Red and White Poinsettias

I was out shopping yesterday and noticed they already have real poinsettias in the stores.  I love to decorate with a variety of poinsettias. This is a 6"x6" card.  A piece of green gingham design paper was used for the background.

 I created white poinsettias and one red poinsettia using Susan's Garden Notes Poinsettia dies.  Below the flowers I added Garden Notes Whitepine Bough and Elizabeth Craft Leaf & Berry Branch.  For the Berries on the Branch, I used Elizabeth Craft Designs Red Dot  Peel-off Stickers.

 

The beautiful sentiment is one of the A Way With Words die cuts.  It was die cut four times, using Soft Finish Cardstock with Clear Double Sided Adhesive on the back, then layered.  I love how stacking the die cut gives it a lot of dimension.  To finish the card, Red Line Peel-Off Stickers were attached around the edge of the design paper background to frame it.

 Below are links to the products used from Elizabeth Craft Designs:

1090 Garden Notes Poinsettia

1091 Whitepine Bough & Pine Cone

1074 Leaf & Berry Branch

1056 A Way With Words Merry Christmas

PSF102 Soft Finish Cardstock 100 lb

510 Clear Double Sided Adhesive Tape

7018 Red Dot Peel-Off Stickers

7010 Red Line Peel-Off Stickers

Deck The Halls With Boughs of Holly

Before I tell you about my card, I want to tell you that no matter how many times I set the print with the margins on the left side, it always posts with the words centered. The margins look fine until I actually post my blog.  I have no idea why this started happening.  Has anyone else had this problem or know how I can fix it????? 

Today I have a card designed using the Quietfire Creations "Deck The Halls" rubber stamp.  Susan's Garden Notes Holiday Holly & Berries were perfect to decorate above this pretty  stamped sentiment.  A few pine boughs were die cut using the  Garden Notes Whitepine Bough & Pine Cone dies and placed under the holly.  For additional holiday cheer, I used Susan's Garden Notes Poinsettia dies to create pretty poinsettias.   

Along the bottom edge of the card, I added three rows of Elizabeth Craft Designs Peel-Off Line Stickers.  Line Stickers were also placed above and below the stamped sentiment.  In the upper right corner, I added an Elizabeth Craft Designs Gold Corner Peel-Off Sticker.   A red silk bow was added above the die cut holly to complete the card.

Below are links to the products used:

5748 Quitefire Deck the Halls stamp

1090 Susan's Garden Notes Poinsettia

1088 Garden Notes Holiday Holly & Berries

1091 Garden Notes Whitepine Bough & Pine Cone

 

Decorated "Book" Box

 I am still having fun decorating boxes for Christmas gifts. It doesn't always take a lot of work to dress up something to make it special.   I purchased a "book" box from the Craft Store and added dimensional flowers and a sparkly greeting, and love the dressed up box.

To give the box dimension,  I used Susan's Garden Notes Poinsettia and Whitepine Bough & Pine Cone dies to decorate the upper corner of this box.  A couple of the Elizabeth Craft Designs Berry Branch were die cut using Gold Metallic Shimmer Sheets and were added under the flowers.

The beautiful Quietfire Creations "A Way With Words" Merry Christmas was die cut using gold glitter card stock.  I used Gold Glitter Card Stock so it would show up well against the background.   It was glued to the box front. 

 This is a side view of the box.

 On the inside of the box, I added another die cut Garden Notes Poinsettia.
 
This was a quick and easy project.  Just by adding Susan's die cut poinsettia and the Quietfire Greeting, it has really dressed up this box.


Below are links at Elizabeth Craft Designs for the products used:

1090 Garden Notes Poinsettia
1091 Garden Notes Whitepine Bough & Pine Cone
758 Berry Branch 
SS0212 - Gold Metallic Shimmer Sheetz
1056 - A Way With Words - Merry Christmas

In All Things of Nature

Today I was going through my collection of Susan's Garden "Seeds Of Thought" Rubber Stamps and thought this stamp was perfect to combine with Bianca's Robin 2 - Flower Branch stamp. The stamped image was framed with one of the frames from the Fitted Frames 3 - Curvy Rectangles set.  

The bird was stamped on 85 lb Soft White Cardstock.  This bird is called a Red-capped Robin which is native to Australia.  I think it is so pretty! The stamped image was colored with a combination of Copic Markers and Susan's PanPastels. The image was die cut using a circle die then an Elizabeth Craft Designs Line Peel-Off Sticker was attached around the edge.  The same line sticker was used around the green frame and the outside of the card.  Black Corner Peel-Off stickers were added at the top of the card.  There were black dots left (the negative portion) of the corner stickers.  I used them in the circle openings of the green frame.

Both Susan's Seeds Of Thought frame and the bird were attached with dimensional tape.  Elizabeth Craft Designs die cut Leafy Branch was added below the bird. 

This card will be perfect for anyone with the love of nature!

The links below to products from Elizabeth Craft Designs:

RS010 - Seeds of Thought - All Things of Nature

RS023 - Robin 2 - Flower Branch

PSF101 85-lb Soft White Cardstock

1063 - Fitted Frames 3 Curvy Rectangles

Pan Pastels

1033 - Leafy Branch

1034 - Peel Off Stickers

 

Joyful Snowman

Winter is here!  We woke up to snow today.  I decided to work on another snowman card created with Susan's Garden Country Scapes dies.

This is a 6x6 inch card.  I used a piece of light blue design paper with white polka dots for the background.  

The snowman was created with Garden Notes Build A Snowman dies.  The little blue bird was die cut from the CountryScapes Critters 2 die set.  To create the background scene, I used one of the CountryScapes - Woods 4 Holiday Evergreen tree.  The fence was built with two die cuts from the CountryScapes New England Stonewall & Gate die set.  The snow below the tree, fence and snowman were die cut from the CountryScapes Backyard 4 - Snow Decor die set.  The little die cut rabbit is from the CountryScapes - Critters 1 die set.

The "joy"  sentiment is from Quietfire Creations.  It was framed with one of the die cut frames from the Elizabeth Craft Designs Fitted Frames 4 - Curvy Squares.  To decorate the frame I used the evergreen branches and small poinsettia from the CountryScapes - Backyard 4 die set.  To finish the card, I used one of the small snowflake stamps from Bianca's Hedgehog Daisy Christmas stamp set.  The snow flakes were stamped with VersaMark Ink and white embossed.

Below are links to the products used from Elizabeth Craft Designs:

1081 - CountryScapes Build A Snowman

1084 - CountryScapes Stonewall & Gate

1079 - CountryScapes Backyard 4 - Snow Decor

989 - CountryScapes Critters 1

1012 - CountryScapes Critters 2

1093 - CountryScapes Woods 4

1064 - Fitted Frames 3 - Curvy Rectangles

CS005 - Hedgehog Daisy Christmas

Poinsettia Decorated Pillow Box

Today I am sharing my design team post on the Elizabeth Craft Designs Blog.  I have another idea using Susan's Garden Notes holiday dies.  It is the time of year when we are starting to think of gift ideas.  Receiving a gift in a beautiful package is always exciting.  Today I will show you how I decorated this small gift box.

 Use a template to create a Pillow Box out of cardstock.    There are many patterns on the Internet for Pillow boxes, or you can use the Memory Keepers Pillow Box Punch Board, which I used.  This is a 7-inch long Pillow Box.  To attach the sides to create the box, use ECD Clear Double Sided Adhesive.

For decoration, cut a band that will fit around the middle of the box.  The band on this box is 2 1/2 inches wide.   Add Viva Inka-Gold around the sides of the band.  Attach the end with ECD Clear Double Sided Adhesive.

Using Susan's Garden Notes Poinsettia die, cut enough petals to make two poinsettias.  Shape the Poinsettias using Susan's Tool Kit.  I die cut the petals using 85 lb Soft Finish Cardstock and colored them with a Copic RV11 marker.    The bracts of the poinsettia were created using Viva Yellow and Green Paper Pens.

Die cut six poinsettia leaves.  I used 85 lb Soft Finish Cardstock and sponged leaves with Mowed Lawn Distress Ink.  Inka Gold was rubbed around the edges.

Die cut 8 to 10 Susan's Garden Notes Whitepine Boughs.  Glue the pine boughs to the top of the box, then add the poinsettias with dimensional glue dots.  If you haven't glued the green leaves to the underside of the poinsettia, glue them over the Whitepine Boughs so they show well around the poinsettias.

Create a bow using gold cord and tuck it under the edge of the poinsettias; this will tie in the gold on both ends of the box.  Use Elizabeth Craft Christmas Peel Off Stickers for the Sentiment.

A beautifully decorated pillow box is perfect for any small gift, including money.   What do you think - maybe this beautiful gift box will be treasured as much, if not more, than the gift inside!!!

The following supplies can be purchased from Elizabeth Craft Designs:

1090 Susan's Garden Notes Poinsettia
1091 Susan's Garden Notes Whitepine Bough & Pinecone
Susan's Flower Tool Kit
PSF101 -85-lb Soft Finish Cardstock
507 Clear Doubled Sided Adhesive
Christmas Peel Off Stickers

Season's Greetings

I love the bird stamps by Bianca Petroschi that are available from Elizabeth Craft Designs.  This is a Titmouse on a branch of winter berries, which is perfect for a Christmas card.

 

The bird was stamped using gray ink on Elizabeth Craft Designs Soft Finish Cardstock and colored with a mixture of watercolor pencils and Copic markers.  A detailed fine point black marker was used to go in and add detail.  The stamped image was cut out.    For dimension, I added Faber Castell Whipped Spackle to the snow, which is in the stamped image, then sprinkled it with diamond glitter.  The berries were also glittered.

Before attaching the bird to the card, I scored around the edges of the front of the card,  then sponged on Tea Dye Distress Ink behind where the bird would be placed.  A few of Susan's Garden Notes Whitepine Boughs were added behind the bird, then it was attached with dimensional glue dots.

The beautiful sentiment is one of the Quietfire "A Way With Words" sentiments.  It was die cut using glitter card stock.  To complete the card, a strip of Elizabeth Craft Line Peel Off Stickers was attached at the bottom and two corner Peel Off Stickers added at the top.

RS024 - Titmouse 

PSF102 - 100lb Soft Finish Cardstock

1091 Garden Notes Whitepine Bough

1057 A Way With Words Season's Greetings

 

Poinsettia with Holly

I love to decorate with Holly at Christmas time.    Today I designed a card useing Susan's Garden Notes Holiday Holly & Berries dies, along with her Garden Notes Poinsettia and Garden Notes Whitepine Bough & Pine Cone dies.

Susan has a video at this LINK to show you how to make her Holly die cuts very realistic.  I have made many holly leaves using Susan's technique, and love the look.    I decided to create the holly a little different today; I used white glossy card stock, shaped the leaves with Susan's Flower Tool Kit, then colored them with a green marker, leaving the edges white.  Next I sponged on a very light tan ink over the white edges.  I love the way Susan shows us to make dimensional berries.  When these Holiday Holly & Berries are completed, they look so real!

Two red poinsettia were created with Susan's Garden Notes Poinsettia dies.  Below the arrangement, I added a few of Susan's Garden Notes Whitepine Boughs.

The beautiful sentiment is one of the Quietfire, A Way With Words" die cut sentiments.  The sentiment was die cut using ECD 100 lb Soft Finish Cardstock, that was attached to Elizabeth Craft Clear Double Sided Tape.  The adhesive covering was pulled off and sprinkled with ECD True Red Silk Microfine Glitter.  

Under the sentiment, I added the ECD Holly Border.  For the berries, I used Susan's instructions to create dimensional berries.  Elizabeth Craft Designs Line and  Corner Peel-off Stickers were used to complete the card.

Links to the products from Elizabeth Craft Designs below:

1088 Garden Notes Holiday Holly & Berries

1090 Garden Notes Poinsettia

1091 Garden Notes Whitepine Bough & Pine Cone

Susan's Flower Tool Kit 

A Way With Words - Season's Greetings

PSF102 Soft Finish Cardstock

925 Holly Border

510 Clear Double Sided Adhesive Tape

614 True Red Silk Microfine Glitter

1016 Line Peel Off Stickers

1018 Gold Corner Peel Off Stickers

 

Let It Snow

Today I have another snowman card.  I do not like to "exactly" copy someone else's work, but I love to draw inspiration from them.  On Els van de Burgt Studio, on Facebook,  Els shows how to create a cute snowman card using her Snowman Peel Off Stickers.  Here is the LINK so you can see how she adds Silk Microfine Glitter to these cute snowmen.  I bet you will be inspired to create this card too!

 

This is a picture of Els card.  It is so cute I was excited to create one similar. To create this card, you need the Elizabeth Craft Snowman in Frame  Peel Off Stickers.  Below I will show you how I created my snowman card.

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I wanted a black frame around each of the four snowmen.  I used Susan's Garden Patch 1 1/2 Inch Garden Patch frame.  I die cut the frame using white card stock with Elizabeth Craft Clear Double Sided Tape on the the top.  This die cuts the squares I needed to attach the snowman stickers. Be sure you have the die facing down on the Adhesive.  Once die cut, you need to pull off the adhesive covering on each square, so the adhesive side is up, so you can add the glitter.

Two black frames were die cut.  These had the Clear Double Sided Adhesive attached to the back.  In this picture the frame is laying over the adhesive, just so you know to use the adhesive -- but you want to die cut the frame with the die facing the black card stock.  The two frames will be attached to each other for height - this is easy to do when using the double-sided adhesive on the back. When ready, the  bottom frame will be attached to the card.

In this picture, you can see the that the snowmen have been attached to the white card stock die cut squares.  If you watch Els video, you will see how to add Cool Diamond Silk Microfine Glitter on everything except the face of the snowman. Then she shows you how to add White Silk Microfine Glitter to the face.  You will be coloring everthing except the white face of the snowman.

I have my snowmen ready to color with Copic Markers and here I show the snowman squares inside the Garden Patch frame.  The frame has six squares so I used the Elizabeth Craft Scissors to snip off the bottom row.

 

 Cut off the bottom section and now you have the four squares to frame the snowmen.  If you have doubled the frame, the snowmen squares fit down inside each square.  You might need to trim a small portion off around the sticker frame of the snowman.

I used several layers of white card stock on the front of this card.  The layer right under the snowman frame was embossed with the Lots of Dots Embossing Folder.  To make the dots shine, I rubbed the VersaMark Pad over the dots then brushed on Interference Blue Pearl Ex Pigment, then lightly sprayed with hair spray to seal it.  The Quietfire Creations "Let It Snow" stamp was used below the frames.  I scored lines around the edge of this piece and three lines at the bottom.  There is another, slightly larger piece of card stock behind the embossed piece.  The outside edges were scored then using a Tim Holtz Ruler, punched holes next to the scoring.  All layers were attached with dimensional tape.

For the large black frame, I used Els Fitted Frames 4 - Curvy Squares.  On each corner of the black frame, I added a silver Peel-off Snowflake stickers.

You will find a lot more inspiration on YouTube using Elizabeth Craft Designs products at this LINK.


Below are links to the Elizabeth Craft Designs products used:

2784 Snowman Peel Off Stickers
1001 Garden Patch - 1 1/2 inch & Mini Roses
1064 Fitted Frames 4 - Curvy Squares
510 Clear Double Sided Adhesive
E114 Lots of Dots Embossing Folder
8530 Snowflake Peel Off  Stickers
812 Elizabeth Craft Scissors
642 Cool Diamond Silk Microfine Glitter
604 White Silk Microfine Glitter

CountryScapes Snowman

 Most of you know that I love to create cards with snowman.  It is so fun to create different scenes with Susan's CountryScapes dies and of course I wanted to use her Build A Snowman dies to create this scene.  I love using the CountryScapes dies because you can create "dimensional" cards that do not need extra postage. 

This is a 6"x6" card.  I started with a piece of blue design paper for the background.

Outdoor scenes need clouds in the sky, so I used Susan's Garden Cloud die to create the subtle clouds on this card.  I used the "negative" template part of the die cut and white ink.  The template was held down and the white ink rubbed in circles - this does not create real bold clouds, but was perfect for a winter day sky.  The clouds do show up a little more on the real card.

Susan's Build A Snowman dies were used to die cut all the pieces using 100 lb Soft Finish Cardstock.  The scarf was die cut using a piece of design paper.  Copic markers were used to color the die cut pieces.  The CountryScapes Country Fence was die cut using white card stock and colored with Distress Inks. Only a portion of the fence was used.  The snow mounds on the fence were die cut using the CountryScapes Backyard 4 Snow Decor dies.  On the fence I added an evergreen bough and a poinsettia, also from the CountryScapes Backyard 4 set.  

The tree was die cut using the CountryScapes Woods 1 die.  It was sponged with Distress Inks and added in front of the fence, using dimensional tape.  The rabbits, squirrel, and red cardinal were die cut using dies from the CountryScapes Critters 1 die set.  

In order to create a snowy scene, I needed to add snow to the tree, so I used Tulip white Puffy dimensional paint.  Just small amounts were added then I used the heat gun to make the "snow" puff up.  Some of the Puffy paint was also added under the animals and snowman.  The greeting was die cut using the Elizabeth Craft Designs Season's Greeting die.

Below are links to the products used from Elizabeth Craft Designs:

1094 Susan's Garden Cloud Grass
1081 CountryScapes Build A Snowman
PSF102 100lb Soft Finish Cardstock
990 CountryScapes Country Fence
1079 CountryScapes Backyard 4
992 CountryScapes Wood 1
989 CountryScapes Critters 1
945 Season's Greetings

If Nothing Ever Changed

This is my Design Team Post on the Quietfire Creations Blog today.  You can go over to this LINK to find all the information on how this card was created.

Thank you for visiting my blog today.

Garden Notes Holly Tag

This is a Christmas tag using Susan's Garden Notes Holiday Holly & Berries dies.  You can watch Susan's YouTube Video at this LINK to show how she assembles this pretty Holly Branch.  I think you will find it interesting to see how she gives the waxy look that holly leaves have.

I used one of the Tags & More 9 - Sparkle dies for the white tag.  On the tag I added a piece of card stock that was embossed with the Snowflake Embossing Folder.  For the red frames, I used two frames from the Fitted Frames 2 Lace Squares.  

Along the bottom of the card I added Christmas Peel-Off Stickers.  Gold cording was used to create a bow at the top.

Below are links to the products used from  Elizabeth Craft Designs:

1088 Garden Notes Holiday Holly & Berries
1077 Tags & More 9 Sparkle
E126 Snowflake Embossing Folder
1062 Fitted Frames 2 Lace Squares
Christmas Peel-Off Stickers

Friendship Pumpkin Box

When the weather turns cool, it is a great time to bake.  This time of year I love to make pumpkin goodies.  Today I want to share some pumpkin chocolate chip cookies with a friend who is always doing something nice for me.   I decorated this box and will fill it with cookies.

 

This Quietfire Friendship stamp is perfect for this gift to my friend.

 

I purchased a package of these cardboard boxes at a craft store.  I covered the side panels with design paper then used the Elizabeth Craft Designs Pumpkin dies to decorate it.  Maybe these pumpkins will give a hint for what is in this box - I know she loves these cookies!  Susan's Garden Woodland Leaves were die cut and used at the bottom of the pumpkins.

 I used the Elizabeth Craft Designs Tags & More 7 - Vine dies, to decorate the back panel of the box.  Using a tall tag was perfect because it will show above the wrapped cookies.  One of the die cut pumpkins was added above the Quietfire Friendship stamped saying; and two Woodland Leaves were added on the tag.  Pumpkins were added on each side of the box.

It is always fun to share your baked good with friends in a decorated package.

Links to products used:

5852 Friendship Isn't a Big Thing
764 Pumpkin Dies
1092 Susan's Garden Woodland Leaves
960 Tags & More 7 - Vine

Poinsettia with Ornament

It has been a cold wet day outside, so it was a perfect day to create another Christmas card.   Today I used one of the Ornament Set 3 Christmas Ornaments.  The design part and the bow was die cut using Silver Metallic Shimmer Sheetz.  It was backed with Clear Double Sided Adhesive so it could be placed over the (red) solid ornament.  For the solid ornament, I added a piece of Clear Double Sided Adhesive to the front of white card stock and die cut it. The silver design was attached over the solid ornament. The adhesive was pulled off just the small dots in the center of the ornament and Forest Green Silk Micro Fine Glitter was added.  Once that was rubbed in well, the adhesive covering on the the rest of the ornament was removed and sprinkled with True Red Silk Microfine Glitter.  Again it was rubbed well to bring out the shine.

To create the frame for the ornament, a red frame was cut and over it is one of the die cut Fitted Frames 3 Curvy Rectangles.  A red Dot peel-off sticker was placed on each corner.  The red and green frames were attached to a different piece of design paper and attached to the card front.  The ornament was attached with glue inside the frame.

A red poinsettia was created using Susan's Garden Notes Poinsettia dies.  It was shaped using Susan's Flower Tool Kit.  Ten Susan's Garden Notes Whitepine Bough were die cut, shaped and glued to the corner of the frame.  One die cut Berry Branch was added over the pine boughs.  The red berries were created using Viva Paper Pen.  The poinsettia was attached using a dimensional glue dot.

To finish the card, a Merry Christmas Peel-off sticker sentiment was added below the ornament and Silver Peel-off line stickers were placed around the two frame edges and around the edge of the large piece of design paper.

Below are links to the products used from Elizabeth Craft Designs:

 

927 Ornament Set 3

1063 Fitted Frames 3 Curvy Rectangles

1090 Susan's Garden Notes Poinsettia

1091 Susan's Garden Notes Whitepine Bough and & Pine Cone

758 Berry Branch

Susan's Flower Tool Kit

0211 Silver Metallic Shimmer Sheetz

508 Clear Transparent Double Sided Adhesive

614 True Red Silk Microfine Glitter

633 Forest Green Silk Microfine Glitter 

7018 Red Glitter Dots Peel Off Stickers

 Silver Christmas Peel Off Stickers

 

With Sympathy

 Seems I have been working to complete a lot of Christmas cards, but have missed working with Susan's other beautiful flower dies.  Today I created a sympathy card using the "A Way With Words" Sympathy die by Quietfire.  

The flowers I added to the card include Susan's Garden Dogwood above the sentiment.  Below the sentiment I used Susan's Garden Hydrangea.  Susan's also has a smaller hydrangea in her Susan's Garden Note Hydrangea die set, so you have a choice of two sizes.  The larger white flowers were created using the Susan's Garden Anemone dies.   For pretty little fillers,  the small flowers were created with the daisy dies in the Garden Patch - 1-inch & Mini Daisy & Chrysanthemum die set.  These little daisies match the flowers in the design paper.

In the corners, I added ECD  White Velvet Peel-off Sticker Corners and also White Velvet Peel-off Corner Sticker Lines across the upper and lower portions of the card. 

Below are links to all the products I used from Elizabeth Craft Designs:

1020 Susan's Garden Hydrangea

1009 Susan's Garden Dogwood 

1003 Garden Patch - 1-inch & Mini Daisy & Chrysanthemum

1005 Susan's Garden Anemone

1060  Quietfire With Sympathy

30115 Susan's Garden PanPastels Kit 1 

808 Susan's 4 pc Tool Set

810 Susan's Molding Pad

PSF 102 100lb Soft Finish Cardstock

7003 Velvet Flower Corner Peel Off Stickers

1149  Velvet Straight Lines Peel Off Stickers

 

Dogwood Happy Birthday

Today I needed to make a birthday card and wanted to try a pretty technique Anita Izendoorn did on a few cards I saw on the Elizabeth Craft Designs Facebook page using one of the A Way With Words dies by Quietfire.  Elizabeth Craft Designs has 12 different Quietfire sentiment dies you can choose from, to do this technique.

The Happy Birthday was die cut four times, using the Elizabeth Craft Designs Soft Finish 100lb Cardstock.  If you use the Elizabeth Craft Designs Clear Double Sided Adhesive, it is very easy to layer the die cuts on top of each other to create a "stack", otherwise, you can glue the sentiments together.  Layering the sentiment gives a lot of dimension to the die cut. I love how this turned out.

This is a 6"x6" card.  Using a smaller piece of card stock (5 3/4"), I used a Tim Holtz die for the open die cut at the top of the card.  This piece was cut off a quarter inch below the bottom of the die cut design.  The rest of the strip was cut 1 1/2 "  deep for the bottom.  A piece of pearlized card stock was cut 5 3/4" and the two pieces were glued to it.  I had planned to attach these pieces over the pearlized card stock with dimensional tape, but changed my mind because I wanted to add dimensional flowers.  The Sentiment was attached over the open space (showing the pearlized card stock below it).

Susan's Garden Dogwood dies were used for the pretty dogwood branch.  It was attached with Glue Dots.  I encourage you to watch Susan's YouTube Dogwood video to see how to assemble these beautiful flowers.  Did you know that Susan now has her Susan's Garden Club Blog which has so many gorgeous projects with written instructions? I encourage you to sign up and Follow her blog so you receive all new posts.

 Be sure to watch all Susan's YouTube videos and follow her blog for a lot of inspiration.  You too, can become a Paper Gardener!

Below are links to the Elizabeth Craft Designs products used:

 1009 Susan's Garden Dogwood

Susan's Flower Tool Kit

30117 Susan's Pan Pastels Kit 3

1054 Quietfire Happy Birthday

PSF102 100lb Soft Finish Cardstock

510 Clear Double Sided Adhesive 

 

 

Season's Greetings

I saw on the news that snow has already fallen, but thankfully not where I live.  We are having beautiful Autumn weather.  

The holidays will be here soon and it will be time to send greetings to our friends and family.  Today I have a card I designed using Susan's Garden Notes Poinsettias.  I used Goosebumps Clear Texture Spray to achieve the speckle on these red poinsettias.  Behind the poinsettias are sprigs of Susan's Garden  Notes Whitepine Boughs.

The sentiment is one of the Way With Words die cuts by Quietfire.  It was die cut using shiny gold card stock.  The background is a piece of design paper I had in my stash.  To border the design, I used Elizabeth Craft Border Peel Off Stickers.

Have you started creating your Christmas cards yet?

You can use the links below to find the products used from Elizabeth Craft Designs:

1090 Garden Notes Poinsettia

1091 Whitepiine Bough and Pine Cone

1057 Quietfire Season's Greetings

1061 Border Peel Off Stickers