My paper journey

Monday, September 10, 2018

Elegant Christmas tags with Avery Elle

Hi there!

Today I'm featuring the Snow Tags stamps and coordinating die at the Avery Elle blog.

As soon as I saw these snowflake stamps I knew I was going to create something with vellum involved.

Finally, I decided to make a pair of Christmas tags. I started by stamping and heat embosing the snowflakes on vellum, using white embossing powder.

Then I used the coordinating die to cut them and another two dies out of watercolor paper. I took my AE liquid watercolors and randomly colored the snowflake bases.

While the bases were drying, I cut two banners out of white cardstock and stamped the sentiments from the Snowflakes stamp set.

The final step was mounting all together. I used my Crop a Dile to place an eyelet on the tags, then I adhered the banners on top, added some golden sequins as a finishing touch and last, tied some golden string.

I hope you like what I made for today, maybe these tags inspire you a bit to create your own Christmas tags, it's a fun process and they're really pretty in real life!

Thanks so much for stopping by, have a great day!

Supply list:

Avery Elle store

Ellen Hutson store

Avery Elle Clear Stamps, Snow Tags

Avery Elle-ments Dies, Snow Tags

Avery Elle Clear Stamps, Snowflakes

Avery Elle Liquid Watercolor, Sapphire

Avery Elle Liquid Watercolor, Mint To Be

Avery Elle Liquid Watercolor, Aquamarine

Avery Elle Embossing Powder, Pure White Fine

VersaMark Ink Pad

String by the Spool, Metallic Gold

Crop-a-Dile Eyelet & Snap Punch

Lawn Fawn Ink Pad, Blue Jay

Bazzill 40 lb. Vellum, 25 pk

Neenah Cardstock, Neenah Classic Crest Solar White, 25 pk

Sizzix Big Shot White & Gray

Tuesday, August 28, 2018

Pink Christmas card ft. Avery Elle Wonky Circle Frames

Hello!!

Today I'm featuring the new super cool Wonky Circle Frames at the Avery Ell blog!
I love these kind of dies that are so versatile. It's perfect to frame a sentiment, a scene, an image, create a shaker...

Every year I love to create at least a Christmas card with a pink color combo, this time I combined it with aqua to create this little shaker card.

I kept the design very simple but I added lots of sparkle :)

I used the pretty Hatch Mat die to add texture to my background, then I created my shaker with the biggest die of the Wonky Circle Frames, cutting one layer of white glittery cardstock and another from foam. I stamped the sentiment from Comfor & Joy on acetate and filled the skaker with a mix of sequins and some Avery Elle Coarse Glitter.

Finally I added the cute penguin from A Merry Little Christmas set (which I previously colored with alcohol markers and die cut) and tied some Aquamarine Hemp Twine on top.

I hope you like it!! Have a wonderful day! :)

Supply list (Avery Elle store):

Supply list (Ellen Hutson store):

Avery Elle Clear Stamps, A Merry Little Christmas

Avery Elle-ments Dies, A Merry Little Christmas

Avery Elle Clear Stamps, Comfort & Joy

Avery Elle-ments Dies, Hatch Mat

Avery Elle Hemp Twine, Aquamarine

Avery Elle Glitter, Coarse

Avery Elle-ments Dies, Wonky Circles Frames

Memento Ink Pad, Tuxedo Black

Stazon Solvent Ink Pad, Jet Black

Sparkle Cardstock - Pixie Dust, Lawn Fawn Cardstock

Neenah Cardstock, Neenah Classic Crest Solar White, 25 pk

Sizzix Big Shot White & Gray

Monday, August 27, 2018

Lawn Fawn August inspiration week review (part 2)

Hello everyone!!

Today I'm sharing another pair of cards that I made for the Lawn Fawn August inspiration week!

So Owlsome

I'm starting for my project that features So Owlsome, a medium stamp set with coordingating dies that is perfect for back of school, teacher appreciation or graduation cards.

I made a colorful card with several layers, starting with a yellow background die cut from the Itsy Blitsy Polkadot Backdrop die. Then I added a piece of patterned paper from the Really Rainbow collection and finally a "chalkboard" panel. To create the chalkboard look, I rubbed white ink with my fingers all along the borders of the panel, die cut out of black cardstock.

The little owls were colored with Copic markers and then I added some touches of Glossy Accents on the glasses and apple for some shine.
For the sentiment I used the Thanks Teacher Line Border die (die cut three times and glued together) with a sentiment from the set (heat embossed on a little banner).
Finally, I added a last detail, a little wooden clothespin with a bow made of twine glued on top.

Knit Pick Fall & Caramel Apple

The new Fall paper collection is called Knit Pick Fall and it just yells cozy! I made card combining several papers from this collection with the new Caramel Apple mini stamp set and a new favorite: a piece of woodrgain cardstock.

I centered the elements of this card so everything focuses the eye on the pair of caramel apples. I used different Stitched dies (Circle and Square) to create the central panel and added a detail with the scalloped border die.

I colored the apples with Copic makers and covered them with Glossy Accents, I love the look, so yummy!!

I hope you like these projects, thank you so much for stopping by today, have an amazing day!!

So Owlsome card supply list:

So Owlsome, Lawn Fawn Clear Stamps