Collettes Cards

Hi Paper Friends Today another pretty card using the lovely Butterfly Garden. The beautiful muted colours, butterflies, flowers and pearls create a sweet little card that is sure to delight its receiver! I used lots of layers, some were laid flat, some raised with foam dots, some distressed, some not. I do love these big full flowers that are distributed by Couture Creations. It only takes one as a focal point to create a pretty card. Adorned with paper leaves cut from some ephemera, butterflies cut form patterned paper and a pretty ornate corner die, cut from paper. Take a moment to shape your butterfly wings, attach wings with foam tape and the bodies with wet adhesive to give it a wonderful dimentional appearance! Hope you like it and it gives you some creative ideas! Products Used CO726533 - Butterfly Garden Sheet 6 CO726534 - Butterfly Garden Sheet 7 CO725943 - Midday Corner Decorative Die CO726540 - Diecut Ephemera ULT1...

'Jardin' Exploding Card! Hi Papercrafters. 😊 The 'Petite Jardin' Collection from Couture Creations is pretty and easy to use for all your papercrafting projects. An eclectic mix of florals, stripes, geometric designs both in soft and strong colourways. The range has beautiful papers, dies, hotfoil stamps, chipboard and stamps, and really, choosing is the hardest part! I was drawn to the beautiful border, flourish and branches dies;  these dies I could use on most cards, totally drop dead gorgeous!  I wanted a card with a little surprise inside so I worked out the measurement for an exploding insert following one of my favourite Tea Bag fold Designs.  It works beautifully!  You can see exactly how I made this in the video I have put together for you 😉  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6rL3cA312I I do hope you get a chance to create this little fun card and to shop for some beautiful pro...

Welcome Papercrafters. Today I have a couple of cards using the wonderful Modern Essentials, Cut, Foil and Emboss Dies. I love a die that does it all and have selected the nesting  Rose Vine Frames to feature on my cards. I seem to be a 'golden mood' at the moment! Again I have chosen gold and white, but am loving how elegant that combination looks! I layered this up differently, instead of the thick metal shim, I used two of the thinner ones which foiled and cut beautifully! I had some beautiful left over bits of foil when I cut out the frames, way too good to throw out so I simply used my Go Press & Foil machine to attach the foiled frame to some card. To do this I put the thick shim on my Go press and Foil machine, put the foil gold side down, then my card and I used 2 card shims. It all attached beautifully! Not bad for leftovers! Love the leaves 2 stickers. They come in so handy! Products Used CO726462 - Cut Foil ...

Hi Papercrafters Today I have a lovely gold and white birthday card for that special friend. What can go wrong with beautiful papers, a pallette of gold and white and some lovely textural elements! I started by creating a 4" x 6" closed card base, and then used the new frame " Loving Flourishes Frame Die" by Ultimate Crafts. Once the frame was stuck down, I played with lots of beautiful textural elements! I added some multi coils of twine and some of the gorgeous 2mm adhesive pearls to form part of a circle. Next I wrapped some of the new paper 'Special Occasions' "Gold Damask Foil', (the photos do not do the foiling justice, it is truly beautiful!), around a fine pencil, taped the ends together and attached them to the card; three coils, different lengths. Did you know it looks so much better if you work in odd numbers! Then my favourite large flower takes pride of place and I tucked a soft beige feather, gold spr...

I love the new Mini Foliage Die (DD374). Apart from having so many beautiful leaf and stem shapes, I get to cut lots out in one pass! They are perfect for the floral clusters!    DD374 TIP: To create smaller flowers or rose buds, simply peel away individual petals! Kaisercraft Products Used: Cottage Rose Collection – PP995 Paper Pad | DD369 Decorative Die Oval Vintage Frame | DD374 Decorative Die Mini Foliage | PT225 Glitter Tape Silver | PL501 Pearl Strips White | CS261 Background Stamp Sentiments – Moments | IP 719 Ink Pad Black | CD511 C6 Card & Envelope Packs White |F658 Mini Paper Blooms Dusty Pink | F644 Mini Paper Blloms Coconut | F653 Mini Paper Blooms Ruby. Hope you like this one. Have a fab day Collette xxx

“Special Times”  Layout by Collette A quick, clean and simple page to remind me of my sons graduation. The ‘memories’ tab pulls out to remind me of all the details! The blue patterned paper was cut to 11″ x 11″; the white card was cut to 8″ x 8″ and I used a 5″ wide by 7″ tall photo. As always, I sanded the edges of the photo to make it pop a bit! Grab your supplies, a cuppa and you will have this one done in no time! Kaisercraft Products Used: Kaisercard CD133 Cherry; CD 650. Patterned Paper: P1806. Collectables CT825. Paper Blooms: F664 Fire Red. Clear Stickers: ST916. Assorted Paper Leaves EM995. Printed Paper Tape: PT211 Polka Dot Red. Rhinestones: SB711 Red; SB704 Dark Blue. “Callen” Layout by Collette.          Kaisercraft Products Used: Patterned Paper: P1809 Colour; P1810 Tone.  Collectables: CT825. Paper Blooms mini: F669 Fire Red; F650 Olive. Wooden Flourishes: FL510 Intricate corners. K...