Frosted Floral Trio

I'm saying a fond farewell today to, in my opinion, one of the most beautiful sets of paper ever - Frosted Floral Specialty Designer Series Paper from the 2018 Holiday Catalogue willl be retiring soon.

A trio of quick, easy cards featuring the gorgeous Frosted Floral papers

These three cards were super quick and easy to make!  Each one features a different design from the pack.

Frosted Floral paper teamed with Powder Pink and Black Foil foliage

The base cards are Basic Black and then I coordinated the colour of the greeting label with the sheet of designer paper.  For the card above, I picked out Powder Pink.  The greetings are adhered with Stampin' Dimensionals.

The greeting is from the Bunch of Blossoms stamp set and I cut it out with one of the Layering Circles Framelits dies.  A punch would have been quicker but, sadly, I don't yet own one the right size!

Frosted Floral Specialty Designer Series Paper coordinates with so many gorgeous Stampin' Up colours!

The foliage is all cut from Black Foil Sheet - which I'm so happy to see carrying over from the Holiday Catalogue so it will continue to be available.  The label for the card above is cut from Mint Macaron cardstock.

Frosted Floral Specialty Designer Series Paper - more than a Christmas design!

For the foliage I used the Sprig Punch (which is also continuing after the Holiday Catalogue) and the Foliage Frame Framelits.  I chose Balmy Blue cardstock to coordinate with this sheet of the paper.

Thank you for visiting.

'Til next time!

Stephanie

Product List - All products needed for this project are available for sale in my online store

Frosted Floral 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Specialty Designer Series Paper

$24.25

Bunch Of Blossoms Photopolymer Stamp Set

$37.00

Black Foil Sheets

$7.00

Basic Black A4 Card Stock

$14.75

Powder Pink A4 Cardstock

$14.75

Mint Macaron A4 Cardstock

$14.75

Balmy Blue A4 Cardstock

$14.75

Sprig Punch

$31.00

Foliage Frame Framelits Dies

$47.00

Layering Circle Framelits Dies

$58.00

Christmas Double Easel Fold

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So, I originally made this card for a Crazy Crafters' Blog Hop and although the hop has been postponed, I've decided to go ahead with this post anyway.  It's a CASE of a card by Patty Bennet I just love this fun fold and its versatility - change the colours and embellishments and it can suit all occasions.  And, best of all .... it's quick and easy!

I've made a couple of Christmas cards using the Joyous Noel Specialty Designer Series Paper as my jumping off point.

A Christmas Double Easel Fold card featuring the Pretty Pines foliage

In her blog post, Patty has included all the dimensions in inches with very clear instructions as well as a video.  She's also provided lots of great tips for colours and die cutting.

I decided to convert the dimensions to metric sizing so that I could easily made two cards from my one A4 piece of Sahara Sand cardstock.  Basically it's a question of cutting the A4 in half vertically but for the more precise (like me) you'll want to measure your cardstock and may need to slice off the merest whisker so that it measures 28cm by 10.5cm.  Score at 14cm and fold in half.

The Tranquil Tide cardstock measures 26cm x 9.5cm.  Score and fold at 13cm and 19.5cm.

Glue the Tranquil Tide piece to the Sahara Sand base card.

The front view of the open Double Easel card

Cut one piece of Designer Series Paper to 12.5cm by 9cm and two pieces should measure 6cm x 9cm.

A picture of the closed Christmas Double Easel card

Then it's just a question of choosing how to dress up this gorgeous fun fold!  I was guided by the patterns on the paper.  For the first one I used the Foliage Frames label - which happened to be sitting on my table.  It was actually a reject from a previous card because I wasn't happy with the way I'd added the Frost White Shimmer Paint.  However, for this card, it didn't matter!  

The foliage is cut using the Pretty Pines dies and the sentiment is from the Christmas Traditions Punch Box.

This Christmas Double Easel card has a snowflake theme

Since this piece of paper inspired snowflakes, I cut a piece of Glimmer Paper with the Blizzard Thinlit and sponged some of the snowflakes with Tranquil Tide ink.

The greeting is from Snowflake Sentiments stamp set and the labels are cut with the Foliage Frame die set and the Pretty Label Punch.

The snowflake Double Easel card as it appears from the front when open

Since the Gold Faceted Gems are self-adhesive, it was important to ensure that, when folded closed, the gem on the free-standing snowflake wouldn't stick to the base card.  The remedy was simple - I put the little circle cut from the centre of the snowflake onto the exposed adhesive on the back of  the snowflake.

This is the closed snowflake Double Easel card

Thanks for visiting.

'Til next time!

Stephanie

Product List - everything needed to create these cards is available for purchase in my online store

Joyous Noel 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Specialty Designer Series Paper

$24.25

Foliage Frame Framelits Dies

$47.00

Layering Circle Framelits Dies

$58.00

Christmas Traditions Punch Box

$78.00

Pretty Pines Thinlits Dies

$45.25

Blizzard Thinlits Die

$49.00

Pretty Label Punch

$31.00

Share What You Love Artisan Pearls

$10.50

Copper Foil Sheets

$7.00

Gold Faceted Gems

$8.75

Sparkle Glimmer Paper

$8.75

Broadway Bound for Foliage Frames

We'll take a little break from Christmas card for a quick birthday card!

Black & gold is so elegant and sophisticated!  Broadway Bound, Foliage Frames and Darling Label Punch

As a big fan of black and gold, I just love the Broadway Bound Designer Series Paper.  It does have lovely bright colours on the opposite sides - but I can't get past the black and gold!

This card started off, like so many, as a leftover sitting on my desk.  I cut the gold Foliage Frame for this card and rejected it in favour of black.  So for this card I merely did a little gold heat embossing, a little punching and cutting et voila!

Thank you for visiting.
'Til next time!
Stephanie

Product List - All available in my online store

Broadway Bound Speciality Designer Series Paper

$24.25

Foliage Frame Framelits Dies

$47.00

Darling Label Punch Box

$78.00

Versamark Pad

$15.00

Gold Stampin' Emboss Powder

$8.75

Embossing Buddy

$10.00

Basic Black A4 Card Stock

$14.75

Gold Foil Sheets

$7.00

Ink it Stamp it Design Team Blog Hop: CASE the Holiday Catalogue

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 highlighting products from the new 2018-2019 Annual Catalogue.  

You are currently at my page - Stephanie Fischer, The Crafty Thinker.  At the end of my post there is a full line of team members, please click on the name after mine in the list to continue the hop.

I've cased one of the cards pictured on page 4 of the Holiday Catalogue featuring the All Is Bright Suite.  

This is my version.

A Christmas Card with non-traditional colours and suitable for a masculine recipient

I've chosen to use the very beautiful Joyous Noel Specialty Designer Series Paper and have taken my colours from the paper.

I cut the Floral Frames label from Early espresso cardstock to give a deep, rich colour for the copper foil to glow against.  I had cut the Tranquil Tide foliage for a different card but stole it for this one!

I stamped the greetings onto Gray Granite offcuts with Early Espresso ink, cut them out with the frame dies in the coordinating die set that comes with the Merry Christmas To All Bundle and then added some gorgeous copper shimmer to the edges with paintbrush and the new Copper Shimmer Paint.  I also added some of the White Frost Shimmer Paint to the foliage.

I cut the word "Merry" from the die set in both Gray Granite and Copper Foil Sheet and off-set them when I adhered them to the card.  TIP:  placing Multipurpose Adhesive Sheet on the back of the cardstock before die-cutting makes it much easier to adhere fiddly pieces such as this!

Products I've used from the Holiday Catalogue:

Joyous Noel Specialty Designer Series Paper

Merry Christmas To All Bundle (stamp set and dies)

Shimmer Paint - Frost White

Shimmer Paint - Bright Copper

The Holiday Catalogue sales period will be  5 September 2018 to 2 January 2019. If you live in Australia, don't currently have a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator and would like your own copy of the catalogue full of amazing products and beautiful inspiration, contact me.

Thank you so much for joining us today and we hope you'll join us again next month when we'll be presenting 3D projects! I'm Stephanie Fischer and to keep hopping around see the list below to see who is up next with another great project.

Thanks for visiting
'Til next time
Stephanie

Product List - All currently available in my online store

Foliage Frame Framelits Dies

$47.00

Copper Foil Sheets

$7.00

Gray Granite A4 Cardstock

$14.75

Early Espresso A4 Card Stock

$14.75

Soft Suede A4 Card Stock

$14.75

Tranquil Tide A4 Cardstock

$14.75

Multipurpose Adhesive Sheets

$17.00

Early Espresso Classic Stampin' Pad

$13.00

Big Shot

$159.00