Hello everyone! I’m over on the Thermoweb blog today sharing how I created this pair of cards featuring Laura Kelly Designs products from Thermoweb. Her foil colors and toner card fronts are so fun. Pair those with her whimsical stamps and you’ve got adorable, fun cards!
To create these cards, I started by foiling the toner card front on the right and then adding the negative decofoil sheet to a toner sheet and then foiling the rest with some awesome Rainglow decofoil. It’s kind of a process but it’s fun and magical as you do it!
To add a little something to this first card, I added glitter gltiz gel with a Pink & Main stencil over the foiling. Isn’t it so much fun!?!
And then this amazing double-foiled card needed nothing added because it is so gorgeous!!!
Be sure to head over to the Thermoweb blog for the step-by-step and a list of products used too!
I appreciate you sharing your time with me. Have a fabulous day!
Hahahaha!!! I’m playing with the newest Miss Ink Stamps release again and these sentiments just crack me up! Today I’ve chosen one from Feline Spooky and I can’t even begin to express how much I love it! These cats are fantastic for spooky Halloween settings, I love them!
Given the sarcastic nature of the sentiment I just had to use, I kept the rest of the card light and a little brighter. We wouldn’t want that awesome black cat to get lost!
For the background, I used the quatrefoil ins and outs stencil with a two tone orange background and layered the small alternating dots stencil over the top. Then I used black ink to blend in the quatrefoil border layer.
I popped the black cat from Feline Spooky up with foam squares, stamped and trimmed a sentiment from the same set. Matted it on a black cardstock strip and popped it up too. Then I thought it needed something else. So I trimmed the panel down to 4×5.25 and mounted it on black glitter cardstock from Pink & Main.
I adhered the whole thing to a white card base and finished things off with a little glossy accents on the kitty’s glowing eyes.
Seriously, if you haven’t checked out this whole release…click HERE now and go see. It’s fantastic!
Hey again! As part of the National Coffee Day celebration with the Coffee Loving Cardmakers, we’ve all created super awesome inspiration with the Ellen Hutson Bear Cozy Kit! This kit is SO MUCH FUN! Today I have a couple of simple cozies to share with you featuring items from the kit.
First I created the simple gray bear on the left using only items from the kit. I used Thermoweb FabricFuse liquid adhesive to adhere all of my pieces together and then stitched in a little detail like the mouth and eyelashes.
For the second cozy, I just had to try a panda. They are quite literally my VERY FAVORITE animal and it just had to be done. Lol. I cut the cozy from winter white felt and then the accents from charcoal felt. I cut the eyes from black. In the photos it’s hard to tell the distinction but in person the eyes really do stand out. After gluing these pieces together, I added some fun stitching detail on here too.
There is a die in the set that cuts a row of holes which is perfect for stitching the two sides of your cozy together. You can see here how I stitched the gray one together. Also the little extra detail I gave with that sweet heart and some extra stitches too!
Well, hello friends! Fancy meeting you here. 😉 I’m over on the Trinity Stamps blog today sharing a fun decoration I made for my festively fall decorated mantel! I make a big deal about the mantel because I’ve wanted one since we bought this house and my wonderful husband built a custom one last winter so this is my first fall season being able to decorate it! It’s so fun!
I love swiping the 2×4 scraps from the garage when my husband builds things. This one is about 6 inches tall. Here’s a little photo step-by-step in case you want to try it out!
Sand your piece of wood down to the smoothness/shape you’re looking for. Then paint it with acrylic paint. For this project I put the dry block in my splatter box and added flicks of pearl and gold watercolor all over it and let it dry.
To make a template for my moon, I die cut a circle from white cardstock and then I took the circle one size smaller and cut the side off, creating a crescent shape. I placed it on my block and used a pencil to make dots about 1/2 inch apart, maybe a little more. If you’re more comfortable, you could mark on your cardstock first so that you know if you like the spacing or not. I’ve done enough of these to just wing it now.
After I marked the dots, I hammered in penny nails so they stick up about a 1/2 inch out of the wood. I tied embroidery thread to one nail and started winding and wrapping. It’s not rocket science and the more imperfect, the more fun it looks…to me at least.
I tied off the thread and trimmed the tails. The knots are hidden beneath the wrapped thread naturally so it’s not a worry. Then I stamped my favorite little bat from Fang-tastic Friends, colored him with simple copics and die cut him out. I added black foam squares under him, it took 3 stacked to get him the same height as the nails.
I stamped a sentiment from the same set and heat embossed it on black cardstock. Then I used the banner die from the 4-Bar Card die set to cut it out. I used a foam strip to attach it to the wood block.
For finishing touches, I added some glossy accents to the bat and then glued a scattering of these awesome Glowing Sky clay embellishments all over. They glow in the dark which makes this extra awesome at night!
I am just tickled with how this fun decoration turned out! Have you ever made string art before? I love the way they look but have had even more fun adding stamped images to the designs over the last year. It changes the whole look!
Hey friends! Twiddler’s Nook is a Super Sponsor for the Coffee Loving Cardmakers National Coffee Day celebration! They’re having a HOP full of inspiration and prizes to win!
In the Twiddler’s Nook Shop we offer a big selection of super fun embellishments to adorn your cards and fill your shakers, along with a wide variety of tools that help in the craft room too.
Here’s a look at our coffee mug magnetic die stand and a donut embellishment tray! The perfect set up for any coffee loving papercrafter! The die stands are great for holding your dies in between uses so that you don’t misplace or accidently stick them to something where they are lost forever. The embellishment trays are ideal for sorting through embellishments and pouring the extras back in the package, but these are also amazing for holding your die cut images while building your cards!
Then there’s the ever popular Pressure Pal! This is a very handy tool to help apply even pressure when stamping with a stamp platform like the MISTI. See it in action in this YouTube video a customer did to review it!
SALE
We’re running a sale from today through Sunday for 10% off the shop to celebrate National Coffee Day! We would love it if you headed over and had a look around. Click HERE to get there.
GIVEAWAY
We’re having a fun giveaway to celebrate the hop today. A $20 gift code to the Twiddler’s Nook shop for one random commenter on this post. Commenting closes on October 6 at noon PST.
You should have come to us from the Trinity Stamps blog. We’re last on the hop list but if you didn’t start at the beginning. Click HERE to get to the main post and catch anyone you missed!
Thanks so much for stopping by! I appreciate you sharing your time. Have a fabulous day and good luck!
Welcome! It’s time for another Tuesday Tea with Twiddler’s Nook over on the Coffee Loving Cardmakers and today it’s extra special! We’re celebrating National Coffee Day all week leading up to it and there are giveaways on the blog each day. Click HERE to head over and check out the festivities.
I’m celebrating Thermoweb today with a super fun shaker card featuring stencils and dies from Newton’s Nook, the coffee shaker dies from Lawn Fawn and my shaker bits from the Twiddler’s Nook shop!
Head over and check out the post for all the details on this card plus a chance to win!
Thanks for stopping by. I appreciate you sharing your time with me. Have a fabulous day!
Welcome to the A-Haunting We Will Glow Collab Hop with i-Crafter and Pear Blossom Press! We’re sharing spooky sweet projects for Halloween. Featuring interactive dies from i-Crafter, and with help from Pear Blossom Press, they all really light up! Be sure to hop along with us for lots of inspiration; we’ve come up with some brilliant cards. Let me show you mine…
To create my card I die cut the base panel for the tunnel card from white cardstock 4 times. I ink blended one with distress oxide in blueprint sketch and seedless preserves and another with gathered twigs and black soot. The third panel was inked with distress ink in black soot. Then I used the haunted house add on dies to cut the windows from the 3 inked panels. I spritzed each with water and flicked gold watercolor on them too.
I completed my light up mechanism before assembling the card. This way if I mess up I only have to recreate 1 panel, not 3.
To do that I started with the back panel and adhered iridescent vellum to the back covering the bat and moon openings. I like how this diffuses the light.
I took the halo light and traced the ring on the back of the panel so I could see where to add foam squares. I added those between the cut outs. I also marked where the button sits and stamped “push here” on the other side.
I adhered my light in place and framed the rest of the back with double thick foam tape. Then I took the last tunnel card base I had, trimmed off the edges and adhered it down, securing and hiding my light mechanism.
Next, I followed the general instructions and assembled my tunnel card. After that was done I used some of the smaller dies in the set to decorate my scene.
For the bats, beware and fence I inked up a scrap with carved pumpkin and seedless preserves layered together, then cut them out. For the pumpkins I used carved pumpkin and inked the edges with gathered twigs. Images on the front are adhered with foam squares and anything inside the tunnel is added with liquid glue.
Here’s a look at it all lit up! Spooky and so much fun! I hope you enjoyed this card. I alleviate you sharing your time with me!
BLOG HOP
You should have started at the i-Crafter blog and the next inspirational stop on the hop for you is Niccole!
Hey friends! Last weekend I got my most recent Pretty Pink Posh release order and could not wait to play! I inked up those sweet Cozy Fall Critters and colored my heart out! Then I had to play with the new Leaves Background stencil too! After I inked up a large panel with the stencil I cut it down for my first card which left me with a good size strip left and I couldn’t just waste it so I made another card to share too!
Aren’t these cards just too fun!?! I love how they turned out! The one on the right was the first and the one on the left was the second one I created. Getting two fantastic cards out of one background is so rewarding and kind of fun to challenge myself to do too!
For this card, I popped the stenciled panel up with foam tape and added a strip of gold glitter paper to the edge. Then I popped the images up with foam squares before finishing things off with white gel pen accents and glossy accents too!
I’ll admit I didn’t plan for a sentiment on this so when I finally decided to add it, I popped the whole card in my MISTI, removing the foam insert so it was flat enough to stamp on, and stamped it that way.
Keeping to the same theme with this card, the stenciled panel is popped up again and the same gold glitter cardstock was added to the edge. I popped the images up to the same level as the stenciled panel and stamped my sentiment in the top right corner this time.
I used the same white gel pen accents and glossy accents for this sweet card as well.
Hi there! Today I’m over on the Pink & Main blog sharing this fun snowflake themed Christmas card with a coordinating Christmas ornament to go with it! During the holidays I just love doing little sets like these. It makes it extra fun to give gifts or just pop in the mail together to brighten someone’s day!
All of the products I’m using today were just released earlier this week! So if you haven’t checked it out yet, you need to for sure! It’s bursting with amazing!!!
To start this project, I wanted to play with the snowflake stencil and also the layering snowflake dies…so I did. I used white Thermoweb Glitz Glitter Gel on dark blue cardstock with the snowflake stencil and set it aside to dry.
While that was drying I die cut some elements from the layered snowflakes dies. For the card, I cut the base from vellum, the large piece from white cardstock and the smallest layer from blue glitter paper in the winter glitter paper pad.
Next, I die cut the Merry Christmas from holographic paper and the shadow from white cardstock. I adhered the layers together with EZ Squeeze liquid adhesive but popped the sentiment up with foam squares and popped the snowflake up with foam squares as well.
To complete the card, I trimmed the snowflake background down by 1/8 inch on each side. This cleans up the excess glitz gel and gives it a nice white border from the card base. This panel is popped up with foam strips and then the snowflake is added to the center.
Here’s a closer look at one side of the ornament. I die cut the base piece from white cardstock twice. Then the snowflake outline from holographic paper twice. I used EZ Squeeze liquid adhesive once again to adhered the snowflakes to the shadow and then back-to-back so the whole thing is double-sided.
Finally I took out the sweet Polly and Pete Jolly set and stamped each critter, coloring them in with my copic markers. I used the coordinating dies to cut them out, added foam squares and popped one on the center of each side.
I punched a hole in the top of the snowflake and threaded some red baker’s twine through it, tying a knot so it’s ready to hang.
For finishing touches on the critters, I added glossy accents to things like beaks and noses, and unicorn Stickles to their cheeks.
I can’t even pick a favorite product today! They are all so much fun to use and I seriously need some dedicated crafting time because I am itching to make a bundle of these cute snowflakes! They will be everywhere for sure!
Hello there! Today I’m playing with the most recent Miss Ink Stamps Halloween release. It’s so stinking cut and super fun to create with. This time I’ve created a simple heart shaped card with a Halloween flair to it.
I stamped and cut out the ghosts from Kindred Spirits and just outlined the inside of them with a B0000 copic marker for that glowing look.
I started creating my card base with Trinity Stamps Nested Hearts dies by cutting the largest heart from black cardstock. Then I folded a piece of white cardstock in half and hung the same die over the top edge by about a 1/4 inch and cut it out. Then I glued the two pieces together. However, because the edge of the white card base was a teeny bit visible I took a black marker and went around the whole edge.
Next, I inked up a scrap of cardstock with distress oxide inks in carved pumpkin and seedless preserves. I sprized it with water and blotted it dry. Then I layerd the Hand Drawn Hearts stencil over top and spread black glitter glitz gel from Thermoweb through it. Once that panel was dry I added foam tape and centered it on the card base. Then I added foam tape to the ghosts and popped them up as well.
I really liked the simple look on the front of this card and didn’t want to muddle it with a sentiment so I stamped and trimmed one from the set, mounted it on a slightly larger piece of black cardstock and adhered it inside.
Just perfect for a significant other and it all fits in an A2 size envelope still!
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