Caffeinated Christmas Card Challenge – Shaker Card

Hey friends! I’m happy to announce that Twiddler’s Nook is the monthly sponsor for the Caffeinated Christmas Card Challenge. The theme is coffee, Christmas and this month – cute critters! This was so fun to to mull over and create for! Ultimately, I landed on m favorite Newton’s Nook goodies, turned into a shaker card featuring a couple of Twiddler’s Nook embellishments as the shaker bits!

I’ve been heavy on pink lately so forgive me now but Christmas and Halloween are going to be a bit non-traditional this year. Hence, I started with a pink panel for my background stenciling and I love it!!! I cut that out with the Newton’s Nook Basic Frames rectangle and created a shaker pouch with some leftover packaging. I filled that with Candy Cane clay embellishments and Rosetta Pixie Dust Micro Beads.

For my images, I combined Newton’s Mug with sentiments and holly from Newton’s Gift. Don’t they go so perfectly? I love how it turned out! I also love combining my sentiment inside these large images. It’s so genius!

To pull it all together I cut the largest Frames & Flags die from the red polka dot paper in the Bright Basics paper pad and popped it up on a white card base. Then I glued the shaker panel to that with EZ Tear adhesive tape. Last, I popped my image up on that with foam squares.

For finishing touches I just added a bit of glossy accents to Newton’s nose and the berries on the holly. Just a little something extra.

Products used:
Twiddler’s Nook Candy Cane clay embellishments
Twiddler’s Nook Pixie Dust Micro Beads – Rosetta
Twiddler’s Nook Blending Brushes
Twiddler’s Nook Double Wide Platform Base
Twiddler’s Nook Blend Brush Caps
Twiddler’s Nook Pressure Pal
Newton’s Mug stamps and dies
Newton’s Gift stamps and dies
Newton’s Nook Bright Basics paper pad
Newton’s Nook Flags & Frames dies
Foam tape
Liquid glue
EZ Tear adhesive tape
Glossy accents

Remember to hop over to the Caffeinated Christmas Card Challenge blog and link up your entries for a chance to win a $35 gift card to the Twiddler’s Nook shop this month! (Spoiler…if you spend the whole gift card at once you, you get free shipping!)

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Miss Ink Stamps – You’re So Charming

Happy Thursday everyone! I’m just back from camping, happy to be home but boy do I love when we’re out there relaxing and having fun! And today I’m back with some magical inspiration from Miss Ink Stamps.

It’s been a minute since I pulled out any of the amazing Magical series from Miss Ink so I went digging and was immediately drawn to the So Charming set. Professor Flitwick is a favorite and I adore these floating books so I just went with it.

After coloring and die cutting my images, I set them aside to ink up some stencils and create a little scene for them to be. I used the Bricks and Perspective Floor stencils with some gray and brown inks. I stamped my sentiment and then splattered the background a little for added interest.

For all the layers, I used the EIEIO Frames dies. On the card base, I drug my brown ink pad directly on the paper for a textured look. Then ink blended forest moss and rustic wilderness distress oxide inks and splattered it with water. The scallop panel is glued to the card base and the scene panel is popped up, along with all of the images.

For finishing touches I just added glossy accents to the Professor’s glasses and bits of the books.

Products used:
So Charming stamps and dies
Perspective Floor stencil
Bricks stencil
Foam tape
Liquid glue
Glossy accents
Distress oxide ink – forest moss, rustic wilderness
Lawn Fawn ink – narwhal and walnut

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Twiddler’s Nook Spooktacular IG Hop

Hey friends! It’s time for the next Twiddler’s Nook Spooktacular Instagram Hop! Today I have a fun card featuring a few great Twiddler’s Nook products but also a recent haul I purchased of Halloween goodies from Scrapbook.com.

I started by immediately cutting and building this ADORABLE little ghostie from the Spooky Bundle! This bundle comes with a stamp set, this ghost and sentiment dies, plus a paper pad packed full of cuteness! All of which I used today!

Next, I die cut a bunch of the “boo” sentiment and started playing with arrangements. I landed on this sort of flip-flop look and LOVE IT! After gluing everything down with liquid glue, I trimmed the excess off the edges.

Going through the paper pad, I chose this fabulous orange sky paper for my bottom border, trimmed a piece about 1 3/4″ wide and stamped my sentiment on the bottom right corner. Don’t forget to use your Twiddler’s Nook Pressure Pal to get great stamp images, especially for sentiments. No squishy fat spots here and there when you use it!

I lined the top of the orange panel with a strip of pink cardstock coordinating with the witch hat and popped my ghost up with foam squares.

For finsihing touches, I added glossy accents to the ghost’s eyes and stardust Stickles to the star on the hat. Then I scattered a sprinkling of Twiddler’s Nook Wishing on Rainbow Stars embellishments. I picked and chose the lighter colors in the mix by pouring some in a Twiddler’s Nook embellishment tray, which also made it super easy to pour them back in the bag when I was done.

Be sure to head to Instagram and hop along with us, commenting as you go for a chance to win a gift card to the Twiddler’s Nook Etsy shop.

Products used today:
Scrapbook.com Spooky Bundle
Liquid glue
Reverse tweezers
Twiddler’s Nook Pressure Pal
Twiddler’s Nook Wishing on Rainbow Stars embellishments
Glossy accents
Stickles – stardust

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

Spellbinders – Hang In There with Bibi’s Cats & Pugs Collection

Welcome everyone. I’m sharing a fun and punny kitty card today featuring a new Spellbinders collection with Bibi Cameron – Cats & Pugs. There are a couple of sizes of cats and pugs available, today I’m playing with the smaller size cat set – Cheerful Kittens.

I cut all the elements for my kitty from gray and white cardstocks and used liquid glue to adhere them together. I did use a little yellow marker for the eyes and pink for the nose. Then I cut the banner which is part of this die set and heat embossed my sentiment from the Cats and Pugs Sentiments stamp set.

For the background, I embossed a white panel with the Flower Frenzy embossing folder and cut two layers of the Emerald Cut Label dies – teal and vellum. I used liquid glue to adhere the embossed panel to a card base and popped the teal up with foam tape.

I used tape runner to adhere the kitty and banner to the vellum panel and then hid more tape runner behind those parts to adhere the vellum to the teal panel.

Dry adhesive keeps the vellum from warping and hiding the adhesive behind other elements keeps you from being able to see it.

Products used:
Cheerful Kittens dies
Cats and Pugs Sentiments stamps
Emerald Cut Labels and Tag dies
Flower Frenzy embossing folder
Embossing powder
Liquid glue
Tape runner
Foam tape

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Doodlebugs – Birthday Fun with Cool Colors

Hey friends! It’s Mix it up Monday on the Doodlebugs blog. Today I’m thinking color theory while creating a birthday card for one of my very favorite humans! She loves those cool tones so that’s where I pulled my color palette from…keeping to the blues and purples more than anything. Do you do that when creating for someone specific?

I started my design my playing with the Pretty Pink Posh Stitched Stars dies. I cut them from lots of different cardstocks and arranged them on a piece of white cardstock. After gluing them down, I cut the panel out with the Mama Elephant Postage Frame die, keeping the inside and frame pieces.

Next I cut the Mama Elephant Big Happy Birthday from white cardstock 3 times and glitter white cardstock once. I used liquid glue to adhere the layers together. Then went hunting for cute critters to add to the mix. I landed on a combo of Mama Elephant Summer Floaties and the balloons from Mama Elephant Peekabuddies. After stamping and coloring the images, I used the coordinating dies to cut them out and switched to assembling everything.

I drug my Lawn Fawn fish tank ink pad across the edges of my card base for some fun textured color. Then glued the outside frame of my background panel down with liquid glue. I popped the center up with foam tape and then glued the sentiment to that. I popped the images up with foam squared and finished things off with a little stardust Stickles and glossy accents.

Products used:
Pretty Pink Posh Stitched Stars dies
Mama Elephant Postage Frame dies
Mama Elephant Peekabuddies stamps and dies
Mama Elephant Summer Floaties stamps and dies
Lawn Fawn fish tank ink
Liquid glue
Foam tape and squares
Stickles – stardust
Glossy accents

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

My Favorite Things – Unbelievable Day Scene Card

Welcome everyone and happy Friday! I’m so extra excited to be almost done with the week because camping is right around the corner! Time to unplug, relax and unwind! It’s going to be great. But I wanted to pop in before all of that and share a new card I created with the My Favorite Things Fiery Friends stamp set. It took ages to get to me because of slow shipping, delayed products, all the things, which made it all the sweeter when my package finally arrived.

I had absolutely no card design in mind when I stamped my images. I just wanted some coloring therapy. Uncommon for me but not impossible. So I took my time over a couple of days to color all of these images and then used the coordinating dies to cut them all out. At that point I played around with mini scenes to see if I needed anything additional to make it feel complete.

Ultimately I thought everything balanced out pretty well so I started on my background panel. Given the moon and clouds, I went with a night time feel. I inked blended distress oxide ink on a 3.75 x 5 inch piece of white cardstock and splattered it with water. After blotting it dry I went in with white paint splatter too.

I chose a piece of patterned paper from the Colorful Canvas paper pad, trimming it to 5.5×3.5 inches and gluing it to a white card base. Then I added my images to the scene panel and stamped my sentiment on the bottom. That panel is popped up on the card base with foam tape.

For finishing touches today, I just added glossy accents to the dragon horns and moon. There is a lot going on so I didn’t feel the need to add much but you know I like shiny things!

Products used:
Fiery Friends stamps and dies
Colorful Canvas paper pad
Distress Oxide Ink – chipped sapphire, faded jeans, black soot
Liquid glue
Foam tape and squares
Glossy accents

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

Newton’s Nook – Watercolor Bookmarks

Happy Thursday everyone! I’m happy to be on the Newton’s Nook blog today with a pair of bookmarks using limited supplies but having different outcomes for each.

I created these one after the other so I had mindful intent to make them look different but use the same stamp set, bookmark dies and background stencil. The images are stamped and watercolored with Zig Clean Color Real Brush markers. They are very forgiving and fun markers to use and can give different looks depending if you blend with their blender pen or water and a paint brush.

With my first image being a rainbow stack of books, I wanted to keep the background neutral and though white and gray were the perfect combo to pull such a thing off. Also, with these being bookmarks intended for that use, I glued all the images down with liquid glue, no foam squares today.

For the second bookmark I chose a limited color palette with a background color that followed suit. For my sentiment this time, I glued two extra die cuts from the bookmark die set together.

Both of the bookmarks have wide ribbon threaded through the hole, tied with embroidery floss. I like a good plume coming out of the top of my book so I’m not digging for where my bookmark is. But you could alter that to your taste as well.

Products used:
All Booked Up stamps and dies
Bookmarks dies
Cascading Stars stencil
Blending brushes
Liquid glue

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

Spellbinders – Leafy Lines Backgrounds

Hi there! Earlier this month Spellbinders released a new line of stamps in partnership with Stampendous that are fabulous background stamps. I shared a couple of cards using the Streamers stamps and today I’m back with a couple of cards using Leafy Lines.

For my first card, I heat embossed the leafy lines images on a piece of watercolor cardstock and blended different green distress oxide inks over the top. I spritzed the panel with water and blotted it dry before cutting it out with a Mirrored Arch Label die. I took the next size up in the nested die set and cut that from kraft cardstock for a little frame.

Next, I chose a green cardstock to emboss with the Columns embossing folder. Using the same green and kraft cardstocks I cut my sentiment and shadows out as well. Then I used liquid glue to adhere the layers together, popping the leafy lines panel up with foam tape and then popping the sentiments up with foam squares on that.

Finally, I added a scattering of green smooth discs across the design for added interest.

For my next card, I stamped the images with VersaFine brown ink so I could watercolor the image. This was so relaxing to do! I highly recommend giving it a try.

When the panel was dry, I trimmed it down to A2 size and glued it to a card base. Then I took the mirrored arch label dies back out and cut a few layers to hold my sentiment – vellum, light teal and white. Then I cut my sentiment from melon and kraft cardstocks, adding a little greenery in for fun.

The arches are glued together with liquid glue and popped up on the card base. Then The sentiment is popped up on those with the greenery slipped underneath with liquid glue.

I like to let the texture of the watercolor shine on these type of cards so I held off on any “finishing touches” for this one. I love how it looks just as it is.

Products used:
Leafy Lines background stamps
Mirrored Arches Labels dies
Stitched Kaleidoscope Arch dies (greenery)
Columns embossing folder
Thanks Enclosed Sentiments dies
Liquid glue
Foam tape and squares
Distress Oxide Ink – forest moss, mowed lawn, shabby shutters, twisted citron

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Doodlebugs – Out of this World Combos

Hey friends! I’m on the Doodlebugs blog today for Mix it up Monday and it’s totally out of this world! I mixed some fun Pretty Pink Posh and Mama Elephant goodies together to create an anniversary card for my husband recently and am excited to share it with you.

I started by choosing a few images from Mama Elephant Little Agenda Spaceship, stamping and coloring them with copic markers. Then cut them out with the coordinating dies and glued my pup in his rocket with liquid glue.

Switching gears to the background, I cut the Pretty Pink Posh Pierced Stars cover plate from black cardstock and backed it with yellow cardstock from my stash. I inked the edges with Lawn Fawn yeti ink and then went over that with distress oxide mustard seed for a faint glowy look. Then I splattered it with iridescent watercolor for some shimmer.

While the watercolor was drying, I heat embossed the sentiment from Pretty Pink Posh Outer Space and fussy cut it out. With the watercolor dry, I added the images with foam squares and carefully added liquid glue to the back of the vellum and adhered it as well.

For finishing touches I added bits of glossy accents to each of the images and a scattering of clay stars across the whole design. We are in outer space after all.

Products used:
Mama Elephant Little Agenda Space Ship stamps and dies
Pretty Pink Posh Pierced Stars cover plate
Pretty Pink Posh Outer Space stamps
Liquid glue
Foam squares
Glossy accents
Lawn Fawn Yeti ink
Distress Oxide Mustard Seed ink
Blending brushes
LH Colors iridescent watercolor
Twiddler’s Nook Sailor Moon clay embellishments

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

Newton’s Nook – A2 Card Layout 2 Inspiration Addition

Hey friends! Remember the backgrounds I shared on Tuesday this week during the Newton’s Nook release reveals? I’m back today with a card I created using another one! Stay tuned for the final 2 coming very soon. But first…

This background is the one I created with the insert panels glued directly to the card base and the frame is popped up with foam strips. This version of the background is the perfect one to create shakers with if you like that style of card too!

The colors I chose for the insert panels just really gave me bee vibes so I couldn’t resist pulling out the new Heartfelt Honeycomb stamps and dies from the June release. Aren’t they the perfect addition!?!

After adding my images with foam squares and liquid glue, I came back through with stardust Stickles on the bee wings and white gel pen highlights on all the honey drips.

Such a simple and quick card to put together and I just love the color combo so much too!

Products used:
Heartfelt Honeycomb stamps and dies
Banner Trio dies
Natural Basics paper pad
A2 Card Layout 2 die
Foam squares and strips
Liquid glue
Stickles – stardust
Embossing and watermark ink
Anti-static brush
Embossing powder – frosting

If you haven’t checked out the July Newton’s Nook release, be sure to! It’s so fun!

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