I'm a wife, mom, craft blogger and designer for Newton's Nook, Pink & Main, Miss Ink Stamps and Pixi Dust Designs. I also create as an affiliate for Spellbinders and guest design for other companies. Welcome to my crafty place. I hope you enjoy looking around.
Hey friends! We’ve been in a bit of a lull but be warned, it’s about to get busy in the rest of the month! I’ve been working on bunches of goodies behind the scenes and I’m so excited to get to share it with you all! Today I’m popping in with the last installment of the Spellbinders Halloween Felt Stitch & Create series. This Fright Night Feline was my favorite of the collection and somehow it kept getting pushed off to play with.
I used Benzie Design felt from my stash and coordinating DMC floss colors to stitch it all together. This ornament/bag tag is stuff with polyfill which I don’t usually do but something about this cutie was calling for it.
I love the classic 50s vibe these colors give this awesome design! Those retro Halloween decorations are some of my favorite of all time! My daughter loves to tease me about them because they are definitely not for everyone.
Did you pick up any of this collection when it released? I’d love to know which ones and also what colors did you choose? I need to gain courage but I want to try this feisty feline in a different colorway but I haven’t figured out what yet. Any suggestions?
Hi friends! I’m over on the Newton’s Nook blog today sharing more inspiration featuring the new release plus reinvigorating some fabulous older products! I love it when the new does that for the old. Let’s dive in!
I started this card with the vision that my puppy would fit in the center of the Birthday Oval but when I physically had it all in front of me, the vision changed. Not a lot this time, but enough and I want to make space for everyone to remember that it’s okay to change your mind in the middle of the process. Go with your gut!
So using the guide on the packaging of the Puppy Builder dies, I die cut and ink blended all the pieces of my pup, including the collar and tag this time. I used liquid glue to assemble and then also cut a birthday hat using the Birthday Accessories dies.
Next, I haphazardly ink blended yellow and green (matching my pup’s accessories) on a white panel. I stamped the Birthday Oval image on it and die cut it with the next-to-biggest Oval Frames die. For a bold contrasting background, I cut a piece of blue cardstock and ink blended it a little deeper blue along the edges, spritzing with water for more visual texture.
At this point I was playing with placement and that’s when I really decided I didn’t like the puppy in the middle of the oval but a sentiment there with the pup on the side would be pretty perfect. So that’s what I did.
After the stamping was done, I used copic markers to color the open letters of “happy” and splattered silver watercolor on the panel. Once that dried I popped the oval up with foam tape and then did the same with the puppy.
For finishing touches, I added white gel pen highlights to the puppy eyes, nose and tag. Then I glued a scattering of blue pearls across the design for more bubbly texture.
Hi friends! I’m here with a fun reminder that the Simon Says Stamp Stamptember Party is in full swing! I got to work with the new stamp set called Today and Every Day, which is a beautiful floral design with lots of great sentiments for a variety of occasions.
I created a card and a bag tag with the set. The wreath image was just calling for it, along with being turned into a shaker holder too. I still have to try that.
For my card, I stamped and colored images, using my scan-n-cut to cut them out. Then created a background with distress sprays – oxide, stain and spritz. I heat embossed my sentiment so it stood out and popped everything up, as usual. You know I love my dimension.
For the bag tag, I stamped and colored the image with copic markers and cut it out the same as the rest. Then I adhered a circle of vellum to the back with dry adhesive. Remember that liquid adhesive makes vellum ripple. I stamped my sentiment in a light pink ink to keep with the soft vibes and cut them into rectangles before adhering to the vellum center. I punched a hole to add the twine and covered that with a twine bow.
Check out the Simon Says Stamp Stamptember release HERE!
For a whole bunch of extra inspiration, check out the Simon Says Stamp special blog post HERE.
I appreciate you sharing your time with me. Have a fabulous day!
Hi friends! Today is going to be the last Mix it up Monday for Doodlebugs for now. Cathy has some family things to attend to and the design team is going away. We will continue to cheerlead and support Doodlebugs in all the ways we can but weekly posts won’t happen anymore.
For my last design team card, I’m using a combo of multiple companies, old and new products. Shopping your stash can really be so fun and invigorating when you get to extend the life of something you’ve had for years and put something shiny and new to use too!
I recently got the Lawn Fawn Daisy Bloom Outline stencil and wanted to play with it so that’s how my card started. I inked it up using mini blending brushes and Lawn Fawn dye inks – guava, mermaid and sunflower specifically. I removed the stencil and splattered the panel with pink metallic watercolor which adds so much shimmery fun to the background!
This is the point where I played with the new thing I’d been putting off so what to pair with it. Digging for a sentiment to guide my way, I came across my Pretty Pink Posh die cut sentiments and loved the “smile” idea with happy flowers. To grow on that, I added a favorite banner greeting to take it a step further. But that was all too plain so I went looking for one of my staple cute critters to liven things up.
That is when I found one of my oldest and most favorite Mama Elephant sets called Page Huggers! I haven’t used it in a while so I was excited to find an excuse to. This set has four animals, today I chose the bunny for his height in proportion to the sentiment. I colored and cut him out with the coordinating die, then layered everything together.
Everything is adhered with foam squares for that dimension and interest. Plus, I want to note that there is no harsh black on my card anywhere so I went chose to stamp an image, I used Lawn Fawn Crunchy Leaf ink which is copic friendly but also kept the overall appearance on my card soft.
Hip, hip, hooray!!! It’s release day!!! But first, you have to head to Instagram and hop along with us. Comment as you go for a chance to win credit to the Newton’s Nook shop! Then go wild and snag all these super fun goodies to start your birthday card stash!
Today the card I’m sharing features the Birthday Greetings stamps along with the Cat Builder and Birthday Accessories dies.
Today, I cut the pieces from colored cardstock but used ink blending on all the parts to add depth and interest. I always use liquid glue to adhere bits and pieces together, sometimes reverse tweezers help told them in place while the glue dries.
I had a layout planned in my head, so after all the pieces were cut and glued together. I cut the A2 Card Layout die from white cardstock, saving the frame for another day, using the stitched rectangles that also cut with the frame. I added a sentiment to the longer top rectangle and popped up all my elements with foam squares.
I added those to a green cardstock panel with foam tape. The panel is cut down to 4×5.25 inches. Before gluing that to my card base, I took guava ink direct to the paper so I got a textured color edge instead of another layer of cardstock.
For finishing touches I added glossy accents on parts of each icon. Then stardust Stickles to the party hat and each balloon too.
Just a reminder that today is release day and our Instagram hop is going on. Click here to get started!
I appreciate you sharing your time with me. Have a fabulous day!
Welcome back again! Today we’ve got three new builder die sets to share with you, plus fun inspiration before the whole lot goes on sale tomorrow!
Cat Builder, Dog Builder and Birthday Accessories dies
With so much goodness to share today, I have two cards to share featuring all of these new products! First up, let’s build a super cute cat and get him ready for the party!
I cut everything for the kitty and party accessories from white cardstock and used blending brushes with dye inks to add my color. Then I used liquid glue and reverse tweezers to assemble everything.
*A great tip, the packaging for these builder die sets has a map to show you how to put the pieces together in different ways. I cut my packaging down and kept that part with the die sets for all of them.
If you saw my post yesterday, you’ll realize that I was very stuck on the Birthday Time paper pad. It fit with everything I was creating this time so why fight it?!? I trimmed another piece down to 4.25×4.5 inches. I stamped my sentiment at the bottom of a top folding card and popped the orange panel up with foam tape. Next, I cut a strip from another pattern in the same set and glued it to the bottom of the orange panel.
Last, I popped my kitty up with foam tape as well and finished the design off with a scattering of flat sequins for some added sparkle and shine across the design.
Next, I took some time to build a dog and some of the super fun accessories that come with him!
For this card, I used the same paper pad plus the Frames & Tags die set for my layout. I took the teal inserts that cut with the frame and splattered them with teal ink. After those were dry, I stamped my sentiment from yesterday’s Birthday Greetings set on one of the smaller rectangles and popped my other elements up with foam squares on the last two.
I chose a pattern for my card front, trimmed it down and glued it to a card base. Not wanting to cover up the fun words, I cut the zig zag rectangle from vellum, added my teal rectangles to it with foam tape and then hid tape runner behind the rectangles to adhere the whole thing to my card front.
*Tip, liquid glue tends to make vellum ripple because of the liquid part so I always try my hardest to use dry adhesive like tape runner.
For finishing touches on this card, I went a different route again and added white gel pen highlights to all of the bits. It doesn’t require drying time but can also change the look of your card completely.
Check out the Design Team blogs for more inspiration and featured project details:
Happy Wednesday friends! We have a quick two-day set of sneak peeks for the Newton’s Nook August release and then on Friday you get to enjoy a fun Instagram hop for added inspiration (and chances to win) plus the goodies go on sale so you can shop to heart’s content!
Today we have a builder die set and a new sentiment stamp set to share with you.
Cake Builder dies and Birthday Greetings stamps
For my card today, I used all the new goodies but surrounded my color palette around a previously released paper pad called Birthday Time. It’s a great collection of images and patterns in more pastel vibes than bright which was perfect for my crafting mood.
For my cake, I cut all the pieces from various colors of cardstock. Then I took the cake layers and spritzed them with white paint. It gave great texture and toned down the brightness of my cardstock colors. I used liquid glue to assemble it all and moved on to the other elements.
I stamped part of my sentiment on a banner trio die and trimmed the other half with scissors after stamping. My background panel is from the Birthday Time paper pad, trimmed to A2 and glued to a card base. Then I added ovals from the oval frames die set. The white scallop oval is glued to my card base and the teal is popped up with foam tape.
Last, I added the sentiment strips and cake with foam tape. For finishing touches I added stardust Stickles to the candles and glossy accents to the flames and frosting on each cake layer. I feel like these last details really pulled this card together. It went from alright to super cool!
Check out the Design Team blogs for more inspiration and featured project details:
Hey friends! It’s mix-it-up Monday and I’m here with some birthday fun using Lawn Fawn and Mama Elephant new and old together. It’s great when things work out that way – getting new goodies that give your older stuff new life at the same time!
I’ve been dying to play with the Lawn Fawn Highland Cows since they released and today I finally took my opportunity and ran with it! Isn’t this little guy THE CUTEST!?! He’s perfect! Pretty sure I’m giving this tag to myself on my birthday, not even hiding it.
To create it, I started by gathering some images from the Highland Cow stamp set and creating a mini scene. Once I had enough filler, I stamped everything and colored with my copic markers. Then I used the coordinating dies to cut it all out. However, this set doesn’t come with a speech bubble so I went digging and found this one in the Silly Goose set. Lots of Lawn Fawn sets have them so just dig in your stash.
Then I pulled out the Mama Elephant Emerald Package die set and cut the tag shape and the shape one size smaller from yellow and white cardstock, respectively. I taped off a portion of the white panel and inked it green, then flipped my tape and inked the sky teal. I splattered some water for texture and blotted it dry.
Finally, I glued the foliage down with liquid glue and popped the cow and speech bubble up with foam squares. Then I popped the scene panel up on the yellow tag with foam tape. For finishing touches I added some white gel pen to the cow’s cheecks and stardust Stickles to the tip of the hat. Last, I added glossy accents to the flower center and two stripes on the hat. I threaded ribbon through the hole, tied it with twine and voila, my tag is finished!
Welcome everyone! Today I’m here with a couple more projects using that new fantastic Halloween felt stitching collection from Spellbinders and Nichol Spohr. There are four sets in the collection and I’ve used three so far. They are so fun to create with in different colorways.
Today I’ve got ideas for the Charming Witch Hat and Harvest Witch Boot to share. I tried to think outside the typical ornament/bag tag idea because we all know how to do that, and also branch out a little with different colors.
First I stitched up the witch boot and created some flowers with the dies included in that set. But as I was playing with layout for the florals on the boot, I realized I wanted them higher but how was I going to accomplish that. Well, I love to create banners and little decorations to hang around the house so that’s what I did.
I cut some cardboard backing from a paper pad into a banner shape and roughed up the edges. Then I went to town layering distress oxide inks; everything from gathered twigs to ground espresso to a little black soot around the very edge. I spritzed the cardboard with water and let it dry. Then splattered some watered down black soot ink on the whole panel. I punched holes in the top so I knew where to keep my book and flowers confined to.
I added everything, included some flat sequins, with liquid glue and threaded some black ribbon through the holes.
Next, I went digging for different colors of felt in my stash to create a festive witch’s hat that isn’t the typical black. I think this green is pretty awesome for it! I chose the colors of felt and then floss colors to stitch everything together. I like how the hat stitching matches the felt on the band to tie them together and also give contrast against the green.
Given that the hat is green, I went with black florals to pull that spooky vibe in a little bit more. I love them! After the hat was all stitched up and the flowers were dry, I glued them to the hat with fabric glue. After that was set, I glued magnets to the back of this project so I can hang it on the fridge or even the filing cabinet in my office. A little bit of a different take on felt stitching projects.
Welcome everyone! Today I’m playing with Halloween goodies that released last year but I was late to the party so I get them last month and finally carved out time to play. They are a combo Spellbinders | Simon Hurley Create release, which always equals perfection!
These ghosts are adorable and I was so happy to finally get a chance to create with them! The set is called Boo Crew. I started by cutting and inking up all the pieces to build adorably funny ghosts, then used liquid glue to adhere the layers together. Everything is cut from white cardstock and color was applied with copic markers or blending brushes.
For my background, I used the Damask 3D embossing folder on cardstock that I sprayed with twisted citron Distress Stain Spray, then mowed lawn Distress Oxide Spray. After embossing the panel, I drug the black soot distress ink pad across the embossing, then came in with a blending brush to give the embossing more definition. Next, I tore the edge off the panel and roughed it up with scissors and used reverse tweezers to help some edges curl up.
I folded a white card base and glued a strip of black cardstock to the right edge before popping the embossed panel up with foam tape. Next, I added my ghosts with foam tape as well, leaving space for a mysterious sentiment…because I hadn’t chosen one yet.
Boo Crew has a die cut sentiment included in the set but I was feeling restless and went digging anyway. I came across a retired Spellbinders stamp set from Halloween years ago and couldn’t resist. I stamped and heat embossed it, then fussy cut it before popping it up with foam squares as well.
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