Hero Arts – Spring Meadow Collection Inspiration

Hello again. I’m back with some inspiration for the Hero Arts February Release but this time goodies from the Spring Meadow Collection. This one is beautiful and caters more to those who enjoy spring florals vs the cute furry critters. I’m focusing on the stencil/die combo and new sentiments from this collection though.

I love this combo because the stencils and die fit perfectly together but they are both wonderful on their own as well. This first card shows the combo where I stenciled all the layers on a white panel, then diecut the cover from kraft cardstock and layered them together.

I splattered the panel with silver watercolor and added a sentiment strip using the new Everyday Sentiment Strips 2 stamp. It coordinates with the Sentiment Strips die giving you a billion and one sentiments with one stamp and one pass through the die cut machine. It’s brilliant!

After popping up my sentiment strip with a foam strip, I glued the panel to a white card base and finished the design off by tying some ribbon around the top. This card just sings spring happiness to me.

Next, I have a card using the stencils without the cover die and it’s just as pretty!

I chose a different color palette for the flowers and added some teal to my leaves. I also pulled out the detail blending brushes to add different colors to some of the small openings and give a splash of yellow among the cooler feeling tones.

This panel was spritzed with water and splattered with white paint for extra texture. Once that was dry, I trimmed it down to 4×5.25 inches and popped it up on a teal panel. That was glued to a white card base and another sentiment strip was popped up in the center. This time I created a set of simple black ink on white cardstock so they are extra versatile. I just save the extras for future cards which will come in handy for sure!

My next adventure will be to create a card featuring just the cover plate for this and no stencils. Stay tuned for that to come later.

Products used:
Meadow Blooms layering stencils
Meadow Blooms cover plate
Everyday Sentiment Strips 2 stamps
Sentiment Strips cover plate
Foam strips
Liquid glue
Silver watercolor
White paint

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Newton’s Nook – Feature Week Day 2

Welcome back everyone! It’s day 2 of release features and today we have two new die sets that coordinate but can be used alone too!

Card Layout 6 die and Corner Flip dies

If you saw my card on Friday for the Instagram Hop, you saw one way to use the new Card Layout 6 die. Today I created a shaker card using it. Be sure to come back Thursday to check out a way to use the Corner Flip dies on their own!

To create the shaker, I cut the frame from white cardstock and trimmed a piece of acetate to fit the whole panel. These are adhered with double-side tape. Then I lined the back with foam strips, they fit perfectly! I filled each well with some shaker bits from my stash and sealed the whole thing up with a piece of patterned paper from the Happy Easter paper pad!

Next, I took the center diamond that cuts out from the Card Layout 6 die and inked it lightly with pink before stamping my sentiment and adding a couple Easter eggs from the Springtime Bunnies stamp set. I glued that in place with double-sided tape because it was on the acetate panel.

I wanted to tie the pink in more so I drug my pink ink pad directly to my card front before adhering the shaker panel. Then finished things off with glossy accents on the Easter eggs.

Products used:
Springtime Bunnies stamps and dies
Happy Easter paper pad
Card Layout 6 die
Foam squares
Liquid glue
Glossy accents

Check out the Design Team Blogs for more inspiration and featured project details:

Newton’s Nook Designs
Larissa Heskett
Samantha Mann
Diane Morales
Farhana Sarker
Amanda Wilcox

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Newton’s Nook – Feature Week Day 1

Hi friends! Newton’s Nook had a release last Friday and this week we’re featuring products to share added inspiration and get you geared up for springtime crafting! Let’s go! Today we have…

Happy Easter paper pad and Springtime Bunnies stamps and dies

These new bunnies are the cutest thing you’ve ever seen and the color palette of this new paper pad has me craving spring like never before!

For my card, I chose a few of the Springtime Bunnies images to stamp and color with my copic markers. Then I used the coordinating dies to cut them out and started playing to arrange them across my card filling the scene from left to right. I used liquid glue to adhere the little groupings together and added foam squares to the back of each one.

I trimmed a piece of Happy Easter patterned paper to fill the bottom 2/3 of my card front and used that as a guide where to start my light ink blending for the sky behind my bunny line up. After ink blending, I glued the panel to my card front and stamped my sentiment on the bottom right corner.

I trimmed a piece of “grass” and popped it up with a foam strip on the border between the pink and the sky. Then added my bunny scene to that. For finishing touches on this card, I added glossy accents to bits of the eggs and both bunny noses.

Products used:
Springtime Bunnies stamps and dies
Happy Easter paper pad
Foam squares
Liquid glue
Glossy accents

Check out the Design Team Blogs for more inspiration and featured project details:

Newton’s Nook Designs
Larissa Heskett
Samantha Mann
Diane Morales
Farhana Sarker
Amanda Wilcox

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Doodlebugs – Wish Big Floral Birthday

Welcome everyone! Mix it up Monday is taking a birthday turn this week. With florals even! If you’ve been here you know that I gravitate toward all cute critters with a side of whatever strikes me at the moment. Well, the Waffle Flower die and stencil combos are very inviting and I really couldn’t resist the Rose Bouquet set. It’s big and beautiful. A perfect focal point to play with.

So I started my card with that using blending brushes and Lawn Fawn inks – lemonade and no. 2 pencil for the flowers with mermaid and peacock for the leaves. Then I die cut teal cardstock with the Pretty Pink Posh Pierced Scallops cover plate and splattered it with watered down peacock ink, white paint and unicorn watercolor paint.

While that was drying, I used the Pretty Pink Posh Wish Big dies and cut my sentiment out. I added gold glitter foam to an adhesive sheet and cut it out. This made it easy to remove the backing paper and adhere it directly to the florals.

When the scallop panel was dry, I glued it to a white card base and then added foam tape to the back of the florals. The dimension from the florals and the foam sentiment is perfect together.

I finished the design off with a scattering of yellow glitter enamel dots across the whole design. I love how the pops of yellow on the side break up the teal and tie in with the flowers perfectly.

Products used:
Pretty Pink Posh Wish Big dies
Pretty Pink Posh Pierced Scallops cover die
Waffle Flower Rose Bouquet die and stencil combo
Foam tape
Liquid glue
Spellbinders die cutting foam – gold
Adhesive sheets
Glitter enamel dots
Lawn Fawn inks – mermaid, peacock, no. 2 pencil and lemonade
Blending brushes

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Hero Arts – Egg-stra Special Release Day

Hi friends! It’s release day for Hero Arts and I’m here with a couple of cards to share featuring goodies from the Egg-stra Special Collection. These little chickies are too cute for words and so fun to color and create with!

I’m also having a blast with this new layered stencil set called Confetti. It’s going to be a great staple for adding texture to backgrounds. This time I used blending brushes and dye inks for 3 of the layers, then sparkle paste for the last one. It changes things up just enough to make it extra fun.

Then I stamped, colored and die cut some chicks and a sentiment from Spring Tweetings. I used copic markers for my coloring, which was super quick and simple. Once the stenciled panel was dry, I trimmed it down to 4×5.25 inches and popped my chicks and sentiment up with foam squares and strips.

Next, I glued a kraft panel to a card base and added the stenciled panel with foam tape to that for more dimension. I finished the design off with glossy accents on the little chick beaks for good measure.

This card barely skimmed the surface of the Spring Tweetings stamp set so I dove right back in to create a fun scene card too!

I changed the colors up on my stenciling so I could use it for my sky. Then I cut ground layers in different green cardstocks from my stash. I glued those together and moved on to playing with my stamps to see how much I could fit in the scene to fill it up in a fun way.

Once that was decided, I stamped and colored everything with copic markers again; cutting it all out with the coordinating dies. I love that the basket die cuts a slit for you to fill the basket easily too. That was a great bonus! Second bonus, there are dies for the sentiments which I love more than I can say!

I adhered everything with a combo of liquid glue and foam squares before finishing this design off with touches of glossy accents just like the first. This time I did the chick beaks and parts of the Easter eggs in the basket.

Products used:
Spring Tweetings stamps and dies
Confetti stencil set
Landscape dies
Foam tape and squares
Liquid glue
Glossy accents
Hero Paste glitter
Blending brushes

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Spellbinders and Ranger Ink – Valentine Love

Happy Valentine’s Day everyone! I wanted to pop in and share some love for everyone here today! My inspiration features stencils and pastes from Ranger Ink with dies from Spellbinders – all designed by Simon Hurley.

I started with the Happy Hearts stencil set. The first layer is love bomb ink on red cardstock and the second layer is gold rush lunar paste. I used the Simon Hurley blending brushes and paste tools on this step.

While that panel was drying, I pulled out the Darling Dog die set from Spellbinders and proceeded to cut and glue all the bits and pieces together. Isn’t he the cutest ever?!? Yes, the correct answer is yes he is! I also cut the banner from this die set, gluing the layers together and then glued the banner to the bottom edge of the pup.

When the panel was dry, I trimmed the bottom edge by about 3/4 inch and popped it up on a white card base. I came in with some washi tape below that edge before adding my puppy and banner with foam squares.

For finishing touches I wrapped jute twine around the top of the card and tied it in a bow. Then I added stardust Stickles to the headband hearts and glossy accents to the star on the collar tag.

Products used:
Happy Hearts stencils
Darling Dog dies
Stellar Ink – love bomb
Lunar Paste – gold rush
Blending brush
Paste tools
Foam squares and tape
Liquid glue
Reverse tweezers

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Spellbinders – OMG

Hi friends! Today I’m here with another idea for the new OMG dies from the Spellbinders Aged to Perfection collection. I’m really smitten with the idea of how versatile this sentiment really is and just having a few of these cards on hand could be really useful and fun!

Today I just created a simple repeat die cut background with white-on-white cardstock using a 3.75×5 inch panel as my base. Then I created another set of the OMG outlines using a teal-blue cardstock as my shadow background. These are popped up on the panel with foam squares.

Next, I popped the panel up on a white card base using foam tape. This is a top folding card base so that it’s easy to wrap and tie twine around the top of the design. I chose orange for a nice contrast on this card. Color matching would also look awesome!

But seriously, about this sentiment…think of all the ways you could use it. OMG…

…you’re how old?!?
…Congratulations!
…I can’t believe I missed your birthday!
…You’re amazing!
…Thank you!

I could go on but you get the gist!

Products used:
OMG dies
Foam tape
Liquid glue

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Newton’s Nook – Release Day Instagram Hop

Happy Friday everyone! It’s release day for Newton’s Nook and we’re having an Instagram Hop to celebrate full of inspiration to get you going! Next week we’ll do highlights of the new products for more ideas and fun too!

My card today features the new Happy Easter paper pad paired with the new Card Layout 6 die which is becoming a fast favorite for me. I cut the whole thing from white cardstock, saved the inserts and just used the frame for this card. Then I trimmed some rectangles from the paper pad and cut the 5 sections from those.

I glued the frame to an A2 piece of blue cardstock and popped the inserts up with foam tape. Then I cut one of the new Silhouette Bunnies from cardstock and felt, glued them together and popped them up with foam squares. The cardstock backing gives the felt a little more stability and makes it easier to add the foam squares too.

Next, I pulled out an old favorite from my stash – Springtime Roundabout and chose a sentiment to use from there. These sentiments coordinate with the Banner Trio dies perfectly. Just remember to cut your banner first because this die set is sold and hard (translate to impossible) to line up. I popped my banner up with foam squares as well.

Finally I glued the whole panel to a white card base. Then decided to finish the design off with a sweet baker’s twine bow around the bunny’s neck. Isn’t that the cutest touch?!? I didn’t realize how much I would love it until it was there.

Remember, head to Instagram and hop with us for inspiration, comment while you’re there for chances to win!

Products used:
Bunny Silhouette dies
Happy Easter paper pad
Card Layout 6 die
Banner Trio dies
Springtime Roundabout stamps
Foam squares and tape
Liquid glue
Benzie felt

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Spellbinders – 3D Eggs and Flowers Inspiration

Welcome everyone! Today I have a couple of fun 3D Easter ideas to share with you featuring the new Spellbinders 3D Eggs and Flowers die set. This die set creates 3D Easter eggs with a variety of florals to decorate the sides. There are two sizes included in the set so I made one of each size to start out with.

I was also sure to play with multiple variations of the florals available in the set too. I started by choosing color palettes of felt and then die cut enough pieces of everything to create two eggs and decorate all four sides of each one.

The yellow egg is the larger size so I was able to fit two florals and three leaves per side. I used fabric glue to adhere my layers together, stitched all my leaves and then used the fabric glue to adhere decorations to each side before stitching the whole thing together.

I followed the same order of operations for this smaller teal egg but with the tulips, I used some chalk and a foam pad to add some shading to the bottom of the petals. I love the extra depth it gives them!

I’m excited to make more of these in different colorways and possibly hang them on a garland or maybe decorate the mantel with a cluster or two.

Products used:
3D Eggs and Flowers dies
Benzie felt
DMC embroidery floss
Thermoweb Fabric Fuse

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Spellbinders – Zodiac Blocks with Better Press

Hi friends! Another collection that released yesterday with Spellbinders are these awesome Better Press plates available in all of the zodiac signs. They come with the star layout, the name of the zodiac with dates and a sentiment that goes with that sign. They all go together perfectly, and come with a guide to press them on your panel perfectly spaced out.

I was able to play with the Sagittarius and Cancer signs early and decided to create cards with similar layouts but different colorways feeding off of the zodiac signs themselves.

I chose the Simon Hurley Starry Night 3D emboss and cut with stencils set to create my backgrounds. This is such a cool combo. You emboss and cut your panel at the same time, then use the stencils to color your stars with blending brushes or pastes!

I created 2 starry night backgrounds and glued them to card fronts. Then I glued contrasting strips along the straight edge and popped my zodiac panels up with foam tape on that.

Products used:
Zodiac Block better press plates – Sagittarius and Cancer
Better Press Ink pads
Starry Night 3D emboss, cut and stencil combo
Foam tape
Blending brushes
Stellar ink pads

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