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Jane’s Doodles – Stinks

Welcome everyone! Today I’m over on the Jane’s Doodles blog with a super sweet card featuring the new digital stamp set – Stinks. I absolutely adore these skunks and had so much fun creating this card.

I printed the whole set on copic xpress paper and colored them all with my copic markers. Then I used the scan-n-cut to cut them out. I chose these two sitting together and set the others aside for another project later on.

I cut a piece of white cardstock and used the new Lawn Fawn Lots of Hearts background stencil. I inked the first layer up half and half green and blue and the second layer half and half purple and pink. The colors blend together in the middle. Then I took a piece of green cardstock and cut some grass. I adhered it to the stenciled panel with foam tape and inked the bottom edge for a little dimension.

I added the skunks with foam squares, die cut a sentiment with a Pink & Main sentiment strip and popped it up as well. Then I added foam tape to the back of the panel and popped it up on a white card base.

This is silly and a bit sad but you all know how I love my glossy accents…especially on critter noses and beaks. Well, I went to add it and my nozzle clogged…it happens. But when I tried to clear the blog I ruined my pin and couldn’t find anything in my whole house narrow enough to get in there. So I regained my composure and decided it would be fun to add unicorn Stickles to the noses and beaks instead. I also added a little dot in the center of the flower. Last, I went ahead and added black glaze pen on the eyes to help them stand out too.

Needless to say, I popped on and ordered a new fine tip for my glossy accents and I’m anxiously awaiting its arrival. But on a good note, this card is super cute and the sparkly stickles give a little extra whimsy effect which I love!

Products used today:
Jane’s Doodles Stinks digital stamps
Lawn Fawn Lots of Hearts stencil
Lawn Fawn Grassy Border die
Lawn Fawn dye inks
Thermoweb foam tape and squares
Blending Buddy Brushes
Unicorn Stickles

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

Coffee Loving Cardmakers – Java Junkie Shaker

Hello there! Today I’m over on the Coffee Loving Cardmakers for the first Tuesday Tea of 2022!!! Can you even believe it?!? Time just flies by too fast. I hope you all had a wonderful New Year holiday and are ready to jump into fun crafting! I’ve got a shaker card today featuring so many companies and highlighting embellishments from the Twiddler’s Nook shop. We just had our mini Valentine release yesterday and I couldn’t wait to start creating with it!

I recently picked up these adorable unicorns from Heffy Doodle that I’ve been eyeing for an eternity and I’m so happy to color them up in Valentine colors! Aren’t they adorable!?! Then I used the Lawn Fawn stitched mug die sets to create a shaker and filled it with three embellishments from Twiddler’s Nook – sweethearts clay hearts, holographic hearts confetti and rosetta pixie dust micro beads. The whipped cream on my mug is from the Lawn Fawn cupcake die set.

To create the background for my card, I cut a white panel to 4×5.25 inches and inked the top and side edges with Lawn Fawn mermaid ink and a blending brush. Then I cut two layers of clouds used the Lawn Fawn cloudy border dies and inked the tops of those with the same color before adhering all the layers with liquid glue.

Next, I used my images as guides before stamping my sentiment in the top left sky area. Then I started adding everything with either foam squares or liquid glue, or a combo.

For finishing touches today, I added Wink of Stella glitter brush pen to the unicorn horns, sweetheart clay embellishments to the whipped cream and heart on the mug and a scattering of holographic hearts around the sky.

I probably had way too much fun creating this card but I’m just so happy with how it turned out and think it would make anyone smile when they opened it! Don’t you?!?

Products used today:
Heffy Doodle Fluffy Puffy Unicorn stamps and dies
Lawn Fawn Outside In Stitched Mug dies
Lawn Fawn Stitched Mug Frame dies
Lawn Fawn Puffy Cloud Border dies
Lawn Fawn mermaid ink
Trinity Stamps blending buddy brushes
Hero Arts 2018 My Monthly Hero Kit stamp set
Twiddler’s Nook Pixie Dust Micro Beads – rosetta
Twiddler’s Nook Sweethearts Clay Heart embellishments
Twiddler’s Nook Holographic Hearts embellishments
Wink of Stella glitter brush pen
Foam squares
Liquid glue

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

Spellbinders – Happy Birthday Lion

Hey friends! Happy New Year! I took a bit of time off for the holidays and only did the crafting that I had to for my teams. It was really nice and we did some fun things. Today I’m back with a birthday card that I made for my dad last week. I didn’t want to share it here until he had opened it.

I started by cutting the elements from the Spellbinders Lion, Oh My! set and used liquid glue to adhere them all together. Isn’t he just the most studious party lion ever?!? I love him! Then I pulled out some dies from Pink & Main to create my background.

I cut a white card base and folded it. Then I cut the two layers of the Pink & Main Plaid Cover dies from white and light blue and adhered them together. Next, I cut a Reverse Scallop Frame from Pink & Main out of black cardstock and popped it up with foam strips.

I dug through my stash for a good happy birthday sentiment and ultimately landed on a simple one from Lawn Fawn cut out with a Pink & Main Large Sentiment Strip die. I added foam squares to the banner and lion and popped them in place next. Then I finished everything off with a scattering of glitter enamel dots from Pink & Main.

I am so happy with how this card turned out and my dad liked it too! Success!

Products used:
Spellbinders Lion, Oh My! dies
Pink & Main Plaid Cover dies
Pink & Main Reverse Scallop Rectangles dies
Pink & Main Large Sentiment Strip dies
Pink & Main Glitter Enamel Dots
Foam squares and strips

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

Miss Ink Stamps – Happy New Year Bottle Tag

Hello everyone! I’m back with a quick New Year project featuring Miss Ink Stamps Punny Farm Pigs and Happy New Year sets and a couple of dies from Trinity Stamps.

My daughter loves having sparkling cider at the holidays so I thought it would be fun to make a bottle tag to decorate it while it sits on the counter tomorrow.

I stamped images from Punny Farm Pigs and colored them with my copic markers before using the coordinating dies to cut them all out. I used liquid glue to adhere all of the accessories on and set them aside to dry.

Next, I die cut a bottle tag from Trinity Stamps and stamped images from Happy New Year all over it in VersaMark ink. I heat embossed them in gold for that classic New Year decor vibe. Next, I die cut cheers from the bottle tag die set from white cardstock 4 times and black once. Then I cut the shadow from gold glitter cardstock and used liquid glue to adhere all the layers together. Last, I stamped and heat embossed Happy New Year in gold and trimmed it into as trip. For a little dimension and to help it stand out I inked the edges with white pigment ink. Then I added foam squares to my images and sentiment strip.

I adhered the cheers die with liquid glue, removed the release paper from the foam squares and popped everything in place.

For finishing touches I added black glaze pen to the pig’s eyes and white gel pen highlights to all the images. Once the eyes were dry, I came back in with a little white gel pen highlight on those too.

Here’s a look at the tag hanging on the sparkling cider bottle. Isn’t it just the cutest!?! I think so and I’m excited to surprise my daughter with it tomorrow. She’ll love it too!

Products used today:
Miss Ink Stamps Punny Farm Pigs stamps and dies
Miss Ink Stamps Happy New Year stamps
Trinity Stamps Bottle Tag die set
Foam squares

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

Pink & Main – Woofing You a Great Day

Hello everyone! I’m over on the Pink & Main blog today with an adorable card featuring the stamp and die of the month for December. It is the CUTEST puppy set! I absolutely love all of the images in the set and the sentiments are too cute too!!!

I started my card with a layout in mind so I stamped the images from the set and colored them with my copic markers. Then I used the coordinating dies to cut them out. Then I pulled out the awesome rainbow die from the Rainbow Friend die set and cut it from white cardstock. I pulled all the pieces apart and used my copics to color those as well. I seriously love adding color to dies like this with markers instead of colored cardstock. Then I cut a white circle just a smidge smaller than the scalloped outline and adhered everything to that. This makes it tons easier to add to my card, especially since it’s popped up with foam tape.

I chose a gray patterned paper from the Hooray paper pad and cut it out with the largest Layered Rectangle A2 die. I adhered it to a white card base with EZ Squeeze liquid glue and popped my rainbow panel up. Then I added foam squares to my images and popped them up as well.

I chose a sentiment from the set, stamped it and cut it out with a Large Sentiment Banner die and popped it up as well. The parts of the puppy and sentiment that hang over the rainbow circle have double layer foam squares so it lays flat. I love the depth the extra layer gives everything.

For finishing touches I added black glaze pen to the puppy’s eyes and glossy accents to the nose, bow and shine mark on the balloon. Then I finished the design off with a scattering of gray glitter enamel dots from the Rainbow pack.

It’s almost weird to switch gears from holiday cards to this but also a little refreshing. If you’re interested in subscribing to the stamp and die of the month, click HERE. It’s a steal of a deal and guarantees you super fun happy mail each month to create with!

Products used today:
Puppy Love stamps and dies – Stamp of the Month
Rainbow Friend dies
Layered Rectangle A2 dies
Large Sentiment Strip dies
Hooray paper pad
Rainbow glitter enamel dots
EZ Squeeze liquid glue
Glossy accents
Foam squares and tape

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

Trinity Stamps – Happy New Year Snowman

Hello everyone! The year is coming to a close and I can’t even believe it! It flew by but oddly drug on at the same time. This year was much harder for me than 2020 so I’m happy to see it go and ready to move forward with happy positive vibes!

Today I’m popping in with a super fun slimline card featuring all Trinity Stamps dies, stencils and stamps! So much cuteness!

I started by cutting all the elements for the Slimline Happy Snowman die and assembled them with liquid glue. I cut the scarf and hat band from light blue cardstock and inked them up with blue dye ink and my blending brush before adhering them in place.

Next, I inked up a white panel with distress oxide inks in chipped sapphire, blueprint sketch and wilted violet. I spritzed the panel with water and blotted it dry. Then I used the Slimline Snowfall stencil – layer 1 is white pigment ink with my blending brush and layer 2 is iridescent glitz glitter gel and a stencil pal.

Once the panel was dry I die cut it with the largest Slimline Stitched Panel die. Then I cut 2 more scraps of white with the same stitched panel to create snow hills. I trimmed the top of each white scrap with the cloud border from the Slimline Scenic Borders die set. I like the bumpy look of snow drifts.

I inked the edges of the snow drifts with my blending brush and light teal ink. Then I stamped Happy New Year from the Holiday Tag Helper stamp set on the front one. Now it’s time to assemble everything!

I adhered the inked panel to a white slimline card base with liquid glue. Then I added the back snow drift the same way. I added foam tape to the snowman and used the front snow drift as a guide where to pop him in place. Then I carefully added foam tape to the front snow drift so that it didn’t interfere with the snowman and added it last.

Isn’t this just the cutest scene!?! I love it! I don’t normally send new year cards out but I ran out of Christmas cards and time to send them so I’m going to send a few out and have had fun creating them!

Products used today:
Slimline Happy Snowman dies
Slimline Stitched Card Panel dies
Slimline Snowfall stencils
Slimline Scenic Border dies
Holiday Tag Helper stamps
Blending Buddy Brushes
Distress Oxide Ink – chipped sapphire, blueprint sketch, wilted violet
Thermoweb Glitz Glitter Gel – iridescent
Thermoweb Stencil Pal
Thermoweb 3D foam tape
Thermoweb liquid glue

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

Coffee Loving Cardmakers – Coffee Date!

Hey friends! I’m over on the Coffee Loving Cardmakers blog today having a coffee date with my friend Beata June! Here’s a peek at my card but you’ll have to head to the Coffee Lovers blog to see hers!

For our coffee date we chose a layout and a stamp set to use but everything else was up in the air! Using the Mama Elephant Hot Cocoa stamp set and a slimline – 3 window design idea, this is what I came up with. I colored the images with my copic markers and cut them out with the coordinating dies. I cut the hexatag from glitter cardstock and layered the snowflake version over the top in light blue. Then I tied twine bows at the top for a little texture.

On my background panel I ink blended distress oxide ink in spun sugar and festive berries on a white panel. I spritzed it with water and flicked pearl watercolor all over. Once it was dry, I die cut and adhered a slimline plaid panel from Pink & Main.

To assemble my card, I adhered the tags to the front panel with liquid glue and popped the images up with foam squares. Then I pulled out the Easy Christmas Messages set out, stamped and die cut one, then popped it up with a foam strip.

For finishing touches on this card, I added glossy accents to various things like noses and beaks, peppermint sticks and tea tags. Then I came in with unicorn Stickles on hats and whipped cream for some extra sparkle.

Isn’t this just the sweetest!?! I hope you’re all ready for Christmas tomorrow. I totally am and I’m almost more excited than the kids! So silly but I love it all!

Products used today:
Mama Elephant Hot Cocoa stamps and dies
Mama Elephant Hexatag dies
Mama Elephant Easy Xmas Greetings stamps
Pink & Main Plaid Slimline die
Foam squares
Glossy accents
Stickles – unicorn
Distress Oxide ink – spun sugar, festive berries
Copic markers

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

Pink & Main – Snow Sweet of You Rainbow

Hello there everyone! Today I’m over on the Pink & Main blog with some wintery rainbow cuteness! I’m sharing a fun thank you style card featuring some adorable snowmen and a few Pink & Main dies as well.

For today’s fun card, I had a general layout in mind but no color scheme. Often when this happens I gravitate toward rainbows…they’re just so darn happy and I love them! So I stamped out my snowmen and colored them up…one in rainbow and one in just a couple of the same colors from the same rainbow. Then I it hit me to continue my rainbow to the background too!

So I pulled out a rainbow of scraps from my cardstock stash and the Diagonal Cover Die set and started cutting pieces. To make assembly easy for me, I used the Layered Rectangle A2 dies and cut one from computer paper that was just a smidge smaller than the rainbow stripes. I adhered them to that with EZ Squeeze liquid glue and then glued that to my white scalloped panel. Then I used a rectangle from the same stack that was just a smidge bigger than the rainbow panel and cut it from vellum.

To adhere everything together I started on the bottom adding the scalloped panel to a white card base with foam tape. Next, I added my snowmen with foam squares and the sentiment with tape runner to the vellum panel and used those areas to hide tape runner to adhere it to the rainbow stripes. (I find that tape runner works best with vellum because the liquid glues cause warping.)

For finishing touches I added a scattering of white glitter enamel dots to the design, glossy accents to the snowman noses and buttons, unicorn Stickles to the pompoms on the hats and black glaze pen to the snowman’s eyes.

Isn’t this adorable!?! I used scraps to create my rainbow so I only ended up with one panel but if you cut the whole panel from every color you could end up with 7 of these and mass produce some super sweet thank you cards! This might be in my future for over the holiday break!

Products used today:
Snow Sweet Set 2 stamps and dies
Diagonal Cover dies
Empty Snow Globe dies
Layered Rectangle A2 dies
EZ Squeeze liquid glue
White Glitter enamel dots
Glossy accents
Stickles – unicorn
foam tape

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

Miss Ink Stamps – Winter Thank You

Hello fabulous friends! Thanks for stopping by today. I’ve pretty much made myself stop making Christmas cards at this point but I’m not letting go of all the cute winter and holiday images yet! So I switched gears to creating some thank you cards to use through the winter months instead. Today I’m sharing this sweet mini scene featuring stamps and stencils from Miss Ink Stamps.

To create my card, I chose a circle die that would fit the image from Warm Winter Wishes and cut it out. Then I stamped the image and colored it with my copic markers. To set the scene, I used BG000 for some snow shading but dark blue ink and a blending brush to shade in the sky. Then I came in with white gel pen accents for falling snow and extra snow drifts on the ground.

Next I took a white panel and cut it down to 4×5.25 inches and adhered it to the Feed the Birds stencil. I spread gold glitter glitz gel through it and set the panel aside to dry. Once it was dry and I started layering things together, I didn’t like all the white so I inked it up with light brown ink and a blending brush for some contrast.

Next, I cut a banner from white cardstock and stamped a sentiment from the Fall Bouquet stamp set. I added foam tape to the back of everything, layering on my scene and sentiment first so I could trim off anything hanging over the edge. Then I added the whole panel to a white card base.

For finishing touches I added glossy accents to parts like the berries, ornaments and snowman eyes.

Isn’t this just a sweet little scene and so fun with the glittery background!?! I think it will be a perfect thank you card to send someone after Christmas!

Products used:
Warm Winter Wishes stamps
Fall Bouquet stamps
Feed the Birds stencil
Trinity Stamps Embossed Edge Circle dies
Newton’s Nook Frames & Flags dies
Thermoweb Glitz Glitter Gel – gold
Stencil pal
3D Foam tape

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

Coffee Loving Cardmakers – Let It Snow Thank You Card

Hello everyone! It’s hard to believe but today is the last Tuesday Tea with Twiddler’s Nook on the Coffee Loving Cardmakers blog for 2021! Another year has completely flown by! Today I’m sharing a fun mash up card with Newton’s Nook images and some Lawn Fawn dies.

I started my card by stamping images from Newton’s Nook Sending Hugs and Snowman Greetings stamp sets. I colored them with my copic markers and cut them out with the coordinating dies. Then I die cut my background panel from white cardstock using the Lawn Fawn Stitched Snowflake Backdrop die and inked it up with some Lawn Fawn dye ink and a blending brush. I smooshed some of the ink on my glass mat, sprayed it with water and used a paintbrush to flick it on the background for added texture.

With my background finished, I used it along with my images as guides to die cut a white snowy hill to ground my scene. Then I combined a few Lawn Fawn sets to create a custom sentiment to make this a fun winter thank you card to use after the holidays. The top and bottom sentiments came from Thanks a Latte and the middle word came from Big Thanks. After that was stamped I flicked some paint on the hill as well to tie in the speckles a little. Then I popped it up with foam tape on the bottom of my card front.

Last, I added my images with foam squares and liquid glue and switched over to finishing touches. For that I added glossy accents to the snowman nose, buttons and heart, and the other critter noses and beaks too. Then I added black glaze pen to the eyes with a little white gel pen highlight on Winston. So that everyone had a little shiny interest I also added glossy accents to the coffee cup lid and ribbon on the gift. Then to complete my scene I adhered a scattering of snowflakes from Twiddler’s Nook’s Snowy Day embellishments.

Have you switched gears yet or are you still holiday crafting? I am doing a mix of thank you cards and still making holiday things as I’m inspired. I’ve even thrown in a couple Valentine’s Day cards already too. So fun!

Products used today:
Newton’s Nook Snowman Greetings stamps and dies
Newton’s Nook Sending Hugs stamps and dies
Lawn Fawn Simple Stitched Hillside Border dies
Lawn Fawn Stitched Snowflake Backdrop die
Lawn Fawn Thanks a Latte stamps
Lawn Fawn Big Thanks stamps
Foam tape and squares
Ultrabond liquid glue
Glossy accents
Twiddler’s Nook Snowy Day embellishments

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