Colourful Delicate Ornaments

I have more Delicate Ornament cards to share with you today. These ones use the long ornament dies.

Once again I made a set of six cards, however my plans changed drastically once cutting a lot of the dies out. With some of the little pieces popped out I could start positioning them where I wanted them on the ornament and I decided that things weren't going to look quite how I wanted them. So Plan B was to change the colour combinations a little and cut more ornaments so there were two on each card.

 All of the ornament cards I have posted over the last few weeks I actually started on the same day. On the Saturday I cut all of the ornaments out (except for the extra ones I did for this once I changed my mind), and on the Sunday I started putting them together - as you can see in these Instagram photos. These are definately the easiest of the ornament dies to do this technique with as the majority of the pieces are a decent size - easier to pop out and easier to handle. I did start with these when putting them together, but they were the last to be made into actual cards. I did finish them all over the space of a few days but wanted to spread out the posts for them so you weren't looking at ornament cards for a whole week! After preparing this post I saw a card by Mary Brown on Pinterest that is remarkably similar - clearly a case of great minds think alike! I'm really glad to see someone else doing this :D

Very non traditional colours in these!

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Peaceful Pines Sneak Peek

On September 1st Stampin' Up! will be launching this years Holiday Catalogue, and to whet your appetite here is a card featuring some products you will be able to order once September arrives.

There are so many gorgeous items in this catalogue it's almost hard to know where to start! For today's card I have used the Peaceful Pines stamp set, which you can buy on it's own or bundled at a discount with the coordinating framelits dies. There are eight tree images in the set, with 3 different sized dies to cut them out, along with a number of accessories to go with the trees. I've been hankering to use the Striped Scallop die, so I decided to pair it with one of the tree images that also featured scallops. I stamped the tree on shimmery white cardstock using VersaMark ink then embossed it in silver. After cutting the tree out, I watercoloured the scallops with my aquapainter by picking up the ink from the lid of the inkpads. If you've never watercoloured like this before, it may surprise you how some colours come out. Depending on how the ink is made up, you may find you get quite a variation in colour from a single ink. In this card, the Sahara Sand ink has come out with quite a green tinge.

To create my background I used the Striped Scallop die but instead of layering the cardstock on top of a cutting plate before putting it into the Big Shot, I used the crease pad to emboss the cardstock rather than cut it. I had actually forgotten I had even purchased it until recently, so I'm keen to make up for lost time and use it quite a bit to turn dies into embossing folders. Of course the direction I wanted the scallops to go meant I had to reposition the die after embossing part of the card to emboss the rest of it. Having the reverse of the cardstock facing up (that is, the opposite side to where the die was pressing into the cardstock) helps to hide when you don't line things up perfectly.

As is pretty standard for me, I used non-traditional colours in this Christmas card:

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