Trinity Stamps – It’s Okay

Hi there! Thanks for stopping in today. I’m sharing a really fun card using a technique I’d never tried before with one of my embossing folders. I hope you enjoy it! Let’s go!

I started by stamping the image from Trinity Stamps It’s Okay, colored it with copic markers and used the coordinating dies to cut it out. Then I took a kraft panel and my wood-grain embossing folder. I blotted brown ink on one side of the folder and ran it through my die cut machine to emboss it. It inked up the raised portion of the embossing and left this really cool look! I just love how it turned out! Don’t you?

I used my blending buddy brush and a light blue ink to give a little color to the edge of a white card base and then pulled out the cloud image from Hang On. I stamped and die cut a handful of those and glued them in place, trimming the excess off the edge. Then I trimmed the embossed panel to 3.5×5.5 inches and popped it up with foam tape. I wanted this to look like a tree in the park or maybe a telephone pole on the street with a message for anyone passing by.

For finishing touches I added a little glossy accents to the pushpin and the word “not” and some Stickles to the dashes for a little glimmer.

This card fits perfectly with the Trinity Stamps Crafty Troop Challenge. Have you checked it out this month yet? Be sure to grab your goodies and play along too! There’s always a gift certificate to the Trinity shop up for grabs!

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

Miss Ink Stamps – Hip Hippo Hooray

Oh my word, y’all!!! I am over the moon in love with these new cute hippos from Miss Ink Stamps. They are just the cutest and so are all the little extra critters that come with them to set your scenes. I had way too much fun playing with these guys!

I knew I wanted a full scene so I stamped extra of everything from Hippo Hooray and colored them with my copics. Then I used my scan-n-cut and cut everything out. I pulled out the slimline scalloped die from Trinity Stamps and cut a white panel. I masked off outside of the stitching lines and inked up the center for a little muted water scene with distress oxides in tumbled glass and weathered wood. I spritzed the panel with water, and flicked pearl watercolor and weathered wood distress oxide ink as well.

Then I started arranging my images how I wanted them. Once that was decided I stamped my sentiment with VersaFine onyx black ink. The seaweed and rocks are all adhered with liquid glue and the critters are all popped up with foam squares.

Finally, I moved on to finishing touches for the whole design. I added white gel pen accents to various images first. Then, I took some Stickles and added it to random seaweed leaves and fish fins. Finally, I added glossy accents to parts of the hippos and turtle for a little extra shine and interest.

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Lawn Fawn – Birthday Gnomes – AND A SALE

Happy Friday everyone!!! I want to hijack the beginning of my own blog post to let you know that we’re running a SALE through the Labor Day weekend over at the Twiddler’s Nook shop! So be sure to head there and treat yourself!

Now, let’s get on with today’s super special card share! Yesterday was my mom’s birthday and since I gave her her card already, I get to share it with all of you today!

To create my card I pulled out a couple of great sets from Lawn Fawn – Oh, Gnome and Gleeful Gardens, stamped some images and colored them with my copics. Then I used the coordinating dies and cut them all out. Next, I took an A2 panel and inked it up with mowed lawn and twisted citron distress oxide inks. I spritzed it with water and used the stitched hillside borders to cut some ground.

Next, I took my card base and lightly inked the edges with broken china distress oxide and the center with squeezed lemonade to look like the sun peeking over the horizon. Then I began to place my images and adhere them down with liquid glue. The gnomes and their accessories are popped up with foam squares for a little dimension.

My sentiment is from wavy sayings and it’s stamped on a wavy banner with a yellow border layered over the top of the stitched banner. This is adhered with liquid glue as well since it falls a little behind the standing gnome. The second part of my sentiment is stamped directly on the grass with Versafine onyx black ink.

Finally, I moved on to finishing touches. For those I added some white gel pen accents to the images and then glossy accents to the mushroom dots, gnome buckles, flower centers and the ribbon on the gift.

My mom really likes garden gnomes and has plenty around the yard so I thought this card was just perfect for her. I think she really liked it which, of course, made me happy.

Don’t forget to stop by the SHOP and pick up some goodies over the weekend. The sale runs today through Monday.

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

Pink & Main – Blessed to be Your Friend

Hello everyone! I’m over on the Pink & Main blog today and I’m so giddy to share this fun card with you. I am loving the latest release and just had to make that cute owl from Happy Fall wiggle on an action wobbler. He was just asking for it. So here we go…

This card was a series of trial and errors so we’ll start with stamping and coloring the images from Happy Fall with my copic markers. Then I used the coordinating dies to cut them out. Then I moved on to the background. Multiple attempts at different sky configurations later, we have the third largest stitched slim line panel inked with the clouds stencil using my mini ergonomic blending brush and light blue ink. I die cut another of the same stitched slim line panels and inked one end up with green and the other with brown. Then I used a stitched hill die to cut them off and create my layered ground. I used liquid glue to adhere my layers together and then also glued down my tree and the branches.

I placed my own on an action wobbler and adhered him next, right between the branches on the tree. I used a combination of liquid glue and foam squares to adhere the rest of my images toward the bottom of the scene.

Next, I die cut the scalloped slim line die from the sympathy slim line die set from kraft cardstock. I popped this up on a white card base with foam tape and then popped my scene panel up on that with foam tape as well.

I moved on to finishing touches next. I added glossy accents to the owl’s glasses, bear’s nose, mushroom dots and acorn hat. Just a little shine to bring some interest to various parts of the design.

I didn’t want a sentiment to distract from my cute scene so I planned for it to go on the inside of this card. And since I was doing that, I colored extra images to decorate that too.

I don’t typically put anything on the inside of my cards and I’m really curious, do you?

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

Trinity Stamps – Candy Raid

Hey there! Thanks for stopping by! Today, I’m over on the Trinity Stamps blog with this fantastic Halloween themed card featuring some of my very favorite critters raiding the candy buckets for a sugar high!

I had the general idea in my head so I stamped out my critters from Mouse House and Bunny Burrow and colored them with my copics. Then I used the coordinating dies to cut them all out and moved on the the harvest buckets. I started with just one and quickly decided it would be fun to fill in the background with a couple more that they had already emptied. I used copics on colored cardstock to give the buckets a little dimension.

I die cut the largest slimline stitched panel and inked it up with ripe persimmon and dusty concord distress oxides. I spritzed it with water and pulled out my layered lakeside mountain stencil to add some clouds. I did this with texture paste. It gives such a fun dimension and look to the sky. Next I used the same stitched panel to create my ground. After inking it with gathered twigs and tea dye distress oxides I spritzed it with water and used the slimline scenic borders dies to cut the ground.

At this point I die cut bunches of candy pieces that come with the harvest bucket dies from white cardstock. Then I used my copics to add color to each of them. I arranged them how I wanted in the bucket, next to it and in the critter hands and used liquid glue to adhere them all in place.

Finally I moved on to assembling my card. I adhered the sky to a card base and the ground to that. Then I added the background pumpkin buckets with liquid glue and the one with the face with foam squares. The critters are all popped up with foam squares as well.

To finish things off I pulled out the sentiment for almost everything set and stamped the “Happy Halloween” sentiment on a banner from the 4-bar die set. I popped this up with foam squares too. The last finishing touches were black glaze pen to the critter eyes and noses and glossy accents to the noses that were colored in.

I really just can’t get enough of this cuteness! These critters are adorable and thinking about a little story of them raiding kids’ candy buckets on Halloween cracks me up!

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

Trinity Stamps – Hang in There

Hello everyone. Let’s hang in there together for just a bit longer, hoping life will go back to some sort of normalcy soon. In light of thinking about things like this over the weekend, I pulled out the Trinity Stamps Hang On stamps and created today’s card.

I stamped the images from Hang On and colored them with my copic markers. Then I used the coordinating dies to cut it all out. I used liquid glue to adhere the hand over top of the rainbow and the clouds to the bottom of the rainbow sides.

I took an A2 panel and inked it up with distress oxides in peacock feathers and mermaid lagoon. I spritzed it with water, silver and gold watercolor and a little black acrylic paint. I left it to dry and then trimmed it down to 5.5×3.75 inches. I popped it up on a white card base with foam tape and adhered my images on that with foam squares.

I stamped my sentiment and also used the coordinating dies to cut it out and glued it below the popped up panel. I added a little gold striped washi tape for extra interest and just a bit of glossy accents to the girls lips, hair ties and shoes to finish things off.

I hope you’re doing well during the craziness of the world, staying safe and healthy.

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

Newton’s Nook – Happy Halloween

Hello everyone! I’m over on the Newton’s Nook blog today. I’m super excited to share today’s card with you. I just love how it turned out and it’s got so many fun things to talk about!

I knew straight off that I wanted to play with Batty Newton and a fun green sky. So I set to work stamping him out and coloring him with copics. Then I used the coordinating dies to cut him out and moved over to my sky panel. I had an over-sized white panel that I used distress inks and the clouds stencil with. I used mowed lawn toward the bottom and twisted citron on the top.

Then I die cut the inked panel and an extra black piece with the Slimline Frames and Portholes die. Then I used the Land Borders to cut some grass from the black one. I pulled out the Forest Scene Builder dies and cut some trees in black for a silhouetted ground. I used liquid adhesive to adhere all of my pieces together. The sentiment I chose is from Batty Newton and I stamped it with black ink at the top of my panel. Then I popped up my Batty Newton with foam squares.

I adhered my panel to a purple card base that measures 3.5×8.5 inches with foam tape and moved on to finishing touches. For those I added some new Gone Batty embellishments from the Twiddler’s Nook shop, white gel pen accents to the image and glossy accents to Newton’s nose and toe beans.

This card was so fun to create! I hope you enjoyed it! It’s finally feeling like fall around here and my heart is so happy. What’s your favorite season?

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

Pink & Main – Autumn Blessings

Hello there! I’m over on the Pink & Main blog sharing a really simple but beautiful die cut card today. I’m in love with this new leafy slim line die. It’s just beautiful and can look so different depending how you use it.

Today, I started with an oversized panel and ink blended distress oxides in aged mahogany, rusty hinge and wild honey. I spritzed it with water and blotted it dry. Then I took some gold watercolor and watered down black acrylic paint and flicked it all over the panel. Once this was dry I die cut it with the largest of the layered slim line dies. I adhered this to a white card base and moved on to die cutting my leafy slim line die 3 times from black cardstock. I used liquid glue to adhered these all together and then adhered it to my inked card front.

Then I die cut the “autumn blessings” sentiment and shadow from the blessings slime line die set. The words are cut 3 times from black cardstock and the shadow from iridescent vellum. They are all adhered with liquid glue as well.

I finished the card off with a scattering of iridescent jewels for a little added sparkle and interest.

I love the slight shimmer from the gold watercolor and jewels with the bold black die cuts and those distress oxide colors! I could see doing this card in a set with different background colors for each card. So fun!

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

Miss Ink Stamps – Firetruck!

Hi friends! I’m over on the Miss Ink Stamps blog today with my first post as a design team member and I’m sharing a super funny card! The whole thing uses just one small stamp set called Firetruck Duck. I love it!

It was pretty quick to come together. I stamped and heat embossed the firetruck in gold on a red panel, then die cut a circle from the lower right corner. I stamped my duck on an A2 white panel and colored it with my copics. Next, I popped the red panel up with foam tape and moved on to my sentiment.

I die cut a flag from the Newton’s Nook Frames & Flags die set and heat embossed it in gold to tie things together. Then popped it up with foam squares too. Instead of giving it all away on the front, I brought the sentiment finisher to the inside of the card for fun.

I couldn’t resist also stamping that cute firetruck to go along with it. I decided on red ink to tie it in with the card design. Hehehe! I love this set and can’t wait to share this card with someone who will really appreciate it.

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Trinity Stamps + Pink & Main – Hello Beautiful

Hi everyone! Today I’ve got an extra special card to share with you. I had so much fun mixing the colors and companies to create this beauty! The whole idea came about from the beautiful Metallic Poppies embellishments that are going live in the shop tomorrow! Everything just fell into place perfectly and I love it.

To create my card, I blended distress oxides on a 3.5×8.5 inch panel in ripened perssimon and mermaid lagoon. It took a little work but they blended beautifully! Then I spritzed it with water and set it aside. Next, I die cut the Trinity Stamps foliage frame from black cardstock and vellum. I flipped them opposite so the leaves didn’t match up and glued them together with liquid glue. Then I glued that to the inked panel.

Next, I pulled out the Hello Beautiful sentiment dies from Pink & Main’s recently released Beautiful Slim Line Dies. I cut the words from black cardstock 3 times and the shadow from vellum once. These are all adhered with liquid glue as well. Then I tucked it under the foliage frame and glued it to the inked panel as well.

To finish this gorgeous card off I glued a few of the new Metallic Poppies among the foliage and one on the dot for the “i” to finish things off. I added some Nuvo Crystal Drops in morning dew to the centers of all the flowers and popped my panel on a white card base.

These beautiful embellishments and 25 others will be available in the shop starting tomorrow! I hope you’ll stop by and take a look.

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