Coffee Loving Cardmakers – Back 2 School Sneak Peek

Hey there! I’m up on the Coffee Loving Cardmakers blog today with another Trinity Stamps sneak peek! I had so much fun creating this card. I hope you like it.

Everything from this card came from the upcoming set called Classroom Cuties…plus so much more! This set is packed with fun that is super versatile for so many occasions! I’m excited for you to see the whole thing!

Gotta love that kiddo with his frap, ready to tackle the day! And that row of pencils was so much fun to put together! Trust me, I have many a plan for that pencil image. You’re going to see a lot of it!

This was a simple design but the added dimension between layers adds a lot of interest to the design. I always love doing that.

I hope you enjoyed today’s sneak. Check back tomorrow for more!

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Trinity Stamps – Sneak Week

Welcome to another fabulous sneak week featuring amazing new products coming to the Trinity Stamps store on Friday!!! Eeeekkk!!! I’m so excited for you all to see everything! It’s so fun!

Today I’m going to start with an upcoming set called The Bright Side. I think you’ll see the reoccurring theme from last release…and it’s adorable!

To create my card, I inked up a panel with the diagonal stripes slimline stencil, flipped it over and did it again. I went a little heavier with the ink on the bottom left and top right corners for some added interest. I adhered it to a card front and used the smallest nested hearts die to cut a window in my card.

On the inside of the card, I inked up a little sky and ground for my images. These are colored with copics and I used the coordinating dies to cut them out. I thought it was fun to have the scene on the front and inside of the card so I brought some of the butterflies to the front of the card along with the sentiment.

Let’s look at the front again for fun. ❤ It’s too cute not to!

For finishing touches, glued some Scuba Dive confetti bits around and added glossy accents to the flower centers that are in front of the gnome’s eyes. I also added glossy accents to bits of the butterflies for extra interest.

Isn’t this guy just the cutest! And I absolutely love him peeking through that heart window! Can’t wait to share more with you! Stay tuned for more fun through the week!

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Lawn Fawn/Avery Elle – Magic Iris Ocean Card

Hello everyone! I have been enjoying playing with the Lawn Fawn Magic Iris dies. They are so fun to create with. It seems like each time I create a card with them it spurs another idea I’m excited to try out.

Here’s a look at today’s card in all the stages from closed to open.

To create this card I started by inking up 3 panels with distress oxide inks in mermaid lagoon, peacock feathers and salty ocean. I spritzed them all with water and started die cutting the pieces to my magic iris, including the magic iris add-on.

Next I stamped, colored and die cut my images from Avery Elle’s Sea-prise. Then I took the cover to my magic iris and stamped the solid fish image from the stamp set randomly on it along with the sentiment.

I moved on to assembly by following the Lawn Fawn Intro to Magic Iris video on YouTube. Once that was complete, I die cut a large stitched rectangle from Really Rainbow Scallops paper in yellow and adhered it to a cardbase. Then I used my magic iris for placement and glued the inside pieces in place, including my fish and his party blower.

Next, I die cut waves from one of the panels I inked earlier and adhered them with my shark to the front of the card. For finishing touches I just added a few white gel pen accents to the images and stamped the second sentiment from the stamp set on the inside.

This was a birthday card for my sister-in-law and I’m so excited that I finally got to give it to her the other day and that now I can share it with all of you. I hope you enjoyed it!

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

Trinity Stamps – Just For You

Hello everyone! I’m up on the Trinity Stamps blog today sharing this absolutely awesome card featuring some new and some older stamps and dies. This card started as a simple idea and completely grew a mind of its own. And I’m so glad it did. It’s so much fun!

Originally, my idea for this card included the Just For You gnome and Mr. Snailman but it quickly grew to include my favorite Mouse House too! I stamped my images out and spent some time coloring. It was wonderful! Then I used the coordinating dies to cut them all out and moved to the background.

For that I cut the middle Slimline Stitched Panel die from a white panel and then cut that panel into sections with the Slimline Scenic Borders. According to each panel, I inked them up a little differently with distress oxide inks and spritzed it all with water. I die cut a second panel and adhered all my levels to that for stability.

Then, using liquid glue I adhered all of my images to the background and moved on to finishing touches. I added white gel pen accents to most of the images and then moved in with my glossy accents.

Those are scattered about on things like the hearts, package bows, mushroom spots…kind of random but throughout the whole design. Then I thought it would be good to bring in the black glaze pen on the mice eyes and noses. I love what this little bit of dimension and glossy does for them.

Seriously, all the way up until now, I hadn’t actually planned out my sentiment placement. Totally winging it! Since the awesome Trinity Stamps sets almost always die cut the sentiments too, I decided to trail my sentiment throughout the card design, hoping it would draw the recipient to enjoy the whole design. Then I added a little Wink of Stella glitter brush pen to the words.

Finally, I die cut the largest Slimline Stitched Panel in purple and adhered it to a white card base that measures 3.5×8.5 and popped my scene panel up with foam tape. I also decided to pull from the fun colors I used and make a coordinating envelope in yellow with the Slimline Envelope Builder dies.

If you’ve followed me for very long, you know I like full cards…and I LOVE THIS ONE! It’s got so many fun things to see. Those playful mice and that sweet gnome bearing gifts, finishing it off with Mr. Snailman delivering some happy mail! I hope you enjoyed today’s card and find some inspiration to create something wonderful!

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

Birch Press Design – Slimline Card Set

Hello again! I’m over on the Birch Press Design blog today with this fantastic set of slimline cards featuring a few stencils, the Cora layering dies and the new Jumbo Lingo word dies! They are fantastic and I thought slimline cards were the perfect way to showcase them!

The whole set started with the thanks card and I just kept going with ideas, so I kept creating. They were so fun to put together. Here’s a close up of each one.

After this one, I thought I would make 3 of the same card, just different colors and switch out the sentiment but that last .2 seconds and I had other ideas I wanted to try.

I thought it was so fun to try this other stencil, inking it up lightly and moving it around the panel. I love how it turned out. And that happy sentiment is perfect for the brightness of this card.

And for this last card, I knew I wanted to try some masculine colors which turned out so cool! By the time I had created 2 landscape cards, I thought it would be fun to break the sentiment free of the shadow part and use it vertically. I love it!

For process photos and description, head over to the Birch Press Design blog!

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Miss Ink Stamps – We’re All Mad Here

Welcome back everyone! I hope your week is off to a wonderful start. Today I’m playing with one of my very favorite stamp sets from the Miss Ink Stamps Alice release. The Mad Hatter is one of my very favorite characters so I wanted to color him up in some fun, different colors.

I started this card by stamping and coloring my images with copics. Then I used my scan-n-cut to cut them all out and set them aside to start on the rest of my card. I die cut an Avery Elle wonky frame in black for some contrast. Then, using that and my images as a guide, I stamped and heat embossed my sentiment from Madness in gold. I used the Wonky Checker stencil with some red ink to match the colors I used on the Hatter. This panel was trimmed to 4×5.25 and popped up on a white card base with foam tape.

I buffed away any ink on my embossed sentiment with a clean rag. Then the wonky frame was popped up with foam strips and I started adhering my images. They are all attached with a combination of foam squares and liquid glue where they overlap the frame.

For finishing touches on my card, I used a combination of glossy accents and Wink of Stella glitter brush pen to bring interest to various parts of the images.

I was afraid that I would be rigid about the colors I used on these images but it was really fun to color them all in a limited palette that is completely different from anything I’ve previously imagined before.

Also, I just got a new light box to take photos in and tried it out on this card. I’d love to hear what you think about cards on a plain white background versus backgrounds like I typically use with the wood panels, doilies and foliage. I’m trying to find a happy medium and further myself along the way.

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

Newton’s Nook – Designer’s Nook Speak Peek

Hello there! I’m popping in really quick to give you a sneak peek of my Designer’s Nook newsletter post that will be hitting inboxes tomorrow!

It’s so much fun! I hope you’ll take a moment to subscribe to the exclusive newsletter if you haven’t already! Click HERE to do that today so you don’t miss another week of awesome inspiration from the Newton’s Nook design team!

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Newton’s Nook 7 Year Blog Hop

This is so exciting! Newton’s Nook is turning 7 years old and we’re celebrating with a sale and a fun hop!

So go ahead and treat yourself…but first keep scrolling to check out my card share and then hop along and comment on all the rest of the design time for your chance to win too! Now, on with the show! Get your snorkel, you’re gonna need it!

I knew that I wanted to create something summery and beachy so I grabbed my Scuba Newton and Purr-maid Newton stamp sets and started brainstorming. I thought a slimline would be extra fun so I die cut a scalloped panel with the Slimline Frames and Portholes set and inked it up with distress oxides in blueprint sketch, salty ocean and peacock feathers and spritzed it with water. Then I cut a white panel with the porthole portion and set both of those aside to work on images.

I chose my images from the 2 sets, inked them up and started coloring with my copics. Once those were complete I cut them out with the coordinating dies and arranged them on my card to make sure I had enough to fill in the scene.

Once everything was laid out, I used liquid glue to adhere it to either the white panel or the inked panel. After everything was in place, I flipped the white panel over and covered it with foam squares. Using this as a guide, I lined up my sentiment, stamped and heat embossed it before adhering the panel down. I took the whole thing then and added it to a 3.5×8.5 inch card base with foam tape for extra dimension.

Then I moved on to finishing touches. I used unicorn Stickles on the purr-maids seashells and Wink of Stella glitter brush on both of their tails. Then I added some glossy accents to the kitty noses, insides of the seashells in the scenes and the fins on the fish for just a little shine here and there.

I just love the colors and how bright and happy this turned out! They just make you smile.

Celebrate with us and enter to win!

To celebrate 7 years, Newton’s Nook Designs is giving away a $20 store credit to spend in their online shop to 7 lucky winners!

Here’s how to win: Comment on the NND Design Team blogs (see list below)! The winner will be chosen at random from the collective blog hop posts. Make sure to check out each of their blogs and comment for your chance to win. You will not know which blog has been chosen so the more you comment on the better your chances are of winning! You have until Monday, July 20 at 9 p.m. EST to comment. Winners will be announced on NND blog post on Tuesday, July 21, and will need to contact us to claim their prize so make sure you check back to see if you’ve won!

Check out all the awesome Design Team Blogs below to enter:

Newton’s Nook Designs
Ellen Haxelmans
Larissa Heskett
Samantha Mann
Zsofia Molnar
Maria Russell
Andrea Shell
Tatiana Trafimovich
Amanda Wilcox

Trinity Stamps – Hope to Sea You Soon

Welcome back! I hope your week is going well. We’re on the downward end and sailing into the weekend now.

I had an idea pop into my head that I just couldn’t wait to try out and today I finally get to share it with you. It features some new and some older Trinity Stamps prodcuts. Get your gear, we’re heading under the sea again.

The idea that I most wanted to try was layering my distress oxides with the waving hello stencil so that’s where I started. I cut a 3.5×8.5 panel and blended mermaid lagoon, blueprint sketch and seedless preserves. I spritzed it with water and blotted it dry. Then I used both layers of the waving hello stencil with the same colors over the top. I love how this turned out! I inked up another little panel with tea dye and gathered twigs and die cut it with the scenic borders for some sand.

Next, I grabbed shark bait, ocean reef builder and turtlely awesome stamp sets to ink up and get coloring. After that I die cut them with the coordinating dies and started building my scene.

After I decided on placement, I started adhering everything down with liquid glue. I specifically left room for my sentiment in the middle of my scene so I made sure to stamp and cut that out from shark bait as well.

After building my scene, I thought it would look nice to frame it up so I pulled out the scalloped frame die from the slimline envelope builder set and cut one out in white to glue on top. Then I moved on to finishing touches.

For those, I added unicorn Stickles as bubbles and also on some of the coral on the sea floor. Then I gave little bits of shiny to all the critters with glossy accents. Last, I added some shimmer with my Wink of Stella glitter brush pen to some of the plants and the sentiment.

I love how all of these sets go together so well and using them on a slimline card gives you so much real estate to build an awesome scene.

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

Newton’s Nook – Cosmic Newton

Hey everyone! I’m up on the Newton’s Nook blog today with this really fun surprise outer space card featuring Cosmic Newton heading out to space and floating among the stars when he gets there! Let’s check it out!

To create this card, I started by taking a white card base, opening it up and using the sky borders die on the bottom to create the front flap. Then I took the cloudy sky stencil and lightly added some blue clouds over the top.

I stamped and colored my images from Cosmic Newton with my copics. Then I used the coordinating dies to cut them all out. Next, I took a flag from the Frames & Flags die set and cut it out to stamp my sentiment on it.

Moving to the inside, I took a 4.25×5.5 panel and inked it up with distress inks in peacock feathers, picked raspberry and mustard seed and then went over the whole panel with black soot to create my galaxy background. I spritzed it with water and flicked gold and pearl watercolor on it for a great starry look. Then I adhered my images with liquid glue.

I wanted to continue the sentiment to the inside too, so I cut another flag and heat embossed the second sentiment in white and glued the flag down. Then I took the whole panel and glued it to the inside of my card.

Next, I moved on to finishing touches. On the front, I popped my sentiment flag up with foam squares and added white gel pen accents to the images. Then I took glossy accents and covered the whole window and the bolts on the spaceship. I used crushed pineapple Stickles on the star too.

For the inside images, I just added white gel pen accents and Wink of Stella glitter brush to the planets because I wanted the card to close nice and flat. However, one of the shooting stars peeks out beneath the cloudy border that was die cut so I added the crushed pineapple Stickles to that for fun.

Between outer space and undersea cards, I could be content for life. The backgrounds are so soothing to make and I always love the images so much. I hope you enjoyed today’s card.

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