Kate's Paper Creations

Be Merry Ornament Kit

Have you checked out the Be Merry Kit on page 32 of the Stampin' Up! Holiday Catalog yet?  If not you're in for a treat.  The kit makes 12 ornaments that measure 4" in diameter and they are really cute.  I'm thinking I am going to make enough to do my whole tree with them this year.

I did want to share a couple of changes and additions that I did with my kit.  First of all the rosettes have a double stick tape that holds them in a circle.  It won't hold long term so I used hot glue to attach the rosettes together.

The other thing is, they are only one sided.  Now, there are a couple of ways you can remedy this.  

One - you could buy a second kit and use the pieces to create both a front and back.  

OR

Two - if you own a few extra tools and a Silhouette Cameo you can make the backs like I did.

Here is what I did.  

• The backs of the ornaments are plain white.  I didn't really want to add glitter although that is an option but I don't like the mess so instead I put some Lemon Lime Twist re-inker for the gree and Real Red re-inker fo the red into a Stampin' Mister and added some rubbing alchohol and spritzed the backs with color.
• Next, I used the 1 3/4" circle punch and punched out some green glitter paper (sorry, not SU) and some Red Glimmer paper circles
• For the green ornaments I kept the trees that were punched out of the circles and attached them to the green glitter paper with hot glue.  Then attached the Gold Foil Snowflake to the ornament and the green glitter piece and that was that.
• For the red ornaments I had to create circles with the ornament so I scanned one of them and put it into my Silhouette program and created my own.  With sketch pens I outlined the circles and the candy cane and then just cut them out to only 1.5" diameter, a bit smaller than the original cirlce and attached them to the Red Glimmer paper and mounted them with hot glue to the Gold Foil Snowflake and then to the ornament back.

It was fun to do and now my ornaments can look good from both sides.

Hope you like the project. 

Kate

Stampin' Up! Demo/Designers Showcase Blog Hop - 2017 Holiday Catalog

Oh my gosh!!!  How many times have you looked through the Stampin' Up! 2017 Holiday catalog and just couldn't believe your eyes?  There are so many awesome stamps, bundles and accessories it is really hard to choose which ones you will get.  

Well,  maybe this blog hop will help.  Check out some of the creative ideas Stampin' Up! demonstrators have prepared for you and by the time you're done maybe, just maybe, you'll have a better idea of what you want to order.  

Or, if you're like me, you'll still want all of it! BWG

So,  I wanted to WOW you and it took me a while to come up with what to do.  The first thing I did was check out some of the fun folds that are out there and I came up with one called Double Lever Card.  There are many examples, templates and youtube videos on the internet where you can get instructions to cut and make this card.  I am not going to give any one person the credit for the fold because who knows who came up with it first.  I will share instructions with you too.

Let me show you my first attempt at using the Double Lever Card fold with one of the Christmas bundles from the Stampin' Up! 2017 Holiday Catalog.

Materials List:

• Hometown Greetings Edgelits
• Night In Bethlehem stamp set for the snow background
• Hearts Come Home for the sentiment
• So Saffron, Night of Navy, Whisper White, Garden Green card stock
• Woodgrain 6x6 designer series paper stack
• Night of Navy marker
• White Craft ink pad
• Snail
• Double Sided Adhesive or Xyron 
• Aleene
• Big Shot
• Optional Silhouette Cameo electronic cutter

As many of you know I have a Silhouette Cameo electronic cutter so this lever card base can be cut using files in the Silhouette store by Lori Whitlock titled A2 Double Lever Fold Card.  She has one with square panels and one with circle panels.  This is what I used but I didn't want to leave out those of you who don't have a Sihouette so here are instructions for making the base portion of the card using your Stampin' Trimmer.

Cut three pieces of whatever color cardstock you choose to use, my example is Whisper White, 8.5" x 5.5" and one piece 9" x 5.5"

1. Place one piece of the 8.5' x 5.5" piece on your trimmer, landscape orientation,
2. Place left edge of card stock at 7 7/8"
3. Place blade at 1.25" and cut down to 4.25"
4. Move left edge of card stock to 4 7/8", place blade   at 1.25" and cut down to 4.25"
5. Lift blade and move the left edge of the card stock to 4.25 and score top to bottom (this is the center fold)
6. Rotate card stock 180*, still in landscape orientation repeat steps 2-4
7. Rotate card stock 90* now in portrait orientation place left edge at 4.25", blade at 5/8" and cut down to 3 5/8"
8. Lift blade and move it to 4 7/8" and cut down to 7 7/8"
9. Rotate card stock 180*, still in portrait orientation, repeat steps 7-8

 

1. Place the 9' x 5.5" piece of card stock on the paper trimmer in landscape orientation left edge at 8.5, score from top to bottom to create a tab
2. Repeat steps 2 - 5 above
3. Rotate card stock 180*, still in landscape mode,, tabbed end will be to the left
4. Place left edge of card stock on 8 3/8", blade at 1.25", cut down to 4.25"
5. Move left edge of card stock to 5 3/8", blade at 1.25", cut down to 4.25"
6. Rotate card stock 90*, now in portrait orientation with non-tabbed end at the top of the trimmer platform,
7. Place left edge of card stock at 4.25, blade at 5/8", cut down to 3 5/8"
8. Lift blade and place at 4 7/8", cut down to 7 7/8"
9. Flip card stock over keeping non-tabbed edge at the top of the trimmer and maintaining portrait orientation, repeat steps 7-8

This will produce two rectangular pieces each with two 3" squares cut out and one with a 1/2" tab.  Place glue on the 1/2" tab and attach these two pieces together. Click on the image to see it full size.

Base Card Part Two:  Make two of these exactly the same using 8.5 x 5.5 card stock

1.  Place card stock landscape orientation onto paper trimmer left edge at 7 7/8", blade at 1.25", cut down to 4.25"
2. Move left edge of card stock to 6 3/8" and score from top edge down to 1.25, lift score blade and re-position at 4.25" and score to bottom of card
3. Move left edge of card stock to 4.25 and score from top to bottom this is the center fold
4. Rotate card stock 180*, keep landscape orientation and repeat steps 1-2
5. Rotate card stock 90* to portratit orientation, place left edge of card stock at 4.25" , blade at 5/8" , cut down to 2 1/8"
6. Lift blade and move to 6 3/8", cut down to 7 7/8"
7. Rotate card stock 180*, still in portrait orientation, place left edge of card stock at 4.25, blade at 5/8", cut down to 2 1/8"
8. Lift blade and move it to 6 3/8", cut down to 7 7/8"
9. Repeat Steps 1-8 for second piece, both will be exactly the same

Fold these two pieces on the center score line like a regular card.  Fold back the two end sections on the score lines.  

Place glue on the portion that is folded back, match the edges to part one piece sliding the "lever" portion through the cut out square portion of part one.  This creates your base card.

On to embellishing:

A.  Cut 4 (four) 3 x 3" squares of Night of Navy, stamp them with the snow image from Night In Bethlehem stamp set using White Craft ink.  Set aside to dry

B.  Cut a piece of double sided adhesive 6 x 6 inches, peel off one side and attach a 6x6 piece of Woodgrain designer series paper 

C.  Using the dies from Hometown Greetings Edgelits cut all three scenes, once cut trim them out so there are 3 separate pieces.

D.  Peel off the backing and stick them to So Saffron card stock and fussy cut them out.  (Alternative option is to cut the three pieces from the wood grain DSP, then run them through a Xyron to make them sticky backed.)  (Alternative 2, if you have a Silhouette Cameo you can scan the images into your Silhouette and cut them out with that.  You can also trace the outside edge of each piece and cut out the backing to stick them to.)  I did this so that there would be yellow like lights shining from the windows.

E.  Die cut a set from Garden Green to get the trees, cut them free and glue them to the wood grain pieces.

F.  Color the snow man white using Whisper White Craft ink, I added eyes, mouth and buttons as well as a hat with markers once the white ink was dry.

G.  Once the village pieces are ready I laid out the 4 Night of Navy squares and fit them to the squares cutting them off and matching up the edges.  I then attached them to scraps of Whisper White to look like snow and attached them to the Night of Navy squares

H.  I also stamped the smoke coming from the chimmneys after the houses were attached and used a marker to darken some of the accent sections of the houses.

I.  The squares can then be attached to the main card.  Line up the edge with the free edge of the "lever" piece 

J.  To stamp the sentiment I wanted only one word for each section so I inked each word  using a marker and stamped it, them cleaned my stamp really well and inked the next word and stamped it and so on till there was a word in each seciton.

You may want to add some other embellishments like I did with this second one using the moon, stars and santa from the Hearts Come Home set with Night of Navy and Daffodil Delight ink.

So there you have it.  My WOW (hopefully) project.  Certainly not a make n take as it is a bit more time consuming to make but well worth the effort for the end result.

Enjoy!  And hop on to the rest of the group to see what they have made.

 

Kate

Hummingbird Lanterns

I am going to start with a short explanation.  I have had a few subscribers leave me and I wanted to explain what you will find on my blog.  You will find a little bit of an eclectic collection of projects.  I make cards as well as 3D paper crafts, home decor and more.  You will find   cards made using 100% Stampin' Up! because I am a Stampin' Up! demonstrator.  You will find 3D paper crafts that are made using primarily Stampin' Up! materials but sometimes Stampin' Up! just doesn't have what I need for a project so I will incorporate items from other places.  If you are looking for a Silhouette Cameo site with exclusively Silhouette projects you won't find that here.  But there will be lots of projects shared that I've made using my Cameo. Same with Stampin' Up! .  If you are looking for 100% Stampin' Up! and nothing else this blog won't do that for you.  BUT, if you're looking for a variety of both then here is where you'll find it.  I mix Stampin' Up! and Silhouette Cameo all the time and I love how they work so well together.

Enough of that.  Thanks for listening and for sticking with me.  Please, if you like what you find here, share my blog with your firends, on facebook and twitter.

Today I have an exclusive Cameo project I am going to share.  I like to make centerpieces to brighten the tables at my Soroptimist club meetings and our first meeting of the year is next Tuesday and I needed something fairly quick and easy so I could get it done in time. I found all kinds of cylinder lanterns in the Silhouette library.  Nic Squirrel has made quite a few of them and this is one he designed.

It is called "hummingbird lantern" design #145484.  As quite often happens I made a slight variation to the design which I will explain.

Aren't these lovely?  The color changing flamless tealights really add to the beauty of these little lanterns.  They stand about 7" tall and have a diameter of about 3.5".  The original design has the paper portion cut out and connected at the bottom strip only to make a cylinder and then a separate piece of vellum made into a cylinder and set inside.  I didn't like the way it looked so I created a vellum mat that followed the top of the design.  Then after cutting the design from Stampin' Up!  card stock I ran the design through my 9" Xyron and attached the paper design directly to the vellum so it all rolls into a cylinder together.  

Let me explain how I did this.  I opened the design in the software, used the trace option to trace just the outline only.  I cut away the side and kept only the top portion I wanted and then I welded it to a rectangle the same size as the original design.  It left me with this.

So when I had the design made into a sticker using the Xyron I then attatched it to the vellum.  I started at the tip lining up the edges carefully and then laying the rest down from top to bottom.  Once that is done I attached a strip of 1/4" wide double sided adhesive to one end rolled it around with the paper on the outside and attached it into a tube.

Hope you like what you see and that you are inspired to get creative with your Silhouette Cameo and Stampin' Up! products they go perfectly together.

Kate

 

Scanning Stamped Images Into Silhouette Cameo

How many times have you looked at a stamp set and wished there was a die to cut out the image?  I know I have.  Even when there are dies for other items in the set there always seems to be one that you want to die cut but can't 

That's where Silhouette Cameo comes to the rescue.  If you follow my blog you know that as a Stampin' Up! demonstrator I scan in all of the dies, framelits, thinlits etc. into my Silhouette so I can cut them out there when doing multiples to use for a class or workshop or even just for my own personal use. 

Well you can do a similar thing with stamped images.  For instance, the Painted Harvest stamp set comes as a bundle with a punch for the leaves but the flower doesn't have a die or a punch.  If you look around on the internet there are bunches of examples of beautiful cards where the designer has cut out the flower to raise it or layer it on the card.  If you're only making one or two it might not be a bother to have to fussy cut out that flower but you don't have to.

With the Silhouette Cameo a cut image can be made that can then be stamped and used for your project.  Let me show you how I did this.  All images can be seen full size simply by clicking on the image.

Step One:  Stamp the image in black ink onto white card stock.  I use Basic Black so I get a good crisp image.  For this flower it was a little bit tricky because the edges are feathered out a bit so after I stamped it I used the Basic Black marker and outlined the edges to make them smooth.

Step Two:  Use your scanner to scan the image as a jpeg

Step Three:  Open the scanned image in your Silhouette Cameo program by going to "File" and selecting "Open" .  Go to where the file is and select it and it will open in Studio.

Step Four:  Select the Trace tool and outline the image to be traced.  Once you are here you can adjust the trace tool to trace just the parts of the image you want to.  For this application I only want to trace the outer edge.

Step Five:  Trace the image, pull away the scanned image and delete it you won't need it any more.

Step Six:  Do a close up exam of your image to make sure there aren't any crazy little spikes around the edges that should't be there. If there are use the Edit Points tool tool to clean them up.

Step Seven:  Optional- keep in mind that when you trace an image this way it will be the exact size of the image.  There will not be a border around it as there is when using an actual die.  If you want that border use the Offset Tool to create a slightly larger image. 

 

Now you have an outline to cut out that you can stamp.  To do that follow these steps.

Step One:  Place the cut out on your work surface.  I use a bit of removable adhesive to hold it in place.

 

Step Two:  Use the Stamp a ma Jig to stamp the image onto the cut piece so that you can get the placement just right. The left image is with little to no border the right image has a border all around.

 

That's it!  It takes a bit of time to initially get the image ready to cut but once you do it can be saved in the library for future use.

Here is a card I made using the images one with a border and the other one without.  

 

I hope you enjoyed this post.  If you have a Silhouette Cameo I hope you'll give this a try.  Let me know what you think, I love to hear from you.  And if you're looking for a demonstrator please contact me.

Kate

Creative Circle September Blog Hop - 3D Project

Welcome to the September Creative Circle Blog Hop!  We have a couple of new members that joined us last month so now there will be even more creativity to share with all of you.  This month our fearless founder Liz Holloway designed an upright box that could be made into a piano.  This is so way cool!  In our town every summer we have several colorfully decorated pianos that sit out around town at the civic plaza, in the city park etc.  where any one can sit down and play them.  When I saw Liz's file I was inspired to make my piano as colorful and fun as I could.

It is not only a piano but also a box that can be used to hold several standard A2 greeting cards or some paper flowers or whatever might tickle you fancy.   I will use this as a gift to a friend who wanted something pretty to sit by her "quiet place" in her home so when she gets inspired to send a card of encouragement, sympathy, just thinking of you, whatever she has a few right beside her that she can pull out and use right away.  I like the way she thinks.  Do it NOW so you don't just not do it at all.  Isn't that what our card making hobby is all about.  Caring enough to send a special hand made card to someone to brighten their day?

Enough of that.  Here is a front view of my piano.

Materials I used:

• Dapper Denim card stock
• Eastern Medallions Vinyl Stickers
• Eastern Palace Specialty Designer Series Paper
• Aleene's Quick Dry Tacky Glue
• Tear & Tape Adhesive
• Tiny round magnets
• Silhouette Printable Gold Foil

Tools:

• Silhouette Cameo Electronic Cutter
• Bone Folder
• Printer

I built the entire base structure using the Dapper Denim card stock.  Once it was completed I printed the key board onto Silhouette Printable foil and cut it out.  This foil is sticky backed so all I had to do was peel and stick it on the base.  Once I had decided to use a gold key board it came to me that I had a bunch of the Eastern Medallions Vinyl Stickers that were gold as well and decided that they would work great for embellishing the plain parts of the piano.

 The patterned card stock from Eastern Palace DSP worked great for covering the back and sides of the piano.  The front part behind the key board didn't have a cover panel as part of the pieces so I just created one.  It measures 5.5 inches wide by 2.125 inches tall.

I did make a slight change to the original file that Liz Holloway made of the piano.  In the original version the piece that covered the bottom of the piano and came out to support the legs was a solid piece so that the Dapper Denim card stock came all the way out to the front edge of the legs.  I didn't want mine to do that so I made a simple alteration to the piece. This is piece number 7 if you obtain the file from Liz and I am happy to share the revised piece if you choose to use it.

You can see that this created a little bit of a problem.  In the picture below you see where it leaves an open gap where the back and the bottom of the piano come together.  To fix that I created another piece that would cover that gap and add additional strength to the legs.

Here is a picture of the piece I created.

 

Once it was done I needed some cards to go with it.  Most of these designs were cased from others.  I made them a while ago and I don't have the info on who made them originally.  However, they are a perfect fit for the theme of my piano.  Often I put a little something inside the card and on the envelope as well.

So there you have it.  A wonderful 3D project made using primarily Stampin' Up! products and a wonderful file created by our own Liz Holloway.

Thanks for stopping by.  Be sure to follow the link below to see more wonderful creativeness!

 

Painted Harvest

Painted Harvest stamp set with the Leaf Punch seem to be a popular bundle in the 2017 Holiday Catalog.  Combine them with the Painted Autumn designer series paper and you can't lose.

Here is a card a cased from someone else.  I changed up the colors a bit and added some washit tape.  You'll note that most of my cards do not have sentiments on them.  I leave those off so I can add a sentiment of my choosing when I actually use the card.  I also find that people are willing to buy blank note cards to use for whatever reason they need to so they sell well when they are blank,  However, there is room for a sentiment on this one if you wanted to put one on.

Supplies List:

• Lots of Labels Framelits the largest and second largest
• Big Shot
• Painted Autumn designer series paper
• Very Vanilla thick and regular, Lemon Lime Twist, card stock
• Year of Cheer washi tape
• Crushed Curry, Tangerine Tango, Soft Suede, Early Espresso, Basic Black ink pads for flower
• Lemon Lime Twist, Pear Pizzazz ink pads for leaves
• Leaf punch

Instructions:

• Cut Very Vanilla thick 5.5 x 8.5, score at 4.25 and fold
• Cut Painted Autumn DSP 4 x 5.25
• Run a strip of Year of Cheer washi tape across DSP 1/2" from the long edge, trim ends and attach the DSP to the card front with Snail
• Cut the largest Lots Of Labels framelit from Lemon Lime Twist card stock
• Cut the second largest Lots of Labels framelit from Very Vanilla
• Stamp the flower background onto the Very Vanilla framelit piece with Crushed Curry, 2nd layer with Tangerine Tango, Center with Soft Suede, the middle with Early Espresso and the dots with basic black
• Stamp the leaves layer one with Lemon Lime Twist, stamp the leaf accents with Pear Pizzazz that has been stamped off once4
• Attach this layer to the card front
• Stamp the flower onto the envelope flap and a partial flower on the inside bottom corner as shown

There you have it, a fun, easy, fall themed card.

Enjoy,

Kate

Softly Falling Night In Bethlehem Seasonal Layers Card

Once I get started on Christmas cards it's hard to stop.  I bought quite of few of the bundles from the Holiday catalog because they were so hard to resist and I'll feel guilty if I don't make something with each and every one.  No matter, it will give me a lot of variety when selling them. 

This is an elegant and easy card to make.

Materials:

• Whisper White, Gold Foil card stock
• Years of Cheer designer series paper
• Years of Cheer washi tape
• Layers of Circles framelits
• Seasonal Layers Thinlits - snowflake (see instructions for Silhouett Cameo useres)
• Night In Bethlehem - sentiment
• Snail
• Glue Dots
• Big Shot
• copy paper
• Gold ink pad (non Stampin' Up!)
• Metallic Sequins

Instructions:

• Cut Whisper White thick 8.5 x 11, score at 5.5 for base card
• Cut Whisper White 4 x 2 3/8, emboss with Softly Falling embossing folder
• Cut Year of Cheer DSP 4 x 2 7/8
• Attach DSP to card front bottom half leaving a 1/8" border on the three sides.
• Fit the embossing white piece to the top half to make sure the fit is good (sometimes embossing changes the size of the card stock)  if it fits well attach it with Snail.  If not trim as necessary and attach.
• Place a strip of the gold washi tape from Year of Cheer washi tape over the seam.
• Use the 2 1/4" scallop circle die from Layers of Circles Framelits and cut a circle from the Gold Foil card stock
• Use the 2 3/8" plain circle die from Layers of Circles Framelits to cut the Whisper White circle, stamp this with the sentiment from Night in Bethlehem stamp set using Gold ink.  (sorry no longer available from Stampin' Up!) Set this aside to dry for a couple of minutes
• Use the snow flake die from Seasonal Layers dies to cut out a snowflake from Whisper White card stock
• Attach sentiment circle to the gold foil cirlce and attach to card front with Snail
• Attach the snow flake with one rolle up glue dot in the center
• Add some metallic confetti
• On the inside I added a simple strip of washi tape down the right edge of the card

Simple, clean, elegant and easy to make.  I hope if you don't have a demonstrator you'll give me a try.  My hostess code for the month of September is KZPY39T6.  Use this code when shopping on line and give me credit as your demonstrator.  If you don't have a catalog let me know and I will send you one.

Oh! I almost forgot!  I made kits for these to make with an upcoming workshop and those snowflakes I mentioned earlier.  Well, rather than have to crank my Big Shot a BUNCH of times I have the image scanned into my Silhouette Cameo software and I was able to cut out all I needed simply by setting up however many I needed.  Walk away and let it cut and come back later to pull them off of the sticky mat and use them.  I can do this with the circles as well.  Ohhh, I do love my Cameo.  If you want to know more message me or leave a comment I am happy to assist.

Thanks & Enjoy,

 

Kate

Pick A Pumpkin Grown With Love

What is it about fall that makes us think pumpkins and leaves?  I guess those are common items associated with fall aren't they?  Well, I am working on samples of fall cards for my next workshop and here is one I came up with today.

It's a clean and simple card yet has a wonderful fall feeling.  Here are the supplies I used to make it:

• Very Vanilla thick card stock
• Pick A Pumpkin and Grown With Love stamp sets
• Tangerine Tango, Smokey Slate, Early Espresso ink pads
• Old Olive, Real Red, Pumpkin Pie, Pear Pizzazz, Crushed Curry markers
• Linen Thread
• Stampin' Dauber
• Glue Dots
• Scrap of copy paper to make a mask for the flower pots

Instructions:

• Cut a 8.5 x 5.5 piece of thick Very Vanilla card stock, score at 5.5, fold for base card
• Using the markers listed above color the pumpkin image from Grown With Love stamp set, I didn't color the words, set this aside for now
• On a piece of scrap copy paper stamp the flower pot image once and cut it out as close to the ink image as you can. this will be the mask you use when stamping the pots on the front of the card.  
• On the front of the card stamp the center flower pot with Early Espresso ink
• Place the mask over the center flower pot image and stamp the two other pots with Tangerine Tango ink, remove mask
• Place the mask over the right hand flower pot and stamp the pumpkin image from Pick A Pumpkin stamp set using Pumpkin Pie ink pad.
• Move the mask to the left hand flower pot and repeat the above step
• Remove the mask and set it aside.
• Fussy cut out the pumpkin image you stamped earlier trimming it to fit over the pot in the center and attach it with Snail.
• Use a sponge dauber and Smokey Slate ink to create a shadow around the base of the pots. I used the mask again while doing this so I didn't get gray ink on the post only around them.
• Tie a small bow with linen thread and attach with a glue dot.

I also stamped inside the card and on the envelope front and back.

There you have it.  A fun simple fall card. Hope you enjoy.

Kate

Colorful Seasons Seasonal Layers Painted Autumn Card

Good day to you!  Today is another wonderfully summery day but it has just a touch of fall in it.  That's why I took some time this morning to put together a fall card.

Supplies Used:

• Colorful Seasons stamp set
• Seasonal Layers thinlits
• Garden Green, Lemon Lime Twist ink pads
• Very Vanilla Thick, Copper Foil, Gold Foil card stock
• Painted Autumn designer series paper
• Year of Cheer Washi Tape
• Multipurpose Adhesive Sheets
• Regular and Mini dimensionals
• Snail
• Big Shot

Instructions:

•  Cut Very Vanilla thick 4.25 by 11 and scored at 5.5.  
• Cut Painted Autumn DSP   5.25 by 4  
• Put the Year of Cheer washi tape on the DSP layer.  To ensure you get it on straight place the DSP on your grid paper lining it up square and then use the grid marks to attach the washi tape 1.5" from the bottom edge.
• Attach the DSP layer to the card front using Snail
• Cut Lemon Lime Twist card stock 2.25 x 4.25, attach to card front with Snail
• Cut Very Vanilla thick 2 x 4,set aside for now
• Stamp several of the leaves using Garden Green, Lemon Lime Twist ink.  When using the two layers for the large leaf stamp off once and then stamp on the card stock.  For the detail layer stamp full strength.
• Cut out the stamped images using the Seasonal Layers Thinlits
• Cut one each  Gold and Copper foil 2 x2
• Cut two 2x2 pieces of Multipurpose Adhesive
• Stick the adhesive to the back of the foil squares,
• Die cut the solid leaf from the copper foil and the detailed leaf from the gold foil
• Peel off the backing of the detailed leaf and adhere it to the solid copper leaf
• Peel off the backing of the completed leaf and attach it to the Very Vanilla layer piece
• Attach the remaining leaves with Snail and Dimensionals, trim off the edges around the Very Vanilla layer, attach to card front with Snail

I also stamped the front and back of the envelope and placed a detailed gold leaf to the inside of the card using the mulitpurpose adhesive sheets.

This turned out very lovely hope you like it too.  Be inspired and share what you have made using this set.

Kate

Hometown Greetings Edgelits & Silhouette Cameo

Hello,  today I was playing around with the Hometown Greetings Edgelits.  I cut them out of black card stock and scanned them so I could bring them into my Silhouette Studio program and create cut images that I could manipulate.

If you own the dies you know that they are designed to be used on the edge of a card so the bottom edge does not cut.  When I brought them into the Sihouette I adjusted that so they would be able to be completely cut out.

When I saw the edglits I thought of the bendy card fold and wondered if I could make it work.

This is what I came up with.  I created an outline of the images and attached them to the top edges of the two flaps of the bendy card so that it cut out the silhouette of the image.

I then used a piece of the woodgrain designer series paper backing it with a sheet of the double sided adhesive, die cut it out.  Once it was cut I pulled the back off of the adhesive sheet and attached the cut out to the card.

The base is Night of Navy and I covered the two bendy panels with white to look like snow.

I'm not sure it is perfect but it's kind of pretty.

Let me know what you think.

Kate