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Woodgrain Botanicals

Woodgrain Botanicals – Hibiscus by Alison Stroud

Craft Skill Level: Beginner

Time To Make: 30-45 mins

(approx.)

Card Blank is C5 size.

Cut a piece of Fabulous Fuchsia cardstock  2/8” smaller than the blank and Mandarin Burst 2/8” smaller than the Fuchsia, mat and layer these to the card blank using foam tape.

Cut a piece of Pure White cardstock 2/8” smaller than the mandarin burst card.

Using two pieces of removable tape mask off a panel in the centre of the card and using the two contrasting colours of Distress Oxides and smoothies randomly ink the two outside panels making sure you don’t colour right over the tape.

Once the ink is dry remove the tape.

Using two new pieces of tape carefully place a piece on each side of the white panel, with the tape being over the coloured panel. This will ensure that the stamped image will not mark the coloured sides.

Wipe the white area with an antistatic pad.

Ink up the stamp using embossing ink and stamp the bottom section of the card so the bottom of the stem is at the bottom edge. Re-ink the stamp and stamp the top section of the card to just meet the first stamped image. (You could add the  silver embossing powder to the first stamped image so you can see where to stamp the image again more easily).

REMEMBER to remove the tape before heat embossing.

Add silver embossing powder over the whole section and heat to set.

On a spare scrap of white card stamp and emboss the image twice more, and  fussy cut three flowers.

Using the oxides and a water brush, colour the middle of all the flowers with picked raspberry,( I then dabbed with a piece of kitchen roll to take a bit of the colour out). Then, using the same process colour the outer of the flowers with the carved pumpkin, and then the leaves with the bundled sage.

Using foam tape, add this layer to the card blank.

Attach the flowers to card, as in the photo, to give some dimension and to hide the join between the stamps.

Stamp the sentiments required using the embossing ink and coloured powders alternating colours, then cut out using the stitched torn dies. Attach to the left side of the card.

Complete by adding a large pearl in each corner.

Products Used…

Sentimentally Yours

Other Products…

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Big Birthday Verses, Paper Packs, Phill's Cards

Friday Live Card – 1st May

Here is the card Phill made during his Friday Live with Phill on 1st May.

It’s made using the new A6 Big Birthday Verses, Beautiful Brushstrokes Terranova Paper Packs, Sweetheart Flower Stamps & Dies, Textural Temptations Stamps, Cobalt Blue Cardstock, Double Debossed Plain and Rounded Corner Square Dies, Leaf Dies.

On the live video he uses a different colourway, with the Olive Grove Cardstock.  He uses Milled Lavender and Bundled Sage to ink the pattern inside.

The Full Card

Stage 1 – cut out all the layers and die cuts as below:

  • Card Blank – 21 x 21cm (cut as in stage 2)
  • Layer 1 – Card – 20.5 x 10.5cm
  • Layer 2 – Papers – 20 x 10cm
  • Layer 3 – Card – 20.5cm x 20.5cm (inside)
  • Layer 4 – Papers – 20 x 20cm (inside)
  • Die Cut Squares in coloured card, white card and the papers,
  • Flower Dies – some with card and some with vellum
  • Leaf Dies

Stage 2 – Cut the card blank front to the size, by measuring down 10cm from the top and cutting off, leaving an 11cm panel on the bottom.

Stage 3 – Stamp your chosen Big Birthday Verse onto the Square Paper Die Cut layer for the front with the Pure White Embossing Powder.  Choose a smaller sentiment for the inside layer.

(Don’t forget your anti-static bag)

Stage 4 – Stamp your chosen Textural Temptations stamp around the edge of the paper layer for the inside with Distress Oxides for a more subtle finish.  Phill also gently wiped over the ink to smudge it a little.  He then stamped a different texture pattern with the Pure White Embossing Powder.

Use one of the Distress Oxide Inks to shabby up the edges – after you’ve done the stamping.

Stamp the front paper layer with a texture stamp and Pure White Embossing Powder.

Stage 5 – Glue all the flat layers together on the front and inside.  Raise the front verse on foam tape and attach to the white square layer. Phill has then lifted the bottom part on foam tape. Glitter the edges

Stage 6 – Stamp and die cut the flowers you would like to use on either the cardstock or vellum.  Phill used the Sakura Gelly Roll pens to add some sparkle.

Stage 7 – assemble the card and add the flowers, leaves and glitter.

Here’s what we used with links to our www….

Sentimentally Yours

Others

We hope you enjoy making this card!

Karen Signature

Phill's Cards, Sneaky Peeks

Pretty In Pink (and purple!) Sneaky Peek!

Hello Crafters

As my first year anniversary Weekend Wow shows draw closer, I’m sharing a sneaky peek every day this week with you of some of the samples that have been made with (some of) the new products launching on Friday.

We have been waiting for these, they have been a labour of love to get ‘perfect’, but they are so worth the wait! I love these stamps and dies and I just know I am going to use them so much!

Flowers on cards, my absolute favourite way of ‘decorating’ a card,.. which means my designs for the stamps and dies HAD to be beautiful, HAD to work with each other and on their own and simply HAD to be everything I want from a matching set..

My shows launch at 10am on Friday 28th over on Hochanda and I’m so excited, I can’t sleep!! See the side bar to the right to see all the show times for myself and Julia (who is launching Trudies brand new Under The Sea Colection and let me tell you this,.. they are amazing stamps!

Anyhoo, enough rattling..

This card features the beautiful Romantique Flower Stamps & Dies,.. such a pretty, succulent, flouncy flower that you will be able to shape and colour any way you want… Romantique seemed to suit it 🙂

These have been coloured in with my Watercolour Blending Brush Pens (Set 2) and the background has been created with the pens too!

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Hope you like it 🙂

Until tomorrow…

Happy Crafting!

Phill Signature 2

Phill's Cards

Sneaky Peek – Sweetheart Flower Stamps & Dies

Hello Crafters,

I know, I know – it’s been like, forever since I did a blog post… I will endeavour to do better! 🙂 (although Karen has been doing a fab job!)

I wanted to show you this card that I made, which you may have seen on my last shows on Hochanda, but I discreetly didn’t mention the flower stamps and dies that I used on air as I was saving them for my 1 year Anniversary (can you believe it’s been a whole year already!) Weekend Wow shows coming up on Friday 28th February to Sunday 1st March (more details will follow soon)

I love this card,.. it’s no secret that I like to add the odd flower or two (OK, 22) to my cards, which is what made designing the stamps and matching dies such a joy… I’ll be honest, it’s taken a while, I wanted them perfect… beautiful and perfect, I hope, when you see them all, you will agree it was worth the wait 😉

So, here it is, my Sapphire Blue Gatefold Card in all its’ Floral Splendour….

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I absolutely loved making this card, love the colours, love the stamped and embossed flower stamps, loved die cutting them (so easy with the dies) love the Classic Sentiment Coins and Medallion and loved the best part, assembling it all!

It’s an 8×8 Gatefold Card, created by joining 2 8×8 card blanks together.

If you want a list of what I used, let me know and I’ll pop it on here.

Set your planner for my weekend wow shows,.. you will have three days of me and two days of Julia between next Friday and Sunday and I have some amazing new products to show you!

Hope you like it 🙂

Happy Crafting

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Background Stamps, Stamps by Trudie Howard, Uncategorized

Pretty Aperture and Flowers

Here’s our latest card made at our workshops.

It uses the gorgeous Flower Stamps designed by Trudie Howard, Doodle Borders and Background Stamps.  The dies we have used are the  Double Debossed Circles, Essentials and Inverted Squares.  The flowers have been coloured with the Watercolour Brush Pens.

The Full Card

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Stage 1 – Cut out all the layers and die cuts as shown in the photo.  The card is 21cm x 21cm. You will need some scrap white card if you wish to decoupage the flowers.

Stage 2 – Ink the edges of the plain inverted square layer in two colours and then where the circle aperture is with the lightest colour ink.  Ink the skinny circle frame.

TIP – we placed the inverted square aperture layer over the plain square layer and lightly drew around the circle with a pencil.  Then we knew where to ink for the aperture!

Stage 3 – choose a background stamp and stamp over the inked circle area using the darker colour ink.

Stage 4 – ink the doodle border around the edge of inverted square aperture layer

Stage 5 – Stamp the flower stamp using Versafine Black Ink onto the large circle die.  If you are decoupaging the flowers stamp it again on the scrap card.  Take your time and enjoy colouring your flowers!

Stage 6 – assemble your layers, using foam tape to lift the inverted square aperture layer.

Other card samples…

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Here’s what we used with links to our website…

Sentimentally Yours

Other Ranges

Karen Signature

 

Background Stamps, Stamps by Trudie Howard, Stately Stamps, Uncategorized

Fancy Flowers Easel Card

Here’s a lovely version of an easel card made at our workshops.

This card uses the gorgeous Stamps designed by Trudie Howard (Flowers and backgrounds), Phill’s Octagon dies and Stately petite Sentiments.  We have coloured in the flowers using the new Watercolour  Blending Brush Pens!

The Full Card – made by Beverley!

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Pointy Pretties Stamp,  Delicate Floral Background, Stormy Sky Distress Oxide

Stage 1 – cut out all the layers and die cuts needed as below:

  • 20cm x 20cm – Card Blank
  • 9.5cm x 9.5cm (x3 pieces) – Inked layers
  • 9cm x 9cm – Backrgound Layers
  • 1 x larger octagon (flowers)
  • 2 x medium octagons (creates the easel)
  • 1 x small octagon (stopper)
  • Scrap white card to stamp extra flowers etc

Stage 2 – start by creating your base card using the 20cm x 20cm piece of square card.  Firstly score at 10cm across and up/down to create 4 quarters.  Then score from the top middle score line diagonally down/out towards the two middle score lines.   Cut up the  score line from the bottom middle score line to the centre of the card.  Fold the middle scored lines inwards and use a bone folder to create a crisp crease.  Fold the top two diagonal score lines back and out on themselves. Crease well. (see image)

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Stage 3 – cut two of the 9.5cm x 9.5cm pieces diagonally in half to create triangles.  Ink the edges of all these 5 pieces. (4 triangles , 1 square)

Stage 4 – stamp the background onto the x3 9cm x 9cm pieces.  THEN cut two in half diagonally.  Stick these layers to the inked layers.

Stage 5 – stamp your chosen flower onto the largest octagon so that some of the flower is off the edges of the card.   Stamp the flower again onto the scrap card for decoupaging later.

TIP – If you don’t want to decoupage your flower, just stamp if fully onto this piece.

Stage 6 – stamp your chosen sentiment/image onto the stopper octagon and also a verse on the bottom left hand side of the card blank.

Stage 7 – colour in your flowers and cut out the piece you want to decoupage. and stick to the main flower.

TIP – if you are decoupaging all your flowers you don’t actually need to colour these in on the large octagon as you will not see it! But you do need to colour the stems.

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Stage 8 – to create the easel, use the x2 medium size octagons.  Firstly, fold one in half and score well.  Create a small tab on side and score.  Glue this to one side of the unfolded octagon. (see image)

Stage 9 – assemble all the layers onto the card blank and add glitter if you wish!

Other samples…

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Here’s what we used with links to our website ……

Sentimentally Yours

Other

I hope you enjoy making this card!

Karen Signature

Bohemian Stamps, Uncategorized

Folded Card – Bohemian Stamps

Hello crafters!

Here is our latest blog post.  We have received so many requests for instructions to make this beautiful card.  It was designed by the lovely Joanne who works in our Sheffield store.

This card uses square card blanks, Phill’s Bohemian Stamps, Sue Wilson Grace Die and Orange Blossom Petals Die and Ditsress Oxides (our favourite ink for versatility) and Opal Polish

The Full Card

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Aged Magohany and Tea Dye Oxide

Stage 1 – cut out all the layers and due cut shaped need as follows:

  • x2 square card blanks 15cm x 15cm
    • Layer 1 – 14.5cm x 14.5cm – inside layer stamped
    • Layer 2 – 14cm x 14cm – pull out polished
    • Layer 3 – 13.5cm x 13.5 cm – pull out stamped
    • Layer 4 – 12.5cm x 12.5cm – pull out polished
    • Layer 5 -12cm x 12cm – pull out stamped (top image)
  • Sue Wilson Grace Die
  • Sue Wilson – small orange blossom petals in open and closed
  • Piece of rbbon

Stage 2 – cut the front of each base card diagonally from the outside corner to inside corner to create the fold over.  Using the off cuts, take off 1/2 cm from both straight edges to create the stamped layer for the fronts.

Stage 2 – use the opal polish to colour all the appropriate layers (2, 4). We have also used the polish on the fold over fronts and on the inside top edge of x1 card blank. Add polish to the solid flowers and edge of the die cut topper.

Stage 3 – use Phill’s Bohemian stamps to decorate the remaining layers as follows:

  • Corner Stamp on front off cuts
  • Elements on inside layer 1 – this is behind the pull out card on the photo.  You only need to stamp halfway down. You could also use the full background stamp for this layer.
  • Elements on layer 3 – you only need stamp around the edge of this layer as you see very little.  We also stamped off the edges.
  • Flourish or Banner stamps on layer 5 – we also used clear embossing powder to make this image stand out more.
  • Sentiments on topper – we used clear embossing powder as well

Stage 4 – assemble the layers.  We stuck layers 4 and 5 together and then added the ribbon on the back of this before we stuck it down to layer 3 and 4.

REMEMBER THESE LAYERS PULL OUT OF THE CARD

Stage 5 – to glue the folder over down firstly decide which fold will be front and behind panel. Open out both folds and apply a thin layer of glue to the bottom edge only of the behind panel. Close this fold and hold in place so the glue grabs. For the front panel apply a thin layer of glue along the bottom edge again and then make a  triangle of  glue where it will cross over with the behind panel and stick down.

Stage 6 – stick on the topper and flowers on and add glitter if you wish!

More card samples…

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We hope you enjoy making this card as much as we did in our workshops!

Here’s what we used with links to the www….

Karen Signature

 

 

 

Phill's Cards, Sneaky Peeks

New Stamp Collections – Sneaky Peeks!

Hello Everyone

It’s almost time,… almost!

Not long to wait until my 2 new stamp collections are released and they will be available to pre order on my website later today!

There will also be some of my new Cosmic Shimmer products in a few weeks (and I’m excited about those too!!)

So, here are a couple more sample cards that I’ve made, one with each new stamp collection.

It’s been so much fun creating these cards,.. thinking a little differently, as you can see, they are very different to what I usually design (which is something I really wanted for this year,.. something fresh and new!)

Here you go… (little hint for you – the Henna Ink card was created with something new, not Pixie Powders!)

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Henna Ink

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Anyhoo, I hope you like these cards as much as I do!

Happy Crafting!

Phill Signature 2

Phill's Cards, Sneaky Peeks

More sneaky peeks of my new stamps!

Hello Everyone

After an amazing, busy weekend at Hochanda (thanks everyone!), I gave myself a ‘sort of’ day off yesterday (which means I still worked, but from home, with lots of cups of tea!)

I’m so excited about my new stamps release and thank you for all your lovely comments on here and on my Facebook Page 🙂 I’m glad you’re as excited as me!

Yep, they are very different for me. (this is what I worked so hard to do, to give us something different)

Yep, they are amazing!

Yep, they will allow us even more scope to create.

I cannot wait to launch these on TV and show you all the ideas I had in my head when I designed these stamps! (it will be March though as I’m too busy in February)

(Retailers – You will get to see these in action with myself at Stitches)

So, there are two new stamp collections being released at the same time.

Both very different from each other and both just as fab as the next 🙂 (I may be, just may be, slightly biased! ha ha)

I’ve decided to give you a couple of sneaky peeks of cards I’ve made with the new collections every couple of days,.. so you can see what I’ve been up to and to give you a taste of what the stamps are.. I won’t reveal the complete collection until they are available for you to order from my website (it’ll keep us excited)

Here are the next two cards…

One from each collection, I’ve done them in a slideshow ooooh (didn’t even know I could do that on this Blog ha ha)

I hope you like them,.. I have loved creating these cards with them!

The tall card is an ‘oversized’ DL card and the square card is a 7×7 card 🙂

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I’ll show you a couple more in a few days,..

Remember to leave your comments for me, I do read them all and value your input 🙂

Happy Crafting!

Phill Signature 2

Sneaky Peeks

New Stamps – Sneaky Peek!

Hello Everyone

It’s that time of year,.. when we are all waiting and excited to see the new products from everyone,…

You probably know that, traditionally, I launch my new ranges at Stitches (our trade show), which is mid Feb, so the actual products don’t start filtering through to our craft stores until early-mid March, well, …

This year, you won’t have to wait so long,.. we’ve decided to release them early-mid February!!!

I’ve had sooooo many people asking when they are coming that we’ve managed to get them earlier…

The retailers will still get to see them at Stitches, with me demonstrating them, but they can now be ordered earlier, which means you’ll get them quicker too 🙂

So,.. I’m not going to give away full details, all I can tell you is that they are amazing and very different to what I usually do 🙂

I’ve loved designing them and loved making the sample cards even more,.. I can’t wait to demo them on tv for you all (March)

(There will also be some fab new Cosmic Shimmer products, but more on that later 😉 )

Here are a couple of cards I’ve made (1 from each of the two ranges of new stamps), to whet your appetite 🙂

Hope you like them 🙂

I’ll keep you posted on when you can order these stamps from my website (soon)

Happy Crafting!

Love

Phill

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