of more to add recently!

Happy Home - Pop Out Swing Card

Clean & simple standard sized Pop Out Swing Card for you today .... featuring a simple framed Hearth & Home window scene ... 

Sky and grass care of Timeless Textures...and sea care of my trusty Aqua Painter... and of course sea and clouds Wink of Stella'd to finish ...  

Happy Home - Triple Scene in a Triple Window...

 

I think a lot of you will have known this one was coming.... this was one of my most pinned Hearth & Home projects back in September. So much so I had re-made a Christmas version... but I have now just realised that very strangely I never blogged that one! So I will make up for that at the end of this blog post....

So a Spring Summer version of a triple scene through 3 windows on a standard DL sized card...

The windows are 3 separate die cut white windows each decorated with a snipped out Sahara Sand frame (from a Sahara Sand die cut window) Left and right are stuck on flat and the centre one is 3D foam padded over the top....

Masks for above and below the horizon created... To make a mask - I stamp each of the scenes onto small pieces of card and simply cut along the middle of the horizon lines to create the 2 parts... And a little extra tip for you... I usually label the lower (grass) part as which is which is not always obvious when you come to use them...

Sky sponged with Soft Sky & Lost Lagoon... and grass sponged with Pear Pizzazz & Mossy Meadow.

Cherry Blossom tree coloured in using dabbing motion of Pink Pirouette marker pen (lots of times!) and clouds coloured in with white Signo gel pen

And here is the Christmas version I made using the Happy Scenes stamps that are now sadly retired....

Still can't work out why this did not get shared pre Christmas... sorry about that... but better late than never...

Don't know if you can see but the tree in the middle is very heavily snow laden care of Tombow & Dazzling Diamonds glitter...loved that effect...

Special New Home Congratulations Card

A break from Christmas makes again today...

Though you may think this seems familiar...

A very special friend of mine moved house recently... so it was time for a special card...

And this format sprang to mind - for which the tutorial is posted here... 

Though I had a few extra challenges...
(1) time was not on my side.. I had an hour before we needed to be in the car and on the way to their new house...luckily I had a few strategic makes left over from my Christmas card making!
(2) I don't have any New Home wording stamps...so my brain had to get inventive...
(3) I did plan a long banner going across the whole card...but reason (1) stopped that!

So how did I get round the lack of New Home wording...
(1) the slim wide Congratulations is from Bravo...
(2) the NEW banner is using the Back to Basics alphabet - just punched out with the Banner Punch - simples!
(3) the HOME is from the Homemade for You... I just put a post it note over the MADE and kitchen utensils - inked up - removed the Post It note - and stamped & embossed...

I also used the FOR YOU WITH LOVE from the Homemade for You to dress up the mirror... though I have now spotted that I didn't stamp it centrally spot on in my haste! Aargh....

And a more summery scene behind the windows this time.... Soft Sky sponged sky - and Mossy Meadow & Aquapainter pen for the grass and trees...

Anyway... the card was very well received... I do love the fact that I can make something that brings such happiness to others! I just never own up as to how long it may have taken me!!

And finished off on the front with the larger Wonderful Wondrous wreath this time...

Now I just have to remember in a month or so's time that she is not having the matching Christmas card!!

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