Hi friends! I’m over on the Pink & Main blog today featuring some caffeinated fun to keep you inspired for the Coffee Loving Cardmakers Fall | Winter hop going on right now!
I just think this Need to Venti set is so much fun! I pictured today’s cup of yummy to be a fantastic mocha with whipped cream and chocolate syrup on top! Drooling yet? Yeah, me too. Let’s get to crafting now. 😉
I stamped and colored my image with copics. Then used the coordinating dies to cut it out and moved over to stenciling my background. For that I used the leafy stencil, my blending brushes and some dye inks. I inked up the panel, then put the stencil over the top and did another layer of the same colors on top of that. Isn’t it fabulous? I’m totally in love with it. After removed my mask, I used my MISTI to stamp the sentiment just below the stenciling on the right side of the card front.
I created a white card base and stuck some gold striped washi tape to the side. Then I trimmed the stenciled panel down to 4×5.25 and popped it up with foam tape. I added foam squares to the back of my image and stuck some gold wire thread to the back, then flipped it over and put it in place.
For finishing touches, I added glossy accents to the chocolate syrup and a few select places on the mug. Then I decided to add Wink of Stella glitter brush pen to the leaf in the whipped cream. I’ve decided this is made of chocolate and that edible glitter.
I hope you enjoyed today’s yummy creation and found some inspiration to play along with the Coffee Loving Cardmakers Hop too!
I appreciate you sharing your time with me. Have a fabulous day!
Hello again! I’m popping in with a quick, fun card featuring some goodies from Pink & Main. This card was on their blog this morning as part of the Coffee Loving Cardmakers Fall | Winter hop but I wanted to explain the process, in case anyone had questions.
This Mermazing Coffee set was my first purchase from them and I just love it sooo much still! It’s super fun to create with so I just had to pull it out!
This was a pretty simple card to make but fun and messy, just how I like it! I stamped and heat embossed the mug and heart images from the set on watercolor paper. Then I did ink smooshing with my Tombow markers and set it aside to dry. I stamped the mermaid image and colored her with copics, cutting her out with the coordinating dies. I used the A2 layered rectangles to create a frame for my sentiment and mermaid to go on.
The black panel is adhered to the watercolor panel directly, then the white panel is popped up and the mermaid is popped up from there. I finished things off with a small scattering of cute embellishments and, voila, my card is finished!
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It’s finally here! The 2020 Fall | Winter Coffee Lovers Blog Hop is here and we’re going to have so much fun over the next week! Twiddler’s Nook is a sponsor of the hop so today I’m sharing some fun product photos with you to show how our products can help your crafting life while I’m creating a fun caffeinated card!
Before we get too far, I wanted to let you know that we’re having a sale in the shop for the week of the Coffee Lovers Hop! Embellishments are buy 3 get 1 free with the code: CLH2020. Be sure to put all 4 embellishments in your cart and enter the code in the coupon section at checkout.
Now, lets get on to some crafting, shall we?!? 😉 For today’s card, I chose a few fun Avery Elle products to create a sweet caffeinated thank you card. I thought it was fitting for the season.
I stamped and colored my images from Avery Elle’s Aw, Nuts with my copic markers. Then I used the coordinating dies to cut them out and set them aside. But woah, let’s take a look at how some of the fun products that Twiddler’s Nook creates can help keep you sane and not losing pieces on a crazy craft table.
So, after I color my images, I pull the dies out from the set that I need and put them on my magnetic die stand. Then I can take them one at a time and tape them in place with post it tape.
Heading over to my die cutter, I run the sheet through the machine and over here I have a couple of products that keep me organized. An embellishment tray to put my cut out images in and 2 magnetic trays to put my dies in. I separate the dies I’m finished with from the ones that I’ll need to use again, like the leaves on this card. One note here, I have the magnetic trays on a single wide platform which keeps them in place nicely too.
Once all my images were cut out, I moved back to my desk with my tray full of cuteness to finish off my card. I figured out placement of the colored images and did some additional stamping directly on my card front.
Once that was finished, I brought in my double wide platform base and Trinity Stamps blending brushes to add some dimension to the edges of my card. Full disclosure…these brushes are within reach but I brought them in for the photo. The magnetic caps on the bottom let me know what color the brush is for and the platform has metal to help them stay in place so they don’t fall over when I grab one from the middle.
From here I finished up my card by adhering the leaves with liquid glue and popping my cute critters up with foam squares. At the end I couldn’t find a great way to add the sentiment included in Aw, Nuts so I pulled out Cool Beans and Speech Bubbles to create my own and glued it so the squirrel is sharing his thanks with the critters below.
For finishing touches on today’s card, I added glossy accents to the mug, black glaze pen to all the critter eyes and noses, and a little unicorn Stickles to the squirrel’s scarf and hot cocoa steam too. Lastly, I took a white gel pen and added highlights to all of the images.
I just love this set so much and had a blast creating this card. I hope you enjoyed it too!
Remember we have the embellishment sale going on and all of our other products are available for purchase at the Twiddler’s Nook shop too!
For the Coffee Lovers Hop we will be giving away 2 $15 codes to the Twiddler’s Nook shop so be sure to link up those projects! Can’t wait to see what you all create!
Caffeinated crafty hugs to you all! I appreciate you sharing your time with me. Have a fabulous day!
Happy Thursday everyone! I’ve got one more fun holiday card for you today before my blog turns into a week full of amazing caffeinated creations for the Fall | Winter Coffee Lovers Hop!
The most recent holiday release from Trinity Stamps was packed full of so many amazing products, I haven’t even been able to play with them all yet. It’s crazy! There are a couple of slimline interactive dies and I made sure to try one out for today’s card.
It’s a slimline surprise slider card. So much fun! I stamped and colored my Gnome for the Holidays guy with copics and used the coordinating dies to cut him out. Then I took a white panel and cut the slimline surprises pieces out. I inked up the top panel with distress oxides in pumice stone, shaded lilac, mermaid lagoon and tumbled glass. I spritzed it with water and blotted it dry. Once the panel was dry, I stamped and heat embossed the snowflakes from Christmas Magic and the words from No Place Like Home with white embossing powder.
I adhered my pull tab piece to the back of the front panel and then glued the panel to a card base. I threaded some ribbon through the hole the tag topper die gives you so it’s easy to open this awesome slider up.
Then I popped my gnome up with foam squares and moved on to glossy accents for finishing touches. I am going to adhere a gift card under the slider portion and write my message on the inside of the card. I think that will be a super fun way to give a gift this Christmas.
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Hello everyone! I’m fortunate enough to take part in the 25 Days of Christmas Tags celebration with 3 companies this year! Head to Tracey’s post HERE to see the details of the celebration and how you can enter to win incredible prizes!
First off we’re staring with Newton’s Nook! I had so much fun creating this sweet little tag with one of my very favorite Newton’s Nook images – Penguin Pile.
To create my tag, I started by stamping and coloring the Penguin Pile image with my copics. Then I used the coordinating dies to cut them out. Next, I wanted a different shape for my tag so I pulled out the Circle Frames and cut the middle size out from green cardstock twice. I used the Snowfall stencil with some white glitter glitz gel on one green circle and let it dry. Once it was dry I glued the 2 green circles together. I pulled out one of the hole reinforcer dies from the Fancy Edges Tag set and cut it from white. I used it to punch a hole in the green circles and adhered the reinforcer with liquid glue.
I pulled out the Banner Trio dies and cut the rounded banner from white and stamped a sentiment from the Christmas Roundabout on it. Then I colored the open letters with the same colors as my penguins. The banner is adhered with liquid glue and the penguins were popped up with foam squares.
I threaded some red jute twine through the hole, glued a smaller white circle to the back so I had a place to write to and from and moved on to finishing touches.
With the background being wonderfully glittery, I just added glossy accents to the penguins and JOY on the sentiment banner.
I am having a blast making little tags again this year. Smaller area to work with and different shapes too! A change of pace is good for creative thinking.
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Happy Tuesday everyone! It’s time for tea with Twiddler’s Nook over on the Coffee Loving Cardmakers today. I had some fun with powdered watercolor and stencils over the weekend. It’s quite addicting. I could easily sit and make bunches of backgrounds at once with this technique.
Obviously, I started today’s card with the background. I took watercolor paper and laid my Miss Ink Stamps Jitters stencil over the top. Then I sprinkled powdered watercolor over the stop and spritzed it with water. I carefully removed the stencil and smooshed another piece of watercolor paper on it for the negative so I have another background the play with later on. I set those aside to dry and stamped out my images which are also from Miss Ink Stamps. They are from Big Mugs and Brewtiful. I colored them with my copics and used the scan-n-cut to cut them out.
Using the Newton’s Nook Framework dies I cut a frame and adhered vellum to the back. I heat embossed my sentiment from Big Mugs on it and lined the back of the frame with foam strips. I popped it up on the watercolor background and moved on to my images. The strip of coffee beans are adhered with liquid glue and the other images are popped up with foam squares.
For finishing touches I added glossy accents to the coffee beans that are popped up and to the gnome’s mug.
I think this is such a fun card and the colors I used represent the college team we root for at home so I know exactly who this card will be going to.
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Welcome to a wonderful new week everyone! I hope you had a fabulous weekend. Today I’m sharing a super shiny, full of wonderful Christmas card featuring a new stamp from Trinity Stamps. I had fun working out of my comfort zone watercoloring with metallic watercolors. I hope you like it.
I took a panel and blended weathered wood and stormy sky distress oxides on it and spritzed it with water. I let it dry and then heat embossed the new Jingle All the Way stamp with silver embossing powder. Then I took out my Kuretake Starry Colors watercolor palette and painted it. I think I used all of the colors in that set. Once it was dry, I trimmed the panel down to 3×4.25 and popped it up on a white panel that measures 3.5×4.5.
Last, I ran a blue panel through my die cut machine with the starry skies coverplate. I didn’t like how flat it looked against the ink blending so I inked up the edges with a darker blue ink to just a bit of depth. I adhered the panel to a white card base and popped the white panel up with foam tape.
I absolutely love this new stamp. It’s so fun and has so many coloring possibilities. This card is so shiny and eye catching and it was a blast to sit and watercolor with these metallics. It’s a fabulous palette to have.
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Hello everyone. Can you believe it’s November already? This wild and crazy year is flying by. Today I’ve got some snowy fun to share with you featuring a few stamp sets from Miss Ink Stamps and a fun winter embellishment from my shop called Snow Queen.
I started today’s card with the background panel. I stamped the Holiday Home image and cut out a mask for it. Then I stamped Pine Forest over the top so I had a layer of trees way back in the background. I removed my mask and colored the image with copic markers. Then I used dye inks and my Trinity Stamps blending brushes to add some color to the sky and the ground.
Then I chose the critters I wanted to use from Snow Buddies, stamped and colored them with copics too. I used my scan-n-cut to cut them out and moved on to assembling my card.
I cut a hill from some white glitter cardstock and glued it to the bottom of my scene panel and slid the whole panel into an acetate sleeve. I wrapped the sides around and used double-sided tape to adhere them down. Then I sprinkled in the Snow Queen embellishment mix and sealed the top up tight. Next, I adhered another snowy mound to the front of the acetate and adhered my critters and snow critter to the top of that. Then I glued the whole thing to a card base and it’s all finished!
This is my first infinity shaker card and it was so much fun to create! I’m definitely hooked and will have to give it another go ’round soon!
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Happy Halloween everyone!!!!! I just love this holiday! I look all the spooky and fall and kiddos running around dressed up. It just makes me happy! So I wanted to share a special card with you today to celebrate.
To create this awesome card, I started with the background. I used the ghosts stencil with deco foil transfer gel blanco on black cardstock. When it was dry, I sent it through my laminator with iridescent deco foil. Then I sat and played with it for a while because those ghosts are SO COOL!!!
I stamped and colored Witchy Newton with my copic markers and also made sure to stamp a couple of bats too. I cut it all out with the coordinating dies and decided on my final layout. Using the Framework dies, I cut the scalloped rectangle from the middle of my stenciled panel. I lined the outside frame with foam tape and adhered it to a white card base. Then I inserted the rectangle in the opening and glued it directly down. I cut a second rectangle from vellum and heat embossed my sentiment from the Spooky Roundabout on it. Then I used foam squares and popped Witchy Newton and the bats up. I hid some glue behind those areas and placed the vellum rectangle in its place.
The coolest thing happened when I added the vellum to the center…it mutes the light refraction from the deco foil and makes those ghosts look stark white. I had no idea this would happen but got really excited and thought it looked soooo extra cool! What do you think?
For finishing touches I added glossy accents to Newton’s nose and hat, and dots on the boot. I didn’t want to distract from the cool background but I just love adding those little touches.
I’m linking this up to the Cat Lover’s Hop. Today is the final day, so get your projects linked up if you haven’t already.
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Happy Friday everyone!!! We’ve made it through another week and I’m so excited for this weekend! Before I switch back to Halloween festivities tomorrow, I have another wintery Christmas card for you today with a coordinating ornament. I’m also over on the Birch Press Design blog today with a full, photo step-by-step if you would like more detail how to create your own.
I had a lot of fun creating this card. I started with what ended up as my ornament just playing around, then switched out the middle layer for some silver cardstock and kept going. I blended spun sugar and shaded lilac distress oxides for my background and also added a splatter of water and pearl watercolor for some shimmer. I adhered my snowflakes, cut off the excess and adhered my panel to a card base.
I wanted to tie the silver in a little more so I used it on my sentiment too! The stamped, heat embossed banner comes from the Christmas Ornament and Labels set which I thought finished the card off perfectly.
I didn’t want my first snowflake to go to waste, so I cut another set and glued them back to back. I sandwiched some fishing line between one set of points and held it with tweezers while it dried. Then I added Trinity Stamps silver baubles to both sides so no matter which way it hangs on the tree, it’s beautiful! I feel like the silver baubles really tie it in to the card design and they’ll be a perfect gift! Time to make these in all the colors!!! A rainbow set of snowflakes just sounds wonderful to me!
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