Category: AmazingPaperGrace

Bloom in Love : Guest Designer : The Flower Challenge

~ Sathya ~ 24 Comments

 Hi Crafty peeps,

Am excited to be Guest Designer today at The Flower Challenge. 

Thanks SO much Viv and TFC Team for giving me this lovely opportunity.

The theme for this month is “Use your latest Stamps or Dies” with Flowers as Focus. 

Over to my card for today!

Got my first ever MFT stamps during last year end sale. Used here is the MFT Fresh cut florals cling rubber stamp.
  • Stamped using DI Antique Linen onto Canson Montval 300gsm watercolor paper.
  • Colored using Daniel smith Watercolor dot cards.
  • Fussy cut and generously splashed white acrylic paint.
  • Mounted this fussy cut floral on the diecut panel.
  • Matted this over Grey A2 sized cardbase.
  • Stamped the sentiment.
  • Added few grey enamel dots for the added interest.
Hope you are inspired enough to play along the challenge. Check the TFC blog for the Designers’ inspirations.
Thanks for stopping by!
Happy Crafting!
Linking this to following challenge:

You are Loved: Amazing Paper Grace + Spellbinders

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 Hi Crafty peeps,

Am here today with Weekly Wednesday post for Amazing Paper Grace.


  • Took 5″ square sized white top fold cardbase.
  • OPAL glimmer foiled the Lovely Ladybug Glimmer hot foil plate onto a watercolor cardstock.
  • Watercolored it with Jane davenport sea glitz palette.
  • Fussy cut the florals and mounted onto the focal panel as shown.
  • Added a Gold Glimmer foiled ladybug and diecut it to add to the card.
  • For the sentiment, Gold glimmer foiled and diecut, one of the the Heartfelt sentiments Hot foil plate and dies.
  • Added the sentiment diecut to the panel.
  • Few white pearls are added as accents.
Hope you like it!!
Thanks for stopping by!

You are Amazing : Amazing Paper Grace +Spellbinders

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 Hi Crafty pals,

Am back here with a Weekly Wednesday post for Amazing Paper Grace.


  • Took A2 sized Navy blue top fold cardbase.
  • Added a rectangular Picot petite diecut is gold as a focal panel.
  • Gold glimmer foiled the Sweet blooms border Glimmer hot foil plate onto a watercolor cardstock.
  • Watercolored it with Jane davenport bright palette.
  • Fussy cut it and mounted onto the focal panel as shown.
  • For the sentiment, Gold glimmer foiled and diecut, one of the the Heartfelt sentiments Hot foil plate and dies.
  • Added the sentiment diecut to the panel.
  • Few clear dew droplets are added as accents.
Hope you like it!!
Thanks for stopping by!

Introducing Amazing Paper Grace: Delicate Impressions Collection

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We’re excited to introduce another Glimmer Hot Foil collection! The Delicate Impressions Collection has five sets of Glimmer Hot Foil Plates. The fifth set, Heart Melt Sentiments, has four unique phrases with matching dies. The other four sets are designed to create borders and accents that can be used on cards from A2 to 5 x 7-inches. Each elegant motif can be layered with itself or mix with others in the same collection or beyond.

Glimmer Hot Foil Plates are metal plates used in the Spellbinders Glimmer Hot Foil System to transfer foil to paper through a combination of heat and pressure.  Roll the Glimmer machine base through your die cut machine to deliver its beautiful design. Refer to Compatibility Charts on Spellbinders’ website, to see if your machine is a match.

 

Our Creative Team members will showcase their creations made with the Delicate Impressions Collection today. For those of you who enjoy watercolors, we are using Jane Davenport Watercolors to highlight our projects. See if you can identify what techniques are being used!

 

Becca Feeken sent over these stunning plates and dies for me to try.

 

Each of our Creative Team members will show you their take on cards made with a Collection.

My take for Today:


 

Here is what the glimmer plates and dies look like:  

My project for Today uses Filigree Crescent Band Glimmer Hot foil plate.

Have used Gold foil on DCWV Luxury stack patterned paper for the card.

For the 3D project, made a Pillow box using the same DCWV paper stack and topped with Elegant twist rectangle diecut and Heartfelt Sentiment Glimmer foil plate as Foiled diecut sentiment.

Designer Tip: 

Keep the foil as the same size as the foil plate to avoid overfoiling. Apply pressure slowly evenly 

while sending into the die cutting machine. This gives a beautiful even foiling. 

View the Delicate Impressions Collection by Becca Feeken video.

Delicate Impressions Availability:

These dies and plates are available from Spellbinders right now! Click Delicate Impressions Collection.

 

Collection Blog Hop!

Click on the links to each member, they’re waiting to inspire you to create something beautiful:

 

Visit Beatriz Jennings
Visit Patricia Manhire
Visit Agnieszka Posluszny
Visit Elena Olinevich
Visit Sathya Kala Sankaran
Visit Nida Tanweer
Visit Tara Brown
Visit Anita Kejriwal
Visit Linda Parker
Visit Kate Skonieczna
Visit Joanna Wisniewska

 

Giveaway!  

 

You could win an Amazing Paper Grace Die of the Month! Enter to win on our new Instagram Account https://www.instagram.com/amazingpapergrace_creates/. All  of the entry details are there, look for this image below:

Do you love this Delicate Impressions Collection as much as we do?

 

Tell me in the comments! We’d love you to join us at Amazing Paper Grace Creative Encouragement Communityin Facebook. It’s our space to share your creations learn techniques and get inspired. We have exclusive sketches, Tutorials, and many more for crafters of all levels!!

Introducing Amazing Paper Grace: Pop Up 3D Vignette Poinsettia Sleigh

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If you haven’t already jumped into Christmas preparations, are you ready to sleigh it?  Today we are sharing the Amazing Paper Grace Die of the Month for November 2020 – Pop Up 3D Vignette Poinsettia Sleigh.  This one is a little bit different because it folds down flat for mailing as do all the dies in the 3D Vignette lines.

Becca Feeken of Amazing Paper Grace sent me these lovely dies to create with.



Poinsettia Sleigh Details

 

This die can be used as flat detail on a 2D surface but transforms into a 3D show piece so easily that we’re happy you will have both options.  Becca traditionally creates a high end die that doubles as a decoration piece in November of each year.  Let’s just call it icing on the cake for the holidays.  It’s really a satisfying venture to grab a cup of coffee and sit down to put it together as it is to set it out on the table. 

Today we want to inspire you to think of different combinations using the Poinsettia Sleigh.  Here’s what we had in mind:

  1. Table Center Piece
  2. Table Setting Favor
  3. Filled with Candy and Goodies
  4. Part of a Wonderland Menagerie
  5. Flat 2D on the front of a card

    In the comments let us know how you think it should be used. 

There are 21 dies included in the Pop Up 3D Vignette Poinsettia Sleigh

My Project Today using the Pop Up 3D Vignette Poinsettia Sleigh:

Made a classic 3D shaped sleigh with the usual Red combo and Gold using Patterned papers and Gold Mirror cardstock. Absolutely loved making this sleigh.

I also made a Pop up slider card using these dies. For the card, I have used Navy blue, Sky-blue and Silver mirror cardtsock combos.

Hope you love as much as I love making it!

                                                     Used patterned papers, stamps and some pearls as accents.

P.S.  In the Amazing Paper Grace Creative Encouragement Facebook Group there are two Step-by-Step Tutorials that take a novice through creating some spectacular poinsettias.  I hope you’ll join the group so that you have both of those methods in your toolbox.  They’ll come in handy this Christmas Season.

You can also view the video here

Visit the Creative Team for more Poinsettia Sleigh Inspiration


Visit each Creative Team blog linked below for their take on creative paper crafting ideas with the Poinsettia Sleigh, the new Amazing Paper Grace November 2020 Die of the Month!

Do you love Poinsettia Sleigh as much as we do? 

Tell me in the comments! We’d love you to join us at Amazing Paper Grace Creative Encouragement Communityin Facebook. It’s our space to share your creations learn techniques and get inspired. We have exclusive sketches, Tutorials, and many more for crafters of all levels!!

Oh Honey! : Amazing Paper Grace + Spellbinders

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 Hi Crafty peeps,

Am back here with Weekly Wednesday post for Amazing Paper Grace.

  • Took a black A2 sized top fold cardbase.
  • Matted with a yellow polka dot patterned paper.
  • Took die-cuts in black and yellow cardstocks.
  • In the yellow diecut, used Spellbinders Just Bee-cause glimmer hot foil on the silver glimmer foil.
  • The bee and the extra layers of wings are silver glimmer foiled one black cardstock.
  • Sentiment glimmer plate is silver foiled on black cardstock and trimmed.
  • The matting layers are added as in the pic.
  • Sentiment banner is then added on top of focal layer.
Thanks for stopping by!
Happy Crafting!

Easel Slider card : Amazing Paper Grace + Spellbinders

~ Sathya ~ 2 Comments

 Hi Crafty folks,

Am here with Weekly Wednesday post for Amazing Paper Grace.

Made an Easel card with a twist of Slider camera card.

  • Prepared base for Easel card using DCWV cardstock.
  • Added the dies for Vignette Pop up Camera of Spellbinders by Amazing Paper Grace using Mintay patterned papers.
  • Made a slider reinforcement too.
  • Using APG Graceful eyelets, film strip is made.
  • Added few paper pieced butterflies.
  • The diecut sentiment is added on the front part of camera, which was used as stopper here.
  • Few flowers are added as fine touch.
Thanks for stopping by!
Happy Crafting!

Introducing Amazing Paper Grace Sweet Cardlets

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What’s a Cardlet, pray tell?  A Cardlet is a small motif, complete with background, sentiment and character that combine to make small card or layers onto a larger card.  We’re delighted to introduce you to the Sweet Cardlets Collection.

Becca Feeken sent over these lovely dies and watercolors for me to try.

Sweet Cardlets show up in a Glimmer format with a matching die.   They are metal plates that are used in the Spellbinders Glimmer Hot Foil System to transfer foil to paper through a combination of heat and pressure.  The Glimmer machine base is rolled through your die cut machine to deliver that pressure.  As long as you have a machine that can accommodate thick dies – like steel rule dies, you’re all set. A word to the wise, it is very addicting.  (Compatibility charts on the Spellbinders website)

The Inspiration behind Sweet Cardlets

We gotta fess up here.  There’s no such word as cardlets, yep, Becca straight up made it up.  You have to agree though, it sounds really cute, right?  Well that was the inspiration behind sweet cardlets.  As you can imagine it has something to do with cards and moreover, little cards.  

Always mindful of the budget, Becca wanted to create a collection where each set is all you need to make a little card.  Sweet Cardlets are small motifs with a 3″ x 3″ footprint.  Each has a background, a main character and several sentiments.  

We found it the right size to fit on an A2 card and even to layer onto an A7 card.  In fact, the 3″ background can be repeated for a long background or a larger background.  Dies cut out each main character and three sentiments with each set give you lots of options.

Each of our Creative Team members will show you their take on cards made with the Sweet Cardlets Collection.  Today we’re all using Jane Davenport Watercolors in some technique to show off Sweet Cardlets.

First up is Amazing Paper Grace Graceful Swan Glimmer Hot Foil Plate & Die Set Sweet Cardlets (SKU GLP 236) by Spellbinders

Here is what it looks like:


Am happy to introduce Graceful Swan for this Hop.

I have created a square card using Spellbinders Elegant Twist Square Dies by Amazing Paper Grace SKU  S4-1049 . 


Made a focal point using the Glimmer plates and dies using my new Spellbinders Glimmer Hot Foil machine. Colored the glimmered diecut Swan in grey and orange for beak colour using new Jane Davenport’s Neutral palette and watercolor brushes. Little bow and a feather to finish off the card.


Made this small 8″ Collapsible lid box for holding little treats, gift cards.

When lifted up, It just opens up wide to reveal the space to put in the contents. I just added a beaded twin to the aperture at the lid and a small bow below to the body of the box. Added the silver glimmered foiled cardstocks which was made using the glimmer plate from Graceful swan. Its matted with the silver mirror cardstock, which complements it nicely.

Silver glimmered the glimmer plate phrase from Spellbinders Heartfelt Sentiments Glimmer Hot Foil Plate and Die Set by Becca Feeken SKU GLP-219 and die cut it to mount on the box.

Designer’s Tip : 

Spellbinders Glimmer Hot Foil system is a new addition to my Crafty stash. I visited many Youtube tutorials to educate me much about the ways to use glimmer plates on different substrates first and then started to use my machine. 

Must say this helped me so well and I haven’t wasted any glimmering foils during the process of Glimmering these plates. 

Here is the Spellbinders video showing amazing new samples as well as a walkthrough of the entire collection.

Sweet Cardlets Availability:

These dies and plates are available from Spellbinders right now! Click here: Sweet Cardlets Collection

Sweet Cardlets Collection Blog Hop!


Click on the links to each member, they’re waiting to inspire you to create something beautiful:

Giveaway!  


You could win an Amazing Paper Grace Die of the Month! Enter to win on our new Instagram Account https://www.instagram.com/amazingpapergrace_creates/. All of the entry details are there, look for this image below: 

Do you love Sweet Cardlets as much as we do? 

Tell me in the comments! We’d love you to join us at Amazing Paper Grace Creative Encouragement Community in Facebook. It’s our space to share your creations learn techniques and get inspired. We have exclusive sketches, Tutorials, and many more for crafters of all levels!!

Season’s Greetings card : Amazing Paper Grace + Spellbinders

~ Sathya ~ 2 Comments

 Hi Crafty pals,

Back again here for my Weekly Wednesday post for Amazing Paper Grace using Spellbinders Picot Petite collection : Bed of Lace Etched Dies

  • Took a cream coloured A2 sized top fold cardbase.
  • Die cut Spellbinders Elegant Twist Ovals die in Gold mirror and White cardstock as well and pasted them together as shown in the project to get a netted look.
  • Spellbinders Bed of Lace die is taken and diecut the ornate one in white cardstock and the shadow die onto the gold mirror cardstock. 
  • Both are diecut twice and matted together to get a beautiful design.
  • Onto which, the sentiment diecut in white matted onto the frame diecut on gold mirror cardstock.
  • All these are matted on top of each other as shown in the picture and at different heights using foam adhesives to give dimensions.
  • Few white pearls used as accents to finish off the card.
Hope you like it!
Thanks for stopping by!
Paper Hugs,
Sathya