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Hi,

Welcome to my blog. Thank you so much for stopping by. I hope that you will find some inspiration for your projects as I have from many lovely people. This is just a little space for me to share some of my cards, scrap book pages and maybe even some of my embroidery and quilting projects.

Enjoy and stop back often.

Sharon



Thursday, 12 November 2020

AWHT - Creative Showcase November 2020 - 5 Supplies Only

 

Today the Art With Heart team are bringing to you project using just 5 Supplies plus the basics of your trimmer, paper snips, adhesive and bone folder! Now this can be quite a challenge for someone like me who loves all the supplies and I must admit I wanted to add just one more but I didn't. Not everyone has a lot of supplies so I am excited to see the creative ways the team have come up with using 5 supplies.

Here are the 5 supplies that I used in my project tonight:
Product List
Today I am going to show you how to make a Mini Pocket book with 1 sheet of 12 x 12 Designer series Paper and 1 piece of card stock. Then you can decorate how you would like!

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It really is quite a cute little gift idea.

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All you need is 1 sheet of your choice of Designer Series paper and you fold it down to this cute little booklet that has pockets that you can add anything you like

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I have used a few of the different stamps from the Itty Bitty Christmas Stamp set to decorate the inside of my booklet. Here I have cut little inserts and stamped From our house to yours and put a photo of our dog Spartacus on the next insert to give you a little idea of the kinds of things you could do.


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On these 2 inserts I thought I could write my favourite Christmas recipe for shortbread or some other family favourite.

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Of course there are a few more spaces than the ones I have highlighted so use your imagination and you could also write a little bit about your year and maybe a photo of you and your family not just the family pet.

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I have also made a video for you to follow along with and there are written instructions below with the extra few measurement that you will need.



1. The first thing you need to do is get your 12 x12 sheet of DSP and fold in half and burnish with your bone folder
2. Open the DSP out and fold the edge up to but not over that centre fold line. Do that on both sides.
3 Open the DSP turn the paper and fold it in half the other way.
4. Now with your paper trimmer or score board keeping the paper with the single middle fold line vertical to you score at 5.1 cm or 2 inches and 25.4 cm or 10 inches
5. Fold these 2 score lines in as these form the pockets. This is where you decide which side is the outside of your booklet. 
6. Adhere with multipurpose glue just at the very ends of these 2 fold in all 4 corners to create the pockets.
7. now get your trimmer back out place the long vertical 12 inch fold line on the cutting line. Line up the blade with the first horizontal score line. (you should have 3 horizontal lines to create 4 sections) Line up with the first AND cut through the other 3 LEAVING 1 section NOT cut!
8. Using the Multipurpose glue fold the section not cut back onto it self and adhere together leaving the pocket side showing. Glue just that one section. Do not glue any other section.
9. Now we can fold back and forth concertina style to form the book.
10. To create the spine cut 4 inches x 1 1/4 inches or 10.2 x 3.2 cm and score vertically at 1/2 inch and 3/4 inch or 1.3 cm and 1.9 cm 
11. Adhere this with Multipurpose glue to the spine of your booklet. Making sure you leave the pocket page side open.
12. For the inserts Garden Green 9.5 x 7 cm and 9.5 x 6.5 cm 
13. For Whisper White Insert 9 x 6.5 cm and 9 x 6 cm
14. Front Sentiment Whisper white is 4x4 cm and Garden green is 4.5 x4.5 cm
15. You can now decorate the inside and outside how you would like. 


If you have any questions about today's project or have any other crafty needs and would like to purchase the products to make today's please do not hesitate to contact me.


Please head over to the blog of my friend and host of our monthly Creative Showcases, the lovely and very creative Rachel Woolard where she will have the list of the team participating this month. Rachel's Blog

Here is the full product list including adhesive:
Product List
Thank you for spending some crafty time with me today, take care,




Wednesday, 11 November 2020

Week 24 - Colour Creations Showcase - Mango Melody


Well what a weekend I have just had and you could have it too if you join my team and become a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator. We had so much fun being the first to see the new Jan-Jun Mini and seeing all the presentations of new product, learning new things and celebrating everyone's successes. Plus we had Pat Benatar and her husband open the weekend singing! Oh My Goodness! LOVE! LOVE! LOVE!


So I put her up on my TV and sang away. Why would you want to miss out on something like this? You Wouldn't! Then there is all the friendship and the fun from stamping and learning and as a by product you get cards and memory keeping. So why wouldn't you want to join! There are more benefits too but this is just the start!  So if you want to know more just contact me and we can have a chat, also check out my joining page button at the top of the blog.

Now for this week we have Mango Melody

I was inspired by the new Dandy Garden suite that we used on our weekend and I have used today the Dandelion Wishes stamp set and the Dandelion 3D Embossing folder. I didn't realise before setting out to make my project but I don't have Mango Melody card stock so I had to work out a way to show you this colour.

So to do that I had to combine it with some other colours.
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Of course I had to choose my absolute favourite Blackberry Bliss to go with the Mango Melody.
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I know, what do you do when all you have is the ink pad of Mango Melody? Well, you find the gorgeous Artistry Bloom DSP as that has the most beautiful paper with Mango Melody in it. I then cut the paper down to the size of a card front making sure I had lots of Mango Melody in the piece I chose and embossed it with the Dandelion 3D embossing folder.

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I stamped the dandelions in Mango Melody on Whisper White and cut them out using the Layering Oval Dies and then layered that with Blackberry Bliss as the inside of the card is the Smoky Slate so that you can write your message to your friend or family member. I purposely adhered the Oval quite low so that you could still see the embossed dandelion on the Artistry Blooms DSP.

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From the little window I have created I die cut the words "Miss You" and the butterfly. I used the Well Written Dies. Before putting them through my Stampin' Cut 'N' Emboss machine I used the adhesive sheets. So good for things like words and tiny butterflies you don't have to mess with glue!

To finish off you have to have some bling and the frosted and clear epoxy droplets were perfect.
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I thought the words "Miss You" went perfect with the dandelion. As a child you would wait for them to go to seed and then blow on them and make wishes. This card is all about missing friends and family and wishing they were here!

Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions about my project today or if you would like to know more about joining my team.
 

Please head on over to our host for the Colour Creations Showcase and my friend, the lovely and very creative Cathy Proctor for the list of the team who are participating today. Cathy's Blog

My product list for today:

Product List

Thank you for spending some crafty time with me this week, take care,


Wednesday, 4 November 2020

Week 23 - Colour Creations showcase - " Magenta Madness"

Ok can someone please tell me why there are now only 7 weeks until Christmas! Where has the year gone! I am not too sure that in all this time of lockdown I have made enough Christmas cards. Have you? Well today I thought I would use this gorgeous InColor and make a Poinsettia Christmas card.

This week Magenta Madness

So I have paired this gorgeous vibrant pink colour with Mossy Meadow, Early Espresso, White and Gold!

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This card is really quite easy to make with all the wonderful equipment that Stampin' Up! has for you.

Firstly if you want to make multiples of the base I got the idea from our Stampin' Up! Managers Shannon and Emma who did a workshop a few days ago. I love doing fancy folds and have made many Z-fold cards but I never thought to actually adhere down that front z-fold part. I have stepped up their cards quite a bit but I got the base of the card idea from their work shop.

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As you can see from this photo I have folded my base card of Early Espresso in half like normal and then scored a 3 cm panel on the front and folded that back and just before adhering it down I added 5 cm x 14.5 cm panel to the front of the Wonder of the Season Specialty DSP. Then I adhered a 2.6 cm x 14.5 cm strip of Poinsettia Place DSP to the front folded back panel.
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It makes quite a nice backdrop for the striking Magenta Madness Poinsettia!

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Now to finish off the base of the card before doing the poinsettia I have added another strip of the Wonder of the season specialty DSP the same size as the strip on the front and added a piece of Whisper White card so you have place to write your greeting.

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For the gorgeous Magenta Madness Poinsettia I stamped the 3 different sizes onto Whisper white in Magenta Madness plus the leaves in Mossy Meadow and ran them through the Stampin' Cut 'N' Emboss machine all at the same time. I just had to run the leaves one more time and I was good to go. I put a dimensional between all the layers and then I wanted a bit of ribbon and bling so I opted for the Whisper White Crinkled Seam Binding Ribbon and the Beaded Pearls to finish of the card.

This time I didn't want to put Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays as I thought the card spoke for itself!


If you have any questions about about my card or would like to get the catalogue in your hands please let me know I would love to help.

Please head on over to the host of our weekly Colour Creations Showcases, Cathy Proctor and there you will find more inspiration for Magenta Madness and the list of the talented team from AWH who are participating this week: Cathy's Blog


Here is the list of the products I used in my card today:
Product List



Thank you for spending some crafty time with me today. 
Take Care,







 

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