April 2018 - My Paper Oasis

Month: April 2018

29
Apr
2018

CTC 176 – Favourite Occasions Project Apron of Love

categories: Blog Hop, Cards, Challenges, CTC, Gift Box

Welcome to CASEing the Catty 176 where each Sunday members of the design team create projects from a given section of the current catalogues to help inspire you to create!

This week we get to create our favourite project from the Occasions Catalogue.

That was a bit of a tricky decision as far as I’m concerned. There are so many projects to love in the Occasions Catalogue – Myths and Magic, Charming Cafe and Sunshine and Rainbows are just a few of my favourites – and they are all retiring 🙁 So if you love them as much as I do, you will want to get them fast – before they are gone forever!

This week however, I chose to show you just how versatile another one of my favourites is (I told you I had a few! Lol).

Apron of Love for Favourite Occasions

I think this bundle is one of the best bundles ever and is sooooo versatile for so many projects! I decided to CASE all the images above this week!

With MOther’s Day fast approaching, I started with a more feminine card, but created my own embossed look background Like the ‘dad’ card above. It is actually so very easy to do as the framelit cuts the 4 utensils all at once, and if you use the Multipurpose Adhesive Sheets on your cardstock, you simply peel the backing off once they are cut and adhere them to your cardstock! Simple, quick and effective! My favourite!

For my second project, I decided to make a more masculine card. This one was super quick to make using mostly our Wood Textures Designer Series Paper. I am so very glad this will carry over to the next catalogue! My dad loves to BBQ – so this will head off to him on his birthday later this year!

For my final project I decided to recreate the little 3D apron on the page for my class attendees this week. I followed this simple tutorial on Youtube by World of JenCraft – HERE. They turned out super cute I think!

The Apron of Love Bundle will carry into our new catalogue – but not with the 10% bundle discount! All ‘discounted bundles’ retire at the end of every catalogue, even if the individual products carry over. So better be quick and grab that discounted bundle – you’re going to LOVE this set as much as me!

I hope you enjoyed all of tonights projects. Now it’s time to hop on over to Angela’s blog to see her gorgeous project using one of my other favourites!

Don’t forget to join in the challenge too by creating your own favourite and uploading a picture over on our Facebook Page before next week challenge!

Happy crafting everyone!

Product List

Apron Of Love Photopolymer Bundle

[145986]

$79.00

Multipurpose Adhesive Sheets

[144106]

$17.00

Silver Foil Sheets

[132178]

$7.00

Wood Textures Designer Series Paper Stack

[144177]

$17.50

Petal Garden Designer Series Paper Stack

[144168]

$17.50

Calypso Coral A4 Card Stock

[124392]

$14.00

Calypso Coral Classic Stampin’ Pad

[126983]

$11.50

Pool Party Classic Stampin’ Pad

[126982]

$11.50

Linen Thread

[104199]

$8.00

Early Espresso Classic Stampin’ Pad

[126974]

$11.50

Fresh Florals Designer Series Paper Stack

[144131]

$38.50

Liquid Multipurpose Glue

[110755]

$7.00

28
Apr
2018

Beautiful Bouquet Shaker Shadow Box Card

categories: 3D, AddINKtive Design Team, card in a box, Fancy Folds, Flowers

Hi everyone!

April has been SUPER busy, so you may have noticed I took a bit of a break from blogging!

We had Easter, school holidays, a daughter who was in the Grease Arena Spectacular with rehearsals every day, not to mention trying to organise a house to get ready to sell and work! Ughhhhh …..

So I am slowly working my way back into routine …slowly! Lol.

Today I wanted to share with you another one of my creations using Bronwyn Eastley’s fabulous Mermaid Shaker Shadow Box Card Tutorials. I think its fair to say that I really enjoy creating with this design. It makes a great card, with that extra wow, and surprisingly simple to make.

Beautiful Bouquet Shaker Shadow Box Card

This time I used a simple Whisper White Base, and even though you can’t see it in the picture, the front is embossed with our Shimmery White Embossing Paste. The background for this card is from the Painted with Love Designer Series Paper (DSP), which is thicker than our regular DSP making it perfect for a box style project.

Fill your centre with some Gold Glitter Flakes for some extra pizazz, but just a warning – the static with these things is amazing – so you need to position your acetate quickly! Lol.

Beautiful Bouquet was used to create the pretty bunch of flowers for this card.

You may be wondering where you write your message on this kind of card – simply cut a piece to size for the back panel and write away!

If you would like to create your very own Shadow Shaker Box, pop on over to the Addinktive Designs Tutorial Shop HERE. Below are a couple of other creations using the same tutorial, so you can see just how versatile they are! You can swap almost all of the elements for what you have in your own collection.

If you would like to recreate this card, simply click on the items below to go directly to my online store (for residents of Australia only). You had better be quick, as quite a few of the items used are retiring, including our Large Number Framelits – and once they have gone, they are gone for good 🙁

Happy Crafting everyone!

Product List

Whisper White A4 Thick Cardstock

[140490]

$12.25

Painted With Love Specialty Designer Series Paper

[145580]

$21.00

Gold Foil Sheets

[132622]

$7.00

Large Numbers Framelits Dies

[140622]

$54.00

Gold Glitter Flakes

[146816]

$8.75

Beautiful Bouquet Photopolymer Bundle

[145297]

$87.25

Linen Thread

[104199]

$8.00

Shimmery White Embossing Paste

[145645]

$15.75

Pattern Party Decorative Masks

[144103]

$10.00

01
Apr
2018

CTC 172 – Myths and Magic

categories: Blog Hop, Cards, Challenges, CTC, Gift Box

Happy Easter everyone and welcome to CTC 172 – Myths and Magic!

Every Sunday night a new challenge begins for CASEing the Catty where the design team Copy and Share Everything or Copy and Selectively Edit images from a particular section of the current catalogues to help inspire you and show you how much more fun you can get from your products!

This week for CASEing the Catty we are CASEing the Myths and Magic section of the Occasions Catalogue on pages 36-43

The Myths and Magic suite is one of my favourite suites to play with! I have used these items HEAPS! So today I chose to CASE the Flying Home Set on Page 41!

I love the little bird houses, so my thought was to make a little notecard pack using the individual birdhouses for someone who may have or be moving house and need to thank people, or you could use them for new neighbours to welcome them to the neighbourhood! So I CASED the main image, and then the box on the bottom right to pop them all in!

Flying Home Notecard Pack

I used the Narrow Notecards for this project. I sponged the background with Pool Party, as watercoloring on the notecards makes them pill. I them masked the images I didn’t want to stamp with a sticky note, before stamping on the card. I them stamped the entire image on a seperate piece of Whisper White before colouring with the watercolour pencils and blender pens. I then fussy cut around the birdhouses and mounted them directly over the image on the card front using mini dimensionals.

I also stamped some little birds and fussy cut those before popping them on half a mini dimensional (yes, you can cut the mini ones too!) I kept the sentiment fairly neutral so you could use them as a thank you or as a welcome card. The sentiment is from Wood Words.

I then CASEd the box to pop all the notecards in using the Lots to Love Box. Its fits 3 cards and the envelopes perfectly!

Thanks for popping in! Now it’s time to continue the hop over on Monique’s Blog and see what she has created they week!

I hope you all have had a lovely Easter! Don’t forget to keep crafting! And remember – you can join the challenge too by taking a picture of what you create and posting HERE!

Product List

Flying Home Clear-Mount Stamp Set

[145929]

$31.00