Showing posts with label Handcrafted Elements. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Handcrafted Elements. Show all posts

Monday, November 20, 2023

Handcrafted Merry Monday

 It's Monday, and you know what that means - it's time for another holiday card for Merry Monday!

Today I am featuring a great set of dies from the September - December Mini Catalog, Handcrafted Elements.  This stand-alone die set has a number of fun ways to cut out some great elements for your cards - tags, focal points, and as I am showing today, a pretty ornament:


This large ornament, cut with Pretty Peacock paper, has an ornate insert.  I cut it with Silver Foil to let it shine.


Does "shine" get any better?   


This simple card was one from my Sunday Crafternoon last week, with one change.  My attendees first stamped their greeting in Pretty Peacock ink on the lower right-hand corder of their Basic White layer, then embossed it with the Fern embossing folder (instead of adding the greeting with a label later - a change I made after I realized it would look better than mine 😕).  


The embossed layer was added to a Pretty Peacock layer, and then to the Thick Basic White card base.  

And then that ornament!  Added with Dimensionals, we topped it off with a bow of Silver Trim and finished with a few Basic Rhinestones.  So pretty


If you're looking for an easy-yet-stunning holiday card, check out Handcrafted Elements - you won't be sorry!


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Monday, October 9, 2023

I'll Have a Blue Christmas...

 OK, who is singing along with me right now?  Any Elvis fans?  

As I started making this card for Merry Monday, I had no intention of making a blue card.  But I WAS trying to find non-traditional colors in my DSP that I could use, and this piece, from Countryside Inn looked promising.  So blue it is:


I bought the Handcrafted Elements dies (a stand-alone set of interesting dies) and wanted to use this ornament.  When cut, the center is open and there's another die that fits.  So once I determined my background paper, I decided to use Misty Moonlight for my ornament.


The inside (cut with More Dazzle DSP) is so sparkly!  

And since I didn't want to take away from the pretty ornament I left the rest of the card quite plain.


This is a gate-fold card.  To make it, I cut the card base 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" and scored it at 2-1/8" from either end.  This lets the two sides fold in, with the opening in the middle.

I added two 2" x 5-1/4" strips of DSP to either side and then mounted my ornament on two pieces cut with the Deckled Rectangle dies.  Easy peasy!


Opened, my card has a pleasant holiday greeting from Joy to You, stamped in Misty Moonlight ink.


Anyone else going to join me in my blue Christmas?  ðŸ˜Š

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