Wednesday 24 August 2016

Graphic 45 St. Nicholas


http://www.charmedcardsandcrafts.co.uk/acatalog/Graphic-45-St-Nicholas.html


It's Christmas in London with the arrival of Graphic 45's Christmas collection for 2016: St. Nicholas. This is a very traditional collection with mellow reds, greens, golds and creams and jolly old Santa peering out from many of the sheets. Along with Santa himself the collection is festooned with bells, bows, flourishes, garlands, peppermint stockings and holly.  Youhave 18 double-sided papers, plus stickers, ephemera cards, two chipboard sheets, paper pads, tags & pockets, banners, plus three gorgeous Hampton Art stamp sets. Fabulous!!

Also re-released is the delightful "Secret Garden" collection in the Deluxe pack.

http://www.charmedcardsandcrafts.co.uk/acatalog/Graphic-45-Deluxe-Collector-s-secret-garden.html#SID=2059


Here are some taster projects by the divine Graphic 45 design team to wet your appetite:











Have you got yours yet?

Saturday 20 August 2016

Beautiful Dreamer - Part 2



Hi guys, I have returned with 7 more cards I made using Bo Bunny's Beautiful Dreamer collection, love the colours from this collection, another that is totally breathtaking is Soiree.  New collections are partly in, well papers came a little while ago but the rest should follow next week: Bella Rosa, Sweet Moments, Wonderfully Wicked, Tis the Season and Merry & Bright.

Anyway, on to the cards...
Card 1:


I combined the Beautiful Dreamer products with a few Mirabelle stickers: the little girl, the bird and the butterfly. The banner at the top I just cut from a scrap piece of Soiree paper that I used on another card. Nothing is ever wasted when I create LOL
Although there is a large clock in the Noteworthy pack I had already used that but thankfully there was another clock on one of the papers so I cut that out and used it here instead.  The frame is one of the cut outs and it has a key on there, I used Glossy Accents on the key for a 3D effect. The little Bird cut-out is from one of the papers too.




Products Used:
Bo Bunny Beautiful Dreamer Paper Imagine (background paper, reverse side also used for cut-outs, see below 
Bo Bunny Beautiful Dreamer Paper Imagine (clock and bird stamp under the clock)
Distress Ink  
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Card 2:

Card size: 5.2" x 3.5". In this card I combined a few Bo Bunny collections, and used the door from  a paper from Bo Bunny The Avenues, the flowers are fussy cut from a Bo Bunny Juliet paper, background paper is Soiree. Banner with sentiment is from the Beautiful Dreamer Noteworthy pack.




Products Used:
Bo Bunny Beautiful Dreamer Noteworthy Die-Cuts (Imagine Banner)
Bo Bunny Soiree Paper Linens  (reverse side used)
Bo Bunny The Avenues Paper (door)
Bo Bunny Juliet paper Soulmates (fussy cut roses)
  Brad
 Spellbinders Home Sweet Home die
Distress Ink 
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Card 3:


Card measures 5.75" x 4.7".  Here I combined collections and used the beautiful Soiree paper from Bo Bunny with one of the Beautiful Dreamer cut-out papers. The background paper is of course double-sided which is what you can see on the bent back corner and the tear in the paper.


Products Used:
Bo Bunny Soiree Paper Linens
 Bo Bunny Beautiful Dreamer Paper Life Life (cut-out)
Prima Resin (currently sold out)

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Card 4:


The beautiful golden Balloon die-cut really lifts this card - love it!!.  The card itself measures approximately 6" x 6". The beautiful Victorian lady is from one of the Beautiful Dreamer papers, as is the round green circle below her.

Look how beautiful the balloon is:
 

Products Used:
Bo Bunny Beautiful Dreamer Noteworthy Die-Cuts
 Bo Bunny Beautiful Dreamer Paper Imagine (lady in frame)
 Bo Bunny Beautiful Dreamer Paper Life Life (Green circle with sentiment)

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Card 5:



This card is approximate 5.5" x 5.2". Again I used those GORGEOUS golden die-cuts!  The "Love" piece is glittered so just beautiful. Three noteworthy die-cuts used on this card. I rubbed a little metallic ink on the roses just to lift them.



Products Used:
Bo Bunny Beautiful Dreamer Noteworthy Die-Cuts
Bo Bunny Beautiful Dreamer Paper Mirage (reverse side used on front but I used the front page inside the card as well as you can see in the pictures.)
Green Distress Ink

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Card 6


 This is a larger card, measuring 8" x 4". I created a beautiful middle section then proceed to cover it all with the four birds LOL  The birds are from one of the sheets. The flowers with the bird on top is a noteworthy form the collection and I cut the little bird out from one of the sheets too.



Products Used:
Bo Bunny Beautiful Dreamer paper "Memories" for backgorund paper.
Bo Bunny Beautiful Dreamer Noteworthy Die-Cuts
Bo Bunny Beautiful Dreamer Paper "Live Life" (birds)
Small Basic Grey Brads used on corners on cut-outs
Prima sugar dots (sorry sold out at the mo)

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Card 7


This is a small card just to show that you can literally put a card together in minutes. The card measures just over 4" square.  I just took a piece of plain cardstock, inked the edges with brown distress ink - cut out one of the squares from the paper, used a couple of rub-ons for the sentiment, inked the cut-out and stuck it to the card. Adding a few brads and a button completed the card in minutes. Easy peasy.


Products Used:
Bo Bunny Beautiful Dreamer Paper "Live Life"

Phew! That took some time!! Time for a cuppa this end i think ha ha
As you can see here I got loads of cards from just a few sheets of paper, I have shown you 13 cards in my last two posts. The cut-out sheets are definitely something you should add to your basket, most companies do them now, including Kaisercraft and Graphic 45. 

I really hope you like this selection of cards and that it inspires you.
Happy Creating :)

Sunday 14 August 2016

Beautiful Dreamer - Part 1



I've been playing with some of the Bo Bunny Beatiful Dreamer products, namely the 12" x 12" papers and Noteworthy die-cuts. Love the colours from this collection, the vintage icons with gold detail in lilacs,green, cream and pinks. Gorgeous! I ended up making 13 cards, I'm going to show you five of them here, the others I still have to photograph. I still rely on a little sunshine in my conservatory for photographing LOL Not ideal for sure.



The gold details is amazing on these Noteworthy Die-Cuts, You can see it better if the card is quite darkly lit:



Products Used:
Bo Bunny Beautiful Dreamer Noteworthy Die-Cuts
Bo Bunny Beautiful Dreamer Paper Imagine (reverse side used here)
 "Happy Birthday sign I made on the computer - email me if you would like it.
Basic Grey Brad used on butterfly

Each collection have papers with gorgeous cut-outs, which makes it sooo easy to create:





 Products Used:
Bo Bunny Beautiful Dreamer Noteworthy Die-Cuts
Bo Bunny Beautiful Dreamer Paper "Daydream"
Ribbon eludes me, will link when I remember
Resin Fairy
"Treasures" metal sign by K&Co



The next card using another cut-out from the "Daydream" paper. This is a large card so you can see how versatile these sheets are, whether the size of card or layout:


Products used:
Bo Bunny Beautiful Dreamer Noteworthy Die-Cuts
Bo Bunny Beautiful Dreamer Paper "Daydream"
Bo Bunny Beautiful Dreamer Paper  "So Lovely"
Petals (own stash) 

The frame cut-out is just beautiful


I cut out part of the paper for my next card:

Beautiful gold detail on the Noteworthy Die-Cuts: 





Products Used:
Bo Bunny Beautiful Dreamer Noteworthy Die-Cuts
Bo Bunny Beautiful Dreamer Paper Memories (reverse side used here)
 "Dare to Dream" sign I made on the computer - email me if you would like it.
Resin Figure

The last card today uses paper from Graphic 45 alongside Bo Bunny's Beautiful Dreamer:


The chipboard I think was an old Kaisercraft one. I painted it with crackle paint, the sprayed it with Distress Stain "Tarnished Brass".  The sentiment is a Basic Grey Rub-on and I filled the star from the rub-on with Liquid Pearls.. On the frame itself I used Glossy Accents all over the picture in the middle to give an illusions of glass.
Products Used:
Bo Bunny Beautiful Dreamer Paper "Daydream"
 "Dare to Dream" sign I made on the computer - email me if you would like it.
Tim Holtz Distress Stain "Tarnished Brass"

I'll get the other seven cards photographed and on here in the week. :)

Friday 12 August 2016

Marianna Design August Releases

August releases from Marianne Design have arrived and it's a lovely mixed bunch, with dies, stamps and papers:

http://www.charmedcardsandcrafts.co.uk/acatalog/Marianne-Design-Dies-August-16-Releases.html


Super cute collectable dies, autumnal and halloween themed creatable dies and beautiful autumnal cutting sheets for your centerpieces and "Canadian Fall" autumnal papers for your backgrounds.  There's a spider web stamp, plus more in the new Doodle range of stamp from Marianne. There are two fab "Bag" dies (see below).  Finally there are two metallic paper packs, plus  a super value set of winter product (dies, paper pad, decoupage sheets, stamps - all for just £6.99 - say what?!?!). Get them all here.

Beautiful example cards from Marianne Design:















 Love the new Bag Dies! How fabulous are these! Great for present bags espcially. A must have I think: