Christmas Card - Stampin' Up! "Festive Flurry" & "Snowflake Soiree" on acrlyic block background

Festive Flurry (WM 131778 / CM131781) and Snowflake Soiree (WM 127922 / CM127925) are gorgeous Stampin' Up! snow flake stamp sets that are purrrfect on an acrylic block background. So purrrfect, I made 25 sets of 4 in less than 2 hrs.

This is one set in Marina Mist and Midnight Muse...


The sets of 4 were all of the same colour - in this case Marina Mist acrylic block background and the images are stamped in Midnight Muse.

This is another set in Pool Party and Costal Cabana - am LOVING that new Stampin' Up! colour!...

This set was stamped in Costal Cabana, the block in Pool Party

To create the background is so easy, simply get your acrylic block or similar, use it as a stamp and ink it on your ink pad, then stamp it on your paper but leave the block on for a second or two so the ink can be absorbed by the paper.  Since this was such a production line, yes some of the block stamping did get a little crooked, adds to the hand stamped theme...

A Crafty Cat: "Festive Flurry" snowflake & the greeting is from Joy to the World (WM 131796 / CM 131799)

If you had the time you could emboss the images, for that touchy feely effect but since I made 100 of these, stamping was the way to go...

A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! Festive Flurry

Snowflake Soiree is a finer snowflake by Stampin' Up!  

Greeting is from the set Greetings of the Season (WM128030/CM128033)

Then I added a little bling with Stampin' Up! Rhinestones on the snowflakes from the set Snowflake Soiree...

A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! Snowflake Soiree

The rhinestones looked great on the snowflakes from the set "festive flurry" as well...

A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! Festive Flurry

And for a closer look at the bling...

 

A very simply created card, yet I enjoyed making them, was very pleased with the outcome and loved giving them away...  I hope you enjoyed your Christmas however you celebrate.

Love

Christmas Card - Stampin' Up! Card Kits 2013

Stampin' Up! have a range of ready made card kits to help you create beautiful cards for your loved ones over the Christmas Holiday period.  Merry Little Christmas Simply Created Card Kit (132158) coupled with Merry Little Christmas WM131826 / CM131829 or Wishing You (WM131748 / CM131751) ensures beautiful cards for Christmas...

Merry Little Christmas WM131826 / CM131829 

I added a scallop circle behind the button for that extra lift to the button, 

A close up of the button and twine...



Wishing You (WM131748 / CM131751) with Greetings of the Season (WM128030 / CM128033)

So if you want to make cards for those dear, these kits are a great easy way to achieve that.  The Merry Little Christmas Simply Created Card Kit (132158) contains 8 x costal cabana base cards, DSP strips, white accent, buttons, baker's twine, envelopes and liners.  

If you want to place an order at your leisure you can either e-mail, phone or SMS your order to me OR you can order online and have your order delivered to your door by clicking HERE.

Enjoy your festive season
Love

Christmas Card 22

Vintage is something a dear customer of mine loves.  I made this card for her - my very first Christmas vintage card, so I hope she likes it.


Marina Mist ink pad dragged with Soft Sued.  Stamp set Ornament Keepsake (W128048 / C128051) & Greetings of the Season (W128030 / C128033), Antique Brad (117273) holding the Crochet Trim - Victoria (118481)

The bauble is on the double embossed background which is mounted on Champaign Glimmer paper which is mounted on Not Quite Navy.  The card is assembles on Marina Mist which I had dragged a linen finish ink pad all over.  The greeting is embossed in Pewter Embossing Powder (124114).

I'm getting a little vintage in to me LOL, I hope you like it too. 

Christmas Card 21

Dry embossing meets powder embossing.  Don't ask me what made me do this but I needed to play with blues, Marina Mist and Not Quite Navy.  My gorgeous little boy wanted to help with this one; Ben embossed the background using an embossing folder(in this case Lacy Brocade) and the big shot.  We / he then versamarked the embossed card, and Ben sprinkled/poured blogs of embossing powder and I shook off the excess and hit it with the heat gun.  This is the result we got after our little play...


The embossing powders I used were gold (109129) and pewter (124114), the embossing folder is Lacy Brocade (126882). The piece is mounted on Champaign glimmer paper.

This gave the most interesting finish, give it a go!  and am loving blues for this Christmas!

One card to go for my Christmas posts - and it is vintage style. 

Christmas Card 17

Card 17 takes me back to the Ornament Keepsake, this bundle is a great deal and will not be offered once the catalogue comes to an end.  This card is again simple in layout, and looks great in the flesh.  Now seeing it photographed, I cannot help wonder what it would have looked like with Red or Silver glimmer paper layered between the embossed Whisper White and Real Red base card....


Greeting is from Greetings of the Season (W128030 / C128033)

Real Red is truly stunning when coupled with a Whisper White, so love this card.



We are nearing the end of the card examples and  ideas. Keep posted to see the last few, catch you at the next post for another Christmas card idea.

Thanks for stopping by,
Love

Christmas Card 16

I love Stampin' Up! Greeting of the Season, especially the font for the Merry Christmas.  Card 16 is a play with punches - Merry Minis (126882) what a cute set, and the postage stamp punch coupled with the 1" square punch and that beautifully scripted Merry Christmas - very simple but effective I think...


A Crafty Cat; Stampin' Up! Daffodil Delight coupled with Garden Green and Whisper White, highlighted with Silver glimmer paper and the greeting is from the ever favourite Greetings of the Season (W128030 / C128033)

A short post for something a little different, hope you like it.

Love

Christmas Card 13

I love this idea of the folded Christmas Tree card.  I saw this on the SU Demonstrator site and had to learn how to fold this awesome Christmas tree so click here or here to find out how.  The tree is simply zig zag folding of half of a circle.  Double sided DSP gives the stunning effect shown below.  You can, although, stamp a piece of card on both sides if you wanted the same colour all the way through...hmmm will have to try that!


Garden Green is the base card with Very Vanilla embossed with Perfect Polka Dot (117335) as the background for the SU DSP tree and Cherry Cobbler seam binding.  The greeting is from Joyous Celebrations (W128066 / C128069) stamp set.

Above is my first attempt with the tree and the layout is cased, and then I got to playing...Big Tree - no scallops


Garden Green is the base card with Very Vanilla embossed with Perfect Polka Dot (117335) as the background for the SU DSP tree.  The greeting is from Greetings of the Season (W128030 / C128033) and stamped in Cherry Cobbler.

Back to little tree with scallops...


Cherry Cobbler is the base card with Very Vanilla embossed with Fancy Fan (127751) as the background for the SU DSP tree and Pear Pizzaz (retired) seam binding.  The greeting is from (W128030 / C128033) and stamped in Cherry Cobbler.
Cherry Cobbler twine ties the Vintage Faceted Designer Buttons on the Seam binding.

I enjoyed folding these trees, I hope you give it a go and enjoy making them too.

Love and holiday cheer,

Christmas Cards 7

To me, an Australian Christmas begs an earthy touch, with colours of Naturals Ivory (108630), Crumb Cake, Lucky Limade, Choc Chip, Very Vanilla and Cherry Cobbler.  I love the Scentsational Season Bundle (W129945 / C129940) featured in the 2012 Holiday Catalogue, not only for Christmas but for get well, etc.  I found this versatile layout and loved it so much I had to share it with you...hope you like it too.


The greeting is from Snow Swirled (W115868 / C127799) stamped in Cherry Cobbler and the edgelit used was Finishing Touches (127010) with Pearl accents.

Different colours, different textures, same principle just a slightly different layout...


I changed the Lucky Limade for Garden Green and used Crumb Cake Seam Binding (122332) folded in half.  The Greeting is again from Greetings of the Season (W128030 / C128033) stamped in Choc Chip and the edgelit used was Finishing Touches (127010) with Rhinestone accents.

The trees were first cut out using the Framelits Die from the Scentsational Season Bundle (W129945 / C129940) and then embossed with various embossing folders including Woodgrain (127821), Perfect Polka Dots (117335), Fancy Fan (127751) and Lacy Brocade (127819)

It was a nice change to make earthy coloured cards and Rach's photography has captured the beauty of each. I enjoyed making these. I hope you like the change too. 

Love & happy Christmas creations

Christmas Card 6

Simple but stunning for mass production is the challenge I set for myself ;  since I have not used the ornament keepsake bundle (W129949 / C129950) as yet, I thought today would be a good day to put ink on the rubber.  The Delicate Designs (127023) embossing folder is new p188 of the 2012/13 Annual Catalogue and coupled with Whisper White, and a cased layout, this is Card 6.  The greeting is from the Greetings of the Season (W128030 / C128033) a wonderful  stamp set of four greetings, and a must if you are a card maker or scrapbooker.


A Crafty Cat; Stampin' Up! Ornament Keepsake Christmas card 2012

Pacific Point with Gumball Green and the greeting in Real Red on Whisper White.

A Crafty Cat; Stampin' Up! Ornament Keepsake Christmas card 2012

Real Red with Tempting Turquoise on Whisper White.


A Crafty Cat; Stampin' Up! Ornament Keepsake Christmas card 2012

 Tempting Turquoise with Summer Starfruit and Real Red on Whisper White.


A Crafty Cat; Stampin' Up! Ornament Keepsake Christmas card 2012

 And just to show you the versatility of the layout, here I've used Stampin' Up! Scentsational Season with coordinating thinlit dies...


A Crafty Cat; Stampin' Up! Scentsational Season Christmas card 2012

These cards are so simple, easy and quick to make, don't be surprised if you see one of these in your letter box if you are on my Christmas card list.

Happy stamping...

Love

Christmas Card 4

The Holiday catalogue is awesome and jammed packed with lovely tools and products for cardmaking.  Today I thought a bit of technique should be used and I found this lovely card using (yet again) a new product from the 2012 Holiday Catalogue, the Woodgrain Embossing Folder (127821). The card base is Very Vanilla (106550), and the edges of the door front is sponged with Choc Chip ink.  The wreath is made from the leaf of the Bird Builder (117191) punch, and Boho Blossoms flower punch (119858) highlighted with SU Rinestones.  The greeting is stamped in Cherry Cobbler and is from the stamp set Greetings of the Season (W128030 / C128033) ... it really is a must.

I love this card and again this was cased from the SU Demonstrators site.

A tip, when using this embossing folder it may cut your paper, if this is the case with your machine, reduce the thickness of your layering/shimming/sandwhich.  I find it works best with no tabs.

Had to show you a close up of the wreath and ribbon...Thanks Rach for the great photography.

I've never placed a wreath on our front door so not too sure if I've placed it anywhere near where it should be...I'll be checking out wreaths when we travel around to look at Christmas lights LOL.

 

Keep on creating for Christmas...

Christmas Card 3

Hello crafty cats, you had better get a cup/glass of your favourite drink, this is a large/long post.

The new/2012 Holiday Catalogue (old mini) has a number of fantastic new items, one of those being this gorgeous Embossing Folder - Holiday Frame (127820).  It is so simple, quick, versatile and effective to use.

 I hope you enjoy these samples, highlighted with glimmer paper - silver (124005) or red (121790), SU Cord - Sweater Trim, available in Cherry Cobbler (129938), Gumball Green (127838) and Whisper White (129937) and the fabulous stamp sets of Joyous Celebrations (W128066 / C128069) and Greetings of the Season (W128030 / C128033).


Garden Green, Cherry Cobbler and Whisper White are the colours used here and I had to use SU's Iridescent Ice 101930 (much like Dazzling Diamonds in embossing powder - now there is a winner) over the embossing.

Cherry Cobbler, Gumball Green, Garden Green and Whisper White with more iridescent ice (101930) embossing powder.

 
A close up so you can see the fine particles of the iridescent ice embossing powder.  Just purrrfect...


Love this new Sweater Trim and can you see the iridescent ice - one of my favourite products.

Moving to some not so traditional colours but beautiful all the same, Blue and White...

The snow flake and greeting is from the Snow Swirled stamp set (W115868 / C127799).  I love blue, Marina Mist is the blue on this card coupled with Whisper White and the Silver Shimmer card stars.

A change of colour and technique.  This one I cut out the embossed image and wiped over the raised sections with Wild Wisabi.  The centre piece is from Every Little Bit (W121506 / C120558) a cute little set, punched out with the XL oval punch (119859), and the perimeter sponged.

Wild Wasabi...nice

LOL a big change of colour! Daffodil Delight on More Mustard...The centre piece is from Every Little Bit (W121506 / C120558) as above, punched out with the XL Oval punch (119859), and the perimeter sponged.



I embossed this with iridescent ice again - you can just see it above the bow, made from SU's new 1/4" (6.4mm) Stitched Grosgrain Ribbon

 SU released a new paper, (2012 Holiday Catalogue) Core'dinations Card Stock in Cherry Cobbler (127846), Early Expresso (127848) and Gumball Green (127847).  It is unique in that when you sand it, a monochromatic colour is revealed. One side of the card stock is smooth, the other textured as seen below.  Another product in the Holiday Catalogue is the Illuminate Glimmer Watermark Stampin Pad (126857).  A subtle shimmer of silver can be added to your project, though you do have to pick your card colour as it is not as stunning on all colours of card stock.

I love this Core'rdinates paper...

 More new stuff, Woodgrain (127821) embossing folder, another must from the Holiday Catalogue.

No guesses to  how I've made this card - but I wiped the embossing with Daffodil Delight and then Illuminate Glimmer Pad just to see what it would do...hopefully you can see a shimmer of silver here and there...

Daffodil Delight with Core'dination card stock embossed with the Wood Grain embossing folder.

Last but not least, thought I'd better get festive and traditional with REAL RED... The centre is again a stamp from Every Little Bit (W121506 / C120558) , punched out with the XL oval punch (119859), and the perimeter sponged...love that Sweater Trim.


Yes went back to more Iridescent Ice embossing...and you can see the glitter which is almost glossy
 

And the last, another Real Red combination...

This time I rubbed the Real Red ink pad over the embossing, love that cord...

What a mammoth post.  I hope this inspires you to purchase this fantastic embossing folder or if you already have it, get it out and use it!  It is so easy to create gorgeous cards with it.



Thanks for stopping by, and please watch for the next post, and enjoy your card making this wonderful festive season.

Christmas Card 1

It is Christmas time and that means an opportunity to make some cards for dear friends.  I've been surfing the net and combing through the SU Demonstrator website for inspiration.  I found many.

So this is my first of 24 to show you, using the Snow Flurry die (127813) and our beautiful new Embossing Folder Lacy Brocade (127819) Highlighting the stamp set Greetings of the Season (W128030 / C128033) a must for any card maker or scrapbooking person.



The card is made using whisper white and Marina Mist with Real Red Ink and a rhinestone to set it all off.

On this card - same format as above, but I used SU's (124005) silver glimmer paper on the snow flake.  Love it.  I used a (127555) Vintage Faceted Designer Button to set this snow flake off.

This card layout was cased from the SU Demonstrator web site and I must say I've seen it redone in reds, greens and Midnight muse - looks fantastic.  

Happy Christmas card making