Using up my craft stash

I have lots of craft stash I've not used so decided to make a new style of card with some of it.

I cut the front of a square card in half to make a triangle and then added in some acetate and used to spare triangle to make a sandwich with the acetate in the middle to make the card neat. The acetate was from Christmas when I made my own snowy acetate. I then used some Hunkydory backing card to decorate both the outside and inside of the card (left over from my shaped shaker card)

I added Hunkydory toppers, then stamped a sentiment in the inside of the card on a die cut.

Finally I 'blinged it up' with some Kaisercraft flower gems. 

I'm entering this into

http://clearitoutchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/3rd-year-anniversary-blog-hop.html?m=1 (used stash and sparkly gem flowers on acetate)

http://polkadoodle.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/week-8-polkadoodles-challenge-sugar-and.html?m=1 - with the yummy sugary cake

Snowy Acetate Tutorial

I know is June and there are still just under 6 months until Christmas but its the perfect time to start card crafting for Christmas so you can take your time as enjoy card making.

Recently I brought a card kit and wanted some snowy acetate but the place I got my card kit from had sold out PLUS I had lots of acetate at home which I hadn't used so thought I'd try and make it myself! It's super easy!

First you will need acetate and a Uni Paint market in white with a thick bullet tip (PX-20)

To get a random pattern of snow fall start making random large slodges with you pen 

Then randomly dot all over the sheet with then pen to make smaller snow flake. Leave to dry and ta-dah 

Then use it in your card making 

Updated - Sugar Buttons - The Most Glittery and Girly Set Ever!

My order finally came from Create and Craft of the Sugar Buttons Kit from Kanban. I cannot wait to have a play with it at the weekend. 

I brought it mostly for my little cousins Georgia and Paige, so I can make them some lovely girly cards.

Picture from Create and Craft

The kit came with the papercrafting kit and four sets of stamps. I've taken a quick picture of them below but will be trying them out and will post some pictures of them stamped and coloured at the weekend or early next week. The stamps are not just for childrens cards, they look great for weddings and thank you cards too.

The papercrafting kit as so many sheets including lots of background card, decoupage and toppers. My favourite bit, which you can slightly see in the photo above, is the glittered acetate with starts, butterfly's and lots of glitter.

Such a lovely kit to kick start my non-Christmas card crafting.

*Update*

One of my favourite papers is shown below from this kit. I love it so much I could see myself not using it but after seeing some examples I decided to cut it up and use it for a few cards. I had originally thought about using the paper as it was and frame it with some decoupage on but then I wouldn't have displayed it anywhere.

 

Firstly I cut out the castle and layered some paper round it to make a frame. The card is so thick that my Fiskars circle cutter didn't like it and I ended up using scissors (I really need some circular and curved dies for my Big Shot for this type of thing).

I then put the fairy wand backing paper on top (cutting out a larger oval) and topped it off with a princess topper and sentiment. 

 I then used the rest of the scene background and matted and layered it onto an A5 card. I used two layers behind the main background cards and cut the middles out of the two backing cards so I can use these again at some point and I'm not wasting card.

I then used the prince and princess decoupage toppers. These came with oval toppers which matched but by using the decoupage parts separately I'm able to us the background toppers on some other cards.

 

I think this is one of my favourite kits ever! (can you tell with all my blog posts?)