Aurora Snowflake on a Vintage Tray by Jean Okimoto

Layer the new Aurora Snowflake over plaids, poinsettias and starbursts tucked into compartments of the Vintage Tray 3D Embossing Folder and Die Set.  Hi, Jean here with mix of matte, metallic, pink and gold - my new favorite holiday combination.

Cut Vintage Tray from pink cardstock - we're using just the frame and left center offcut for the greeting.  Cut the Poinsettia Plaid 6x6 and 2 pale pink and gold Poinsettia Garland 6x6 prints.  You'll have a total of 15 great offcuts to mix, match and layer - save the extras for future projects.

Cut the Aurora Snowflake background from the pale gold Vintage Pastel Mirror Pad6x6.  Spritz the reverse side with a light mist of water and pressure-emboss it using the rubber embossing mat and plates required for your machine.  This creates a debossed snowflake that makes it easy to attach the pink snowflake.  It even looks great just embossed, without the detailed pink layer.

Cut the detailed Aurora Snowflake from pink cardstock.

Prep the solid pink offcut with the embossing powder tool.  Stamp the greeting - from the new Shining Star Clear Stamp Set - with VersaMark.  Heat-emboss it with detail gold powder.

Attach the Vintage Tray frame and offcuts to a top-folded pink A2 card.  Add the snowflake - use foamtape for the points.  Add pale pink Pastel Jewels.  Cut an A2-sized piece of cardstock to protect the card front for mailing.

December arrived sooner than expected.  Beautiful printed papers and the Vintage Tray 3D Embossing Folder and Die Set make it quick and easy to design  cards that look complicated, but aren't.  Diecut several coordinating prints and colors - you'll be surprised at how easy it is to create your holiday cards!  Be sure to enter December's Patterned Paper Challenge too.  The entry deadline is 11:59 PM EST on December 29.  Good Luck - can't wait to see your entry!

Thanks for visiting - have a great weekend...

 

 

Supplies

 

94753 Aurora Snowflake

ef1040 Vintage Tray 3D Embossing Folder and Die

pp1024 Poinsettia Garland 6x6 pack

pp1023 Poinsettia Plaid 6x6 pack

fp1002 Vintage Pastel Mirror Pad

cl5285

jwl002 Pastel Jewels

Golden Holiday Greetings by Jean Okimoto

Surprise someone with a frosty pink slimline holiday greeting this year.  The unexpected shape and color will stand out in a crowd of traditional designs. Hi, Jean here - hope you're enjoying a great weekend!  

We're using the Poinsettia Garland 6x6 pack with its array of beautiful metallic gold and matte florals, starbursts and botanicals.  Cut two of the pale pink and gold 6x6's with the Frilling Snowflake Ornament background die.  Attach narrow strips of cardstock behind the tops of the ornaments to reinforce the hole for the gold cord.  

Cut light pink cardstock with the same die. Cut a gold Rainbow Reflections 6x6 with the snowflake that's included in the Frilling Snowflake Ornament set.

Punch the holes and tie the ornaments with gold cord.  Curl the cord with the side of a bonefolder or that plastic burnishing too.

Cut two 2 pieces of white cardstock with the 2-¼" x 7-¼" Slim Basic Rectangle Layers die.  Spritz both sides of one rectangle with a light mist of water and pressure-emboss it with the Happy Holidays Streamlined Script die at a slight angle.  This step debosses the rectangle and makes it easy to attach the gold greeting diecut. Attach the other rectangle behind the embossed rectangle to add dimension.

Cut Happy Holidays Streamlined Script again from the gold Rainbow Reflections 6x6 - leave the tiny dot for the "i" in the die until you're ready to attach it.  Attach the gold greeting to the rectangle.  It'll fit perfectly into the debossed area.

Attach the diecuts to a white slimline card (3-⅝" x 8-⅝"). Add pale pink Pastel Jewels.  Cut a slimline-sized piece of cardstock to protect the card front for mailing.

This design is great if you have a stack of Memory Box holiday papers in your stash.  The color-coordinated prints create beautiful ornaments and the single gold snowflake adds a cool contrast.

Thanks for visiting our blog - see you in December!

 

 

 

Supplies

 

94758 Happy Holidays Streamlined Script

94695 Frilling Snowflake Ornament

94556 Slim Basic Rectangle Layers

jwl002 Pastel Jewels

pp1024 Poinsettia Garland 6x6 pack

fp1003

Holiday Hummingbird Greetings by Jean Okimoto

(Having photo issues with the November 24th post - it's temporarily deleted)

A bright Christmas-red Layered Hummingbird delivers a holiday message here.  Mixed textures of velvet paper, plain cardstock and Rainbow Reflections Mirror Cardstock add dimension to a festive little bird.  Hi, Jean here on a wintery fall day.

Cut the berry print from the Garland 6x6 pack and natural cardstock slightly larger than 4.25" x 5.5". Glue the two sheets together, then cut them with the largest Wrapped Stitched Rectangles die.  Pressure-emboss the attached sheets with the new Merry Christmas Streamlined Script die.  

Cut Merry Christmas Streamlined Script from green cardstock and attach it to the background. The double layer highlights the embossed greeting and creates the perfect guide to easily attach the greeting. Nice and straight - without wiggle-words!

Cut Classic Pine Needle Sprigs from green cardstock and trim the bottom right section of the large sprig.  Color the stems with an orange marker - a brown marker will be too dark.  Attach the small trimmed section over the corner print.  Attach the remaining sprigs to the top corner.

Cut the main section of Layered Hummingbird from red velvet paper or red felt attached to adhesive label paper or a sticker sheet.  Cut the wings from the red Rainbow Reflections Mirror Pad 6x6.  Cut the remaining pieces from red cardstock.  Color the beak and a spot for the eye with a black marker.  Assemble the bird. 

Add red Bright Jewels.  Cut an A2-sized sheet of cardstock to protect the card front for mailing.

Thanks for visiting our blog!

 

Supplies

 

94755 Layered Hummingbird

94757 Classic Pine Needle Sprigs

94752 Merry Christmas Streamlined Script

pp1010 Garland 6x6 pack

fp1003 Rainbow Reflections Mirror Pad

jwl003 Bright Jewels

30094 Wrapped Stitch Rectangles

Merry Christmas Card by Donna Sledzik

Good morning everyone!  I have a soft pastel color themed Christmas card for you today.

I began by applying Speckled Egg Distress Ink to a white cardstock panel and drying it completely before the next step.  

Next I used a blending brush to apply Gold metallic ink through the Starlight Snowflake stencil to the inked panel.  This gives it a very soft look.

I die cut the center of the panel using one of the Nested Globe dies. 

I used the Snow Flurries stencil and Speckled Egg Distress Ink to add color in the center of a white cardstock panel, which goes behind the die cut card front.  

The trees were die cut from green cardstock and glued to the center of the globe cut out.

I die cut the snowflakes from white glitter cardstock and glued them to the card front.  

Then I used foam tape to adhere the sentiment strip to the card.

The card front was glued to white card base using foam tape.

To finish the card, I added some Fairy Crystals and Clear Jewels for a little sparkle.

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

 

Supplies

 

94751 Layered Evergreen Trees

ST001 Merry Christmas Foil Greetings White Tabs

94680 Alpine Snowflakes

94532 Nested Globes

88625 Starlight Snow Stencil

88626 Snow Flurries Stencil

CRY102 Christmas Fairy Crystals

JWL001 Clear Jewels

Frosty Winter Garden Greetings by Jean Okimoto

Shimmery pink ink adds frosty definition to a 3D-embossed winter garden design.  The new Vintage Lantern and Classic Pine Needle Sprigs in shiny gold mirror cardstock create a warm color contrast.  Hi, Jean here with a mix of pearlescent, shiny and sparkly design elements on a holiday card.

Have a spray bottle of water nearby.  Press Delicata Pink Shimmer ink - from a juicy, moist inkpad - onto the new Poinsettia Corner 3D Embossing Folder.  Spritz both sides of Open Studio Watercolor Paper with a light mist of water.  Quickly spritz more water into the air and pull the inked embossing folder thru the mist to prep it for inky embossing. Place the watercolor paper - smoother side facing the inked surface - into the folder and run it through your diecut machine using the plate(s) and/or mat(s) required for pressure embossing.  Pigment inks are recommended for this technique - dye inks would dry too quickly.

We're working on the product link for the Poinsettia Corner 3D Embossing Folder - here's a picture and a link to our website:

Heat-set the ink.  Diecut the cooled paper with the largest A2 Rectangle Frames die.  Attach it to a top-folded natural A2 card.

Cut natural cardstock with the 2.25" x 3.5" A2 Rectangle Frames die.

Cut Vintage Lantern (including the candle) from the gold Rainbow Reflections 6x6.  Assemble the lantern.  Press Pink Shimmer ink onto a scrap of natural cardstock and heat-set it.  Cut a candle, remove and wick and flame, then attach the inked candle over the gold candle.  Color the gold flame with a bright yellow Sharpie.  Heat-set it.  Attach the candle behind the lantern.

Cut Classic Pine Needle Sprigs from the gold Rainbow Reflections 6x6.  Trim the section on the right side of the larger sprig.

Attach the diecuts to the small rectangle.  Add pink Pastel Jewels.  

Experiment with different pigment inks for a different look.  Inking highlights the details of 3D embossing folders.

Thanks for visiting the blog - have a great weekend!

 

 

 

Supplies

 

94743 Vintage Lantern

94672 A2 Rectangle Frames Die Set

94757 Classic Pine Needle Sprigs

wp101 Watercolor Paper

FP1003 Rainbow Reflections Mirror Pad

JWL002 Pastel Jewels

 

ef1038 Poinsettia Corner 3D Embossing Folder and Dies

Glorious Poinsettia Merry Christmas by Anne Thompson

I promised to change up colors for November so I'm going with a traditional red and green focus for the next few posts.  Todays' card features the Glorious Poinsettia die.

materials used

• white note card
• poinsettia paper from POINSETTIA GARLAND PP1024 paper pad
• dark green card stock
• white card stock
• papers from GARLAND PP1010 paper pad
• GLORIOUS POINSETTIA 94734
• AUTUMN FAIRY JEWELS JWL004, gold ones
• one of the Merry Christmas FOIL GREETINGS WHITE TABS  ST001

to make this card

• cover the front of a white note card with one of the poinsettia papers from the POINSETTIA GARLAND PP1024 paper pad

• add a small rectangle cut from dark green card stock to the front of the card--you'll want the flower and leaves to extend a bit beyond it
• die cut the GLORIOUS POINSETTIA 94734 three times--from white card stock, from one of the mostly green papers and from one of the mostly red papers in the GARLAND PP1010 paper pad

• glue the white stem and leaves to the green rectangle on the card front
• glue the green stem and leaves on top of the white ones, exposing a bit of the white along one edge on each piece
• glue the red pieces of the poinsettia on top of the white ones, exposing a bit of the white along one edge on each piece
• assemble the flower using glue dots
• glue the poinsettia onto the card front at the top of the stem
• add gold Fairy Jewels to the poinsettia center

• add one of the "Merry Christmas" Foil Greetings White Tabs to the bottom right corner of the green panel

The thin white edge helps to define the stem, leaves, and poinsettia blossom against both the solid dark green card stock and the busy poinsettia print background.  

This will be a busy card-making week as I prepare samples and class kits for a class I'm teaching next week at the local senior center.  Hope you're getting a good start on your holiday cards.  There are so many products in the 2023 Christmas Collection to choose from!

Happy Crafting!

 

Aurora Snowflake Holiday Cards by Angie Cimbalo

Hello and welcome, it's Angie here today and I want to wish you a Happy Halloween!

Here in my part of Texas we are having our first freeze warning and the temperature has been super cold for this time of year - poor kiddos going trick or treating!  They are going to have to dress super warm for this holiday!!! 

Well, since it's so cold around here,  I'm featuring some beautiful snowflake products that were in the 2023 Christmas new release.  I have two cards for you today using a panel I used the emboss resist technique on.  

First I stamped and heat embossed in translucent embossing powder, the larger Aurora Snowflake background rubber stamp on a large panel of thick white card stock.  I next inked the background with Speckled Egg Distress Ink and an inking tool.  I also used the Snow Flurries stencil and put it on top of the panel and used a white gel pen to make lots of dots (like tiny snow dots) on the panel for more interest.  It took a little time, but I like the way it turned out.

I inked a little past the stamp on just the white non-embossed portion so I could use that part to heat emboss the sentiment for card #1 with white embossing powder.  Just be sure you wait until the inking dries before you stamp and heat emboss the sentiment so the powder won't stick to the inking.  Here's a super close look at the Aurora Snowflake on card #1:

As you can see I cut that new 2 piece die from both a white and a light blue glitter paper and layered the frame over the blue one, then added small red jewels and one larger crystal to the center.

I took the emboss resist panel and cut a frame using the the largest and 3rd largest dies from the A2 Rectangle die set.  I will use the center section for my 2nd card.  On the front of the card base, I inked the front with the same color ink, using the Snow Flurries stencil.  Here's a look at the dots it created on the card front.

I added the sentiment strip to the bottom of the card and then the outside frame on top of it.  Lastly I added the beautiful large Aurora Snowflake to the card front.  Here's one last look at card #1:

Here's a look at my second card:

As you can see I used the inside rectangle from the heat resist panel.  I also added inked dots to the card front of this card.  I took red/foil paper from the Poinsettia Garland paper pad and used the largest two dies from the same rectangle frame die set to cut a thin frame for around the card front.  I used the same paper and cut the Merry Christmas Streamlined Script sentiment die from.  I also cut two extra sentiments from thick white card and stacked all 3 together for a more substantial and sturdier sentiment.  Here's a closer look at that. 

I added the frame to the outer edge with glue, the heat resist panel in the middle.  Next I added tiny red jewels to the snowflake centers.  Lastly I added the sentiment at an angle.  Here's one last look:

I hope you like my cards for today and also have inspired you to create some fun snowflake cards for the holidays.  If you'd like more info and links to products, check out my blog post HERE.

Thanks for stopping by!

 

Supplies

 

CS2083 Aurora Snowflake Cling Stamp

94752 Merry Christmas Streamlined Script

PP1024 Poinsettia Garland 6x6 pack

94672 A2 Rectangle Frames Die Set

88626 Snow Flurries Stencil

94753 Aurora Snowflake

CL5285 Shining Star Clear Stamp Set

GP1001 Delicate Pastel Glitter Pad

JWL005 Christmas Fairy Jewels

CRY102 Christmas Fairy Crystals

One More Pretty in Pink Holiday Card by Anne Thompson

I have one last Pretty in Pink holiday card for this month of October--I'll be switching up colors in November.  This is a very simple quick card using Poinsettia Garland paper, a Poinsettia Rub On, and a few Christmas Fairy Jewels along with a white Merry Christmas Foil Greetings Tab.

materials used

• white note card
• POINSETTIA GARLAND PP1024 6X6 paper pad
• white card stock
• POINSETTIA RUB ONS RUB 102
• MERRY CHRISTMAS FOIL GREETINGS WHITE TABS ST001
• CHRISTMAS FAIRY JEWELS JWL005

to make this card

• begin by covering a white note card with one of the poinsettia print papers
• add one of the poinsettia rub ons to a scrap piece of white card stock; trim to 3X4; ink the edges with a pink ink, direct to paper
• add one Merry Christmas White Foil Greeting tab in the lower right corner after adding a bit of the pink ink on the edges
• attach that panel to the front of the note card

• place five of the solid gold Fairy Jewels in the poinsettia center

Simple enough for creating a number of cards at once--which I did in preparation for this post as I covered several card fronts with papers from the Poinsettia Garland paper pad and then used six poinsettia rub ons on white card stock pieces trimmed to 3X4.  I finished one card to post and with a little ink, greeting tabs, and Fairy Jewels I'll have six more cards ready to go in a jiffy. 

Happy Crafting!

 

 

 

Layered Cardinal Joyful Wishes by Jean Okimoto

Send joyful winter wishes with a bright red felt Layered Cardinal and a frost-topped Woodgrain Bird House.  Shades of red, green and glittery white create a classic scene here.  Hi, Jean here with winter wishes from our Christmas 2023 Collection.

Attach adhesive label paper (or a sticker sheet) to bright red wool-blend felt and cut the main portion of Layered Cardinal.  The paper backing stabilizes the felt and keeps adhesives from saturating it.  Cut the wings from the red Rainbow Reflections Mirror Pad 6x6.

Cut both head pieces from yellow/orange cardstock.  Color the top layer with a black marker.  Attach a scrap of yellow-orange cardstock behind the eye.  Assemble the cardinal - use foam dots for the outer tip of the small wing.

Cut Woodgrain Bird House from two shades of green cardstock.  Cut the snowy roof from the white  Festive Glitter Pad 6x6.  Attach a scrap of light yellow/green cardstock behind the entrance.

Cut Classic Pine Needle Sprigs from chartreuse cardstock.

Cut natural cardstock with the 2.25" and 2.75" wide A2 Rectangle Frames die.  Stamp the greeting - from the new Shining Star Clear Stamp Set - on natural cardstock with Glamorous VersaFine Clair.  Quickly heat-emboss it with detail clear powder.  Trim it with the 1.75" wide A2 Rectangle Frames die.

Attach the diecuts to a natural A6 card (4.5" x 6.25").  Attach red Bright Jewels.  Cut an A6-sized piece of cardstock to protect the card front for mailing.

The Christmas release includes several birds, the Woodgrain Bird House and a delicate layered Bird's Nest for your holiday cards.  Combine different textures, glitter, matte and metallic papers to create an assortment of colorful birds for cards, tags and tree ornaments.

Thanks for visiting the blog!

 

 

 

Supplies

 

94754 Layered Cardinal

94742 Woodgrain Bird House

94672 A2 Rectangle Frames Die Set

94757 Classic Pine Needle Sprigs

cl5285 Shining Star Clear Stamp Set

gp1006 Festive Glitter Pad

jwl003 Bright Jewels

fp1003 Rainbow Reflections Mirror Pad

Sparkly Winter Joy by Jean Okimoto

Send frosty winter wishes with the new Aurora Snowflake Frame and the matching Aurora Snowflake dies.  Texture and sparkly glittered diecuts create a card that works in winter pastels, jewel tones or classic holiday colors.  Hi, Jean here with a detailed - but simple - design that includes pressure embossing with a frame die.

Cut heavy white cardstock with the second-largest A2 Rectangle Frames die.  Spritz both sides with a light mist of water and pressure-emboss it with Aurora Snowflake Frame using the rubber embossing mat and plate(s) required for your machine.

Cut heavy white cardstock with the 1.75" x 3"A2 Rectangle Frames die. 

Cut the solid Aurora Snowflake background from the pale pinkish-white Delicate Pastel Glitter Pad 6x6.  Cut the detailed snowflake layer from pink cardstock.

Cut the solid Brilliant Joy background from the same pink cardstock.  Cut the detailed top layer from the same Delicate Pastel 6x6.  Save the bonus glittered JOY offcut for another project. Using the same colors - in reversed layers - keeps it coordinated but not too match-y.

Attach the diecuts to a white A6 card (6-¼" x 4-½").  Attach pale pink Pastel Jewels for extra sparkle.

Hope you're enjoying the holiday designs from our team as much as we enjoy sharing our ideas with you!

Thanks for visiting the blog...have a great weekend!

 

Supplies

 

94750 Aurora Snowflake Frame

94753 Aurora Snowflake

94759 Brilliant Joy

94672 A2 Rectangle Frames Die Set

jwl002 Pastel Jewels

gp1001 Delicate Pastel Glitter Pad