Introducing Amazing Paper Grace Christmas Cascade Collection
Tara Brown
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We all love interactive and kinetic cards! Introducing the Christmas Cascade Collection!
This holiday collection allows you to make a Cascading Card inside of a Shadowbox Frame, mounted on a card base or unmounted. Don’t worry, these motifs make great conventional cards as well.
We listened to you, and we heard loud and clear that our community loves dynamic and purposeful cards. In previous collections we gave you 3D Vignettes in a Christmas way. Now we’ve found a way to merge a Collection favorite, Shadowbox Vignettes, in a new format.
Becca Feeken with Amazing Paper Grace sent me these lovely dies to start my Christmas Card making!
Hi there, today our Creative Team is sharing our makes from the Christmas Cascade Collection. Let’s take a second to sort this out…
What’s a Christmas Cascade?
Amazing Paper Grace takes a spin on Christmas by building a new collection around something you already have in your stash – the Shadowbox Dies. Becca loves building upon what you already have and making it new again.
Christmas Cascade is made up of sets of 3″ motif dies where each set has 3 motifs. That’s enough for each leaf of your waterfall but again, you could make them the center of your A2 or your A7 card. These, paired with the Waterfall base will allow you to use any dies to make your next Waterfall Card.
The Inspiration behind Christmas Cascade
The inspiration for Christmas Cascade was to produce a motif to use from an enclosure card all the way up to full A7 card with background layers. This “cardlet” size has been a favorite in our stash because the elements can easily transition into all of the Amazing Paper Grace Collections and to all size cards. Hint: This is not the last time you will see “Cardlets”
Each of our Creative Team members will show you how to make a Christmas Cascade Card that is a waterfall card and a Christmas Cascade Card that is a flat card.
My Projects For Today
First up is my armoire project that features the Amazing Paper Grace Holly Frame Gala SKU-S5-428 by Spellbinders. It also features the Christmas Cascade Card Base SKU S6-166 and the Adjustable Shadowbox Frame with 1/2″ Border SKU S2-302.
Here is what the dies look like:
The armoire’s front doors are actually each a frame made with the shadowbox dies! The doors open up to a shadowbox that features the wonderful waterfall Christmas Cascade Card Base. The pull for this is at the top of the armoire. As you pull the top tab, the waterfall cascade opens each of the frames to display a different photo, using the beautiful frame from the Holly Frame Gala collection. Since a photo can be placed on the front and back of the waterfall, there is potential for 7 photos for each waterfall Cascade Card base. How neat is that!!! Each of the little bottom drawers opens up to reveal a waterfall Christmas Cascade Card Base, which also features the Holly Frame Gala. My project has 5 bottom drawers along with the top shadowbox waterfall Cascade, giving a total of 42….yes 42 pictures!! So this project is a functional mini-album!
Designer Tip: To make the enclosure for the armoire drawers, here is a great video that Becca has made that shows how to do it:
Second up is my Flat Card using Amazing Paper Grace Holly Frame Gala SKU-S5-428, and the Christmas Cascade Card Base SKU S6-166 by Spellbinders. The Christmas Cascade Card Base is on the front of the card, but I also placed one on the inside of the card. This is such a great way to display photos and messages in your card, and will make a cherished keepsake for the recipient.
Since my card has two waterfall Christmas Cascade Card bases, it is able to hold 14 pictures. This is such a brilliant idea by Becca!
Here is the Spellbinders video showing amazing new samples as well as a tutorial showing you how to put the Cascade Card together:
Christmas Cascade Inspiration Hop!
Click on the links to each member to be inspired across a broad range of talent:
Giveaway!
You could win an Amazing Paper Grace Die of the Month! Enter to win on our new Instagram Account https://www.instagram.com/amazingpapergrace_creates/. All the entry details are there, look for this image below:
I love and appreciate all your comments! I would love to hear your ideas on what you would make using the waterfall Christmas Cascade Card Base die and Holly Frame Gala set!
Have a great day!
Tara
Miss Joanna Wisniewska
Loving your projects, Tara. beautifully made!
Tara Brown
Thank you Joanna – and thank you for taking time to comment! Have a great day!
Beverly Lynn Fuchs
Your projects are just incredible Tara. What wonderful creativity. Thanks for sharing.
Tara Brown
Hi Beverly! I’m glad you like these projects! Thank you for visiting my blog and for taking the time to comment – I am so grateful for your kind comment – thank you!
MaryH
What a labor of love these are. How absolutely captivating they are!
Tara Brown
Thank you Mary! The armoire was definitely a big project. Thank you for your kind words. I’m so glad to have you visiting my blog!! 🙂 Take care and have a great day!
Bunny Hoyle
Definitely a work of art. Beautiful.
Tara Brown
Thank you Bunny! Welcome to my blog and I hope you will visit again. I am grateful for your inspiring comment! Tara
latarnia morska
Tara, your projects are just breathtaking!!! This armoire and how you made it out of shadowbox frame – unbelievable ❤
Tara Brown
Thank you Latarnia! Your comment touched me – a heartfelt thank you for visiting my blog and taking the time to say such wonderful words! Have a great day! Tara
Maryann Laursen
WOUW you just do it again and create such an amazing and inspiring project for us. I´m blown away how you can keep on and on creating such outstanding and special projects every time, and this one is once again topping everything of. I just absolutely LOVE it and what a load of work, it has been to make this, and it´s just soo sooo beautiful. Thanks sooo much for always sharing your fabulous creations with us here too. You are such a huge inspiration to all of us every single day.
Have a wonderful week-end ahead now and stay safe everyone.
Tara Brown
Thank you so very much Maryann! 🙂 I hope you and your family have a great week as well! Tara
ANN L ROBBINS
Unbelievable! Your creation is unbelievable!
Tara Brown
Hi Ann! A big thank you for your inspirational comment! Have a great holiday weekend!
J McEntire
You are just amazing!
Tara Brown
Hi Ms. Jerri! Always great to see a comment from you! Thank you always for your very kind words in support of my crafting! I hope to see you soon!
Beverly Jordan
Tara, your amazing miniature chest of drawers with cascading albums in each is amazing!! other gorgeous items as wells!!
Tara Brown
Hi Beverly! Thank you, thank you!!! I am so glad you like this project and certainly appreciate your sweet words. Have a great holiday weekend!
Linda Jean Miller
Tara, Absolutely Stunning!!! I’m so eager, and a bit intimidated to try one of these beautiful Christmas projects ….
May I ask what paper collection you used? It’s adorable.
Thank you for sharing…
Tara Brown
Hi Linda! Thank you so much for your very kind comment – I am so grateful! The paper is Pion Design’s “Winter Wonderland” collection. I love the soft nontraditional Christmas vintage colors in this collection. These projects were easy to make so I want to encourage you in your crafting and not be intimidated! These dies by Becca Feeken are easy to use and make crafting so much easier! 🙂 Have a great holiday!
Kathy
I love the armoire!! You work is stunning! Where can I find the instructions for making this?
Tara Brown
Hi Kathy! Thank you – I’m so glad you like this project! I don’t have a tutorial for this project, but I may make another one in the future and if I do, I’ll include instructions. Have a great weekend!
Lorena
Hello Tara, I heard about your new dies on the Scrapbook.com podcast; the description had me needing to come see it with my own eyes and what a delight! Your work is very feminine and dreamy, I love it!
Thank you for sharing how this new die can be used in many ways! I too hope you’ll consider a tutorial for the project.