It’s been quite a while since I shared here, and definitely time to get back into blogging.
So let’s get straight into it!! I have made a fairly simple card, a black and white Christmas card which features the cute bird from the Happy Holly-Days stamp set, and Christmas greeting from the Sweet Little Stockings stamp set.
The corners have been punched out using the Holly Border Punch.
Don’t you just love that bird? Gorgeous for colouring but equally beautiful just like that!! I’ve stamped using just Momento Black ink.
The Male Room have a Black and White challenge happening, so I am going to add this one.
I hope each of you are coping with the situation around the world. Keep crafting and keep smiling.
Happy New Year to each and every one of you. I have, once again, been very quiet on the crafting and blogging front, but with so many gorgeous new Stampin’ Up! goodies, I couldn’t resist having a play today.
And since we are about to have a heat wave in this part of Australia, it may well be a good time to stay inside, in the cool, and do some stamping and creating.
One of the things I decided I would like to share with you this year, is that you don’t need a lot of products to make gorgeous cards. Many of us have financial challenges right now, and it’s always good to find ways to make the most of what we already have.
And I also want to show how to take a simple card, and to dress it up in various ways.
So, my first card for 2021 uses the gorgeous new Designer Series Paper called True Love DSP, I can see myself using this a lot. This was at the top of my list from all of the beautiful new things in the January – June Mini Catalogue.
I started out with just a black and white card – elegant and quite easy to make, and all you need is the True Love Designer Series Paper, some white and some black cardstock.
The flowers have been cut from the Designer Series Paper using paper snips.
So then to make it different, I coloured the flowers using Stampin’ Blends in Rococo Rose colour, with Old Olive for the leaf.
It’s lovely just like that, but I have some of the Forever Gold Laser Cut accents that were calling out to be used, so I have added one behind the flowers.
The gold accent adds some lovely depth and texture to the card.
I felt it needed a little more Old Olive, and had some spare leaves from another project, which I have added in, and I am happy with the end result. I’m sure there is more that could be added but I like as it is.
It looks like a gorgeous, cheerful bunch of flowers to brighten your day!
Here is the same card with the flowers coloured in Rich Razzleberry.
The words come from the Posted For You stamp set (but you could use anything that you already have), and the lovely curved edge is the Curvy Dies.
I hope the weather is not too extreme wherever you are in the world. And I hope you are able to get in some crafting time, just for yourself.
Another card using the Sailing Home stamp set and Smooth Sailing Dies, they make it so easy to create great masculine cards.
This card is for the current challenge at Cardz4Guyz, which is to make a masculine card using only Black and White.
So many ideas and options for that one, but I am loving this stamp and die set, so thought I would use it again for this card.
All of the elements on the card are part of this set of stamps and dies, apart from the “Hello”, which is from Good Morning Magnolia stamp set.
And my knotted row of knots…. lined up beautifully because I used my new favourite tool, the Stamparatus. So much fun!
Hope you have a crafty evening. Happy stamping!
Chris
Dot Dot Stamping Designs 