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Time certainly does fly when you are having fun, and it’s already four weeks since my last “Pick of the Week” post for The Dragon’s Den blog. Today a new post went live on the blog with a card I’d made and candle I’d decorated showcasing more great digi-stamps. You can see the post – Here!
CARD
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Thumbnail photos of some areas/angles of both these can be seen below.
Stamping Dragon Designs Item:
Oh Christmas Tree digital stamp
Jiggy in front of Fire digital stamp
Consumables:
- 300gsm, Super Smooth white cardstock
- Markers – for card – tree: ProMarkers: Forest Green, Chestnut; Metalic Markers: Silver, Red, Pink, Violet, Blue, Gold; Wink of Stella : Yellow; Sakura Clear Star
; for card – Jiggy in front of Fire: ProMarkers: Leaf Green, Grass, Forest Green, Holly, Red, Ruby, Berry Red, Tulip Yellow, Canary, Walnut, Cool Grey 4, Cool Grey 5, Black; Metalic Marker: Gold
- 8″ square cream textured base card
- 6″ square cream textured base card
- Gold, linen textured cardstock.
- Red Satin Board
- Red striped Adorable Scorable cardstock
- Yellow patterned cardstock
- Glitter Flocking – red and white
- Die cut holly leaves
- Red glitter glue
- Red organza ribbon
- Acetate
- Greeting panel – “Nadolig Llawen” which is Welsh for “Happy Christmas”
- Ultra sticky double sided tape
- 1mm deep, double sided, foam tape
- Finger-lift Tape
- Glue Gel
Equipment:
- Score Board
- Scissors
- Steel Edged ruler
- Craft Knife
Method:
The smaller card was scored 1cm into the back from the fold to give a dimensional “spine” to the card, and then the shortened back had a red card attached to make it the same size as the front. Windows were cut out of the front of the card and a sheet of acetate was attached to the back of the window, trapping a piece of red ribbon between window frame and acetate. This smaller card was matted and layered onto the larger card, again trapping a piece of red ribbon between the layers.
I printed out the two digi-stamps out onto Super Smooth Cardstock, coloured them in using my ProMarkers and some other markers, before cutting them out. The yellow patterned panel was stuck inside the smaller card, and the digis attached, the fireplace image using foam tape and the tree using a “box” constructed of a strip of cardstock.
Further decoration of die-cut holly leaves and glitter flocking was added to decorate the front and the two ribbon ends were tied in a bow.
Have a closer look by clicking on the thumbnails below.
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CANDLE
Stamping Dragon Designs Item:
Oh Christmas Tree digital stamp
Consumables:
- Printable tissue paper
- 80gsm lightweight paper
- ProMarkers: Holly, Walnut, Yellow, Red, Aegean, Plum
- Finger-lift tape
- A4 Green Satin Board
- Holly leaves die-cut shapes
- Ultra sticky double sided tape
- Glue Gel
Equipment:
Method:
I attached a piece of printable tissue to a sheet of lightweight paper using finger-lift tape and printed the digi onto it at the right size for my project. I then coloured it in using my ProMarkers.
I tore around the edge of the tissue close to the image, put it onto a pillar candle, wrapped greaseproof paper around and heated with my heat gun until the wax began to melt. I then pealed the greaseproof paper off and gave the re-set wax a quick polishing rub with a tissue.
The holly wreath decorative base was made from a circle of Satin Board and a strip of Satin Board made into a collar and attached to the base. This was decorated using die-cut holly leaves and berries from my crafting stash.
This candle can be burnt, but not on the holly wreath decorative base.
Have a closer look by clicking on the thumbnails below.
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If you love the images used for these two projects, but think that you won’t have enough time left to colour in a lot of digi-stamps to make Christmas cards and gifts, then the images are available already coloured from the shop:
Keep an eye out for my next “Pick of the Week” post for “Thre Dragons Den” on the 2nd December – when I’m hopeing to show you another Christmas card, and in the meantime there will be further posts by the other design team members practically daily up to then to inspire you.
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FOR YOUR INFORMATION
Here are some links you may like to check out:
- Dragons Lair Designs – Shop : a place to buy lots of digital goodies for crafting, and the minimum spend is only £2
- Stamping with the Dragon – Challenge Blog : new challenge every fortnight
- Stamping Dragon Designs – Facebook Group : lots of activities every week and a loyalty club where taking part gets you points, winning gets you more points, and get enough points and you get a voucher to spend in the shop
and last but not least
- The Dragon’s Den – Blog : a showcase blog for lots of different crafting made using Dragon Designs.
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Then of course there’s the Dragon Boss Lady’s own blog – Straight From The Craftroom
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You can see my page on Facebook by clicking – here.
You can see the cards I’ve made using design sheets from CUP in my “Crafter Showcase Area” on Craftsuprint.com – here
(Just scroll down past the top boxes to see the cards.)
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(Thank you for reading this far. I hope you like what you’ve seen and read – You should find a box below where you can leave a comment if you feel like it, but due to the fact that, like many I’m sure, I’ve had some problems with Spam/advertising posts that are absolutely nothing to do with the content of my blog, I now moderate all comments before they go live. Genuine comments will go live when I’ve checked through the list – usually a couple of times a day.)
(Thank you to every body who’s left comments on my previous blog posts. I really do appreciate them all.)
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