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My name is Natalie and I love anything to do with card/paper. I have been a papercrafter for many years now and I never get bored playing with all the wonderful products available. I've been married to my wonderful husband Nathan for 35years now and we are still very much in love with each other as the first day we met each other. We have 3 wonderful children and 5 gorgeous grandchildren so we have lots to be thankful for. Since joining Stampin' Up! in 2018 I've grown so much in confidence with myself and I even tackle technology, which for me is a huge step to have taken, but I'm getting there slowly.

Tuesday, 23 March 2021

Craftalong Tuesday - Garden wishes

 

Wow can't believe it's Craftalong tuesday again where are the weeks going? Well this week I've made a card using the really beautiful 'Garden wishes' bundle, now I've had this bundle for a little while but I haven't really used it alot, but I'm so glad I decided to use it for this weeks craftalong. So without going on any longer let's get started with the project.......


As you can see the card is made in shades of yellow and green and I'm so pleased with how it turned out, hope you like it too?

Materials needed:

Mossy meadow cardstock

1 piece  4-1/8" x A4 length (UK) scored at 5-7/8" and 6-3/8" - for the cardbase

Scrap pieces for die cutting all of the flower elements, leaves and grass out

Basic white cardstock

1 piece 4" x 5-3/4" - for front of card layer

1 piece 4" x 5-1/8" - for inside of card 

1 piece approx 7/8" x 2-1/4" - for sentiment

Bumblebee cardstock

1 piece approx 1" x 2-3/8" - for sentiment layer

Scrap pieces for die cutting flower head elements

Scrap piece for punching out 3 x small dragonflies

Dandy garden dsp

3 pieces of different designs  1" x 5- 5/8" - front of card strips

Natural touch speciality paper

1 piece 1" x 5-5/8" - front of card strips

White vellum cardstock

Scrap piece for punching out 3 x small dragonflies

Rhinestone basic jewels

Dimensionals 

Mossy meadow classic stampin' pad

Bone folder - for giving all of the flower, leaves and grass depth


Card Instructions

Fold and burnish the card base in half, the other score line is going to be the back of the cardbase where you will apply Tear n' tape adhesive (see below). This helps the card to stand up and not slide open. Adhere the white card to the inside of the card.



This is what the card looks like once the tear n tape adhesive is glued to the back of the inside card.

Take the strips of dsp and on the longside down one of the edges add a few little tears, I like to do this with dsp sometimes as it gives the card more dimension. Now take the first strip and apply glue down the non torn edge and attach it to the front of card white layer leaving a small border, take the second piece of dsp place glue on this piece the same as before and slide it under the first piece to attach it to the layer. Repeat this step with the other two strips.

Using mossy meadow ink stamp a few of the dandelion seeds onto the card layer and then attach to the card front flat.


Having die cut all of the flower elements, leaves and grass out, attach them to the front of the card, but don't glue the whole of the backs of them as you want them to look 3D. The flower head pieces are all glued together flat, but only apply glue to their centres so that the petals can be lifted up. Attach to the mossy meadow flower head on the front of the card and then using a glue dot attach the Ladybug trinket.

Punch out all of the small dragonflies and then using glue attach the vellum ones onto the bumblebee ones, only place a small amount of glue on the body part, and in this case it doesn't matter if the glue shows as it makes the rest of it look just like the dragonflies wings. These can now be glued to the front of the card.


Stamp the sentiment onto the white piece of card, angle the edges and attach to the bumblebee piece of card, cuting the edges so you have a small border of the yellow showing. This is attached to the card front using dimensionals.

Add some basic jewels to the card front and that's the card finished!!

Hope you enjoyed todays project, I'm really loving the colours that these papers have within them I think they look so nice together. I'd love if you like the card if you would spend a few minutes and leave me a comment. Until next time take care and keep crafting!!

Huge crafty hugs

Natalie xx


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 Product List - all products used for this project

Bone Folder
[102300]
£6.50
Paper Trimmer
[152392]
£23.00





Tuesday, 16 March 2021

#SUOC271 - Sweet strawberry birthday card

 


Wow it's time for the next #SUOC271 challenge, and the theme for this week is Sweet things - food & drink. I just couldn't resist using the really lovely 'Sweet strawberry' bundle, which is a stampset and a punch. With strawberry season fast approaching us here in the UK I think this delightful bundle will be great for those of us that make our own jams!


The card I've chosen to make this week is a very easy to make card but I think anyone that receives it will love it all the same. So let's get started.............

Materials needed

Basic white thick cardstock

1piece - 5" x 10" scored on longside at 5" - cardbase

1piece - 4" x 4" - front of card layer

1 piece approx 3/4" x 3" - sentiment

Real red cardstock

1 piece - 4-7/8" x 4-7/8" - front of card layer

1 piece - 4-3/4" x 4-3/4" - inside of card

Scrap piece for 3 x strawberries to be punched out

Old olive cardstock

1 piece 4-1/8" x 4-1/8" - for front of card layer

Scrap piece for 3 x leaves and strawberry hulls to be punched out

Clear wink of stella glitter brush 

White Stampin' chalk pen

Rhinestone basic jewels

Stampin' dimensionals


Card Instructions

Fold and burnish the card base using the bone folder.

Stamp strawberry images around the edges of both the real red pieces of card using real red ink. Adhere the inside piece in the card, tear a few bits on the edges of the front of card piece and using your fingers ruffle them up a bit, this gives the card a different look and a bit of dimension too, adhere to the front of the card base.

Stamp 2 of the leaf and flower images onto the white card piece, and just a leaf in the corner section of it. Dab the corner of the clear stampin' block into the old olive ink pad not too much you only need a small amount. Now using the wink of stella mix the ink with the brush nib and colour the leaves and flowers in, gives a nice glittery blending effect. Attach this to the old olive layer using glue and then attach the whole piece to the front of the card base.

Punch out all of the elements required - strawberry in red and hulls and leaves in green. Now to stamp the images onto them all using the stamparatus....

First with scrap card punch all of the images out, then place this piece onto the stamparatus foam pad (as its a photopolymer stamp) and hold into place using the magnets, place the strawberry stamp into the cut out, close the clear plate and the stamp will attach itself lift and proceed as follows......


Place the punched out strawberry into the cut out section.


Apply real red ink to the stamp and then close the plate therefore inking the image exactly where you need it to be.
Repeat this step with all of the strawberries removing each one once done.
The leaves and hulls are done in the same way only you can do them at the same time as its the same colour ink - old olive that will be used for both of them.

Use the chalk marker pen to apply dots on the strawberries and a bit of highlight to the leaves, curl them slightly once dry, using the bone folder, apply dimensionals on the reverse of the strawberries attach them to the card front. Apply glue to the leaves and hulls and glue into place.
Stamp the sentiment using real red ink and place dimensionals on to one end and attach to the card front.
Place rhinestones onto the card front and your finished. Simple card but very effective.

Thanks for popping onto my blog and having a look hope you enjoyed the project don't forget to pop over to the #SUOC271 and have a look at what all of the other designers have come up with for you, and if you have time why not add your project to the inlink and show us all what you come up with until next time take care x
Huge crafty hugs
Natalie xx

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Stamparatus
[148187]
£46.00
Paper Trimmer
[152392]
£23.00
Bone Folder
[102300]
£6.50



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Natalie xx

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Craftalong Tuesday - Hydrangea Haven birthday card

 


Hello again and welcome to another Craftalong Tuesday. This week I thought we'd use the delightful 'Hydrangea Haven' suite as it is so pretty, and to be honest I couldn't resist getting this one. Not only do you get a great set of dies with lots of possibilities in using them, but you also get a whopping 22 yes that's what I said 22 stamps. I haven't used many stamps because as you all know I can't share stamped images with you all when sending the kits out, so I've used sentiments only for my card, that way you can add your own sentiments. So let's get started with the card for today, I hope you enjoy making it .

The card is made in the book card style which can be one layer, or you can add pages inside, which is what I've done, well I've added two.....

Materials needed

Basic white thick cardstock

1 piece 4-1/8" x whole length of A4 (UK) scored at 4-1/2" and 5-7/8" - for card base

Basic white cardstock

2 pieces 4" x 5-3/4" - for the inside pages (one of them score at 1-5/16")

1 piece 3/4" x 3-3/4" - for sentiment

Gorgeous grape cardstock

1 piece 4" x 4-1/4" - front of card layer

1 piece 4" x 1-1/4" - front of card side layer

1 piece approx 1" x 5" - die cutting small flowers out

1 piece approx 2-1/2" x 2-1/2" - die cutting flower layer out

Hydrangea Hill dsp

1 piece 3-7/8" x 4-1/8" - front of card layer

1 piece 3-7/8" x 1-1/8" - front of card side layer

Old olive cardstock

1piece approx 3-1/2" x 5" - die cutting whole flower out

Mossy meadow cardstock

1 piece approx 2-1/4" x 3-1/2" - die cutting flower stem out

Seaside spray cardstock

1 piece approx 1" x 4" - for sentiment

Gorgeous grape sheer ribbon

1 piece approx 14" - to wrap around card and tie in knot

Pastel pearls

Stampin' Dimensionals

Gorgeous grape classic stampin' pad


Card Instructions

Score and burnish the card base, the front of card is going to be the section that has a score line on it.

Glue the dsp pieces to the gorgeous grape  pieces and glue flat to the front and side panel of the card base.

Wrap the ribbon around the side section, so that it is on the inside of the card and not around the back, and tie in a knot at the front.

Stamp the sentiments onto the 2 pieces for the inside of the card, making sure you know which one you want as the first page, and making sure the sentiments are to one side and not in the middle.


This is my first page as you open the card.


This is my second page which is glued flat to the back of the card before the side section is glued down.



This is how the pages will look as you open the card.


This is how the pages look once glued into place.

Glue the pages into place, the back one with no score line is glued flat to the back of the inside card, the page with the score line in, now burnished, only place glue on the front of the side section and fold the card shut, this will glue the ribbon into place and  now you can place glue onto the back of the side section glueing the whole of the side section of card together. The card will look like above picture.
Stamp the sentiment and attach to the seaside spray piece of card then attach flat to the front of the card.
Having die cut all of the different flower elements out attach them all together (before attaching the dsp flower head turn it over and using a scoring tool push the petals through to give dimension to the flower on the right side). Place the pearls onto the flower and then attach to the front of the card using dimensionals.



Glue the tiny flowers onto the front of card and then I used the teeny weeny dots that came out of the dsp flower to accent the middles using my take your pick tool to pick them up (very fiddly but I liked the end result).
That's the card finished and I have to say I was quite pleased with the end result.
Hope you liked it take care till next week and keep crafting!

Huge Crafty Hugs
Natalie xx


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Product List

Bone Folder
[102300]
£6.50
Paper Snips
[103579]
£9.25
Paper Trimmer
[152392]
£23.00