Category: cardmaking

Power Poppy Quiet Christmas Release : Forest Fellas

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 Hi Crafty peeps,

Today we have our third day launch of PowerPoppy’s Quiet Christmas November Release. 

And for today is Forest Fellas, which is available in both Digital and Clear Stamp versions.





Watercolored the owl for this release.

  • Printed Owl onto watercolored cardstock.
  • Watercolored using Winsor&Newton watercolors.
  • Generously splashed white acrylic paint.
  • Trimmed the focal panel.
  • Topped over a Navy blue A2 sized cardbase.
Hope you like it!
Now, hop onto my fellow designers’ blog and have visual treat!!
Thanks for stopping by!
Happy Hopping!!

Fuchsia Floral card

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 Hi Crafty peeps,

Am here today with a floral card using a Digital illustration, illustrated by a dear crafty friend, Rahmat.

Thanks much Rahmat for sharing your Beautiful illustrations with me. 

Over to the card,

  • Watercolored the illustration using Prima Art Philosophy : The Classics half pan set.
  • Generously splashed white acrylic paint.
  • Stamped using Memento Tuxedo black with Powerpoppy clear stamp sentiment stamp.
  • Diecut the floral panel and mounted over the A2 sized black top fold card base.
  • Few clear dew droplets added as accents.
Hope you like it!!
Thanks for stopping by!
Happy Crafting!
Linking this to
The Flower challenge : Use a sentiment. (Have used clear stamp sentiment for a digital floral stamp)

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!

PowerPoppy Quiet Christmas Release: Garden of Gratitude

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 Hi Crafty pals,

Today we have our third day launch of PowerPoppy’s Quiet Christmas Release. And for today is Garden of Gratitude, which is available in both Digital and Clear Stamp versions.


Absolutely love the floral cluster.
Gonna try watercolor version too soon!!

  • Printed onto a white cardstock.
  • Colored using Prisma colored pencils.
  • Die-cut the colored panel and topped over a diecut panel.
  • Matted this focal panel to a A2 sized maroon top fold cardbase.
Hope you like it!
Now, hop onto my fellow designers’ blog and have visual treat!!
SathyaKala (You are here)
Thanks for stopping by!
Happy Hopping!

PowerPoppy Quiet Christmas Release : Enchanted Branches – Nativity

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 Hi Crafty pals,

Today we have our second launch of PowerPoppy’s Quiet Christmas Release. And for today is Enchanted Branches, which is available in both Digital and Clear Stamp versions.

My take on Enchanted Branches Digital stamp

  • Printed the digis as shown above.
  • Colored using the prisma colored pencils.
  • The berries are topped with glossy accents.
  • Once dried, fussy cut around the branches and matted over a blue A2 sized cardbase.
Hope you like it!
Now hop onto my fellow Designers’ blogs to have Visual treat!
Edited  
SathyaKala (You are here)
Thanks for stopping by!
Happy Hopping!

PowerPoppy Quiet Christmas Release : Mossy Pots with Paperwhites

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 Hi Craft peeps:

As Power Poppy Design Team member, We, Bloom Brigade designers are hopping for this Quiet Christmas Release. As always Marcella’s amazing illustrations and fellow-designers’ cards are such delightful.

There’s gonna be a series of illustrations both in Digital and Clear stamp sets.

First up for today is Mossy Pots with Paperwhites



  • Printed the Baubles and floral digi onto the cardstock.
  • Colored using Prisma colored pencils.
  • Fussy cut and mounted onto the Dark blue A2 sized card base.
  • Die cut the sentiment with oval die.
  • Mounted onto the cardbase using adhesive tape.
  • Wrapped a blue satin ribbon around the coloured image a finishing touch.
Hope you like it!
Now hop to every stop and enjoy the awesomeness churned by my Fellow Designers.
SathyaKala  (You are here)

Thanks for stopping by!
Happy Hopping!!

Easel Slider card : Amazing Paper Grace + Spellbinders

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 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!!