Celebrate Your Day

To add a little more interest to my card, I cut away the bottom of the image panel to line up with the lower edge of the magnolia branch. The angle it created was the perfect place for adding a large organza bow.

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Yellow Magnolias

Yellow is not one of my go-to colours, which is odd because I'm always happy with the results when I use it, particularly lovely soft shades. It coordinates beautifully with green and white, or if you're looking for something a bit more striking, go for it's colour wheel opposite - purple!

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Magnolias Cut Sheets

Gorgeous magnolia flowers, in shades of pink or yellow, to grace the front of your hand made cards, layouts and journal pages. Use the coordinating stamps to add embossed borders and the matching cutting dies for precise and easy cutting.

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"Sleigh Bells" clear stamps and cutting dies

"Treeline" clear stamps

"Magnolias" cut sheets

Wren and Blossoms

The little birds from the Blue Wrens set coordinate beautifully with the Cherry Blossom flowers, with the pretty pinks and bright blues creating a fantastic contrast. I added a border of shiny pearls, some silver mirror cardstock, and an embossed sentiment to give the design a nice lift.

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Tutorial - Scrappy Backgrounds

Paper scraps and offcuts are almost inevitable when you're a paper crafter, but they don't have to end up in the bin. Today I want to share a simple idea that uses all the long strips of paper that I always seem to end up with when crafting. I've shared a similar idea before, but this time I'm taking it a couple of steps further for an interesting effect.

1. First, secure the long strips side-by-side on an angle. I've attached mine to a scrap piece of printer paper that I cut to about an A6 size (the size of a card front). I then trimmed it to 10cm x 14cm.

2. Cut the paper into 2cm strips, then cut each strip into 2cm squares.

3. Secure each square to your card, alternating the direction of the angle. For example, on the first square the paper strips are angled upward from left to right. On the second square, the strips are angled downward from left to right. Continue alternating until you have completed an entire row.

4. Start the second row with the strips facing the opposite way to the one above, then continue alternating in the same manner until your entire card front is covered. You'll end up with a background that looks a little like parquetry. 

I created a second background (below, right) by cutting 2cm strips, rotating the 2nd and 4th by 180 degrees, and layering them side by side, which also gave me a pretty effect. All that's left to do now is decorate!

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Cherry Blossoms Cut Sheets

Cherry Blossoms Cut Sheets are the perfect toppers for cards, scrapbook layouts, mini albums and journals. They coordinate with our stamps, dies and patterned papers for easy and seamless crafting.

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Layout - "Boyhood"

I actually spent some time creating a scrapbook layout today, but I think the design would also be great for a card... just on a smaller scale. I used a combination of the toned images from the Blue Wrens cut sheets plus torn strips of patterned paper to create a vintage-looking page. Some black Nuvo drops and pieces of twine add a little more texture and offer a nice contrast to all the straight lines.

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