"Christmas Festival Card Set" with Mintay Papers

 Hi Everyone

I love teaching card classes at my local store and one of my favourite ranges to create with for my classes is Mintay.  Everyone knows me for my fussy cutting so their fussy cutting sheets are perfect.

Using the Fall Festival paper range I created a card set of Christmas Cards.

 

 

It was so nice to create a set of cards that didn't use traditional Christmas colours of Red and Green. 

The burgundy teamed together with white, beautiful cafe latte colours and gold made this one a very popular kit. And even more so I had such a great time creating the cards.

 

 

The cards were created using the 12x12 paper pack (only used 1 set of the papers with spares) and the fussy cutting cut apart sheet.  It was teamed with gorgeous gold mirror board from Couture Creations and 'Juneberry' coloured cardstock from Bazzill.  The gorgeous die cuts were the small mistletoe die from Paper Rose and the Christmas sentiment dies are from Creative Expressions.

 

 

Other kit inclusions were the flowers and white seam binding which was coloured with a matching ink for a couple of the cards.

 

 

 

 Thanks for stopping by.

Enjoy whatever you create.

Anita E

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Harmony by Mintay Card Set

Hi Everyone

I love teaching card classes at my local Papercraft store and am known now for my love of fussy cutting.  Mintay Papers have the most beautiful papers to fussy cut and this range and I love creating this card set with the Harmony range of papers. This ended up being a very popular class and why wouldn't it be with such beautiful papers to work with.

I used both the 6x6 paper pad as well as a couple of 12x12 papers for these cards. The frame dies were Spellbinders and the gorgeous leave were from the Find Paradise range by BEE ARTY.

 Here are a couple of close up of the 5 cards.

 

 

 

Thanks for stopping by.

Don't forget to keep the craft alive.

 

 

Anita

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"Loveland" Collection Card Set

Hi Guys

I thought I would share with you a card set that I created using the Scrap Boys Collection LOVELAND.  It is such a pretty collection with lovely pinks and purples teamed with green.

For this set I used 1 set of the 6x6" paper pad.  In each of the pads there are four sets of six papers which is great.  I also used the fussy cutting or cut apart 12x12" sheet.

Before creating card collections using the fussy cutting sheet I always cut out every image so that I can great the cards quicker without having to stop and cut out the images I want for each card.  I find it keeps the ideas flowing if I have everything I need ready to go.

For Card 1 I used a tall card base rotated on it's side for something different.

I used a gorgeous metal die from a Spellbinders set, along with a clear strand of pearls, unbranded flowers and some white seam binding that I coloured using a matching ink pad from my stash.  I find just having white seam binding as a staple in my collection very handy as I can then colour it to match my creations.

Card 2 was created using a 5x7" card base.  Again I used a Spellbinders die, coloured seam binding, clear pearl strand, flowers and heaps of fussy cutting.  On al these cards I also used my shimmer pen in clear to add a nice light sparkle to the images without being over the top glittery.

For Card 3 I used an A6 card base, again using the same products as the previous two cards.

There was plenty of bits and pieces left to keep going with more cards.

Thanks for stopping by

Anita E

Products Used

Scrap Boys - Loveland

Ultimate Crafts Cardstock - Snow White - ULT200001

Ultimate Crafts Cardstock - Royal - ULT200086

Bazzill Cardstock - Pinkini

Seam Binding

Flowers

Clear Pearl Strand

Adhesives

Glue

Matching purple ink pad

Shimmer Pen - eg Wink of Stella, Colour Blast, Uniquely Creative etc.

You Will Forever Be My Always | Bee Arty

Hi Everyone, back with you today sharing my latest creation for Bee Arty blog using the beautiful range Forever My Always designed by Fiona Paltridge.

 

I gathered all my pieces together prior to starting.  My layout was a white cardstock base. 

Taking the Diamond metal die, cut out two in a rose gold foil cardstock. Cut a strip of navy cardstock approximately 1" in size. More navy cardstock is used to mount your photo,

I was lucky enough to have some lace already coloured to match the papers.  If you don't you can always colour some white lace with an ink that matches.  One colour in the Colour Blast range that will work beautifully is Bling.

On the Heart Beat patterned paper there is a fine black line that runs slightly to the right of the centre of the page.  Place the paper in your trim and cut along this line.

Take the smaller piece (the large piece is not required) and place it on the white cardstock to the left edge.  With a pencil make a couple of marks where the paper ends.  Use this as a guide as to where to do your stenciling.

Next, take the My Lady A4 stencil, place the floral part of the stencil, centred vertically, at the marks that you made where the patterned paper was ending. Apply Heavy White Gesso over the stencil.

Whilst the gesso is still very wet, sprinkle some of both the Steel and Just Blue Embossing powder over the gesso. Using your heat gun set the embossing powder.  If you like a textured look to the gesso, keep the heat on the gesso until it bubbles, but be careful not to hold the gun too close or you could scorch your cardstock.

Once you have set the gesso, attach the Heart Beat patterned paper to the left side of the white cardstock.  Attach your lace against the right edge of the patterned paper, then take the strip of navy cardstock and apply over the seam of the patterned paper and the lace.

Mount your photo on to some navy cardstock and then add 3D foam tape/dots to the reverse. My photo was printed with a border so if you like do a double mat.  

I added 3D foam tape/dots to the reverse of the photo prior to mounting on the navy cardstock. So there was two layers of 3D foam tape/dots. Add the photo to the layout.  For this layout I created the cluster whilst attached to the layout.

Add the two Diamond die cuts to the photo. Add a selection of fussy cut pieces from the Cut Apart sheet.  Mount some on 3D foam tape/dots to get depth to the layout.

The title used for the layout came from the Heart and Soul patterned paper, again mounted.

I finished the layout with a raw wood veneer. 

Below are a few closeups of my finished layout.

PRODUCTS USED

Forever My Always Collection

Heart Beat - patterned paper

Heart and Soul - patterned paper

Gentle Heart - cut apart sheet

Diamond - metal die

My Lady - A4 Stencil

Colour Blast Mixed Media

Steel - Embossing Powder

Just Blue - Embossing Powder

Heavy White Gesso

Other Products

Navy Cardstock

White Cardstock

Lace

Adhesives

Rose Gold Foil Cardstock

Thank you for stopping by.

Make sure you get some 'me' time in every week.

Take Care for Now,

Anita E

 

"My Sweet Provence" card set

Hi Everyone, I thought I would share with you a recent set of card that I created for a Card Class that I taught at Bella Paperie in North Brisbane.

It is great to be able to teach fellow crafters, share my knowledge and also learn a thing or two from them too.

The cards used the A4 paper pad from the "My Sweet Provence" collection from Lemoncraft, along with the purple and green butterfly fussy cutting cards and standard card bases.

The first card was a standard square card that used layers of created banners of patterned paper layered on white cardstock.  A fussy cut wreath and flowers from the A4 paper pad along with some gorgeously coloured venise lace, gauze, flowers and some pretty adhesive pearl and cute butterflies finished off the card beautifully.

My second can added touches of lace and a gorgeous paper doily to the fussy cutting.  The A4 paper pad in this collection comes with a sheet full of sentiments which was fantastic and the perfect size for your cards..  Keep an eye out for these sheets in other collections. 

Card three I just had to use the bicycle.  Don't you just love it.

For the fourth card I decided to go with a tall card.  This was the first time I had included one in my class and it came out great.  It was also the perfect size for the patterned papers in the A4 pad that had a lot of details along the edges of the paper.  It allowed me to fussy cut the detail and layer it up.

 I love making cards of all different sizes.  This last one is 5x7" in size.  I embossed the patterned paper with a fern embossing folder.

Thank you for stopping by and checking out my cards.


Anita
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Fabulous | Colour Blast by Bee Arty

Hi Everyone, back today sharing my latest blog post for Colour Blast by Bee Arty.

From the moment I first saw Forever My Always collection from the very talented Fiona Paltridge, I couldn't wait to get my hands on the range.

All Colour Blast products were from the Queen Bee kit.

So for the layout today and the my gorgeous photo I knew my background just had to a white base.

To start I cut my white cardstock down to 11"x11".
After applying a sealing coat of Heavy White Gesso to my cardstock I then apply gesso through the My Lady A4 stencil from the collection but only the flowers. Whilst the gesso was still wet I sprinkled the Sahara Sand Embossing Powder over the gesso and then dried it off with my heat gun.  I added some good heat in several spots to make it bubble.

Once I finished heat embossing the gesso and the cardstock was totally dry I mounted this on to the patterned paper that was the reverse side of the cover page of the paper pack.

Next I fussy cut all the pieces from the Gentle Heart page so I had everything ready to go to create my layering around my photo.  Using my Versamark pen I drew around the edges of a couple of the leaves and then heat embossed the Sahara Sand Embossing Powder  giving a nice glittery edge to the leaves.

 

I blinged up some of the natural cotton ribbon with the Bling Shimmer Spray that was part of the Queen Bee collection kit.

 

To create my cluster I sprayed some book paper with the Bling Shimmer Spray and quickly dried it off with my heat gun.  I die cut one of the Diamond Metal Die using the X & O patterned paper from the collection. I mounted my photo on some cardboard before added the book paper to the back along with the die cut, a paper doily and several of the fussy cuts flowers from the cut apart sheet.

After attaching it to my layout I then added some of the cotton ribbon to the top and bottom undersides of the photo.

Next I used the "Fabulous" chipboard sentiment from the kit and added the gorgeous Sahara Sand Embossing Powder to it, heat setting it. From my stash I die cut the My Flower Metal Die from the collection on some match gold cardstock.

I then finished it off with a couple of the small navy flowers, a little wood veneer sentiment, a flair button, a few little matching adhesive gemstones, and a Charms Creations heart embellishment that I had lightly sprayed with the Bling Shimmer Spray along with a few Bling droplets over the white cardstock.

Check out are a couple of closeups of my layout.

Thanks again for stopping by.

Don't forget to share your creations on the Bee Arty Creative Hive Facebook page we love to see what you create as well.

Ciao for now,
Anita E

"Lovely" cards | Mintay Papers

Hi Everyone

I have been going through my creations of late and realised that I haven't posted some of them, yes, that is why there are two for today.  

Working full time and then trying to fit everything else in to the remaining time sometimes things get forgotten.

My share here is several cards that I created using the Lovely collection of papers from Mintay Papers. 

Enjoy :)

The first card was a special order for a special lady. The card was 6x6" and came with a decorated envelope. For my sentiment I also incorporated some foiling using the GoPress and Foil Machine.

These cards were a set for a class that I did at Bella Paperie.  I even had to take a photo of them on display at the store because Debra always displays everything so beautifully.

Again the fussy cutting and layers of flowers and embellishments have really showcased these beautiful papers.

 

I hope these have inspired you to find some 'me' time to enjoy what you love.

Enjoy your week