Coffee Loving Cardmakers – Pink & Main Mermazing

Fancy meeting you here again! Today I’m over on the Coffee Loving Cardmakers blog with this fun card and tag combo featuring the Mermazing Coffee stamps and dies from Pink & Main. Keep scrolling to check it all out!

I’ve been wanting to try embossing with a background die for a while and this card just seemed like the perfect scenario to try it out. I did some ink smooshing with my Tombow brush markers to create the bright fun background and then, using the embossing sandwich for my die cutter, embossed the panel with the Neat and Tangled snake scales coverplate die. I trimmed it down to 4×5.25 and set it aside to work on the rest of my card.

I stamped, colored and die cut my images from Mermazing Coffee, not totally sure what I was doing with my card. Then I decided to cut a vellum heart using the Trinity Stamps nested hearts and heat embossed my sentiment. I attached my mermaid with foam squares.

I decided to add some jute twine around the background panel for a little fishy texture and then adhered my heart over that. I finished my card off with some Wink of Stella glitter brush pen on the mermaid tail, Stickles on her cheeks and heart in her hair and finally a scattering of Nuvo Crystal Drops across the design.

But I still had an extra image I didn’t use…so I thought a fun coordinating tag was in order.

I die cut the tag pieces from Newton’s Nook’s Fancy Edges Tag die set and adhered them together. I stamped the sentiment from Mermazing Coffee and also some hearts from the set too. I popped the image up with foam squares and added a little Wink of Stella glitter brush pen here and there for some extra shimmer. Then I thought it needed more so I grabbed the glossy accents and added some of that to the mug on all the pink areas…and then finished it off with some teal twine I had in my stash.

I hope you enjoyed my little project today and found some inspiration to create something wonderful.

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Miss Ink Stamps – A World of Nonsense

Hello there. Welcome to a whole new week full of new adventures! Today Alice and the White Rabbit from Miss Ink Stamps are stopping by for a bit of nonsense and my very first attempt at copic coloring a scene.

The creation of this card is really simple, it’s just the length of time it takes to color a scene like this that I underestimated. Some of those copic artists out there make it look so simple but it’s really not. I need much more practice and maybe it’s time for a class or two as well.

I started by stamping and coloring my images from the Alice set from Miss Ink Stamps. Then used the scan-n-cut to cut them out. Next, I stamped the Forest Path image and the sentiment from Alice on a 3.75×5.5 panel and colored it with my copics. After the coloring was finish, I adhered a couple of strips of black cardstock to the panel and popped it up on a white card base with foam tape. The images were them popped up with foam tape as well.

I can just picture Alice and the White Rabbit standing on their path to who-knows-where and she’s decided to share with him some fabulously random thought. I love this book and playing with these stamps has inspired me to pull it out and read it again.

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Miss Ink Stamps – Let the Heads Roll

Happy Friday everyone! I’m so excited to have finally made it a priority to play with my Mother’s Day present…the Alice in Wonderland release from Miss Ink Stamps. It was so much fun to sort through it all and decide what to create. My first card kind of shows my mood…a little snarky and a lot funny.

I started this card by stamping my images from Queen of Hearts and colored them with my copics. Then I used my scan-n-cut to cut them out and set them aside to work on my background. I took a 4.25×5.5 black cardstock panel and used white pigment ink with the Pick a Card stencil. Then I die cut an oval from the center. Using this panel and a white card base, I decided on the placement of the Queen’s Castle image and used my MISTI to stamp it.

Then I moved on to assembly. I laid out my images and slowly glued them in place, layer by layer to the black panel. Then I flipped the panel over and covered it with foam tape and adhered it to the card front. I stamped my sentiment and cut it into a strip and glued it in place as well. The center is supported with a thin foam strip.

I kept the finishing touches on this card fairly simple – glossy accents on the queen’s crown and Wink of Stella glitter brush pen to all the roses.

I already have my next card planned out and the images all stamped, ready to go. This series of products is just amazing, the possibilities are endless! I can’t wait to share more with you!

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Trinity Stamps – Let’s Shellabrate!

Hello everyone. I’m over on the Trinity Stamps blog today sharing a really fun beach card using some fun stencil techniques and new products from the recent Trinity Stamps 2nd Birthday Release! Let’s check it out!

This can seem like a complicated card to make so I’m going to break it down into two parts – beach and ocean. Starting with the ocean, I stamped, colored and cut out my images from Shellabration and set them aside. Then I took the Slimline Wonky Stitched Wilderness and die cut 2 panels from white cardstock. I took one and used the scenic borders dies to cut it down for my under water portion. Let’s focus on that panel now.

Using my blending buddy brushes, I inked the panel up with a blue dye ink and then used the Scenes From the Sea stencils to add the ground, seaweed and fish in the background. Using my images as a guide I stamped the string for the balloon and then adhered everything down. I went ahead and added some embellishments to fill in my scene as well…starfish wish and gold fishes for the underwater portion. Then I moved above water. 😉

Now I moved on to the full white panel cut from the Slimline Wonky Stitched Wilderness dies. Using the water panel as a guide I pulled out the new Layered Palm Tree stencils and created my sand mounds. From there I continued with those stencils and added my palm trees. I just flipped the stencil over to get the trees to lean toward each other. Next, I placed the negative pieces of the palm trees on top to mask them and used one layer of the Catching Some Rays stencil to add a sun in the upper left corner. Last, I stamped my sentiment from Shellabration and added a few more embellishments – Having a Ball and more Starfish Wish.

To assemble everything, I cut a card base measuring 3.5×8.5 and adhered my 2 layers to it. At this point I also decided to draw the string into the crabs pinchers and all the way up to the bottom of the balloon too.

I love the sentiment on this card! It kind of eludes to a birthday but really, you could be shellabrating anything at all! I know I have days like that. Treat yo’self! ❤

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Birch Press Design – Rainbow Happy

Hey there! I’m up on the Birch Press Design Blog today with a step-by-step on how to create this super fun rainbow happy card featuring some new products that just arrived in the shop.

As soon as I saw this die set, I knew I had to try it in a rainbow straight away! So I grabbed my cardstock and set to work! I’m thinking a set of these in color tones would be amazing too!

Those awesome confetti bits are from Trinity Stamps and you know I had to add some sparkle to it too…head to the blog to see how I put it all together.

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Lawn Fawn – Love You S’more

Hello everyone! I hope you had a wonderful 4th of July weekend! We had so much fun playing games outside and lighting fireworks…and the best BBQ spread to go with it all. Such a great, relaxing weekend.

Today I’m here celebrating my 13th anniversary with my husband. We don’t do much but I wanted to make him a fun card to tell him I love him…s’more every day! 😉

I started by die cutting some Lawn Fawn plaid paper with my largest stitched rectangle and adhering it to a white card base. Then I took a strip of green wood grain paper from Lawn Fawn and die cut it with the same rectangle so the stitching matched up. I adhered it over the top, to the left side. Then from the same wood grain paper pad but in brown, I die cut a stitched circle. I started by heat embossing part of my sentiment on the circle in red and then stamped the rest of it. I popped the circle up with foam squares. Last, I stamped and colored my s’mores from the Love You S’more set with copics. I added 2 different faces to them and cut them out with the coordinating dies. Then I popped them up with foam squares too.

Then I finished this silly, sweet card off with some clay hearts scattered about.

We’ve been talking about camping a lot lately so I thought the s’mores would be on par for that thought and the sentiment is fitting for us. Life’s too short to be serious so we rarely are. ❤

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Avery Elle – Suns Out Buns Out

Hello again! The week is just flying by! I’m back today with another installment of happy, bright fun from my recent haul of the Avery Elle summer release. Today I’m playing with the mini set with that cute bunny laying on the unicorn floaty. This is so me in the pool. Just laying about, soaking up the sun. Sounds fabulous!

To create this card, I started by die cutting a panel with the Avery Elle Ray die. I used distress oxides in squeezed lemonade, carved pumpkin and abandoned coral on the panel. Then on the white card base I added some wild honey behind where the hole would be. It gave a little contrast for my sunshine. Then I took a panel and inked it up with salty ocean and mermaid lagoon. I cut that panel with the Lawn Fawn ocean wave borders die to give me 2 waves for my scene.

I stamped my image from Suns Out and colored it with my copics. Then I used the coordinating dies to cut it out as well. Instead of stamping the sentiment on a banner or directly on the panel I thought it would be fun to put it in a speech bubble. For this I used the Avery Elle speech bubbles set but the sentiment from Suns Out. Now we moved on to assembly.

The sunny panel is popped up with foam tape and the first wave border is adhered to that with liquid glue. The second wave was added with foam tape and then the bunny was tucked under it with foam squares behind it. The speech bubble was added with foam squares as well.

For finishing touches, I added glossy accents to the bunny’s glasses and nose, unicorn Stickles to the unicorn horn and Wink of Stella glitter brush pen to the “hair” of the unicorn. Last, I thought it would round the design out to add some Lemon Drop Dream Jelly Drop Hearts from Trinity Stamps around the sun.

Such a silly card, but I really love how it all came together. I’ve been inspired by Jenn Bena to try and create a set of different cards with the smaller mini sets and this one might be fun to start with. I’ll be sure to share when I get brave enough to try it out.

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Avery Elle – Sea Monkeys

Oh my goodness, I can’t even believe it’s already July! This wacky, crazy year is flying by but at the same time, almost standing still. I’ve really been in the mood for all things summer, bright and fun so today’s card is very fitting.

As soon as the new Avery Elle release was live I hopped on scrapbookpal.com and put in my first order! There were a few that I definitely had to have. Today’s card is actually my daughter’s top pick from that order.

To create this card, I pulled out an old favorite technique – ink smooshing with Tombow brush markers. I did that on a panel and when it was dry die cut it with an Avery Elle panel die. Then I stamped out my images from Monkey Sea Monkey Do and colored them with my copics. I used the coordinating dies to cut everything out and started deciding on final placement.

With that decided, I stamped my sentiment on the panel and adhered all the images with liquid glue. Then I took the bubble images from the set and stamped them throughout in blue ink.

The panel was popped up on a white card base with foam tape. Then, I finished it off with white gel pen accents on the images, unicorn Stickles in the bubbles and glossy accents on the monkey’s goggles.

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Coffee Loving Cardmakers – Paper Smooches, Coffeelings

Hey there! Paper Smooches is a super fun stamp company that’s been around for quite a while. The owner, Kim, is the sweetest and has decided that it’s time to retire. Sad face for us but so happy for her. So…Today Lisa is over on the Coffee Loving Cardmakers blog playing with Paper Smooches and some of us wanted to play along too! I whipped up this fun card with a couple of my favorite Paper Smooches stamp sets.

I started by stamping and coloring my images from Paper Smooches Caffeinated and Chubby Chums with my copics. Then I cut them out and set them aside. I took a white card base and masked off the top and bottom with post it tape and blended distress oxides in spun sugar, picked raspberry and festive berries. I spritzed it with water and blotted it dry. Then I chose my sentiments and stamped them with my MISTI.

I adhered the images together with tape runner and them attached them to the card front with foam squares. You know me, I had to add some finishing touches so I grabbed the white gel pen and added highlights, then glossy accents to the kitty’s eyes. Finally I pulled out Nuvo Crystal Drops in simply white and party pink and scattered them about.

I’m not sure if the kitty is talking to the coffee or the recipient of this card…either way it’s silly and I love how it turned out. Super fun!

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Coffee Loving Cardmakers – Summertime Sips

Hello again! It’s Tuesday Tea with Twiddler’s Nook over on the Coffee Loving Cardmaker’s blog today and I’ve got a doozy of a card to share with you! It was an absolute blast to put together and it took me all day. Totally worth it and I can’t wait to do something like it again!

I knew 2 things when I started this card. I wanted to use the new Trinity Stamps summertime sips dies and my favorite mice from mouse house were going on my cup somewhere. Haha! The rest is history and I’m in love with how it turned out!

I started by die cutting all the pieces from summertime sips from white and red cardstock and a few from vellum too. I ink blended the inside of the cup to look like coffee (or tea) and then die cut another cup and adhered all the pieces to it. Then it hit me to die cut the cup one more time from acetate and put it on the very top so my whole cup looks like a plastic cup.

I took a couple of white panels for my background and started ink blending those next. For the sky I used distress oxides in chipped sapphire, blueprint sketch and mermaid lagoon. For the grass I used twisted citron and mowed lawn. Then I used the Trinity Stamps slimline panels and windows to cut both pieces and went over the top of the green one with the grass border from the slimline scenic borders set.

Next, I moved on to the fireworks stencil one layer at a time. I used glitz gel, metallix gel and ink dyed texture paste, along with some dye inks for all the fireworks layers. Mix all of that with a lot of patience, and you have amazing, fun fireworks for your sky! In between layers of gel drying, I stamped and colored my mouse house images with copics. Then I used the coordinating dies to cut them all out and adhered them to my summertime sips cup.

Once the fireworks were dry I adhered all the pieces of my card. The sky and grass panels are adhered together and then directly to a card base measuring 3.5×8.5. The cup and images are all popped up with foam tape.

To finish this awesome card off I pulled the new summertime sentiments from Trinity Stamps out and stamped one on white cardstock. I used the banner die from the 4 bar card die set and did some partial die cutting to lengthen the banner just right. This is popped up a foam strip. And last, but not least, I pulled out some awesome clay American flags from the sugared stars & stripes clay sprinkles mix to put in a couple of the mice’s hands.

I’m so excited about this card!!! It’s so fun and has so much awesomeness going on! I really hope you enjoyed it too!

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