Miss Ink Stamps – Life is Nuts!

I’m sure most everyone can relate to the sentiment on today’s card featuring the Miss Ink Stamps set called Oh, Nuts! and a great new stencil called Floral Wave Offset. I just love these squirrels. They’re so cute and this set has so many of them to choose from along with different sized accent images to go with!

I started with an idea in mind so I stamped my images and colored them with copics. Then I used the scan-n-cut to cut everything out. I cut the Trinity Stamps slimline stitched card panels (smallest one) and slimline scalloped card panels (biggest one); both from white cardstock. I took the stitched panel and masked off about 1/3 and inked it up with my blending brushes and dye ink. Then I laid the floral wave offset stencil on top and went over it all again. I moved my mask down and repeated it until I had a strip at the bottom of the panel left to stamp my sentiment. I used the MISTI to do that and popped the panel up with foam tape on the scalloped panel.

Next, I started adhering all my images, creating mini scenes in each colored panel I created. Everything was adhered with liquid glue except the squirrels that were popped up with foam squares.

For finishing touches, I went over the squirrel eyes and noses with black glaze pen and after it was dry went back over top with a white gel pen to add the highlight back in. Then I added white gel pen accents to the squirrels too.

Last of all, I added glossy accents to all of the acorns. I thought this was fun and gave a little extra attention to them throughout the whole design.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project and find some inspiration to create something wonderful.

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

Pink & Main | Scrapbook & Cards Today Feature

I’m absolutely flabbergasted to be sharing with you that I’m over on the Scrapbook & Cards Today blog featuring an adorable card and tag set using a bundle of Pink & Main products. I hope you love it, please take a moment to head over there and leave a comment if you do!

I started this fun project by stamping and coloring the images from Christmouse with my copic markers. I decided to stick to a limited color palette for my card. I like doing this to keep things coordinating. Today I went with one of my favorites – mint, pink and red. Then I used the coordinating dies for Christmouse and cut the images out. I set them aside while I worked on the rest of the card.

I pulled out the soon-to-be-released plaid embossing folder, inked up one side with pink, put my cardstock in and ran it through my die cutter. This inked up part of the panel, leaving the raised plaid lines white. You could do it reverse as well by inking the other side of the embossing folder. This is a really fun technique to play around with and when you’re done playing, you have a bundle of backgrounds ready for cards!

I trimmed the panel down to 4×5.25 inches and popped it up with foam tape on a white card base. Then I popped my mouse and presents up with foam squares on that. I stamped a sentiment from the Christmouse set in pink and used the A2 Layered Rectangle dies to cut it out. Then I cut the next side up in the same die set from mint and glued them together. They are popped up with foam squares. Last, I created a small red bow from the new Stitched Bow Dies and glued it to the corner of my sentiment.

I love adding finishing touches to my projects! …almost as much as I love creating the projects themselves. I feel like they aren’t complete until I add some little details. For this card, I added glossy accents to the christmas ornaments, package tags and the mouse’s nose. Then I went back with a Wink of Stella glitter brush pen and glittered up the package ribbons, star and tree base.

I had colored all the images at the beginning, unsure of my final design and while I was working on the card I thought it would be so cute to make a coordinating tag to go with it. So I die cut the Fancy Tags pieces from white and then ran the stitched panel through my die cut machine with the plaid embossing folder, without inking it this time. I glued those layers together and popped up my mouse image with foam squares. I stamped another sentiment from Christmouse, in mint this time, and cut it out with the banner die in the Fancy Tags Die Set. It’s also popped up with foam squares.

I strung some pink and white baker’s twine through the hole, created a medium stitched bow in mint and glued it in place. For finishing details on this little tag, I added glossy accents to the mouse’s nose and black glaze pen to the snowmouse’s eyes and nose.

Aren’t these guys just the cutest? I can’t get over them! They’re so fun to color and create all kinds of scenes with. And there’s even an image in the set I didn’t use today! So many possibilities!

I hope you enjoyed today’s project and found some inspiration to create something wonderful. I appreciate you sharing your time with me. Have a fabulous day!

Pink & Main – Meet Me Under the Mistletoe

Hey everyone! I hope your week has gone wonderfully and you’re all ready for the weekend! Today I’m over on the Pink & Main blog having some more messy fun with alcohol inks.

I had this design in my head so I just started to work on my alcohol ink background immediately. I used Tim Holtz Ranger alcohol inks and the combo for this background was deception alcohol pearl and everglades alcohol ink.

Then I got my MISTI out to stamp and heat emboss my Mistletoe image on vellum and the sentiment on black cardstock. These are both from the Mistletoe stamp set. After heat setting the embossing powder, I used the coordinating dies to cut the image out and then I trimmed the sentiment into a banner.

To put everything together, I hit liquid glue behind the heat embossing and adhered my mistletoe to the alcohol ink panel, wrapping the top over the edge, like it’s hanging on the front of the card. Then I used foam tape to pop my sentiment banner in place.

Voila! This simple but beautiful card is all finished. You could change out the sentiment and create a bundle of these in a jiffy for your Christmas cards too! So much fun to be had!

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

Trinity Stamps – Made With Love

Hello everyone! I’m over on the Trinity Stamps blog today with a really fun take on the slimline trend…a mini slimline card! It’s been around for a while but Trinity Stamps has added some more goodies to go with it and I thought I’d play a bit!

I colored up my super adorable gnome and her pup from Made With Love and used the coordinating dies to cut them out, along with my sentiment. Then, playing off the colors I chose for my image, I pulled out my Mini Slimline dies and the Clean and Simple Mini Slimline Panels dies. I cut the scalloped panel from the mustard yellow striped paper in the new Autumn Rainbow paper pad.

Then I cut the window panel from some mint cardstock in my stash. I trimmed a piece of acetate and attached it to my window panel with scrappy tape and lined it with foam tape to create my shaker mechanism. Then I poured some chocolate chip heart sprinkles and glass slipper confetti on the striped panel and attached my window panel over the top to seal everything in.

I popped my images up with foam tape and glued my sentiment in place with liquid glue. Then I put the whole thing on a red card base and also used the dies to create a matching red envelope.

This was such a fun card to make! I plan to share it along with a batch of cookies to our neighbors for fun! I think they’ll enjoy the cookies and the card! Don’t you?

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

Newton’s Nook – Grateful For You

Hello everyone! I’m over on the Newton’s Nook blog today featuring a sweet fall themed slimline card. I had extra fun mixing and matching different products to create a mini scene and got inky with some stenciling too!

I started my design by laying out the images to see how many of each thing I might need to stamp out. Then I stamped and colored the images from Paw-tumn Newton and Autumn Mice and colored them with my copics. I used the coordinating dies to cut them all out and switched gears to my background.

Pulling from the colors I chose to used on the images, I cut an orange panel with the Slimline Frames & Portholes scalloped die and inked it up with the Falling Leaves stencil. I used a dark orange and faded it to a dark yellow on the stencil. Then I took a medium brown and inked the edges of the whole panel. I like the blue in the bow on my milk jug so I cut a blue panel to 3.5×8.5 inches and inked it up with a darker blue ink to deepen the color a bit. I adhered this to a card base and popped the scalloped panel up with foam tape. Then I added my images with foam squares and liquid glue.

I die cut a banner from the Banner Trio set and stamped a sentiment from the Fall Roundabout set on it. Then I die cut a flag from Flags & Frames and heat embossed another sentiment on that. I attached the 2 and adhered them to the card front with foam squares.

For finishing touches, I went with white gel pen accents on the images and a little bit of glossy accents on the acorn hats, pumpkin stems and Newton’s Nose. Then I scattered some Nuvo Glitter Drops in golden sunset across the design.

I just really love the deep, bold colors that come with fall! They are so pretty and I love falling leaves and pumpkins…pretty much everything I included on this card. ❤

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

Clearly Besotted – Snow Day

Hello again! I’m having fun making Christmas cards lately and wanted to share this fun shaker with you featuring the Simon Says Stamp Stamptember collab with Clearly Besotted.

I had so much fun stamping and coloring these images out! I used the coordinating dies to cut the critters out. Then I used my Newton’s Nook circle frames to create my shaker mechanism and frame.

I filled my shaker with some foam snow balls I’ve been hoarding from the Dollar Tree and some Pixie Dust micro beads in Silvermist from my Etsy shop. Once the shaker was created, I adhered it to a kraft card base and used my MISTI to stamp the sentiment.

I adhered the critters and snowballs with liquid glue and moved on to finishing touches. I added unicorn Stickles to the snowballs for a little glittery shine and some Frosty Flakes embellishments scattered across the card front.

Such a silly, fun card. I love how it turned out and can’t wait to play some more with this set.

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

Newton’s Nook | Designer’s Nook Preview

Hey friends! Tomorrow is another Designer’s Nook newsletter from Newton’s Nook! Remember there’s a weekly inspiration newsletter that’s for subscribers only. You get special project inspiration directly from the design team!

Here’s a teeny sneak peek for you but you’re going to want to head over and subscribe if you haven’t already so you don’t miss it!

I appreciate you stopping by today! Have a fabulous day!

Lawn Fawn – Spooky Cocoa

Hey friends! I’m over on the Scrapbook Pal blog today and we’re having some spooky cocoa. The weather is changing and things are getting ooky spooky around here! It’s great since this is my favorite time of year!

I had 2 new goodies from Lawn Fawn that I have been dying to use and thought it would be so much fun to combine them! So today we’re having Halloween themed cocoa with some ghostly steam rising from our cup!

I created my Lawn Fawn Stitched Mug shaker mechanism, filled it with fun embellishments from Trinity Stamps and sealed it up. Then I stamped and colored my Lawn Fawn Booyah ghosts with copics, using the coordinating dies to cut them out. Then I used liquid glue to adhere the accessories to each ghost.

To create my background, I used some Tombow brush pens on watercolor paper and did some messy ink smooshing. I always have so much fun with this technique! Once it was dry, I trimmed it to 4×5.25 and popped it up on a black card base with foam tape. I adhered my whipped cream and spoon to the back of my mug and glued it directly to the card front, while the ghosts were popped up with foam squares. (The whipped cream came from the frosting of the stitched cupcake dies from Lawn Fawn.)

Then I stamped and heat embossed a banner from Bannertastic and a sentiment from Booyah and die cut it. I used a quickie glue pen to adhere my banner, trying to hide the glue behind the embossing lines.

For finishing touches, I added black glaze pen to the Frankenghost’s eyes, glossy accent’s to the witch’s hat buckle and spider and white gel pen accents throughout the images.

I had so much fun mixing and matching and making things a little spooky for Halloween!

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

Coffee Loving Cardmakers – National Coffee Day WINNER

Hey everyone!!! I just wanted to pop in and announce the winner for the Coffee Loving Cardmakers National Coffee Day Hop!

Drum roll please….

Congratulations to BrandyAnn!!! You’ve won our coffee mug magnetic die stand, donut embellishment tray and a bundle of embellishments too!

Please email me at twiddlersnook@gmail.com to claim your prize.

Thank you everyone who hopped and left such fun comments. I appreciated each one!

Take a moment to check out the shop HERE if you weren’t the winner and wanted to snag one of those awesome products!

Birch Press Designs – Christmas Shaker Cards

Hello and happy Friday everyone! I’m over on the Birch Press Design blog with a photo tutorial how to put together these awesome Christmas shaker cards. They were actually pretty quick and would be fun to make in larger batches to mail to friends and family this year.

I think these are so pretty and fun at the same time with the shaker mechanism adding a little whimsy to a more fancy stamp set.

I added a combination of snow queen embellishments and pixie dust micro beads in the Silvermist color – both of which are from my Etsy shop. The microbeads are so great in shaker cards, helping move things around more fluidly and they’re just cool looking on their own too.

Have you started making Christmas cards yet? With these 3 finished, I think my total is at about 12 and since it’s still October I’m feeling pretty good about that.

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