Miss Ink Stamps – Painting the Roses

Hellooooooo everyone!!! I am soooooooo beyond excited to share that I have joined the Miss Ink Stamps Design Team! This is so surreal and I am so grateful to be designing along this incredible team of talent! To celebrate, I’m sharing my first card today!

This super fun card was created with just one of the stamp sets from the amazing Alice in Wonderland release from earlier this year. I stamped and colored the images from Painting the Roses with my copics. Then I ran them through my scan-n-cut to cut them out. Then I took the bush image and repeat stamped it across a slimline size panel (8.5×3.5 inches). Then I used distress inks in mowed lawn and salty ocean to create my grass and sky. Next I colored the bushes with my copics and set to adhering the images where I wanted them.

I popped them up with foam squares to give the card a little extra dimension and interest. Then I stamped my sentiment and cut it into a flag shape, popping it up too.

At this point I thought my sky was a little boring so I pulled out a Newton’s Nooks stencil called cloudy sky and inked Hero Arts unicorn white pigment ink through it with a blending brush. It was easy to manipulate the stencil around the images and I love the little bit that it adds. Finally I finished the design off with glossy accents on various things like some roses, garden tools and the soldier’s staff and then a scattering of red clay hearts across the sky and one on the sentiment to tie it all together.

This is just the beginning of sharing some amazing creations with Miss Ink Stamps products. I hope you enjoy the journey with me.

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

Reverse Confetti – Cool Birthday

Happy weekend everyone! We’re having a heat wave here so this card is helping me cool off mentally. 😉 I was very excited to finally make my first order from Reverse Confetti. I love their unique critters and had a really hard time choosing just a couple.

As soon as they came in I couldn’t resist inking them up. Here’s the first card I made.

I knew that I wanted to try keeping my color palette limited and softer than typical so I pulled out some pink and mint and immediately thought brown would go great with it all. I mean, who doesn’t love chocolate ice cream???

I colored up my images from Ice Cream Social with my copic markers and used the coordinating dies to cut them all out. Then I set to ink blending my background with spun sugar and cracked pistachio distress inks. Then I flicked watered down color on the panel.

I used my Newton’s Nook cloudy sky stencil with some texture paste for fun dimensional clouds in the sky. Once this was dry I adhered my panel to a card base. Then I used Newton’s Nook Frames & Flags dies to make a frame and popped it up with foam strips. I used a combination of foam squares and liquid glue to adhere all of my images down next. I stamped my sentiment on a soft pink cardstock and cut it into a flag, then popped it up too.

For finishing touches on this sweet card, I used glossy accents on the critter noses, eyes and toe beans, the ice cream truck window, horn, light and decal on the side of the truck. Then I thought it would be fun to add some sparkly so I used unicorn Stickles on all the sprinkles of the ice creams.

I’m in love with this guys! Totally hooked and can’t wait to create more. I hope you find some inspiration to create something wonderful today!

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

Trinity Stamps – Hey Chum

Happy Friday everyone!!! I wanted to pop in with just one more fun Shark Week themed card that I made. Today I’m featuring Trinity Stamps Shark Bait and Ocean Reef Builder stamp sets along with some fun ink blending.

To make my card, I pulled out Shark Bait and stamped a bundle of images, multiple times to fill my scene. I wanted more variation at the bottom of my ocean floor so I also stamped a few from the Ocean Reef Builder set. I colored them all with my copics and used the coordinating dies to cut them all out.

Then I moved on to my background. I inked up the bottom with antique linen and tea dye distress inks and the top with blueprint sketch and salty ocean. Then I flicked droplets of each color onto the panel for some distressing with a little color to it.

I adhered all of my scenery with liquid glue to the bottom of my ocean floor. Then I popped up my sharks with foam squares and die cut my sentiment from the coordinating dies to Shark Bait. I used a quickie glue pen to adhere these because they are so tiny.

For finishing touches, I added some white gel pen accents to various images and then added Nuvo Crystal Drops in morning dew as bubbles above the sharks and to add a little shine to my starfish and sea urchin.

I had a bunch of fun putting this sharky scene together. I hope you enjoyed it.

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

Trinity Stamps – Congratulations Wedding Card

Hi there! Just popping in today to share a wedding card I made last week featuring the Trinity Stamps foliage frame and some fun embellishments from my shop.

My parents were going to a wedding and needed a card. I don’t really have wedding stamps, or a talent for fancy looking cards but the foliage frame popped in my head. I took a little inspiration from a crafty friend and created this beautiful shaker card.

I started this card by die cutting the foliage frame from white cardstock and iridescent vellum and layered them together. Then I lined the back with scrappy tape and adhered a sheet of acetate to it. Next, I added a layer of foam tape and created a 3.5×8.5 card base to stick it to.

I added a pile of holographic hearts and snow queen embellishments from my Etsy shop along with a few clear microbeads and then adhered the frame to my card base, sealing all the shaker bits inside.

I didn’t have a large congratulations sentiment so I got my Cricut out and made a custom one just the size I wanted and glued it to the acetate window with liquid glue.

I think this card turned out really pretty and was very simple to come together. It would also be simple to customize with wedding colors or holiday colors and a new sentiment across the front as well.

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

Birch Press Design – Stenciling Quick and Easy Cards

Hello everyone! I hope you’re having a great week so far. Today I’m over on the Birch Press Design blog featuring this set of 4 stenciled cards. They are quick and easy to pull together if you need something in a jif or if you’d like to mass produce cards to have in your stash. They would make a great gift to give as well.

I used the same mandala stencil on each of these cards. I just changed up the ink colors and where I placed the stencil on my panel. I used blending brushes and dye inks for all the stenciling. Let’s take a closer look at each card.

For this first card, I used some blue and purple inks and started my inking from the center of the mandala out. I finished it off with some gem stones accenting the different points of the mandala to make it a focal point and added a die cut sentiment to the bottom.

For this next one, I wanted to use bright, fun colors for my inking and then made the sentiment flashy with a rose gold mirror cardstock for the shadow portion. I finished it off with some opal half-round embellishments scattered across the design this time.

For this design, I brought the stencil down much further and stuck with some natural green and muted yellow inks. I absolutely love how this turned out! I also brought a little shine to this sentiment with gold mirror cardstock and pearl confetti bits scattered all about. This one may be my favorite.

Something struck me when I moved on to this final card and I decided to try stenciling at an angle instead of centered. I think it turned out really cool and would definitely try this design again. I finished it off with a simple hello and some great clear blue and green bubbles from my stash.

I hope you enjoyed today’s cards. If you’d like to see the step-by-step, head over to the Birch Press Design blog where I lay it all out with a photo tutorial.

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

Coffee Loving Cardmakers – Shark Week

Hellooooooooo everyone!!! I’m so excited that shark week has begun! I always love this week on TV. So today, for our installment of Tuesday Tea with Twiddler’s Nook over on the Coffee Loving Cardmakers blog, I decided it would be fun to celebrate with a silly themed card.

I love this Shark Hugs stamp set by Avery Elle! It comes with a variety of things you can fit in the shark’s fins but I decided to think outside the box a bit and found a coffee mug the perfect size! This die set can be tricky so I started by using the die made to cut the slits for his fins, then I stamped my image over that, lining up the fins with the cut marks. Then I colored him with my copics and cut him out. I snagged a mug from the Lawn Fawn Love You a Latte set, colored it up and die cut it too. I used liquid glue to adhere the mug in the shark’s fin.

Next I blended distress oxides on a panel – salty ocean, blueprint sketch, chipped sapphire and black soot. Then I spritzed it with water and flicked pearl watercolor on it for a little extra texture. I adhered that to a card base and die cut my Avery Elle plus frame. I popped the frame and shark up with foam tape and moved on to my sentiment.

I stamped the speech bubble from the Avery Elle speech bubbles set and stamped part of my sentiment from Shark Hugs, masking off what I didn’t want. Then I pulled out Thanks a Latte from Lawn Fawn and added the word “coffee” to finish off the statement. The speech bubble is popped up wtih foam squares as well.

To finish off this fun card, I scattered a few confetti sequins about and adhered them with liquid glue as well. I added black glaze pen to the shark’s eye and white gel pen accents throughout.

Happy Shark Week everyone! I hope you enjoy it, even if you aren’t binging Animal Planet all week long.

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

Trinity Stamps – Paper Pep Talk

Hello everyone! Welcome to a fresh new week! I hope you had a fabulous weekend and are ready to tackle this Monday. I’m sharing a little paper pep talk with you all today, from Trinity Stamps latest release.

To create this card, I started by stamping and heat embossing my image with clear embossing powder on Bristol smooth cardstock. Then I pulled out my Zig Clean Color Real Brush markers and started watercoloring in rainbow. This was so relaxing and fun to do. Once the letters were done, I took a really light blue and went around the edge of the speech bubbles and used a water brush pen to blend it out, pulling some color from the letters here and there. I love how this turned out!

I used my coordinating dies to cut it out and moved on to the background. I used distress oxides in picked raspberry, squeezed lemonade and mermaid lagoon to achieve the rainbow look. Then I took my halftone dots stencil and used versamark ink on it with a blending buddy brush. Then I sprinkled iridescent glitter embossing powder on it and heated it up.

I trimmed the background down to 4×5.25 and popped it up with foam tape on a white card base. Then I popped my image up with foam squares as well. I thought it could use a little more bling so I finished the whole design off with a scattering of unicorn tears embellishments.

This turned out to be such a bright and happy card. Perfect to share on a Monday to start the week and perfect for any recipient needing a little positive pep talk.

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

Trinity Stamps – Oh, Chute!

Hi everyone! Just popping in with a super fun card featuring Purrachute from the new Trinity Stamps release that went live last Friday. This little kitty with his parachute is just the cutest! And the sentiments in the set are absolutely adorable!

To make this card, I started by coloring my image with my copics and then used the coordinating dies to cut him and the sentiment out. I set those aside and started inking my background. I used distress inks on an A2 panel and splattered it with water. Then I took my Cloudy Day Scene Builder dies and cut the frame, some clouds and the sun out. I popped the frame up with foam tape on the inked panel and adhered my sun and clouds over that.

I popped my kitty up with foam tape and adhered the sentiment with liquid glue and moved on to finishing touches. I started by adding white gel pen accents to the kitty and black glaze pen to his eyes. Then I moved on to glossy accents to the parachute, his toe beans and his nose.

I finished them off with Stickles on the clouds and sun for a little extra interest and shimmer at the top of the card too.

I love that there are two completely different sentiments in this stamp set to change the entire meaning of your card so easily. This little kitty is just the cutest and so much fun to color!

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

Newton’s Nook – Food, Friends, & Sunshine

Hi there! I’m up Newton’s Nook blog today with this super fun picnic scene card featuring a couple of different stamp sets and a bunch of stencils. It was so much fun to build this scene and I’m excited to share it with you!

I started by laying out my images to get a sense of how much I could fit in my scene. Next, I stamped and colored my images with my copic markers. The sets I used are Woodland Picnic and Newton’s Picnic. Then I used the coordinating dies to cut them all out and moved on to the stenciled elements.

To create the blanket, I took a scrap of paper and inked it yellow with my blending brush. Then I used the plaid stencil with red and orange inks over the top of that. Then on an A2 panel I used the hills & grass stencil to create the background scene. The blue sky was a little boring so I used the cloudy sky stencil with white pigment ink and then heat embossed iridescent glitter over the top of that. I love the texture it gave.

For assembly I popped the blanket panel up with foam tape and trimmed off the extra. Then with a combination of foam squares and liquid glue I adhered all my images. I die cut the ticket shape from the Framework dies and stamped my sentiment, popping it up with foam tape and finally moved on to finishing touches.

I added white gel pen accents to the images, black glaze pen to the critter eyes and glossy accents to various bits and pieces for some glossy texture and added interest.

I am so happy with how fun this card looks! Newton, diving in the basket looking for his kitty treats just cracks me up. While Winston and the squirrel are sensibly eating fruit. Haha!

I hope you enjoyed this card! I appreciate you sharing your time with me. Have a fabulous day!

Twiddler’s Nook Shop

Hey there crafty friends! I’m popping in today to share something that I realized you all might not be aware of. I have an Etsy shop and have been selling my cards for some time but we also create and sell crafty tools and embellishments on there too!

Let’s introduce you to some of the fun things we sell. You can click the links to get to the various “departments” if you’d like to check them out more. Feel free to comment or email if you have questions too!

Magnetic Die Holders

We have created these awesome die holders that are magnetic so you won’t lose your dies on your desk anymore. They’re so handy and come in a variety of styles – paw print, flower and skull – and different colors are available too!

Embellishment Trays

We offer a variety of styles in our embellishment trays too. They are perfect for dumping your baggie of embellishemnts in to sort through and choose what you need. Then use the perfect little pour spout to put them back in without spilling them everywhere.

I also use these trays to hold my die cut images until I’m ready to use them on my card…and let’s be real, I have a few that stay stocked with those extra images that I’m sure will find a home on a card some day.

These trays come in the circle shown above plus a star, honeycomb, skull and adorable cloud!

Trinity Stamps Blending Brushes and Colored Caps

I absolutely love the Trinity Stamps blending brushes and wanted to come up with a way to tell what color the brush was for without removing the caps that protect the bristles. This was the perfect solution! The colored caps do multiple things at once…

The tell you the color of ink the brush is for.
They add a little stability so the brushes don’t fall down anymore.
They are magnetic and coordinate with our platforms to really hold them in place when you aren’t using them.

These caps are available in 3 color family sets – primary, neutral and secondary for a total of 12 colors. They coordinate with our single- and double-wide platforms as well. If you don’t have Trinity blending brushes yet, we also have those available on the site in singles or a set of 4.

Single– and Double-wide Platforms

Like seen in the 2 previous photos, we offer these great platforms in 2 sizes – single and double – that coordinate with the magnetic brush caps and the next item on the list, the magnetic tray. We are hoping to expand this series with other helpful items in the future too.

Magnetic Tray

We are trying to add to the platform series by adding other tools that will be useful. Right away we thought of this great tray that is magnetic so it can hold your dies when they aren’t in use. It is sized to coordinate with the single– and double-wide platforms too. In the photo you can see it being used on a single-wide platform and 3 Trinity blending brushes.

A fun thing about this tray is that you can choose the color of the insert so all your items can coordinate.

Copic Marker Tray Divider

I have a bunch of these clear plastic holders on my desk to hold all of my copic sketch markers. Well, over time I’ve snagged (and been given) some copic ciao markers and noticed that they fell over because these aren’t made for that shape.

So we set to work and created the gray divider you see in the photo that snaps to the top of your case and holds everything upright even when the slot next to it is empty. It’s been very helpful.

Embellishments

And finally, I’m super excited that we are carrying our own embellishments to use on your fabulous creations! These will be ever growing and changing so if there’s something you really love, be sure to let us know and we’ll make it a regular item we carry. Until then, I plan to rotate through different options to keep the variety fresh and fun!

Did you know these embellishments are super fun for kiddos to put in slime too? My daughter loves doing that. You can get at least 2 batches of slime out of each embellishment package.

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I think that’s all for now friends. I’d love to know your thoughts on our products if you have a moment to leave a comment. Which is your favorite? Have you ordered already and have suggestions for other people?

Thanks for stopping by. I appreciate you sharing your time with me. I hope you have a fabulous day!