Island Indigo Christmas

Hello Everyone

Today's card was made using one of our A La Carte stamps called Something for Christmas. I love the little baubles and I used the marker-to-stamp technique to get the variation in colours. I also added some Basic Rhinestones for a bit of Christmas bling.

I used a half a Scallop Circle die cut shape on top of the Island Indigo cardstock. I then used some matching designer paper, (Timeless Portrait DSP), and punched a beautiful Lace Ribbon Border punch.

Hope you like today's project.

Love Elizabeth X

Christmas Mini Book

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Today's mini book was originally made by a fellow demo Michele, (thank you Michele), at a training event. I decided to decorate it using the fabulous new Tags Till Christmas stamps.

The colour combination I used was Pretty in Pink, Concorde Crush, Perfect Plum and Wisteria Wonder. Below you can see the scalloped circle created using the Perfect Pennant die. The Lace Ribbon Border makes a great embellishment as you can see.

Do you like the stamped twill tape? I stamped it using Concord Crush ink and a flower from Itty Bitty Bits.

The greeting in the middle is a single A la Carte stamp called Something for Christmas. Isn't it pretty?

Many thanks to Michele for the design - it was so much fun to decorate.

Although Tags til Christmas is designed to make fabulous festive tags, you can see it makes so much more. Hope you like it!

Love Elizabeth X

More with the Ribbon Lace Border Punch

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As promised, I am back with some more ideas for using the Ribbon Lace Border Punch. In today's card I have created flowers by punching out a short strip with the punch, and then using a 3/4" circle punch, I have removed the flower from the centre of each portion. For this card, I used them as embellishments.
BTW I love the combination of Wisteria Wonder and Concord Crush - they look made for each other!

Using the same technique, this time I have used the 'gutted' ribbon border which then makes a very different looking strip. Below I used it to frame the letters - but you could use it to thread wide ribbon.

Back soon with another idea for this punch.

Love Elizabeth X

Ribbon Lace Punch Ideas.

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Now I have already said that I LOVE the Ribbon Lace Punch - there is so much you can do with it. Over the next couple of posts, I will give you just a few of those ideas

With this first card, done in Calypso Coral, we start with the standard use - it punches this great lace effect in cardstock and designer paper. Here I used Chocolate Chip, Very Vanilla & Sahara Sand to create a background. The stamp set is French Foliage - SO glad this set made it in to the new catalogue - I LOVE it! The 'thank U' sentiment comes from Pennant Parade - one of  new stamp sets.

So that is the basic idea... now for more that you can do with this punch...

You can run either ribbon or contrasting cardstock behind the border, as I have done in the card below. It gives a completely different look. You can use a strip as I have, or punch circles in different colours and so get a different colour behind each flower.

I finished this card with the fabby Something For Christmas stamp and some rhinestones in the centres of each flower.

Love Elizabeth X