Hey friends! What a better way to start the week off than with some super adorable and fun sneak peeks of the upcoming Trinity Stamps release!
We’re ending the week with 2 days of Instagram hops (Thursday and Friday) and the release going live on Friday. It’s super fun and full of all the great fall feels.
I’ve been in a heat embossing phase again so I did that with this cute bear and used my Zig Clean Color Real Brush markers on him for a watercolor look. Isn’t he the sweetest! And check out that super fun foliage background I heat embossed too! I
I just love these rich, deep fall colors. They make me soooo happy and ready for all things pumpkin and fall! So fun!
Is there anything you’re hoping to see in this release? I’ll be back with a couple more sneak peeks before you see it all on Friday so stay tuned!
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Thank you for hopping along with us for the Pink and Main & Pear Blossom Press Collab Hop! For more inspiration, check out all of the stops in the hop!
To create my card, I started by stamping and coloring my images from Happy Fall. Then I used the coordinating dies to cut them out and set them aside. I cut a piece of vellum to A2 size and used my leafy stencil with mini blending brushes and dye inks. This takes a bit to dry so I took a break and came back later.
Next, I inked up a panel with my blending brush and orange ink and die cut it with the largest Reverse Scallop Rectangles. I laid the images out and started adhering the tree trunks with liquid glue and the scalloped panel over it. Now it’s time to add the EZ light from Pear Blossom Press.
As you can see from the photo, I decided where I wanted my button to be, stamped a “push me” sentiment and then with the front panel as I guide, I traced the battery pack so I would know where to glue it down. I used tear tape to adhere it so it was really stuck in place without waiting for liquid glue to dry.
This is when I added my images with a combo of liquid glue and foam squares. Then I lined the panel with foam strips to allow room for the battery pack and wires.
With a lot of back and forth and some temporary tape, I placed the lights where I thought I wanted them and put my front panel over top, pushed the light to test it and moved them around until I liked it.
I didn’t like how the lights showed through the bear though. So, as you can see in the picture above, I die cut another bear from white cardstock and glued it directly behind the other for an added layer. Then I taped my lights in place with tear tape. I just didn’t remove the top release paper. It holds them really well.
Finally, I popped my panel in place on my card base and tested it all out. Then I found a fabulous sentiment in Sunny Greetings. I stamped and die cut it and popped it up with foam squares.
Last, for finishing touches, I added some glossy accents to the bear’s nose, owl’s glasses and mushroom dots. This card is so sweet and fun! These EZ-Lights make this process and complete snap and totally stress free! So much fun!
And here’s a fun side-by-side look at the card on its own and all lit up! Isn’t it sooo much fun??? I just love how it turned out!
Now for the hop line up so you can continue on and keep the inspiration flowing.
Hello everyone. I’m over on the Pink & Main blog today with this beautiful fall sunflower card. I always love watercoloring florals and couldn’t resist trying it with this new Sunny Greetings set.
I started this card by stamping and heat embossing my images from Sunny Greetings in gold on Bristol smooth cardstock. Then I set to watercoloring with my Zig markers and a water brush pen. Next, I used the coordinating dies to cut them out and decided on a final design for my card. I chose 2 sentiments from the set, heat embossed them in the same gold and die cut them with the sentiment strip dies in the coordinating die set.
I pulled out my sweater weather paper pad and used the largest layered rectangle die to cut it out. Then I took gold paper from my stash and used the third and forth from the largest layered rectangles together to create a frame. I glued these to my card base and arranged my flower images how I wanted them and glued them down as well. I trimmed the excess off the edges once the glue was dry.
Next, I popped my sentiment strips up with foam tape and decided I wanted a little extra sparkle. I pulled out some gems from my stash and glued them around the florals to round the design off.
I just love this set and have so many ideas with it. They are just screaming to be used all together on a slimline card next, I think. Stay tuned for that one.
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Hello again! I’m over on the Birch Press Design blog today with this soft, watercolor fall card featuring some goodies from the new mini release.
I had fun watercoloring with my Tombow markers and then die cutting one of the coverplates from the Autumn Breeze set. If you’d like to see how it all came together, head to the Birch Press blog for a photo tutorial.
The layers of this add so much interest and the different colors are just wonderful for a light fall feeling. I also love gold heat embossing for that fall feel! Don’t you?
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Hey there! It’s time for Tuesday Tea once again and I’m sharing some super fun fall inspiration over on the Coffee Loving Cardmakers blog.
I hadn’t played with my Trinity Stamps coffee mug die for a while so I pulled it out and started going through my stamps for inspiration and landed on this little set, Nutty Squirrel, from Trinity Stamps last fall that I just love.
I stamped out my nutty squirrel images and colored them with my copics, then I used the coordinating dies to cut it all out. I die cut my mug and used blending buddy brushes with some dye inks to ink up the bottom with brown and green and I rounded out the top with some brown shading too. I took the leaf images and stamped them in the background with light brown ink and started adhering my images with liquid glue.
I decorated the front and back of my coffee mug since I had enough images and thought it would be extra fun. After those were all adhered I stamped my sentiment above the branch on the front using my MISTI and this fun card is all done.
I am very ready for all things fall which made this card extra fun to create. I also added the extra layer to the inside of the mug that makes it a gift card holder so we can share a little pick-me-up with whoever the recipient ends up being.
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Hi there! Thanks for stopping in today. I’m sharing a really fun card using a technique I’d never tried before with one of my embossing folders. I hope you enjoy it! Let’s go!
I started by stamping the image from Trinity Stamps It’s Okay, colored it with copic markers and used the coordinating dies to cut it out. Then I took a kraft panel and my wood-grain embossing folder. I blotted brown ink on one side of the folder and ran it through my die cut machine to emboss it. It inked up the raised portion of the embossing and left this really cool look! I just love how it turned out! Don’t you?
I used my blending buddy brush and a light blue ink to give a little color to the edge of a white card base and then pulled out the cloud image from Hang On. I stamped and die cut a handful of those and glued them in place, trimming the excess off the edge. Then I trimmed the embossed panel to 3.5×5.5 inches and popped it up with foam tape. I wanted this to look like a tree in the park or maybe a telephone pole on the street with a message for anyone passing by.
For finishing touches I added a little glossy accents to the pushpin and the word “not” and some Stickles to the dashes for a little glimmer.
This card fits perfectly with the Trinity Stamps Crafty Troop Challenge. Have you checked it out this month yet? Be sure to grab your goodies and play along too! There’s always a gift certificate to the Trinity shop up for grabs!
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Oh my word, y’all!!! I am over the moon in love with these new cute hippos from Miss Ink Stamps. They are just the cutest and so are all the little extra critters that come with them to set your scenes. I had way too much fun playing with these guys!
I knew I wanted a full scene so I stamped extra of everything from Hippo Hooray and colored them with my copics. Then I used my scan-n-cut and cut everything out. I pulled out the slimline scalloped die from Trinity Stamps and cut a white panel. I masked off outside of the stitching lines and inked up the center for a little muted water scene with distress oxides in tumbled glass and weathered wood. I spritzed the panel with water, and flicked pearl watercolor and weathered wood distress oxide ink as well.
Then I started arranging my images how I wanted them. Once that was decided I stamped my sentiment with VersaFine onyx black ink. The seaweed and rocks are all adhered with liquid glue and the critters are all popped up with foam squares.
Finally, I moved on to finishing touches for the whole design. I added white gel pen accents to various images first. Then, I took some Stickles and added it to random seaweed leaves and fish fins. Finally, I added glossy accents to parts of the hippos and turtle for a little extra shine and interest.
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Happy Friday everyone!!! I want to hijack the beginning of my own blog post to let you know that we’re running a SALE through the Labor Day weekend over at the Twiddler’s Nook shop! So be sure to head there and treat yourself!
Now, let’s get on with today’s super special card share! Yesterday was my mom’s birthday and since I gave her her card already, I get to share it with all of you today!
To create my card I pulled out a couple of great sets from Lawn Fawn – Oh, Gnome and Gleeful Gardens, stamped some images and colored them with my copics. Then I used the coordinating dies and cut them all out. Next, I took an A2 panel and inked it up with mowed lawn and twisted citron distress oxide inks. I spritzed it with water and used the stitched hillside borders to cut some ground.
Next, I took my card base and lightly inked the edges with broken china distress oxide and the center with squeezed lemonade to look like the sun peeking over the horizon. Then I began to place my images and adhere them down with liquid glue. The gnomes and their accessories are popped up with foam squares for a little dimension.
My sentiment is from wavy sayings and it’s stamped on a wavy banner with a yellow border layered over the top of the stitched banner. This is adhered with liquid glue as well since it falls a little behind the standing gnome. The second part of my sentiment is stamped directly on the grass with Versafine onyx black ink.
Finally, I moved on to finishing touches. For those I added some white gel pen accents to the images and then glossy accents to the mushroom dots, gnome buckles, flower centers and the ribbon on the gift.
My mom really likes garden gnomes and has plenty around the yard so I thought this card was just perfect for her. I think she really liked it which, of course, made me happy.
Don’t forget to stop by the SHOP and pick up some goodies over the weekend. The sale runs today through Monday.
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Hey there! Thanks for stopping by! Today, I’m over on the Trinity Stamps blog with this fantastic Halloween themed card featuring some of my very favorite critters raiding the candy buckets for a sugar high!
I had the general idea in my head so I stamped out my critters from Mouse House and Bunny Burrow and colored them with my copics. Then I used the coordinating dies to cut them all out and moved on the the harvest buckets. I started with just one and quickly decided it would be fun to fill in the background with a couple more that they had already emptied. I used copics on colored cardstock to give the buckets a little dimension.
I die cut the largest slimline stitched panel and inked it up with ripe persimmon and dusty concord distress oxides. I spritzed it with water and pulled out my layered lakeside mountain stencil to add some clouds. I did this with texture paste. It gives such a fun dimension and look to the sky. Next I used the same stitched panel to create my ground. After inking it with gathered twigs and tea dye distress oxides I spritzed it with water and used the slimline scenic borders dies to cut the ground.
At this point I die cut bunches of candy pieces that come with the harvest bucket dies from white cardstock. Then I used my copics to add color to each of them. I arranged them how I wanted in the bucket, next to it and in the critter hands and used liquid glue to adhere them all in place.
Finally I moved on to assembling my card. I adhered the sky to a card base and the ground to that. Then I added the background pumpkin buckets with liquid glue and the one with the face with foam squares. The critters are all popped up with foam squares as well.
To finish things off I pulled out the sentiment for almost everything set and stamped the “Happy Halloween” sentiment on a banner from the 4-bar die set. I popped this up with foam squares too. The last finishing touches were black glaze pen to the critter eyes and noses and glossy accents to the noses that were colored in.
I really just can’t get enough of this cuteness! These critters are adorable and thinking about a little story of them raiding kids’ candy buckets on Halloween cracks me up!
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Hello everyone! I’m over on the Pink & Main blog today and I’m so giddy to share this fun card with you. I am loving the latest release and just had to make that cute owl from Happy Fall wiggle on an action wobbler. He was just asking for it. So here we go…
This card was a series of trial and errors so we’ll start with stamping and coloring the images from Happy Fall with my copic markers. Then I used the coordinating dies to cut them out. Then I moved on to the background. Multiple attempts at different sky configurations later, we have the third largest stitched slim line panel inked with the clouds stencil using my mini ergonomic blending brush and light blue ink. I die cut another of the same stitched slim line panels and inked one end up with green and the other with brown. Then I used a stitched hill die to cut them off and create my layered ground. I used liquid glue to adhere my layers together and then also glued down my tree and the branches.
I placed my own on an action wobbler and adhered him next, right between the branches on the tree. I used a combination of liquid glue and foam squares to adhere the rest of my images toward the bottom of the scene.
Next, I die cut the scalloped slim line die from the sympathy slim line die set from kraft cardstock. I popped this up on a white card base with foam tape and then popped my scene panel up on that with foam tape as well.
I moved on to finishing touches next. I added glossy accents to the owl’s glasses, bear’s nose, mushroom dots and acorn hat. Just a little shine to bring some interest to various parts of the design.
I didn’t want a sentiment to distract from my cute scene so I planned for it to go on the inside of this card. And since I was doing that, I colored extra images to decorate that too.
I don’t typically put anything on the inside of my cards and I’m really curious, do you?
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