Pink & Main – Hello Sunshine

Welcome back everyone and thanks for stopping by! Today I have another beachy awesome Pink & Main card to share with you! This one is all die cut but I did color some of it so it’s not technically no coloring…although you could totally alter it to that if you’re not feeling the coloring thing at the moment.

For this card, I die cut the scalloped circle die from the Aloha die set from white cardstock. Then I used copic markers to color all of the pieces in. This is where I’m talking that you could die cut the whole thing multiple times and paper piece if you’re not in the mood to color. However, I find this kind of copic coloring relaxing and very forgiving because there are no lines to go outside of.

Once everything was colored, I die cut a circle from copy paper and adhered all my pieces to it. Then I used the new Catch a Wave embossing folder with some teal cardstock for my background. After that panel was embossed, I trimmed it to A2 size and adhered it to a white card base with EZ Squeeze liquid adhesive. Then, I popped my hibiscus circle up with foam tape.

I stamped and heat embossed a sentiment from the new Sunkissed stamp set in white on black cardstock. Then I used a large sentiment banner die to cut it out. I popped it up with foam tape as well.

For finishing touches, I added a scattering of the halftone green/teal pearls from the Unicorn Pearls set across the design. Then I took my Wink of Stella glitter brush pen to just the stamen on the flower for a little added shimmer in the light.

Products used on today’s card:
Aloha dies
Catch a Wave embossing folder
Sunkissed stamps
Large Sentiment Strip dies
Layered Circle dies
Unicorn Pearls
Wink of Stella glitter brush pen
EZ Squeeze Liquid Adhesive

I hope you enjoyed today’s card 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!

Miss Ink Stamps | Thermoweb Collaboration – Bubbles and Foiling

Hey friends! The super fun collaboration between Miss Ink Stamps and Thermoweb continues today! I’m over on the Miss Ink Stamps blog with this adorable card featuring Bubbles and the coordinating dies with Thermoweb toner card fronts and decofoil for some awesome shine!

I started this card by choosing a toner card front from the Love Blooms toner card front pack. I foiled it with glass slipper decofoil and then ink blended tumbled glass and mermaid lagoon distress oxide over the top. I used a clean microfiber cloth to wipe the ink off the foiling and splattered the background with watered down black paint.

Next, I stamped and colored images from Bubbles with my copic markers. Then I used the coordinating dies to cut them out and set them aside. I die cut a vellum heart from the Trinity Stamps Nested Hearts dies, then cut the bottom tip again from white cardstock. I inked that up with mowed lawn and twisted citron distress oxide and cut the top with the grass border from Trinity Stamps Great Outdoor Borders die set. I used tape runner to adhere them together. Using my images as a guide, I stamped and heat embossed some bubbles on the “sky” portion of the heart for a little added interest.

I stamped a sentiment from Bubbles and cut it out with a banner die from the Trinity Stamps 4-Bar Card die set. Next, I added foam squares and strips to the images and sentiment strip and adhered them to the heart.

I trimmed the foiled panel down to 4×5.25 inches and added foam tape to the back, adhering it to a white card base. Then, hiding adhesive behind the grass and images, I adhered the heart to the front of the card and moved on to finishing touches.

For those, I just added glossy accents to the bubble bottle on the snail and the whole bubble that the mouse is floating in. The background on this card is so eye catching and beautiful that I didn’t really need to add anything.

There are giveaways going on over on Instagram, the Miss Ink Stamps blog and Thermoweb’s blog too! So head to those places and check out the posts this week for sure!

Products used on today’s card:
Miss Ink Stamps Bubbles stamps and dies
Thermoweb Love Blooms Toner Card Front
Thermoweb Glass Slipper decofoil
iCraft XL Tape Runner
iCraft foam tape roll
iCraft foam squares
Trinity Stamps Nested Heart dies
Trinity Stamps Great Outdoor Border dies
Trinity Stamps 4-Bar Card dies
Distress Oxide Inks – mermaid lagoon, tumbled glass, twisted citron, mowed lawn
Glossy accents

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Thermoweb | Miss Ink Stamps Collaboration – Stenciling with Decofoil and Glitter Glitz Gel

Hello everyone! Today I’m over on the Thermoweb blog for the collaboration with Miss Ink Stamps! This time I have a pair of cards I made using one inked background, cut in half and then stenciled completely different. It was super fun to play around with everything!

Here’s a look at both of the cards I created. One with the Dee and Dum stamp set paired with the Diamond Fade stencil. The other with my favorite pup from Rub-a-Dub Doggies stamp set paired with the Large Random Dot and Random Dot stencils. Those stencils are sold separately if you only want one but they work really awesome together too! (Here’s a pro-tip though…if you only have one you can ink it up and then rotate it to get a second layer of dots in different spots!)

I used Pink & Main Large Sentiment Strip dies to cut out the sentiments for both cards. This one has a scattering of Trinity Stamps Black Eyed Baubles for embellishments along with glossy accents on Tweedle Dee and Dum.

The embellishments on this one include glossy accents for the rubber ducky and dog’s nose. Then unicorn Stickles on the bubbles to help them time in with the background. Last I scattered Twiddler’s Nook half-tone pearls across the design.

Be sure to head over to the Thermoweb blog for all the details on these cards, links to the products and a chance to win prizes from Thermoweb and Miss Ink Stamps! Totally worth the click!

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Trinity Stamps – Sending Sunshine

Hey friends! I am back with another fantastic rainbow card featuring brand new and previously released goodies from Trinity Stamps!

Isn’t this new image from Love Dani Studio just perfection?!? I absolutely love it and could wait to ink it up! I stamped and heat embossed it on Bristol Smooth Cardstock, then colored it with my Zig Clean Color Real Brush markers. I’ve definitely been in a watercoloring mood lately. I used the coordinating die to cut it out and set it aside to work on my background.

To keep with the watercolor feel, I die cut the Rainbow Funshine and clouds from Bristol Smooth cardstock and colored them with my Zigs as well. Then I inked up a full panel with the puffy cloud stencil and some Lawn Fawn mermaid ink using my blending brushes. I die cut the panel with the largest embossed edge rectangle and adhered it to a white card base.

Using liquid glue I adhered the rainbow and clouds down next, then trimmed off any excess from the sides. I added foam squares to the back of my image and placed it in the lower center of my card front.

For finishing touches, I glued a scattering of Lemon Drop Dream Jelly Drop Heart embellishments around the design. Then I added a little star dust Stickles to the rainbow clouds in the background.

Isn’t this just the sweetest?!? I love taking my Zigs to color on the go and could see making a whole stack of these cards to share with everyone! I just love it!

Products used on today’s card:
Sending Sunshine stamps and dies
Rainbow Funshine dies
Embossed Edge Rectangle Stack dies
Puffy Cloud stencil
Lemon Drop Dream Jelly Drop Hearts embellishments
Lawn Fawn mermaid ink
Stickles – star dust

I hope you found some inspiration today to create something wonderful and share it with someone!

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

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!

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

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

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

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!