The new Vintage Tray joins classic sparkly snowflakes and a new snowman for a winter mix of something old, something new and something blue.  Hi, Jean here with another idea featuring the versatile Vintage Tray and 3D Embossing Folder and Die set that's quickly become a favorite.  

There are so many ways to use this great folder and die set.  Save the 5 rectangle offcuts - they're great for layering.  Diecut a stencil too -  it's perfect for contemporary and abstract designs.

Spritz both sides of heavy white cardstock with a light mist of water.  Emboss it with the Vintage Tray 3D Embossing folder.  Trim it slightly smaller than an A2 card.

Cut aqua cardstock with the tray die from the set

Cut Layered Friendly Snowman from heavy white cardtock.  Attach a scrap of black cardstock behind his eyes.  Sponge or brush the pieces with Distress Oxides.  Colors used here are salvaged patina, festive berries, frayed burlap and ripe persimmon.  

Here's a tip...add a little dimension for shaded diecuts using just a single color.  Ink the layering pieces with Festive Berries or Iced Spruce, dry the ink, then darken the background diecut with another layer of ink for color-matched shady contrast.

Cut the solid Merry Christmas Jolly Script background from red cardstock.  Cut the delicate top outline from heavy white cardstock - save the little pieces to attach inside the letters e and a. Assemble the greeting.

Cut Feathery Snowflake Discs from the blue Delicate Pastels Glitter Pad 6x6 sheet - we're using just the delicate inner diecut here, save the outer circles for another project.  Cut two of the smallest snowflake.

Another tip...easily remove delicate snowflakes by gently wiggling the outer edges of the circles away from the snowflakes instead of trying to pull the snowflakes out.

Attach everything to a side-folded white A2 card.  Add orange Bright Jewels for the snowman's buttons. Cut an A2-sized piece of cardstock to protect the card front for mailing.

I've linked the featured items below - we're working on the Layered Friendly Snowman link.  It's #94746, from your favorite retailer.

Thanks for visiting...have fun creating cards this weekend!

 

 

94681 Feathery Snowflake Discs

94748 Merry Christmas Jolly Script

ef1040 Vintage Tray 3D Embossing Folder and Die

jwl003 Bright Jewels

GP1001

Hello everyone!  Today's card features more new products from the 2023 Christmas release.

I love the Vintage Tray Die and Embossing Folder set.  There's so many ways you could use this die and today I chose to fill the openings with different die cuts.  The good thing with this new release is that there are so many choices.

I began by embossing 2 pieces of white cardstock with the 3D embossing folder from the Vintage Tray Set.  Next, I die cut the frame from one of the embossed pieces and inked all the pieces with Vintage Photo Distress Ink.  I adhered the pieces onto the other embossed piece of cardstock to create the background for my card.

I die cut the frame die 4 times from black cardstock, stacked and glued them together for some dimension.  I glued the frame onto the prepared background.

All the die cut elements were cut from colored cardstock and inked with Distress Inks.  The Chickadee body was die cut from white cardstock and inked with Vintage Photo Distress Ink.  The other parts of the chickadee were cut from colored cardstock and glued in place.

I glued all the die cuts in place in the frame openings.

I stamped the sentiment in black ink on a strip of white cardstock.  I lightly inked the edges with Vintage Photo Ink and glued it under the word "Joy".

To finish the card I added some red fairy crystals for berries on the pine branches.

That's it for today's card!  Thanks for stopping by.

 

 

Supplies

 

CRY102 Christmas Fairy Crystals

94741 Nested Chickadee Duo Die

94751 Layered Evergreen Trees Die

94756 Small Poinsettia Layers Die

94757 Pine Needle Sprigs Die

94759 Brilliant Joy Die

EF1040 Vintage Tray 3D Embossing Folder and Die Set

CL5285  Shinning Star Clear Stamp Set

Hello everyone.  I’m so excited for the current 2023 Christmas release!  So many beautiful products and I can’t wait to work my way through it!  My simple Christmas card today features dies Nestled Chickadee Duo, Vintage Lantern, and Classic Pine Needle Sprigs along with the Shining Star stamp set for the sentiment.

 

All black pieces were die cut from grey cardstock and ink blended/shaded with Black Soot distress ink (DI) to give them dimension.  The pine needles were die cut from light green cardstock and shading added with Rustic Wilderness DI.  The rest of the pieces were die cut from white.  

For the glow of the light, traced the lantern with a pencil onto a white scrap, fussy cut it out then ink blended it with Antique Linen and Brushed Corduroy DI.  Antique Linen DI was also applied to the chickadees’ white bodies.   Having their eyes white didn’t look right, so filled in their eyes with a black Polychromos pencil.  The sentiment was heat embossed on white cardstock with gold embossing powder.  Assembled the card onto white woodgrain paper then mounted it onto a white card base  to finish.

That does it for my card.  Thank you for joining me today.  Have a wonderful day.

 

Supplies:

94741   Nestled Chickadee Duo 

94743   Vintage Lantern 

94757   Classic Pine Needle Sprigs

CL5285   Shining Star 

SH44001   White Woodgrain Paper

 

Colorful berries and evergreens from the New Poinsettia Floral Rub On Transfers fit perfectly into the Vintage Tray compartments for a simple holiday collage.  Add a gold-embossed Foil Greeting Tab - and your card is ready to go!  Hi, Jean here with a versatile design template for any season, occasion or holiday.

Cut green and smooth heavy white cardstock with the die from the Vintage Tray 3D Embossing Folder and Die Set.  Glue the layers together for dimension.  Attach them to a top-folded white A2 card.  Save the green offcuts for another project.  

 

Attach the Poinsettia Floral Rub On Transfers to the white offcuts.  The transfer set includes a wood craft stick to burnish the designs.  It's also easy to burnish the transfer with a diecutting machine. Just trim the design with the plastic and paper liners (leave a generous border), carefully remove the paper liner and lay the transfer on the cardstock.  Place it between 2 sheets of printer paper and roll it through the machine with the plates and/or base layer used for diecutting.  Carefully remove the plaster liner.

Fill the tray with the rub-ons. 

Pick your favorite typestyle greeting from the new Merry Christmas Foil Greeting Rose Tabs and add it to the collage.  The embossed, precut Greeting Tabs are a real time-saver!  10 each of 4 typestyles  - perfect for last-minute cards as December 25th approaches.

Attach sparkly red Bright Jewels.  

We'll add product links as soon as they're available.  Here's the Christmas 2023 Collection product info:

    ST002  Merry Christmas Foil Greetings Rose Tabs

    RUB102  Poinsettia Floral Rub On Transfers

    EF1040  Vintage Tray 3D Embossing Folder and Cutting Die

View the catalog here.

Thanks for visiting...see you again on Friday!

 

 

Supplies

 

jwl003

Hi everyone. I have another holiday card featuring the Bundled Bird layered die set.

 

Bird:

Die cut the bird from heavy weight cream card stock.  Ink blend the different layers with Vintage Photo, Walnut Stain and Ground Espresso Distress ink.  Use Ripe Persimmon for the beak.  Follow the image on the packaging for ink blending and adhering the bird layers together.  I did add some foam tape under the tops of the wings. Die cut the hat and scarf from red and white stock. Ink blend the bottom die cut for the fur with Fresh Ink Silicone Blue.  Ink blend the bottom sections of the hat and scarf with  Lumberjack Plaid Distress ink.  Adhere together using the packaging as a guide.

Nest:

Die cut the nest from heavy weight cream card stock.  Ink blend the different layers with Antique Linen, Frayed Burlap, and Walnut Stain Distress Oxide ink. Follow the image on the packaging for ink blending and adhering the bird layers together.  tip do NOT glue the front part of the nest so you can tuck in the bird when assembling.

Branch:

Die cut the Forest Pine Branch from the same cream card stock. Ink blend the pine needles with Rustic Wilderness Distress ink.  Use a dark brown watercolor marker to color in the branch. I did die cut another branch from dark brown card stock and adhered it to the back.  

Sentiment:

Die cut Best Wishes Tender Script bottom from red card stock and the top with red.  Ink blend the the bottom die cut with Lumberjack Plaid Distress ink.  Adhere the 2 together.  White heat emboss "warm" from warm wishes stamp from the Shining Star stamp set on red card stock ink blend with Lumberjack Plaid Distress ink.  Fussy cut out the sentiment.

Assembly:

Trim down a light red/pink paper from the Poinsettia Plaid paper pad to 4" x 5 1/4".  Adhere to a A2 white card.  Adhere the sentiment to the bottom center, then the branch, nest and bird, inserting into the nest.  

 

Supplies

94760 Bundled Bird

94740 Bird's Nest

CL5285 Shining Star Clear Stamp set

PP1023 Poinsettia Plaid

94670 Best Wishes Tender Script

94481 Forest Pine Branch

I'm back today with another fall card using products from the newest collection, 2023 Christmas.  This time I used a lot of plaid (surprised?!)  from the Poinsettia Plaid paper pad as well as one of the leafy prints from the Poinsettia Garland paper pad.

to make this card

• cover the front of a white note card with one of the plaid papers from POINSETTIA PLAID PP1023
• cut a smaller rectangle using one of the leafy prints from the POINSETTIA GARLAND PP1024 paper pad
• add that rectangle to a scrap of white card stock and trim so there is a narrow white border around the print paper
• die cut the BUNDLED BIRD 94760--without its accessories--from two different but complementary plaids from POINSETTIA PLAID PP1023 
• assemble the two birds mixing the plaids a bit and add tiny black jewels for the eyes from AUTUMN FAIRY JEWELS JWL004

• use dimensional foam of different thicknesses to add the birds to the panel with one bird raised up on top of the other

• die cut the LEAF BUNCHES 94745 from a brown plaid and tuck them under the birds

...and that's it!  A cute card that you can send anytime to a friend for any occasion!

Happy Fall!  and Happy Crafting!

This Fallen Leaves card uses some of my favorite things from the newest Memory Box 2023 Christmas collection.  Even though this is primarily a winter/holiday release, I'm just getting into fall mode on this first day of autumn.  Fallen Leaves uses paper from the two new paper pads as well as gold mirror card stock.

to make this card

• cover the front of a white note card with one of the embossed metallic papers from POINSETTIA GARLAND PP1024 6X6 PAPER PAD
• die cut the WINTER TREE ARCH 94735 from Gold mirror card stock from the VINTAGE PASTEL MIRROR PAD 6X6 FP1002
• add the Winter Tree Arch to the front of the note card so that the tips of the branches are near the top

• die cut the smallest rectangle from A2 RECTANGLE FRAMES DIE SET 94672 from a scrap of the gold mirror card stock

• die cut the GYPSY OAK LEAVES 94744 from one of the brown plaids in the POINSETTIA PLAID 6X6 PP1023 PAPER PAD

• assemble the leaves by gluing the outline on top of the solid leaves and use dimensional foam to add those to the gold rectangle
• place the gold rectangle with its leaves on top of the base of the Winter Tree Arch

It's hard to show in a photograph how stunning this is with all of the metallic shimmer from all three of the papers I used.  

Happy Fall!

 

The Memory Box Christmas 2023 Collection has something for everyone.  Select from winter florals, birds, great typestyle greetings, 6x6's, snowflakes, evergreens and a friendly snowman.  Cute, sweet, elegant, traditional and contemporary!  Hi, Jean here with a winter pastels design today.

Cut a bright pink Vintage Pastel Mirror Pad 6x6 with the 2-¼" x 3-½" A2 Rectangle Frames die.  Spritz it with a light mist of water. Place it in the bottom right corner of the new Vintage Tray 3D Embossing Folder and lightly tape it in place along the left and right edges.  Emboss it with the plate(s) required for your machine.

Trim the 2 poinsettias from the new Perfect Poinsettias Rub On Transfers - include a generous margin around the designs.  Carefully remove the designs from the paper backing and attach them to smooth white cardstock.  Cut them with the dies included in the Perfect Poinsettias 3D Embossing Folder and Cutting Dies set.  The diecutting pressure will burnish them smoothly onto the cardstock.

Or - use the wood craft stick included in the set to carefully burnish the design onto the cardstock.

Remove the plastic layer.  Place the diecut designs in the embossing folder and emboss them.

Glue two layers of white cardstock together and diecut the new Brilliant Joy background.  Pressure-emboss it with the detailed overlay die using the rubber embossing mat and plate(s) required for your machine.  Cut the overlay from a green Graceful Garden Glitter Pad 6x6.  Attach the glittered greeting to the background.  You'll have a bonus glittered greeting for another project too!

Cut white cardstock with the 2-½" x 3-¾" A2 Rectangle Frames die for a background layer.  The A2 Rectangle Frames set is perfectly sized for both A2 and A6 cards...no measuring or guessing required!

Attach the diecuts to a white A6 card (4-½" x 6-¼") - use foamtape for the greeting.  Add green Bright Fairy Jewels.

New item product links will be added as soon as they're available.  Here are the item numbers:

     RUB    102         Poinsettia Floral Rub On Transfers

     94759               Brilliant Joy

     EF 1037             Perfect Poinsettias 3D Embossing Folder and Cutting Dies

     EF 1040            Vintage Tray 3D Embossing Folder and Cutting Die

View the catalog here.  

View the Idea Book here.  

There are so many great designs in the Christmas 2023 Collection - it's hard to pick a favorite!  Thanks for visiting - see you next week!

   

        

 

 

 

 

Supplies

 

94672

gp1002 Graceful Garden Glitter Pad

fp1002 Vintage Pastel Mirror Pad

jwl003 Bright Jewels

Good morning everyone!  I am so excited for the new 2023 Memory Box Christmas Release!

There are so many beautiful products in this release, that it was hard to pick which ones to use first.  I love the new Sentiment Strips!  It's so  handy to have these on hand when you need a quick card.

The first thing I did was to add Distress Ink to white cardstock to create green paper to die cut the "Layered Evergreen Trees".

I glued the lighter green die cut on top of the darker tree die cut.

Next, I die cut the "Aurora Snowflake" from white cardstock and glued the detail snowflake on top of the shadow snowflake die cut.  

On a white cardstock panel, I applied Candied Apple Distress Ink in the center of the cardstock and feathered the color out towards the edge of the paper.  I spattered the background with plain water to add some texture to the inked background.

I glued the white snowflake to the center of the background and glued the trees on top of that.  Next, I spattered the background with white ink.

I glued the panel to a green cardstock mat and adhered it to a white card base.

To finish the card I added the sentiment strip across the bottom of the trees and added a red jewel to the top of the tree.

 

 

I hope you enjoyed this card and please check out the rest of the new products!

Supplies:

94751 Layered Evergreen Trees

94753 Aurora Snowflake

ST002 Merry Christmas Foil Greetings Rose Tabs

 

 

 

Hello and welcome, it's Angie here today with a fun Christmas card using some of the beautiful newly released dies from the latest release!   You have to check out this release, it's big and has so many beautiful things, including some new already foiled sentiments, new papers, 3D embossing folders and so much more.

For my card today I used the Vintage Tray 3D embossing folder and coordinating die set.  I only used the embossing folder and not the die.  But it's very cool and it cuts out each shape of the woodgrain sections plus the outside frame that also has lots of pretty detail.  I added the embossed panel to a white card base and then started cutting my pieces from white card stock.  I actually cut everything from white and colored them with alcohol markers.  Only the bottom of the birds was colored differently, with ink blending.

First I cut the Classic Pine Needle Springs die and colored them with a dark green.  Next I cut the Woodgrain Bird House, colored all the pieces and glued them together.  Once it was together, I added lots of sparkle pen to the snow on top of the house.  Here's a closer look at all that sparkle:

I cut the 2 birds from the Nested Chickadee Duo die set and colored all the pieces before I put them together.  And lastly I cut the Merry Christmas Jolly Script die, also from white and used red markers on the larger layering background piece to lay the thinner letters on top of.  Just remember to save the inside of your "e" and your "a" so you can add those pieced to the red background.

Once I was happy with the layout, I started glueing some pieces down and popping some up on foam tape for dimension.  Here's one last look:

I really love those cute birds and that birdhouse.  There are other birds in the release including a cardinal, so check out all the new goodies from the 2023 Christmas release.

If you are interested in the products I used today, please visit my blog HERE for more information.

Thanks so much for stopping by.  Be sure to come back each day for more inspiration from the team.

 

Supplies:

EF1040 Vintage Tray 3D embossing folder/die set

94742  Woodgrain Bird House die

94741 Nested Chickadee Duo die set

94748  Merry Christmas Jolly Script die

94757 Classic Pine Needle Springs die set

 

 

The Christmas 2023 Collection has arrived!  The festive release is filled with dies, stencils, 3D embossing folders, stamps, 6x6 prints and plaids - and convenient new ready-to-go foil greeting tabs. And a beautiful set of holiday floral rub-on transfers too!  It's everything you'll need for holidays!

Cut the Aurora Snowflake background from a pale blueish-white Delicate Pastel glitter pad sheet.  Cut the detailed snowflake from the blue Vintage Pastel Mirror Pad sheet.  

Cut the tiny snowflake pattern from the new Poinsettia Garland 6x6 with the 2-½" x 3-¾" A2 Rectangle Frames die.  Cut turquoise cardstock with the 2-¾" x 4" rectangle frames die.

Glue 2 layers of white cardstock together and cut the solid background of the Merry Christmas Charmed Script.  Pressure-emboss it with the detailed overlay die .  Cut the detailed top layer from the turquoise Rainbow Reflections 6x6.  Attach the greetings - pressure embossing creates a debossed outline to receive the top layer. 

Two ways to dot the starburst "i" in Christmas - just attach the tiny little dot offcut, or use a screwpunch to create a tiny hole and attach a scrap of the turquoise Rainbow Reflections behind the hole.  

 

Attach the diecuts to a white A6 card (4-½" x 6-¼").  Attach turquoise Bright Jewels.

I'll add the product links as soon as they're available.  Till then - here are the new item numbers:

          Aurora Snowflake #94753

          Merry Christmas Charmed Script #94749

And the catalog:

 

   

   

Thanks for visiting...hope your favorite Retailer has ordered our Christmas 2023 Collection for your holiday projects.

 See you on Friday!

 

 

 

94672

GP1001 Delicate Pastel Glitter Pad

fp1002 Vintage Pastel Mirror Pad

fp1003 Rainbow Reflections Mirror Pad

jwl003 Bright Jewels