Pink & Main – Happy New Year

Hello and welcome everyone! I’m over on the Pink & Main blog today sharing one more fun card and I couldn’t resist pulling out the gorgeous New Year sets one more time before the big day is here.

I used a couple of paper pads to “cheat” really awesome effects today. First, I stamped and heat embossed the disco ball from Party Time on one of the papers from the Holographic Set 1 paper pad. The way it shines is the light is so cool, just like a disco ball! Then, instead of getting out my inks for a background, I chose one of my very favorite sheets from the Inked Oasis paper pad. Then I stamped and heat embossed “Happy New Year” in pink champagne embossing powder! So stunning!

I also stamped the girl from Party Time and colored her with copic markers. I used the coordinating die to cut her out and added foam squares to attach her to the heat embossed panel. I did the same with the disco ball. But when I was going to put my card together, I wanted a little something else. So I took an A2 piece of white cardstock and embossed it using the Roundabout embossing folder.

I glued that to a white card base and popped my scene panel up with foam tape. Isn’t this just so much fun!?! I love the colors and all the sparkle and shine. Perfect for a new year celebration!

For finishing touches, I added Touch of Gloss to the girl’s bows and white gel pen highlights to her dress and boots. She’s totally ready to ring in the New Year! Last of all, I added a scattering of Snow Day glitter enamel dots and my card is finished!

Products used:
Party Time stamps and dies
Happy New Year stamps
Roundabout embossing folder
Inked Oasis paper pad
Holographic Set 1 paper pad
Snow Day glitter enamel dots
Touch of Gloss
Embossing Powder – pink champagne
Embossing & Watermark Ink
Magic Anti-static Brush

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

Newton’s Nook – Meowy Christmas

Meowy Christmas everyone! I hope you all have a wonderful day full of all the people and things you love! I have a fun treat bag to share with you that I made for my daughter.

I realized a few days before Christmas that I had a gift card for her but nothing to put it in. Well, I definitely had to remedy that, so I dug through my mental catalog and thought it would be fun to made this Lawn Fawn tote bag and decorate it.

I started with the Newton’s Nook Canine Christmas paper pad so cut the bag and assembled it with EZ tear tape. Then, to decorate it I chose this sweet kitty from Newton’s Nook Christmas Kittens stamp set. I colored it with copic markers and used the coordinating dies to cut it out. I used a little liquid glue to add the holly to his hat and foam squares to attach him to the bag.

Next, I cut banners from the Newton’s Nook Frames & Flags die set from black and white cardstock. I heat embossed a sentiment on one and glued them together, then to the box. Isn’t this so cute!?! For finishing touches, I added Touch of Gloss to the kitten’s nose and holly berries. Then I added black glaze pen to his eyes and set the bag aside to dry.

I didn’t want the “to” to be bold and distract from the kitty so I cut a small circle using the same paper pad and Newton’s Nook Circle Frames dies. Then I cut an “M” from black cardstock using the Newton’s Nook Essential Alphabet dies and glued it on. I used some baker’s twine from my stash to tie it on the back side. We all have different initials in our house so it was easy to leave just the “M” to tell who the gift is for.

I hope you enjoyed my project today! This sweet kitty just makes me smile!

Products used:
Newton’s Nook A Kitten Christmas stamps and dies
Newton’s Nook Essential Alphabet dies
Newton’s Nook Circle Frames dies
Newton’s Nook Frames & Flags dies
Newton’s Nook Canine Christmas paper pad
Lawn Fawn Tote Bag die
Pink & Main embossing ink and powder
Pink & Main magic anti-static brush
Pink & Main EZ tear tape – 1/4″
Pink & Main Touch of Gloss

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

Pink & Main – Love You S’more

Hello everyone! It’s been a bit since I’ve been on here. Today I’m over on the Pink & Main blog switching gears from Christmas to more of a Valentine feel using one of the new stamps from the December release – Hello Winter. It’s got another round of those adorable s’mores snowmen doing adorable things with punny and cute sentiments to go with them all.

As soon as I saw the adorable “couldn’t love you s’more” sentiment I just had to pair it with this guy reaching out for a hug. It also led me directly to my awesome heart cover dies from last year that I’m obsessed with. I decided it would be fun to make a glitter shaker card so let’s do it!

I started by ink blending a white panel with distress oxide ink in spun sugar and festive berries. I spritzed it with water and let it dry. Then I die cut the Heart Spotlight cover die from white cardstock. I lined it with EZ Tear Tape and added acetate to the back. Then I carefully lined the edges and some of the rays with foam strips. Adding strips to the rays adds stability but also makes it like a maze for the glitter to move around so it doesn’t all stay in the same place when it’s shaking.

I used my Magic Anti-static brush to reduce static on the inked panel and also the acetate before sprinkling some raspberry super fine glitter on the acetate side. This way I know the glitter is between the foam strips and doesn’t impede them adhering to the cardstock. I removed the backing paper and added the inked panel to seal it all up.

I stamped and colored my s’more guy with copic markers before die cutting him with the coordinating die, along with those cute hearts floating up. I added foam squares to the back of everything and popped it in place over the large heart.

Next, I inked a scrap of cardstock with more festive berries distress oxide ink and heat embossed the sentiment in white. I used a layered circle die to cut it out and popped it up too.

For finishing touches, I added white gel pen dots to the scarf for texture and Touch of Gloss to the buttons, nose, cheeks are hearts. This way we have shimmer from the glitter shaker and shine from the cute snowman s’more! Best of both worlds together.

I love that this fun stamp set gets you through so many winter holidays and occasions, and them some! It’s so good!

Products used today:
Hello Winter stamps and dies
Heart Spotlight cover die
Layered Circle dies
Super Fine Glitter – raspberry
EZ Tear Tape – 1/8 inch
EZ Squeeze Glue
Magic Anti-static Brush
Watermark & Embossing Ink
Embossing Powder – frosting
Distress Oxide Ink – spun sugar and festive berries
Foam strips and squares
Touch of Gloss

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

Pink & Main – Snow Kind of You

Hello everyone! I’m over on the Pink & Main blog today with a sneak peek of the December release and some inspiration using the Stamp and Die of the Month – Snow One Like You. How sweet are these little penguins having a snow ball fight?!? I totally adore them!

I started off by playing with the upcoming Snowflake embossing folder. I inked up one side with my Embossing & Watermark ink pad, then I ran it through the die cut machine with white cardstock. Then I sprinkled on some new denim embossing powder. This new deep blue is so gorgeous! I heated that up and set the panel aside. Next, I grabbed a scrap of white cardstock and smeared my embossing ink across the long edge and covered it with more denim embossing powder.

But wait! I wasn’t done playing with some of the new colors of embossing powder coming your way so I stamped some snowflakes from the stamp set and embossed them with chameleon. It totally changes color and is so gorgeous! I used the coordinating dies to cut those out and set them aside too.

Finally, I stamped two of the penguins from Snow One Like You and colored them with my copic markers. I used the coordinating dies to cut them out and started arranging my mini scenes. That’s when I thought it would be fun to use sentiment strips as my ground for each one. So I stamped and heat embossed those and used my favorite strip dies from the Sunny Greeting die set to cut them out.

I adhered a strip of the embossing scrap to the edge of my note card. Then I trimmed the snowflakes down to 4×5.5 inches and popped them up with foam tape. I also added foam squares to the snowflakes, images and sentiment strips before adhering them to the card front too.

I kept the finishing touches simple because there is so much sparkle in the embossing powder. I added Touch of Gloss to the penguin beaks and this guy’s feet. Then I also came in and added some to the edges of their snowballs and hills.

I like to have winter themed thank you cards on hand for gifts during the holidays so I’m really happy to have such a variety of fabulous sentiments in this stamp set. The images are so adorable and fun to color too!

Products used today:
Snow One Like You stamps and dies
Snowflakes embossing folder
Embossing & Watermark Ink
Embossing Powder – denim and chameleon
Sunny Greetings dies
Touch of Gloss
EZ Squeeze liquid glue
Foam tape and squares

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

Newton’s Nook – Deck the Halls with Inky Paws Blog Hop

Hey crafty friends! It’s time, once again, for the Newton’s Nook Deck the Halls with Inky Paws Hop. I hope you have enjoyed inspiration from guest designers on the Newton’s Nook blog all week. Now, today we come together with a bundle of holiday inspiration and a hop with prizes up for grabs!

For my card, I started by stamping and coloring the adorable Dairy Christmas images, plus a couple of extra holly bits. I used the coordinating dies to cut them out and set them aside to start cutting all the layers to my slimline scene.

I started with the main die in the Slimline Frames & Portholes die set, cutting it from blue sparkle and white cardstock. Then I used one of the land borders dies to cut my different snow drifts. I inked up the edges with a light teal ink to help define one from the other.

After layering things together I wanted to fill my scene a little more so I cut some trees from the Forest Scene Builder dies, plus a bird, and the fence die too. I used copics to add depth and dimension to them all and started layering things together.

I used liquid glue for all my layers but popped my critters up with foam tape. Once I got to this point, I decided to add my sentiment to the bottom of the scene instead of the sky. I thought it fit better but didn’t really want the bold of black ink so I used gray to soften it a bit. Then I glued my holly bits in place to decorate things a little more

With the slimline panel all put together, I popped it up on a 3.5×8.5 inch piece of brown cardstock and adhered that to a slimline card base.

For finishing touches, I added white gel pen highlights to a few areas and black glaze pen to the critter’s eyes. I added glossy accents to the holly berries and tree on the cow’s blanket. Aren’t they soooooo cute?!? I love this pile!

Products used today:
Dairy Christmas stamps and dies
Fence die
Slimline Frames & Portholes dies
Land Borders dies
Forest Scene Builder dies
Foam tape and squares
Glossy accents

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Newton’s Nook Designs
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Ellen Haxelmans
Tina Herbeck
Larissa Heskett
Samantha Mann
Zsofia Molnar
Maria Russell
Farhana Sarker
Tatiana Trafimovich
Amanda Wilcox

My Favorite Things Stamps – Be Merry Shaker and a Bonus Card

Welcome everyone! Today I have a really simple and fun shaker card to share with you using MFT Stamps products. Then at the end I have a bonus card to share using leftover die cuts I had from the first card. They’re both so much fun and so festive!

I knew I wanted to make a shaker card with the Be Merry dies so I chose my cardstock, die cut a smaller rectangle and then cut the Be Merry from that. Be sure to se those letters aside, especially the little center pieces too! We’ll need it all in the end.

Line the back of your rectangle with tear tape and adhere acetate over the letter openings. Then add foam strips to create a well for your shaker bits. Sprinkle whatever you like – my daughter chose Snowy Day from my shop and blue sequins from our stash – then seal it up with white cardstock that’s about a half inch larger than the panel.

Stamp some adorable penguins from Polar Opposites (this set is retired but use whatever cute critters you have) and color them with copic markers. I used the coordinating dies to cut them out and popped them up over the words with foam squares. I used liquid glue to adhere the inside bits to my letters and then added the shaker mechanism to a white card base.

For finishing touches I added a bit of star dust Stickles to penguin’s hat and shirt, black glaze pen to their eyes and glossy accents to their beaks and feet.

Now, remember those letters we kept from the very beginning die cutting? Let’s not let those go to waste either!

I started by cutting the letters from white cardstock using some scraps 3 more times and glued them together for height and stability. Then I chose an ombre of green to white cardstock from my stash and cut 1/4 inch strips of each one. I adhered them all to a piece of copy paper and trimmed it down to fit on my card base.

Next, I did a little ink blending on my die cut letters to give them some shading at the bottom and mirrored the effect on an A2 piece of the same color cardstock that will go on my card front. I adhered the letters with liquid glue and added foam tape to the strips to pop it up on the red cardstock.

Then I glued the whole panel to a white card base and came in with my Wink of Stella glitter brush pen on the top layer of my letters. This subtle shimmer is super pretty but doesn’t detract from the fun design with all those holiday stripes!

I hope you enjoyed this cards today and find some holiday inspiration!

Products used:
MFT Stamps Polar Opposites stamps and dies
MFT Stamps Be Merry dies
Pink & Main Layered Rectangles dies
Twiddler’s Nook Snowy Day embellishments
Foam strips and squares
Liquid glue
Wink of Stella glitter brush pen
Stickles – star dust
Glossy accents

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

Pink & Main – Winter Cardinals Tag

Hello everyone! I’m back on the Pink & Main blog today and wanted to share my project with you. I create one special tag for everyone in my family at Christmas and I’m a bit behind. This weekend I got some fun inspiration when we had snow flurries and I was watching the puffy flakes fall.

For this tag, I started by die cutting all the layers for my snowflake tag. I used one of the incredible papers from the Holographic 2 pad, along with green ,white and vellum. I stacked them together, adhering each layer with foam squares or strips except the vellum which is adhered with liquid glue hiding underneath the foam strips on the layer above it.

Then I chose this sweet bird from Winter Cardinals and colored him with my copic markers. I made him blue to stand out from the snowflake and candy canes. Then I color matched my markers and the green cardstock layer to make his scarf coordinate. I love it! He is popped up with foam squares as well. I love dimension and since this is a gift tag, I didn’t have to worry about it being “mailable” which was a bonus!

For finishing touches, I added a few white gel pen highlights to the image and black glaze pen to his eyes. Then I came in with star dust Stickles on both candy canes and a teeny bit of Touch of Gloss on his beak.

I die cut a second full snowflake shape from white cardstock to give me somewhere to write to and from and glued it to the back of the green layer. I also chose a sentiment from Winter Cardinals to stamp before adhering it. Then I strung some red sparkle twine through the snowflake layers and my tag is all finished!

Products used today:
Winter Cardinals stamps and dies
Stacked Snowflakes dies
Holographic 2 paper pad
EZ Squeeze liquid glue
Foam squares
Touch of Gloss
Stickles – star dust

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

Spellbinders – Sealed Collection

Hey everyone! I’m super excited to be sharing that I’m guest designing for Spellbinders and their amazing Sealed Collection! If you haven’t tried making your own wax seals, I can’t recommend it enough! Every video I’ve watched and blog I’ve read touts how addicting and fun they are to create. Well, I’m here to confirm that is absolutely true! I have been making bunches of them. It’s so fun to try different colors of wax, mixing and matching, all the things!

I created a trio of cards today following about the same layout but with different backgrounds and extras. I hope you like them and find some inspiration to give this a try!

I started simple by die cutting a few of the Sealed Squiggles from different colors and the Sealed Sprigs too. I mixed and matched berry colors and adhered everything together. Then I started separating them into groups to create cards. I played off the gold glitter paper in the berries to cut the Sealed Twine from as well.

I kept the background simple with some ink blending in an ombre and used the lighter of the inks to stamp a sentiment using Mini Christmas Greetings stamp and die set. I used liquid glue to adhere everything together and topped the twine off with my favorite Christmas Truck wax seal and a mixture of red and gold wax.

Next, using all the same products, I stepped the background up a little by hot foiling the Layered Geometric Diamond plate on dark blue cardstock using Prism hot foil. I cut the foiled background down with a layered rectangle die, adhered all of my elements and popped the panel up with foam tape on a white card base.

For my last card share today, I hot foiled the same background but this time I did it on white cardstock and used the incredible layering stencil set that coordinates to fill in the openings and create a stunning background, full of interest and texture. This card is assembled the same as the one previous with a little dimension adding to the mix too.

I hope you enjoyed these projects and I would really love to know if you’ve jumped in with both feet on wax seal making as well! It’s so much fun. I’ve also started adding them to the back of envelopes too!

Products used today:
Wax Seal Starter Kit
Sending Flowers wax seal stamp
Christmas Truck was seal stamp
Sealed Berry Sprig dies
Sealed Squiggles dies
Geometric Diamond hot foil plate
Geometric Diamond layering stencils
Sealed Twine die
Wax Beads – red and pastel aqua
Mini Christmas Greetings stamps and dies
Glimmer Hot Foil Variety Pack – Spellbound

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Ellen Hutson – Merry Christmas Reindeer Die Cut Card

Welcome to my crafty space! I’m so glad you’re here today! I have a (mostly) die cut card to share with you today that is totally adorable and super fun! I used the new Ellen Hutson Sew Cute Deer die set with paper instead of felt stitching. Don’t worry, I’ll be stitching him up in felt very soon too! I just love making those fun ornaments!

Today though, I have this really fun card to share using him as a fabulous focal point on your Christmas cards! I cut all the pieces from various cardsotck colors, using glitter cardstock for the nose. I used liquid glue to adhere all the pieces together and set him aside.

Then I cut a piece of white cardstock from the Pink & Main Plaid cover die and adhered it to a white card base. Next, I stamped the sentiment and used a Pink & Main Mod Stitched Rectangle die to cut it out. Laying the reindeer and sentiment on my card front, I decided on placement. Holding the reindeer in place, I flipped it over and made marks where I would be trimming it off. This helped me keep the foam tape inside those areas to pop him up.

So, then I added the foam tape, adhered the reindeer and trimmed the edges. I used a combination of foam squares and liquid glue to adhere the sentiment rectangle.

Isn’t this just adorable and fun!?! It would be a fun design to mass produce if you have a lot of cards to make but still give great visual texture and interest.

Products used today:
Ellen Hutson Sew Cute Deer dies
Ellen Hutson It’s Christmastime stamps
Pink & Main Plaid cover die
Pink & Main Mod Stitched Rectangle dies
Liquid glue
Foam tape

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

Lawn Fawn – Fortune Teller Tabby

Happy weekend crafty friends! I”m back with another Tag Time Saturday because, you guessed it, we are headed to another dance competition for me daughter.

After last time and finally getting to see the shows for the first time I switched gears to play off one of the girls’ performances for today’s tag.

I started with the Lawn Fawn Fortune Teller Tabby set and stamped the kitty to color with my copic markers. After that, I used the coordinating die to cut her out. I stamped and heat embossed a sentiment, using a sentiment strip die to cut that out too.

For my tag shape, I used the Lawn Fawn Puffy Stars dies. I took a scrap of white cardstock and ink smooshed different yellows all over it. Then I cut three sizes of stars from the panel plus two additional white stars from the largest one. I used liquid glue to adhere all the inked stars together and popped my fortune teller up with foam squares. I used a combo of liquid glue and foam strip to add the sentiment.

On one of the white stars, I stamped a sentiment from Lawn Fawn Lucky Stars and wrote a message to my daughter. Then, on the second white star I wrote her name and school so they know where to deliver it to. I layered them together and used a Fiskars punch to punch a hole and thread baker’s twine through.

To add a little whimsy to the fortune teller theme, I took the Pink & Main scratch off sticker sheets and die cut a circle to stick over the crystal ball. I used washi tape to stick a Pink & Main scratcher to the inside star so she can reveal the secret message when she gets it!

For finishing touches I just added glossy accents to the kitty’s nose and white gel pen highlights to the image.

Products used today:
Lawn Fawn Fortune Teller Tabby stamps and dies
Lawn Fawn Puffy Stars dies
Lawn Fawn Extra Sentiment Strip dies
Lawn Fawn Lucky Stars stamps
Pink & Main Scratch Off sticker sheet
Pink & Main Magic Anti-static brush
Pink & Main Frosting embossing powder
Pink & Main Embossing and Watermark ink
Pink & Main Scratchers
Foam squares and strips
Glossy accents

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