Colourwheel Birthday Card

I realized on Saturday afternoon that I hadn't made a birthday card for a friend of mine, who I was seeing on Sunday. The Doodlebug Essentials Colourwheel Collection paper and embellishments kit is great for when you want to make cards in a hurry.

I made a square card out of hot pink cardstock, and glued the semi-circle cut-out from the kit onto the front of the card. I then cut away the pink card around the scalloped edge and adhered a piece of purple card to the inside of the card.

 I then cut 3 flag shapes out of some of the papers in the kit and glued them to the card front. Letter stickers, also from the kit, make up the saying and the rest of the embellishments are also from the kit.

I added a cut-out from the kit to the inside of the card. (As you can probably guess from the smudged writing, yes I am left-handed :)  Luckily my friend won't mind!)

This Colourwheel kit costs $35.00 and is available from me. Please email me if you would like to place an order. All orders over $100 will receive 10% of their order cost in free products from the catalogue. 

Happy creating,

Helen.

Bec's Birthday Card

My daughter turns 20 on Tuesday, so I made her this card.

I embossed most of the pink Core-dinations card front with the Bouquet embossing folder, and then sanded it to make the image stand out. All the rest of the embellishments are from the Doodlebug Essentials Colorwheel kit, except for the chipboard letters and numbers, which I covered in Purple and Violet Glitzin Glamour.

The Happy Birthday message on the card was created using the alphabet rub-ons in the kit. The frame surrounding the number 20 was made from the 2 bracket die cuts in the kit, which were stuck to some white card and then cut around.

Some of the embossed flowers were coloured with a white gel pen to make them stand out.

I have quite a lot of friends and family celebrating their birthdays in November. Every year I say I'm going to be organized and make them early, but it never happens!

Happy creating,

Helen.

Storage Ideas - Scrap Paper

This may not look very organized, but it seems to be working okay for me!

I file scraps of paper by colour in separate clear folders. These folders are then stored in a large clear container, which just fits onto a shelf in my craft room. Before I cut into a sheet of card, I check my scrap box to see if there's any suitable in there.

As I collect more Create and Play Club card, I will make a separate scrap box for it too.

I have seen a few scrap paper storage systems that are much tidier than this, but this is a lot better than how it used to be stored, which was in piles all over my craft room! :)

Happy creating,

Helen.

Ho Ho Ho Collection Cards (Merry Xmas No. 3)

 

Here is the last of the 3 cards that I've made with the Merry Xmas Embossing Folder from the Ho Ho Ho Collection.

I embossed the image onto white card, then coloured the embossed areas with a gold gel pen. I then embossed the Merry Christmas label  only from the design, cut it out, then coloured the raised areas with a pink pen. I cut the inside of the frame, including the words, from the image that I coloured with pink pen, and glued this piece onto the image coloured with the gold pen.

Some Pink Diva and Seaspray gemstones were then added to the ornaments, and a strip of Taffy coloured scalloped velvet ribbon was adhered to the top of the card with double-sided tape. The white card front was then attached to a teal folded card, which was made from a sheet of one of the Super Assortments pads.

 

 Here again are all of the 3 cards that I made with this embossing folder. These folders are very versatile. All the materials used in these cards are available from the Create and Play Club, and I can organize shipping straight to your door, or if you live in the Brisbane area, I can personally deliver them to you if you prefer. For more details, please email me at createandplayhelen@gmail.com.

Happy creating,

Helen.

Ho Ho Ho Collection Cards (Merry Xmas No. 2)

 

Here is the second of 3 cards that I've made with my Merry Xmas embossing folder, which is from the new Ho Ho Ho Collection.

This time I embossed the design onto white card. I then inked one side of the embossing folder (the side with the Couture Creations logo on it) with a cranberry ink pad, which is one of the colours in the Tulip Fields pigment ink set. To clean the embossing folder, I wiped it with a baby wipe and then dried it on an old towel.

If you like "fussy cutting" like I do, you'll like the next step :) Cut around the Merry Christmas label and the birds and the ornaments, then mount them with foam tape onto the embossed white card front. It's hard to see in the photo, but I then highlighted all the embossed areas with Crystal Glitz'N'Glamour. (Love this stuff!)

The card front is then mounted onto a red folded card.

In my next post, I'll share the 3rd card that I made using this embossing folder.

Happy creating,

Helen.

Ho Ho Ho Collection Cards (Merry Xmas No. 1)

Today I finally had time to play with one of my new embossing folders from the Ho Ho Ho Collection. This one is called Merry Christmas. (CO723271).

I made 3 cards using this folder. For my first one, I used purple card from one of the Super Assortment pads. After embossing, I sanded it with the Couture Creations sanding block. It's a bit hard to see in this photo, but I edged the frame in silver Glitz' N' Glamour and added some crystal gemstones to the centres of some of the ornaments.

I tied a knot in the middle of a piece of white tulle to make a bow and added it to the card with some 3L Dods. This purple card front was adhered to a piece of white card, then to a purple folded card.

This card was pretty quick to make. (I tend to "fiddle-faddle" a lot with my cards!:) )

In my next 2 posts I'll share the other 2 cards that I made with this embossing folder.

Happy creating,

Helen.

Christmas Tree Boxes

A friend of mine, Joy, showed me the pattern for this Christmas tree box, and I had to have a go at making a couple of them.

(I'm happy to share the template but first have to work out how to do that on this blog. All suggestions gratefully received! :) )

I traced the template onto green cardstock, then traced and cut out the trees from white card. I then coloured the berries and the leaves with metallic gel pens. After assembling the box, I poked a hole through the top of both the trees and added a star brad. I didn't have any gold or silver star brads, so I  used a pastel coloured one from my stash and covered it with silver glitter glue.

These boxes can easily fit 2 Ferrero Rochers. ( You can squeeze three in if you like.)

 

Here is another  version of the same box. it is made the same way, but this time I made the base from white card and the trees from green card, and used the Merry Christmas words embossing folder.

After embossing the trees, I sanded them with the Couture Creations Sanding Block.The card that I used has a white core which is exposed when sanded.

Materials used:

Card: CD222 Grasshopper, CD 87 Bright White

Embossing folders: CO723153 Alora, CR900050 Merry Christmas

Hybrid Gel Grip pens: PK230MB Metallic Red, PK230MD Metallic Green

Glitter Glue: CO721970 Silver

CO723060 Couture Creations Sanding Block.

Remember, there are only a few days left to take advantage of our Embossing Folders Sale - buy 5 and get 5 for free! Please contact me for more details.

Next I'll show you some creations that I've made with the new Ho Ho Ho Christmas embossing folders.

Happy creating,

Helen.