154 posts categorized "Collage"

10/13/2023

Fri 13

Vintage Tray Background Blocks by Jean Okimoto

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Diecut a trio of new 6x6 prints and create a collage-y winter background for a favorite Layered Polar Bear.  He's borrowing a cozy scarf from the new Bundled Bird.  Tag a special gift with the new Merry Christmas Foil Greetings White Tabs.  Hi, Jean here with an easy way to build a background for the holidays, or any day.

Cut the poinsettia and snowflake prints from the new Poinsettia Garland 6x6 Pack with the artsy die from the Vintage Tray 3D Embossing Folder and Die Set.  Cut a matching plaid from the Poinsettia Plaid 6x6 Pack.  You'll have a total of 15 great mix-and-match blocks!  

Trim the Rainbow Reflections turquoise 6x6 to fit in the Vintage Tray Embossing Folder.  Emboss the design, then cut it with the coordinating die.  That's 5 more great blocks - these are shimmery and have woodgrain texture.  

Cut two of the loopy Crisp Bows from the pale gold Majestic Hues Glitter Pad 6x6 and layer them for dimension.   Attach them to an embossed Vintage Tray diecut - tape the lower edge behind the "giftbox."  Attach a crisp MERRY CHRISTMAS gold-foiled greeting tab - like a big gift tag.

Cut Layered Polar Bear from heavy white cardstock.  Assemble the layers - place black and brown scraps behind the cutouts for his eyes, nose and ears.

Cut the scarf layers - from the new Bundled Bird set - from the turquoise Rainbow Reflections sheet.

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Attach the diecuts to a top-folded 5-½" square white card.  Use foam tape for the bear and foiled greeting tab.  Add turquoise Christmas Fairy Dewdrops.  Cut a 5-½" square of cardstock to protect the card front for mailing.  Square cards require special handling and extra postage - I hope you think this design deserves that!

It's great being able to combine favorites from earlier releases with our Christmas 2023 Collection.   Layered Polar Bear and the Vintage Tray 3D Embossing Folder and Die Set are perfect partners.  The Vintage Tray cuts perfectly proportioned blocks - eliminating guessing, thinking and measuring.  That's a good thing!  

Thanks for visiting...have a great weekend!

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09/26/2023

Tue 26

Berry Merry Christmas by Jean Okimoto

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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.  

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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.  

 

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09/08/2023

Fri 08

Bubble, Bubble…Boiling Cauldron by Jean Okimoto

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Bubbles on the Deepwater Collage create a great backdrop for a Boiling Cauldron Halloween card.  A smiley pumpkin and pair of ghosts - from the Poppystamps Whittle Scary Guys - completes the design.  Hi, Jean here with a fun fall mix of favorite dies from my stash, the new Boiling Cauldron, and a popular new Poppystamps set of Halloween icons.

Cut light gray cardstock with the 3" wide Nested Globes die.  Cut it with Deepwater Collage.  Trim and save the bubbly stalk on the right side. Attach the outer edges of the diecut to a dark gray A2 card.  Attach the saved bubbly stalk on the left half of the diecut, under the inner edge of the collage.

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Cut the Boiling Cauldron pot from the black Rainbow Reflections 6x6.  Cut the drippy rim from the orange Rainbow Reflections 6x6.  Cut the rising bubbles from the orange Glitzy Glitter Pad 6x6.  Assemble the cauldron and bubbles.  

Cut the Poppystamps Scary Guys ghosts and pumpkin from white and orange cardstock.  Attach scraps of black cardstock behind their faces.  

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Attach the diecuts to the card - use foam tape for the cauldron and top of the ghosts.

Cut 2 sets of the 4 extra bubbles from the turquoise Rainbow Reflections 6x6.  Attach 7 of them over the stalks for a bright colorful  contrast.

Use your nautical designs for fall cards - it's too early to stash the dies for the winter!  They're great for Halloween - when "anything goes" - so mix, match and layer them with traditional fall icons.

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09/05/2023

Tue 05

Autumn Pumpkin Collage by Jean Okimoto

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Rotate an underwater coral collage 180 degrees...and it's a spooky, twiggy forest scene for Halloween!  Hi, Jean here with an upside-down Bubble Coral Collage, the new Autumn Pumpkin and those popular ghosts.  Cut a Glitzy Glitter Pad BOO! too.

Cut black cardstock with the 3-¾" wide Curved Cap Pinpoint Layers die.  Cut it with an upside-down Bubble Coral Collage.  Cut the extra coral from black cardstock too.

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Cut the ghosts - from the Ghosts in the Forest set from heavy white cardstock.  Attach black cardstock behind their faces.

Cut Autumn Pumpkin from bright orange cardstock and the tendril and leaf from green cardstock.

Cut BOO from the black Glitzy Glitter Pad 6x6 with Mini Vintage Varsity Alphabet. Save an offcut from inside the letters - they'll become an exclamation mark.

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Trim an orange/yellow A2 card with a corner-rounding punch.  Attach the diecuts - use foam dots behind the ghosts' heads.  Add the green/gray Treasure Chest Fairy Gemstones.  Cut an A2-sized piece of cardstock to protect the card front for mailing.

Nautical designs - like this Bubble Coral Collage - are popular for summer cards.  Turn it into a fall design for Halloween with the Boiling Cauldron, Layered Witch Hat or Rickety House. Just a few ideas - or some inspiration for September's Crazy for Orange Challenge.  The entry deadline for the Challenge is the end of the day EST on September 29th.

Thanks for visiting - see you again on Friday!

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05/26/2023

Fri 26

Magnolia Blossom Trio Bouquet by Jean Okimoto

 

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Take the Magnolia Collection beyond beautiful magnolias...imagine a tall bouquet of yellow blossoms!  I've never seen yellow or long-stemmed magnolias but they're great for a thank you card.  Hi, Jean here with just another way to take advantage of the  versatile designs in our latest collection.

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Cut 5 blossoms from the Magnolia Blossom Trio using an assortment of yellow 6x6's from the Sunny Orange Collection.  Daub VersaFine Verdant onto the center diecuts and the base for the tallest flower. Assemble the blossoms.  

Cut Vertical Line Collage from green cardstock - the offcuts become stems here.  Attach the stems and angle-trim the bottoms.

Cut 2 bows from the Crisp Bows set from the gold Vintage Pastel Mirror Pad 6x6.  Trim the curled loops. Carefully pull each bow's vertical center strip away from the center.  Offset the bows and glue them together.

Stamp the greeting - from the Big and Little Reverse Words Clear Stamp Set - on light green cardstock with VersaFine Shady Lane.  Quickly heat-emboss it with detail clear powder.  Diecut it with the coordinating die that's included in the stamp set.  Tape the bow to the back of the greeting with foam tape.

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Attach the diecuts to a white A6 card (4-½" x 6-¼") - use foam tape for several petals and the greeting.  Attach light green Christmas Fairy Jewels.  Cut an A6 rectangle of cardstock to protect the card front for mailing.

Turn this basic design into a get well, birthday, congrats or friendship card too - everyone loves flowers!  

Thanks for visiting - enjoy the weekend...

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04/21/2023

Fri 21

Brighter Days Ahead with the Backyard Wren by Jean Okimoto

 

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Combine new designs from our latest release with the April Challenge - Sky's the Limit - and a bit of Poppystamps Whittle Sunshine.  Hi, Jean here with a double-collage all-occasion design in soft spring pastels. It could be a friendship card, send a note of encouragement, celebrate a special moment or welcome a new baby.

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Cut, score and fold a 5.5" square white card.  Diecut Cloudy Moon Collage from the card front.  Cut Distant Sun Collage from the inside.  Back it with a 5.5" square of pale blue cardstock.

Diecut the Poppystamps Whittle Sunshine from pale yellow cardstock.

Diecut Curved Magnolia Branch from minty green cardstock.  Trim and save the leaf that would be hidden by Backyard Wren - it'll be repositioned later.

Diecut Magnolia Bud Trio from pale lavender cardstock and assemble the blossom and bud.  The small triple-pointed sepal will be a tiny bud.

Attach adhesive label paper (or a sticker sheet) to blue wool-blend felt to stabilize it and prevent adhesives from saturating it.  Cut Backyard Wren's  main section.  Cut it again from white cardstock - it'll be layered behind the assembled bird later.  Cut the wings from the shimmery turquoise Vintage Pastel Mirror Pad 6x6.

Cut the beak section from yellow cardstock and use a black marker to fill the area that will become the eye.

Assemble Backyard Wren and attach the plain white diecut behind it for a neater back-view when the card is opened.  

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Attach the diecuts to the card - add the saved leaf near the center of the curved branch.  Use a foam dot behind the tip of the large wing.

Add turquoise Christmas Fairy Dewdrops.  Cut a 5.5" square of cardstock to protect the card front for mailing.  Square cards require extra postage and special handling.

Thanks for visiting...have a great weekend!

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03/29/2023

Wed 29

Cloudy Moon Sunset
by Trina Pham

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Hello everyone.  I’m back today with another CAS (clean and simple) card created with products from the 2023 February collection.

I was still in die cutting my own DIY stencil mode, so that’s what I did first with the Cloudy Moon collage die.  Collage dies give negative cuts and make this process very easy.  Positioned the stencil onto a Bristol panel and using blender brushes, ink blended Lumberjack Plaid, Spiced Marmalade and Mustard Seed distress inks to create the sun.

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Die cut the Backyard Floral Stems from black cardstock a couple times next and fussy cut them apart so they can be re-arranged closer together. 

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The Hugs Tender Script sentiment was die cut from black cardstock and gold Festive glitter paper next.  Thought about framing it, but kept it simple and used the A2 Rectangle Frames die to die cut the panel down instead.  Assembled the card onto a white card base to finish.

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

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03/08/2023

Wed 08

Collage Die Encouragement Card
by Angie Cimbalo

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Hello it's Angie here today with a encouragement card featuring the new stackable collage dies released in February.  My card features these collage dies:

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94627 Cloudy Moon Collage
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I inked the edges around the clouds and after putting them together added them to a piece of mirror card stock.
 
The sentiment is from Cl5276 Friends and Family stamp set and mirror paper for the mat is from the FP1103 Rainbow Reflections Mirror Pad.  I also used the new 94672 A2 Rectangle Frames dies to cut all the rectangles for my card.
 
The background night sky was made with alcohol inks, including some gold metallic alcohol ink.  The sentiment from the stamp set was heat embossed on the front panel of the card.  Here's a closer look:
 
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Memory Box has lots of Collage dies like these that are really fun to put together, but you can also use them separately which makes them very versatile.  
 
I hope you like my card for today!  Be sure to come back often to see all the inspiration on the blog from the team!  
Thanks so much for stopping by!
 
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03/03/2023

Fri 03

Trio of Window Collages by Jean Okimoto

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Colorful butterflies flutter through a trio of collaged windows on a slimline thank you card.  The new collages - Distant Sun, Cloudy Moon and Cloudy Sun - create a layered, dimensional backdrop for the Intricate Mini Butterflies.  Hi, Jean here with more great dies from our Spring '23 Collection.

Score white cardstock horizontally at 3-⅝" and 7-¼".  Cut Cloudy Sun Collage from the front of the 3-⅝" panel. Cut Cloudy Moon Collage from the backside of the second panel.  Cut Distant Sun Collage from the front of the third panel.

Cut blue cardstock with the 3-⅝" x 8-⅝" Slim Basic Rectangle Layers die.  Attach the rectangle behind the Distant Sun Collage panel - align the left edges.  Trim the right edge.  Trim the top and bottom edges of the tri-folded card.

Prep the Intricate Mini Butterflies die by rubbing it briskly with scrunched waxed paper to help release the detailed diecuts.  Blend yellow, chartreuse, green, teal and blue inks on smooth white cardstock.  Dry the inks, then cut it with the Intricate Mini Butterflies die.  I cut two sets of the butterflies so I could select the sizes and colors  I wanted for the card.

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The butterflies are just glued at the center, allowing the wings to lift at the edges.  Attach the 3 smallest butterflies to the blue area within the Distant Sun Collage.  Attach the 4th butterfly partially over the bottom edge of the Cloudy Moon Collage.  Attach the remaining 3 butterflies to the card front.

Cut Tilted Thanks from the turquoise sheet in the Rainbow Reflections Mirror Pad.  Attach the greeting to the card and add turquoise Pastel Jewels

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Tri-fold collage cards are fun to create - and receive!  Substitute birds or dragonflies instead of butterflies for a totally different look.  Or maybe a plush brown felt Layered Polar Bear holding a bunch of balloons just barely floating over the window collages?

 

Thanks for visiting - see you again this weekend...

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02/10/2023

Fri 10

Hearts and Hugs by Jean Okimoto

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Doesn't it seem like we just celebrated Christmas...and now Valentine's Day is a week away? Here's a design that could be a quick Valentine - or a friendship card.  It's also some inspiration for February's Memory Box Challenge - this month's theme is "I'll drink to that."  Hi, Jean Okimoto here with slimline that's a mix of Memory Box and Poppystamps designs.

It's great that the little Cuppa Love heart can be perfectly aligned with the 4th heart from the bottom of the Sprinkle Heart Collage!  I think it looks like the collage hearts are floating out of the coffee cup.  Yes or no??

Cut gray cardstock with the 1-½" x 6-½" Wrapped Stitched Slim Rectangles die.  Cut the rectangle with Sprinkle Heart Collage.

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Cut bright pink cardstock with the same rectangle die, then trim a little from the top and both sides so it'll fit behind the heart collage.  No guessing or measuring needed!

Here's an easy way to add the coffee.  Cut Cuppa Love from natural cardstock.  Attach Scor-Tape to the oval coffee insert die and cut the oval from brown cardstock.   Attach the (self-adhesive) brown oval behind the surface of the coffee cup and sprinkle that section with detail clear embossing powder.  Heat-emboss it.  It'll be glossy, like hot coffee (or really dark chocolate) - and adhered too.

Cut the cup insert from lighter pink cardstock.  Cut the Cuppa Love heart from a pink sheet in the Graceful Garden Glitter Pad.

Attach Scor-Tape behind a scrap of the bright pink cardstock and cut the Poppystamps Playful Hugs.

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Attach the diecuts to a gray slimline card (3-½" x 8-½").  Add jewels from the Pastel Fairy Jewels set - these are from the first column of the jewels.  Cut a slimline-sized piece of cardstock to protect the card front for mailing.

Big thanks to everyone who ordered my LOVE...Simply Stated card kits from Impress - hope you liked the designs!

Thanks for visiting...have a great weekend!

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