Handmade Christmas Cards

Hi everyone! 

I have here some simple handmade cards from the Pink Fresh Studio 'Oh Joy' range. 

This range is perfect for these four cards, as the colours are fresh, with simple designs.

For this first card, I used the following papers: Winter Wonderland, Under The Tree, Advent Love.

To decorate the card, I used a red 'Tis The Season Bitty Bow, Cocoa Vanilla sequins, and Cocoa Vanilla Totally Rad Little Stars - all from the store.

 

With this shaker card I used Jingle Bells and Joyful Christmas papers from the Pink Fresh Studio collection. 

The buttons and snowflake were from my stash. For the sentiment, I used ephemera from the Fancy Pants 'Merry and Bright' collection. 

Here I used Joyful Christmas, Jingle Bells, Winter Wonderland - all from the 'Oh Joy' collection. 

From the store, I have used sequins from the Cocoa Vanilla 'Tis The Season Range. Across the top of the card, I have used Teresa Collins 'Tinsel and Company' decorative tape.

On this final card, I have used Jingle Bells, Advent Love, and I cut the stacked presents from 'Under The Tree' paper. 

To embellish this simple card, I have used Heidi Swapp - Marquee Love Collection - in black, Cocoa Vanilla 'Tis The Season sequins and ephemera from Fancy Pants 'Merry and Bright' collection.

I hope you enjoyed this post and that it might have inspired you! 

Thank you for stopping by, Amy

'Brrrrr'

Hello! Another month means a new challenge: “Think Green”!

Green is everywhere, of course – in nature, on a sleek old British racing car, or captured on something new and modern!

Recently, my youngest played his first football grand final. It happened to be a very cold and wintery Sunday morning, with hail! The poor little footballers had to run around in their shorts and footy tops!

First, on some white cardstock, with an old gift card, I smeared Dylusions paint in ‘cut grass’ Dina Wakley Media Heavy Body Acrylic Paint in ‘Lime’. 

For the circular splatters I used Tim Holtz Distress Stain in ‘mowed lawn’. With the hand-die-cut clouds I haphazardly applied Dylusions Ink Spray in ‘Fresh Lime’ with the stalk from the bottle. 

Once the background mediums had dried, I stamped the background with a Kaisercraft clear stamp with a Ranger Archival ink pad in ‘Emerald Green’.

Now to break up all this green, I used a Carabelle Studio Art Stamp – ‘Edges in My Journal’ – my favourite stamp at the moment 😊. To prevent the stamp ink from being smudged, I used a Tsukineko StazOn Archival Solvent Ink in black. 

For the white splatters, I used the Tim Holtz Distress Spray Stain in ‘Picket Fence’

Then it was time to adhere my photo down. For the photo border I used Cocoa Vanilla Studio ‘You Rock’ die-cut Ephemera. 

In this little cluster here, I have used some strips of Cocoa Vanilla Studio – ‘Boys Rule’ straight and narrow paper and a ‘Tis the Season’ Bitty Bow. The sequins and black thread are from my stash.

 

Finally, for the title, ‘Brrrrr’ – is from the Cocoa Vanilla Studio ‘You Rock’ Ephemera collection: the letter ‘B’ was used and the ‘r’s were die-cut from black cardstock in my stash.

It was fun making this simple mixed media page. I do hope come on board and have a go with this month’s mood-board challenge: think green!

Ciao, Amy 😊

 

Christmas Mini Album - With Karyn Schultz!

Hi Scrapping Clearly Lovelies!!! 

It's Karyn here and today I have a Christmas mini album to share with you,

made using lots of fun products available in the Scrapping Clearly Store.

I used to love doing a Christmas daily (which always starts in November for me.

The first few years I did it in a SMASH journal, then I went to a 12x12 pocket page style for a few years,

then last year I was so busy with everything that I did nothing.

It was quite sad really but sometimes you just don't have time.

Well, this year I was determined to do something but also wanted to keep it simple.

So I made my own mini album and took 1 photo a day with my Instax camera and went from there.

Yes, it is expensive to use an Instax (about $1 Australian per print) but it is quick and the photos were ready to go. 

I started by selecting my supplies, which I limited to the

Cocoa Vanilla Studio "Tis The Season" papers and embellishments.

I cut out a variety of shapes and sizes of patterned paper (the maximum size of the closed album was 15cm wide by 20cm tall).

The size and shape doesn't really matter - it is all about variety.

This is a great way to use up your paper stash!! 

I folded each piece of paper in half, then placed in the order I wanted

and used a long arm stapler to attach them together.

Next, I decorated the front with gold Thickers. I kept it simple for now as I didn't want the bulk.

But I may add more flowers etc once the album is complete. 

Once the basic album was complete I added the photos.

My aim was to try and do this each day but in reality, it is every 3-4 days. 

For each page, I added the photo, some tags made with paper offcuts, and other

CVS 'Tis The Season' wood veneer, stickers, ephemera and enamel dots. 

I love the different page shapes and sizes for each opening! 

You can also see my date stamp, added with black ink, so quick and easy!

Here I have added CVS 'Tis The Season' ephemera and bitty bow. 

For this next page, I have added a tag made with paper offcuts, a paperclip, CVS 'Tis The Season' wood veneer ephemera and flair buttons.

So do you December Daily?

And are you playing along with our challenges?

The Christmas Challenge is a special one,

with a WeRMK sewing machine for a prize!!

Check out all our challenges in our friendly Facebook Group.

Thanks so much for stopping by 

Crafty Hugs xx

Karyn

'Tis the season'.... catching up on Christmas

Hi Ladies, 

Im popping in for a quick share today, I went back to work this week after a massive weekend (and a massive festive season) and am playing catch up with layouts and arty pieces. 

This layout was a fun one to make, and features a picture of my sister Kaya and myself in 1985. This wasn't the intended photo, but as I sorted and organised my photos over the break I found this one and it I just had to scrap it. I don't tend to scrap photos in any order, just whatever works at the time.

I've used the super delicious  'Tis the season Christmas papers from Cocoa Vanilla Studios. CCV is an Australian owned company and the owner Zoe Pearn pretty much has nailed this Christmas line. One of the main reasons I struggle with festive layouts is that most papers are US ranges, and feature Snowmen and winter.... today was 37 Degrees at 9am, so you can see why they are completely irrelevant to an Aussie Christmas.

I've used Liquitex Gesso to soften the hard background of brown in the timber paper, and I added some Gelato's in Kiwi as well.  

I've inked the edges of the 'Tis the Season Ephemera with Distress Ink in Ground Expresso. Ive layered it all up using Xpress It Double sided foam mounting tape to give depth and Glossy Accents as my glue.

Just a tip: The 'Tis the season' card above the photo is actually the packaging. I use up every bit of my goodies, and packaging sometimes makes for unique embellishments. 

Thank you for stopping by... 

xoxox - Skai

Tis the Season with Amy Prior

Hi there Scrapping Clearly fans! Amy Prior back with you all again today, this time sharing a fun Christmas page created using the gorgeous new Tis the Season collection by Cocoa Vanilla Studio. 

To create this simple layout, I have started off by smearing some Colour Blast - Colour Paste - Snow White over the top of a sheet of American Crafts - 12x12 Cardstock - Double Thick using my palette knife very roughly underneath where I knew my layers would go.

Once the Colour Paste was dry, I have then started to layer various pieces of Cocoa Vanilla Studio - Tis the Season Collection - Patterned Papers underneath my photograph ready to mount over the top of the Colour Paste so that I can start embellishing. 

To embellish the layout I have used a combination of Cocoa Vanilla Studio - Tis the Season Collection - Accessory Stickers, Cocoa Vanilla Studio - Tis the Season Collection - Bitty Bows, Cocoa Vanilla Studio - Tis the Season Collection - Ephemera, Cocoa Vanilla Studio - Tis the Season Collection - Flair Buttons, Cocoa Vanilla Studio - Tis the Season Collection - Sequins, and Tim Holtz - Idea-ology Collection - Small Talk Occassions.

The complete product list for this layout includes...

Cocoa Vanilla Studio - Tis the Season Collection - Patterned Papers

Cocoa Vanilla Studio - Tis the Season Collection - Accessory Stickers

Cocoa Vanilla Studio - Tis the Season Collection - Bitty Bows

Cocoa Vanilla Studio - Tis the Season Collection - Ephemera

Cocoa Vanilla Studio - Tis the Season Collection - Flair Buttons

Cocoa Vanilla Studio - Tis the Season Collection - Sequins

Colour Blast - Colour Paste - Snow White

American Crafts - 12x12 Cardstock - Double Thick

Tim Holtz - Idea-ology Collection - Small Talk Occassions

Well that is it from me today, I hope I have inspired you to get creative with these amazing products available from the Scrapping Clearly store, and until next time, happy scrapping!

Amy Prior xx