For Jackie

Colours are shocking in this pic, in real life they are lilac and purples.

I've used flower dies by Creative Expressions and papers by Crafter's Companion and The Paper Boutique.

 

Season's Greetings

Fancy fold card using Paper Boutique papers

 

Fancy-fold

Project we made at card club, using Paper Boutique patterned paper and matching card stock.

Sentiment die is Tonic Studios.

 

Fancy-fold

I'd seen a similar fancy-fold card in a recent magazine (can't remember which one!) and liked that it was so simple, and folds fairly flat.

I've used Paper Boutique papers and topper on this one.

The reason I can't remember which craft magazine I looked at is that I read quite a few. I don't buy them as such, we have a subscription to an online magazine service called Readly. We pay a monthly fee and then, on up to five devices, we can literally read hundreds of magazines on all sorts of topics.

The downside is of course you don't get any free cover gifts, but with some of the craft magazines costing £5 and £6 each to buy the cost of Readly more than makes up for this. You don't need to live in the same household to take advantage of using five separate devices. Our monthly fee is used on iPads in three different houses.

Pop-Up

Excuse the poor photography, the light was very dim.

I used 7 x 7 card blank. The pop-up inner is 8 x 8" that has been scored in half both horizontally and vertically, then scored diagonally across one side only.

Papers used are by The Paper Boutique. I just used an embossing folder on a couple of pieces of the plain paper.

Shutter card

I made this shutter card following a great tutorial on Mixed-Up Crafts.

I've used Paper Boutique papers and topper, the sentiment stamp is by LOTV.

Pop-up

7 X 7" card with a pop-up inside. I'd seen similar cards to this on Pinterest but they were tent-fold, I don't tend to do a lot of tent-folds as find they sometimes dislike standing up!

The pop-up mechanism is very simple, a piece of card that is 8 x 8" scored and folded in half both horizontally and vertically. Flip over then score diagonally from one corner to opposite corner (only one diagonal score, not two)

I've used paper and toppers by the Paper Boutique.

Fancy fold

Papers and topper all Paper Boutique

Fancy fold card tutorial on You Tube, by Collette Mitrega, can recommend her tutorials - clear and easy to follow.

Paper Boutique

In my previous post I mentioned being glad to see the back of 2018...we managed to fit in another A&E visit.

I also mentioned Paper Boutique, here's the last of the Christmas cards I made.

Paper Boutique

I'll be glad to see the back of this year.

I thought I had plenty of time left to make Christmas cards for my club ladies but a car accident put paid to that. Endless phone calls to insurance/ hire/ repair companies meant I had to rustle up something quickly.

I had, fortunately, already bought some paper pads with matching toppers by Paper Boutique. I'm not normally a fan of toppers but I really liked these (maybe fate was giving me a hint?).

I just added glitter, scraps of ribbon etc and tried to make each one slightly different.

I'm still driving the hire car and unlikely to get mine back before well into the New Year however just very grateful not to be injured at all (hit by a flat-bed truck at 70mph!)