Leafy Love - Paper Rose Cards

Happy Christmas Eve.

Hope you are all organised and not too stressed for tomorrow. 

Such a wonderful day but so much craziness to get prepared 

for this one day. Wishing you all a fabulous Christmas and 

New Year with all your family and friends. 

Stay safe and be kind to yourself. 

Today I'm sharing a few more Paper Rose cards with you. 

This 18213 Leaves Stencil is so good to use on cards. I have created three different cards using the one stencil.

On this card I have used Tim Holtz Distress Oxides and a 

blending brush to blend 3 different blue tones onto some white 

card stock. Distress the edges of your paper, add a few 

flowers and some string to match the card and you have a 

lovely card for any occasion. Add a suitable sentiment or 

leave the card as is without a sentiment. 

Light modelling paste through the Leaves stencils and you 

have a completely different background. I have added a few 

foliage die cuts to my flowers on this card. The dies that 

I have used are 17973 Ella's Garden Scribble Leaves  

and 16790 Small Leafy Branches.

I have cut out a couple of the leaves that were stencilled 

using light modelling paste. I coloured them with some 

Tim Holtz Distress Oxides and splattered some of the 

colour onto the background too. The tag is a newbie 

from Paper Rose. It is 18412 Stitched Tags. I can see 

myself using these dies a lot. Actually I used them to 

make all the tags on our Christmas presents this year. 

The stamp I used to stamp Best Wishes on the tag is from the 

17892 Cactus Wishes stamp set.

Once again.....have a wonderful Christmas and New Year xx

Thanks cards - Paper Rose

Yay it's the weekend..

Happy Saturday.

Today I'm sharing some Thank You cards I made.

I have used one stencil and three different dies to create 

these three different cards. 

I have used the new Paper Rose 18427 Waves Stencil 

and 18412 Stitched Tags Dies as well as a favourite 

background die called 17931 Texture 3 and of course the 

17472 Thanks Layered die.

All the stencilling through the stencil has been done using 

Paper Rose blending brushes and Tim Holtz Distress Oxides.

The blending brushes are super easy to use and are just perfect with these stencils.

ARTastic December DT Layout

The year is coming to a close and so is my time 

on the ARTastic design team. I have had a wonderful time 

creating layouts for all the wonderful challenges Jane 

has made. I have meet some lovely creative people 

and loved seeing the layouts that people have created 

for our challenges.  

Here is my final layout. The inspiration picture is 

all about Trimming the tree at Christmas time. The Criteria 

is to use stars and ribbon on your layout.

Whilst my photo and layout doesn't look very christmasy, 

it was taken just before Christmas because we always forget 

to take photos on Christmas day. And one thing I asked for 

Christmas was mohave family photos together. This one is of 

our daughter Leah and her boyfriend Tamas.

I hope you find some time during this silly season to create 

a layout for our challenge. Merry Christmas and stay safe xx

Sketchy Boards DT December Challenge

Yeah it's nearly Christmas.

So of course its a Christmas themed challenge at 

Sketchy Boards Challenge this month.

Baby Blue cards - Paper Rose

Yikes.... It's December already.

Time for me to share another set of cards using more 

gorgeous Paper Rose products.

On all these cards I have used paper from the 

18171 Outback Tones paper collection pack as well as 

18078 Baby Blue Medium Eucalyptus Branch die and 

18099 Baby Blue Outline Medium Eucalyptus Branch die.

Nothing I love more than a bit of hand stitching on a card. 

It's my relaxing time and cheaper than therapy!!

I have used the 16898 Thinking of You die for my sentiment 

and bunched the two Baby Blue die cuts together with a 

little bit of twine.

The best wishes sentiment has been stamped from the 

17892 Cactus Wishes stamp set . I have used the smallest 

die from the 16576 Stitched Rectangles die set to make 

the tag that I have stamped onto.

And who doesn't love a stencil. I have used one of the 

new Paper Rose stencils. It is 18397 Checker Plate. 

It has three different patterns on the one stencil, perfect 

for lots of different cards.

Thanks for stopping by, happy creating xx

White with 1 DT Layout - December 2019

Good morning friends

Today I am sharing my last layout as a design team 

member for White with 1. I have really loved being part 

of this team. 

I love the challenges Jane sets. It always gets me thinking 

when I have to create a layout using 70% white with a 

certain colour. Purple really gets me thinking, its my 

least favourite colour and I have hardly anything purple in 

my large scrapbooking stash.

I know December is a busy time for everyone but I hope you can 

find some time to create a layout for this challenge. Scroll down to see the colour and sketch for this month. 

Wishing you a wonderful, fun and safe Christmas and New Year xx

Scrap The Girls - December DT Layout

December already....time sure does go even quicker 

this time of the year. Seems like silly season starts 

earlier and earlier every year.

This months layout for Scrap the Girls is 'No traditions here' 

Take inspiration from what you see or read.

I thought I'd go with the no traditions here, and scrap a 

photo of my daughter Leah at Niagara Falls. 

Christmas was so different for our family in 2015. 

We didn't have a Christmas tree, we didn't have the traditional Christmas roast, prawns and salad and we certainly didn't 

have the dry hot Christmas Day that we are used to. 

Christmas was fun and different and would I want to do it again 

in a different country?? I'm not sure......I didn't enjoy 

Christmas Eve in America because I knew the rest of our family 

and friends would be sitting together having fun and we were 

walking around the shops. But I can't complain because I shared a cold Christmas and New Year with my absolute favourite people.