Avery Elle – You’re the Bees Knees

Welcome everyone. I hope your week is going well. I just received my first order from the new Avery Elle release and couldn’t barely get in the house before I was opening this cute bear to stamp and color him! Needless to say I immediately transitioned and made a card that I’m super excited to share!

Isn’t this just too fun!?! I’m quite tickled with the whole thing personally.

I stamped and colored the images from Bee a Keeper with my copic markers and used the coordinating dies to cut them out. I took an A2 panel and the Big Congrats die to see if I could fit everything that I wanted. Once I decided it would work, I inked up a piece of white cardstock with tumbled glass and salty ocean distress oxide inks. I spritzed the panel with water and set it aside.

Next, I cut the Big Congrats shadow from vellum and the word from white cardstock 3 times. I used liquid glue to adhere the layers together. When I laid everything out again the background seemed lacking, so I went digging. I found the Cloud Mat die and cut it from white cardstock just keeping the clouds. I arranged them in the background and adhered them with liquid glue once I decided their final placement.

I added the Big Congrats with tape runner hidden behind the letters and the images with foam squares. Then I placed the panel in my MISTI and stamped a sentiment on one of the big clouds and the bee trails too.

For finishing touches I added black glaze pen the the eyes, glossy accents to antennae, the bear’s nose and flower center. Then I added unicorn Stickles to all of the wings for some fun shimmer.

Isn’t this so much fun!?! I can’t wait to create more punny goodness using some of the other sentiments in the set.

Products used today:
Avery Elle Bee a Keeper stamps and dies
Avery Elle Big Congrats dies
Avery Elle Cloud Mat die
Foam squares
Glossy accents
Stickles – unicorn
Distress Oxide – salty ocean, tumbled glass
Copic markers

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Newton’s Nook – Retiring Sale Week

Did you see that Newton’s Nook Designs is having a retiring sale on their website? It’s time to make room for new products so they are retiring select designs! These designs are available at up to 40% off while supplies last so hurry to get your favorites before they’re gone for good!

All week the NND Design Team will be sharing inspiration using some of their favorite products from our retiring list! Check out what I created today and don’t forget to check the NND Blog each day this week for more fun inspiration!

I decided to create a full card front shaker using the Cosmic Newton set that is retiring. I absolutely adore this set and couldn’t resist the chance to ink it up again. I stamped the images and colored them with my copic markers, then used the coordinating dies to cut them all out. I stamped a sentiment from the set and used a banner from the Frames & Flags dies to cut it out too.

For my background, I inked up a white panel with distress oxide inks in picked raspberry, mustard seed and salty ocean and then went over the whole thing with black soot distress ink. I spritzed the panel with water and blotted it dry before flicking gold and pearl watercolor all over it for a great starry look. Last, I inked up the cascading stars stencil over the whole panel with white pigment ink too.

I trimmed just a sliver off each edge of the inked panel and adhered three sides of the shaker pouch, then filled it up with fun sequins from my stash before sealing the final side. I adhered the panel to a card base and then added my images with tape runner. Liquid glue can be extra slippery on these slick shaker pouches so I try to stick to dry adhesive when creating these.

For finishing touches I added glossy accents to the stars and parts of the spaceship. Isn’t Newton just the cutest peaking out of that window?!? I love him!

Don’t forget to visit the Retiring Products Category to see what is going away and grab your favorites before they are gone for good!

Products used today:
Cosmic Newton stamps and dies
Frames & Flags dies
Cascading Stars stencil
Tonic Studios Shaker Pockets
Thermoweb Tape Runner XL
Glossy accents

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Coffee Loving Cardmakers – Coffee Hugs Enclosed

Happy Tuesday everyone! It’s time for tea over on the Coffee Loving Cardmakers blog today. I have a slimline card to share featuring goodies from Trinity Stamps. Did you know that you can get a free mug die with a $25 order? There is a series of 12 different cups to collect. They are so fun but I hadn’t actually used them yet. So today I have a card featuring 5 different ones!

I started this card going in a completely different direction than I ended up, even thinking at one point I would make 5 gift tags. Well, as you can see we landed on a fun slimline card design with a cluster of cute cups in the center.

I cut each cup from white cardstock and took the inserts out to color with my copic markers. Then I lined the back with a strip of washi tape and inserted the pieces back into the white frames.

I cut the largest Trinity Stamps Slimline Dainty Scallop panel from white cardstock and inked it up with the Coffee Bean Layers stencil, using two different brown inks. I didn’t want the stark white of the background to compete with the white cup frames so I went over the whole panel with the lightest brown ink left in my brush so it just tinted the paper.

Then I lined up the cups how I wanted them and popped them up with foam tape on the panel. I lined that panel with foam tape as well and popped it up on a white slimline card base.

I didn’t have a sentiment in mind so I just went digging through my stash. When I found this “hugs enclosed” sentiment on an Avery Elle set, I remembered I had the awesome Studio Katia coffee dies and thought that they would be so fun together! So I stamped the second part in brown ink using my MISTI since I already had those layers stuck down. I cut the shadow from white cardstock and inked it up just a tad with that same brown brush, no new ink added. Then I cut the word “coffee” from white cardstock 3 times and adhered them together and to the shadow.

I absolutely love how this card turned out! So fun and almost spring feeling with the cup colors.

Products used:
Trinity Stamps Gift with Purchase Tea Cup Collection dies
Trinity Stamps Layered Coffee Bean stencils
Trinity Stamps Slimline Dainty Scallops dies
Trinity Stamps blending brushes
Studio Katia Script Coffee dies
Avery Elle Sending Hugs stamps
Thermoweb 3D Foam Tape
Bearly Arts liquid glue
Copic markers

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Jane’s Doodles – Hugs and Kisses

Happy Valentine’s Day everyone!!! I hope you had a wonderful weekend and today is starting off your week wonderfully. I’m over on the Jane’s Doodles blog today and wanted to squeeze in one more fun Valentine that I created but the design could be adapted easily for year round inspiration and fun.

I started with the mouse digital stamp from Jane’s Doodles – printed and colored him with my copics and then used the scan-n-cut to cut him out. However, this left a big blank white space between his tail and the balloon that bugged me so I took the craft knife and cut it out.

Then I cut the slimline scalloped panel from the Heffy Doodle Slimline Pull Tab die set and folded it in half to create my card base. Next, I used the Pink & Main Layered Slimline dies to cut a white panel that would fit inside. After cutting it out, I realigned the die and cut the other end to create a custom sized panel to fit my mini card front.

I stenciled the panel with the Jane’s Doodles Hearts stencil to create a scene background – green fading up to yellow. Then I came in with a small heart from the Jane’s Doodles Love You stamp set for some tone-on-tone heart accents in the background. I adhered the stenciled background to my card base and popped up the mouse image.

Next, I used a banner die from the Newton’s Nook A7 Frames & Banners die set and cut out a sentiment that printed with my mouse image and popped it up with foam strips.

Last, I opened up my card and stamped a sentiment inside from Love You along with another heart from the same set.

Oh, and there were a couple of small finishing details today too. I added black glaze pen to the mouse’s eyes, Wink of Stella glitter brush pen to the highlight in the balloon and a teeny big of glossy accents on the mouse’s nose too.

Remember, valentines don’t have to be pink and red all the time. When your daughter’s favorite color is yellow…sometimes they’re yellow.

Products used today:
Jane’s Doodles Mouse digital stamp
Jane’s Doodles Hearts stencil
Jane’s Doodles Love You stamps
Heffy Doodle Slimline Pull Tab dies
Newton’s Nook A7 Frames & Banners dies
Pink & Main Layered Slimline dies
Foam squares
Wink of Stella glitter brush pen
Glossy accents

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Pink & Main – Punny Trio

Happy Friday everyone! I’m over on the Pink & Main blog squeezing in one more Valentine card share before the big day! I love Valentine crafting and tend to over do it most years. But it’s all so cute and so fun!!! I just can’t help myself.

Today I have images from Take the Cake and One Smart Cookie. I love how these sets work together! I chose kind of a theme between the images, stamped them out and colored them with my copic markers. Then I used the coordinating dies to cut them out.

Next, I stamped and heat embossed the coordinating sentiment for each image pair in white on black cardstock. I cut them all out with Large Sentiment Strip dies and adhered the feet of the images to the top of each strip.

Then I cut the Polka Hearts cover die from a textured teal card stock in my stash and inked up the edge with a darker teal ink for depth. Then I cut a piece of white glitter paper just a smidge smaller so they were easy to layer together. I used EZ Squeeze liquid glue to adhere them together and to a card base. (Tip: I find liquid glue works best with glitter paper and inked panels.)

Last, I added foam squares to all my images and popped them on the front of my card. Then I came in with white gel pen accents on all of them for some added texture and interest.

Finally I added glossy accents to all of those adorable hearts for some shine to go with our glittery background.

Isn’t this just so much fun! These images and sentiments are absolutely perfect to use singly but can be so fun to stack together for an added message too!

Products used today:
Take the Cake stamps and dies
One Smart Cookie stamps and dies
Polka Hearts cover die
Large Sentiment Strip dies
Metallics Glitter paper pad
EZ Squeeze liquid glue
Ergonomic Blending Brush – mini
Foam squares
Glossy accents

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Miss Ink Stamps – How’s It Goating?

Happy Thursday friends!!! I’m so happy you’re here today. I have a very punny and adorable Miss Ink Stamps card to share with you today. I hope you like it!

For today’s card, I am using one of the Punny Farm Goats from Miss Ink Stamps. I started by stamping and coloring him and his envelope with my copic markers. I used the scan-n-cut to cut the images out today. Then I used my craft knife to cut his mouth open so I could slide the envelope inside. I used a little liquid glue and washi tape on the back side to hold it in place.

My background hearts are distress oxide ink blended on an A2 panel with abandoned coral, tattered rose and dried apricot. They are spritzed with water and flicked with gold watercolor. Then I actually die cut the A2 panel with the Mama Elephant Heart Grid Cover die. I used the frame on a card I’ll share very soon but I couldn’t just toss the leftover hearts. They were too pretty! I also die cut the Mama Elephant Big Scripty Hello from white cardstock 3 times and gold glitter once. I adhered the white ones with liquid glue and then added the gold the same way but offset a little to the right.

To assemble my card, I cut a light teal piece of textured cardstock to 4×5.25 inches and popped it up on a white card base. Then I popped the hearts up with foam squares and glued the hello directly to those with liquid glue. I added the goat with foam squares so he layed nice against the layered die cut sentiment. Last, I stamped and heat embossed a sentiment on vellum and cut it out with a Pink & Main Large Sentiment Strip before carefully hiding adhesive behind the letters to adhere it down.

For finishing touches, I added black glaze pen to the goat’s eyes and white gel pen highlights to him too. Then I finished things off with a little dab of unicorn Stickles to the heart on the envelope.

Voila! This adorable card is complete and ready to make someone smile!

Products used today:
Punny Farm Goats stamps
Heart Grid die
Big Scripty Hello die
Large Sentiment Strip dies
Gold glitter cardstock
Distress Oxide Inks – abandoned coral, tattered rose, dried apricot
Foam tape and squares
Stickles – unicorn

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Lawn Fawn – Tiny Gift Box Add-on Fun

Happy Wednesday friends! Today I have a card (although I actually made 2 of the same one) and a couple of treat boxes to share with you. I absolutely love the Lawn Fawn Tiny Gift Box die set and all of the critter add-ons they have for it. Sometimes I’m not in the mood to color and playing with all die cut creations is so much fun!

I am only missing a few of the add-ons for this die set and the ladybug was one of them…until last week! Yippee!!! So naturally I had to create with it right away and thought it would be fun to make a Valentine creation. So I cut the pieces to create a one-dimensional ladybug, not a box and adhered them all together. Tip: I don’t have a cardstock that I like for skin tone so I cut that piece from white and colored it with E50 and E51 copic markers instead.

For my background, I used the Lots of Hearts stencil on an A2 size white panel and inked one layer up with ballet slippers ink and the other with chili pepper ink. Then I ran the panel through my die cutter with the Simple Stripes Portrait die. It just gives the background added texture and interest. After cutting it out, I used liquid glue to adhere it to a white card base.

Next, I cut the dimensional banner from the Fancy Wavy Banners die set from black cardstock and heat embossed a sentiment from Wavy Sayings in white. I folded and adhered the banner and added foam squares to the back before adding it to the bottom center of my card front. Then I used a large action wobbler to adhere my lady bug above that so it flies! It’s SO CUTE!!!

Since these cards are going to two very special recipients, I took a moment to stamp extra fun things inside the card too. I used images from Hey Lady, another Wavy Sayings sentiment and finished it off with a second sentiment from the Scent With Love Add-On stamp set. I colored the ladybugs really quick, signed these cuties from my family and then went in the mail today!

Here’s a little video of the ladybug on the front in action.

However, after playing with the ladybug I had the itch to make more. Another fun thing I like to do with these dies is create themed boxes for holidays and special occasions…like Valentine’s Day!

So I pulled out the dies and created a couple of fun boxes while I was at it. I created a pink duck and a red skunk! Aren’t they so fun in non-traditional colors? I think so! I’m excited to add a little treat and surprise some people next Monday!

Products used today:
Lawn Fawn Lots of Hearts stencils
Lawn Fawn Tiny Gift Box dies
Lawn Fawn Tiny Gift Box Ladybug Add-On
Lawn Fawn Tiny Gift Box Skunk Add-On
Lawn Fawn Tiny Gift Box Chick and Duck Add-On
Lawn Fawn Fancy Wavy Banners dies
Lawn Fawn Simple Stripes Portrait die
Lawn Fawn Scent With Love Add-On stamps
Lawn Fawn Hey Lady stamps
Lawn Fawn Wavy Sayings stamps
Bearly Art liquid glue
Action Wobbler – large
Foam squares

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Miss Ink Stamps – Nuts About You

Thanks for stopping by today. I’m over on the Miss Ink Stamps blog with this adorable squirrel professing his nutty love just in time for Valentine’s Day. I layered a bundle of stencils to create the awesome background and couldn’t resist inking up my favorite squirrel and his heart shaped wood slice too!

I started by stamping images from Oh, Nuts! and Have Heart and colored them with my copic markers. Then I cut them out with my scissors and used a combination of liquid glue and foam squares to arrange my little scene. I set that all aside and switch gears to get messy for my background.

First I taped an A2 size piece of white cardstock to the back of the Ins & Outs Marquis layer with the window opening. I inked it up with kitsch flamingo distress oxide and then added the Scene Builder Clouds stencil and went over it with picked raspberry distress oxide lightly for some clouds. Then I slid the clouds stencil to match the swirls up with my cloud edges and added that detail with a heavier hand.

Now, to get messy I wiped off the edge of the marquis window stencil and layered the Starry Night stencil over the top and spread iridescent glitz glitter gel through that. I removed all of the stencils and let the glitz gel dry for a bit before adding the marquis frame layer and spreading the same glitz gel through that.

Once everything was completely dry I assembled my card. I decided to have a melon colored base layer that goes with the dark details in the clouds. I trimmed the stenciled panel down to 4×5.25 inches and popped it up with foam tape. Then I added my images with foam tape as well. Last, I stamped and heat embossed a sentiment on black cardstock, cut it out with a banner die and popped it up too.

For finishing touches I added white gel pen highlights to the images, black glaze pen to the squirrel’s eyes and once it was dry came back in with a white gel pen highlight there too.

Products used today:
Oh, Nuts! stamps
Have Heart stamps
Ins & Outs Marquis stencils
Starry Night stencil
Scene Builder Clouds stencil
Thermoweb Glitz Glitter Gel – iridescent
Thermoweb Stencil Pal
Pink & Main Large Sentiment Banner dies
Distress Oxide Ink – kitsch flamingo, picked raspberry
Foam tape and squares

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Lawn Fawn – Bee Yourself

Welcome to a fresh new week everyone! I’m stopping by today to share that a couple of weeks ago I posted my first YouTube video…it was pretty horrible but I had to kick myself to stop making excuses and just try it.

From that I had a fantastic friend reach out and offer to help me. So today I’m sharing that I posted a second video of this adorable Bee Yourself card.

I know I still have a lot to learn but I would love it if you’d head over and check the video out when you get a chance.

My goal is to have weekly videos but I don’t want to promise anything yet. Haha. Feel free to leave comments if there is anything that you would like to see a video of versus regular blog posts or that you’ve seen me create before but would like the video version. I’m ready to try new things.

I would also really love to know if you’d like me to still write up the usual blog post when I share a video or not. I know everyone has different preferences so please let me know in the comments.

Here are the products I used to create this card:
Lawn Fawn Fox Costumes Before ‘n Afters stamps and dies
Lawn Fawn Lots of Hearts stencil
Distress Oxide Ink – peacock feathers and cracked pistachio
Bearly Art liquid glue
Thermoweb 3D foam tape
Scrapbook Adhesives foam squares
Stickles – unicorn
Twiddler’s Nook Sweethearts clay embellishments
Twiddler’s Nook Embellishment Tray – paw
Twiddler’s Nook Pressure Pal

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Pink & Main – Quick Card Kit

Hey crafty friends! I’m back with a super fast and SUPER adorable post for you! I have 8 cards to share that I created with the incredible Pink & Main Quick Card Kit | Love You. It’s the most perfect set of products and was so fun to play with!

This kit comes with card bases, envelopes, a sheet of enamel dots and pre-made die cuts and card fronts to combine in any way you wish! However, it also comes with a super helpful layout sheet if you want to just build cards the way the description shows.

I can’t even really express how much fun I had mixing and matching, moving things around and playing with all of these elements! Literally everything on these cards, minus the foam tape to pop things up, came in the kit. I didn’t pull out any additional products!

Aren’t they all just the sweetest!?! I’m over the moon for all these sweet critters! Do you have a favorite?

There’s still time to order this awesome kit if you need a batch of Valentine cards to share or you could change them up for some adorable thinking of you, love you cards for any time of the year too!

Products used today:
Quick Card Kit | Love You
Foam tape

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