Heirloom Papers from My Minds Eye

If you are looking to make a Valentines card over the next few days or need a card for an Anniversary or Special Birthday here are a couple of ideas using the new Heirloom Papers from the Lost & Found Collection from My Minds Eye which are now in stock.

The collection is beautiful and whilst it clearly has a 'Love' theme it could be used for many occasions throughout the year and not just Valentines Day!  Pop over to www.philpotts.com to see the new collection along with other new goodies all with a love/wedding/anniversary theme which have arrived this week.

The flowers are made with vellum/parchment. See the tutorial below.

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Here is an extract of an old tutorial from the website explaining the stages for making the flowers.

  

1. Using a scalloped punch or your die cutting machine cut a circle from paper/vellum.  Once you have done this use scalloped paper edging scissors to cut a spiral from the edge towards the middle of the flower.

2. Start to roll up the spiral from the outside edge towards the center.  Roll quite tight at this stage.

3. Keep rolling until all of the spiral has been rolled and you have reached the roundish area in the center of the spiral. At this point loosen your grip on the flower slightly so that it looks more natural.

Add a good drop of pva glue on the flat center area of the spiral and roll the curled flower over so that it adheres to the bottom, glued area.  Hold in place for at least 30 seconds to allow the glue to start to set. 

4. And here is the final result made from paper this time instead of Vellum

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The spiral flowers here were made in exactly the same way as the tutorial shows but they are made from Vellum instead of paper. 

{Shopping List}

Heirloom Collection Paper Pad

Brown Twine

Gemstones (Clear)

Scalloped Circle Punch you could also try Spellbinders Scalloped Die

White Gel Pen

Scalloped Paper Edgers

The flourish rub ons, vellum and sentiment stamps (from Technique Tuesday) are in stock and will be available on the website very soon!

The background for the butterfly card was created using a new Kaisercraft stamp and some Memento ink pads {see products used below}.  The butterfly is stamped onto cardstock, cut and mounted with foam over the Heirloom collection papers.

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Butterfly Stamp

Heirloom Collection Paper Pad

Background Journal Stamp

Memento Ink Pad (Rose Bud)

Memento ink Pad (Peanut Butter)

Gemstones (Pink)

Sentiment stamps from Technique Tuesday are in stock and will be available online soon!

Probably the easiest and most simple of all is this Birthday Card which uses a strip of paper from the Paper Pad along with a few buttons and some self adhesive lace.  The 'Happy Birthday' sentiment was matted onto a scalloped circle and then mounted with foam for a 3d effect.

{Shopping List}

Heirloom Paper Pad

Scalloped Circle Punch or try Spellbinders Scalloped Circle Die

Self Adhesive Lace

Happy Birthday Label Stamp

Circle Punch or try Spellbinders Circle Die

Buttons are in stock and will be available online soon!

     

Thinking Spring ...

Happy New Year to you all!

Today I have an Easter themed card to share with you but which could easily be used for a Birthday, New Baby or just to say 'Hello'.

In case you are wondering, the wings are created from 

Paper Flowers 

The rest of the card is created from patterned paper, Bazzill card stock, google eyes and some letter stickers.

I drew myself a template for the egg shape but you could achieve a similar effect with an oval punch or oval die set if you have a die cutting machine.

Happy Crafting
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Left over ...

Christmas day lunch pudding (well something like that!)

Like every family at Christmas we all like something different for our Christmas lunch. 

 My family came for the day as they do every year and we have lots of this and that so that we all get something that we like and enjoy on this special day.

Each year I end up making lots of cranberry sauce and only a few teaspoons of it are eaten. Some of us also like apple sauce so this year Mum brought 4 jars with her which she had made on Christmas Eve.  

When it comes to the pudding some of us love custard, some love cream, some brandy cream and Mr P. loves brandy butter but he will only have one spoonful out of the pot and no one else eats it. We had so much brandy butter left this year that I thought that I would try cooking with it.

 I used all of our left over cranberry sauce, apple sauce as well as the butter and brandy butter and you can see the result above which we had for Sunday Lunch today.  

Very nice too, everyone came back for seconds!  

Ingredients

Left over Cranberry Sauce

Left over Apple Sauce

1-2 extra eating apples

10oz Porride Oats

5oz Flour 

(I really don't think that it matters whether it is S/R or Plain - I have used both in the past)

8oz Butter 

(I used all of the Brandy Butter and Butter that we had left and then topped it up with Benecol hoping that this would offset all the the cholesterol in the rest of the pudding!)

{4oz Dark sugar or sugar to taste}

1-2tsp Cinnamon

Method

Empty all of the cranberry & apple sauce into an oven proof dish.  

Core the apples and cut into small pieces (so that they will cook quickly) and add into the sauce.  

Sprinkle the cinnamon over the top of the fruit.

Mix the oats and flour in mixing bowl.

Add the sugar at this stage if you want it but I do not add any extra sugar as the fruit is sweet enough.

Add the butter and rub together (as if making breadcrumbs for pastry).

Sprinkle the mix over the fruit and sprinkle some extra dark sugar on top so that it will go crispy in the oven.

Bake on 180 degrees Celsius for approx 20-30 minutes.

  I would have added sultanas or some raisins but the littlest Miss P. does not like them and to be quite honest it was rich and delicious enough. 

Enjoy!

We would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

Thank you for all of your support and custom this past year!

Best Wishes

Philpotts

Die Cut Christmas Projects ...

I don't know about you but Christmas Crackers are an essential part of the celebrations in the Philpott household at Christmas.  We love them and not only have them on the Christmas table but have them in the Christmas tree and have even been known to wrap presents to look like a cracker to disguise it before giving it to the lucky recipient.

I even try to find crackers at other times of the year as I would love to have them on the Easter table as well as on the table at Birthday Parties.  That all said, you can imagine how excited I was to try the new cracker die from Tonic Studios which came in a few weeks ago.

December is approaching fast and so yesterday Little Miss P and I enjoyed an afternoon playing with ideas for the Christmas table as well as making a few gift tags as I need to think about wrapping presents very soon.

I made a traditional cracker using some lovely papers from Authentique Paper.  I wanted to keep more of a vintage feel to my crackers so I added an extra piece of paper at either end of my crackers (shown in red on the photo above).  This was really easy to do.  I just used my Dotty Border Punch from Tonic Studios to create 2 border strips which I stuck to the two ends of the cracker before rolling up and securing into place.

The gold edges on both sides of the cracker were created using a Krylon Gold Leaf Pen for that extra special bit of detail.

This time the doily ends were created by punching strips of computer/copier paper with my Dotty Punch.  The vintage effect blue paper is from the Winter Tortellini range from Jilli Bean Soup.  The glitter chipboard snowflakes are from Pink Paislee and make a simple embellishment on the front of the cracker.

A little bit of red gingham ribbon adds to the vintage effect.  Finally I used my new Funky Pattern Tape  to add a sentiment to a piece of brown card, trimmed and added to the front of the cracker.

If you have not seen our new Funky Pattern Tape check it out on our website.  You get 6 meters of printed tape with 'Merry Christmas' written in several different fonts.  Since trying it I have not been able to put it down and so you will see it lots throughout this post.  It gives an effect very similar to a rub on but in my opinion is much easier to use.  You simply run it along your card as you would any other tape runner but instead of adhesive you will be left with the sentiment.

Little Miss P. enjoyed watching me make the crackers so much that she wanted to have a go at making her own and this is the result ...

 Not bad at all for an eight year old.  She spent lots of time making sure that it looked exactly as she wanted it to.  She even used the little diamond offcuts that come away when you have cut the cracker using the die to make the star on the front of the cracker.  

I used up my waste bits as well to make a flower/star gift tag ...

Once I had started I just could not stop so here are a few of the other projects that I created:

I created this gift tag using the Build a Wreath  from Spellbinders and some more of the Authentique Paper Festive Range  (Spot the Funky tape runner again!)

I wanted to add a little more depth to the wreath so I cut the wreath from 2 coordinating papers and used bits of both to build the wreath by slipping the individual branches into the pre determined slits on the base.

As I had cut the wreath twice I had a couple of little bits left over so I used them as holly on the Christmas pudding gift tag below:

The tag was created by punching a circle out of brown cardstock and using the Tonic Studios Dairy Circle die to cut a patterned circle from white computer paper.  I stuck this to the top of the circle, trimmed and edged with a little Peanut Brittle Memento ink and a sponge.  I punched a hole in the top to add some bakers twine, added the holly and a button and added a sentiment using the Funky Tape Runner.

The Funky Tape runner, glittered snowflakes, twine and a button were used to create this simple but effective gift tag.  Adding Ice Stickles Glitter Glue around the edge keeps the design simple yet festive.  I actually used the same pot of glitter glue on all of the projects even through I have not mentioned it!  

Finally I made a couple of projects using my new Holiday Trees die from Spellbinders  ...

The first is a simple gift tag using the die, the tape runner and some glitter paper from My Minds Eye ...

Glitter Snowdomes add a little bit of festive bling!

... and then a couple of 3d place settings ...

To make these cut all of the trees from the set from strong paper (I used the Festive Range again for a traditional feel)

Ink the edges of each with a sponge and Peanut Brittle Memento ink ...

Add foam to the back of each piece and build up the tree using all of the pieces so that the smallest is on the top.  Stick to a small place setting card and add the sentiment from the tape runner.  The baubles are created using some Orange Glass Dots.

I hope that you have enjoyed these projects.  I am off to make our Dairy Free Philpott Family Cheesecake recipe now as we have guests for Sunday lunch tomorrow.   It might sound a little odd but I promise you it is the most delicious cheese cake ever.  I'll post the recipe when I get chance.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend!

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