Faux Patina - Stampin' Up! Bloom with Hope, Wetlands & Lotus Blossom

Welcome to another showcase of Faux Patina created by my wonderful A Crafty Cat team.  This post
begins with the beautiful combination of Always Artichoke and Cherry Cobbler created by Rose Christian.


A Crafty Cat:  Faux Patina with Stampin' Up! Bloom with Hope with Beautifully Baroque Embossing Folder

 Love the colouring...

A Crafty Cat:  Faux Patina with Stampin' Up! Bloom with Hope

Any stamp set can be used to compliment the Faux Patina technique, in this example, Stampin' Up! Wetlands, looks great too...

A Crafty Cat:  Faux Patina with Stampin' Up! Wetlands with Vintage Wallpaper Embossing Folder.

 A card base of Chocolate Chip compliments the colours used in this Faux Patina panel...

A Crafty Cat:  Faux Patina with Stampin' Up! Lotus Blossom with Spring Flowers Embossing Folder

Another creation where Faux Patina is used on a Soft Suede base and complimented with the Staampin' Up! set Wetlands...

A Crafty Cat:  Faux Patina with Stampin' Up! Wetlands with Beautifully Baroque Embossing Folder

Oh the creations are just stunning aren't they.  These are so beautiful and I know the creators were very pleased with them.  Book into a class to learn this technique and many more by going to my Workshops & Classes tab above.

Yours in paper craft,

Faux Patina - Stampin' Up! Lotus Blossom

More more more, faux patina is becoming a favourite technique and those attending A Crafty Cat classes.  This is a beautiful creation ...

A Crafty Cat:  Faux Patina with Stampin' Up! Lotus Blossom

The background of the Faux Patina technique utilised Old Olive on Very Vanilla cardstock, the Vintage Wallpaper was the embossing folder chosen for the texture...

A Crafty Cat:  Faux Patina with Stampin' Up! Lotus Blossom

 The black ribbon compliments the colours purrrfectly...

A Crafty Cat:  Faux Patina with Stampin' Up! Lotus Blossom

 A beautiful card creation...

A Crafty Cat:  Faux Patina with Stampin' Up! Lotus Blossom

Enjoying these posts showcasing the Faux Patina technique? Let me know by leaving a comment.

Yours in paper craft,

Christmas Card 12

Stampin up have many fantastic products and the stamp set Pennant Parade (W125012 / 122742) is one of those.  It is so versatile in that it can be used in banners, flags and of course Christmas Trees.  I made this card last year, to demonstrate when you cannot choose between the punch (Petite Pennants Builder 112361) and stamp set, one should probably purchase the punch first because it can be decorated with anything, in this case Dasher's (retired ) antlers and the tree from Contempo Christmas (retired).  This is a very simple layout but stunning...


The base card stock (also used on the trees) is Lucky Limade, dressed with Confetti Cream spritzed with gold smooch and embossed with Embossing Folder Vintage Wall Paper (120175).  The bottom panel is poppy parade - a lovely contrast to the cream and green I thought.  The wonderful verse is from the Contempo Christmas Stamp Set.  The trees are topped with SU Rhinestones.

 From a different angle so you can see I've set the trees and greeting up on Stampin' Up! Dimensionals...

A Crafty Cat; Stampin' Up! Petite Pennants for Christmas

The trees can be replaced with trees from the Scentsational Season or Ornament Keepsakes Set with corresponding framelit dies, or images from the Delightful Decorations (W121502 / C127787)with the coordinating Ornament Punch (119847) could easily be used and decorated instead of my simple trees.

To date I have now posted 12 cards for Christmas, but wait there are more.  Thanks to Rachael photographing and preparing the many images of cards I have made over the past couple of years, you do get to enjoy and be inspired by more ideas.

Keep posted and I will catch you tomorrow.

Ornament Punch Art

This is a beautiful punch used mainly for Christmas, but I wanted to show you how I've used it for Christmas cards... and a little more.

The photo is not great, late at night is the only chance I get to take photos, but the idea is to show you a 3D example (LHS) of the punch and the punched out image popped onto the card (RHS).  I have used Confetti white, and real red on the LHS, Whisper white and Real red on the RHS example.  I used 121502 Delightful Decorations on both with 121500 Curly Cute and dry embossed the RHS example with 120175 Vintage Wallpaper scuffed with real red.

I do love this punch and coordinating stamp sets, in this case 121502 Delightful Decorations with 116340 Baroque Motifs and 115930 Many Merry Messages in Real Red and Garden Green yes with a little glitter and diamonds

Even when you layer this punched image it simply looks great.  121498 Contempo Christmas, glitter on poppy parade and pear pizzazz highlighting.  I made over 20 of these for people on my Christmas card list.

In reverse colours and diamonds for the Delightful Decorations centres.

So how else you can use it ? - flowers, a vase, tags or even fish (coupled with sections of the 5-petaled flower punch 119880)

There is more you can do with this punch - you can make a magnolia flower, an acorn and use it as a face for an angel or the body of an angel, squirrel or gum nut baby, just to name a few.

I will endeavour to add another sample card of ideas including the angels and any more ideas I have stumbled upon on our SU demonstrator site and everyone's best friend "Google".

Bye for now

Top Note Die - Cards

I wanted to make something a little bit fancy LOL, always a challenge for me.  I follow a blog Stamp with Tam and she had this sketch up from "try stampin on Tuesdays #56,

so I played along as I wanted a few card samples using our fabulous top note die.
This is what I made - nice and simpleManhatton Rose with the rose highlighted by using the SU marker on its side to enable the colour to bleed onto the raised sections of the card.

Then I fancied it up a little...

114517 Manhatton Rose Embossing Folder on confetti white, coloured with a real red marker. Base card is real red to match.

Then I started to play....

I used 119277 Elegant Lines embossing folder on Lucky Limade and Cajuan Craze.  The flower and butterfly are Embosslit Dies from SU 114515 Flower Burst and 118138 Beautiful Wings

 Then I started to surf and found this on Lyn Pratt's blog - how cool is this!

Cream Confetti and one of our current in colours Poppy Parade is the cardstock featured in this card along with the stamp set 124976 (WM) Field Flowers

Then something OLD, (old being old DSP). I made this several months ago, using the Top Note die and scraps of paper.  The flower is a combination of stacking two flowers from 121812 Fun flowers and 115971 Blossom Party.   The brad from our sale-a-bration brad and ribbon pack.

Whisper White, Lucky Limeade, Vintage Wall Paper EF, Fun Flowers Big Shot Die and Blossom Party Big Shot Die, Curly Cute

So you see there is a lot you can do with the top note die card wise, I hope these ideas inspire you to purchase and use this wonderful, versatile die.

Enjoy your craft, hope to see you again soon.