Hello and welcome to this week's makes with +papermilldirect.
The theme for the Design Team this week is Parties!! Yay!! and if you're holding a party over the festive period or looking to New Year then you may be thinking of making your own invites.
Have you ever checked out the Special Offers section?,
well worth taking a look as not only is a new special offer launched
each week, but there are often some previous offers still available
whilst stocks last. This week there is a yummy sounding Biscuit card (240gsm) at just £5-50 for 80 sheets.
So back to the party then!! and sharing my design for a New Year's Eve party invitation but it could be adapted for other occasions too.
I started off by creating a tent fold card base from 'Navy Blue' card to which I added a panel of 'Sky Blue' card across the centre. I used my little Cricut Mini to cut a layered clock design from Navy Blue, Grey, and rich cream hammered card. Adding the numbers '2015' die-cut manually from 'Post Box Red' card. (As the clock is basically layered circles you could also cut with a manual die cutter if preferred). I also cut the 'Party' sentiment in post box red and navy blue card, and layered slightly to give a slight shadow effect.
The layered champagne glasses were cut from smooth white card and the 'glass' part coloured with an ice grey promarker, the 'champagne' was coloured with a pastel yellow promarker and topped with Detail Sparkle glitter glue, I was hoping to give the impression of sparkling bubbly wine.
The simple shapes are easy to line up and if making a large quantity you could get away with not having so many layers to the clock and maybe stamping the '2015' and 'party' wording.
I like using the red card to add a pop of colour to the classic blues and greys.
So will you be having a Party this year? Are you making your own invites? If you have any questions or just want to say hello, then please do comment, and thank you so much for popping by today :)
Materials
used:
Navy blue, Sky Blue, Grey, Post Box Red card - Colours Range - Papermill Direct
Rich Cream Hammered card - Essentials Range - Papermill Direct
Detail Sparkle in 'White Shimmer' for the 'wine'.
Ice Grey & Pastel Yellow promarkers
Mostly cut using Cricut Mini
Papermill Design Team:
if you have a moment, please do pop over and check out the other papermill teamies blogs and see what they got up to this week:
Barbara
Lisa
Sylvia
Sandie
Sharon
Hello, and welcome to my weekly papermill DT post. This week our theme is Wedding Stationery and to go with that papermill have a special offer on their lovely Ivory Felt card across small, midi & mega box sizes, starting at just £6-50 per box. The Ivory Felt card is a sumptuous 300gsm and perfect for lots of designs.
Now I must confess that Wedding Stationery is not something I have much experience of, but I thought it would be fun to make some 'Save The Date' cards and 'RSVP's using some of the other fabulous card stocks from +papermilldirect. I will first apologise for the photos, the weather was horrible this week and the light not good, so the pics do not do the cards or the beautiful card stock used justice.
First up is a Bird themed RSVP card that would be great to use as an invite. I have created the card base from papermill's Sky Blue card and have embossed the front flap only through my Big Shot using a swirls design embossing folder. The layered Bird has been
cut from Papermill White Linen card, which I also used to die cut the letters for 'RSVP'. A little faux pearl for the eye to complete it. These little cards don't use much card or expensive materials and so would be perfect for those on a budget. Just add your computer printed details inside. Cut using a cricut mini they could be made in batches and the embossing could be left off for quicker makes.
My second design is a 'Save The Date' card with a heart theme in my favourite colour of course. I have also cut this with a cricut mini using papermill's White Hammered card to form the card base.
The heart motif is cut
from my favourite papermill Purple Grape card. The 'Save the Date' phrase has been cut from white hammered
card and lightly coloured with pan pastels, attached to a shadow base of papermill grey card.
A purple ribbon and faux pearls to finish.
Just add an insert with your details inside to complete. I printed these off on my computer and then die-cut with a scalloped square die. Again if making in large quantities, you could always omit the pan pastel colouring and perhaps the grey card shadow layer to the sentiment.
So there are my 2 projects this week, if you pop by the other papermill DT ladies' blogs (links at bottom of post) you will find lots of other ideas for cards and Wedding Stationery.
Thank you for popping by and as always I am happy to help with any questions you may have, and I do love reading your comments too, so please don't be shy, say hi!! :-)
Materials List:
White Linen Card - Papermill Direct
Sky Blue Card - Papermill Direct
White Hammered Card - Papermill Direct
Purple Grape Card - Papermill Direct
Grey Card - Papermill Direct
Faux pearls, ribbon, pan pastels
(optional) Embossing Folder, dies,
cricut mini
Papermill Design Team:
if you have a moment, please do pop over and check out the other papermill teamies blogs and see what they got up to this week:
Barbara
Lisa
Sylvia
Sandie
Sharon
