LeighSB Designs Christmas in July Blog Hop #21

Once again LeighSBDesigns is hosting a blog hop

 to help keep us creatively inspired and busy

 while staying safe at home during this terrible pandemic!

This time it is to celebrate CHRISTMAS in JULY

Christmas in July Blog Hop 2020
hosted by
LeighSBDesigns Art Stamps

Join us & stay creative & get a jump on your Christmas cards & gifts!
See HOP POST for details and rules!
Play fair and have lots of fun!
Shop LeighSBDesigns CHRISTMAS in JULY sale thru July 31!
Stay Inspired and Stay Safe!

I am pretty sure this is my 21st

 link up to LeighSB's Christmas in July - I am trying to add something for each of the 24 days... so only 3 more days...

Yesterday I mentioned the second video I watched...Iced Images...This was to make a pair of envelope cards.

Today I have the second card to show you...

This uses the second piece of the A4 kraft card - the triangles are formed using a patterned paper from my stash and a paper I created using Leigh's Winter snowflakes, coloured with FrostBlue Copic.

This time the card opens as a normal card.

It has a pocket in the front to hold a tag. For my tag I have used

 LeighSB Designs Oddleigh Snowflake Elf

coloured with Copics and gold Zig pen.

I will add this card to Leigh's Linky. 

I have just discovered The Build Your Stash Holiday Hop so I will add this card there!

Here are both my envelope cards:

Happy Crafting!

LeighSB Designs Christmas in July Blog Hop #20

Once again LeighSBDesigns is hosting a blog hop

 to help keep us creatively inspired and busy

 while staying safe at home during this terrible pandemic!

This time it is to celebrate CHRISTMAS in JULY

Christmas in July Blog Hop 2020
hosted by
LeighSBDesigns Art Stamps

Join us & stay creative & get a jump on your Christmas cards & gifts!
See HOP POST for details and rules!
Play fair and have lots of fun!
Shop LeighSBDesigns CHRISTMAS in JULY sale thru July 31!
Stay Inspired and Stay Safe!

I am pretty sure this is my 20th link up to LeighSB's Christmas in July - I am trying to add something for each of the 24 days...

After I watched the triple pop up box/cube card video yesterday another video popped up...

and so I watched another you tube video...Iced Images...This was to make a pair of envelope cards.

Well I took the idea and this is the first card I came up with (an A4 card produces two card bases).

I have pegged it together for ease of photographing - don't know what happened to my Monday peg...

I started using a piece of kraft card - the triangles are formed using a patterned paper from my stash and a paper I created using Leigh's Winter snowflakes, coloured with FrostBlue Copic.

The card opens as a gatefold.

It opens to reveal more triangles and a tree coloured with Copics and gold pen and cut out. The tree is from LeighSB Designs A Very Yeti Christmas Festive Add-on Pack

I also added those blue confetti things.... and a sentiment from my treasure box.

I will add this  to Leigh's Linky. 

I have just discovered The Build Your Stash Holiday Hop so I will add this card there!

Happy Crafting!

Butterfly Challenge - A is for Accordian Fold Card - Post #4

The theme for Mrs A's Butterfly Challenge #144 is A is for Accordian Fold card.

 and she gives instructions on how to make FIVE versions here. 

This is Version 5.

Mrs A goes through the process in the tutorial.

I am hoping also to get number 4 done but I may not have time!!

The wheel is as follows:

As you can see from this first picture - the card folded up - I have used two patterned papers (although one is just as a sort of washi) and all the colours listed in one of those papers!

The base card is also apricot.

The paper is actually both sides of a Webster's Pages 12 by 12 Today.

The sentiment is a Visible Image stamp, stamped in Versafine Clair Warm Breeze.

I followed Mrs A's instructions to reach the initial fold.

Next step - adding the paper.

Inside I added this image from Bugaboo Beautiful Blocks in Color, printed and coloured with Copics, and complete with butterfly.

This is the final card:

I will link this to the Butterfly Challenge #144 having used all elements.

Happy Crafting!

LeighSB Designs Christmas in July Blog Hop #19

Once again LeighSBDesigns is hosting a blog hop

 to help keep us creatively inspired and busy

 while staying safe at home during this terrible pandemic!

This time it is to celebrate CHRISTMAS in JULY

Christmas in July Blog Hop 2020

hosted by

LeighSBDesigns Art Stamps

Join us & stay creative & get a jump on your Christmas cards & gifts!

See HOP POST for details and rules!

Play fair and have lots of fun!

Shop LeighSBDesigns CHRISTMAS in JULY sale thru July 31!

Stay Inspired and Stay Safe!

I am pretty sure this is my 19th link up to LeighSB's Christmas in July - I am trying to add something for each of the 24 days...

I don't know about you but I have been seeing lots of triple pop up box/cube cards online...

This is the you tube video I watched...Iced Images

Anyway as the box sides are 2.75 inches square I thought this would be excellent as a display item for ATCoins - as you know I often use ATCs or ATCoins as a feature on my cards e.g.

The first one is from years ago but you might remember the second from July 11th.

I started by taking a sheet of 12 by 12 and scoring it at 2.75, 5.5, 8.25 and 11 inches.

I then trimmed off half an inch at the right hand side and cut it into three strips of 5.5 inches and 2.75  inches (x 2). 

Having trimmed the corners off the end tags I folded all these into mountain folds and stuck them together...

Next step is to stick the boxes together and then it's decoration...

I added squares of paper from my scraps - this was ends from some Webster's Pages 'Today'.

As you can see the card will lie flat for an envelope - the pegs helped to take the photograph.

 The sentiment is placed on little tabs - a little tricky (suggest you watch the video!!)

Now time for the ATCoins... all these you have seen before...

I did have to find a couple extra...

In the Half-o-ween hop I made a collection of ATCs using  "Party" Balleigh Monster.

 

I had printed the image several times and I had a lot of that red stripy paper...

Anyway here's an ATCoin...

The one on the left was just a couple of die cuts I had on my desk...

Plenty of scattered twigs Distress Ink around the edges!

I will add this  to Leigh's Linky. 

I have just discovered The Build Your Stash Holiday Hop so I will add this card there!

Happy Crafting!

Bugaboo Saturday Challenge - Photo Inspiration

So pleased to have the chance to be a Guest Designer for July and August of this year! 

This is my fourth make...

for the 25th July Photo Inspiration

This made me think of the view from our house last night:

But then how to interpret this as a card...

Well I started by using a smooshed Distress Ink background using a variety of colours of Distress Ink (oranges, brown and yellow) -  and added it to a white square card blank on top of a layer of kraft.

I printed  the giraffe from MS Tall Jungle Set

 and coloured it with Copics, cut it out and added this to a layer of kraft.

Finally I added the sentiment, also printed, trimmed and on kraft.

 This was from Imagine That Digistamps some while ago...

Happy Crafting!