Newton’s Nook – Happy Halloween

Hey friends! I’m over on the Newton’s Nook blog today, squeezing in one more bit of Halloween inspiration before we switch gears to other fall fun! I love the new sentiment dies so I made sure to include one of those and you all know I love playing with stencils so that just felt right.

For this card, I started with an A2 piece of orange cardstock where I spread black widow astro paste through the flying bats stencil. I did this haphazardly so not to completely cover the panel. I set this aside to dry.

For my sentiment, I die cut the shadow from black cardstock and the words from bright green cardstock. I used a blending brush and inked up the top and bottom of the words so it’s got depth and almost glows off the card. I used liquid glue to adhere the layers together.

With the paste dry, I ink blended black soot distress ink from the top left corner down and out, fading as I went. Then I tore the side of the panel off for more distressing. I glued a strip of black cardstock to the right side of a top folding card base and popped the stenciled panel up with foam tape. I added the sentiment the same way. Then I wrapped twine around the top, tying it in a bow.

While I’m completely smitten with the way the card front turned out, I often like to add inside surprises to such simple cards. So I played with the Halloween Accessories die set and just make a jack-o-lantern with no kitty or puppy and glued it to the bottom corner. I grabbed my Halloween Postage Sampler stamps to add my sentiment and some more bats to the inside for good measure.

Products used today:
Flying Bats stencil
Halloween Greetings dies
Halloween Accessories dies
Halloween Postage Sampler dies
Astro Paste – black widow
Palette knife
Liquid glue
Blending brush
Foam tape
Distress Ink – black soot

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Mama Elephant – Believe in Magic

Hey friends! I’m back to playing with the September Mama Elephant release and wanted to share this fun gingerbread house I created with the new docket stamps. It’s such a fun way to use these sets!

So, I cut the Docket Lil Home from kraft cardstock and a white roof, then ink blended the kraft for depth and to help the cut lines stand out more. Next, I chose 4 images from the Holiday Lil Docket stamps to color and cut out.

This left the circle at the top open which wasn’t working for me. So I went digging and chose one of the Little Agenda Elf images to add. Isn’t he adorable!?! Next, I cut a piece of green cardstock for my background panel and splattered it with unicorn watercolor paint.

It was a little too simple for my liking so I chose to cut the new Waffle Weave Frame from light blue cardstock to adhere over the green. Then I popped the house up with foam tape and added a sentiment banner at the bottom of that.

For finishing touches I added glossy accents to some bit of each image, even if it was small. I love the shine in the light. It adds so much in the end!

Products used:
Docket Lil Home dies
Waffle Weave Frame die
Lil Holiday Icon Docket stamps and dies
Winter Banner Greetings dies
Liquid glue
Foam tape
Glossy accents

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Spellbinders – Cottage Garden Cards

Hi friends! I have a couple of cards to share today using the recently released Susan Tierney Cochburn Cottage Garden collection from Spellbinders. These dies make creating real looking florals so simple! I always have fun breaking out of my comfort zone with these projects and this time was no different.

First, I have a card featuring the Black-Eyes Susan Vines die set. Instead of following the true vine feel that the die is intended for, I created 3 florals and a bundle of leaves to scatter on my card front. See, they’re pretty even when you break the rules.

To add the color to all my floral bits I used distress oxide and spritz sprays on white cardstock die cuts. This gives great texture and the spritz has the best sparkle to it too! Once the sprays were dry, I used liquid glue to adhere the flowers together.

Next, I trimmed a piece of white cardstock to 3.75×5 and use the Loops embossing folder on it. For a little contract to the white card base, I lightly ink blended gray over the loops panel before popping it up with foam tape. Then I added the flowers with foam squares and the leaves with liquid glue. Finally, I used a hot foiled sentiment from the Simon Hurley Must-Have Sentiments plate and die set.

Next, I have a card to share featuring the Helenium and Ladybugs die set. This time I cut everything from colored cardstock and used blending brushes with dye inks to add more color variation throughout. Then I used a bone folder to curl the petals and leaves for added dimention.

I trimmed a piece of cream cardstock to 4×5.25 inches and used the Spellbinders corner notch punch to give the cool corner shapes. Then I ink blended brown from the left fading out, spritzed the panel with water and finally splattered more brown ink across it.

This time I added the flower and leaves with foam squares, plus the ladybugs too. For my sentiment I used the Autumn Sentiments Better Press plate and die set which is also popped up with a foam strip.

Products used:
Black-Eyed Susan Vine dies
Helenium and Ladybugs dies
Loops embossing folder
Must-Have Sentiments foil plate and die set
Autumn Sentiments press and die set
Glimmer Hot Foil System
Better Press System
Foam tape
Liquid glue
Blending brushes
Dye inks
Distress Oxide and Spritz sprays

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Simon Says Stamp – Sending Cheer Blog Hop

Happy Friday friends! I’m so excited to be part of the Simon Says Stamp Sending Cheer blog hop! There is so much amazing inspiration along the hop today and then be sure to check in at Simon for another round of inspiration from all new creators tomorrow too!

Today I’m showcasing the Christmas Ornaments stamp set. I had a blast playing with these ornaments before I even starting thinking about card designs. I just stamped to my hearts content a bunch of fun color combos and cut them out to play around. I shared a card on my Instagram yesterday and today I have a whole different idea to share with you.

For this card, I used a fun festive rainbow of ornaments and attached wire ribbon to each one so the ornaments are hanging. Then I added a bow with the same ribbon to the front of each ornament to give that extra finished feel.

I took a piece of teal cardstock and heat embossed my sentiment on the lower left corner. Then I used a corner rounder punch for a different look. I spritzed the panel with Distress Spritz Spray and let it dry. After the panel was dry, I used a cloth to wipe excess off the embossed sentiment.

Next, added foam tape to the back of all my ornaments, keeping it away from the edges. This is because I was mindful that my ornaments would be overlapping each other on the card front and I wasn’t positive how much for each one. I removed the release paper and added the ornaments once I liked my placement.

Last, I added foam tape to the back of the teal panel and removed the release paper at the top. I wrapped the wire ribbon around the top edge and secured it in the foam tape. Then I removed the rest of the release paper from the foam and added the panel to a white card base. Finally, I trimmed the excess off the edges and my card is all finished.

CLICK HERE to check out the whole Sending Cheer release!

Simon Says Stamp is giving away a $25 coupon to every stop on the hop from the comment section. Check out the Simon Says Stamp blog to find out the winners and how to redeem your prize.

HOP ORDER:

Simon Says Stamp Blog
Heather Hoffman
Suzy Plantamura
Cathy Zielske
Nicky Meek
Laura Bassen
Amy Rysavy
Bibi Cameron
Cheiron Brandon
Mindy Eggen
Miriam Prantner
Anne Fiene
Barb Engler
Kristin Sluhan
Betsy Green
Amanda Wilcox

Mama Elephant – Designer Series

Welcome everyone! Today I get to be part of the Mama Elephant Designer Series of posts for the new anniversary release. I love every bit of this release so much, it was hard to choose a project to highlight today. If you haven’t gotten your order in yet, be sure to do so and get your holiday crafting kicked off right!

This card features the new Round Tag Buddies with all their cuteness and accessories! The Round Tag Sentiments stamp set is a must have to expand the use of this set too! It has the round sentiments for everything from thank you to birthday and holiday.

After coloring and die cutting my images I went back and heat embossed my sentiment on the ornament so it would really pop. Then I added a couple of hearts to the center from different Mama Elephant die sets I had in my stash.

Once that was done, I switched to my card front. The background is die cut from the Shimmer Lights cover plate and glued it to a white card base. Then I cut the largest bow from the Take a Bow set from red cardstock and lined the back with foam strips. After threading ribbon through the ornament, I glued it to the back of the bow before adhering both to the card front.

Then, for finishing touches, I added glossy accents to my puppy nose and white gel pen highlights to him and the center heart. Isn’t it the sweetest?!?

Products used:
Round Tag Buddies stamps and dies
Take a Bow dies
Shimmer Lights Cover die
Foam squares and strips
Glossy accents
Liquid glue
Anti-static bag
Embossing ink
Embossing powder – white

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

Mama Elephant – Little Wolf Agenda XOXO

Hello everyone. I’m back with more inspiration featuring the Mama Elephant Anniversary release. I wanted to highlight some of the non-holiday images in the Little Wolf Agenda set and how fun they are to use outside of Christmas.

I love the two with the pencil and paintbrush especially so I gravitated toward them immediately. I wanted a third to round out the visual triangle so I stuck with a cutie that wasn’t holding anything this time. Once those were stamped and die cut, I switched to playing with the fun Cute Clipboard die set. I created my clipboard and cut a couple pieces of paper.

Then I pulled out the Write With Me stamps to add decorations to my paper. Aren’t they perfect?!? I was quite tickled with myself. I glued all of these elements together and popped the wolves up with foam squares.

For my card base, I went with a light yellow ink direct to the card front so there is a texture to the color in person. Then I cut the Curly Screen Frame layers from white and teal cardstocks. They are glued together and popped up on the card front, with the clipboard being popped up on that as wel.

For finishing touches today I just added glossy accents to the wolf noses, and paint brush and pencil bits.

Products used:
Little Wolf Agenda stamps and dies
Write With Me stamps
Curly Screen Frame dies
Cute Clipboard dies
Foam tape and squares
Glossy accents
Liquid glue

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Coffee Loving Papercrafters – National Coffee Day Hop

Hey friends! I’m so happy to be back as a Coffee Loving Papercrafters Super Sponsor for National Coffee Day! I’ve got a new Twiddler’s Nook product, fun inspiration and then at the bottom a sale and a chance to win if you comment.

Friends, I created Choose Your Own Adventure crafting dice! I’ve had this idea in my head for so long and finally made it a reality when my husband bought a UV printer! It’s simple and silly but I have had a blast using them already.

There are three dice in the set and each has its own theme so you can choose to roll one, two or all three and let your fate be named! We’ve got theme, special effect and coloring type as the main dice categories.

Since I rolled holiday, no coloring and movement. I pulled out some new dies I hadn’t gotten to play with, an action wobbler and started playing around! I stenciled my background and added some awesome Astro Paste for shiny spiders in the background. Then I ink blended all the color on my die cuts so no coloring there! And of course I chose a Halloween card for my holiday!

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Mama Elephant – Winter Wolf Highlight

Hi everyone! Today is the final day of highlights from the Mama Elephant Anniversary release and we’re sharing inspiration for the Winter Wolf stamp set. This pairs perfectly with the Little Wolf Agenda set but also super fun on its own. Today I have an ornament tag to share with you.

I started by stamping and coloring my couple of images from the Winter Wolf stamp set and used the coordinating dies to cut them out. Then we switch gears to creating the fun snow globe tag using the Arch Snow Globe die set.

This set has the elements to create a winter scene with the hills and trees or skip those elements and make your own. It also has the frame to turn your snow globe into a shaker and let the snow really fall. I cut the elements from white cardstock today and used blending brushes to add color to my base, trees, sky and snow mounds.

I spritzed the sky with water and blotted it dry before using liquid glue to adhere all the pieces together. My sentiment on the bottom comes from the Winter Wolf stamp set which I stamped in red. (RIP to my beautiful stamp that is now stained for life. Why does red have to do you dirty like that all the time?)

I popped my images up with foam squares and moved on to finishing touches. For this I added clay snowflakes around the sky and framing the sentiment. Then I finished with glossy accents on noses and stardust Stickles on the snowballs.

Products used:
Winter Wolf stamps and dies
Arch Snow Globe dies
Foam squares
Liquid glue
Blending brushes
Glossy accents
Stickles – stardust
Happy Feet embellishments

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Mama Elephant – Round Tag Sentiments Highlight

Hi again! Today we’re back highlighting the Round Tag sentiments that go with the Round Tag Buddies we saw yesterday. To focus on the sentiments I went digging for ways to use them without the buddies at all and I found something super fun!

Not only do they fit perfectly in the circle from the Simple Bookmark die set, but almost all of the little agenda critters fit in the center of the sentiments! *NEW LEVEL UNLOCKED* To say I was excited by this is a serious understatement.

For these, I cut the bookmark die from patterned paper and another from white cardstock and glued them together for stability. Then I cut the circles from white cardstock and stamped my sentiments on each one. I lightly ink blended the centers before adding my Little Agenda Wolves with foam squares to that.

I finished both off with glossy accents and stardust Stickles because it’s me and everything needs sparkle and shine!

Products used:
Simple Bookmark dies
Little Wolf Agenda stamps and dies
Round Tag Sentiments stamps
Foam squares
Blending brushes
Stickles – stardust
Glossy accents
Liquid glue

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Mama Elephant – Round Tag Buddies Highlight

Welcome friends! Today the Mama Elephant stamp highlights continue with the Round Tag Buddies set. This is such a fun set to create tags and ornaments for the holidays and other occasions too! The critters don’t have accessories attached so if you leave off the holiday specific they would be great for birthday gift bags and cards!

However, because the holidays are right around the corner (I heard that gasp, you know they’ll be here before we know it.) I stuck to a set of gift tags with a variety of sentiments on them. I also chose a sweet accessory to add to each one.

Because these are tags, I die cut an additional blank shape to glue to the back of each tag. It gives stability and a clean place to write the name or message. This stamp set comes with a to and from stamp which I did stamp on the back of each to make things easy.

For finishing touches I added glossy accents to all noses and white gel pen highlights galore!

Products used:
Round Tag Buddies stamps and dies
Round Tag Sentiments stamps
Liquid glue
Glossy accents

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