Merry & Bright Candles by Trina Pham

Hello everyone.  I have a rustic masculine Christmas card to share today using more products from the 2024 Yuletide collection. 

 

Started with the background again and die cut the Narrow Woodgrain Planks from brown cardstock.  Darker brown cardstock was then trimmed to 4x5.25-inches.  Covered it with a sheet of double-sided adhesive and attached the planks to cover it.  For a spotlight effect, ink blended Gathered Twigs and Black Soot distress inks around the perimeter of the panel.

 

 

The candle base and top layers were die cut from white glitter and white mirror paper, respectively.  Shading was then added to them using cool grey Copic Sketch markers C00/0/1/2/3.  The flames were die cut from alcohol marker friendly paper and colored with Y11/15 yellow Copic Sketch markers.  The pine cones were die cut from dark brown and Kraft cardstock, while the pine needles were prepped as described in a previous post HERE.  The sentiment was heat embossed with white embossing powder on a strip of red Yuletide Plaid paper and a fish tail cut out for something different.  Assembled the card onto a white card base then added snow details with a white Posca pen to finish.

 

 

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

Supplies

 

94812 Merry and Bright Candles

94802 Pinecone Duo

94823 Narrow Woodgrain Planks

CL5286 Holiday Wishes clear stamp set

PP1031 Yuletide Plaid 6x6 pack

SP1011 Leafy 6x6 pack

FP1002 Vintage Pastel Mirror Pad

GP1008 Majestic Hues Glitter Pad

Create a Woodgrain Plank Tree by Jean Okimoto

 

Woodgrain panel diecuts are great for piers, birdhouses, log cabins, rustic backgrounds - and Christmas trees.  The new Narrow Woodgrain Planks are perfectly-proportioned to create a wonky tree - without the labor of measuring and cutting wood planks to the right lengths.  Hi, Jean building a DIY holiday tree design..

Cut Narrow Woodgrain Planks from a green 6x6 in the Greenery Collection.  Save the longest piece for another project.  Cut a ¼" x 4-¼" strip of the Kraft Woodgrain Paper for the trunk.  Ink it lightly with Vintage Sepia VersaFine. 

Attach adhesive label paper or a sticker sheet to bright red wool-blend felt to stabilize it and prevent adhesives from saturating it.  Cut Layered Birds.  Cut the birds again from the bright red Festive Glitter Pad 6x6.  Assemble the birds in a combination of felt and glittered bases and overlays - save the extra birds for another project.  

Cut the new Snowflake Joy background from the prepped red felt too.  Cut the detailed top layer from heavy white cardstock.  Cut two center snowflakes from the bright red Festive Glitter Pad 6x6 - for the treetop and the greeting.

Attach the diecuts to a white A6 card (4-½" x 6-¼").  Add clear Fairy Drops.  Cut an A6-sized piece of cardstock to protect the card front for mailing.

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

 

 

Supplies

 

94797 Snowflake Joy

94823

94684

drp101 Fairy Drops

gp1006 Festive Glitter Pad

sp1011

sh44003 Kraft Woodgrain Paper Pack

Happy Birthday Bees by Angie Cimbalo

Hello and welcome, it's Angie here today with a cute card featuring the new Buzzing Bumblebees die set.

Here's a super close up of the bee dies:

I cut the bee pieces from both white and some watercolor panels I have left over.  I also cut the Bachyard Floral Sems 94638 from the same papaers plus from black for a shadow.  I re-cut just the top flowers from some more of the lighter yellow/orange colors and paper pieced them up top on the stems to match the bees better.  

The backgrounds are 2 pieces of woodgrain paper from Memory Box, cut with 2 sizes of the Curved Cap Pinpoint Layers die set 94646.  The white one was inked with Chipped Sapphire Distress Ink and the kraft one was inked with Brushed Cordouroy Distress Ink and an ink blending tool.

After adding all the die cuts to the blue inked panel, I added it to the brown one and then popped both of those panels together on to the white card base with foam tape.

I really love using the woodgrain papers from Memory Box because with just so little inking, all that texture comes through and provides a lovely texture to your backgrounds!  Here's one last look:

I hope you like my card for today!  I had a lot of fun putting it together for today's post!  Be sure to come back every day for more inspiration from the design team.  If you are interested in the product I used, you can find more information on my blog HERE.  

Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies

 

94794 Buzzing Bumblebees

94646 Curved Cap Pinpoint Layers

94638 Backyard Floral Stems

SH44001 White Woodgrain Paper Pack

SH44003 Kraft Woodgrain Paper Pack

ST010 Happy Birthday Foil Greetings White Circle Tabs

Believe by Angie Cimbalo

Hello and welcome, it's Angie here today with a holiday card full of sparkle!  I used the brand new "Snowflake Hot Foil Plate" to create my background on a piece of red paper from the "Blush" paper pad.

Sometimes when I hot foil, I actually get a hot mess on my paper, but I have a tip for you if your end result after foiling has foil in places you don't want it!  As you can see below, some of the foiled snowflakes look pretty bad with extra foil that got stuck in places it shouldn't and then there are some that look pretty good.  The reason that some flakes look better is because once I saw it come out messy, I took my sand eraser and rubbed it over places where extra foil landed and in places I didn't want foil.  It really cleans up foiled papers that don't always turn out perfectly.  

So you can see below up close, the panel that started out with messy foiled snowflakes was saved by my sand eraser.  The reason you get overfoiling has to do with your machine's temperature setting, the brand of foil you are using and how many seconds you set the timer.  Some foils require more time/heat and others don't, so it takes some experimenting - but the sand eraser is your friend when it comes to hot foiling that is for sure!  (The foil I used is called speckle silver glimmer foil.)

I used only 3/4 of the top of the card for my red panel and added it to a piece of white woodgrain paper, then added that to a white card base.  I cut the "Drifting Snowflake" detailed die from silver glitter paper from the "Glitzy Paper Pad" and also cut 2 thin silver glitter strips to add to the left and right side of the card front.  I cut the background die from the "Drifting Snowflake" from navy cardstock from the "Lagoon Paper Pad" for the dark background to enhance the silver glitter snowflakes.

I cut the sentiment "Believe Enchanted Script" die from white for the backgound and from navy card stock for the thinner letters and then glued them together.  Once dried, I added it to the bottom of the card on the woodgrain paper.  Lastly I added some silver jewels to the glitter snowflake centers, from the "Christmas Fairy Jewels" pack.  Here is one last look:

Thanks so much for stopping by!  If you are interested in links to my supplies, check out my blog post HERE.  Be sure to come back each day for more inspiration from the design team!  Happy crafting....

 

 

Supplies

 

MBF015 Snowflake Hot Foil Plate

94739 Believe Enchanted Script

SP1012 Blush 6x6 pack

GP1007 Glitzy Glitter Pad

SP1010 Lagoon 6x6 pack

JWL005 Christmas Fairy Jewels

SH44001 White Woodgrain Paper Pack

94816 Drifting Snowflakes

Festive Santa by Theary Chea

Hello! It's Theary here, back on the blog for Memory Box. I can't believe it's already August. Although I will miss the summer months, I am super excited about the upcoming fall and winter seasons.

I am sharing a Christmas-inspired card using fantastic products from The Yuletide Collection.

The Layered Festive Santa 94823 has so many details. I used the die and ran that through my die-cutting machine on red and white cardstock. To add extra details to each layer, I used markers, ink pads, a blending brush, and a white gel pen to build dimension with shading and highlights. I also added the adorable Pretty Presents 94761 into Santa's bag. 

I created the background using Narrow Woodgrain Planks 94823 and die-cut from a few pattern papers from Yuletide Plaid PP1031. I added adhesive to the back and adhered it to scratch paper that I trimmed to 5.25 inches by 4 inches.

I adhered the pattern-planked background to a kraft-colored cardstock and popped on sweet Santa on top with a sentiment from Holiday Wishes CL5286. And, finally I adhered it to a top folding cardbase. 

I hope you found some inspiration and get crafty in your craft space! Until next time!

Have a wonderful day!

Theary Chea 

 

 

 

Supplies

 

94737 Layered Festive Santa

94823 Narrow Woodgrain Planks

pp1031 Yuletide Plaid 6x6 pack

94761 Pretty Presents

ST002 Merry Christmas Foil Greetings Rose Tabs

Sweet Holiday Cookies by Angie Cimbalo

Hello and welcome, it's Angie here today with a sweet cookie holiday card!  It features the new "Dimpled Cookies" die set.

Here's a closer look:

This card uses lots of new and older goodies:

"Spiral Delight" 3D embossing folder, "Dimpled Cookies", "Fringed Scalloped Frame" die set, along with "Stitched Circle" layers die set, "Greenery" paper pad and "White Woodgrain" paper. 

I cut the two largest frame dies from white woodgrain paper to frame my green panel.  The green panel was dry embossed with the 3D folder and then I tapped white ink on top of it lightly to accent the design so you can see it better.  I trimmed the green panel so I would fit behind the frame.

Next I cut several of each of the cookies from white card stock and colored them with markers and ink blending tools, paint pens, sprinkle sequins from my stash and Fluffy Stuff which is just like a snow marker in a bottle.  When you heat it up, it puffs up and looks like snow or frosting!  

I heat embossed the sentiment in white on black cardstock.  That sentiment is from an earlier released stamp set called "Sweet Christmas."

I hope you enjoyed my cookie card for today!  I had so much fun decorating them - and the best part, they have zero calories!

Come back each day to see more and more inspiration from the whole team!  Thanks for stopping by!

 

Supplies

 

EF1033 Spiral Delight 3D Embossing Folder

94762 Dimpled Cookies

94842 Fringed Scalloped Frame Set

CL5283 Sweet Christmas clear stamp set

30036 Stitched Circle Layers

SP1011 Leafy 6x6 pack

SH44001 White Woodgrain Paper Pack

Snowflake Joy by Angie Cimbalo

Hello and welcome, it's Angie here today with a fun winter card featuring new release items from the latest 2024 Yuletide release!  Here's an up close look at all the textures and dies:

I used both kraft and white "Woodgrain Paper" for this card.  On the kraft I used the "Falling Snowflakes Stencil" with some white embossing paste to create the extra texture of the snowflakes.  After it dried I framed it by using 2 of the largerst dies from the "Fringed Scalloped Frame Set" cut from the white woodgrain paper.  I cut the pinecones twice from 2 shades of brown card stock and after putting them together I used 3 of them and 2 sets of the pine leaves that come in this same die set called "Pine Cone Duo."  The pine leaves were cut from the "Greenery" paper pack.  

I cut out the "Snowflake Joy" die from the same green and some white card stock and layered them, then put everything on the card with pop dots.  Finally I added jewels in pastel green from the "Pastel Jewels" pack and red jewels from the "Christmas Jewels" pack to simulate tiny berries.  Here is one last look:

I hope you like my card for today, it has lots of fun new products combined on it and so much texture in real life!

Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies

 

88627 Falling Snowflakes Stencil

94842 Fringed Scalloped Frame Set

94802 Pinecone Duo

94797 Snowflake Joy

SP1011 Leafy 6x6 pack

SH44003 Kraft Woodgrain Paper Pack

SH44001 White Woodgrain Paper Pack

Canyon Butterfly Greetings by Jean Okimoto

Say thanks wtih glitzy, glittered Canyon Butterflies on a woodsy plaid background.  Plaid, butterflies, glitter and woodgrain details play together in shades of violet.  Hi, Jean here with a mix of new butterflies, a new plaid 6x6 and a favorite Vintage Tray Embossing Folder and Die Set.

Spritz both sides of the muted violet 6x6 from the Vibrant Violet Collection with a light mist of water.  Emboss it with the Vintage Tray 3D Embossing Folder.  Cut it with the Vintage Tray set's coordinating die.  Cut the diagonal violet and green plaid from the Fuchsia Plaid 6x6 pack with the tray die too.    

Cut Canyon Butterflies wings from the purple Rainbow Reflections 6x6.  Cut the antennae/body and accents for the big butterfly from the purple Glitzy Glitter Pad 6x6.

Attach the diecuts to a top-folded cream A2 card - use foam dots for the top wings.

Add a thank you from the Thank You Foil Greetings Black Tab assortment with foam dots.  Add green Christmas Fairy Dewdrops for a contrasting pop of color.  Cut an A2-sized piece of cardstock to protect the card front for mailing.

Combine the extra plaid and violet Vintage Tray offcuts for a similar card using any of our new 2024 Fuchsia Collection butterflies - or the new Azure Dragonflies.  The Rainbow Reflections Mirror Cardstock and Glitzy Glitter Pad 6x6 sets have the perfect colors to coordinate with the plaids.

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

 

 

Supplies

 

94835 Canyon Butterflies

pp1029 Fuchsia Plaid 6x6 pack

fp1003 Rainbow Reflections Mirror Pad

sp1007 Vibrant Violet

ddp101 Christmas Fairy Dewdrops

gp1007 Glitzy Glitter Pad

st005 Thank You Foil Greetings Black Tabs

ef1040 Vintage Tray 3D Embossing Folder and Die

Canyon Butterfly Cards by Angie Cimbalo

Hello and welcome, it's Angie here today and I have two card featuring the new Canyon Butterly die set 94835 and two of the new sentiment dies called Happy Birthday Breezy Script 94782 and Thank You Breezy Script 94780.  Here's a closer look at my first card:

I used two papers from the Brilliant Fuchsia paper pad PP1030, both with dark green and gold patterns.  The center panel is made with A2 Rectangle dies 94672 cut from Woodgrain Paper in White SH44001.  I cut the frame for it from the patterned paper.  I cut the main sections of the butterflies from a 2nd green and gold paper from the same pack, and then used Vintage Pastel Mirror paper pad FP1002 for the gold on the card.  The dies have this beautiful little edge die for the large butterfly along with the butterfly centers, so there are a lot of possibilities with this set.  

Here's one last look at my first card:

 

 

Now on to the 2nd card:

For this card, I used the same butterfly die set but cut them from white card stock and gold paper from the Vintage Pastel Mirror Pack FP1002.  Here's a closer look at my card.

I used both white sH4401 and kraft SH4403 colors of Woodgrain Paper with the A2 Rectangle Frames die set and also the inside of the green/gold paper that I had left over from the first card.  The "Breezy Script Thank You" die set 94780 was also cut from white and gold and layered, then popped up on foam tape.

I really like the look I got with the papers and dies and especially those amazing butterflies!  I hope you like my cards for today and will check out the whole new release.  There are so many gorgeous products to see!  Thanks or stopping by!

 

Supplies

 

FP1002 Vintage Pastel Mirror Pad

94835 Canyon Butterflies

94782 Happy Birthday Breezy Script

94780 Thank You Breezy Script

PP1030 Brilliant Fuchsia 6x6 pack

94672 A2 Rectangle Frames Die Set

SH44001 White Woodgrain Paper Pack

SH44003 Kraft Woodgrain Paper Pack

Masculine Thank You Card by Angie Cimbalo

Welcome, it's Angie here today with a masculine card using three different 3D embossing folders.  This card would be perfect for a handyman's thank you card or for any masculine thank you card you might need.  Here's a closer look:

First of all the frame, if you look closely is cut from a black card stock piece that was dry embossed with the "Gears" folder and then gold metallic paste was added to the raised edges.  Next I used the "Vintage Tray" die to cut the frame from that piece and also from a piece of white card stock.  I took the inside pieces and put them inside the "Vintage Tray" 3D embossing folder to get the woodgrain look and then inked each shape before paper piecing them into the openings of the black/gold frame.

The tools were cut using the dies that come with the" Toolbox" 3D embossing folder and then added them to the folder to dry emboss them.  I added a little gray ink to them and then added them to the card front, along with a "Thank You Foil Greetings" circle to finish the card.  Here's one last look:

Hope you like my card for today!  I really enjoyed creating it!  Thanks for stopping by!

 

Supplies

 

EF1034 Toolbox 3D Embossing Folder and Matching Dies

EF1040 Vintage Tray 3D Embossing Folder and Die

EF1018 Put It in Gear 3D Embossing Folder

ST008 Thank You Foil Greetings White Circle Tabs

ST010 Happy Birthday Foil Greetings White Circle Tabs