Miss Ink Stamps | Thermoweb Collaboration – Thanks a Bunch

Hey friends! Just popping in with a super quick showing of my card and redirecting you over to Instagram today to check out the super fun inspiration collaboration hop we’re having with Miss Ink Stamps and Thermoweb!

I used the fall bouquet stamps and tried to color them more bright and cheerful to lean toward a more summery bouquet of flowers. I also paired the Ins and Outs Marquis stencil with the Kaleidescope stencil and threw in some awesome iridescent glitter glitz gel over my ink blending for fabulous shimmer and texture in the background!

I heat embossed my sentiment on a die cut circle, and you know how I love dimension so everything is popped up with foam tape.

Then I finished things off with some glossy accents on the stamen of the poppy flower and berries in the bouquet too.

Products used on today’s card:
Miss Ink Stamps Fall Bouquet stamps
Miss Inks Stamps Ins and Outs Marquis stencil
Miss Ink Stamps Kaleidescope stencil
Thermoweb Iridescent Glitter Glitz Gel
Thermoweb Stencil Pal
Trinity Stamps Embossed Edge Circle Stack dies
Trinity Stamps Blending Buddy brush
Lawn Fawn sunflower and mermaid inks
Glossy accents

Click HERE to head to Instagram and check out the hop! There are gift cards for both companies up for grabs if you hop and comment too!

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Paperie Ink – Bearing Hugs

Hello friends! I hope your week is starting off splendid and that you’re not melting like we are in the PNW. Today I am stopping by to share the card that I made my dad for Father’s Day. That weekend was cram packed with end of school, dance auditions and dance recital so we didn’t get to see my dad to celebrate. Well, I finally saw him yesterday to give him his card and gift so I can finally share the fun card that I made for him.

I started off by heat embossing those sweet bears from Paperie Ink’s Bear Hugs and watercoloring them with my Zig Clean Color Real Brush markers. I used the scan-n-cut to cut them out and then switched gears to the background.

For that I ink smooshed Lawn Fawn kiddie pool and blue jay inks on a white panel. Once the panel was dry, I ran it through my laminator to really flatten it out and die cut 3 Pretty Pink Posh diamond tags from it.

Then I took a piece of woodgrain cardstock from my stash and trimmed it to slimline size. I used Lawn Fawn walnut ink and a blending brush around the edges for a little depth. Then I smooshed the ink pad on my glass mat, spritzed it with water and flicked it all over the panel.

I used liquid adhesive to adhere the panel to a white slimline card base and then added foam tape and squares to the back of the tags and images. I equally spaced out the tags and adhered them down. Then I added the bear images on top of those. I stamped a sentiment from Bear Hugs and used the Trinity Stamps 4-Bar Card die set to cut it into a banner. I used a foam strip to adhere it underneath the middle bears.

For finishing touches on my card, I added a scattering of Trinity Stamps Boiled Sugar Jelly Drop Hearts across the design. Then I took the Newton’s Nook Mom and Dad stamp set and stamped Happy Father’s Day on the inside where I would write my message.

I am so happy with how this card turned out and was excited to give it to my dad. He really seemed to enjoy it too!

Products used on today’s project:
Paperie Ink Bear Hugs
Pretty Pink Posh Scallop Diamond Tag dies
Trinity Stamps 4-Bar Card dies
Trinity Stamps Boiled Sugar Jelly Drop Hearts
Trinity Stamps Blending Buddy brush
Lawn Fawn inks – walnut, blue jay, kiddie pool

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Pretty Pink Posh – Sending Good Vibes

Hello everyone! Today I have a super bright and fun card featuring some of the newest release from Pretty Pink Posh. I absolutely adore everything in this release and couldn’t wait for my orders to arrive!

For today’s card, I started by playing around with Color Burst watercolor powders on watercolor paper and a spray bottle. Oh boy did I make a huge mess! But it was loads of fun! I highly recommend it.

I sprayed my paper with water and shook a little chartreuse powder on it, then sprayed it some more and used my heat gun to push the water around. Once that was dry I shook a teeny bit of fuchsia powder and sprayed it with water, repeating the same thing with the heat gun until my panel was dry. Even when I used watercolor paper, my paper warps when I do things like this so I always run it through the laminator a couple of times to flatten it back out.

Next, I taped my panel down on my glass mat, sprayed the squiggles stencil with pixie spray and adhered it over top. Then I spread iridescent glitter glitz gel through the stencil. I removed it and set the panel aside to dry while I cleaned up.

Then I stamped and heat embossed the summer wreath image in white on vellum and used the coordinating dies to cut it out. Finally I stamped that cute lion from Summer Fun and colored him with my copics. I used the coordinating dies to cut him out and started assembling my card.

I used liquid glue to adhere the stenciled panel to a white card base. Then smeared a thin layer of liquid adhesive behind the wreath and put it in place as well. At this point, I put a stack of acrylic blocks on top of the whole card front while the liquid glue dried. Then I added foam squares behind my lion and popped him in place.

I finished things off with some white pearls from Pink & Main and some glossy accents on the lion’s glasses and nose.

Such a messy fun card to create and I love how everything turned out too!!!

Products used on today’s card:
PPP Summer Fun stamps and dies
PPP Summer Wreath stamps and dies
PPP Squiggles stencil
Pink & Main Essential Pearls
Thermoweb Pixie Spray
Thermoweb Iridescent Glitter Glitz Gel
Glossy Accents

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Birch Press Design – Friend

Happy weekend everyone! We’re having a huge heat wave where I’m at so I hope you’re all staying cool and having a fabulous day! I’ll be hibernating in the craft room with the air conditioner blasting!

But first, I’m over on the Birch Press Design blog today with a simple thinking of you friend card.

I’m so partial to teal colors so I pulled out some teal cardstock in two shades and a light teal glitter cardstock and die cut the layers for the Mini Grandiose Bevel Layers. Then I cut strips of the mid-tone cardstock for above and below my layered strip.

I stamped and heat embossed a sentiment from the Brushed Sentiments set on the bottom strip. Then I used liquid glue to adhere everything to a white card base.

I die cut the Big Friend Sugar Script letters from black cardstock three times and the shadow from white once. I used liquid glue to adhere the layers and added foam squares to the back with the except of where it will overlap the layered strip. I removed the release paper and placed it down.

For finishing touches on this card, I added small fairy jewels to the inside of the layered strip and a scattering of varying sizes across the design for added interest.

If you’d like a more detailed tutorial of this card, head over to the Birch Press Design blog and check it out.

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Newton’s Nook | Crafty Meraki Collaboration – Celebrate

Hey friends! There is a super awesome collaboration hop happening over on Instagram today! The Newton’s Nook and Crafty Meraki design teams have collided and created so many fun projects to share! If you hop along and comment you’ll have a chance at gift cards for both companies!

Here’s a looksy at my fun project for today.

I started my card by stamping images from Cosmic Newton and colored them with my copic markers. Then I used the coordinating dies to cut them all out and set them aside. Next, I die cut the Crafty Meraki Bubble Mania die from gray cardstock. I also die cut “celebrate” from the Celebrate Tag die set from white cardstock 3 times and brushed silver once. I used liquid glue to adhere the letters and moved on to get inky with my background!

For that I inked up a panel with distress oxides – peacock feathers in the center, then blueprint sketch over the whole panel and then the edges with chipped sapphire to darken it a little. I spritzed it with water and blotted it dry.

Next, I used white pigment ink with a blending brush over the Newton’s Nook Cascading Stars stencil. I did the top portion, then flipped the stencil around and did the bottom portion so they fade out toward the middle. Now it’s time for assembling all of our layers!

I used liquid glue to adhere the inked panel to a white card base, then also to adhere the bubble mania background. I also used liquid glue to adhere the stacked celebrate sentiment and then switched gears to foam squares for all of my images.

For finishing touches, I added glossy accents to the helmet and window of the spaceship, also to the flames and emblem on the space suit. Then I came back with star dust Stickles on the stars and planets.

Isn’t this just an out of this world cool card?!? I had so much fun playing with these products together! I hope you enjoyed it too. Be sure to head to Instagram and hop with us for lots more inspiration!

Products used on today’s card:
Newton’s Nook Cosmic Newton stamps and dies
Newton’s Nook Cascading Stars stencil
Crafty Meraki Bubble Mania die
Crafty Meraki Celebrate Tag dies
Distress Oxide inks – peacock feathers, blueprint sketch, chipped sapphire
Glossy accents
Copic markers
Stickles – star dust

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Pink & Main – Sending Sunny Smiles

Happy Friday my wonderful friends! Thank you so much for joining me today! I’m still over the moon creating with this months release and special Stamp of the Month from Pink & Main! It’s packed with summer which, to me, means bright and happy everywhere!

Today I have a card and coordinating tag to share with you featuring the Stamp of the Month – Sunny Smiles, the new Fancy Tag dies and a previously released Stained Glass stencil for fun!

For those that don’t know me well, I’m a panda fanatic…put it with my name and you’ll figure out why it’s been a thing since I was little. ❤ Needless to say, I had to color up this sweet bear from Sunny Smiles just like an adorable panda ready for some fun in the sun! But that pup in the pool is just the sweetest so I snagged him too and thought, why not make a card and tag! It’s so fun!

So I stamped the images and colored them with my copics. Then I used the coordinating dies to cut them out and set them aside. Next, I die cut the pieces for my two matching tags using the new Fancy Tag dies and used EZ Squeeze liquid glue to adhere the layers. Then I stamped my sentiments in black ink and popped my images up with foam squares.

Next, I took an A2 size panel and inked up the Stained Glass stencil with yellow ink. Then I took my blending brush and added a light shadow of the same ink all around the edges. I used EZ Squeeze glue to adhere this to a white card base, tied some orange ribbon through the hole in the tag and popped it in place with foam tape.

For finishing touches, I added black glaze pen to the pup’s eyes, glossy accents to his nose, water splashes and sunglasses. Then I took star dust Stickles to his cheeks and the highlights on the pool just for fun.

For the coordinating tag, I added the image and sentiment banner with foam squares and tied the same orange ribbon through the hole. Then I moved on to just a few finishing touches on this too.

Especially with the panda’s dark fast, I used the black glaze pen on his eyes and glossy accents on his nose. I think this really helps them pop and brings him to life a little bit. I also added glossy accents to his sunglasses.

Products used on today’s projects:
Sunny Smiles – Stamp and Die of the Month
Fancy Tag dies
Stained Glass stencil
EZ Squeeze Liquid Adhesive
Lawn Fawn Sunflower ink
Trinity Stamps Blending Buddy brush
Glossy Accents
Stickles – star dust

I hope you enjoyed these bright and happy creations and found some inspiration to create something wonderful and share it with someone.

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

Trinity Stamps – Oh Snap! Release Day

Happy Release Day to Trinity Stamps!!! It’s Trinity’s third birthday and this release is absolutely packed full of SO MANY amazing products! Today I’m sharing a project with one of my very favorites from the release, plus a new slimline die and paper pad!

The stamp set is called Oh Snap! and I heat embossed the images on watercolor paper and colored them with my Zig Clean Color Real Brush markers. Then I used the coordinating dies to cut them all out. Aren’t they all just too cute?!?

Next, I trimmed down a piece of rainbow striped paper from the new paper pad and adhered it to a white slimline card base. Then I die cut a piece of vellum with the new Slimline Dainty Scallop Edge die. I added foam squares to the back of my images and adhered them to the vellum, then I hid tape runner behind them to adhere the vellum panel to my rainbow stripes.

Next, I stamped and heat embossed a sentiment on black cardstock and used the Slimline Scalloped Panels and Banners die to cut it out. I adhered it with foam squares too. Last, I added a scattering of boiled sugar jelly drop hearts around the design.

There are too many fun sentiments in this stamp set to leave the inside of the card blank, so I chose one and stamped it in purple ink. Then I added a fun bird from the set standing on top of it in yellow.

I absolutely cannot wait to share this card with someone. It is so much fun and so adorable!

Head over to Instagram today and hop along with us for more inspiration and comment on the stops for a chance to win!

Products used on today’s card:
Oh Snap stamps and dies
Slimline Dainty Scallop dies
Slimline Scalloped Panels and Banners
Rainbow paper pad
Boiled Sugar Jelly Drop Hearts embellishments
Lawn Fawn Inks – juice box and sunflower

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Miss Ink Stamps – Missing You Pig Time

Happy Thursday everyone! I’m sharing a fun mini slimline card featuring some stamps and stencil from Miss Ink Stamps today, along with Trinity Stamps mini slimline dies.

First, I used my stamps and dies to decide on a general layout and then stamped my pig and flower from Punny Farm Pigs and colored them with copic markers. I used the coordinating dies to cut them out and set them aside to work on stenciling.

I used the Oopsy Daisy stencil with a raspberry ink on white cardstock, then went over the whole thing with a light yellow ink and a blending brush. I die cut the panel with a mini modern embossed slimline die and the circle window die that comes in the same set. Then I die cut another white piece with the largest clean and simple mini slimline panel die and inked it up with the same yellow.

I added scrappy tape to the back of the window panel and adhered acetate to it. Then I lined it with foam strips to create my shaker pocket. I sprinkled some dazzle butterflies to the yellow panel, removed the release paper and put the window panel in place.

I added foam squares to the back of my pig and adhered him down next. With a dab of liquid glue I added his flower. For the sentiment, I stamped it in the same raspberry ink as the stenciling and trimmed it into a strip. Then I popped it up with foam strips as well.

For finishing touches, I added black glaze pen to the pig’s eyes and glossy accents to the flower’s center. I also created a sweet purple polka dot envelope for my card to fit in that comes in the original mini slimline die set from Trinity Stamps.

Products used on today’s project:
Miss Ink Stamps Punny Farm Pigs stamps and dies
Miss Ink Stamps Oopsy Diasy stencil
Miss Ink Stamps Dazzle Butterflies
Trinity Stamps Mini Slimline die and envelope set
Trinity Stamps Clean and Simple Mini Slimline Panel dies
Trinity Stamps Mini Modern Embossed Slimline dies
Trinity Stamps Blending Buddy brush
Lawn Fawn raspberry and sunflower inks
Glossy accents

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

Trinity Stamps – Thinking of you Sneak Peek

Hey friends! I’m over on the Trinity Stamps blog today, sharing a sneak peek of the upcoming release! It’s absolutely packed full of adorable and amazing products! Be sure to watch the other design team members all week for other sneak peeks and head to Instagram and YouTube on Friday for hops with even more inspiration and prizes up for grabs!

Is this shaped tea cup card not the sweetest thing?!? I fell in love as soon as I saw it! Then, pairing it with new Buttercup Blossoms stamps to create a decorated cup takes me back to the days of tea parties with my daughter. So much fun!

To create this card, I die cut the elements of the Trini-tea Cup die set from pink and brown cardstock and used my blending brushes to add some dimension to various accents. Then I used liquid glue to adhere the pieces. Next, I stamped, colored and die cut a few images from Buttercup Blossoms and inked them up with the same pink ink to help them blend in with my cup. I adhered them with liquid glue and trimmed off the excess.

Last, I stamped and heat embossed a sentiment from Buttercup Blossoms and die cut it with a banner from Slimline Scalloped Panels and Banners. I hid a little tape runner behind the words and adhered it to my cup.

I can’t wait for you to see the rest of the release so stay tuned for Friday when it all goes live for purchase!

Products used on today’s card:
Trini-Tea Cup die set
Buttercup Blossoms stamps and dies
Slimline Scalloped Panels and Banners
Blending Buddy Brushes
Lawn Fawn dye inks – ballet slippers and walnut

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Newton’s Nook – Gnome-one But You

Hey everyone! I’m over on the Newton’s Nook blog with a super sweet birthday card for the gnome lover in your life. I know I have plenty of those in mine!

Isn’t this guy just the cutest in his little garden?!? I used Gnome Garden and Daffodils stamps sets for the images today. Then I stenciled a blue panel with white pigment ink and the cloudy sky stencil, and die cut it with the rounded rectangle from Frames & Flags.

I also used the same rectangle to die cut a green scrap and make some grass with the Land Borders die. Then I die cut a cute white picket fence with the Fence die. I used tape runner to adhere all these layers together. At this point I stamped my sentiment in the upper right corner.

I die cut a dark blue scalloped rectangle from the Frames & Flags die set and wrapped some cool ribbon around it. I added the rounded rectangle with foam tape on top. Then I glued the daffodils down to my scene and popped the other images up with foam squares.

I ink blended a white panel with candied apple distress oxide ink and spritzed it with water. I used liquid glue to adhere it to a white card base and popped the blue panel up with foam tape on that.

Moving on to finishing touches, I added some white gel pen accents to the images and star dust Stickles to the butterfly wings.

Products used on today’s card:
Frames & Flags dies
Land Borders dies
Fence die
Cloudy Sky stencil
Gnome Garden stamps and dies
Daffodils stamps and dies
Distress Oxide – candied apple
Stickles – star dust

I hope you enjoyed today’s sweet card and found a little inspiration to create something wonderful and share it with someone.

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