Vellum frames...

It's Tuesday, and that means I'm up again over at Scrapbook Expo's Weekly Scrapper blog! I have a couple of cards created with vellum frames that I made from a 12" x 12" preprinted vellum paper. Please stop by to read more about these HERE!

I've used a couple of Papertrey Ink dies to trim out the centers of the vellum, one is the Fabulous Frames die and one circle die. This creates a pretty focal point for a sentiment or a flower, anything you want to highlight on your card as a focal point!

If you like these cards and would like to learn more about the techniques I typically use to achieve layering and embellishing, you can access my online Craftsy course for half-price right now!

Cards With Dimension: Lovely Layers, Textures and Embellishments

Craftsy courses are online, self-paced, and you can rewind and watch again, ask questions, post pics of your projects, get feedback from instructors and so much more. In the class, I share over 70 cards with you and SO many ideas. Hope you will check it out, and stop over to the SBE blog to read more about these two cards.

Have a great day!

Danielle

A card tutorial: embossing over stamping...

I'm up at Gossamer Blue today with a tutorial on how to dry emboss your cards over the top of stamping or rub ons like I've done here! I've used the November kits on this card. First, I stamped the sentiment from the Heidi Swapp stamps, "The Best is Yet to Come".

Next, I cut out some of the gold floral rub-ons from the Open Book rub-ons and applied them with my stylus. These rub on like butter! Love them. You'll be seeing a lot more from me with these rub ons, as I'm currently working on a class with the Open Book line by Maggie Holmes. (Online class with me coming in January!)

Here you can see I've added a few more of the floral rub ons to the upper right corner, and a rub-on dotted line under the sentiment. Next, I'll be running this through my Cuttlebug Swiss Dot embossing folder.

Place the card front into the embossing folder and run it through your die cutting/embossing machine. I use the Cuttlebug.

Last, I added the card front to a white card base, dressed up my envelope with paper in the kit cutting it with the Envelope Liner die by Papertrey Ink, and added a few wooden hearts.

Would be a wonderful card for a wedding, graduation, etc.

Swing by the Gossamer Blue blog if you haven't lately. Such a great blog, love all of the beautiful projects the gals come up with!!

November kits at Gossamer Blue...

The Gossamer Blue kits for November are now available, and they are a beautiful mix of Heidi Swapp's new September Skies line, Maggie Holmes' new Open Book collection, special one-of-a-kind pieces by Gossamer Blue and more! I'll show you a few things I made with the kits...

This first card is made with the November main kit only. I did add some seam binding from my stash to string up the tags, then cut out the word with a die by Papertrey Ink called Wonderful Words: Congrats from one of the papers in the main kit. The background is cut with a Card Base-ics #2 die by Papertrey Ink.
The next few cards were made with a mixture of the November kits. Papers are from the main kit. The banner is from the Ephemera pack and the rub on is from the Open Book rub ons!

On this one, I really liked the floral paper in the main kit, but didn't want to cut it up into little pieces. Then you can't see all of the pretty colors and patterns in it! This paper was pretty just as is! So I decided to keep a whole panel of it, and just die cut a butterfly from the paper, then placed it back in and just popped up the wings with foam adhesive.

Last, but not least, a really quick card set, which was inspired by the logo on the Maggie Holmes Open Book packaging! Notice the double ended banners? I trimmed my paper to resemble the banners in her logo and placed them a little off-kilter, so you could see all of the pretty colors and patterns stacked on top of each other.

The papers I used here were all from the main kit, then I used the pre-made banners and the stamp set by Heidi Swapp from one of the add-ons! The butterflies were cut with the Beautiful Butterflies dies by Papertrey Ink.

Please do check out the Gossamer Blue kits, they are so pretty! And there is nothing to lose - if you decide to stop your subscription to the kits, there is no cancellation fee. I just think the kits at Gossamer Blue are beautiful and so inspiring! I would have liked to make a TON more, if only my time would allow this month. Can't wait to tell you about my next venture I'm currently working on, but I'm busy, busy trying to get it all accomplished...what a month! I'll have a card tutorial coming on November 11th made with these kits also. Thank you for reading and taking the time to stop by, sweet friends... xo