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TUESDAY IS THE TIME FOR TIPS & TECHNIQUES WITH YOUR CARD MAKING EXPERIENCE

Today I have a card, featuring the soon-to-be-released Painterly Pears Suite Collection, and three great techniques to share with you.

The techniques are: DRY EMBOSSING, HEAT EMBOSSING and ALCOHOL INK COLOURING.

For this card I started with a Mossy Meadow landscape card base.

Then I DRY EMBOSSED a piece of Basic White card using the Mini Corrugated 3D Embossing Folder.

For the five pears and leaves, I stamped the images using Versamark and the clear embossing powder from the Basics WOW! Embossing Powder.

After HEAT EMBOSSING the images, I die cut the shapes.

I coloured each of the pears and leaves using Stampin’ Blends – ALCOHOL INK COLOURING.

I used several Stampin’ Blends to colour each of the pears and leaves – Daffodil Delight, Mossy Meadow, Old Olive and Real Red.

A length of Mossy Meadow & Gold Trim was wrapped around the corrugated white panel. Then, using Mini Glue Dots, I positioned the pears under and above the ribbon. Each of the leaves were then added at the top of each pear.

I took another length of the ribbon and cut it into strips – using the ‘Tammy technique’. These strips were then tied into a bow and secured to the front of the card.

The greeting was stamped and trimmed, with a banner end, before I added it to the card front.

Finally I added some Flower Accents to the card.

The card insert and back of the envelope each had the double pear image stamped.

Tomorrow I have another card project to share with you.

Until then, happy stamping and scrapbooking.

If you live in Australia, you can order any of the products I used to make this card by going to my online store. As you read through this post, you will see the products I used for this project. The new Online Exclusive items are available from July 2025.

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MONDAY MEANS THAT IT’S TIME TO KEEP MEMORIES ALIVE

This week I am featuring the Painterly Pears Suite Collection (166159). It is a soon-to-be released Online Exclusive.

Yesterday, MDB (my darling boy) and I celebrated our 40th wedding anniversary.

I decided to make a memory decor item that I could add a photo of our day and place on our sideboard.

Ikea has two different sizes in their shadow frames … in both black and white. I always have some on hand just in case I have a decor project in mind.

I started with a 9 3/4″x 9 3/4″ piece of the Secret Sea checked DSP that I adhered to a piece of thick cardboard to ensure stability. Then I cut one of the designs from the Designer Series Paper to 8″x 8″ and glued it to the Secret Sea layer.

A 6 1/4″x 4 1/4″ Daffodil Delight panel, with a 6″x 4″ Basic White panel, was adhered to the DSP layer. This is the place that I will add a photo from our anniversary celebration.

I used the Alphabet A La Mode Dies and Secret Sea card to cut the title. The card stock had Adhesive Sheet on the back making it so much easier to position and secure the title.

Using the Perfectly Pears Dies, I cut one of the larger and pair of pears from one of the DSP sheets. Then I cut 8 of each of these shapes from Secret Sea card and layered them on top of each other to create the higher pear images. These were then adhered to the decor design.

Finally, I tied a bow using a length of Mossy Meadow and Gold Trim and secured it with a Mini Glue Dot.

For our anniversary we have two trips planned – one in October and another in February next year. So we decided not to exchange gifts on the day. I hope this decor memory project will ensure we remember the day.

Tomorrow I have a card showcasing a great colouring technique.

Until then, happy stamping and scrapbooking.

If you live in Australia, you can order any of the products I used to make this card by going to my online store. As you read through this post, you will see the products I used for this project. The new Online Exclusive items are available from July 2025.

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TIME FOR SOME FRIDAY FUN

Friday is usually my funfold day but today it is just going to be a fun card.

I enjoy making shaker cards but first I have two super simple cards for you.

For all three cards today I have used Basic White card bases and Night of Navy panels.

The first navy panel was cut using the rainbow die and I placed one of the Boho Vibes DSP designs under the die cut panel.

The greeting was stamped in Cajun Craze and was cut using one of the Stylish Shapes Dies. Then the ‘darling’ was stamped in Night of Navy before being cut down and placed over the original ‘good’.

For the second card I used the rainbow outline die and used a different DSP design to place under it.

The greeting panel was achieved in the same way before it was placed on the card front.

Then I made the shaker card.

For this card I took the same DSP design but cut it into strips. Each strip was adhered to a Basic White panel with the design being realigned – make sure that you take a good look to see what I did.

After cutting the rainbow outline I secured a panel of window sheet behind it. Then I added Foam Adhesive Strips around the shape.

I filled the space with Loose Gold Sequins and adhered the card base to it.

This week has been fun featuring the Boho Vibes Suite Collection – and I only used two of the dies.

Next week is still in the decision making phase – you will have to wait until Monday to discover what products I will be featuring.

Until then, happy stamping and scrapbooking.

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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