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Z Fold Contempo

I recently did a Christmas  card swap with a lovely lady which was organised on Crafters Anonymous. This is the first of three cards I made using the Contempo Christmas stamp set. It’s a great wee set of 4 which is available in Wood Mount at  $31.95   and Clear Mount at $25.95.

I used a Z Fold for this one in Certainly Celery, Poppy Parade and Whisper White. The wee red dots are the holes punched out from the middle of the Buttons#5 die when it cuts the buttons. I used 5 die cuts layered together to give my button lots of strength and thickness.

Still two more to go….

Christmas

Omigosh nearly 5000 hits!

Who would guessed when I started this blog earlier this year that that many people woudl want to visit my blog. This month my Upline Jacque has challengedour team to blog for a minimum of 21 days in the month. Hmm already 12 days through the month and Ive missed 3 or 4 days I guess I will have to keep my nose to the grindstone to remember.

Anyway I have spent tonight getting Week two of my Christmas Ideas Supplement out to my Mailing list. I did some more challenging cards for this one including some designs I havent used before including this cool Z fold card which I really love and my very first Acetate card. I will show you taht one tomorrow but today here is my first version of the Z Fold card!

Z fold for blogI have used DSP and the Season Surfin’ Stamp set from the Spring mini catalogue which are only available for 17 more days. Orders for these need to be paid for by Nov 27th to be placed on the 30th.

I stamped the images in Red and then water coloured them using only 3 ink pads; Ruby Red, Baja Breeze and Handsome Hunter with the blender pens.

The small Santa was punched out using the 1 3/8″ circle I then matted it on Riding Hood Red and trimmed to about 1/8″ border before mounting it on theHandsome Hunter  Scallop circle. If you would like to know how to make the Z fold card email me or consider book your own in home workshop to learn this design AND have a fun night with your friends!