Winter Woodland

Winter Woodland - Winter Love

Today I would like to share with you three cards for which I used the super cute products from the brand-new Winter Woodland collection by Trimcraft. It is another range featuring the popular creations by the so very talented Helz Cuppleditch.

Winter Woodland - Our Christmas Tree

Originally I wanted to make one card for now and then try out products from another collection, but I had so many design ideas that I just could not fit them all onto one card. So it just had to be three in one go ... And I just love these products. The glitter decoupage images and the glittered papers are not only beautiful but also give projects an instant luxurious feel.

Winter Woodland - Fancy a Carrot?

I have again provided product lists and step-by-step instructions for all these cards in my Trimcraft gallery. By clicking onto the titles below the images you will be taken through directly to the project in question.

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Me to You Christmas - Love You

Here are now - as promised yesterday - further Christmas cards created with the new Me to You collection by Trimcraft. The products are just great for cute and colourful but not too bright Christmas cards.

Me to You Christmas - Snowman

For all three cards I used again the fabulous glitter decoupage pad. It provides brilliant toppers with a nice sparkle in selected areas. And the glitter stays where it belongs and really does not come off, i.e. your hands, craft areas and pets will not end up all sparkly.

Me to You - Christmas Love

I have again prepared product lists and step-by-step instructions for all of today's cards. Just click onto the titles below the images and you will be taken through to the information in my Trimcraft gallery.

I hope you like these cards and get a bit of inspiration from them.

Me to You Tartan Christmas Card

Today I would like to share the first Me to You Christmas card with you. More cards are already prepared, but immediately after I took the photo for this one the sky went dark, daylight was pretty much non-existent and we got yet more heavy rainfall. Hopefully the conditions will be better again tomorrow and I can share the next images with you then.

Me to You is a brand-new Christmas collection by Trimcraft with gorgeous papers in three sizes, a die-cut glitter decoupage pad, clear stamps, card packs in two sizes and loads of lovely embellishments. The only other product I used for today's card is Joanna Sheen's pine cone die set, which I used for the fir tree pieces at the flower.

A product list and step-by-step instructions for this card are again available in my Trimcraft gallery.

A card I would have preferred not to make

As much as I love crafts, the reason for this card is just so sad that I would have preferred not to make it in the first place. What can you say to a mother, who unexpectedly and suddenly lost her daughter? And that at an age where everybody should still have most of their life to look forward to.

I did not want to make a standard sympathy card. I wanted the card and our words to show that we care and are thinking of her, but also wanted to start building a bridge from the current pain to treasured memories. My intention was to create a card that can become a keepsake after a while. So many things connected with her daughter, photos and possessions must be so precious now.

It took me a few days to finalise the card. I think initially I just needed to get over the emotional impact of the news. But even after deciding on the Santoro Mirabelle collection by Trimcraft due to its stunning products and muted colours it still took a while to work out the layout. I just wanted to get this card right.

For the front of the card I used:

• Santoro Mirabelle A4 premium paper pad
• Santoro Mirabelle glitter decoupage pad
• Santoro Mirabelle metal charms - butterflies
• Santoro Mirabelle metal charms - medallions
• Santoro Mirabelle metal buttons
• Santoro Mirabelle adhesive pearls
• 8" square kraft card blank
• Black cardstock
• Black spider web net
• Clarity word stamp
• Black Versafine ink pad
• Adhesive
• Toolbox basics

For the insert I chose an extract from the lyrics to the song 'Book of Golden Stories' by Runrig accompanied by our own words. The extract from the lyrics reads:

'Yes, as long as I can see the morning

And blossom comes to bud again in spring

It's enough to keep me still believing

Your memory is everything'

It was somehow heartbreaking to make this card, but I am pleased with the end result and hope that she will be able to appreciate it once the pain of the loss has ebbed down a wee bit.

Forget-me-not Tag Card

What a week this has been! Festival time in Edinburgh, some Commonwealth Games events and a number of incidents impacting on traffic have not been a good combination. On two days I actually spent more time trying to get to and from work then I actually spent in the office ... Fingers crossed that this will be better in the new week, but I will not hold my breath just yet.

The card above is again created using Dovecraft Forget-me-not products by Trimcraft. This time I used the beautiful 'bunch of flowers' stamp.

For a perfect ink distribution and impression I conditioned this clear stamp with a high quality eraser before the first use. I stamped the image using a Memento ink pad and coloured it in with ProMarkers. Step-by-step instructions and a product list for this card can be found in my Trimcraft gallery.

And for those who are wondering about the stapler: I used a normal office stapler and standard staples to attach the raffia string to the tag.