Trinity Stamps – Sweet Summer Celebration Release Hop

Hey friends! I’m so happy to be celebrating with Trinity Stamps for their Sweet Summer Celebration release! Today we have a blog hop for inspiration and chances to win. I have two cards to share with you today and will be back in the coming weeks with more!

First up, I have a super fun birthday slimline featuring the new Birthday Shark stamps and dies along with a couple of previously release stencil sets for fun!

I started my card by stamping and coloring that adorable shark with my copic markers. Then I used the coordinating die to cut it out, along with stamping and cutting a sentiment too. I love that these dies cut the coordinating sentiments from the set! It’s my favorite!

For the background panel, I took a piece of white cardstock and used dye inks with the Waving Hello stencil in teal and blue inks. Then I layered the Layered Balloons stencils over that using distress oxide inks because they are pigment and will sit on top of the other ink, rather than blending together. I thought it helped set the scene a bit more.

Next, I took the fish in the set and used a gray dye ink to stamp them in the background before popping my shark and sentiment up with foam squares. Before adhering this to a card panel, I trimmed it down to about 8×3.5 inches and added some washi tape to the right edge of the card base. I used liquid glue to adhere the panel and moved on to finishing touches.

There’s a lot going on in this fun scene, so I just added glossy accents to the shark’s balloon and unicorn Stickles to his party hat and gift.

Isn’t this just adorable and so much fun! I can hardly wait to give this one away! It’s going to be such a hit.

Now, for my second card, I have a fun interactive, light-up card featuring the Little Light stamps and dies and a soft watercolor background.

I stamped and colored the main image with my copic markers and cut it out. Then I stamped and heat embossed my sentiment on black and used a coordinating die to cut that out too. Then I started playing with some watercolors to create a simple background.

Once those were dry, I used an Embossed Edge Rectangle die to cut the watercolor panel down and started deciding where to position my light behind it.

I traced the inside of the die I used onto a piece of orange cardstock the size of my card front and set my EZ Light on it about where I thought it would go. I laid the watercolor panel on top and the fish image on that. Nothing is glued down! I pressed where the button was to make sure the light was shining in the correct area and carefully removed the panel so I could trace the light location. This might sound complicated but it’s super easy.

I used tear tape to adhere the light in place and then covered the panel with double thick foam inside the pencil line. Remember, I traced the inside of the die so this line won’t show at all and you don’t have to worry about erasing it. Next, I removed the release paper and adhered the watercolor panel on top.

I stamped “press here” in a blue ink close to the watercolor background, cut it out and glued it in place with liquid glue. Then I added the fish and sentiment with foam squares for some dimension and interest.

Ready to see this fun card all lit up?!? Drum roll please….

Isn’t it so much fun?!? I love it and had so much fun creating it.

Products used on today’s cards:
Birthday Shark stamps and dies
Slimline Layered Balloons stencils
Waving Hello stencils
Little Light stamps and dies
Embossed Edge Rectangle Stack dies
Foam tape
Pear Blossom Press EZ Lights
LH Colors watercolor palette
Glossy accents
Stickles – unicorn
Bearly Arts liquid glue

Remember, this is a blog hop for the release. There are two $50 gift cards to the Trinity Stamps shop up for grabs. Comment here, hop along and comment on all of the other posts to up your chances of winning. The hop ends June 15 at 11:59 PDT. Winners will be announced on the Trinity Stamps blog.

Next in line for the hop is the incredible and amazing Katie Brooks!

Pretty Pink Posh – Sending Monster Hugs

Hey crafty friends! I’m popping in this afternoon with a fun shaker card I create this weekend with my most recent Pretty Pink Posh haul. It wasn’t a huge order but it had somethings I have been wanting for a while and was very excited to play!

I knew I wanted to pair some cute monsters with the stitched film strip die, so that’s where I started. Once I chose my images, I stamped and colored them with copic markers, using the coordinating dies to cut them out. Then, instead of cutting a white film strip frame, I inked up a scrap of cardstock with blue, teal and green inks and cut my frame from that. I love how this part turned out. To keep the background neutral, I inked up a strip of white cardstock lightly with black ink.

To turn the stitched film strip die into a shaker, I adhered the monsters behind the inked frame and then glued a piece of acetate to that. I added foam tape to the film strip frame and filled the wells with Wishing on Rainbow Stars embellishments from Twiddler’s Nook and sealed the panel up with the black ink blended strip I had ready to go.

For a little outer space whimsy, I decided to use two of the three layers from the Spooky Sky stencil set. I started with a 4×5.25 inch panel of gray cardstock and inked the edges with gray ink for a little depth. Then I used white pigment ink on the cloud stencil layer and finished the panel off with yellow ink on the star layer. Using the shaker strip as a guide, I stamped my sentiment in the lower left corner and then added the panel to a card base with foam tape.

I used liquid glue to add the shaker strip to the card from and finished the whole design off with black blaze pen on the eyes and glossy accents on the antennae and horns of the monsters.

I think secretly I’m ready for Halloween or something. I keep being really drawn to all of the things I would usually pull out for spooky crafting. This totally makes me giggle. I suppose it’s like those who love Christmas all year long.

Products used today:
PPP Monster Hugs stamps and dies
PPP Spooky Sky stencils
PPP Stitched Film Strip die
Twiddler’s Nook Wishing On Rainbow Stars embellishments
Foam strips
Bearly Arts liquid glue
Glossy accents

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

Pink & Main – Sunshine & Smiles Slimline Card

Welcome everyone! Today I’m over on the Pink & Main blog sharing this slimline card featuring the newly released Window View stamp set. When I pulled this set out to play with, I immediately wondered if I could fit multiple windows on a slimline card. I absolutely LOVE the fact that I can easily fit two like the front of a house. It’s so fun!

Once, I realized that, I chose the “decorations” for each window and stamped all my images. I colored them with copic markers and used the coordinating dies to cut everything out. I adhered the flower box and puppy with liquid glue and popped the kitty and bee up with foam squares.

Next, I inked blended a slimline panel with aged mahogany and fired brick distress oxide inks. I spritzed the panel with water and blotted it dry before adhering it to a slimline card base measuring 8.5×3.5 inches. I wanted a more substantial sentiment than the one in the Window View set so I went digging and found this cute one in the Spring Sayings stamp set. I stamped and heat embossed it with Icicle embossing powder and cut it out using the smallest Notched Corners die.

I added the windows with foam tape and then layered the sentiment in the upper center with a foam squares and liquid glue where it overlaps the windows. Then I moved on to finishing touches, adding glossy accents to various parts of the images like flower centers and bee wings.

For the critter window, I just added glossy accents to their noses and the kitty’s tag. Aren’t they literally the cutest thing ever?!? I just love their faces!

Products used today:
Window View stamps and dies
Spring Sayings stamps
Notched Corners dies
EZ Squeeze liquid glue
Embossing Ink
Embossing powder – icicle
Anti-static powder tool
Foam tape

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Miss Ink Stamps – Go Bananas

Hey friends! I have a really cool Miss Ink Stamps card to share with you today. It opens in a fun way and I did a little deco foil flock with my stenciling for added interest.

I started by die cutting a yellow panel from an A2 stitched rectangle die. I inked it up with the bananas stencil, first with yellow ink and then a little green on the tips of the banana stems for some dimension.

Next, I cut a stitched banner from kraft cardstock and started inking it up with the Jungle Vines stencils set. I started with two browns on the vines and green for one layer of leaves. For the second layer, I spread Thermoweb transfer gel blanco through it and set it aside to dry. While it was drying, I stamped and colored a monkey and the vine image from Go Bananas and cut them out with the scan-n-cut. After the leaves were dry and the laminator was heated up, I ran the banner through with green deco foil flock in a craft & carrier sheet. I love the fuzzy texture in the background.

For this card, you lift the banner up to write your message. It doesn’t open like a traditional card at all. To do this, I cut two more stitched banners, the same size from kraft cardstock and also a scrap as long as the banner and about an inch wide. I scored that down the middle and adhered it to the back of the stenciled banner, then to the back of the other banner. I used the third banner to adhere to the back of the stenciled one, hiding the hinge I created. It’s purely cosmetic and not necessary to make your card open.

Before adding my images, I placed the banner in my MISTI and stamped a sentiment on the lower right. Then I added the images with foam strips and trimmed off the excess with scissors. Last, I added this to the yellow panel, and my card is all finished.

Isn’t it so much fun!?! If you wanted extra space to write or maybe hide a gift card or something, you could always mount this on a regular card base but you totally don’t have to!

Products used today:
Go Bananas stamps
Bananas stencil
Jungle Vines stencil
Thermoweb transfer gel blanco
Deco Foil Flock – green envy
Stencil pal
Foam strips

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MFT Stamps – You Make My Days Sunshiny

Hello everyone. Thanks for stopping in today. I recently made a few purchases from MFT Stamps and have been playing with a set here and there when I have a moment. Today I have a card featuring one of those stamp sets and the mini slimline outside the box level up dies that I also snagged finally!

For some reason I really fell in love with these sweet critters from the Outdoor Adventures stamp set. I stamped the images, plus lots of extra grass patches, and colored everything with my copic markers. I used the coordinating dies to cut them out and set them aside to work on my box card pieces.

I cut the main pieces from a yellow dot texture cardstock in my stash and the stitched panels from green. Then I cut a snow drift insert to act as my water and a grassy hill insert for my ground. The back panel is cut from the same blue as the water but I inked the edges with different colors to offset them a bit.

I stamped the sentiment from the You Make My Days Sunshiny stamp set on the stitched panel and then started assembling everything. I used scrappy tape for all of the box pieces and liquid glue to add the images to the inserts.

Once everything was together, the sky looked really sparse so I went digging and found the sunshine and clouds in the same set as the sentiment so I stamped, colored and cut them out too. I think that really finishes off this fun scene, don’t you?

Products used today:
Mini Slimline Outside the Box Level Up dies
Mini Slimline Outside the Box Snow Drifts dies
Mini Slimline Outside the Box Grassy Hills dies
You Make My Days Sunshiny stamps
Outdoor Adventures stamps and dies
Scrappy tape – 1/4 inch
Bearly Art liquid glue

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Pink & Main – Ribbit!

Hello everyone! I can’t even begin to explain how excited I am to share today’s card. Do you ever create something that you’re just so perfectly happy with that you’re beaming and love looking at it over and over again? That’s seriously how I am with this card today. I don’t know what it is exactly but I love it so much and I really hope you do too!

I started this card by stamping a few images from the May Stamp of the Month – Ribbit, and colored them with my copic markers. I used the coordinating dies to cut them out and they sat on my desk for a few days because I just couldn’t decide what I wanted to do. Then one night, it all just came together!

My background panel is embossed with the Wide Stripes embossing folder and adhered to a white card base. Then I cut a couple of frames using the A2 Layering Rectangles dies and the Hooray paper pad. Those are adhered with EZ Squeeze liquid glue. Finally I cut the largest Double Stitched Dome from another piece of Hooray paper and popped it up with foam squares. I arranged my images around the dome and popped them up as well.

Totally flying by the seat of my pants, I placed the whole thing in my MISTI and stamped the RIBBIT! sentiment in the center of the dome between that adorable from and the log at the bottom. I seriously love it!

Finally, for finishing touches I added a massive scattering of Silver Glossy Dots around the whole design and glossy accents on things like the cattails and frog’s tongue. I also added unicorn Stickles to the dragonfly wings for extra sparkle.

Isn’t this card so cool!?! I just love it so much and can’t wait to share it with someone soon!

Products used today:
Ribbit stamps and dies
Double Stitched Dome dies
Layered A2 Rectangle dies
Wide Stripes embossing folder
Hooray paper pad
Silver Glossy Dots embellishments
Stickles – unicorn
Glossy accents
Foam squares

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

Miss Ink Stamps – I’m Bacon You a Cake Slider Pop Up Card

Hello everyone. Thanks for stopping by today. This project was an absolute blast to create and by the time I was adding sentiments, I was cracking up. It was so great! I hope you enjoy it too.

Here’s a look at the card all folded up flat like it would come out of the envelope. For the front I used the Punny Farm Pigs stamps and dies from Miss Ink Stamps. I colored everything with my copic markers and cut it all out. Then I took an A2 panel and inked up the Scene Builder: Clouds stencil on it plus an extra for underneath. I layered the Sparkles stencil over the top and chose a peach ink for that to tie in the color palette I used in my coloring.

Next, I cut the main front panel with the Heffy Doodle Slider Card die and also created a peach card for the pull out portion. Using all the pieces as my guides, I stamped sentiments on the inside panel and the pull out one as well. I added some confetti around “Happig Birthday” and a cupcake below “I’m Bacon You a Cake” for fun.

Here’s a little look at the pull out panel. I just think all the puns are so fun!

I used scrappy tape to adhere my pieces together and added it all to a white card base. Then I trimmed the stamped strings off the balloons and added string to them instead. I pulled them taut and adhered them to the back of the piggy. I connected the two with a strip of acetate and glued the pig to the card panel below the fold line only. Be careful here or your mechanism won’t work.

I adhered the other piggy, cake and gift with foam squares only on the bottom portion so the slider still moves but they stay put. Then I finished everything off with a scattering of fun sequins.

Products used today:
Punny Farm Pigs stamps and dies
Scene Builder: Clouds stencil
Sparkles stencil
Heffy Doodle Slider Pop Up dies
Pawsome Stamps campfire sequins
Scrappy Tape 1/4″
Foam squares

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Jane’s Doodles – You Warm My Heart

Welcome friends! I have a sweet watercolor card to share with you today featuring Jane’s Doodles stamps and stencil, paired with my new LH Colors watercolors for some sparkle and texture in the background.

I knew I wanted to create a card with these sweet kitties and pups from the Jane’s Doodles Cats and Dogs digital stamp set, so I printed them out and colored them with my copic markers. I used the scan-n-cut to cut the image out and set it aside to play with a watercolor background.

I cut an oversized panel of watercolor paper and slopped some water on it with a big brush. Then I added limeade and pool party from the LH Colors Summer Fun collection randomly on the paper. I heat dried it a couple of times in the middle to get some layers but when I was finished I wanted it to have more texture. So, I pulled out the Hearts stencil and inked it with salvaged patina distress oxide ink. Then I splattered some watered down twisted citron distress oxide on the panel to bring in the limeade watercolor. Once the panel was dry I cut it down with the largest of the Lawn Fawn Small Stitched Rectangle Stackables dies.

Last, I inked a white panel with twisted citron distress oxide ink for my base panel but didn’t like how bright it was so I toned it down with tea dye distress oxide very lightly. I glued that panel to a card base and popped up the watercolor panel with foam tape. Before adding my critters, I stamped and heat embossed a sentiment from Love You and cut it out with a Pink & Main Large Sentiment Strip die.

Finally, I added the sentiment strip and critters with foam squares on the lower right corner of the card. To finish things off I just added glossy accents to all of their noses.

Products used today:
Jane’s Doodles Cats and Dogs digital stamps
Jane’s Doodles Hearts stencil
Jane’s Doodles Love You stamps
Pink & Main Large Sentiment Strips dies
Lawn Fawn Small Stitched Rectangle Stackables dies
LH Colors – limeade and pool party
Glossy Accents
Distress Oxide Ink – twisted citron and salvaged patina
Foam squares and tape

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Pretty Pink Posh – Happy Mail

Hello again! I’m so glad you’re here. Today I have an absolutely ADORABLE card featuring a new layering stencil from Pretty Pink Posh and some previously released stamps and dies. I just adore this puppy and was so happy to finally ink him up for this card. He is just the cutest!

I started my card by stamping the image and sentiment from Sending Love and colored it with my copic markers. I used the coordinating dies to cut him out and switched to inking up my background.

I took a white piece of cardstock and inked up the base layer of the stencil with light gray ink. Then I added a light teal ink to the second layer, adding a darker blue for the postage marks. Last, I spread red glitz glitter gel through the final layer for red sparkly hearts all over this fun background.

While the glitz was drying I die cut the Spring Circles tag shape from vellum and the circle from teal cardstock. I popped the puppy up with foam squares on the circle and popped that up on more foam squares on the vellum. Then I added the sentiment to the bottom of the box and used tape runner to adhere the whole thing to the stenciled panel.

I added the panel to a white card base and switched to just a couple of simple finishing touches. I added Stickles to the labels on the box and glossy accents to the puppy’s nose, tongue and collar tag.

I just think this is such a cute card and perfect for literally any occasion! I hope you liked it too!

Products used:
Layered Letters stencils
Sending Love stamps and dies
Spring Circles dies
Glitz Glitter Gel – red
Stencil Pal
Foam squares
Stickles – unicorn
Glossy accents

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Lawn Fawn – Happy Trails Thank You Cards

Hi again! Today I’m popping in with a pair of thank you cards featuring an older Lawn Fawn set called Happy Trails. It’s a 3×4 set that I’ve had for ages and I always have so much fun creating with it. Today I’m making two thank you cards because we just bought our first travel trailer and I wanted to do something for a couple of guys at the dealership that were super amazing with us!

I’m not usually one for making the same card twice so I created completely different cards using the exact same images. And I seriously love them both! I started by stamping the car, trailer and a bunch of trees and colored them all with my copic markers. I used the coordinating dies to cut everything out and split them into two piles to start making cards!

This is the first one I made. It’s a large stitched rectangle blended with distress oxide ink in mowed lawn, twisted citron, peacock feathers and salty ocean and spritzed with water. Then I cut the road border pieces from black and yellow cardstock, adhered them together and to the panel. I added the inside of the simple puffy cloud frames and trees with liquid glue. Then popped up the car, trailer and wavy banner with foam squares.

For finishing touches I added glossy accents to the wheel hubs and headlight on the car. Then I came in with a black glaze pen for the door knob and white gel pen accents on the windows.

After creating this bright daytime scene, I remembered that I hadn’t even cut apart my Forest Backdrop dies yet so that was a must for this next one!

The frame is cut from Knock on Wood patterned paper and everything else from cardstock in my stash. After cutting all of the pieces, I used liquid glue to adhere all the layers together and to the frame where they go. I also cut two different simple stitched hills – one from brown and the other from green for some layered ground elements. I adhered the hills to a blue panel and popped the Forest Backdrop up with foam strips.

Finally, I added the trees to the background with liquid glue, popped up the trailer and car with foam squares and also decided to add the moon and stars from the Forest Backdrop dies to the upper left corner. I finished the scene off with the same wavy banner on the upper right which balanced the design perfectly.

I added the same finishing touches to this card except for adding Wink of Stella glitter brush pen to the moon and stars in the sky.

Isn’t it so fun to create such different cards when you’re starting out with the same images and idea?!? I just love them and hope the guys do too!

Products used today:
Lawn Fawn Forest Backdrop dies
Lawn Fawn Happy Trails stamps and dies
Lawn Fawn Simple Stitched Hillside Borders dies
Lawn Fawn Large Simple Stitched Rectangles dies
Lawn Fawn Road Border dies
Lawn Fawn Simple Puffy Cloud Frames dies
Lawn Fawn Fancy Wavy Banner dies
Lawn Fawn Wavy Sayings stamps
Foam squares and strips
Glossy accents
Wink of Stella glitter brush pen
Distress Oxide Ink – mowed lawn, twisted citron, peacock feathers, salty ocean

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