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Valentine Treat Boxes

2/9/2020

 

Post for Cut Card Stock.com

That time is here...stressing over valentines for your children's classmates. I end up dreading this every year and waiting until the last minute to get something done. This year in my quest to actually organize and do things ahead of time, I decided to start my project a bit early. This also coincided with my first blog post for CutCardStock.com as an influencer. I am excited to be working with them. I purchase a lot of my basic cardstock, especially Neenah solar white papers and envelopes, from them. CutCardStock.com has a lot of variety and they can do custom cutting on site. I decided to use 12x12 sheets of their DCS white and show ways to stretch that white cardstock. Please read on to see what I made. 
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Using Leftovers to make cards

5/27/2019

 

Using Scraps to make cards

I recently met a crafty friend on line and we met up to craft together. She introduced me to a great Birch Press Layered die, Adora. I’ve loved Birch Press dies but just hadn't ever used them so I quickly grabbed three colors of paper out of my scrap stash and die cut them. The Adora die has a repeating heart pattern and after I cut out the patterns, I was left with all these colorful hearts. I didn't want to waste them so I decided to make some cards but needed white as a neutral to go with my color palette. I grabbed the Altenew Radial Hearts cover die which has a repeating heart pattern and cut out a piece of Neenah solar white. I saved all these heart pieces and decided to use them on a card. Well I ended up making 5 cards and would like to explain how I made them using dies and leftovers. Please read on and note that affiliate links are used in this post. If you decide to purchase the items through these links, I get a small commission at no cost to you. Thank you for your support.
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Coloring on vellum

1/20/2019

 

Beautiful Details class

The Altenew Beautiful Details class is my 16th class from Altenew Academy. This was by far the most inspired class. Not only did the instructor have a lot of tips and tricks, the card examples and especially the color combinations she used were inspiring. One of the examples was no line coloring on vellum. Please read on for how I put together this card.
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Partial fussy cutting

1/19/2019

 

Altenew AECP Polychromatic

As part of the educatior program at Altenew Academy, I watch classes from Altenew and translate some of the great ideas into a card design. For the polychromatic class, the one piece of advice that kept sticking out to me was when stamping a multi colored pattern, have warm colors on one side of the card, cool colors on the other and in the middle of the card, use like colors to subtly blend all the colors together. The design today eluded me for a while because what I had wanted to do was build my own rainbow pattern. However, I persevered and while looking through my stash of unfinished card backgrounds, I came across an idea I had using Altenew Hennah elements stamp set. I like this stamp set because it has bold, graphic images that you can color in a variety of ways as well as small elements that can be used in different combinations. Please read on how I took an unfinished idea and used ideas from the Altenew Polychromatic class to put together this card.
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Using Layered Stencils

12/20/2018

 

AECP class: Celebration Stencils

Today on the blog, I am using Altenew Layered Stencils to create unique looks to cards. I am using different blends of ink, texture paste and DecoFoil Transfer Gel. I love how the layered stencils give such a realistic impression. Please read on for how I accomplished each of these looks and tricks and tips I learned along the way.
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Sparkling holiday card

12/22/2017

 

Celebrating the season with some bling

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Holidays are all about the sparkle and magic of the season. The temperatures get colder, hearts fill with cheer and there's something happy and magical about the time. The Tonic Nuvo Glimmer Paste and Newton's Nook Snowfall Stencil I had used on a previous card needed to make another appearance. The shine and dimension from the Glimmer Paste really makes the stencil design stand out. Before putting away my holiday stamps and dies, I wanted to make just another design for the season. The holidays is a time when shimmer and sparkle are expected and are not over the top for a card.


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Christmas Inspiration II

12/18/2017

 

Make your homemade cards stand out...

 With Christmas approaching, I wanted to make some final cards that sparkled like the season. I had purchased some Nuvo Glimmer Paste and wanted to try it out. As well some Black Friday purchases from Simon Says Stamp came in and I wanted to use these to make some shaker cards. So, join me as I show you how I made these sparkling cards just in time for Christmas....
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Color Study

10/8/2017

 

Using different colors with the same stamp

Savannah has this shirt with swipes of color that each contain a different phrase. I wanted to do something similar and thought Right At Home's Watercolor background stamp would be a great compliment to my idea. To give my cards a different look, I stamped the background with different colors of inks. Please read along for how I made 5 completely different cards using the same stamp.

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    Welcome to Seven's Crafts and thank you for stopping by. I am a mom, teacher and avid paper crafter.  I hope these posts will leave you feeling inspired and ready to do some crafting.

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