Jane’s Doodles – You Don’t Have to be Perfect

Hello everyone! It’s a busy day on the blog today. I’m also sharing this beautiful card using the Jane’s Doodles Plumeria digi stamp set and You Got This sentiment stamps. I love these type of floral cards with bright berry purple backgrounds. I’m just always drawn to it.

So, today after I printed and colored all the plumeria images and cut them out. I cut a whitepanel down to 4×5.25 inches and inked it up with distress oxides – seedless preserves around the edge blended into shaded lilac in the center.

I spritzed the panel with water and flicked pearl watercolor all over it and the images for beautiful shimmer and sparkle in the light. Once it was dry, I used the images as a guide to center and stamp my sentiment.

Next, I glued the images down with liquid glue and trimmed off anything hanging over the edge. There is one large image in the set so I took what was left, repositioned it and glued it down to extend the flower cluster and also not waste the gorgeous flowers.

I added foam tape to the back of the panel and popped it up on a white card base. Then I added a scattering of pearl embellishments across the design.

I’ve been to Hawaii once, when I was a teenager, and the plumeria flowers were the ones I was most drawn to throughout the whole trip. They are gorgeous in person and I love this stamp set!

Products used today:
Plumeria digital stamps
You Got This stamps
Distress Oxide – seedless preserves and shaded lilac
Foam tape
Pearl embellishments

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

Coffee Loving Cardmakers – Peppermint Spice and Everything Nice

Hello again crafty friends! It’s Tuesday Tea with Twiddler’s Nook over on the Coffee Loving Cardmakers blog today and I had an absolute blast creating today’s card. I don’t think I’ve ever been so free thinking with combining products from different companies. It was so fun!

To start my card, I cut the Boo Brew mug and stitching detail from Trinity Stamps from pink cardstock. Then I cut a nested heart to go with it. That’s as far as my planning went. Lol. So I grabbed my blending brushes, Lawn Fawn ballet slippers and guava inks and inked the edges of my die cuts. Then I wanted texture on the background heart so I went looking for a stencil or something. I instantly landed on this Pink & Main woodgrain embossing folder.

I got into my Newton’s Nook stash for my framework dies to cut a background panel and remembered the awesome peppermint candy dies and everything just came together from this point on. I cut the background from white cardstock and then used the petite hearts stencil that was just revealed yesterday (It will be available to purchase on Friday.) I didn’t want everything to be stark white so I used Lawn Fawn pizza crust ink on the edges of the background panel and my card base. To dress up my mug a little I cut the smallest heart from the Heart Frames set from the same cardstock as the large heart and glued it down.

I popped the background panel up with foam tape, then popped the large heart up too. I used a combination of liquid glue and foam squares for my mug and peppermint candies. Then I die cut a stitched banner from Newton’s Nook banner trio die set and stamped a sentiment from the Cup of Cocoa stamp set in ballet slippers ink. I dusted the edges with the same pizza crust ink and popped it up with foam squares too.

I used my scissors to trim off the excess hanging over the edge and moved on to finishing touches. For that I just glue three Trinity Stamps jelly drop hearts down – one to the mug and two by the sentiment banner.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project as much as I did creating it.

Products used today:
Trinity Stamps Nested Heart dies
Trinity Stamps Boo Brew dies
Trinity Stamps Jelly Drop Hearts embellishments
Pink & Main Woodgrain embossing folder
Newton’s Nook Petit Hearts stencil
Newton’s Nook Banner Trio dies
Newton’s Nook Framework dies
Newton’s Nook Cup of Cocoa stamps
Newton’s Nook Peppermint dies
Foam tape

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

Newton’s Nook – January Release Day 2

Welcome back everyone! We’re on to day 2 of reveals for the Newton’s Nook January release. Today we have another addition to the incredible floral line.

Orchids

I had a simple but fun card design in mind for this set as soon as I saw the products for this release. But once I started creating, I immediately had to make a second card to share with you today.

I started by creating the card on the left and just had to use the stitched rectangles from the frame which led to the card on the right. So let’s walk through them in that order.

I chose 3 colors of cardstock to start with, then stamped and heat embossed the orchids image on each one in white. I used the coordinating dies to cut them out and set them aside. Then I die cut the other elements from the A7 Frames & Banners die set, heat embossing my sentiment in black on a vellum banner.

Once everything was ready I laid it all out to make sure I liked the placement and color order of the flowers. The white card base seemed stark so I splatters some black paint on it before popping the teal scalloped rectangle up.

next, I popped up the frame and flower images and then hid a smidge of tape runner behind the text on the banner and added it last.

I love the look of this card and could see myself making a few in an assembly line fashion to share with a bunch of people at a time.

Remember the stitched black rectangles we were left with from the frame on the last card…I just had to see if they would stack on an A2 card base and look how fabulous they work!

So I stamped another orchid and colored it with my copic markers this time before cutting out out. Then I cut a banner from the A7 Frames & Banners set and stamped a different sentiment on it, trimmed the top off for this design.

To assemble, I cut a piece of green cardstock and popped the black rectangles up with foam tape, then I adhered the orchids and sentiment banner with foam squares before popping this whole panel up with foam tape on a white card base.

For finishing touches I added some washi tape to the right side to break up the white edge and added some clear crystals from my stash. Then the last thing I did was add a little glossy accents to the center of the flowers.

I hope you’ve enjoyed today’s projects and the reveal of the wonderful new products coming.

Would you like to win the “Orchids” Stamp Set? This stamp set will be given away to ONE lucky winner!

Here’s how to win: Comment on the NND blog and Design Team blogs (see list below)! The winner will be chosen at random from the collective reveal posts. Make sure to check out each of their blogs and comment for your chance to win. You will not know which blog has been chosen so the more you comment on the better your chances are of winning! You have until Thursday January 20th at 9pm ET to comment — winners will be announced on the blog post on Friday, January 21st.

Check out all the awesome Design Team Blogs below to enter:

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

Newton’s Nook – January Release Day 1

Hello friends! It’s time for another fantastic release reveal week from Newton’s Nook! It’s day 1 and we’re revealing a bundle of goodies that will be used today and all through the week! Let’s take a peek!

Love & Meows paper pad

Petite Hearts stencil

A7 Frames & Banners dies

Knead Kittens stamps and dies

Holy moly! Isn’t that a ton if awesomeness to begin our week with?!? It’s all fantastic! Today I have a card to share with you featuring Knead Kittens stamps and coordinating dies and then a bonus set of cards at the end of this post with the A7 Frames & Banners plus the Love & Meows paper pad too.

I just adore this set and absolutely had to use this funny kitty in the bread! It just made me smile too much! I stamped my images and colored them all with copic markers before using the coordinating dies to cut them out.

Then I took a white panel and inked up the ray portion of the Sunscape stencil with light teal ink. Next, I cut a strip of melon cardstock just wider than the small bread slice image and added a black border to the edge. I adhered this to the stenciled panel and added foam squares to my images.

After popping everything up I place my card in my MISTI and stamped a sentiment on the top right corner of the design.

Moving on to finishing touches, I added black glaze pen to the kitten’s eyes and glossy accents to his nose and toe beans. Too cute for words! Don’t you love this new set!?!

Next, I have a super fun and quick to make set of Valentine cards featuring the new A7 Frames & Banners and the Love & Meows paper pad.

I created 3 white card bases and cut the main scalloped rectangle from melon cardstock 3 times. I cut the frame from mint cardstock 3 times, saving the stitched rectangles that pop out for another card later on. Then I chose 3 patterns of paper from the paper pad and cut them with the frame die as well.

To assemble my cards, I popped up the scalloped rectangle, glued the frame directly to that and then popped my patterned panels up with foam tape. To finish them off I cut 3 banners from the Banner Trio die set and stamped sentiments from Heartfelt Love before added foam squares and placing them in the center of each design.

I hope you’ve enjoyed today’s projects and the reveal of the wonderful new products coming.

Would you like to win the “Knead Kitten” Stamp Set?This stamp set will be given away to ONE lucky winner!

Here’s how to win: Comment on the NND blog and Design Team blogs (see list below)! Thewinner will be chosen at random from the collective reveal posts. Make sure to check out each of their blogs and comment for your chance to win. You will not know which blog has been chosen so the more you comment on the better your chances are of winning! You have until Thursday January 20th at 9pm ET to comment — winners will be announced on the blog post on Friday, January 21st.

Check out all the awesome Design Team Blogs below to enter:

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

Pink & Main – Thank You

Happy Friday everyone! You’ve made it through another awesome week! I hope you have fun plans for the weekend. My daughter has a dance competition so we’ll be busy and it will be so fun!

Today I’m over on the Pink & Main blog still trying to catch up on thank you cards. It seems as soon as I make a batch and send them, I find reasons to need more.

Today I started by stamping the bunny from Love Ewe and colored it with my copic markers. Then I used the coordinating die to cut it out. Next, I pulled out the Best Friends paper pad and cut the plaid with the largest layered rectangle die. I wanted a little contrast for my bunny so I chose the light blue polka dot paper in the pad and cut it out with the next-to-largest stitched arches die.

I pulled out the big thank you dies and cut the words from white cardstock 4 times, using EZ Squeeze liquid adhesive to glue them together. Then I cut a small circle from another paper in the same pack and stamped sending big hugs from the spotlight sayings stamp set on it.

I adhered the plaid paper to a white card base and popped the stitched arch up with foam tape. Then I popped the bunny up with foam squares, doubling the squares on his feet and tips of the ears so it lays flat. I carefully added some foam strips to the back of the “thank you” dies and added them over those awesome long legs. Last, I added the big hugs circle and trimmed off anything hanging over the edge.

For finishing touches, I added glossy accents to the bunny’s nose and eyes and then a scattering of glitter enamel dots across the whole design.

Isn’t this just the cutest!?! And it’s super fun to pull out sets for other times of the year and extend your use of them too!

Products used today:
Love Ewe stamps and dies
Spotlight Sayings stamps
Big Thank You dies
Stitched Arches dies
Layered A2 Rectangles dies
Layered Circles dies
EZ Squeeze liquid adhesive
Best Friends paper pad
Glitter enamel dots

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

Miss Ink Stamps – Pamper Yourself

Hello everyone! I’m popping in this afternoon with a fun “it’ll be okay” type card featuring stamps and stencils from Miss Ink Stamps.

You know I love my critters and these Rub-a-dub Doggies are pretty high on that list! I love that they are distinctly different breeds of dogs sudsing up and shaking off! They are super cute!

To create my card, I stamped a few of the pups and some accessories and colored them with my copic markers. I used the scan-n-cut to cut them out and set them aside. Then I took a blue panel and the Between the Lines stencil and inked it up with a green dye ink and a blending brush. Next, I pulled out my set of circle dies, chose 3 sizes that fit the dogs and cut holes in my panel. I thought the panel was a little stark so, without adding more ink to my brush, I inked up the edges of the cardstock. Then I flicked watered down ink all over the panel for extra texture.

Then I cut a very light blue piece of cardstock to go behind the window panel. I used the pups as a guide to ink up a little blue shadow behind each one for some added interest. Then I put foam tape on the stenciled panel and popped it up on the blue panel.

I added foam squares to the back of all the images and filled in each window with its coordinating dog and accessories.

I chose 3 sentiments from the set, stamped and heat embossed them and die cut them with banner dies before popping them up with foam squares too.

For finishing touches I added glossy accents to pup noses, black glaze pen to their eyes and unicorn Stickles to random bubbles.

Isn’t this a fun card to share with someone needing a pick-me-up?!? I think it will be perfect for it!

Products used today:
Rub-a-dub Doggies stamps
Between the Lines stencil
Pink & Main Layered Circle dies
Pink & Main Large Sentiment Strip dies
Blending Buddy brush
Lawn Fawn Cilantro ink
Foam tape and squares
Glossy accents
Stickles – unicorn

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

Newton’s Nook – Tides of Love Slimline

Hello everyone! I’m over on the Newton’s Nook blog today sharing a fun love themed card that would be great for Valentine’s Day or just because. I specifically didn’t use stereotypical lovey colors but I think it would work great with any color palette you chose!

I designed my card by taking the porthole die from the Slimline Frames & Portholes die set and laying my stamps out on it to see what I could get to fit in the windows. Once that was decided I stamped everything and colored them with my copic markers. I went for the rainbow in all my critters just for fun. Then I used the coordinating dies to cut them out.

Next, I die cut a teal panel with the scalloped rectangle from the same slimline die set and inked it up with the waves stencil. Then I cut a white panel with the porthole die and inked the seashells stencil up with orange ink. And finally, for my sentiment I die cut the smallest shape from the Framework set and stamped my sentiment on that before using the same orange ink the give it a little ombre effect.

I didn’t want a white border so I cut a piece of orange cardstock close to the ink color of the seashells and adhered it to a white slimline card base. I popped the waves panel up with foam tape and then popped the seashell panel up on that. I added the images with a combination of foam squares and liquid glue for dimension and interest, finishing things off with the sentiment in between the top and middle portholes.

For finishing touches on this card I added black glaze pen to the eyes of all the critters which really helps them stand out. Full disclosure, I would have added glossy accents all over this fun card but my tip died and the replacements haven’t arrived yet so I pulled out my trusty unicorn Stickles and added some shimmer to the heart images on each critter.

That’s one thing I love about this set. Each critter, obvious or hidden, has hearts on it somewhere. Isn’t that so fun!?!

I hope you enjoyed today’s card. I really had a lot of fun creating it!

Products used today:
Tides of Love stamps and dies
Slimline Frames & Portholes dies
Waves stencil
Seashells stencil
Stickles – unicorn
Foam strips and squares
Liquid glue

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

Miss Ink Stamps – You Are My Rainbow

Hello again! I’m over on the Miss Ink Stamps blog today with another way to use the rainbow builder stencil set. It was an idea that came to me and I’m so happy it turned out!

I started with my rainbow today by cutting a piece of vellum to 4×5.25 inches. Then I chose one of the 4 rainbows you can build with the stencil set and inked up the first layer which just has the middle color of the rainbow. I used distress oxide inks today which I had hoped would work but I wasn’t sure. I used wild honey, picked raspberry and twisted citron. I carefully dried each layer with my heat gun for just a minute before adding silver glitz glitter gel to the last layer and then set the whole panel aside to dry.

Next, I die cut a cloudy background panel from white and light teal cardstocks. I added foam tape to the back of the teal panel replacing the teal clouds with white ones but keeping some aside to put on top of the vellum. I added the vellum panel and then the white frame to the top.

I stamped a sentiment on one of the larger clouds and added the remaining ones with foam squares for added dimension and interest.

I finished the design off with a scattering of sweethearts sequins all over the sky. There are a couple of sizes and lots of colors in this mix which makes it that much more fun with the rainbow theme.

Isn’t this so cool! It gives me a whole new round of ideas to try with other stencils on vellum now too!

Products used today:
Rainbow Builder stencils
Sunshine and Rainbows stamps
Sweethearts sequins
Avery Elle Cloud Mat die
Distress Oxide Ink – wild honey, picked raspberry, twisted citron
Glitz Glitter Gel – silver
Stencil Pal
Foam tape
Liquid glue

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

Pink & Main – Valentine Treat Holders

Happy Friday friends! Thanks so much for stopping by. Today I’m over on the Pink & Main blog sharing a super fun way to create treat holders. Mine are for Valentine’s Day but these are easily customizable for birthdays or any other holiday too!

These treat holders are so fun and easy to create. They are great for mass producing and completely customizable using products you probably already have! I wanted to share different versions today so you can see that fun dies you might already have could work!

The two die sets I used today were the notched corner dies (top) and concave rectangles dies (bottom). Specifically, I die cut the third largest notched corner die and scored it at 1 5/8″ and 2 5/8″. This gives you an inch wide strip in the middle to adhere your treats. Specifically Hershey Kisses and Rolos work perfectly! Just add a strip of tape runner or glue dots and you can get 3 treats in each one.

For my treat holders today, I cut one of each of the shapes I showed above from pink cardstock and inked it up with the scattered hearts stencil and white pigment ink using my ergonomic blending brush. Then I scored them both and folded them up. I stamped and colored this fun image from Rawr with my copic markers twice before cutting it out with the coordinating dies.

I used the image as a guide where to stamp my sentiment on the bottom between the dinos and then punched a hole in the top center of each one so I could tie it shut with a little twine. I popped my images up with foam squares for a bit of dimension and interest but if you’re making these for kiddos or tons of them you could easily skip that step.

Aren’t they so fun!?! Valentine’s Day is my very favorite holiday to create treat type gifts for and I wanted to share this idea early enough that you might have time to plan and create without the rush and stress.

Products used today:
Notched Corners dies
Concave Rectangles dies
Scattered Hearts stencil
Rawr stamps and dies
Ergonomic blending brush
Foam squares

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

Miss Ink Stamps – The Hurrier I Go…

Happy Thursday everyone! Thanks for stopping in today. I pulled out the Miss Ink Stamps Alice collection again and created a card fitting for myself these days…

I stamped images from Alice and colored them with my copic markers. I used the scan-n-cut to cut them both out and set them aside.

Next, I inked up a white panel with distress oxide inks – gathered twigs, rustic wilderness and salty ocean – and spritzed it with water, blotting it dry with a dry cloth. Then I stamped the large image from Forest Path with VersaFine ink. I find that this ink sits nicely on top of the oxide, although it takes a bit for it to dry completely so be careful.

I sat my images in place to decide on sentiment placement and thought it looked a little lacking. So I pulled out the Trinity Stamps embossed edge rectangle stack and created a gray frame for the scene. I used liquid glue to adhere it and then stamped my sentiment in the sky area on the upper right.

Finally, I added my two images with foam squares. Alas, still no glossy accents to adorn my projects these days so I opted for Wink of Stella glitter brush pen. I added this to the leaves in the tree on the left, the rabbit’s coat buttons and watch, and Alice’s headband, bow and shoes.

I tried to capture the glitter in the light but the camera was not cooperating with me. It really is quite awesome in person. If you haven’t used one of the glitter pens, I encourage you to. They aren’t too expensive and add a ton of glimmer to your projects.

Products used today:
Alice stamps
Forest Path stamps
Wonderland Wisdom stamps
Trinity Stamps Embossed Edge Rectangle dies
Distress Oxide Ink – rustic wilderness, gathered twigs, salty ocean
Distress Sprayer
Wink of Stella glitter brush pen
Liquid glue
Foam squares

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