Hey there! The spring release for Trinity Stamps went live yesterday. After you’re done here, be sure to head to Instagram and comment on the hop for a chance to win a Trinity Stamps gift certificate! Today though, I wanted to share an up close look at one of the new stand-alone die sets called You’re #1. It’s a super fun shape card with lots of possibilities!

I shared a sneak peek of this earlier in the week that was actually the reverse of the card on the right. When you have a die like this it’s hard to throw that good paper away so I’ve been making two cards each time.

For this card, I die cut the base from a heavy white cardstock and used my bone folder to reinforce the crease line. I found that if you skip this step it likes to try and fold on the stitching line instead. Easy fix. Then I die cut the pieces from red glitter, black and white cardstocks. Then I simply used liquid glue to adhere all the pieces in place on the card front.

I can’t wait to make these in some specific colors for sports lovers in my life! Watch out football season!!! 😉

For this next version, I took out the bow and that little line die cut. This is supposed to be like tying a bow on your finger so you don’t forget something. I pulled out some softer colored cardstock and fun plaid patterned paper for a more girly looking card. Once it was all glued down, I finished it off with some Crafty Love clay heart embellishments and it’s ready for a message to be written on the inside.

I’m totally in love with how this one turned out. In my head it reads “Don’t forget! You’re the best!” Wouldn’t this be great to send to a friend who needs a little encouragement or maybe a thank you?

Depending on the colors of paper and the sentiment you choose there are so many possibilities with this die set.

Another quick reminder that the Instagram hop is still going on so head over there and start hopping for more amazing inspiration and comment for a chance to win.

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Hello everyone!!! I am soooo beyond excited to share that Trinity Stamps has a new release live today! We’re doing a hop over on Instagram so be sure to jump over there and hop along. There is tons of inspiration and, of course, prizes to be won! You can start at the Trinity Stamps Instagram page here.

Below are the projects I’m sharing, with a bit more explanation in case you have questions. ❤

For this first card, I literally took all of the new magical creatures sets, stamped the images and colored the with my copics. I used the coordinating dies to cut them out and moved on to my sentiment. For that, I blended some random distress oxide inks on a panel, spritzed it with water and die cut the word BELIEVE with the new Marshmallow Alphabet dies. (This font is absolute heaven and I can’t wait to put it on everything!) I die cut a white panel with the new Slimline Wonky Stitched panel and adhered it to a card.

After that, I arranged everything how I wanted it and glued it down. I drew some little flying trails off the bugs and black glaze pen to the creature eyes and this card is finished. Soooo much fun!!! I can’t wait to mail it off! ❤

For my second card today, I used the new Layered Lakeside Mountain stencil to create my background. This was so much fun to put together! I used a corner rounder on opposite corners of the background panel and a kraft cardbase and popped the panel up with foam tape.

After that was done, I stamped, colored and die cut the images from the new Rare Treasure set and popped them up with foam squares. I stamped my sentiment at the top leaving space for the larger word that is die cut and popped it up with foam squares.

For finishing touches I added black glaze pen to the eyes, glossy accents to the cool dragon egg and sentiment, and Stickles to the treasure and dragonflies.

I hope you enjoyed today’s projects and don’t forget to head over to Instagram to hop along and see what else the design team has in store for you! You can get your new goodies at Trinity Stamps starting today too!

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Hi there! Tomorrow is Trinity Stamps release day but I really wanted to get one more sneak peek in to get you extra excited!!! I am SO incredibly happy with how this card turned out and the design is so versatile. It can be done a million different ways for completely different looks on the same idea.

Check out that awesome stencil background! I love the pattern and the size will totally blow your mind tomorrow! So much versatility! I’m really excited about that!

And that die cut font…oh my goodness people, it’s just perfect! Did you even see those bunnies??? I’m in love! They literally make me giggle when I pull them out of the die cuts each time. And trust me…I’ve colored quite a few of these cuties! ❤ You’re going to love them too!

Sentiments are something I’m not good at but this new set is absolute perfection! Something for everything, I swear!

Look at that chubby little dust bunny. He’s my spirit animal, I swear. Espcecially with all this extra time at home these days. Haha!!!

Can you just picture changing out the stencil you use to stripes or something? And the sentiments are totally interchangeable too! And just imagine any of the critters in your stash. I just love this and can’t wait to manipulate it for a slimline too!

I hope you’ve enjoyed the sneaks this week and will join us for the Instagram hop tomorrow to see what everyone is sharing. I promise, it’s so amazing!

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Hey everyone! I’m over on the Coffee Loving Cardmakers blog today with a super fun sneak peek of coming attractions from Trinity Stamps! They’re doing sneaks all week long and the new release goes live Friday when we’re also doing an Instagram Hop! It’s going to be so much fun!

The stamp set you’re seeing here is called Dir-Tea Bunny. It’s totally adorable and so much fun to play with! See how the dies also cut his little hands out so he can hold that awesome mug! Which, by the way, may or may not be totally customizable! 😉 There are also some fun new stencils coming out, one of which is shown here too!

Oh yeah! I almost forgot sentiments…those are sooo much fun too! Be sure you join the Trinity Stamps Imagination, Inspiration and Conversation group on Facebook. It’s the best way to see some amazing projects from the design team and fellow crafters!

The Instagram hop starts Friday, April 10, on Instagram! Hop along for inspiration and leave comments for a chance to win!

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Hello everyone! This Friday, April 10, Trinity Stamps is releasing their Spring Release. It’s so amazing, there is something for everyone in it! I’m here today to show you a little sneak peek of what’s coming your way!

Who doesn’t love a shaped card??? Seriously, they are so fun to make and a blast to give. Sports lovers? We’ve got your covered this time and just in time for Father’s Day coming up and all those sports loving dads out there!

We will be having an Instagram hop on release day so be sure to join us for tons of inspiration and comment for chances to win! Stay tuned throughout this week for more sneaks from me and other design team members too!

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Happy Friday everyone!!! Today I’m sharing a fun shaker card set down in the depths of the sea! This was really fun to put together and is even more fun to play with now that it’s finished. I love shaker cards but they don’t always cross my mind to make.

I started my card by die cutting the largest panel from the Trinity Stamps Slimline Stitched Panels and Windows set twice, then cut the window from one of them. I took the solid panel and blended Distress Oxides on it to show through the windows. I used Blueprint Sketch and Peacock Feathers. Then I spritzed it with water and flicked InkOn3 liquid pixie dust for some shimmer.

Next I grabbed my stamp sets – Mermaid Wishes and Turtley Awesome – and inked them up. I colored them with my copics and die cut them with the coordinating dies. I took some of the scene building images like seashells, starfish, rocks and seaweed and glued them to the inked panel to show through the windows and set the rest of the images aside to build my shaker.

I glued acetate sheets to the inside of the window panel and lined it with doubled-up foam tape. Then I sprinkled some different embellishments into each scene area and closed it up. The embellishments I used were jellyfish jewels, glass slipper confetti and lovely heart itty bitty confetti. I thought it gave some shimmer and pops of color against the blue background.

Finally I added my final images to the front and stamped my sentiment as well. For finishing touches I added some glossy accents here and there and Stickles to the mermaid tail. The last thing I did was glue down some jellyfish jewels around the front of the card.

I think this card turned out so fun! Do you make shaker cards? Any tips or tricks to share? I’d love to hear. Leave me a comment if you have any.

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Hey there! Today I’m up on the Trinity Stamps Blog sharing nothing but sunshine and rainbows!

I started off this fun card by ink blending a panel for my sky. I had an idea where I wanted my sun so I was sure to leave a space for a little yellow glow. Then I die cut all my pieces from the Cloudy Day Scene Builder dies and also the Rainbow dies. I used my copics to give everything color and started to decide on a final layout with my Mouse House stamps as placeholders.

From there I stamped, colored and die cut all of my images with the coordinating Mouse House dies. Then I started assembling my card. I popped the Cloudy Day panel up with foam strips and then added my rainbow and additional clouds with foam squares. Finally, I glued down my mice with a combo of liquid glue and foam squares where needed and moved on to finishing touches.

I used black glaze pen on the mouse eyes and noses, Stickles on the sunshine and Wink of Stella glitter brush pen on the rainbow. I also added dots of glossy accents on the mushrooms and flower center. Finally I added some clay hearts from a special embellishment mix that was handed out at Creativation – but you can get most of the ones I used in this mix called Crafty Love.

Funny thing…it wasn’t until now that I realized I didn’t have a sentiment (or a real space for one) on my card. Oops. I suppose it’s not totally necessary but I thought it would be fun to add something, so I grabbed my Hello Senti-mini dies, cut it from silver glitter cardstock and glued it below the mouse on the top left. It filled in a little empty space and added some extra sparkle, which I love!

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