Circle Scraps

 Good Morning! I hope your week is going well and thank you for visiting. 

Today's card features the use of using my scrap and circle punches and dies.

I took a little bit of time to lay out the varying size of circles into a pleasing configuration on the card front before I adhered them down. Once I glued them, I then added the sequins.

I hope you give this type of card design a try!

Happy Crafting!

Using Paper Strips and die cuts

 

Hello and welcome to All Things Beautiful!

I am dove into my paper scraps today and pulled out some paper strips. 

I love how using paper strips and a panel die can make for an interesting patterned paper look and background for die cuts.

For this card I thought i would group the embellishments together in a collage fashion. Letting each element tough to help anchor each other. I also enjoy being able to use up some of my small cardstock scraps to make new embellishments. Here the flowers are made with white, cream, green and teal papers.

I hope you grab some of your patterned and cardstock paper scraps to create a beautiful card today!

Happy crafting!

Fun Fold - Corner Tuck Card

 Hey there friends! Welcome to All Things Beautiful!

 I hope your day is going well and you are finding some time to be creative.

Today's card is a Corner Tuck Fun Fold card; you can find a tutorial for making this style card under my tutorial tab.

This is a variation on the Joy fold card. These fun fold cards are nice to add some variety to your card making.  I used colored pencils to color in my stamped image.

They also are an opportunity to use some of those smaller scraps in your paper stash.

I hope you have a wonderful weekend and happy crafting!

Using Embossing folders and Layers - Hello

 

Good Morning! Happy Friday!

 I hope your week went well and your looking forward to a weekend of crafting time

I decided to make a card today using my 2025 goal of busting through my paper kits. This paper is from from an Echo Park kit and I used one of the embellishment cards as the focal point.

I decided to add some texture and interest by using an embossing folder on the plain white cardstock and then layering the variety of patterned papers. 

I had a few flowers left over from other projects and added them as embellishments to provide some balance..

I hope you an inspired to go through your paper kits and use this laying technique to create a card of your own.

Happy crafting!

Keeping it Simple - Bird house

 

Hey there friends! Welcome to All Things Beautiful!

 I hope your day is going well and you are finding some time to be creative.

I am revisiting my Keeping it Simple layout with choosing a patterned paper for the background, some sort of large embellishment for the focal point and adding a sentiment to a corner. 

Although my embellishments aren't simple; the design is. I just love these birdhouse dies from Spellbinders. There are 4 styles. I added extra dimension by surrounding the bird and birdhouse with various floral die cuts from my stash.

Happy Crafting!

Fun Flip card - Celebrate

 Good Morning! I hope your week is going well.

Thank you for visiting. 

Today I made a Fun Flip card. If you'd like to see a  tutorial on the technique you can find one under my tutorial page.

For this card I used some charm dies by Karen Burniston for the wine and wine glass and the floral arrangement was made from small flower dies from Spellbinders.

I hope you try this fun flip style card and share it with me in the comments!

Happy Crafting!

Keeping it Simple - Encouragement Card

 

Hello there friends! 

Welcome to All Things Beautiful!

 I hope your week has gone well and you are finding some time to be creative today.

Thank you for stopping by to see my latest card post. 

I am using my keeping it simple formula again. Background paper, large embellishment in the center and a simple sentiment. 

I had this big balloon die I wanted to use and when I saw this hang in there sentiment from another stamp set I just had to pair them for a quick encouragement card. 

I am really trying to think outside the box this year when it comes to mixing and matching my papers, sentiments and dies. Tell me what you think of this combo.

Happy Crafting!