Gather All Your Papers!

Hey all! Do you have a stack of patterned paper that you have not touched in a while? Or are you a paper hoarder like me? Here's an idea for you to be inspired to use up your papers :) 

I found this tiny hexagon die-cut in one of my basket of randomness. I don't know where it belongs to :( But you can also do this by hand. And you can use whichever shape you prefer. So I spend quite a while cutting them all while watching stuff on youtube. Hehe.

And then just piece them all together, making sure to alternate the colours. I wanted to use a kraft card base but sometimes, my heart just runs to my white stack of card stock.

I hope you like this card as much as I do! 

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Marina

Inlaid diecutting......

Hi there it's Anja agian with aonther card for you today.

I really love the inlaid diecutting technique and wanted to combine it with a technique I saw over at Jennifer mcquire's blog.
A great way to use those word dies and those lovely leftovers from different patterned papers.






First I cut different widths of patterned papers and adhered them to a thin piece of paper.
I placed the word dies and run them trough my cutting machine. Carefully removed them and cut the words out of some white cardstock. Placed some doublesided tape at the back of the panel thus making it easy to place the words and the little leftovers back in place.
I went for a white cardbase and embossed the rectangle die. Adhered the panel and stamped the little elephant and copic colored it. Fuzzy cut the image and traced it with a black pen. adhered it to the card and used the stencil to give the background some extra interest with colors matching the used papers.
Rounded the corners of the card and ready.........






Stamps;

Poppin'over.




Cool cuts ( dies)

Double stitched rectangle dies,  tiny sentiments.


Stencil;

Wave of stars stencil


Patterned papers;

Feel good









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Have a great week;

Hugs Anja

Treat yourself........

Hi there it's Anja again on this monday with another card for you to share.

 

 

I wanted to use all those different little stamps in one card. And again focussing on the patterned papers.





I started with a topfolded white cardbase.
I used a panel slightly smaller the the cardbase of patterned paper.
I diecutted a "window" out of this patterned paper by using the double stitched rectangle diecut on his side so to speak.
I stamped all the little stamps and colored them and cut them leaving a little white outline.
I adhered them into the window some with foamtape for some extra dimension.
I wanted to make some king of screen for my window so I diecutted several little banners out of patterned paper using the lovely tags XS.
Adhered them to the card with some twine and stamped the sentiment.



Stamps;

Served up, Message in a bottle.


Patterned paper;



Cool cuts (dies)

Double stitched rectangle dies, lovely tags XS.








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Have a great week,
Hugs Anja

How old?

Hi there for today I would like to focuse on the lovely patterned papers create a smile has.

 

 

I needed a masculine card for a friend so I went for the critters and a lot of dies.
Also used some of the great patterned papers Create a smile provides.


 






I started with a white topfolded card.
I used the largest rectangle die to creat a panel out of the patterned paper from the beach party kit. used the smaller die to make a panel out of the patterned paper from the sending Sunshine kit. I stamped at random the words happy from the happy days set.
With the pocket tag die I created a pocket out of vellum and adhered it all to the cardbase. I diecutted a tag out of embossed cardstock with the lovely tags M die. Stamped the little present from penquin party and with masking I put the little monster in the present. Copic colored and fuzzy cut the image. Placed the image onto the tag and to finish it of I used the alphabet stickers.
Finally white heat embossed the sentiment onto the vellum tag.




Stamps;

Happy Days, Penquin Party, Bad Day and monster Party.



Cool cuts (dies)

Double stitched rectangle, Lovely tags M, Magical frame and Pocket tag.


Patterned papers;

Sending Sunshine and Beach Party.



Alpabet Stickers;

alphabet stickers lime.








It is very easy to combine all those different cool dies on one card. Just play with them.
Due to the sturdy quality of the patterned papers you can easily stamp on them.








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Have a great week;
Hugs Anja

Friends......

Hi Friends, hope you are alright!!!!! We just had the world card making day the past weekend so I guess you have been making cards? I did several and one of them I would like to share with you today.

 

 

Well,  sometimes you see a sketch and you know exactly how to use it. This happened to me when I saw the sketch over at the retrosketches blog. A perfect way to use one of the very first stampsets Friends in the Woods which is still one of my favorites.




I first layered the stamps onto my cardbase to figure out exactly how I wanted them. Did some stamping and masking and colored the images with copics.
I cut two panels from the patterned papers and placed them on the cardbase. White heat embossed the sentiment on vellum and to finish of the card I colored the chipboard with copics and placed some enamel dots.



Stamps;

Friends in the Woods and Balance.



Enamel dots;

Sending Sunshine



Chipboard;

Friends and Leaves.



Paper pack;

Sending Sunshine





In this card I white heat embossed the sentiment on vellum but to let it stand out more you can better use black embossingpowder or stamp it with black ink and clear embossingpowder.
When you get stuck sometimes and lack of mojo you should surf the net to find inspiration and use sketches.



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