Thursday, 14 November 2024

Angela's PaperArts: Stampin Up Christmas labels distressed rustic Christmas card

I'm continuing to make my Christmas cards and thought I'd share a tip for distressing embossed cardstock today.

Here's the card which features the Christmas Labels bundle, Painted Trees 3D embossing folder, Winter Meadows designer series paper and the two-tone Garden Green cardstock from the Reindeer Memories multi colour two-tone cardstock pack. 

Angela's PaperArts: Stampin Up Christmas Labels and Painted Trees 3D embossed distressed Christmas card

TIP: The two-tone cardstock has a light and dark side of the Garden Green colour and also a white core. This makes it easy to distress & reveal the white core by using a piece of sandpaper or an emery board. By lightly rubbing the sandpaper over the raised edges of the Painted Trees 3D embossed cardstock, it revealed the white core which looks like 'snow' on the trees.  

Angela's PaperArts: Stampin Up Christmas Labels and Painted Trees 3D embossed distressed Christmas card

Another way to distress embossed cardstock is to swipe an inkpad over the raised sections of the embossed cardstock to get contrasting colours on the embossed image.

You may remember this tip from my last post where I showed how to save the excess diecut pieces from the largest Christmas Labels as they are cute little flourishes. 

Angela's PaperArts: Stampin Up Christmas Labels and Marbled Elegance Christmas card

Here's how I used the little flourish pieces on this card's sentiment label. I tucked them around the Christmas label to add a finishing touch. 

Angela's PaperArts: Stampin Up Christmas Labels and Painted Trees 3D embossed distressed Christmas card

I also flicked ink mixed with a little water onto the card to add a further distressing element to the card.

I hope you like this project. If you live in Australia, you can view and purchase Stampin' Up! products directly from my online store.

Thanks for visiting.

 



Monday, 11 November 2024

Angela's PaperArts: Stampin' Up! Seasonal Sale starts this Wednesday

The Stampin' Up! Seasonal Sale starts this Wednesday, 13 November 2024 and runs until Friday 15 November 2024. 

Angela's PaperArts: Stampin Up Seasonal sale

The sale includes the following items from the 2024-25 Annual Catalogue:

  • 10% off ink, including pads, refills, markers and Stampin' Blends (excludes third party inkpads and inkpad bundles).
  • 10% off cardstock (excludes already discounted Close to My Heart cardstock)
  • 20% total off stamp & die bundles and stamp & punch bundles.
  • 20% off all Designer Series Paper

If you live in Australia, you can view and purchase Stampin' Up! products directly from my online store.

Thanks for visiting.

 





Wednesday, 6 November 2024

Angela's PaperArts: Stampin' Up! Christmas Labels card

Making Christmas cards is at the top of my crafting list at the moment.  The Stampin' Up! Christmas Labels bundle is a lovely set for adding sentiments onto my cards. I've also used the newly released Marbled Elegance specialty designer series paper on the two cards I'm sharing today.

Angela's PaperArts: Stampin Up Christmas Labels and Marbled Elegance Christmas card

Angela's PaperArts: Stampin Up Christmas Labels and Marbled Elegance Christmas card

The Marbled Elegance paper has been released to co-ordinate with the new Hearts of Elegance stamp & die bundle.  I love the versatility of this paper as some of the sheets have a red, gold & white colour scheme which perfectly suits Christmas projects too.

TIP: To economically use the distressed gold foil paper onto which the Marbled Elegance paper was matted, I diecut the Christmas Label out of the paper first. Once the Marbled Elegance paper was layered on top of it, the hole in the gold foil paper was totally covered and the card recipient wouldn't know it was there at all.

Angela's PaperArts: Stampin Up Christmas Labels and Marbled Elegance Christmas card

TIP: You may notice from the picture above that there are little flourishes under the largest Christmas Labels diecut. These are pieces which come out of the label which would normally be thrown away, but not this time - they're perfect little flourish accents on projects. 

Here are the two card side by side. Which one do you prefer?

Angela's PaperArts: Stampin Up Christmas Labels and Marbled Elegance Christmas card

You can see the Marbled Elegance paper and all the other newly released Online Exclusives here. 

If you live in Australia, you can view and purchase Stampin' Up! products directly from my online store.

Thanks for visiting.

 

Wednesday, 30 October 2024

Angela's PaperArts: Garden of Thanks and Christmas Wishes kits

The Stampin' Up! 30% off kits promotion ends tomorrow, Thursday 31 October.

Here are two other kits that I've purchased during the sale which are terrific for quick, easy and pretty cards.

Garden of Thanks kit

I love the colour scheme and pretty cards in this kit. If you don't need 'thank you' cards and have your own supplies, you could easily change the sentiment to a birthday or other occasion greeting.

Angela's PaperArts: Stampin Up Garden of Thanks card kit

Christmas Wishes kit

These cards have a traditional green, red & gold colour scheme and were easy to stamp & assemble. The co-ordinating gold envelopes included in the kit will give the cards that extra touch of Christmas elegance.

Angela's PaperArts: Stampin Up Christmas Wishes card kit

Inside the card also has a gold foil section to stamp your sentiment.
Angela's PaperArts: Stampin Up Christmas Wishes card kit

You can see all the kits here:

APA: Kits sale

Kit are so handy for quick and easy cards and most don't require you to have any other supplies on hand (although inclusion may differ from kit to kit).

Starter kit promotion

Another promotion finishing tomorrow, 31October is if you join Stampin' Up! during this time, you'll receive products of your choice valued at $286 plus free shipping for only $169. If this is of interest to you, please contact me to have a chat.

APA: joining promotion

If you live in Australia, you can view and purchase Stampin' Up! products directly from my online store.

Thanks for visiting.



Thursday, 10 October 2024

Angela's PaperArts: Stampin' Up! Expressions of Kindness kit

I've been taking advantage of the current Stampin' Up! Kit sale which is on during October.

How lovely is the colour combination in the Stampin' Up! Expressions of Kindness kit.

Angela's PaperArts: Stampin Up Expressions of kindness kit

This kit includes everything you need, including co-ordinating envelopes, to make the cards (one card design not shown). You can also add your own touches too which I've done by adding some gold leaves & ribbon on one of the cards.

Angela's PaperArts: Stampin Up Expressions of kindness kit

Angela's PaperArts: Stampin Up Expressions of kindness kit

You can see all the kits here:

APA: Kits sale

Kit are so handy for quick and easy cards and most don't require you to have any other supplies on hand (although inclusion may differ from kit to kit).

Starter kit promotion

Another promotion happening during October is if you join Stampin' Up! during this time, you'll receive products of your choice valued at $286 plus free shipping for only $169. If this is of interest to you, please contact me to have a chat.

APA: joining promotion

If you live in Australia, you can view and purchase Stampin' Up! products directly from my online store.

Thanks for visiting.

Saturday, 5 October 2024

Angela's PaperArts: Stampin' Up! Kit & Annual Catalogue stamp sale

There are some terrific offers available during October from Stampin' Up!

Kits Collection

All kits are 30% off RRP from 1-31 October, 2024.

APA: Kits sale

Kit are so handy for quick and easy cards and most don't require you to have any other supplies on hand (although inclusion may differ from kit to kit).


Annual Catalogue stamp sale

Between Monday 7 to Wednesday 9 October, all Annual Catalogue stamp sets only will be discounted by 15%.

APA: stamp sale

Starter kit promotion

If you join Stampin' Up! during October, you'll receive products of your choice valued at $286 plus free shipping for only $169. If this is of interest to you, please contact me to have a chat.

APA: joining promotion

If you live in Australia, you can view and purchase Stampin' Up! products directly from my online store.

Thanks for visiting.

Thursday, 19 September 2024

Angela's PaperArts: Stampin' Up! Christmas Decorative Trees floating panel-popup card

I'm continuing to create projects with the new Stampin' Up! Decorative Trees stamp & die bundle.

This floating panel aka pop-up panel special fold card features the snowflake tree from the Decorative Trees bundle and it works so well with the Winter Meadow designer series paper.

Angela's PaperArts: Stampin Up Decorative Trees Floating panel Christmas card

Here's a top-down view of the card.
Angela's PaperArts: Stampin Up Decorative Trees Floating panel Christmas card

Here's a side view of the card.
Angela's PaperArts: Stampin Up Decorative Trees Floating panel Christmas card

The current Stampin' Up! products used on the project can be purchased from my online store if you live in Australia.

Thanks for visiting.