One Sheet Wonder ~ Part 2

Well as promised two more cards using up the leftovers from the A5 One Sheet Wonder background that I made this morning.
This time I've made two A6 cards using bashful blue card stock I think these really compliments the colour palette I started with today.

Supplies for these projects
Inks
Perfect plum
Pretty in Pink
Concord crush
Rich razzleberry
Cardstock
Bashful Blue
Perfect plum
Whisper White
Concord Crush
Rich Razzleberry
Tools
Decorative Label punch
Heat Tool
Paper trimmer
1/2" Circle punch
3/4" Circle punch
1" Circle punch
1 1/4" Circle punch
1 3/8" Circle punch
Scallop Circle punch
Decorations
Dazzling Diamonds glitter
Basic Rhinestones
White Gel pen
Sticky Strip
3/8" Very Vanilla taffeta ribbon
Linen Thread
Brights Designer Buttons
Stamp Sets
Serene Snowflakes
Contempo Christmas
Four Frames ~ 2011 Mini
Curly Cute
Gifted ~ retired September 2011

One Sheet Wonder

One sheet Wonder, I wonder how many of you have heard that phrase & have wonder what exactly is that?

Well to start a one sheet wonder you need to make either an A4 or A5 sheet of backing paper which you will use for a whole project.
For this backing sheet I used the Serene Snowflakes Stamp set & four coloured ink pads In Perfect plum ( A colour I don't use enough) Pretty in Pink, Rich Razzleberry & Concord crush.

Also I decided with this project to make small cards. I worked out that from a single A4 sheet of card you can make 2 4" square cards & a single 3 1/2" x 3 1/2" Square card, so here they are.

3 1/2" x 3 1/2" Square card

A neat trick for making a glittery border is to make lines using the Sticky strip & cover it with the Dazzling diamonds glitter, This also works as a frame around a square or rectangular aperture. It does look really blingy but I cannot seem to get good light today to take a decent picture.

4" x 4" Square Card

4" x 4" Square Card

Supplies for these projects
Inks
Perfect plum
Pretty in Pink
Concord crush
Rich razzleberry
Cardstock

Perfect plum
Whisper White
Concord Crush
Rich Razzleberry
Tools
Decorative Label punch
Heat Tool
Paper trimmer
1/2" Circle punch
3/4" Circle punch
1" Circle punch
1 1/4" Circle punch
1 3/8" Circle punch
Ornament Punch
Decorations
Dazzling Diamonds glitter
Basic Rhinestones
White Gel pen
Sticky Strip
Stamp Sets
Serene Snowflakes
Contempo Christmas
Four Frames ~ 2011 Mini
Curly Cute
Gifted ~ retired September 2011

Well after making those three cards from an A5 piece of " One sheet Wonder" background I still have a few pieces left over.
I will have a go at a couple more cards this afternoon.

AU naturelle

Christmas Au Naturelle, Christmas using Crumb cake cardstock I could quite happily use the crumb cake for all of my Christmas projects, It goes with Everything.
What colours are you using this year?

Both of the cards in todays post are A6 if you have loads of cards to make this is the most economical size card to make as you get two cards from a single A4 sheet.

Supplies needed for these cards
Cardstock
Crumb cake
Very Vanilla
Early Espresso
Real Red
Ink
Soft Suede
Whisper white ( Craft )
Early Espresso
Real Red
Versamark
Stampin' Write pens
Stamps
Lovely as a tree ( I don't use this set enough )
Serene Snowflakes
Welcome Christmas
Gifted ~ retired September 2011
Tools
Stamp a ma jig
1 1/4" Square punch
1 3/8" Square punch
Heat tool
1/4" Circle punch ~ Retired
Decorations
Basic Rhinestones
Dazzling Diamonds
Heat & Stick powder.

The shimmer of this card is stunning & the photo really doesn't do it any justice.

To make the shimmer on this card I first stamped the Lovely as a tree image using Early espresso ink, using my Stamp a ma jig to make sure that the image was central as I had pre-cut the panels for this card.
Then I covered the whole panel with Versamark embossing ink using the ink pad directly onto the card.
Then sprinkled on a generous coat of heat 'n' stick powder, tipped off the excess & returned it to the pot & heated the card using the heat tool.
Quickly I covered the whole area with Dazzling diamonds whilst it was still tacky & sprinkled off the excess & carefully heated to set the glitter into the heat & stick powder.
This is a beautiful technique & works well with many images.

The Gifted Stamp set is retiring at the end of September 2011.