MFT Stamps – Super in Superhero

Hello everyone! I have a REALLY fun box card to share with you today featuring some fun, new goodies I got from Scrapbookpal.com recently.

Products used on today’s project, using affiliate links to help fund this page at no cost to you:
Lawn Fawn Jet Black ink
Lawn Fawn Scalloped Box Card dies
MFT Stamps Super Friend stamps and dies
Hero Arts Leaves and Vines background die
Distress Ink colors – Tea Dye, Mowed Lawn and Black Soot
Tombow Mono Liquid Adhesive
Scrappy Tape 1/4 inch
Copic markers – R00, R24, R27, R29, YR21, YR24, YR27, Y11, Y13, Y26, Y28, YG11, YG13, YG93, YG95, G12, G14, G16, G24, G28, B0000, B32, B34, W1, W3, W5, W7, E41, E42, E43, E44

To create my card, I started by die cutting all the elements from the Lawn Fawn scalloped box card. The outside of the box is cut from kraft cardstock and the edges are inked with tea dye distress ink. The decorative panels are cut from white cardstock and inked with tea dye and mowed lawn distress inks. Then they are splattered with watered down ink from those two colors plus a little black soot for extra texture.

An extra white panel was inked up with the same colors that I die cut the Hero Arts leaves and vines die from. Then that panel was cut down to 3×3.25 inches to fit the back panel of the box card. This gave me a large piece left over to use on another project too! Next, I used 1/4 inch scrappy tape to adhere the box card together, including the inner supports that I will attach my images to later on.

I stamped images from MFT Stamps Super Friend and colored them with my copic markers. I made sure to stamp lots of extra leaves so that I could fill the scene really well. I attached the koala character to a strip of acetate and added him to the back support in the card. Working my way forward, I added the other two characters and leaves in between.

For my sentiment, I chose to stack one of the longer ones from the Super Friends set by masking it off and stamping it in two sections on one of the inked decorative panels. Last, I added those to the flaps of the card and also glued the leaves and vines background to the back panel of the box card.

This card was so much fun to create! I love making interactive cards. They are so fun to make but more fun to give to people! Seeing their face when it moves or pops open is so cool!

I hope you found some inspiration to create something wonderful. I appreciate you sharing your time with me. Have a fabulous day!

Miss Ink Stamps – Release Day

Yippee!!! It’s release day for Miss Ink Stamps and we’ve got so much fun to share with you! Today I have an adorable card featuring the new Rub-a-Dub Doggies stamps! I love these cuties so much!

I stamped those cute pups and colored them with my copics. Then I used the scan-n-cut to cut them all out. I inked up a panel with twisted citron and lucky clover distress oxide inks. Then I spritzed it with water and flicked watered down lucky clover on the panel. Once it was dry, I trimmed it down to 3.25×8.25 inches and added foam tape to the back, adhering it to a white card base measuring 3.5×8.5 inches.

Then I die cut a panel from the Newton’s Nook Slimline Frames & Portholes set and added foam tape to the back of that too. I put it in place on my card and added the pups and their accessories one at a time to each window with a combination of foam squares and liquid glue.

Then I went through and added glossy accents to the noses, shampoo bottle, rubber ducky and purple on the middle washtub. Finally, black glaze pen to the one set of eyes that are open and some and some unicorn Stickles on the bubbles.

I hadn’t specifically planned a sentiment, it was hard to choose. So last, I stamped one and trimmed it into a strip. Then I used my scissors to create banner ends, added a foam strip and added it to my card.

Isn’t this just too adorable! I love all the different types of dogs in this set. They’re really awesome!

Don’t forget to head over to Instagram and YouTube to comment for chances to win new products from the release!

I appreciate you sharing your time with me. Have a fabulous day!

Pink & Main – Pig Time Card Set

Hi again! It’s my turn over on the Pink & Main blog today and I’ve got a super fun set of 4 cards to share with you. I wanted to use the adorable Pig Time set that just released and couldn’t choose one so I used them all! This also gave me a chance to play with four different stencils and the new Garden paper pad and matching enamel dots!

The design for all of these cards is the same which made creating them a breeze. I stamped and colored all of the images from Pig Time first, then used the coordinating dies to cut them out. Next, I used my ergonomic blending brush to ink up a stencil in the upper center of a white panel that measures 4×5.25 inches. I paired a piggie with each stenciled panel and then chose a patterned paper from the stack to go with each one. I used my MISTI to stamp the sentiments, added foam tape to the back of the stenciled panels and started assembling.

I used the EZ Squeeze glue to adhere the patterned paper to white card bases, then popped the stenciled panels in place and used foam squares to add my images. Last, I finished things off with glossy accents, star dust Stickles and coordinating Garden enamel dots.

Let’s check them all out! For this one, which seriously CRACKS ME UP, I used the stained glass stencil and a gingham paper from the pad. I finished this cutie up with stickles on his cheek.

Oh my goodness, this is so cute with his little belly button! The stencil for this card is called bursting and I couldn’t resist the plaid patterned paper. I finished it up with glossy accents on the balloon and Stickles on his cheeks.

Aren’t these two hugging just the sweetest ever?!? I love it! The stencil on here was also just released and is called Flora. I chose another plaid patterned paper for this because, again, I couldn’t resist! Then I finished things up with Stickles on their cheeks and glossy accents on the flower in her ear and the heart above them.

Last, but certainly not least, is this cutie holding his heart…I suppose it could be a mini balloon or heart shaped flower. Either way, I love this image! That’s the deco stencil in the background and an awesome cross hatch patterned paper for the base. I finished things up with Stickles on his cheeks and glossy accents on the heart.

I was able to create these cards in an evening and had a blast doing it! It was such a fun way to play with so many different products and I have cards for totally different occasions ready to go!

I appreciate you sharing your time with me. Have a fabulous day!

Miss Ink Stamps – Release Sneak Peek

Happy Friday everyone!!! I’m super excited to share an awesome sneak peek with you today of the upcoming Miss Ink Stamps release that will go live tomorrow!

I started my card by stamping images from the new It’s All Relative stamp set and colored them with my copics. Then I cut them out with the scan-n-cut and switched to my background.

That’s another awesome sneak peek…new masking stencils! I inked up the frame in a green close to my chalk board and then the center with brown ink. I put the Art Deco stencil over the masking stencil and added another layer of the same brown ink. I removed the stencils, trimmed the panel to 4×5.25 and added foam tape to the back.

I found a green cardstock close to the ink, trimmed it to A2 and added it to a white card base with liquid glue. Then I popped my stenciled panel in place. Next, I stamped and heat embossed a sentiment in white along with another smaller atom image and glue the chalk board eraser in place. I added foam squares to the back of the chalkboard and Einstein, removed the release paper and popped them in place.

I can’t wait for you all to see this whole set and all the other fun that’s coming too! For other sneak peeks and chances to win, head over to the Miss Ink Stamps Instagram page and YouTube channel and comment on the specified posts. You have chances to win stamps on Instagram and stencil sets on YouTube!

I appreciate you sharing your time with me. Have a fabulous day!

Build Your Stash Holiday Cardmakers Hop

Hey friends! I’m popping in today to share that we’re a sponsor of a really fun hop going on to help build your Christmas card stash through the year instead of cramming in November! It’s called Build Your Stash Holiday Cardmakers. There is also a Facebook Group with challenges to keep you motivated the whole year through!

If you’ve never played along before, the hop starts today and goes through April 30. All you need to do is create a holiday/winter themed card and link it up on their blog linky tool. Click HERE to get there.

As a sponsor, we’ve donated a couple of great prizes and are also having a sale in the Twiddler’s Nook shop during the entire event so click HERE to go check that out!

Here are some examples of fun holiday products we have available, but there really is so much more so you’ll want to go check it out, I promise!

Thanks so much for hopping along. I hope you’ll take a moment to check out our store and also play along with the hop for chances to win awesome prizes from lots of fun sponsors!

I appreciate you sharing your time! Have a fabulous day!

Newton’s Nook – April Release Day 4

Oh my goodness, we’re on the final day of reveals! I hope you have loved everything so far and are just as excited for today! This time we have new stamps to go with the heart frames collection and a new sentiment set too!

Heartfelt Butterflies

Heartfelt Blossoms

Mom and Dad

I absolutely love how wonderfully everything works together! The sentiments from all of today’s sets fit perfect within any of the Banner Trio dies and the hearts all work with the Heart Frames dies. They’re great staples to have in your craft stash for sure! I have 2 cards to share with you today using all of these goodies! So let’s not waste any more time!

For my first card, I stamped the Heartfelt Blooms twice and colored them with my copic markers. Then I die cut them with the Heart Frames set. I inked up a slimline panel measuring 3.5×8.5 inches with speckled egg, crackling campfire and cracked sapphire distress oxide inks. I spritzed the panel with a distress sprayer and blotted it dry. Then, I used liquid glue to adhere it to a card base and popped my hearts up on it with foam tape. I trimmed the excess off the edge with my scissors and moved on to sentiments.

Because the banner trio dies are solid, I die cut 2 banners from dark blue cardstock and then stamped and heat embossed a sentiment from Heartfelt Blooms and Mom and Dad on each one. I added foam squares to the back and popped them in place.

For my Heartfelt Butterflies card, I stamped and heat embossed the image in silver on watercolor paper. Then I used my Zig Clean Color Real Brush markers to watercolor them all. This was super relaxing and fun to do! Next, I inked up an A2 size panel with spun sugar and picked raspberry distress oxide inks. I spritzed it with water and flicked some watered down ink on the panel. Then I went back and flicked pearl watercolor over the whole thing too. I thought this played really well with the silver heat embossing on the butteflies.

Foy my sentiment, I die cut 2 banners from Banner Trio and one from Frames and Flags from yellow, purple and blue cardstock. I stamped and heat embossed a sentiment on the yellow one and colored the inside of the open letters with a yellow marker to help them pop. I arranged them how I wanted and glued them to the back of the heart. Then I added foam squares to the back of the heart and flags and placed them on the inked panel. Finally, I used liquid glue to adhere the whole panel to a white card base.

Would you like to win the “Heartfelt Butterflies” or the “Heartfelt Blooms” Stamp Set? We will choose ONE lucky winner for each stamp set!

Here’s how to win: Comment on the NND blog and Design Team blogs (see list below)! Thewinner will be chosen at random from the collective reveal posts. Make sure to check out each of their blogs and comment for your chance to win. You will not know which blog has been chosen so the more you comment on the better your chances are of winning! You have until Thursday April 22nd at 9pm ET to comment — winners will be announced on the blog post on Friday, April 23rd.

Check out all the awesome Design Team Blogs below to enter:

Newton’s Nook Designs
Ellen Haxelmans
Tina Herbeck
Larissa Heskett
Samantha Mann
Zsofia Molnar
Maria Russell
Farhana Sarker
Tatiana Trafimovich
Samantha VanArnhem
Amanda Wilcox

Trinity Stamps – Hopping By…

Hey friends! I have a really fun Trinity Stamps interactive card to share with you today! Sometimes it’s just so fun to dig in your stash and play with whatever suits your fancy…and that’s exactly what I did for this card!

I started by stamping and coloring the images from Puddle Jumpers with my copic markers. Then I used the coordinating dies to cut them out. Then I took a 3.5×8.5 inch panel and inked it up with a couple of blue inks and my blending brushes. I also inked up a shorter panel with brown inks. Then I started die cutting my pieces. I cut the top of the brown panel with the great outdoors hill die and a white panel with the slimline scenic borders cloud border. I glued these to the inked up blue panel and then ran die cut the whole panel with the slimline surprises die.

I adhered the frogs to strips of acetate and adhered them to the back of the puddle jumper image. Then I used liquid glue to adhere it to the slider panel, being careful not the glue the top portion down so it still slides up. I also stamped the happy birthday sentiment from one of the blue inks I used on the panel and cut it out with the coordinating die, gluing it down with liquid glue.

Next, I took a slimline card base and used my panel as a guide to stamp a surprise when you slide the mechanism up. Then I die cut the pull tab card that makes the mechanism move and stamped images on the top of it that will show when you pull the tab up. I tied some fun ribbon through the hole to add to the whole overall look. I love this touch!

To assemble my whole card, I added 1/4 inch scrappy tape to the bottom of the folding mechanism and adhered the pull tab tag to it. Then I added 1/8 inch scrappy to the sides, 1/4 inch to the bottom of the panel and added it to the card front. I pulled it up and down a few times and it works perfectly! Time to move on to finishing touches.

I added unicorn Stickles to the raindrops and parts of the water puddle. Then I added glossy accents to the frog’s eyes, including the froggy hood too! I also added them to the rain boots and finished things off with black glaze pen to the kiddo’s eyes.

Isn’t this card just sooo cute?!? I love it!!!

I’m trying something new today and am going to list all the products used on this card below with links so you can find them easily. I’m also using affiliate links now that help fund this blog at no additional cost to you.

Trinity Stamps Puddle Jumpers stamps
Trinity Stamps Puddle Jumpers dies
Trinity Stamps Slimline Surprises dies
Trinity Stamps Slimline Scenic Border dies
Trinity Stamps Slimline Great Outdoors Border dies
Trinity Stamps Blending Buddy brushes
Stickles – unicorn
Glossy Accents
Scrappy Tape
Lawn Fawn dye inks

I appreciate you sharing your time with me. Have a fabulous day!

Newton’s Nook – April Release Day 3

I’m super excited we’re already to day 3 of the Newton’s Nook release reveals! Yesterday we hit all you kitten lovers and today we round things off with puppies!!! Let’s jump in!

Puppy Friends

These guys are just too cute! So cute, that I had to make a slimline card and fit multiple of them on it! And I love all those fabulous sentiments too! They’re punny and perfect!

This time I started my card with a layout in mind so I did the messy stuff that requires drying time first. I took the Slimline Masking Squares stencil and inked it up with cracked pistachio distress oxide ink. I splattered it with water, then I lined up the frame die from Slimline Frames and Windows and cut it out. I saved the frame from another card and took the squares from the windows. I taped the squares to the back of the new Petite Clouds stencil and spread Thermoweb Transfer Gel Blanco on them all. I removed the stencil and set them aside to dry.

I stamped and colored the sweet puppies from Puppy Friends with my copic markers. Then I used the coordinating dies to cut them out. I knew I wanted to pop them up so I also added foam squares and then set them aside. Next, I die cut the scalloped panel from Slimline Frames and Portholes and inked it up with abandoned coral distress oxide and splattered it with water and flicked it with watered down ink too. This gives great texture!

Now that the transfer gel was dry, I ran the squares through my laminator with Thermoweb iridescent decofoil. Aren’t those clouds soooo super awesome?!? I am in love with them! I glued them down on the scalloped panel with liquid glue and popped my puppies in place. For the sentiment, I die cut the smallest shape from the Framework die set and heat embossed a sentiment on it. It ls popped up with foam squares just like the puppies.

Last, I popped the scalloped panel up on a white card base with foam tape and moved on to simple finishing touches. I added glossy accents to puppy noses and eyes, dots on the bandana, tag on the collar and a little something on all their critters too!

Would you like to win the “Puppy Friends” Stamp Set? This stamp set will be given away to ONE lucky winner!

Check out all the awesome Design Team Blogs below to enter:

Newton’s Nook Designs
Ellen Haxelmans
Tina Herbeck
Larissa Heskett
Samantha Mann
Zsofia Molnar
Maria Russell
Farhana Sarker
Tatiana Trafimovich
Samantha VanArnhem
Amanda Wilcox

Newton’s Nook – April Release Day 2

Welcome to day 2 of release reveals for Newton’s Nook’s April release! Today we have a SUPER ADORABLE stamp and die set to share with you!

Captivated Kittens

I can’t get over how adorable these playful kittens are with their different buggy critter friends!

For today’s card, I started by stamping and coloring an image from the set with my copic markers. Then I used the coordinating dies to cut it out. Next, I cut a blue panel with the Frames & Flags scalloped rectangle die and inked up the petite flowers stencil for a tone-on-tone look. I trimmed the top off and added foam tape to the back. Lining it up with the top of my white card base, I adhered it down.

Next, I die cut the label shape from Frames Squared from orange and a flag from Frames & Flags from melon cardstock. I stamped my sentiment at the bottom of the flag, added foam squares to the label shape and adhered them together. Then I adhered it to the top center of my card front with liquid glue. Finally, I popped the kitty up with foam squares in the middle of the label shape.

For finishing touches on this cute card, I added a strip of the same melon cardstock to the very bottom edge, added glossy accents to the kitty’s eyes, nose and toe beans, and finally, some unicorn Stickles to the butterflies’ wings.

Would you like to win the “Captivated Kittens” Stamp Set? This stamp set will be given away to ONE lucky winner!

Check out all the awesome Design Team Blogs below to enter:

Newton’s Nook Designs
Ellen Haxelmans
Tina Herbeck
Larissa Heskett
Samantha Mann
Zsofia Molnar
Maria Russell
Farhana Sarker
Tatiana Trafimovich
Samantha VanArnhem
Amanda Wilcox

Newton’s Nook – April Release Day 1

Hello everyone!!! It’s the start of a really fun week! I hope you’re ready because it’s Newton’s Nook release week which means starting today we have reveals through Thursday with the release available for purchase on Friday! We’re kicking things off today with 2 new stamps and coordinating dies, along with a new fabulous stencil!

Gnome Garden Stamps and Dies

Bleeding Heart Stamps and Dies

Petite Clouds Stencil

Phew! That’s a whole lot of goodness for you all up front! Plus I have 2 fun cards to share with you featuring these goodies.

For my card featuring the bleeding heart image, I used texture paste with the new petite clouds stencil on a blue panel. I trimmed a yellow panel to A2 size and also die cut a circle frame from the same yellow. Then I inked up the edges of both with an orange ink for a little texture. I heat embossed the sentiment in black on a vellum strip and wrapped it around the cloud panel. For assembly, I used liquid glue to add the yellow panel to a white card base, then glued the vellum strip around the cloud panel and adhered it down. Last, I popped my image up on the circle and popped that up on the card.

Isn’t this image beautiful?!? I’m not a floral person but I really enjoyed coloring it and when I looked them up to see what colors I should use, found that there are lots of variety which is super fun as well.

Oh my goodness, this adorable Gnome Garden set is just too cute for words! I managed to choose one sweet image from the set, colored him up and used the coordinating dies to cut him, an extra butterfly and ladybug out. Then I inked up the sunscape stencil and used the framework die to cut it out. I also cut some clouds with the sky scene builder set and started assembling everything.

I added a red panel to a white card base and popped the stenciled panel up with foam tape. I used liquid glue to add my clouds to the sky, then foam squares to add my gnome, butterfly and ladybug to the scene. And I’m not even going to fudge that I hadn’t planned a sentiment so I placed my whole card in my MISTI and stamped it at the very end. For finishing touches, I added glossy accents to the mushroom dots, butterflies and ladybug. Then I added a little Wink of Stella glitter brush pen to the clouds in the sky.

Would you like to win the “Gnome Garden” or the “Bleeding Heart” Stamp Set? We will choose ONE lucky winner for each stamp set!

Check out all the awesome Design Team Blogs below to enter:

Newton’s Nook Designs
Ellen Haxelmans
Tina Herbeck
Larissa Heskett
Samantha Mann
Zsofia Molnar
Maria Russell
Farhana Sarker
Tatiana Trafimovich
Samantha VanArnhem
Amanda Wilcox