Just For You

A gorgeous card by Judy using the Prima Say It In Studs flower centres ... but as flowers themselves!

Instructions

1. Cut a piece of cream bling cardstock 6"x8" and fold in half to make your card blank.
2. Cut a piece of brown cardstock 2.75"x3.5", and ink the edges with the brown ink pad.
3. Die cut a piece of blue bling cardstock with the scallop rectangle Nestabilities, and a smaller piece of cream bling cardstock with the plain rectangle Nestabilities (so that they "nest" inside each other). Ink the edges of the cream bling rectangle with the brown ink pad.
4. Stick the three "flowers" onto the cream bling rectangle, and then draw the stems and leaves with the brown pen (alternatively if you have an appropriate stamp you could use it!)
5. Stick a piece of thin blue ribbon around the bottom part of the cream bling rectangle. Tie a small bow with another piece of thin blue ribbon, and then stick to the ribbon strip.
6. Glue the cream bling rectangle onto the blue bling scallop rectangle, and then onto the piece of brown cardstock. Stick this to the card blank using 3D Foam Pads
7. Die cut a small rectangle of the cream bling cardstock, and a slightly bigger scallop rectangle of blue bling cardstock using the Nestabilities. Ink the edges of the cream bling rectangle with the brown inkpad.
8. Stamp a greeting onto the cream bling rectangle, and then glue onto the blue bling scallop rectangle.
9. Stick the greeting flat to your card (just tucking it slightly under the brown cardstock)

Ingredients

- "String Of Pearls" Bazzill Bling Cardstock (cream bling cardstock)

- "Sparkle" Bazzill Bling Cardstock (blue bling cardstock)

- "Pinenut" Bazzill Cardstock (brown cardstock)

- Prima Say It In Studs Flower Centres

- Rectangle Nestabilities - Plain and Scallop

- Die Cutting Machine (Big Shot/Cuttlebug etc)

- Thin Blue Ribbon

- "Coffee" Archival Ink Pad (brown ink pad)

- Brown Pen

- 3D Foam Pads

A Rose By Any Other Name

Emma G was itching to get her hands on one of the new Hero Arts Cling stamps ... and used this blog project as an excellent excuse to make a number of these "Thank You" cards ...


Instructions

1. Cut a piece of blue cardstock 3.75"x4.5", and piece of patterned paper from the pad 3.5"x4.25". Stick them together, and then onto your card blank.
2. Stamp the image on both the green and pale yellow cardstocks. Cut the green image out whole, and the square message area of the pale yellow image. Stick these together.
3. For the large flower punch out two big, two medium and one small daisy from a co-ordinating patterned paper from the pad. Layer them together (alternating the petals), and secure them to the stamped images with a brad.
4. Repeat for the small flower, but with just two medium and one small daisy.
5. Stick the stamped images on top of the patterned paper on your card blank, and then 3D the flowers buy pulling them up towards their centres.
6. Colour in the leaves, stem and flower buds with the glitter pens.

Ingredients

- Cream Card Blank

- Cosmo Cricket "Early Bird" Mini Deck 6x6 Paper Pad

- "Light Butter" Bazzill Cardstock (pale yellow cardstock)

- "Reed" Bazzill Cardstock (green cardstock)

- "Aqua" Bazzill Cardstock (blue cardstock)

- Hero Arts "Thank You" Cling Stamp

- Archival Ink "Coffee" Ink Pad

- "Retro Flower" EK Success Whale Of A Punch

- "Retro Flower" EK Success Medium Punch

- "Flower Power" EK Success Small Punch

- Small Copper Brads

- Sakura Stardust Pen 719 (red glitter pen)

- Sakura Stardust Pen 734 (dark jade glitter pen)

Emma G stamped a number of images onto different coloured cardstocks (which co-ordinated with the paper pad), and then mixed and matched them with the patterned papers to make a range of cards. Think outside the box ... if you dont't ink up and stamp the "Thank You" words on the stamp ... you can always replace them with a different greeting!

Tick Tock

Paperartsy have come up with a fab range of new stamps ... and they work brilliantly for men! There is "Clocks" from the Ink & The Dog range, or "Ding & Dong" under the Squiggly Ink banner. Come along to our birthday weekend (21/22 November) if you want to see some fab ideas on how to use them ...

The card below was created by Emma G!

Instructions

1. Cut a piece of brown cardstock 4.5" x 9" to make your card base.
2. Stamp the image onto a piece of cream cardstock using the Versamark ink pad. Cover with gold embossing powder, and then heat until melted. Trim the piece quite close to the design.
3. Using the Cut'n'Dry foam, apply the ink from the Distress ink pads all over your embossed image - blending the colours into each other. The best way to do this is to place your piece of card on your craft sheet, dab the foam into the ink pad, and then starting on your craft sheet, pull the colour onto your piece of cardstock (this stops you from getting and harsh edges from your piece of foam). You can keep going back over and building up the colours until you get a result you like.
4. Layer your stamped piece of cardstock onto the dark brown cardstock (so you just have a tiny border), and then layer at the top of a square piece of gold metallic cardstock (ours is 3.75" x 3.75"). Stick your layered cardstocks to the card base.
5. Colour another piece of cream cardstock with the Cut'n'Dry foam and Distress ink pads as before (about 2"x2"). Stamp your greeting using the coffee Archival Ink pad, and then punch out a circle with the punch.
6. Roll the edges of your circle through your Versamark ink pad, and then dip in the gold embossing powder. Heat with your heat gun.
7. Flatten a bottle cap (the easiest way is in a big shot/cuttlebug OR use a hammer!), and then stick your greeting circle in the middle. Stick the bottle cap to your card.
8. Edge your card base with the gold ink pad for a finishing touch.

Ingredients

- "Espresso" Bazzill Cardstock (brown cardstock for card base)
- "Brown" Bazzill Cardstock (dark brown cardstock)
- "Cream Puff" Bazzill Cardstock (cream cardstock)
- Gold Metallic Carstock
- Bottle Cap
- Green Circle Punch (1")
- Paperartsy "Clocks 1" Stamp Set
- Versamark Ink Pad
- Gold Embossing Powder
- imagine that ... "All Occasions" Stamp Set
- "Coffee" Archival Ink Pad
- Acrylic Blocks
- Heat Gun
- Distress Ink Pads "Tea Dye", "Antique Linen", "Frayed Burlap" & "Brushed Corduroy"
- Cut'n'Dry Foam
- Craft Sheet
- "Galaxy Gold" Brilliance Ink Pad

Autumn Glow

As soon as Emma G saw this gorgeous paper from Basic Grey ... she knew exactly how she was going to use it on a card!

Instructions

1. Cut a piece of dark brown cardstock 4" x 12", and fold in half to make the card blank. With the fold at the top, round the top left and bottom right corners with the corner rounder punch.
2. Cut a piece of sand cardstock 3.25" x 5.25", and a piece of the patterned paper 3" x 5". Round the top left and bottom right corners of each piece.
3. Stick a piece of brown rick rack along one of the stripes on the bottom half of the patterned paper, and then stick the patterned paper to the piece of sand cardstock.
4. Stamp your greeting onto a piece of white cardstock, and trim to size. Stick the greeting onto a piece of sand cardstock, and again trim to size but leave an extra 0.5" to the left of the greeting. Attach the layered greeting to your patterned paper with the brad.
5. Stick the patterned paper/sand cardstock piece to the card blank using black 3D foam pads (I find white 3D foam looks glaringly obvious when using dark colours!).
6. With Glossy Accents glue your buttons in place, and then go over the leaf design on the patterned paper. Leave to dry.

Ingredients

- "Brown" Bazzill Cardstock (dark brown cardstock)

- "Rusted" Bazzill Cardstock (sand cardstock)

- Basic Grey "Indian Summer" Cordovan Patterned Paper (patterned paper)

- Brown Rick Rack Ribbon

- Glossy Accents

- Black 3D Foam Pads

- Corner Rounder Punch

- 8mm Copper Brad

- White Cardstock

- imagine that ... "All Occasions" clear stamp set

- Small Acrylic Block

- "Coffee Bean" Brilliance Ink Pad

- Buttons

Workshop Sample Photos

Due to popular demand (and whilst we're waiting for the new website to go live) here are photos of all the October-December workshops ... (split over a few blog entries!)