FOR YOUR MISTLE "TOES"

Hello, Welcome back everyone!

Today I’m sharing a quirky last minute gift bag idea with you all.

These gift bags are great if you’re in a hurry or for that forgotten present!

 

Inside each gift bag is a Essie Nail Polish, a manicure set and a small hand lotion.

This is a cute gift idea for anyone who enjoys pretty nails or just a bit of “me time”.

 

With my nail polish gift idea sorted I wanted a cute and quirky sentiment to match,

So as I’ve done with past projects, I designed my own digital sentiment using GIMP.

 

I printed my sentiment onto a sheet of Trophee Board White Linen 240 GSM Cardstock,

This paper holds up well to printing and leaves a clean ink impression on the cardstock.

To cut out my banner tag sentiment I’ve used the Stampin’ Up! Banners Framelits Dies.

 

The printed gift bag I’m using comes from the retired Stampin’ Up! Celebration Basics Kit,

Alternatively you could also use the Kraft Tag A Bag Gift Bags or Glassine Gift Bags that

Stampin’ Up! supplies, either of these bags would work well for this project.

 

For my “untraditional” mistletoe I used the MFT Die-namics Medium Leafy Flourish die,

Die cutting the mistletoe out of some gorgeous Stampin’ Up! Gold Glimmer Paper.

 

To assemble the gift bags I’ve attached the banner sentiment and gold mistletoe to the

top of the bag using a Heidi Swapp Gold Binder Clip to hold everything firmly in place.

 

A stunning last minute gift bag idea made with minimal supplies!

I hope this gives you some inspiration for that last minute gift.

 

Thanks so much for stopping by!

 

- project supply list -

 

STAMPIN' UP!

 

Gold Glimmer Paper

Banners Framelits Dies

Celebration Basics Kit - RETIRED

 

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MY FAVORITE THINGS

 

Die-namics - Medium Leafy Flourish

 

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OTHER SUPPLIES

 

Trophee Board - White Linen 240 GSM Cardstock

Heidi Swapp - MINC Collection - Gold Binder Clips



HEIDI SWAPP - FOILED MOTHER'S DAY CARD

Hello, welcome back everyone!

As most of you know Mother’s Day is only just around the corner, eek!

So for today’s card I thought I’d make a special card for my wonderful mum.

 

Today I’ll be using my Heidi Swapp Minc Foil Applicator Machine,

The Heidi Swapp Minc Foil Applicator Machine is a wonderful little gadget that allows you to add foil to paper, card stock, vellum, chipboard, and even thin wood veneer - this gives you so many possibilities to add foil to any of your crafting projects.

 

It works by heating the foil so it reacts with the toner on your project, permanently transferring the foil onto any area covered by toner, leaving the rest of the project foil free, this means you can use the Minc with the pre-printed Minc accessories and with any designs you print in black toner from your laser printer at home or your local copy shop.

 

Let’s get started, as always I started off by using my We R Memory Keepers Trim & Score Board to

trim down some Trophee Board White Linen 240 GSM cardstock, making an A2 top folding card.

 

Now onto the fun part, using the Heidi Swapp Minc Foil Applicator Machine!

First things first, you need to turn on your Minc to heat up, you also need to put it onto the right heat setting according to the different types of paper you are using, for the Heidi Swapp 5th Avenue 6 x 6 Paper Pad sheets it’s  a heat setting of 3.

 

While your Minc is heating up (it doesn’t take long) trim off some foil in your chosen colour, making it just slightly larger than your piece of paper you are going to be foiling, for my card design I chose gold, but you can use any colour you like and Heidi Swapp has a ton of beautiful foil colours to choose from.

 

Next open the transfer folder and lay you’re pattered paper inside, with the printed side up, place your piece of foil, foil side up onto your patterned paper, now gently close the transfer folder over the paper, making sure the paper and foil are still lined up, being careful to keep the foil smooth and unwrinkled.

 

Now you’re all set to feed the transfer folder into your Minc machine, the Minc’s rollers will grab the transfer folder and slowly pull it through the machine for you, just like a laminator would - don't force the folder through the machine or pull it out, just let it do its thing. =)

 

Once the folder has gone all the way through the Minc you can remove it, open the transfer folder and
slowly remove the foil from your paper, you now have a stunning shinny foiled piece of patterned paper !

 

Since this foiled paper is so stunning on it's own I wanted to keep my design pretty minimal, so I chose a plain black sentiment to go with my design, for today’s card I decided to use a really pretty modern brush calligraphy digital sentiment that I brought from Shutterstock.

 

I used my home printer and printed the sentiment out onto a sheet of Trophee Board White Linen 240 GSM cardstock, I then die cut my sentiment out using a stitched circle from the Lil Inker Designs, Stitched Mats Circle die set.

 

Now I know I said it was stunning on its own but I later decided to add another stitched circle die cut just slightly larger than my sentiment circle in Gold Glimmer Paper, I just felt this made the card really pop and helped that sentiment stand out a bit more.

 

To assemble my card I adhered the whole 6 x 6 foiled patterned paper down to my card base, trimming off the excess paper (remember to keep those scraps for other projects), I then adhered the Gold Glimmer Paper circle onto my card using my Tombow Adhesive Tape Runner, I then popped the sentiment circle up with Best Creation Large 3D Foam Tape Dots and placed this on top of the Glimmer paper - all done, super easy right!

 

I really love how this card turned out, so much so that I ended up making four of them, the gold
foil is stunning in real life and the rose print adds a lovely touch to this Mother’s Day card,
Have a lovely week, and as always, thanks for stopping by.
 

- SUPPLY LIST -

 

STAMPIN' UP!

 

Gold Glimmer Paper

 

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Simon Says Stamp

 

Tombow - Adhesive Tape Runner

Heidi Swapp - 12 x 12 Minc Transfer Folder

We R Memory Keepers - Trim & Score Board

Heidi Swapp - 5th Avenue Minc 6 x 6 Paper Pad

Heidi Swapp - Gold 6 Inch Minc Reactive Foil Roll
Best Creation - Large Square 3D Foam Tape Dots

 

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Lil' Inker Designs

 

Stitched Mats - Circles

 

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OTHER

 

Trophee Board - White Linen 240 GSM Cardstock

Heidi Swapp - Minc Foil Applicator Machine (AU/NZ Plug)

 

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DIGITAL IMAGE / IMAGE CREDIT

 

Happy Mother’s Day - Anastasiia Gevko @ Shutterstock.com



AS YOU SEE IT CHALLENGE #129

Hello, Happy Wednesday everyone!

Today I have a card I created for the As You See It Challenge blog,

This week at As You See It we have another great sketch challenge to work with.

 

 

For this week’s challenge we need to create a card with five images in a row on the card front,

I have rotated this weeks sketch to better suit the elements I have chosen for my cards design.

 

I had a pretty good idea of what I wanted to create for this challenge however I had one tiny problem,
I didn’t have any eyewear (glasses) sentiments, but instead of binning my idea I decided to improvise.

 

So since I don’t own any quirky eyewear sentiments I decided to make my own using Gimp,

Like the last time I made my own sentiment with Gimp I decided to use a bit of word play.

 

To make my sentiment a bit more quirky I have broken the word spectacular up, using some

funky brackets that look like little glasses to separate “Spec” so it reads { Spec } Tacular.

 

Because my card is going to be natural with just a spot colour I wanted to incorporate this into my sentiment
so I colour blocked the word “Spec” with Melon Mambo, this just helped tie in my spot colour and made the sentiment a bit more interesting.

 

With my sentiment all ready to go and lined up for my card base I then used my home printer and printed the sentiment out onto a sheet of Trophee Board White Linen 240 GSM cardstock, I then used my We R Memory Keepers Trim & Score Board to trim and score my card base, making an A2 top folding card.

 

Now onto the fun part… I got these adorable spectacle dies (Stunning Spectacles) from Poppy Stamps a little while back and have been dying to use them on a card and this week’s sketch was just perfect for them.

 

Like I said above I wanted my card to have a spot colour whilst keeping everything else nice and natural so I wanted four of the glasses on my card to be Basic Black with my fifth (middle) pair of glasses in Melon Mambo.

 

I also wanted my glasses to be raised not just flat on my card front and since there isn’t a lot of room around the frames to add any foam dots I decided to do a little trick I like to call stacking, this Is where you die cut the same image several times and glue them all together to get that added dimension; for each pair of my glasses I die cut each one four times and glued them together to get one pair.

 

To add a bit of detail to the glasses I added some Clear Wink Of Stella to the Melon Mambo frames, I then gave all the of the glasses a generous coating of Rangers Glossy Accents to jazz up the glasses a little more and make them look a little more real.

 

As a finishing touch I added a tiny bow to the Melon Mambo frames, made with the Paper Smooches Baby Bow die, die cut from some DCWV Black Twinkle Glints cardstock finished with a Basic Rhinestone Jewel to the center of the bow.

As a final detail I added a few Pretty Pink Posh 6mm Orchid Sequins around the frames, this is a super cute card made with very few supplies, a little bit fiddly if you want to stack the frames but I think it was definitely worth it.

Hope you enjoyed my spectacle card with the spot colouring,

Thanks for stopping by and happy crafting,
 

- SUPPLY LIST -

 

STAMPIN' UP!

 

Rhinestone Basic Jewels
Basic Black A4 Cardstock

Melon Mambo A4 Cardstock

Tombow Mono - Multipurpose Liquid Glue

 

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Simon Says Stamp

 

Paper Smooches - Baby Bow Die
Pretty Pink Posh - 6mm Orchid Sequins
Poppy Stamps - Stunning Spectacles Dies

We R Memory Keepers - Trim & Score Board

ZIG - Wink of Stella Clear Glitter Brush Tip Marker

Ranger - Glossy Accents Glue Dimensional Adhesive
DCWV - Twinkle Glints - Glitzy Glitter 6X6 Paper Stack

 

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OTHER

 

Trophee Board - White Linen 240 GSM Paper



AS YOU SEE IT CHALLENGE #127

Hello, Happy Wednesday everyone !

Today I have a card I created for the As You See It Challenge blog,

Sadly I’ve missed a few weeks at As You See It, March is always a busy time for me at work

as lots of our winter racehorses are back in work, so I’m pretty flat out riding at the moment.

However I’m determined to play along this week and get back into the swing of things again.

 

This week at As You See It we have a lovely spring themed colour challenge.

Our colours for this week are Melon Mambo, Cucumber Crush and So Saffron!

 

 

With Easter only just around the corner I decided to finally make a start on my Easter cards,

this week’s colour challenge just seemed so fitting for an Easter card with the fun and bright colours.

I started off by using my We R Memory Keepers Trim & Score Board to trim down

some Trophee Board White Linen 240 GSM cardstock, making an A2 top folding card.

 

I then did something a bit different to what I would normally do and used a digital image,

The original digital image is of a single bunny so I had to alter and edit it three times to get the

final result you see in my card, to do this I used Gimp (a free GNU Image Manipulation Program).

 

I was hoping I had a stamp that would tie in with this card however I couldn’t find anything that I liked so I went back to Gimp and made my very own sentiment, and I must say I was very happy with myself and the end result.

 

To add a bit of a playful touch to my sentiment I changed the word “Happy” to “Hoppy”,

I thought this was very fitting since bunnies hop and it tied in nicely with the hipster vibe these bunnies have.

 

I then used Gimp one more time to make my final image, combining all three bunnies and my sentiment all into one image, I then used my home printer and printed the image out onto a sheet of Trophee Board White Linen 240 GSM cardstock.

 

I then die cut my printed image out using a stitched rectangle die from the Lil Inker Designs,

I popped my whole die cut image up with Best Creation Large 3D Foam Tape Dots to add some dimension to the card so it wasn’t one flat layer.

 

To add a bit of detail to my image / card I added some Clear Wink Of Stella to the frames of the bunnies glasses and the polka dots on the bunnies bow ties, and as just one more finishing touch I added some Rangers Glossy Accents to the bunnies noses.

Not my typical card but I hope you liked my take on this week’s colour challenge,

Have a lovely week and as always, thanks so much for stopping by,
 

- SUPPLY LIST -

 

Simon Says Stamp

 

We R Memory Keepers - Trim & Score Board

ZIG - Wink of Stella Clear Glitter Brush Tip Marker

Best Creation - Large Square 3D Foam Tape Dots

Ranger - Glossy Accents Glue Dimensional Adhesive

 

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Lil' Inker Designs

 

Stitched Mats - Rectangles

 

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OTHER

 

Trophee Board - White Linen 240 GSM Paper

 

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DIGITAL IMAGE / IMAGE CREDIT

 

Hipster Easter Bunny - Olga_Angelloz @ Shutterstock.com