Happy Friday everyone! It’s been a long week and I’m so excited for the weekend. For today’s card, I’m sharing process photos on the Birch Press Design blog how to create this fall themed Thanks card. With Thanksgiving looking a lot different this year, I thought it would be nice to mail some thankful cards to friends and family to let them know I’m thinking of them.
I paired some fun ink blending with distress oxides with mirrored cardstock on this layered die cut card. For a little extra interest I even added spritzed water to the distress oxides and flicked gold watercolor too. Seriously people, I love making a mess in the craft room!
Here’s a different look at it tipped in the light. That mirrored cardstock is just fabulous and adds so much to the layers. Don’t you think?
How is Thanksgiving looking for you this year? I’m curious how many people are altering their celebrations and how creative are you getting. Please share in the comments.
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Hey friends! I’m over on the Trinity Stamps blog today with a bit more caffeinated inspiration for the 2020 Fall | Winter Coffee Lovers Hop that’s still going on through tomorrow. So get your crafty fingers working and link up some projects for a chance to win one of the amazing prizes up for grabs!
I had a little relaxing time watercoloring with my Zig markers the other night and am so thrilled with how this card turned out. It’s much more subtle than my typical color palette…I’m amazed that I was able to keep it chill. Haha!
I used some Tombow brush markers and an acrylic block on a piece of watercolor paper to create my ink smooshed background in colors that went with the images I colored earlier. After that was dry, I trimmed it down to 4×5.25 and popped it on a blue card base with foam tape. I added foam squares to the back of my banner and images and popped them in place next.
For finishing touches, I added a few Rainbow Blizzard embellishments scattered around the scene and on the banner too. I love having them flank the sentiment.
Have you ever been ice skating? I used to go a lot as a kid but we don’t have a rink anymore. This card makes me wish we did. I just love it.
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Hey there! I’m back with my daily entry and inspiration for the 2020 Fall | Winter Coffee Lovers Hop! I had some fun die cutting last night and playing with my Lawn Fawn goodies, which I don’t do as often anymore.
This card is pretty straight forward, die cutting my critter hugger elements and the holiday add on elements too and then I glued it all together. I used the scalloped stitched frames in green woodgrain over the plaid stitched rectangle. Then I pulled out the stitched snowflakes in white glitter paper for a little extra interest. I finishing things off with scripty merry and stamped Christmas from Cheery Christmas and cut it into a strip.
For finishing touches I added Unicorn Stickles to the mittens, whipped cream, holly berries and owl’s cheeks. Then I added glossy accents to the owl’s eyes and beak.
You can guarantee I’ll be playing with these cuties again very soon! I think maybe some shaped cards for Thanksgiving place markers would be a blast! Writing a thankful message inside each one! Wouldn’t that be great?
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I’m back today with my final contribution to the 25 Days of Christmas tags featuring a set of 3 using stamps and dies from Birch Press Design. I enjoyed mixing and matching different products for today’s project. I hope you like them too.
To make these tags, I die cut the Pinpoint Snowflake 3 times using the Memory Box delicate pastels glitter cardstock. I love this die because you can choose to cut the pinpoint detail or not. So then I cut 3 more snowflakes without the detail from white cardstock and glued them back-to-back so I had a nice clean place to write the recipient’s name.
Then I die cut the Frosty Flake – Layer A 3 times from white cardstock and only glued it to the glitter snowflake in the center so the points lifted a little on their own. I really like this little detail.
Finally I took the wavy labels stamps from Christmas Ornament and Labels set, stamped and heat embossed them silver and used the coordinating die to cut them all out. These are all popped up with foam squares.
To finish these beautiful tags off, I added some silver baubles to the snowflake and glued some silver cording between the layers of the pinpoint snowflake. I used my tweezers to clamp this down while each one dried to make sure it had a good bond.
Don’t forget to head to Tracey’s main post HERE and see how to participate in the event and be eligble to win one of the incredible prizes she has up for grabs!
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Hello again! I’m popping in a little late today because I made this super fun card yesterday for the Coffee Lovers Hop but ran out of daylight to take photos. I got some taken this morning and couldn’t wait to share. I had fun putting this one together.
I had an idea so I started stamping and coloring my images from Avery Elle’s Cocoa Stand right away. I used the coordinating dies to cut them out and moved on to my die cut sentiment. At first I thought I would ink blend it and then I looked at my glitter cardstock and had to use that instead. There are 3 white sentiments glued together with the gold glitter glued on top.
Then I die cut a white Wonky Frame and set it all aside while I ink blended my background. This ended up being distress inks in evergreen bough, mermaid lagoon, cracked pistachio and black soot spritzed with water and blotted dry.
I used a combination of liquid glue and foam squares to adhere all of my images and then added them all to the inked panel. The panel was glued to a white card base and I moved on to finishing touches.
For those I used a combination of glossy accents and Unicorn Stickles on the various images throughout the whole design.
I just love all the fun glitter and shine that’s going on with this happy card. I hope you enjoyed it too. I’m linking up to the Coffee Lovers Hop. Are you playing along?
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Hey friends! I’m back with round 2 of 25 Days of Christmas Tags and today we get to play with Pink & Main products! Don’t forget to head to Tracey’s main post HERE to find out how to play along and enter to win from the array of amazing prizes up for grabs! Without further ado, let’s get to the cute stuff!
I took all of the images from Christmouse and colored them in the same color scheme. I used the coordinating dies to cut them all out and set them aside. Then I cut out some tags using dies from a previous Craft Courtyard kit and used the dotty stencil with blue ink for a tone-on-tone look. The topper for the tags are cut from white cardstock and adhered down and the images are all popped up with foam squares. Then I used the smallest bow from the stitched bows die set and created purple bows for all of the tags.
Taking a look at each tag individually, I thought it would be fun to add the banner from the die set with a little sentiment for this sweet mouse holding his hot cocoa. I also added glossy accents to his nose and mug for a little shine.
This little scene is just the sweetest1 I love it! I added some glossy accents to the mouse’s nose, Christmas ornaments and the tags on the packages for some added interest.
And last but not least, this sweet snowmouse scene is just adorable! I added glossy accents to the snowmouse’s eyes and nose and the mouse’s nose too.
I threaded some sequin ribbon I had in my stash through the top to finish them off and voila! An adorable set of tags ready for the holidays!
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Hello everyone!!! Today is a very special day in our house…our daughter’s 14th birthday. Seriously, where the heck has the time gone??? I have no idea but we’re loving every minute of it. She’s amazing and we’re having a blast celebrating this weekend.
And on here I’m also still celebrating the Fall | Winter Coffee Lovers Hop! I have a fun Newton’s Nook shaker card to share with you featuring shaker bits from my shop too!
A few weeks ago we went away for the weekend so I stamped some images and packed my Zig markers to watercolor while we were gone. This fun batch of mugs were part of that. The images are from Cup of Cocoa and I used the coordinating dies to cut them out. Then I pulled out my tiny trees stencil and used texture paste for an intentionally imperfect background.
Moving on to my shaker mechanism, I die cut a frame from Framework dies and the ticket looking shape too. I backed the frame with vellum and foam tape. I poured some Burning Embers and Pixie Dust Micro Beads in the Vidia color to the center of my stenciled panel and adhered the shaker frame on top. I stamped my sentiment on the ticket shape and attached it to the vellum.
I attached my mugs around the frame and moved on to finishing touches. For those I added Stickles in unicorn to each of the mugs somewhere and a few white clay hearts to by the sentiment.
Such a fun and sweet card! Are you linking up fun projects to the Coffee Lovers Hop? I hope so! I can’t wait to see them all!
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Hi friends! I’m over on the Pink & Main blog today featuring some caffeinated fun to keep you inspired for the Coffee Loving Cardmakers Fall | Winter hop going on right now!
I just think this Need to Venti set is so much fun! I pictured today’s cup of yummy to be a fantastic mocha with whipped cream and chocolate syrup on top! Drooling yet? Yeah, me too. Let’s get to crafting now. 😉
I stamped and colored my image with copics. Then used the coordinating dies to cut it out and moved over to stenciling my background. For that I used the leafy stencil, my blending brushes and some dye inks. I inked up the panel, then put the stencil over the top and did another layer of the same colors on top of that. Isn’t it fabulous? I’m totally in love with it. After removed my mask, I used my MISTI to stamp the sentiment just below the stenciling on the right side of the card front.
I created a white card base and stuck some gold striped washi tape to the side. Then I trimmed the stenciled panel down to 4×5.25 and popped it up with foam tape. I added foam squares to the back of my image and stuck some gold wire thread to the back, then flipped it over and put it in place.
For finishing touches, I added glossy accents to the chocolate syrup and a few select places on the mug. Then I decided to add Wink of Stella glitter brush pen to the leaf in the whipped cream. I’ve decided this is made of chocolate and that edible glitter.
I hope you enjoyed today’s yummy creation and found some inspiration to play along with the Coffee Loving Cardmakers Hop too!
I appreciate you sharing your time with me. Have a fabulous day!
Hello again! I’m popping in with a quick, fun card featuring some goodies from Pink & Main. This card was on their blog this morning as part of the Coffee Loving Cardmakers Fall | Winter hop but I wanted to explain the process, in case anyone had questions.
This Mermazing Coffee set was my first purchase from them and I just love it sooo much still! It’s super fun to create with so I just had to pull it out!
This was a pretty simple card to make but fun and messy, just how I like it! I stamped and heat embossed the mug and heart images from the set on watercolor paper. Then I did ink smooshing with my Tombow markers and set it aside to dry. I stamped the mermaid image and colored her with copics, cutting her out with the coordinating dies. I used the A2 layered rectangles to create a frame for my sentiment and mermaid to go on.
The black panel is adhered to the watercolor panel directly, then the white panel is popped up and the mermaid is popped up from there. I finished things off with a small scattering of cute embellishments and, voila, my card is finished!
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It’s finally here! The 2020 Fall | Winter Coffee Lovers Blog Hop is here and we’re going to have so much fun over the next week! Twiddler’s Nook is a sponsor of the hop so today I’m sharing some fun product photos with you to show how our products can help your crafting life while I’m creating a fun caffeinated card!
Before we get too far, I wanted to let you know that we’re having a sale in the shop for the week of the Coffee Lovers Hop! Embellishments are buy 3 get 1 free with the code: CLH2020. Be sure to put all 4 embellishments in your cart and enter the code in the coupon section at checkout.
Now, lets get on to some crafting, shall we?!? 😉 For today’s card, I chose a few fun Avery Elle products to create a sweet caffeinated thank you card. I thought it was fitting for the season.
I stamped and colored my images from Avery Elle’s Aw, Nuts with my copic markers. Then I used the coordinating dies to cut them out and set them aside. But woah, let’s take a look at how some of the fun products that Twiddler’s Nook creates can help keep you sane and not losing pieces on a crazy craft table.
So, after I color my images, I pull the dies out from the set that I need and put them on my magnetic die stand. Then I can take them one at a time and tape them in place with post it tape.
Heading over to my die cutter, I run the sheet through the machine and over here I have a couple of products that keep me organized. An embellishment tray to put my cut out images in and 2 magnetic trays to put my dies in. I separate the dies I’m finished with from the ones that I’ll need to use again, like the leaves on this card. One note here, I have the magnetic trays on a single wide platform which keeps them in place nicely too.
Once all my images were cut out, I moved back to my desk with my tray full of cuteness to finish off my card. I figured out placement of the colored images and did some additional stamping directly on my card front.
Once that was finished, I brought in my double wide platform base and Trinity Stamps blending brushes to add some dimension to the edges of my card. Full disclosure…these brushes are within reach but I brought them in for the photo. The magnetic caps on the bottom let me know what color the brush is for and the platform has metal to help them stay in place so they don’t fall over when I grab one from the middle.
From here I finished up my card by adhering the leaves with liquid glue and popping my cute critters up with foam squares. At the end I couldn’t find a great way to add the sentiment included in Aw, Nuts so I pulled out Cool Beans and Speech Bubbles to create my own and glued it so the squirrel is sharing his thanks with the critters below.
For finishing touches on today’s card, I added glossy accents to the mug, black glaze pen to all the critter eyes and noses, and a little unicorn Stickles to the squirrel’s scarf and hot cocoa steam too. Lastly, I took a white gel pen and added highlights to all of the images.
I just love this set so much and had a blast creating this card. I hope you enjoyed it too!
Remember we have the embellishment sale going on and all of our other products are available for purchase at the Twiddler’s Nook shop too!
For the Coffee Lovers Hop we will be giving away 2 $15 codes to the Twiddler’s Nook shop so be sure to link up those projects! Can’t wait to see what you all create!
Caffeinated crafty hugs to you all! I appreciate you sharing your time with me. Have a fabulous day!
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