Category: diecuts

Background Bonanza | Camp Create | MFT

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 Hiya All,

Participating in MFT Camp Create : Background Bonanza.

As my MFT supplies are so very limited, I got to put on my thinking cap to bring about a background using my single die set apart I own from my A2 stitched Rec frame die set.

Over to my card,

I made this MFT leaf greenery die set as hero of this card. I die cut 2 variety of sprigs few times from white cs and pasted over the entire white focal panel and die cut it using MFT A2 stitched Rec Stax largest diecut. Love this faux embossed look of the focal panel.

Then diecut few more different sprigs from ink blended panel using various Distress ink greens. 

Made a cluster onto the panel as shown and topped the sentiment strip with foam adhesive.

Matted over a white A2 sized top fold cardbase and then added few enamel dots in different sizes and green shades to finish off the card.

Hope you like it! 

There is still time to play along the ongoing challenge. Check MFT blog for more details. 

Happy Crafting!!

Linking this to MFT Delightful Diecutting too.

Delightful Diecutting | Leafy Greenery – MFT

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 Hi everyone,

This year am participating in MFT Camp create .Today joined for Delightful Diecutting using MFT A2 Stitched Rec Stax dies and Leafy Greenery Dies.

I stacked the MFT A2 Stitched Rec dies leaving biggest and a middle sized ones and diecut a white panel. Flipped over and put washi tapes to secure those in their places.

Then took a white panel and ink blended rainbow colors and diecut using a small die from MFT Leafy Greenery die set. Diecut few vellum sprigs from the same die. 

Added the diecut stax dies on a A2 sized top folding Off white cardbase using foam adhesive. Arranged the leafy diecuts as rainbow wreath as shown above. White heat embossed sentiment is topped over the wreath. As a final touch, added enamel dots onto the inkblended rainbow wreath.

Hope you like my card.

There is still time to play along the ongoing challenge. Check MFT blog for more details. 

Happy Crafting!!

Linking this card to MFT Background bonanza too as I made the background using MFT stitched dies.

Elegant Roses | Brutus Monroe

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Hi Friends,

Am happy to share my card today made for Brutus Monroe blog as their Brand Ambassador.
Over to my card,

  • Took gold mirror cardstock and diceut it using Brutus Monroe Rose Corner die set . Then I backed it with thick vellum cardstock and fussy cut it around the rose die cut. 
  • I have die cut love scripty word die from Brutus Monroe With Love die set thrice in gold mirror cardstock and layered it up to give an extra dimension.
  • It’s time to assemble the card. Took an A2 sized top fold Ivory cardbase. Splashed generously gold acrylic paint on one corner of the card as shown. Left it to air dry completely and then foam mounted the gold rose corner diecut on the cardbase. This gives a raised effect and the die cut looks beautiful with the vellum backing. 
  • Finally added the scripty love word die using the liquid adhesive over the gold splashed corner of the card as shown.
Hope you like it!
Head over to the blog to check product links.
Thanks for stopping by!
The Flower challenge : Add spots or strips (Added gold acrylic splatters)

(Rose corner die is new and Love scripty word die had in my stash)

Part of You | Darkroom door

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 Hi Friends,

Made a card today in my non-floral card series. Yup, just an ink blending and die cutting taking centre stage with an awesome quote.

Over to my card,

  • Took a watercolored cardstock, ink blended using Distress oxides : Bundle Sage and Worn lipstick as shown.
  • Diecut the ink blended panel and White cardstock with Spellbinders Elegant Twist Oval Die.
  • Die cut hearts from the ink blended panel with Hero Arts Love & Heart die.
  • Then hand cut small fish tail banners from the ink blended panel.
  • Matted all as shown using adhesive on the ink blended panel.
  • Then the oval panel is matted onto Rosewood colored A2 top fold cardbase using foam adhesive.
  • Few pearls added as final touch.
Hope you like this simple card.
Thanks for stopping by!
Happy Crafting!

Favorite projects of 2020

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 Hi Craftypeeps,

Heading towards 2021 and I take up this moment to thank all the souls who took out time to like, comment on my projects over my blog here and in my other social media links.

Your words means a lot to me and that is the driving force into my crafty passion.

Sharing here few of my projects in different interests as favorite 9s in collages.

First collage showcases my WaterColoring interest 🙂


This showcases my Pencil Coloring interest 🙂 

This collage showcases my Diecut Projects 🙂 

This showcases my Calligraphy Interest 🙂 


Hope you like as much as I love it!

Happy Crafting!

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 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

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 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