Showing posts with label tattered lace. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tattered lace. Show all posts

Monday, 30 January 2017

LOVE a simple Valentines card - Papermilldirect DT


Hello, today I'm sharing this simple idea for a Valentines card. The +Papermilldirect Design Team are working on the Valentines theme (don't forget to check out the Papermilldirect Valentines Craft challenge, simply create a Valentines project for your chance to win a £25 voucher).  

Step by Step:
Take a 4” square of Papermilldirect white card, I’m using the White Linen as I love the effect of stamping onto this card. Ink up your stamp using black archival ink and stamp onto the linen card towards the right hand side.  (tip: try practising onto copy paper first).


Die cut the red hearts design using PMD Intensive Red 160gsm. it's a lovely weight for diecutting.  I’m using a Tattered Lace Tuck Ins die set but any heart themed dies would work well.

Use a clear drying glue such as Cosmic Shimmer to glue the heart die cuts onto the linen square, positioning to the left of stamped sentiment.   Use double sided tape to mat linen square onto a slightly larger square of PMD Black card, to give a small border all around.
 
Create a card blank by scoring and folding an A4 sheet of PMD Black card and trimming down to create a 5 ¾” square card base.  Cut a 5 ¼” square of PMD White Linen and mat onto card base front using d/s tape to adhere.


To finish, mount focal panel centrally onto card front using 3D foam to create height.  A simple white liner with your chosen greeting will complete the design ready for posting.




Materials Used:
Black Smooth Card 250gsm – Papermilldirect
White Linen Card 255gsm – Papermilldirect
Intensive Red Plain Card 160gsm – Papermilldirect
LOVE clear Stamp (DCSTP013) – Dovecraft
Essentials Tuck ins Hearts (ETL173) – Tattered Lace
Black Archival Ink
Adhesives: D/S Tape, Clear Drying Glue, 3D Foam





Monday, 19 January 2015

More Valentines and a Special Offer card - with papermilldirect

Hello again, welcome to another blog post with news of this week's special offer card from +papermilldirectThis week it is a really nice textured card ' Harvest Buckram Embossed' and is just £4 for 20 A4 sheets.  I think this is such a great cardstock to work with as it not only has a lovely texture and colour, but it lends itself well to electronic cutting, manual cutting and is sure to be a fave for those cute Valentine's makes as well as those classy elegant makes too.

You can see what the rest of the Design Team got up to with this week's card, by clicking the links at the end of the post, but here are my designs for this week:

I was thinking of a simple elegant make that wouldn't be too time consuming or complicated and so I came up with this Valentines Card and Gift Tag.


I created a card base from papermilldirect Post Box Red and cut a mat from the Harvest Buckram card.  The decorative die is from Tattered Lace, and is cut from the smooth cream card.  The alphabet dies are new to the market from First Edition, I cut each letter from Post Box Red card, the script style worked well with the die cut elements.  I simply positioned the letters across the centre of the card spanning the 2 diecut pieces and added 3 faux gems in red to finish.
The gift tag again uses the Harvest Buckram but this time I have used it through the Big Shot to show how easy it die-cuts.  It is the same die as used on the card above, but I have cut into it to remove some sections.  I have kept the colour scheme the same teaming it with Post Box Red card and Cream card.  Antique Gold sheer ribbon to finish.
Post Box Red Card - Colours Range - Papermilldirect
Cream Card Smoth - Essentials Range - Papermilldirect
Script Alphabet dies - First Edition

Double Delights die -Tattered Lace
Ribbon & faux gems from my craft stash
Adhesives - Double Sided Tape, cosmic shimmer glue
Tools - Hougie Board to score card base, and Big Shot for die cutting


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