Vintage Christmas Cards using Tim Holtz Ideaology Products

Hi Everyone

I just thought I'd pop on and share some Christmas cards that I've made using a little crafty haul that I recently treated myself to.

I bought myself some new Tim Holtz Ideaology products from Buddly Crafts and Art from the Heart in the UK, both of which I can definitely recommend.

With my goodies I made these three cards and had fun making myself a collaged background and frames. I added some embossing and Gilding Wax and then layered on my paper dolls, ephemera and sentiments.

I made a little video explaining the process and products and would love it if you could pop over and have a look!

Hope you like them and your own Christmas crafting is going well!

Collaged Backgrounds and Frames

Graphic 45 Bauble Gift Boxes

Hi All!

I'm back today with some Bauble Gift Boxes that I made.

I saw the original idea on Stamping with Amore's channel, and have tweaked it to make it my own.

Using Graphic 45 papers from the Twas the Night Before Christmas and Letters to Santa collections, these little gift boxes make great tree hangers, table place settings or alternatives to crackers.

I've made a detailed video showing you how to make them. Hope you like them!

Graphic 45 Nature's Sketchbook Mini Tag Album

 Afternoon Everyone!

I just thought I'd share a little project that I made using one Graphic 45's Square Tags, and some of their lovely Nature's Sketchbook papers.

I really enjoyed decorating this and adding a little concertina element to make it into a dinky mini album.

I've added a video showing how I made it with measurements in the video comments.

Hope you like it!

Mintay Autumn Woodland Banner

Hi All!

Over on the Mintay Papers blog this month, there is a challenge to create an Autumn themed piece of Home Decor. So I decided to have a look in my stash and came up with this banner using elements from their Woodland, Botany and Old Manor collections, along with some chippies.

I really enjoyed making this fun banner, and loved adding all the fussy cut elements. The rich greens and browns from the Woodland collection created a perfect background for the animals, whilst the Botany warm red and gold flowers added a pop of colour along with the gold sprayed floral chippies.

I've created a video to show how I made it and some close up pics.

Hope you like it!

Simple Pop Up Cards using Graphic 45's Alice's Tea Party

 Morning Everyone!

Before I can get my hands on the new Alice in Wonderland collection just released from Graphic 45, I decided to pull out the previous release - Alice's Tea Party - and make some simple Pop Up cards.

I've created a video (link at the bottom of this post) to show just how easy it is to create these simple yet effective cards.

Hope you like them!

Tutorial - Graphic 45 Let It Snow Folio

Hi Everyone!

After my last post showing my mini folio album I had quite a few requests about how to make it. So, I have made another one in Graphic 45's Let It Snow collection with instructions on how to create it in a new video HERE

I hope you like it and enjoy making one yourself!

Graphic 45 Midnight Tales Folio

 Hi Everyone!

Today I thought I would share my little make for Halloween. Its a little folio using Graphic 45's Midnight Tales. Its the perfect place to store a few photos and memories from Halloween season. Its also a fun make too!

I've made a VIDEO HERE sharing the details.

Hope you enjoy it!

Flight of Fancy - Graphic 45

 Happy Saturday Everyone!

Today I'm sharing a couple of cards that I made for two friends' up coming birthdays.

I used Graphic 45's beautiful Flight of Fancy collection combining the 8x8 pad, Ephemera Pack, and some fussy cut elements from the 12x12 sheets.

I love all the jewel tone colours!

These are 6x6 cards with a two inch section cut from the middle. I then joined the sections using some of the larger images from the Ephemera Pack.

Hope you like them!

Woodland Glade

Evening Everyone!

It's been a while since I've done any 'family history' scrapbooking, so I pulled out the lovely 'Woodland' collection by Mintay Papers and created this layout.

The photo is of my Gran, who moved to a countryside village as a young married woman, so I decided to fussy cut all of the woodland images to create my scene. I layered each piece up to give dimension and added glitter to give a mystical forest glade look.

Hope you like it!

Graphic 45 Autumn Greetings Easel Cards

Hi Everyone! 

Well, it definitely feels like Autumn now, here in the UK! So I thought I'd make some pretty cards using Graphic 45's 'Autumn Greetings' 8x8 paper pad.

I decided to make 5x5inch easel cards, added a couple of die cut shapes to help create a focal point for all my fussy cut images which I layered up to add more dimension. The little journaling card images made not only a great stopper for the easel, but the perfect place on which to write my message. The colours in this collection are just beautiful!

Hope you like them!

Graphic 45 September Gift Set

 Morning All!

Today I thought I'd share a little card and gift set that I made for my friend's birthday this month. I used the two September sheets from Graphic 45's Time to Flourish range as the images are so beautiful and perfect for this time of the year.

I teamed the papers with some dark green pearlized card to make the card and box bases, and really managed to stretch my papers and scraps across the the three projects.

Hope you like them!