Sharing my love of all things paper-craft: Card making, Scrapbooking, Gift Boxes, Invitations, Party Favours, Craft Supplies and more. (Formally Stampin'Fantastic)
I made this fun card for my daughter in law, Holly. Her and I love doing the daily New York times wordle. We, along with a few others, have a group chat about our results each day. It is a bit of fun and so I thought this card would be perfect for her.
The colours I used were Garden Green, Basic Gray and Bumblebee. The letters are from Stampin’ Up!’s playful alphabet dies, which are now retiring and are available while stocks last. Contact me to place an order. (NZ only). The boxes aren’t quite square. I made them to fit our NZ card size of an A5 folded in half. They measure 2.5 x 2.8 cm.
I made this Easter card using the gorgeous Easter Friends stamp set. It has three very cute animals. This bunny, a duckling and a wee chick.
For this Happy Easter card, I used the flower image from Forever Blossoms and heat embossed with white embossing powder, then sponged over it with Poppy Parade, Flirty Flamingo and Crumb Cake inks. I stamped the bunny image in Early Espresso ink and sponged it lightly with a dauber using Cinnamon Cider ink and Flirty Flamingo for the nose and cheeks. The eggs are made with a retired die from the Backyard Basics dies. I stamped them with images from the retired Work of Art stamp set. The little hexagon egg is stamped using a mini dimensional. I adhered the dimensional onto the end of a marker pen and pressed it in to my ink pad and stamped.
I also made some very quick Easter gift boxes using the Stampin’ Up! Gold foil mini treat boxes and strip of DSP and a punched circle with the chick stamped on it.
These were gifts at a recent Craft group that I taught at.
These little treat boxes are just the right size for my favourite marshmallow eggs. They have a hanging loop so if you had a little Easter tree, you could also hang them.
Any of the items you see listed here can be purchased through me. (New Zealand customers only). Check out my online shop here… http://www.rhondafawcett.stampinup.net
I have been doing some more simple scrapbooking by putting my recent holiday pics in an album. I am loving using the Stampin’ Up! mini 6 x 8 album with the pocket pages as it is super quick to get photos in.
I used the Many Messages bundle to add some wording and new Abstract Beauty Ephemera Pack to add some embellishment.
People have asked me how do I scrapbook the large portrait photos when our 6 x 8 albums don’t have pockets for them.
Well, I used to try and cut them down to fit into a small pocket or just put them in the large pocket sideways but neither of those options were ideal. But good news is that I have found a way to print two portrait size photos together on to one landscape 6 x 4 photo.
Here’s how: I use two apps on my Samsung phone. One is printicular which sends my photos straight to my nearest Warehouse Stationery to get printed. The kind staff at Warehouse Stationery loaded the app on my phone for me. The other app is Canva and this is where I edit my photos.
I open canva app. At the top blue banner, I go along until I find the … more button, then select photo collage.
Select a free template that doesn’t have too many elements in it. Click on the photos and words and start deleting them, until you have only two photos left.
Click on the photos, one photo at a time and use the side bars and corners to move and enlarge both photos until they take up half the template each.
Then click replace, it should bring up photos from your phone’s photo gallery with which you can replace the photos, (one at a time).
Then click download and save (see photo above).
It will say, preparing your design. Then it will say “saved to gallery”.
You will find it in your photo gallery app under canva category. You can then open your printicular app and select photos to print.
I selected the photo below and once it is printed, I get an email from Warehouse Stationery to go and collect it. I cut it in half to fit in my album pockets and save money as I get two photos for price of one! 😄
Once you have made up this and saved it in Canva, you can next time go directly to your projects and swap out the two photos for two new ones. You won’t need to go through the whole process again.
I made this card recently for a team challenge where we had to have a go at making a pop up flower box card. I was pretty happy with how it turned out.
The card folds flat for posting.
Here is a close up of the Hydrangea on the card front. I love the matching dies which add so much detail and allow the petals to lift up for a 3 D effect. I added a drop of shimmery crystal effects in each flower centre.
Here is a different type of fold that I taught at a recent event. I first saw this fold in a card Jacque Williams had made and I have used it a few times now. This one features the Flowing Flowers stamp set which is in the new mini catalogue.
I have also used cotton ribbon, a brushed brass butterfly embellishment and a doily all from the new mini catalogue as well.
The papers are called Pattern Party and they are a hostess reward paper pack from the Annual catalogue.
Inside card
One technique we used was to apply gold foil leafing which really added a touch of elegance to these pretty flowers.
Stampin’ Up! have two of their own branded die cutting and embossing machines and they are both good value to own.
Not only are they sleek looking, compact and portable but they have some extra benefits which I talk about in my video.
A couple of things to know… The die cutting adapter plate that I show for the mother machine that has the extra height in the middle, is not a cutting surface. You still need to place your die on a clear plate. All the sandwich layer instructions are printed on the plates.
The mini machine doesn’t have this adapter plate because the rollers are much closer together the pressure is more evenly distributed. It is handy on your desktop as the majority of your dies will fit through it as well as a few selected narrow Stampin’ Up! embossing folders.
Stampin’ Up! has brought out this cute little ephemera pack which is perfect for scrapbooking. It has die cut shapes that you can stamp on, or use as frames or embellishments. Some are printed with gold foil. Some are even gold foil on vellum!
This little pack is my fave! AND it is only NZ $13.75 + shipping. It includes 60 diecut pieces.
Here is my finished 6 x 8 page.
I will be doing after school scrapbooking classes for kids, starting on Monday 28th February. Contact me for more information.
This was a quick card to make using the free Sale-a-bration papers, sunshine and rainbows. I hand cut the rainbows out of the Designer Series Paper and punched clouds out of the same paper.
The sentiment on the front is from another Sale-a-bration freebie called Special Moments
These cute little Otter stamps have been very popular and are one of the free stamp sets that you can earn when you spend NZ$110 on Stampin’ Up! products.
The background is made by inking up the embossing folder before embossing to highlight the pattern.
I love this time of year when Stampin’ Up! has the Sale-a-bration specials. I have earnt myself some freebies so over the next few days, I will show you what I have made with them.
This is a double panel gate fold card using the Friendly Hello Bundle. It is a beautiful stamp set with pretty, delicate images and coordinating papers in soft colours.
You can earn some freebies too with every NZ $110 spent. Visit my online store at http://www.rhondafawcett.stampinup.net or contact me for more information.
Little Paper Star - Rhonda Fawcett 