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WATERSIDE RETREAT

This week I am featuring the Waterside Retreat Suite Collection.

167932 $120.50 (AUD)

Although most of my projects this week have been created as masculine in nature, today’s project is designed as a home decor piece.

When I get to Ikea and restock my shadow box frames, this project will be placed in a white frame and given to a daughter for her home.

After seeing the Designer Series Paper page with all the seagulls in flight, I knew what I wanted to create.

I used three of these pages – one for the background and the other two for lots and lots of fussy cut birds.

The fussy cut birds were layered onto the base page – some once and others twice, using mini dimensionals.

I love the way that the layered birds add both depth and movement to the page.

The great thing about fussy cutting is that you canwatch a streamed movie at the same time.

Once this page is popped inside a white shadow box frame and put on a wall this project will definitely ‘fly’.

Tomorrow I have a great masculine birthday card to share with you.

Until then, happy stamping and memory keeping.

If you live in Australia, you can order any of the products I used to make this card by going to my online store. Just click on any of the images below.

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A WEDDING GIFT FOR MY NEPHEW & HIS FIANCE

Monday posts are usually related to memory keeping. Today’s is about the start of new memories. My nephew, Will, is marrying his fiance, Madison, in September on a beach in Noosa.

After we received our invitation I contacted him and asked if would like me to create ‘thank you’ cards for them to send to their guests as a part of our wedding gift to them. I was delighted when they accepted my offer.

I created five different cards and asked them to tell me what style, layout, colours, textures, embellishments and greeting that they wanted.

They let me know that they wanted card #1 – my first and favourite design.

A week later, and after lots and lots of die cutting and embossing, I packed the 55 cards needed into decorated boxes and sent posted them.

I am looking forward to joining them, firends and family, in mid-September.

The basic recipe for this card – Thick Basic White card base; Peaceful Pine background layer; a Soft Waves embossed Thick Basic White layer; 8 Boutique Blossoms Die cut leaf stems in Basic White, Peaceful Pine and vellum; Words & Wishes die cut ‘thank you’ in Peaceful Pine & Basic White; and, white Shimmering Dots.

Will and Madison have 50 guests, so I made 55 cards – if they are anything like me, there will be some messy writing or errors.

I repurposed some empty kit boxes so that it looked like I was sending a gift.

Now for the tally – 55 Thick Basic White card bases, 55 Peaceful Pine background layers, 55 embossed Basic White layers, 445 die cut leaf stems (8 per card), 220 separate die cuts to create 55 ‘thank you’ greetings, 165 white Shimmering Dots, 55 x 24″ lengths of Linen Thread, and 55 envelopes.

I’m sure that I am not the only person who has created a gift of love for someone in their life.

This project is a way for me to show my nephew that we are still connected in a very meaningful way.

It is wonderful that my paper crafting can allow me to do this.

Toomorrow I will start sharing some projects using the Waterside Retreat Suite.

Until then, happy stamping and memorykeeping.

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FRIDAY FUN – A NOTEBOOK & A WINDOW GIFT BOX

I don’t have a Fun Fold card for you today but two other fun projects to share.

As I mentioned at the beginning of the week, I wanted to highlight the Velvet Meadow Specialty Designer Series Paper.

I knew as soon as I saw the DSP that I wanted to cover a notebook and I did!

I bought a two pack of A5 notebooks and used one of them as the base for this project.

The front and back flaps were covered with these DSP panels.

After carefully folding in the overlaps, I adhered them down. Then I added a panel of Berry Burst card inside the front and back notebook flaps.

I used the wonderful new Simple Alphabet Stamp Set to create the title for my notebook – “noted”.

The title was stamped in Peaceful Pine on Basic White card and was then cut using one of the Branching Out Dies.

This was then adhered to a Berry Burst panel that was cut using the next larger die.

A length of Berry Burst Shiny Ribbon was secrued to the back of the notebook and then wrapped around to create a securely tied bow.

The title label was then attached over the ribbon using Stampin’ Dimensionals.

My last project for the week is a decorated scallop window box.

For this project I cut a panel of the flocked DSP and cut out a scallop to coordinate with the window box.

Then I cut a Berry Burst scalloped layer.

After I adhered these layers to the top of the box I began decorating.

I used the Flowering Meadows Dies and the Velveteen Assortment Specialty Paper to create the flowers and leaves to decorate the top of the window box.

After stamping, punching and attaching the greeting I tied a small bow using the Bubble Bath Faux Linen Ribbon.

I hope that you have liked my projects this week – leave a message to let me know.

Next week I will feature another amazing new suite collection.

Until then, happy stamping and memory keeping.

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