Lawn Fawn – Star Shape Card Set

Hey there! Happy weekend everyone! I’m up on the Scrapbookpal.com blog today with this awesome set of cards today that were inspired by my friend, Jenn Bena’s, video a couple weeks ago. Hers were uber fabulous and although I don’t have all the same goodies she does, I dug in my stash and found some fun things to use instead.

To make these cards I started with a ton of die cutting. Here’s a list to get you going:

From the largest of the puffy stars
- 4 black stars
- 2 white stars
- 2 iridescent vellum stars
- 4 white stars folded in half for the card base – crease line about 3/4 inch below the cut line
Take your white and vellum stars and use the puffy cloud borders to cut your clouds. You can get 2 from each star.

From here I actually adhered everything together then took the stars from Upon a Star and heat embossed them in the sky with silver embossing powder. This looked a little plain so I created a cloud mask and splattered the sky with gold and pearl watercolors. I love this now!!!

I stamped, colored and die cut the small fox and bunny from Upon a Star and popped them up with foam tape on the cloudy ground. Last, I pulled out my Lucky Stars sentiments and stamped them on two cards. Then for the other two I split the sentiments from Upon a Star part on the front and the large word inside the cards.

These cards fit in a standard A2 size envelope and mail with a regular stamp. But how much fun would it be to received these fun shaped cards! Such a small change makes a huge impact on your card.

Do you make shaped cards? Share in the comments. I’d love to know.

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Birch Press Design – Design Team Addition

I’m beyond excited to finally announce that I am joining the design team for Birch Press Design! This is an incredible opportunity and I’m so grateful for it. To celebrate I’ve made a simple card featuring a couple of their wonderful products.

To make this beautiful card, I started with the mini dahlia frame. I die cut the layers from three shades of pink cardstock and one white. I layered the pieces together and adhered them with liquid glue. Then I trimmed the dahlia out of the white one and glued the frame on top.

Next I took a 4×5.25 inch piece of white cardstock and blended some peach and pink inks on it, fading out toward the edge. I adhered the dahlia frame and popped this panel up with foam tape on a 4.25×5.5 inch orange panel.

Next I pulled out the Lovely Butterflies stamps, inked one up, colored it with my copics and die cut it out. I glued this to the dahlia just in the center and folded the wings up a little so it looks like it’s just sitting there. Then I took a sentiment from the set and stamped in in black on the lower right inside the frame.

I adhered the whole panel to a white card base and finished this beautiful card off with some Wink of Stella glitter brush pen on the butterfly for just a bit of shimmer.

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Trinity Stamps – You Rock!!!

I’m so happy to be joining you again with a totally awesome card featuring fun products from the Spring Break Release along with an oldie but goodie die set from the stash!

To make this card I used the straight stripes stencil but tilted it at an angle on a panel I die cut from the narrow card and bookmark die set. I started with cracked pistachio distress ink and moved on to abandoned coral and then finished with scattered straw. I blended just a bit on one stripe between each color.

Then I found copic colors to match those and colored my image from You Rock. I used my scan-n-cut to cut the images out. Using the images as a guide I chose where to stamp my music notes and decided to heat emboss them black for some shine. Then I popped my images up with foam tape and adhered the panel to a dark gray card base.

I created an envelope with the same gray and went back to the card for finishing touches which were very simple this time. I just adhered some glass slipper confetti embellishments around the design and thought it looked perfect!

I am loving this retro look and can’t wait to share it with someone who appropriately loves the 80s as much as I do! ❤

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Trinity Stamps – Dust Because

I have just fallen in love with the newest bunny additions to the Trinity Stamps family. They are the absolute cutest and so much fun to do a variety of things with.

Today I’m sharing a card featuring the Dust Bunnies set and a couple of the famous slimline series dies.

I started out by die cutting the slimline scalloped panel from white cardstock. I quickly decided I wanted extra dimension so I went back and cut the smallest from the slimline stitched panels and started ink blending. I used scattered straw and abandoned coral distress inks. I popped this panel up with foam tape on the scalloped one.

I had already used my Dust Bunnies stamps as a guide to decide on a design so now I just had to stamp, color and cut them out with the coordinating dies. I popped everything up with foam tape except for the images under the bed. I love how having them set back makes it look like they’re really under there. So cute!

Another thing I just love is that this set also die cuts the words out for you. It’s fabulous and makes it fun to have your sentiment really pop!

This sweet card is just perfect for sending some happy mail to someone you’re missing or to someone “dust” because. 😉

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Miss Ink – Java Joe’s

Hello everyone! I’ve got a couple of super fun slimline cards featuring the Miss Ink set called Java Joe’s and the fabulous Trinity Stamps slimline dies.

This first card had been floating around in my head since I bought this set. I just had to put ink to paper and make it happen. I love how it turned out soooo much!!!

To make it, I die cut 2 white slimline panels from the Trinity Stamps Stitched Panel and Windows set. I ink blended 2/3 of one with pumice stone and gathered twigs distress oxide. Then I used the slimline scenic borders to cut it. Then I inked the rest of that panel up with twisted citron and mowed lawn distress oxides and cut the top with the same scenic border die. For the second panel I inked the top up with tumbled glass and stormy sky distress oxides. Then I spritzed the panels with water and blotted them dry. I adhered all of these panels together and mounted them on a card base.

I stamped and colored my Java Joe’s images with copics; then used my scan-n-cut to cut them all out. I arranged everything how I wanted it and added foam squares to them all and stuck them in place. At this point I carefully stamped and head embossed my sentiment with black embossing powder next to Java Joe.

For my next card, I originally planned it to be a regular A2 size card but something hit me when I was laying it out that it might look cool as a more simple slimline. I’m still baffled at how awesome this turned out! I used the new Trinity Stamps slimline wonky stitched wilderness die for this one. Don’t you love that extra texture?

I had my images already colored and cut out from the round of coloring I did for the first card so I immediately set to figuring out my general layout. I grabbed my distress inks for this one – walnut stain, tea dye and antique linen. Starting from the bottom right corner and working my way lighter I blended them together. Then I pulled a fun Bo Bunny set out called Distress Textures which has a coffee cup ring stain and some splatters in it. I love using this for backgrounds on all kinds of cards. I stamped it in 3 different brown inks – darker to lighter following the shade of the distress inks.

Then I popped up my images and used a dark brown ink to stamp my sentiment on the left side of the card.

I almost forgot to mention that for both of the sandwich boards I head embossed white hearts on them for a bit of a chalkboard look. I love this little detail.

I hope you enjoyed today’s fun cards!

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Paper Smooches – Bee Hi

Thanks so much for sticking through all four days of my super fun Paper Smooches Happy Hellos series. Today features the final image in the stamp set – the adorable upside down bee! He’s the cutest and I was extra excited to plan something out with him.

This card was the biggest struggle out of them all but I think I love it the most! I started by stamping, coloring and cutting out my bee image. Then I had an idea that he would be fun on a tag so I started playing around with the design but it was too simple. That’s where distress oxides and some heat embossing played a big part!

I die cut the Newton’s Nook Fancy Edges Tag from yellow and black. Then I used the zig zag die to cut the bottom of the black off. I cut a yellow hole reinforcer from the same set and used some gathered twigs distress oxide on all the of the yellow for a little depth. I adhered all the pieces, strung some ribbon through the hole and tied it with baker’s twine. Then I popped the bee image up with foam tape and set it aside to work on this plain background.

I took a teal panel and inked the edges with peacock feathers distress oxide ink. Then I stamped the double hexagon image from Happy Hellos repeatedly around the panel with VersaMark and heat embossed it with yellow embossing powder. I trimmed this panel down to 4×5.25 and popped it up on a black card base with foam tape. Then I also popped the tag up with foam tape.

For finishing touches on this card I added Unicorn Stickles to the bee wings, black glaze pen to his eyes and some white gel pen accents to the whole image including the letters.

This is such a fun, bright card with the contrasting colors, I just love it!

This is my final link up for the HAPPY – Paper Smooches Challenge this month. I look forward to playing along with the next challenge as well.

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

Paper Smooches – Kitty Hello

Welcome back to day 3 of my Paper Smooches – Happy Hellos series. This was totally unintentional but you all know that I have a hard time choosing which images to use from a stamp set. So I stamped and colored them all. And when the cards just started flowing, who was I to stop it??? No way!

So on to today’s fabulous card. It’s a feminine feline hello featuring some fun ink blending and more Zig coloring.

I started by coloring and cutting out my kitty image from Happy Hellos. Then I chose some distress oxide inks that matched the colors of the letters and inked the bottom 2.25 inches of a white panel. I took my new diagonal stripes stencil from Trinity Stamps and inked it up with black soot distress oxide on the edge of a card base. I trimmed .25 inches off the purple/blue panel and popped it up on the card base with foam tape. I love the contrast this gives!

I popped the kitty image up with foam squares and added some morning dew Nuvo Crystal Drops to her nose. Then I finished the card off with a scattering of Crystalized Unicorn Tears embellishments from Trinity Stamps.

This is such a pretty card and that striped contrast adds so much to a simple design. It’s so great! I’ll be using the heck out of that stencil, I know it.

I’m linking this fun card up to the HAPPY – Paper Smooches Challenge as well.

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Paper Smooches – Hola

Hi again! Today is day 2 of my Paper Smooches fun! Let’s shake things up a bit – Spanish-style! 😉 I love avocados and my husband hates them. This leaves so many opportunities for teasing both ways. It’s great fun and our daughter loves to instigate it.

As you can guess, I was super excited to use this fun stamp from the Happy Hellos set to show my love for what my husband calls – dirt fruit.

For this card, I stamped my image on Bristol Smooth Cardstock and pulled out my Zigs again. Then I cut out the two parts that I colored and set them aside.

I grabbed my Trinity Stamps Catching Some Rays stencil and did a two-tone with it. The skinnier stripes are mustard seed to squeezed lemonade distress oxides while the thicker stripes are twisted citron. I just faded the ink the farther our I got from the center. Then I heat embossed the image near the center area and popped the colored images on top of that with foam squares.

I took my panel and popped it up with foam tape on a lime green card base that played off the colors on the avocado well and moved on to finishing touches. I scattered Nuvo Crystal Drops in ripened pumpkin, dandelion yellow and apple green across the design.

This is such a spicy, fun card! I love how it turned out! It’s fun and also easy enough to mass produce if you wanted to send a bunch of happy mail out!

I’m linking this card up to the HAPPY themed Paper Smooches challenge this month too. Stay tuned tomorrow for another installment of Happy Hellos fun!

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

Paper Smooches – Hey, Hi Slider Card

Hello again and Happy Friday everyone! Not that days of the week have much meaning to most of us anymore. I do appreciate not being tied to a laptop during the weekends though.

I recently took advantage of an amazing sale from Paper Smooches and grabbed a couple of fun things I’d been wanting. Over the next few days I’m going to share some super fun card, all using one stamp set – Happy Hellos. It’s so much fun and has tons of possibilities. I hope you enjoy!

For this fun card, I stamped my image from Happy Hellos on Bristol Smooth Cardstock with VersaFine ink and set to coloring with my Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers. I love how the bright colors pop on this image. I cut out the image and set it aside to build my card.

I used my Spellbinders slider card and cut the pieces from gray and white cardstock. On the front panel I stamped My Favorite Things Lined Up Dots background stamp in gray ink for a tone-on-tone effect. Using this as a guide, I stamped the “hi” with the heart from the Happy Hellos stamp set on a card front and colored it pink. I adhered the white slider card to the mechanism and adhered this panel to my card front.

I used tape runner to adhere my bird to the slider mechanism and slipped some rainbow ribbon through the hole, tying it with black and white baker’s twine. This just finishes the card of perfectly!

I love that because this is just the front of a regular card, you still have the whole inside of the card to write a really fun message to the recipient!

Paper Smooches has a challenge going on right now with the theme – HAPPY – that I plan to link this awesome card up to!

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Trinity Stamps – Rainbow Mix Up

Welcome! I hope you’re having a great day. I’m super excited to share today’s fun card! Not only is it so happy and fun but it’s an awesome way to use scraps and not have to throw your precious cardstock away!

I’ve fallen in love with the Trinity Stamps rainbow dies, as I’m sure you can tell from my posts lately using it every chance I can! (Don’t worry, there are more to come too!) Today’s card came from the “extras” of a card I made a bit ago which used the rainbow in the “correct” order. But really, is there a correct order? Rainbows are just fun in any order! Hence, today’s card!

I die cut some more of the “base” to build the rainbows and mixed the colors all up from what I had left. Then I die cut more clouds and glued them to the bases of the rainbows. I started arranging them on a teal textured panel starting with one whole rainbow and filling in space around it. Then I trimmed off the excess – but don’t throw that away! I used the other half of all those rainbows and arranged them on the rest of my card. I trimmed away the final excess and fell in love with all this happy!

For the sentiment I stamped one from a sentiment for (almost) anything set in teal ink and then used the straight banner from the slimline scalloped card panels and banners set and glued it all together. I popped it up on the panel with foam tape and attached the whole thing to a white card base.

This card was so fun to put together! You could totally switch out the sentiment for any occasion and it would be great!

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