Friday 29 November 2019

Two Christmas Cards featuring the Brightly Gleaming Suite

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An easy Christmas card to make using the Brightly Gleaming Suite and Beautiful Boughs dies
This is such a simple card but it ended up rather "busy".  However, there's always a place for a busy Christmas card.

The base card is Gray Granite to which I added a triangle of Pretty Peacock and then set about decorating.  I used elements cut with the Beautiful Boughs and Seasonal Layers dies as well as some Brightly Gleaming Foil Elements.  For a bit of extra sparkle, I added some Holiday Rhinestone Basic Jewels.

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A variation of the Christmas card using the Brightly Gleaming Suite
Then I made another using the same methodology but reversed colours.  I placed circles of Gray Granite behind the copper baubles and added a few Star Designer Elements and a greeting cut from the Classic Weave Ribbon.

My aim was to make use of the Brightly Gleaming Foil Elements that I purchased as part of the Brightly Gleaming Suite Bundle.  There's a very generous amount of elements in the pack!

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'Til next time!
Stephanie

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Wednesday 27 November 2019

Christmas Gleaming Buckle Cards

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Buckle Fold cards decorated with Brightly Gleaming SDSP and Foil Elements are quick and easy to make
I had so much fun making buckle fold cards the other day that I just kept on!  

These ones are made with exactly the same method but are decorated with papers and elements from the Brightly Gleaming Suite of products.  I added a snowflake from the Seasonal Layers dies to the centre of the copper star.
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This photo shows one of the buckle fold cards open which shows the closing mechanism
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Stephanie

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Sunday 24 November 2019

Beautiful You - Christmas Buckle Cards fun fold

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A Christmas buckle card featuring the Beautiful You stamp set and Brick & Mortar 3D embossing folder
I jazzed up the edge of the buckle with a silver frond cut with the Beautiful Boughs die set
Buckle Folds are an extension of the Joy Fold and have been around for ..... years!  But, despite having made umpteen joy fold cards I had never gone the extra little distance and created a buckle fold ... until now!
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The buckle card in the open position 
The image from Beautiful You is coloured with Real Red and Cherry Cobbler Stampin' Blends alcohol markers.  For the first card I dressed up her hat and hemline with a line of glue pressed into Ice Stampin' Glitter.  I'd received my bottle of Snowfall Accents Puff Paint by the time I made the second card (below) so I used that and then added some of the Ice glitter on top for sparkle.
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A Christmas buckle card featuring the Beautiful You stamp set and Brightly Gleaming paper
Measurements and Method:
Main card:    Cut to 8.75" x 4.25"  Score and fold at 5.5"
Buckle:         Cut to 2" x 6.5"   Score and fold at 1.5"
Layer inside: 5.25" x 4"
Layer front:  4" x 3"
Decorative Panel Layer:  3" square
Stamped Panel Layer: 2.75" square
  • Glue the small tag of the buckle to the back of the inside layer.  
  • Glue the inside layer to the inside of the card.
  • Glue the front layer to the front of the card.
  • Position the Classic Label Punch in the middle of the card as far from the cut edge as possible and punch.
  • Glue the stamped panel to the larger layer.
  • Glue the decorative square panel to the buckle - allowing space for freedom of the buckle mechanism
Close the card by crossing the buckle across the front of the card and slotting the end through the punched space.

Thank you for visiting - I'll have more ideas for buckle cards in my next post.
'Til next time!
Stephanie

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Friday 22 November 2019

Ink it! Stamp it! International Design Team Blog Hop - Christmas Cards - Navy Christmas Gleaming

Welcome to the Ink It! Stamp It! Design Team Blog Hop - we hop every month so be sure to pop back and visit us again!  

Today we are sharing Christmas Cards!  
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A simply and elegant card featuring the stunning Christmas Gleaming Suite
This card is a CASE (Copy And Selectively Edit) of some of my previous cards and features the simply stunning Christmas Gleaming Bundle and Brightly Gleaming Specialty Designer Series Paper.  The copper and Night of Navy in this particular sheet are such an elegant combination!  It's a simple design that lends itself to mass-production and to avoid waste, the centres cut from the copper sheet and designer paper can be used in other cards.

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Just LOVE that stunningly elegant Brightly Gleaming paper and the Christmas Gleaming Stamp Set!
You are currently at my page - Stephanie Fischer, The Crafty Thinker.  At the end of my post there is a full line up of team members, please click on the name after mine in the list to continue the hop.

Thank you so much for joining us today and we hope you'll join us again next month when we'll be providing sneak peeks from the new Occasions and Sale-A-Brations Catalogues.

I'm Stephanie Fischer and to keep hopping around see the list below to see who is up next with another great project.

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Stephanie


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Wednesday 20 November 2019

Copper Cobbler Christmas Gleaming

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Another Christmas card in my mix and match Christmas Gleaming series
Here is another card that uses up leftovers!  I find that using the Stitched Rectangles to cut layers gives me lots of mix and match opportunities and there's very little waste!

For more details on the methodology, please see my previous few posts that feature other cards in this series.

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'Til next time!
Stephanie

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