Newton’s Nook – Back to Basics Release Day 1

Hey friends! Did you see the release reveals on the Newton’s Nook blog yesterday? Well, just in case you missed it I’m going to summarize them and then jump into a card using one of the new die sets and paper pad! First up…

Frames & Tags die set

A2 Card Layout die

Basic Frames dies

Pastel Basics paper pad

Brights Basics paper pad

Newton’s Bright Birthday stamps and dies

Oh my word! Wasn’t that a lot of amazing??? It’s all so great and has been a blast to create with! Today I’m using the Frames & Flags dies with the Bright Basics paper pad.

I cut the frame from white cardstock and the largest tag from black cardstock. Then I stamped and colored my image from Newton’s Kite and used the coordinating die to cut him out. I stamped my sentiment part on the tag and part of a piece of cardstock I colored with the same color I used on the kite.

Next I chose paper from the Bright Basics paper pad and cut them down to A2 size. I die cut the green with the new zig zag rectangle in the Frames & Tags die set and popped it up with foam tape on the red polka dots. Then I glued the white frame to that and popped my image and sentiment tag up with foam squares.

For finishing touches today, I threaded black jute twine through the tag hole and added glossy accents to Newton’s nose and the kite tail.

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Doodlebugs – Pair of Tags for Thank You Gifts

Welcome to another Mix it up Monday for the Doodlebugs blog! This time I needed a couple of tags for thank you gifts I was giving at work. The gifts were really pretty candles, one pink and one orange, so I pulled my color inspiration from that. It’s a great little trick to remember if you’re stuck for palette inspiration.

I dug through all my fun tag shapes and landed on this awesome see-through tag from Pretty Pink Posh. I cut one orange and one pink, then two white for the back layer. I sandwiched acetate between the layers so I had somewhere to adhere my images.

Trying to decide what images to use, I came across the adorable Mama Elephant Flower Shower set and thought these flowers would be perfect colored in the deep colors I was going for. So I chose two, stamped and colored them, then used the coordinating dies to cut them out.

Next, time to choose a sentiment. Obviously, I needed a thank you style but which one? I felt super punny when I read “thanks a bunch” in the Mama Elephant Banner Greetings die set and couldn’t resist. I cut the solid banner from white and the sentiment layer from black, adhering them with liquid glue.

After popping the sentiment banners and images up with foam on the tag shapes, I tied twine through the holes in coordinating colors and added glossy accents to critter noses and flower centers. Last I added black glaze pen to the critter eyes to help them shine.

These tags added just enough to a simple gift to make it feel special and that little extra.

Products used:
Mama Elephant Flower Shower stamps and dies
Mama Elephant Banner Greetings dies
Pretty Pink Posh Birthday Circles dies
Foam squares and strips
Glossy accents
Liquid glue
1/8″ tear tape
Sakura gelly roll glaze pen – black

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

Pretty Pink Posh – Shake Your Bunny Tail

Hi friends! I had so much fun guest designing for Pretty Pink Posh this month and wanted to be sure to share all the wonderful creations I made. Today is a fun shaker card just in time for Easter.

I die cut all the pieces from the Pretty Pink Posh Bunny Face Shaker die set and used liquid glue to adhere it all together. Then I cut a piece of pink cardstock to 4×5.25 inches and inked it up in light purple with the new Easter Words stencil.

Recycling some stamp packaging, I created a full front shaker pouch with the new Easter Bunnies clay confetti shaker mix. After the shaker panel was filled and sealed up, I adhered it to a white card base with EZ tear tape. Dry adhesive works better on the plastic packaging than liquid.

Last, I just adhered my sweet bunny head to the front of the shaker window with the same tear tape. I left this card with no specific sentiment on the front but I think when I decide who it’s going to I’ll stamp a fun, punny sentiment on the inside.

Products used:
Easter Words stencil
Easter Bunnies clay confetti mix
Bunny Face Shaker dies
Liquid glue
EZ tear tape – 1/4″
Blending brush
Lawn Fawn ink – juice box

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

Miss Ink Stamps – March Release Day

Welcome everyone! It’s release day for Miss Ink Stamps and we’re all celebrating with the new, fun goodies! Today I have a card for you sharing a new addition to the Magical series called Letters. It’s a fabulous addition and was so fun to create a scene with.

I colored everything with copic markers and used my scan-n-cut to cut it all out because we didn’t get dies in time. Then I used a banner die to cut out my sentiment and set it all aside to create my living room scene.

I took and A2 white panel and used my scoring board to create a baseboard. Then I turned the panel the other way and scored from the top of the baseboard up to create a wainscoting look along the wall. I used a few post-it notes to mask things off and ink blended the baseboard and floor.

I used liquid glue to adhere all of my images and sentiment banner, with the exception of Harry. He is popped up on foam squares. Last of all, I came in with glossy accents on all the letter seals and Harry’s glasses.

I hope you’ll take a moment to check out the Miss Ink Stamps store and see all the wonderful new products in today’s release.

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

Coffee Loving Cardmakers – Spring |Summer Hop

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If you have friends who are close and you wouldn’t mind spreading the word, I would really appreciate it. If I can fill the spots this spring, we’ll be having another even in the late summer for all things holiday!

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

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Miss Ink Stamps – March Release Previews

Happy Thursday everyone! I’ve got a little peek and what’s coming from Miss Ink Stamps on Saturday. Another super fun and cute one you’re sure to love! Today I’m sharing Bear and Bunny World. I love these two together. They’re so sweet!

I stamped and colored the main image with my copic markers. Instead of using the leaf images in the set, I pulled out the Oh Happy Day dies and went to down cutting florals and leaves, then used liquid glue to adhere them all together.

Next, I used two more dies from Oh Happy Day to cut a stitched rectangle and a white scalloped frame. I ink blended a light yellow halo coming from the center and then glued the frame in place with liquid glue. I popped Bear and Bunny up with foam squares and added the florals and leaves with a combo of foam squares and liquid glue as well.

I cut the sentiment out with a banner and popped it up under the florals with foam strips. Then I had a few tiny flowers left and I couldn’t let them go to waste so I tried them up in the corner and loved it so I glued those down too.

The whole thing is popped up on a white card base with foam tape and the flower centers all got a good dose of stardust Stickles for some sparkle. Then I came in with black glaze pen on bear and bunny’s eyes and noses.

Head to the Miss Ink Stamps IG account for a listing of who else is sneak peaking today, then head to the shop on Saturday to snag your favorites!

Products used:
Bear and Bunny World stamps
Oh Happy Day dies
Blending brush
Lawn Fawn sunflower ink
Foam tape and squares
Liquid glue
Sakura Gelly Roll Glaze pen – black
Stickles – stardust

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

Pretty Pink Posh – March Release IG Hop Day 4

Hello and welcome! I wanted to share that I’m taking part in the Pretty Pink Posh March Release IG Hop today! I’m sharing a really fun stenciled card and there’s tons of other inspiration on the hop if you want to join us.

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Mama Elephant – Celebrating You

Hey friends! I have been playing with the new Mama Elephant piggies and wanted to share my latest card. They’re so sweet, especially when stamped in a brown ink. I love how soft it makes the images.

The images for today’s card come from a combination of Little Pig Agenda and Painting Piggies stamp sets. I stamped everything in brown copic-friendly ink and colored with my copic markers. Then I used the coordinating dies to cut everything out. I love how the pig dies from Painting Piggies cut their hooves out so they can hold everything!

Next, I cut the Heart Grid from kraft cardstock and adhered it to a white card base. Next, I used one of the Banner Greetings dies to cut the words from teal and background from kraft. I adhered the layers with liquid glue and popped this, along with my images up on foam squares and strips.

Aren’t they all just the cutest you’ve ever seen?!? He’s like a little Pig-caso painting up a masterpiece for his friend!

Yes, I think I’m hilarious. I love puns more than I should. I’m also aware of this.

Products used:
Little Pig Agenda stamps and dies
Painting Piggies stamps and dies
Heart Grid die
Banner Greetings dies
Liquid glue
Foam squares
Lawn Fawn ink – crunchy leaf

Pretty Pink Posh – Sending Spring Smiles

Hello crafty friends! I’m excited to be on the Pretty Pink Posh blog today sharing a card I created using the new March release of goodies, plus some previously released dies that I seem to reach for over and over again.

I started by stamping my bunny cupcake image from the Easter Cupcakes set using a brown copic-friendly ink. I colored the image and used the coordinating die to cut it out. Then I switched gears to stenciling my background panel.

For that, I layered the Easter Words stencil over a piece of white cardstock and randomly inked it with light and bright spring colors. After I removed the stencil I went over the panel with the same color in all the different areas. This brings another layer to the words and colors in the white background at the same time. Once that was done I used the largest Wonky Stitched Rectangle die to cut the panel out.

I cut a white tag and yellow circle using the Spring Circles coordinating dies and ink blended a yellow shadow on the white tag. I layered all my pieces with foam squares, then glued the tag to the stenciled panel with liquid glue.

Then, I stamped a sentiment from the Easter Train set and cut it out with a Sentiment Strip die and popped it up below my cupcake. Before popping the whole thing up on a card base, I took a light orange ink pad and drug it across the edges for a textured inky look.

For finishing touches I just added glossy accents to the bunny’s nose and eyes.

Are you ready for Easter yet? We’re excited at my house!

Products used:
Easter Cupcakes stamps and dies
Easter Train stamps
Sentiment Strip dies
Wonky Stitched Rectangles dies
Spring Circles dies
Easter Words stencil
Blending brushes
Lawn Fawn dye inks – sunflower, cilantro, mermaid, ballet slippers, peach fuzz
Glossy accents
Liquid glue
Foam tape and squares

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

Doodlebugs – Hip Hip Hooray Hot Foiling

Happy Mix it up Monday everyone! I had so much fun mixing so many companies together to create these fun cards! It all started with the backgrounds and quickly grew from there. Do you ever have that with a new layered stencil? You have to try it in a billion color combinations just to see what you actually like together…or maybe you love them all and you just keep going? The second thought was more what happened to me this time.

After creating my stenciled backgrounds with the Pretty Pink Posh Half Stars stencil set, I took one of the ink pads (peach fuzz and peachy keen) and drug it across two card fronts so they color matched my ink blending.

Next, I hot foiled two “hip hip hoorays” from Spellbinders using gold hot foil and the coordinating die to cut them out. When I was looking for my hot foil plates, I found the Spellbinders Make a Wish Arch Labels and thought the tag in that set would be perfect to add to my design. I cut two of those from teal cardstock in my stash and threaded black twine through the holes.

You all know how I love my critters so it was inevitable that when I felt like my design was missing something, I went digging for a cutie to add. The Mama Elephant Hello Froggy set came out a year or so ago but I just recently ordered it so I was more than excited for the chance to use it! I stamped my dapper froggy and colored him with copics before using the coordinating die to cut him out.

With all my elements laid out and ready to go, I started assembling with foam tape, squares and liquid glue. Then I finished the design off with a bit of glossy accents on the froggy’s bowtie and buttons.

I forgot to take a picture but on the inside of each card I stamped a sentiment from Hello Froggy that says “You’re Froggin Awesome” because I thought it went so perfectly with the front.

Products used:
Mama Elephant Hello Froggy stamps and dies
Pretty Pink Posh Half Stars stencils
Spellbinders Make a Wish Arch Labels dies
Spellbinders Hip Hip Hooray hot foil plate
Spellbinders gold hot foil
Foam tape and squares
Liquid glue
Glossy accents
Lawn Fawn inks – peachy keen, peach fuzz, mermaid
Blending brushes

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