craftykarendesigns: Sentiment Silhouettes

Wednesday, 8 February 2023

By the Bay Appreciation Card

Hi Everyone,

A quick and easy card today with the dsp doing all of the hard work. The By the Bay designer series paper is lovely (I'm not keen on the shells and creatures etc but the rest of it is gorgeous). I've teamed it with a sentiment from the Charming Sentiments Bundle and a bit of gold foil and embossing to finish it off.

Materials

1 piece of Coastal Cabana card stock 5 7/8" x 8 1/4", scrap for the sentiment

1 piece of gold foil 3 7/8" x 5 5/8", scrap for the sentiment

1 piece of basic white card 3 7/8" x 5 5/8"

1 piece of dsp 3 5/8" x 5 3/8"

Versamark ink

Metallics Embossing Powders

Heat Tool

Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine

Charming Sentiments stamp set

Sentiment Silhouette dies

Trimmer

Simply Scored

Bone Folder

Multipurpose adhesive

Dimensionals

Instructions

On the long side score the coastal cabana card at 4 1/8" and fold and burnish to make the card base.

Die cut the two hearts from the centre of the piece of gold foil and then adhere it to the card front and add the dsp over the top, this will hide that you have cut hearts from the mat.

Stamp a sentiment on the basic white for the inside and on the scrap of coastal cabana using Versamark ink. Sprinkle with gold embossing powder and set with the Heat Tool.

Adhere the basic white layer to the inside of the card.

Die cut the sentiment and then adhere to a scrap of gold foil and cut around the outline leaving a small border. Add to the card front on dimensionals and then add the hearts above and below it.

A very quick and easy card, I hope that you like it.

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Happy Crafting,

Karen X

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Saturday, 21 January 2023

Dainty Flowers Book Mark - InspireINK Blog Hop

Hi Everyone,

The theme this month is 'New Year' and with the New Year in the Stampin' Up world, comes a new Mini Catalogue. I wanted to show off the beautiful panels in the Dainty Flowers designer series paper which is FREE during Sale-a-Bration (with a £45 purchase). I designed a book mark to send to my customers along with their new catalogues using the panels and added in the Eden dies and the Basic Border dies to decorate the edges rather than leave them plain. I hope that they like them and that you do too.

Materials

1 piece of old olive card stock 3" x 7"

1 piece of thick basic white 3" x 7"

Scrap of basic white for stamping

1 panel from the Dainty Flowers dsp trimmed to 2" x 6"

Scrap of old olive ribbon

Old olive ink

Charming Sentiments stamp set

Sentiment Silhouette dies

Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine

Eden dies

Basic Border dies

Multipurpose adhesive

Hole punch (not SU)

Instructions

Using the Eden edge die run the piece of old olive card through the machine twice so that the decorative edge is on both sides of the book mark. This will leave a piece at the top that isn't cut - you need this for the ribbon to be attached.

Adhere the old olive piece to the basic white lining up the edges (I've done this to protect the decorative edge and also to show it off better.

Place the Border die across the top of the book mark to give a pointed shape (see picture of finished item) and run this through the machine.

Punch a hole in the top of this and thread through the ribbon and trim the ends so they don't fray.

Stamp a sentiment on a scrap in old olive and then run this through the machine using the appropriate silhouette die.

Then adhere the dsp panel to the centre front of the book mark and it's complete.

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Karen X