'Happy Birthday!' using newly released Postage Edge Shape Collection

Hello Crafty Friends!

Were you able to see all of the lovely projects using the new Postage Edge Shapes Collection?  The Intro Hop was on Monday and the Creative Team shared projects on Facebook, Instagram, and blogs.  You can see all of the projects on Facebook at the Amazing Paper Grace- Creative Encouragement Community.  Feel free to join the community to see and share your own projects using Amazing Paper Grace product.  Would love to see what you create!!

Today I would like to share a birthday card I created for a wonderful friend.  She is one of those special people that makes the world a better place just by being her.  I feel so fortunate to say she is my friend!  For her birthday I created a card using purple as that is her favorite color.

Her card was created using the newly released Postage Edge Shapes dies in square (S5-538):

...and circle (S5-539):

Card instructions:

1. Die cut silver card stock using the largest postage square die.  If your silver is not heavy weight, die cut again in white.  Mount the silver onto the white and set aside.
2. Die cut patterned paper using the largest non-postage square die.  Mount to the silver postage using double sided tape.
3. Die cut purple cardstock using the circle postage die.  Mount to card front using foam tape.  Die cut a different piece of patterned paper using the circle die.  Optional: apply silver marker along the edge.  Mount to base using foam tape.
4. Die cut white card stock using the next size down postage and circle die to create a frame. Mount to card front using liquid adhesive.
   
   
   
5. Die cut Happy Birthday (S4-1206) twice from silver and white card stock.  Offset mount the silver to the white using liquid adhesive.  Mount to card front using liquid adhesive.
6. Die cut purple foam using flower dies.  I used set S4-867 but Amazing Paper Grace has many lovely flower dies to choose from.  Cut several layers for each flower bundle.  Use a heat tool, hot foil platform or clothes iron to heat up and curl the flower petals.  Stack foam die cuts to create flowers.  Insert stamen and use hot glue to secure.  After cool, use cutter to rim underside of stamen and glue.  Die cut foliage from green foam and heat slightly.  Mount all to card front using hot glue.
   
7. Create triple bow and mount using hot glue.
8. Add half pearls or drops as desired.
9. You can next either mount onto a white card blank or create an easel stand back.  The easel stand back will allow it to be a shaped card.

Product used:

Spellbinders (Circle Postage S5-539, Square Postage S5-538, Happy Birthday S4-1206, Flowers S4-867)

Paper (white, silver and purple card stock; coordinating patterned paper)

Foam (purple and green)

Stamen- white

Half pearl drops

White ribbon

Adhesive: liquid, double-sided foam, double-sided tape, hot glue

I do hope you enjoyed the projects!  Thank you for stopping by!  Have a happy, crafty day.

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Hugs,

Kathy Jo

New Amazing Paper Grace Die of the Month Release!

 

Hello Crafty Friends!

Today I am excited to share the newly released Amazing Paper Grace Die of The Month for July.  This is a fabulous die set that can be used to create the most beautiful cards and paper projects.

It was difficult to choose what I wanted to create with the die set- Birthday card, any day card, Christmas card, or Wedding card?  I could not decide so I made a birthday party favor and a sweet Hello card.  But before I get to more photos I have to say the following (but if the die set was not supplied I would have bought it because it is an awesome set!):

 

Today's creations were created with the dies supplied by Amazing Paper Grace.

There are 13 cutting dies included in the Tiara Trifold.

My first project was the pretty "Hello" card.  The die details make it look like an intricate, time consuming card but it was not time consuming.  The dies make it easy to create a stunning card!

The next project was a sweet birthday party favor.  It was created using gold and white vellum, white card stock, metallic card stock, and acrylic.  

The party favor can also be used to hold a battery powered tea votive "candle".  It would look so nice as a table centerpiece.

Oh!  And add some extra glam to the trellis die cut by putting wee gems or Nuvo Drops on the trellis intersections.  I added white Nuvo Drops to the Hello card.

Supplies:

Amazing Paper Grace July 2022 Die of the Month – Tiara Trifold.
Amazing Paper Grace S4-1205 Merry Everything Words

Amazing Paper Grace S4-1206 Happy Occasions Words

The Amazing Paper Grace Die of the Month is available exclusively at Spellbinders Paper Arts during July 2022, Tiara Trifold along with other membership perks.

View this month’s Amazing Paper Grace Die of the Month! https://youtu.be/DDsj1W-BzAE

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Thank you for stopping by!  Have a happy, crafty day!

Hugs,

Kathy Jo

Happy Birthday!

Happy Friday, All.

It is a beautiful day here in Nova Scotia.  The sun is shining, the birds are chirping and the squirrels are up to their squirrelly antics.  Although the lawn has some dandelions that need to be pulled, I opted to head into the craft room first to finish the birthday card I started last night.  Funny how "work" easily moves to the back burner.  :)

The birthday card used Quietfire's Happy Family Days set:

The set was designed to coordinate with Spellbinders Labels One.  The swirls were stamped in green and the sentiment in Archival Ink (Potting Soil).  It was die cut with Spellbinders Scalloped Labels One.  Next green card stock was die cut (Spellbinders Decorative Labels One), ivory card stock (Labels One Card Front) and all was mounted on Kraft card stock.

I stacked white tissue paper and die cut it using Spellbinders Blossom Two die.  It was dyed using Distress Stain in Abandoned Coral, a brad inserted through the center and was gathered to create the flower.  Green card stock was die cut using Spellbinders Create a Rose leaves dies.

Sweet, simple and happy.  I hope whoever receives the card will like it.  

Before I head out I wanted to show you some of the tulips that popped up in one of my gardens this year.  I should literally have hundreds of tulips in the spring showing off their beauty.  However, last year I had a problem with my tulips and I do not think even 20 popped up.  I was concerned that a disease had gotten a hold of all of them but decided to wait a year before pulling out all of the bulbs and starting over.  Thankfully many of the tulips came back.  Here are a few from one of my gardens.  This garden is full of red, yellow, and red/yellow blended tulips.

The photos do not do them justice.  They are stunning in person!  They really brighten up a day and I love seeing them soaking up the sun.  

Thanks for hanging out until the end!  :)
Have a fabulous weekend.
Big Hugs,
Kathy Jo

This card is entered into the following challenges:
Scrapyland- Happy Birthday/celebrate
613 Avenue Create, AG
Sister Act, AG
TTCRD, AG
Simon Says Stamp, AG
Word Art Wednesday, AG

Sassy & funny feminine birthday card

Hello Crafters!

Recently a good friend of mine celebrated a birthday.  Of course I made a card...but I wanted it fun, feminine and sassy...just like her.  :)  For her card I used Carta Bella's Summer Lovin' Sunglasses paper as the background.  I flipped the paper over and used the cool pattern on the back as a diagonal accent.  Next, Kraftin' Kimmie's Krafty Quotes #3 was stamped on vellum paper in black and heat embossed.  The oh-so-feminine swimsuit bather was cut from Fancy Pants' Me-ology paper "In her words" and mounted on coordinating matting.  Wink of Stella was applied to her suit and glasses.

The inside contains a stamped pair of sunglasses (unknown) and "Happy Birthday" from Quietfire's Happy Birthday Plain and Simple stamp set.

She really liked the card- or at least pretended like she did!  :)

Thanks for stopping by!  Have a fabulous day!

Hugs,

Kathy Jo

This card is entered into the following challenges:

Word Art Wednesday, AG

AI Challenge, Make me smile

Aud Sentiments, Birthday

Kraftin' Kimmie, AG

Spiderman birthday card

Hello Crafters!

Every once in a while we need to make a card that is not a style or type or theme that we usually do.  For example, a good friend of mine just had a "milestone" birthday and I wanted to make a special card for him.  He is a comic book fan- especially Spiderman- but I never made a comic book card before.  Luck would have it that I happened across two patterned papers that I thought would make a good comic book card- a Spiderman patterned paper from Marvel and a fun boy patterned paper from October Afternoon.  The front required two sheets of the Marvel paper because I fussy cut Spidy out and added foam dots as shown:

The Spidy scene was mounted on black card stock which was mounted on the October Afternoon paper.  Stickles was added to the drawn movement strokes for more emphasis.  Distress ink was added along the paper edges to give a more aged look.

The inside is more Spidy paper.  I left the bottom portion blank so that friends could sign the card (the paper looks like it was cut crooked but it was not...just a strange angled shot):

The back has advertisements from the October Afternoon paper.   I made the photo extra large so that you can see the fun ads:
I totally remember those old ads in magazines and comics!  Do any of you remember the sea monkey advertisement in the magazines?  Or the cool decoder rings?  Those ads were the greatest!  :)

Thanks so much for stopping by!  I do hope you all have a great weekend.
Big Hugs,
Kathy Jo


PS- Now the theme Spiderman theme song is in my head:

Spiderman, Spiderman,
Does whatever a spider can.
Spins a web, any size,
Catches thieves just like flies.
Look out! Here comes the Spiderman.

Is he strong? Listen bud—
He's got radioactive blood.
Can he swing from a thread?
Take a look overhead.
Hey there! There goes the Spiderman.

In the chill of the night,
At the scene of the crime,
Like a streak of light,
He arrives just in time!

Spiderman, Spiderman,
Friendly neighborhood Spiderman.
Wealth and fame, he's ignored—
Action is his reward.
To him,
Life is a great big bang-up—
Wherever there's a hang-up,
You'll find the Spiderman!

Throwback card- Happy Birthday

Hello All!

Very interesting find for me!  It brought me back to a different time...

When I first started paper crafting I was not very active in it.  At the time I was more into making jewelry, gardening and playing ultimate.  Now, as you all can tell, paper crafting has replaced my jewelry making.  Since last January I have really been blogging, making more paper crafts and sharing my crafts on my blog.  Blogging requires organization which means my computer file folders are quite organized (which is the complete opposite of my craft room!).  Before actively blogging I would maybe take a photo of a card I made and would drop the photo into random file folders.  I came across one of those random folders and found the card shown above.  

I could not help but stare at it and think about how my paper crafting has evolved in a two years.  The thing I noticed right away is that there were no die cuts.  Zero.  This is the period in my crafting life that I refer to as B.D.- before dies.  I remember tracing a music CD onto the patterned paper and cutting it by hand!  The squares were the same technique although I do not remember what I used for the template.  

Funny how things change over time, huh?

Thanks for taking the time to share in the blast from my past!  I may share some others, too, in the near future.

Have a good day!
Hugs,
Kathy Jo

CAS Butterfly Birthday card

Friday!  YES!

Today I wanted to keep it simple and share a CAS card.  And it has a butterfly which makes it super cool.  :)

I applied Distress Ink in Scattered Straw and Spiced Marmalade onto scrap white card stock.  It was spritzed with water, dried and then spritzed with gold glimmer spray.  Scrap white card stock was die cut using Spellbinders Matting Basics and Deckled Mega Rectangles Large.  Quietfire's Happy Birthday stamp was added using black archival ink.  Black scrap paper was die cut using Les Papillions Two.

The white assembly was adhered to a tent fold black card.  I tried making another entire card from scrap paper but I did not have black scrap paper large enough...darn!

Thanks for popping over for this simple project.  Hope you all have a fantastic weekend!
Hugs,
Kathy Jo

This card is entered into the following challenges:
Word Art Wednesday, AG
Seize the Birthday, AG Birthday
Fan-Tastic Tuesday, AG rectangle
Crafty Sentiment, AG with sentiment
Craft 4 Eternity, AG
Wag n Whiskers, Birthday
Sister Act, AG
613 Avenue Create, AG

Graphic 45 Botanical Tea Birthday Card

Hello Crafters!

My friend, Janice, had her twenty-something-ish-plus-some birthday this week.  Her favorite paper is Graphic 45's Botanical Tea and we both collect tea cups so it seemed natural to make this card.

The front incorporates the stamp and die cut set from Sizzix/Graphic 45/Hampton Art "Tea Time".  The pink and white ribbon was a gift from Janice (matches Botanical Tea perfectly).  The circle die cut was made using Spellbinders Circles dies and Majestic Circles.

The inside has more Graphic 45 paper.  A half circle die cut from Majestic Circles was used to hold a gift card.

The Happy Birthday sentiment is an often used stamp set from Quietfire, Happy Family Days.

The back is more Botanical Tea.  The stacked tea cups is a stamp from Unity Stamps. 

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Hope you all are having a wonderful weekend!
Hugs,
Kathy Jo

This card is entered into the following challenges:
613 Avenue Create, AG
Word Art Wednesday, AG
DL Art, July AG
TTCRD, AG
Crafting from the Heart, AG
Crafting by Design, July AG
Crafty Hazelnut Patterned Paper, July AG
Sister Act, AG
Crafty Sentiments, AG
Fussy and Fancy, Girly
Sisterhood of Crafters, Birthday
Cute Card Thursday, Pretty papers

Masculine Birthday card

Hello Fellow Crafters!

Do you find that you tend to make cards that do not fit into envelopes well?  I do!  I decided to challenge myself and make a masculine birthday card that is "flat".  My husband picked out the paper and my challenge was set.  And yes, you read that correctly...I showed my husband possible choices for paper and he thought the globe paper from Bo Bunny's Weekend Market was "cool".

The paper was trimmed to size and mounted on kraft card stock.  Additional kraft paper was die cut using Spellbinders A2 Brackets Borders One.  "Happy Birthday" (Quietfire's Happy Birthday Plain & Simple) was stamped on ivory card stock and distressed in Vintage Photo and Walnut Stain.  Gold foil tape was adhered to the edge.  Green paper was die cut from Spellbinders Twisted Metal Tags and Accents and centered over the compass.  All edges were distressed in Vintage Photo and Walnut Stain.  Bling was applied as shown.

Easy card!  Hopefully it is "cool" for a masculine birthday card!  :)

Thanks for stopping by!  Have a great day.
Hugs,
Kathy Jo

This card is entered into the following challenges:
Kraft Journal, Sea and Sand
Crafty Hazelnuts Patterned paper, July
613 Avenue Create, AG
Word Art Wednesday, AG

Shabby Birthday card

Howdy Crafty Peeps!

The Kraft Journal is hosting a new challenge this week: Shabby Chic.  Cardabilities also has a new sketch (seen below).  I decided to combine the two challenges with a couple of birthday challenges (you can never have too many birthday cards stashed!) for this card.  

The tent fold base was made from kraft card stock and Tim Holtz' Distress Stain in Picket Fence was applied along the edges.  Ivory card stock was cut to size and distressed along the edges.  Kaisercrafts Chantuese Collection paper was also cut to size and distressed.  Ivory card stock was die cut using Spellbinders' Devine Eleoquence.  Kraft card stock was embossed using a Cuttlebug embossing folder, die cut using Spellbinders' Labels Four and Picket Fence applied along the edges.

Next, ivory card stock had Quietfire's Happy Birthday stamped in black and then was die cut using Spellbinders's Ribbon Banners.  The die was trimmed as shown.

Seam binding was dyed using Tim Holtz' Distress Stain in Spun Sugar.  A double bow and a wrap were made and applied.  A scrap piece of lace ribbon was attached.  Bling adhered at will.  :)

Hope you like the shabby birthday card!  Thanks so much for stopping by!  Have a good Wednesday!

Hugs,

Kathy Jo

This card is entered into the following challenges:

Kraft Journal, Shabby Chic

Cardabilities, Sketch

Cuttin and Stampin, Birthday

Crafting By Design, Birthday

Simon Says Stamp, Monday, AG

DL Art, June Linky

Word Art Wednesday, AG

Love to Create, AG

Happy Birthday, Fancy Fold Gift Card Holder

Happy Tuesday!

Yes, this is my third fancy fold card in less than a week.  I couldn't help but make another fancy fold...it is too much fun.  :)  This time, I made a birthday gift card holder.

The card is easy to make: cut 12" x 12" ivory card stock to 4" wide.  Score "down" at 4.5", 5.5" and 10".  Flip the paper over and score at 5".  That is the basic shape of the card...told you it was easy!  I wanted to add some shape to the flap so I die cut the flap using Spellbinders' Labels Twenty.  Here is a shocker to you all so I hope you are sitting down while you read this next statement- I did not use any other die sets on this card.    I did not need to because the paper I used ( Kaisercraft's Chanteuse Collection) already has die cuts in the paper pad!  On one of the die cuts I stamped Quietfire's Happy Birthday and used a gold leafing pen along the edge.  A sheet of the corner flowers paper was cut to 4" square and mounted on green card stock.  This stack was mounted to the front.  A piece of the pink paper was die cut and applied to the flap.   

A piece of seam binding was cut and assembled onto the card back.  Brown patterned paper from the same pad was cut to size and assembled over the seam binding.  

The inside is more of this pretty paper- one was adhered to a green base and another was cut smaller and applied to a pink base.  The smaller cut paper had tape only applied to three sides so that a gift card could be inserted.

Hope you enjoyed this quick and sweet birthday gift card holder.  :)
Thanks so much for stopping by and have a great day!
Hugs,
Kathy Jo

This card is entered into the following challenges:
Cuttin and Stamping, Birthday
Sister Act, AG
QKR, AG
Stamping for the weekend, AG
Crafting By Design, Birthday
Crafty Hazelnuts patterned paper, AG
613 Avenue, AG
Crafty Girls, AG
Simon Says Stamp, Monday AG