Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas

Christmas is coming and it's time to start making the cards.

We are starting off with a shaker card that would be a great card to make 

to use up patterned paper left overs.

Sara has made this card using the new Sue Wilson sentiment die called

'Merry little Christmas' and die cut it in gold. It is then cut out again in a larger piece of white card so that the gold words could be placed inside the white die cut.

Sara used spellbinders circle nesting dies to create the shaker part and glittered around the circle,

we all love a bit of glitter at Christmas :)

Three different pieces of coordinating patterned papers are used for the backing.
From the Snowflake Edger die Sara has used the star border to cut out tiny stars for the shaker contents.

Some of the products used, are:

circle nesting dies

My Mind's Eye pad

Snowflake Edger

Sentiment die

mirror card

December 25th

Love the idea of this card that Sara has made using pieces of paper to make a present stack.

Sara has made each present box by using different colours of card and a scallop punch for a dainty white trim and made three sizes to stack on top of each other.

Ribbon is used over all three presents and a tag and charm attached to make a super and effective Christmas card.

You could use lots of left over pieces of card for this or has Sara as done,use the
My Mind's Eye accessories pad - Winter Wonderland, that comes with papers and tags.

With different papers you could make this a card for any occasion.

Products used are:

star dust

charms

date stamp

My Mind's Eye accessories pad - Winter wonderland

card blanks

Chrysanthemums

I love the colours of this pretty card by Sara using Sue Wilson dies.

Sara has created a aperture in the card using the Eternal Rings die by Sue Wilson.

Coloured card is used behind the aperture and pearls added to the flower centres to create

a truly pretty panel.

Flowers have been die cut and build up using the Sue Wilson Chrysanthemum die and the leaves are die cut from the Spring Foliage set.

Micro Beads are used to make the centre of the flowers and give a lovely effect.

The sentiment is from a Woodware clear stamp set called Jane's Script and is a lovely sentiment set with words perfect for many occasions and a lovely size to stamp onto cards.

Products used for this card include:

Chrysanthemum die set

Eternal Rings

Hobby House Pearls

Spring Foliage

Micro Beads

Jane's Script clear stamp set

Sara's Butterfly Magic

Today we have a very pretty card with lacey butterflies and a glittery background.

For this card Sara has removed a panel from the right side of the card and replaced with acetate.  Then on the right hand inside of the card, added a strip of glittery card so that it shows through acetate when the card is revealed out of the envelope.

A pretty border punch and ribbon add a elegant touch to the left side of the card.

The products used for this card include:

Ribbon and small pearls

coloured card stock

and

Cascading butterflies

Floral lace punch

Thick acetate

Cascading Butterflies

This card from Sara is a very pretty card and also as a touch of sparkle to it.  We all love a bit of sparkle :)

Sara has used the Meridian corner die to die cut two corners of a piece of lilac card, then used the butterflies outline die in the centre.

On some white card she has then cut a full set of the butterflies dies and replaced the pieces back in the lilac card base.

Using adhesive film and glitter a sparkling background has been created and then placed behind the lilac card.

Ribbon and pearls add a finishing touch to card.

Products used include:

Meridian edger

Adhesive film

Cascading butterflies

Glamour Dust

Card and envelopes

With Love

"Pretty in Pink" is the card for today.

Sara has made this beautiful card using just pink and white cardstock and dies.

The base is a 8x8 card and a pink slightly smaller piece of card is used for the first layer.

Sara has then die cut the heart design (from standard heart nestie) out of a slightly smaller piece of white card.

Using the Tim holtz mixed media die set she has die cut the fancy corner out of white card and used this behind the heart with some pink backing.  Doesn't it look really effective?

Shows how versatile the mixed media dies sets are.  And how you can mix and match outline dies with fancy detailed details.  Loving it :)

Then to finish off the card, Sara has used the Sue Wilson Spring Foliage die set from the Finishing Touches range and also some lace, glitter and cute ribbon.   Notice how there are 3 shades of the pink flowers and each one has a pearl center - looks so elegant.

Some of the products used for this card, include :-

Spring Foliage

Mixed Media #2

Cascading Butterflies

Classic Hearts

Self-adhesive Lace

Pearls

Good Luck

A Good Luck card for today made by Sara Rosamond.

 

This is a really lovely and quick card to make and a great way to use the Sue Wilson

Easter Basket die set in a very unusal way. Similar to our previous post where Sara has used the basket handle for the Hot Air Balloon, she's been thinking more outside the box basket and come up with this gem - using the basket handle upside down for a horseshoe.

Thin, 3mm, ribbon is then threaded through and a brad used to make it look like it is hanging on the card.

A die cut of a little black cat is featured in corner and comes from the Sue Wilson kinetics 3D window box die set to finish off card.  

Beautifully simplistic for any Good Luck occasion you need to create a card for. 

Thanks for the inspiration Sara :)

See some of Sara's other artwork on her blog : "inky fingers"

Products used on this Good Luck card, are-

Sue Wilson kinetics Easter Basket set 

Sue Wilson kinetics 3D window box accessories set

6x6 white cards and envelopes

Hobby House pearls

3D window box accessories set

Easter Basket set

Hobby House Pastel Pearls

8x8 white cards and envelopes

Up Up and Away

The card we have today is a fun card that would be great for men's cards if you were a little uncertain as to what to make, or prehaps someone taking on a new venture.

Created by Sara, she has used the Sue Wilson Easter Basket set to make the basket for the Hot Air Balloon, and just used the patterned basket part of the die cut. 

To create the balloon itself, Sara has used the basket handle from the same die set and edged the die cut shapes with string/twine.

The background clouds are made using the cloud stencil kit and tumbled glass distress ink.

A sentiment has been created by stamping out the letters from the Hampton art alphabet set and using thread to create a kite tail look.

Products used - 

Sue Wilson kinetics: Easter basket set

Hampton art: alphabet set

cloud stencil kit

8"x8" cards and envelopes in white

kraft card

Distress ink: - tumbled glass

Easter Wishes

Although Easter as been and gone for this year, I wanted to share with you couple of beautiful projects that Sara had created.  Firstly this lovely Easter card with a Sue Wilson die called Kinetics Easter Basket.

The clouds and grass are die cut from Doo Hickey dies and Sara has used tumbled glass distress ink to edge clouds as well as adding a little glitter too.

This Kinetics Easter Basket die also comes with a rabbit, bow and patterned eggs too.

I love this 3D version of the basket where Sara has turned it into an Easter table favour and added chocolate Easter eggs.  You could easily used this die to make a basket and fill with flowers for a card for anytime of the year or other gifts like a couple of nail polishes as a thank you to a friend, or sugar almonds as the classic wedding table favour. 
Sara has threaded ribbon through the handle, the design will take 3mm ribbon and not alot of it so get chance to sort through your ribbon stash and use up some left overs.

I do like the chocolate idea personally 'Yum Yum'

Products used are over both projects are:

Kinetics Easter basket by Sue Wilson

Sue Wilson kinetics window box and accessories (butterflies) 

8x8 blank cards and envelopes

Distress ink pad in tumbled glass

Magnolia Doohickey grass die

Magnolia doohickey Flag and cloud die

Presscut nesting dies in squares

Time

A variation of the same theme from our previous post.  This super card made by Sara features lots of creative detail:

A piece of black card as been embossed and then gilding wax used to highlight embossing for the base layer.

Another piece of black card is used and the large corner die from 'Tim Holtz Gearhead dies' is used on four corners.

The die cut is removed and gilding wax used on them and they are then replaced back in corners.

More single cogs have been die cut and waxed for decoration.

The centre clock is die cut several times and stuck together to give thickness and also gilding wax used on it.

Tim Holtz tissue wrap is used behind the black card.

The clock hands even move so you can put what time you like on the clock.

products used are - 

Tim Holtz - gearhead die set

pebeo - gilding wax

creative expressions - gilding wax

embossing folder - texture linen

Tim Holtz idea-ology - tissue wrap-melange

My creative spirit - black card

Marianne design - clock

Passing of Time

We have another beautiful card made by Sara today using dies cuts and gilding wax.

For the background Sara as used medical gauze that she coloured with distress ink refills and pulled threads of it to give a frayed look.

Tim Holtz gear head dies are used to die cut cogs from a large piece of black card that is cut slightly smaller than card base.

The cogs have had gilding wax put on them and then put back in black card.

Text paper was used behind black card so that it shows through cogs.

Sara has then die cut the large corner group of cogs and some leaves and flowers out of black card.

The flowers are made from the dies cuts and all pieces have had gilding wax used on them.

The following products are used-

Tim Holtz - gearhead dies

sizzix bigz die - tattered florals

sizzix bigz die - tattered pinecone

Sue Wilson - faux quilled leaves

clock charm

My creative spirit - black card

Hot glue gun

pebeo gilding wax - empire gold

Disco Fever

Sara (Inky Fingers) has made this fabulous card by using the Sue Wilson arched window/door die and turning it into a juke box.  Talk about thinking outside the box!

It really shows that we can use dies in others ways if we look carefully, I would never have thought of using it as a juke box but it works brilliantly.

The records have been made using various circle dies and a personalized record sleeve finishes it perfectly.

The wavy triple border gems looks great teamed with the notes die cut from a Marianne Designs die called musical notes.

Products used are:

Sue Wilson dies:
CED22002 window shutter 

CED22001 arched window
Sue Wilson die Eternal rings (used for front of juke box) CED1606

Spellbinders nestabilities circles

Cafe Parisian 12x12 paper pad 

Marianne Designs Musical Notes

Triple wavy gem border
8x8 card blanks