Home for Christmas - Project A

Today I have a double-page layout, made from the first project in a scrapbooking workshop kit from Stampin' Up! (as always all of their images are copyright Stampin' Up!).  This one is called Home for Christmas - which will be available for purchase in early September.  The picture above is my "fix" for this page, with the original way I put it together shown below.  More about that later.

 In a YouTube video two weeks ago, I showed a current scrapbooking workshop kit and compared it with a a sneak peek at two upcoming kits which are made in Stampin' Up!s new style - what's the same and what's different.  In that video, I also cut the pieces for the above layout.  You can see that video here:

Today's video - about this layout - shows how I've added extra photos to this layout:

And here are closeups with a bit more information about what I did.

Keyhole Aperture & Pop Through Circle with Latch

 

Today I've got a couple of unique aperture card.  I call the first a Keyhole Aperture, and the 2nd a Pop Through Circle with Latch (I first saw this latter style some time back in a video by Karen Titus of Stamping on the Back Porch).   

The patterned papers used for these cards are from the Garden Poetry designer series papers (DSP) - which are currently on a last chance sale.  I also used a bit of the gorgeous Garden Textures specialty foil sheets for the 2nd card - also on the last chance sale.  

I also used the Sweet Words and Labels die set.  I had overlooked this set of dies initially, because it came with the Silly Old Bear suite - a Winnie the Pooh set - which I wasn't that interested in.  But it is a WONDERFUL set of die cut shapes for any paper crafting - and has some great acorn and oak leaves dies as well.  Those will be great for Fall cards!  I'm SO glad I took a second look - and I recommend you consider them as well. 

Here's a video of how I made them:

And now for a closer look. 

WOW, Faux Embossing, and a Pop-Up Aperture

Today I'm showing some more die cutting techniques as I make a WOW card and a Pop-Up Aperture card. WOW stands for White on White – no other colors! You may be surprised at how elegant this first card can be when you add dimension and texture to this card. 

The Pop-Up Aperture, features a technique called Faux Embossing. This is where you take pieces in the same color as your card base and glue them directly to your card base, giving a look similar to embossing – without the stylus or embossing folder. 

You will see that for this week’s cards, we don’t use any patterned paper at all! And the only ink we use is for stamping the sentiments on the second card!   To see how I made these cards, you can check out my video: