Let’s Craft Together Blog Hop

Welcome to Let’s Craft Together Blog Hop. We are a group of Australian Stampin’ Up!® Demonstrators that are coming together to share our creative ideas with you. We are happy that you can join us and hope that we can Inspire you to make creations of your own. Each month we will be showing different ideas based around products, themes and challenges.

Our theme this month for the Let’s Craft Together Blog Hop is a ‘Colour Challenge’ by Monique and I am using the Winterly Tree Tops Bundle and Peaceful Season Bundle by Stampin’ Up!®.

Winterly Tree Tops & Peaceful Seasons

I had a lot of fun creating this card, using some techniques I hadn’t used before. I have had the Pearlized Enamel Effects and the Matallic Enamel Effects in my stash for a little while but had never pulled the out to use until now.

My “TIPS’

• When using the Enamel effects and mixing with water etc, mix them on an old piece of plastic you can throw away. i used a block and could only clean with a piece of steel wool.
• When do the splatters have some scrap paper underneath your work. I now have splatters on my glass mat and not sure I want to put steel wool onto it…..May just live with it like it is.

How to make this card…

Cutting Measurements

	Colour	Imperial/Letter	Metric/A4
Card Base	Basic White	4 ¼ x 11”, score @ 5 ½”	10.5 x 29.9cm, score @14.9cm
Card Mat	Moody Mauve	4 x 5¼”	10 x 14.4cm
Card Front	Basic White	3⅞ x 5⅛”	9.7 x 14.1cm
Card Insert Mat	Moody Mauve	4 x 5 ¼”	10 x 14.4cm
Card Insert	Basic White	3⅞ x 5⅛”	9.7 x 14.1cm
Wreath Images	Basic White	4 x 4¼”	10 x 10.5cm
Christmas	Basic White	1½ x 4¼”	4 x 11cm
Christmas	Moody Mauve	1½ x 4¼”	4 x 11cm
Merry Sentiment	Basic White	Scraps of Basic White
Leaves die cuts	Basic White

• Cut all required pieces as per measurements above
• Card Front
  • Using Forever Plaid 3D Embossing Folder, emboss the Card Front.
  • Mix Metallic Enamel Effects Basics Gold with water, until a watery consistency and with a old brush flick across embossed card front and let dry.
  • When dry adhere the card front to the Moody Mauve mat.
• Wreath
  • Stamp 2 wreath images using memento Tuxedo Black Ink.
  • Colour with Pretty Peacock and Cherry Cobbler Blends.
  • Die cut with coordinating die and add large dimentionals to the back, put to one side.
• Christmas Sentiment
  • Basic White
    • Add Adhesive Sheet to the back of the Basic White cardstock so it can be easily adhered to the Moody Mauve card stock.
    • Brush water down Metallic Enamel Effects Basics Gold, you may need to add extra Gold Effects to create some texture. Its OK to have some white space.
    • Die Cut once dry, using the Peaceful Seasons Dies

• Moody Mauve
  • Die Cut large or shadow die from the Peaceful Seasons Dies
• Remove adhesive backing from ‘Christmas’ and carefully adhere to the Moody Mauve die cut.
• Add mini dimensionals to the back and put aside.
• ‘Merry’ Sentiment
  • Stamp ‘Merry’ using Pretty Peacock ink onto a scrap of basic White approx 2.5 x 8cm (1 x 3″) in size.
  • Die cut using the smaller banner die from Peaceful Seasons Dies
• Leaves
  • Die cut 6 leaves from the Winterly Tree Tops Bundle.

• Card Base
  • Card Front– Adhere the matted card front to the card base.
  • Wreath – Attach the 2 coloured and die cut wreath pieces to the card front, leaving approx .5cm (¼”) in between the pieces.
  • Christmas sentiment – Remove the backings from the dimentionals and attach the Christmas across the middle of the two wreaths.
  • Merry Sentiment– add a mini dimensional in the middle of the banner, add a small amount of liquid glue under the ends of the banner and attach above the Christmas sentiment.
  • Leaves – Adhere 3 leaves at the top and 3 leaves to the bottom of the wreath, sitting diagonally from each other & tucking them under the wreath.
  • Pearlized Enamel Effects Basics White – Add a very small dot on each of the berry’s on the wreath.
• Card Insert
  • Sentiment sentiment in the middle using the Pretty Peacock Ink
  • Adhere the card insert to the Moody Mauve card insert mat.
  • Adhere the matted insert to the inside of the card base.

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