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!

Pink & Main – Merry Christmas Slimline

Hello crafty friends! Once again we’ve made it through another week and I have some super fun Pink & Main inspiration to share with you. Today I’ve got a slimline card featuring one of the adorable Polly and Pete stamp sets.

I started my card with a general idea in mind but I needed to get some images in my hands to play around with spacing and such. So I pulled out the Polly and Pete Gifts stamp set out and inked it up. I stamped both critters and 3 gifts. I used copic markers to color the images and cut them out with the coordinating dies. After arranging them on my glass mat I landed on a slimline card instead of squishing everything into A2.

For my background I blended distress oxide ink on a white cardstock panel – top to bottom: festive berries, spun sugar, mowed lawn – and spritzed it with water. It was a bit oversized so I die cut it with the largest Layered Slimline die and adhered it to a white card base. Then I cut the reverse scalloped frame from the Blessings Slimline die set and adhered it with liquid glue as well. Then I popped my images up with foam squares.

For my sentiment, I die cut just the Merry Christmas words from the Christmas Greetings die set 3 times – 2 from white and 1 from red – and glued them together before adhering them to the card front.

For finishing touches I added white gel pen accents to the images and unicorn Stickles to the critter’s cheeks and hats. Then I finished my card with a scattering of white pearls from the Essential Pearls set and some Wink of Stella glitter brush pen on the sentiment.

These critters are just so cute and happy! I am technically done sending Christmas cards but I’m still having fun creating so I just might have to find someone to pop it in the mail to.

Products used:
Polly and Pete Gifts stamps and dies
Blessings Slimline dies
Layered Slimline dies
Christmas Greetings dies
Essential Pearls
EZ Squeeze liquid glue
Foam squares
Stickles – unicorn

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

Miss Ink Stamps – Holly Jolly Christmas Tag

Happy Thursday everyone! I hope your week is going nicely. Are you all ready for Christmas? I usually am but I still have packages arriving through the weekend so I’ll be wrapping right up until the moment this year it seems. Oy!

Back to the reason I’m popping in today…crafting!!! I have a SUPER fun Christmas tag featuring stamps from Miss Ink Stamps and a tag die from Trinity Stamps. I wanted to make a coffee themed tag to play along with the Ellen Hutson 12 days of Christmas tags so I pulled out Java Joe’s…but how to turn it Christmassy?!? I started digging and wouldn’t you know that the accessories in the Ice Day stamp set fit perfectly!

This was just too fun to create! I stamped images from Ice Day and Java Joe’s and colored them with my copics. I used the scan-n-cut to cut them out and liquid glue to adhere everything together. I added foam squares to the back and moved on to my tag base.

I stamped the coffee shop, brick detail and a topiary on a kraft slimline tag with sepia VersaFine ink. Then I blended distress oxide ink on the tag – brown edges, red on the building and a little touch of green on the plant. I spritzed it with water and flicked watered down brown and red ink on the tag. Next I snagged some snowflakes from Snow One Like You and stamped them in the background with white pigment ink.

Next, I removed the release paper from the foam squares and popped my images in place. I stamped a sentiment from Holly Jolly in the same brown ink and trimmed it into a strip before popping it up with a foam strip.

For finishing touches I added glossy accents to the package bow, candy cane and coffee cup lid. Then I added unicorn Stickles to Joe’s Santa hat and black glaze pen to his eyes.

For stability and a clean surface to write on, I die cut another tag from white cardstock and adhered them together before threading my ribbon through the hole and tying it up.

I am SO EXCITED about how this fun tag turned out! I hope you liked it too!

Products used today:
Miss Ink Stamps Holly Jolly
Miss Ink Stamps Snow One Like You
Miss Ink Stamps Java Joe’s
Miss Ink Stamps Ice Day
Trinity Stamps Slimline Tag dies
foam squares
glossy accents
stickles – unicorn

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

Newton’s Nook – Merry Woof-mas!

Welcome everyone! Today I’m over on the Newton’s Nook blog sharing an adorable circular card featuring an array of products that all just seemed to play so well together!

For this card, I had an idea in my head so I started by stamping and heat embossing the Snowfall Roundabout image on white cardstock. Then I inked it up with blue dye inks and a blending brush. Next, I die cut the inked panel with the largest stitched circle from the Circle Frames die set. I pulled another circle die set from my stash and cut a silver glitter cardstock circle just a bit bigger than the Snowfall panel and last I die cut the largest Circle Frames die from white cardstock.

Now, I stamped and colored a puppy from the Christmas Puppies stamp set with my copic markers. I used the coordinating dies to cut him out and chose a sentiment to go with him. I thought it would be fun to use the Speech Bubble dies so I cut one of those and stamped it on there.

I wanted to ground the puppy in the scene so I cut another stitched circle from white cardstock and trimmed the top of it with a Sea Border die. Now for assembly! This card has lots of dimension but I just love it!

I started by adhering the snow drift to the snowfall panel with liquid glue, then I popped up the puppy and speech bubble with foam squares. The snowfall panel is glued directly to the silver glitter circle and that is popped up with foam tape.

I created a circle card base by folding a piece of white cardstock in half and shifted it down about a 1/2 inch before die cutting it with the same die I used for the largest scalloped circle layer.

For finishing touches I added glossy accents to the puppy’s nose and striped on the candy cane. Then I used unicorn Stickles for the spots on the scarf. Last, I added black glaze pen to the puppy’s eyes to help them pop a little.

Isn’t this card just too cute!?! I can’t get over it! Adorable!

Products used today:
Christmas Puppies stamps and dies
Circle Frames dies
Snowfall Roundabout stamps
Speech Bubbles dies
Sea Borders dies
Pink & Main Layered Circles dies
Foam tape
Stickles – unicorn
Glossy accents

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

Jane’s Doodles – Christmas Blessings

Hi again! I’m popping in to share that I’m over on the Jane’s Doodles blog today as well. I’m sharing this sweet Christmas card featuring the Merry Mice digital stamp.

I started by choosing one of the mouse images and colored it with my copic markers. Then I trimmed it out and set it aside. For my background, I cut a piece of kraft cardstock and inked it up with some brown dye ink and a blending brush. Then I smooshed some in on my glass mat, watered it down and flicked it on the panel. I also splattered some gold watercolor on the panel for some shimmer.

Next, I die cut a tag from the Trinty Stamps Holiday Tag die set and inked it up with the same brown ink. Then I die cut a Trinity Stamps Nested Heart and embossed it with a Pink & Main houndstooth embossing folder. I inked the edges of the heart and flicked some gold watercolor on it to tie things together.

For assembly, I added the kraft panel to a white card base with liquid glue and the heart to the tag as well. Then I popped the mouse and sentiment up with foam squares. I threaded some gingham ribbon through the tag hole and tied it with baker’s twine. Then I popped the tag up with foam tape.

For finishing touches I added glossy accents to the mouse’s nose and the ornaments on her tree too. I thought the sentiment was a little stark white against everything else so I just used the ink already in my brown blending brush to tone it down a bit.

Products used today:
Jane’s Doodles Merry Mice digital stamp
Trinity Stamps Nested Hearts dies
Trinity Stamps Holiday Tag dies
Pink & Main Houndstooth embossing folder
Foam tape and squares
Glossy accents

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

Miss Ink Stamps – Coolest Friend

Happy Tuesday friends! I’m over on the Miss Ink Stamps blog today with a fun stencil layered card featuring those new adorable penguins in the Ice Day stamp set.

To create my card, I started with the images. I chose a penguin and some accessories from Ice Day, stamped them and colored them all with copic markers. I used my scan-n-cut to cut them out and set them aside.

Moving on to the background, I chose a light blue piece of cardstock and prepared my Perfectly Plaid stencil with pixie spray. I inked it up with a blending brush and green dye ink. I removed the plaid stencil and centered the Ins & Outs Quatrefoil stencil over the top. I inked up another layer of the same green ink creating a focal point for my images. I switched from the window to the frame layer of the stencil and spread grass green glitz glitter gel through that.

Once the panel was dry, I trimmed it down to 4×5.25 inches and popped it up on a white card base with foam tape. Then I added foam squares to my images and arranged them in the window area. I chose a sentiment from the Ice Day set, stamped it and trimmed it into a strip before popping it up with a foam strip too.

For finishing touches I added some white clay hearts with liquid glue and glossy accents to parts of the images like the penguin beak and feet and the bow on the present.

Wouldn’t this card make the cutest birthday card for a winter baby?!? I think so! It’s so fun and also great for guys or girls!

Products used today:
Ice Day stamps
Perfectly Plaid stencil
Ins & Outs Stencil – Quatrefoil
Pixie spray
Glitz glitter gel – grass green
Blending Brush
Lawn Fawn ink – jalapeno
Foam tape
Foam squares
Glossy accents
Twiddler’s Nook Sweethearts embellishment mix

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

Pink & Main – Magic of the Season

Hi there! Today I’m over on the Pink & Main blog with a fun little slimline Christmas card to share with you! I know most people have sent their Christmas cards out already but I’m just not ready to be done holiday crafting.

I some fun paper piecing the stockings from Stocking Stuffers with plaid paper from the pad including in the Homespun Holiday card kit. Aren’t they too cute!?! Then I stamped the elf from Stocking Stuffers and colored him with my copic markers. Finally, I used the coordinating dies and cut everything out.

I had the idea that I wanted to use the slimline plaid die but also the smallest panel from the Beautiful Slim Line die set too. So I inked up a piece of white cardstock with distress oxide inks in worn lipstick and and spun sugar. I spritzed the panel with water and splattered some black acrylic paint on it too. While it was drying, I die cut the slim line plaid die from white cardstock, then used EZ squeeze liquid glue to adhere it down. Then, I ran that through my die cut machine with the smaller of the panel dies in the Beautiful die set.

I cut a white slimline card base, then cut a piece of red cardstock as close to matching the red stocking as possible and adhered them together. Then I popped the inked plaid panel up with foam tape and finally popped each of the stocking up with foam squares too.

I wanted a different sentiment, so I went digging and found this perfect one in the Winter Snow Globe Scenes stamp set. So I stamped it and cut it out with a Large Sentiment banner and adhered it to the middle stocking.

For finishing touches I added glossy accents to the gnome’s nose, bell and candy cane. Then I came in with unicorn Stickles for his little cheeks! So fun!!!

I’m curious, are you still holiday crafting or have you switched gears already?

Products used today:
Stocking Stuffers stamps and dies
Winter Snow Globe Scene stamps
Slim Line Plaid die
Beautiful Slim Line dies
Large Sentiment Strip dies
Homespun Christmas card kit
EZ Squeeze liquid glue
Distress Oxide – spun sugar and worn lipstick
Foam tape
Foam squares
Glossy accents
Copic markers
Stickles – unicorn

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