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.
Hello again everyone! I’m over on the Jane’s Doodles blog today sharing a fun and sweet circle shaped card using the absolutely adorable digital stamp – Seamus.
I printed and colored Seamus with my copic markers. Then used the scan-n-cut to cut him out. The set comes with 4 sentiment choices, I went with one of the black box ones but die cut it with a banner die for a different look.
I die cut a white circle and inked it up using the heart stencil and Lawn Fawn guava ink. After removing the stencil I blended a little ink around the edges to soften the bright white. Last, I splattered some watered down ink across the panel before adding Seamus and the sentiment banner with foam squares.
I added foam tape to the back of the circle panel and switched to creating my card base. For shaped card bases, I like to cut 2 of the same shape, score the top or side of one about 1/4-1/2 inch in and glue the two layers together at that little flap. It works great and keeps down the bulk.
For finishing touches today, I just added black glaze pen to the eyes and a little glossy accents to the nose. I think he’s super adorable and this sentiment is just so fun too! The card measures 4 1/4 inches wide so it will fit in an A2 envelope and mail with a regular stamp just fine. That’s always a bonus for me when creating different shaped cards.
Happy Friday everyone! Today I’m sharing more birthday inspiration over on the Pink & Main blog. I had so much fun creating today’s card and absolutely love all the texture going on! It’s so fun!
I really wanted to pair this sweet monkey from Party Animal with the new Fun Balloons dies. It’s just too perfect! So I stamped and colored him up with my copic markers, used the coordinating dies to cut him out and found papers that went with the colors of his balloons to die cut. The paper is from the new Year Round Dots and Stripes paper pad. I am slightly obsessed with this one. It’s perfect!
I embossed a white panel with the Confetti embossing folder and started arranging all of my images on it. Before I adhered things but had an arrangement, I decided to stamp my sentiment on the yellow die cut balloon. After that everything was adhered with a combination of liquid glue and foam squares.
For finishing touches I added enamel dots from the In the Garden pack scattered around the images. Then I came in with glossy accents on the balloon highlights, ice cream, monkey’s nose, and his hat.
I think this card turned out SO FUN and just makes me smile to see it! I hope you enjoyed it today too!
Welcome everyone! Today I have an atypical style card to share with you featuring more from the newest Miss Ink Stamps release. These critters and all the fun supporting images just don’t get old and I haven’t been able to create with everything yet so I’m not even close to done!
Last weekend I was out of town for my daughter’s State Championship competition for dance. Thinking ahead and knowing I would have lots of down time while the team prepared I stamped some images and packed my Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers with me. Typically I reach for copics but they don’t travel as well as my Zig collection. I had some wonderfully relaxing time watercoloring and created my card once I was home.
I chose images from Jungle Ruins, Go Bananas and Pretty Bird. Not everything made it on today’s card but now I have a little tray full of images ready to create with this weekend when I hit the craft room again!
To create this card, I cut the background image down with a Pink & Main Layered Rectangle die and cut a black panel one size larger. I adhered the black panel to a white card base and popped the image panel up with foam tape. Then I used the same rectangle die to cut the edge of the ruins image off so they matched and popped it up with foam squares. I also added one extra monkey with foam squares too.
I stamped and heat embossed a sentiment on black cardstock and used the same rectangle dies to cut it out. I adhered it with foam squares to help it stand out. Then, for finishing touches I glued down a scattering of confetti embellishments from Trinity Stamps across the design.
Once that was all finished I thought it was lacking so I went back to my pre-colored images and found the flowers from Pretty Bird and thought that bright red/orange pop of color was perfect! So I used liquid glue and adhered those in various places around the scene too.
I hope you’re enjoying inspiration from this fantastic release!
Hello friends! Today I’m over on the Newton’s Nook blog sharing this adorable Easter card I created with a fun new background idea that popped into my head.
The whole card started with those fun circles. They are the negative piece that comes from the Slimline Frames & Portholes die. Every time I used that set, I keep the circles in a sleeve if I’m not using them on the current card. I happened to have a stash of them and though this would be a fun way to use them.
I stamped each one with the Spring Roundabout stamp set in different areas so each one is a little different. Using the same ink I stamped the image I inked up the edges with a blending brush so they weren’t stark white. Then I arranged them on the patterned paper with foam squares and trimmed off the excess.
Next, I stamped and colored images from Hoppy Greetings with my copic markers and cut them out with the coordinating dies. I added the images with foam squares so the dimension would help the bunny scene stand out from the background a little and moved on to finishing touches.
I kept those pretty simple too. Just adding glossy accents the the bunny’s nose and toe beans, flower center and parts of the Easter eggs.
This was a very fun card to create and it was also really cool to use up something that I’ve been saving to for a while too.
Hello everyone. Today I have a quick and easy way to create cards that you need in a flash. I was asked to create a sympathy card and didn’t have a lot of time last night. I pulled out this fabulous Trinity Stamps set called With Sympathy. It’s got a great floral image and wonderful supporting sentiments for a variety of situations.
For this card, I started with an oversized piece of watercolor paper. I scribbled some Tombow markers on a clear block, spritzed it with water and smooshed my paper into the block. After every time I smooshed the paper into the water, I used my heat gun to dry it. That’s how you get all of the different splotches and layers. If you leave it wet and keep smooshing, it all mixes together and you get one color.
Once the panel was dry and my laminator was heated up, I ran the panel through there to help flatten it back out. Then I used the largest Embossed Edge Rectangle Stack die to cut the panel down to A2 size. Next, I chose 2 smaller rectangles and used them to cut a dark gray frame. Then, using the frame as a guide, I stamped and heat embossed the floral image with black embossing powder. I used liquid glue to adhere my frame and placed acrylic blocks on top while I stamped my sentiment to help it all dry flat.
The dies for this set also cut the large sentiment out perfectly. I love this! I used liquid glue to adhere that down and also added a scattering of confetti sequins across the design.
Hi there! I hope your weekend is off to a great start! Today I have a pair of cards to share with you that were inspired by one of the MFT Stamps designers last week. I couldn’t get the design out of my head and when I started creating I immediately had 2 ideas that I wanted to try.
The card on the left is the one that was inspired by Carly. Click HERE to see her card. Mine is a tad different but I’m not much for directly copying designs. Things just morph on their own as I start creating.
As soon as I die cut the word from the white panel for the first card, I had the idea to use it on another card so I had no waste. I love how they both turned out.
On this first card, I cut a white panel down to 4×5.25 inches and die cut the word using the Big Smile die. This has since sold out but you could do the same thing with any alphabet dies you may have, or even change it up completely for a different word.
Using the die cut panel as a guide I taped off the edge of my card base and used blending brushes to ink up a light rainbow where it will show through. Then I added foam tape to the back of the panel and popped it in place.
I stamped and heat embossed a small sentiment on black cardstock and cut it out with a banner die from the Trinity Stamps 4-Bar Card die set. I stamped and colored the koala from Weather With You and cut it out with the coordinating dies too. The banner and koala are adhered with liquid glue directly to the card front.
I finished things off with black glaze pen the the eyes, glossy accents to the nose and a scattering of pink clay hearts from the Twiddler’s Nook Sweethearts embellishment mix.
I think this is such a sweet card! It would be great to add a birthday message to the inside or maybe a congratulations too. It’s so versatile.
After making that first card, I had the letters from cutting the window and I thought it would be fun to do the idea in reverse by stacking the letters for dimension here instead of creating a window. So, I pulled out white scraps and cut the word 4 more times and adhered the layers together with liquid glue.
I cut another panel down to 4×5.25 inches and stamped it in a light gray ink with the All Lined Up Diagonally background stamp. I changed out the critter for the bunny in the same Weather With You stamp set. Popping it up with foam squares before adding another heat embossed sentiment across “smile.” I forgot to mention earlier, the small heat embossed sentiments are from a Pretty Pink Posh set called Let’s Party. I thought they fit perfectly.
This panel is popped up on a white card base with foam tape and the finishing touches are the same. This time I chose red hearts from the same embellishment mix for a little pop of bright on a neutral colored card and I think that is so fun and eye catching.
I love these critters so much and any excuse to ink them up is a good one to me!
Well, hello again! Today I’m back with a super fun and snazzy shaker tag to share with you. I’ve been creating a fun, usually punny, tag for my daughter for each dance team competition she’s performed at. Today is State Championships and the last tag for this season.
For this one, I chose images from Bed Heads and Popping By from Heffy Doodle, along with their Tag Along die set. My sentiment is from the Wavy Banner Sentiments and coordinating dies.
To create my tag, I started by laying the images on the tag frame die to see what I could get to fit. I decided that the three cute critters and a couple of balloon bundles would be just perfect. So, I stamped everything out and colored them with my copic markers. Then, I used the coordinating dies to cut everything out and used liquid glue to adhere them together.
Next, I created my shaker tag using the solid die to cut 2 backing pieces from white cardstock and one more from acetate for my window. Then I cut the frame from silver glitter cardstock once and white cardstock six times. I added the silver frame to the acetate and the other white frames to one of the white solid backing pieces. I filled the shaker well with embellishments from my shop called Wishing on Rainbow Stars and sealed it up.
I added my images to the front of the tag with liquid glue. Then stamped and die cut a sentiment and banner from the Wavy Banner Sentiments set. I also added this with liquid glue.
For finishing touches I added black glaze pen to all of their eyes and glossy accents to all of their noses. Then I added a little sparkle to the balloons with Wink of Stella glitter brush pen, tied a ribbon through the hole and it’s ready for our message on the back and to be delivered to her with a small gift.
Happy Friday everyone!!! I’m over on the Pink & Main blog today sharing a SUPER fun and TOTALLY adorable card featuring the new release that is available in the shop now! This release has me squealing with delight every time I look at it. You’re absolutely going to love every piece of it. It’s amazing!!! Click HERE if you want to just go shop now. Or keep scrolling for today’s card fun! No judging. LOL!
I started my card by choosing two of the images from Party Animal that complimented each other, stamped them and got to coloring with my copics. I used the coordinating dies to cut them out. Then I chose 2 of the striped papers from the Year Round Dots and Stripes paper pad, cut one for my card background and another with the Double Stitched Dome die.
For a little added texture, I used the Grid embossing folder on a white panel and then trimmed it down until I liked the amount of stiped paper showing on the size. I added the green stripes to a card base, popped the embossed panel up with foam tape, then glued the arch to that with EZ Squeeze liquid glue. I popped my images up with foam squares next.
I chose a sentiment from Party Animal, stamped it and cut it out with a Large Sentiment Strip die. This is also popped up with foam squares. For finishing touches I started with a scattering of enamel dots across the design.
But this is a birthday card, so I couldn’t leave these cute images alone! I added glossy accents to the turtle’s shell and panda’s nose. Then I went nuts with the unicorn stickles on the hats, cake and gifts! I think it adds so much and makes this such a happy and fun card!
Happy St. Patrick’s Day everyone! I’m like some minuscule amount of Irish and my husband is a bit more but, let’s be real, today we’re all Irish! Haha. We are a firm believer in wearing green, rainbows, pots of gold and all the luck today! So I really wanted to pop in a share a card from me to all of you to celebrate today!
I’ve used the Jane’s Doodles Good Luck digital stamp set and colored him with my copic markers. Then I took a blending brush and some light green ink and inked up a shadow all around him. I splattered the panel with gold watercolor and set it aside to dry.
I cut a rainbow of strips from cardstock and glued them to an A2 panel of white cardstock. I die cut the whole thing with the largest Newton’s Nook Framework die and decided to continue the gold watercolor so I splattered this too.
Once it was all dry, I added foam tape to both panels and adhered them to a white card base. For finishing touches I added unicorn Stickles to the entire balloon because I was all about the sparkly on this card today! Then I added black glaze pen to the mouse’s eyes and glossy accents to his nose.
Welcome everyone! Thanks for stopping by. Today I have a scene card featuring a couple of newly release sets from Miss Ink Stamps. These new sets are just so fun to create with. I love sitting and coloring all the images and just playing out little stories in my head.
Today I stamped a couple of images from Jungle Kids and colored them with my copic markers. I used the scan-n-cut to cut them out and set them aside. I stamped the main scene image from Jungle Ruins and used blending brushes and dye ink to fill in the scene.
Once I had the main color laid down I went over the whole thing with some tea dye distress ink to give it a dirty, rustic feel…more jungle-like to me. I spritzed the panel with water and flicked watered down tea dye ink on it too. However, how my images have a stark white edge that looks funny so I took the blending tool and just inked them up too. It’s perfect and makes them fit the scene so well!
I chose a sentiment from Jungle Friends, stamped it and cut it out with a banner die before inking it up to match. Then I added foam squares to my images and sentiment and popped them all in place. I created a side folding card base and adhered my panel to the front. Then I tied twine around the left side and tied it in a bow. I seriously love how this finishes today’s card off! So perfect!
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