Coffee Loving Cardmakers – National Iced Tea Day

Hello everyone! Today is National Iced Tea Day and we’re celebrating with a fun inspiration hop and a giveaway with the Coffee Loving Cardmaker’s team today! Be sure to head over and check out the fun HERE! More details at the bottom too so keep scrolling!

Here’s the fun card that I made! I combined a few awesome Super Sponsors together to make this fun cup of iced tea. I took the cup from Paper Smooches Caffeinated and added the glasses from the set. Then I switched over to Trinity Stamps Coffee with Character for the ice cubes and lemon wedge. I stamped and colored everything and then used my scan-n-cut to cut it out.

Next, I took a white cardbase and a couple of Trinity Stamps stencils – foundations circles and catching some rays – with a variety of yellow inks and my blending buddy brushes! I used the medium yellow ink and stamped the lemon wedge from Coffee With Character across the card front from top left to bottom right. I chose a sentiment from Clearly Besotted Spilling Tea and stamped it in black on the bottom right corner and attached my images with foam squares.

Last, I added some fun finishing touches like glossy accents to the cup glasses and lemon wedge and Wink of Stella glitter brush pen to the ice cubes. I also decided on a scattering of Nuvo Crystal Drops in dandelion yellow mixed in with the lemon wedges in the background.

Such a happy, fun card and also a fun farewell to Paper Smooches who just announced the retirement of the shop. You might want to head over there and pick up your wishlist goodies while supplies last. She’s having a sale until everything is sold out.

And just a reminder to head over to the Coffee Loving Cardmakers blog to find the complete list of links to hop along. Comment for a chance to win a $15 gift card to your choice of one Spring | Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop Super Sponsor. The winner will be chosen from one of the comments on any one of the blogs so be sure to comment on each to increase your chances of winning!

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

Birch Press Design – Friend, You are Awesome

Hey everyone! I hope your week is off to a good start! I’m up on the Birch Press Design blog today with this awesome friendship card.

I love these colors together and really love how they pop off of the stark white background. If you’d like to see a step-by-step how I built this card, head over to the Birch Press Design blog and I’ll walk you through it all.

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

Lawn Fawn – Sea You Soon

Words can’t even begin to express how excited I am that #1 today’s card exists for me to share with you and #2 it was sooooo easy and incredibly fun to assemble!!!

Okay, now to make a little more sense…I recently bought the Lawn Fawn Magic Iris dies from ScrapbookPal. Since it came, I have been researching and watching all the videos from different crafters putting it together. It seemed doable but I was skeptical after another not-so-happy run in I had with a past interactive die of theirs. However, this is the real deal and they totally did an amazing job designing this so you can actually succeed!

To create this awesome underwater scene I started with lots of paper and my distress oxides. I inked up 2 quarter sheets with peacock feathers and mermaid lagoon, splattered them with water and then flicked blueprint sketch on them as well. Then I took the 3 sausage pieces for the iris and inked those up the same way. I took a scrap and inked it with tea dye and gathered twigs and flicked some gathered twigs on it for texture.

Then I moved on to lots of die cutting! To be specific, I cut out all the pieces needed for the magic iris mechanism. Be sure to check out the main Intro to Magic Iris video for assembly instructions. Then I used the stitched hillside borders to cut the brown inked panel for sand.

After everything was die cut, I set it all aside and stamped my images which were from Mermaid for You and You are Sublime. I colored them with my copics and used the coordinating dies to cut them all out.

I started by attaching my background panel to a card base and then the sandy ground to that with foam tape. Then I glued down my magic iris mechanism and started adding images.

I used liquid glue to adhere them all down because I find that works better on the distress oxide panels. Then I popped my whole card in my MISTI and stamped the sentiment at the top of the magic iris frame.

I’m so incredibly excited how this card turned out! I now have a whole list of ideas so I don’t forget them and can’t wait to make more and share them with everyone!!!

My daughter and I can’t stop playing with this one. Seriously, it’s so fun to watch that mermaid appear over and over again! Soooo much fun!

Do you enjoy making interactive cards? If you’re not a crafter, do you enjoy getting them? They are my favorite to create and most of all to give, especially to my non-crafty friends who think I’m some kind of witch when I make paper do fun things. hahaha!

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

Paperie Ink – SeaSUN of Fun

Oh my goodness, the art that Paperie Ink creates just seems to get cuter and cuter with each release! This last time I ordered two new sets. I had a moment to ink up the cute little piggies from Seasun of Fun this week and create a fun, sunshiny card to share with you!

I started this card with a general idea of what I wanted to create so I stamped my images and colored them with my copics. Then I used my scan-n-cut to cut them out. I trimmed down a white panel to 4×5.25 and used the next-to-largest outside in stitched scalloped circle from Lawn Fawn to cut a window. I also trimmed a second panel down smaller than that and stamped the sunshine where I wanted it to peek through the window. I used my copics to color a little sand and sky and started assembling my card.

I trimmed down some patterned paper and adhered it to a card base, then added my scene to that. I put foam tape on the back of the window panel and used it as a guide to line up my images and adhere them. Once those were in place I removed the release paper and put my window panel in place.

Finally I added the couple of images I had left to the front of the window. I just love the way this looks – like the scene is spilling outside of the opening.

Last, I stamped the sentiment on yellow cardstock and trimmed it in to a flag. This was popped up with foam squares and adhered to the upper right of the card.

I could seriously squeal over these piggies! They are just so cute! I can’t wait to ink up the rest of the set, along with the other one I picked up too!

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

Spellbinders – Oh Happy Day

Hello everyone! I recently joined the world of alcohol inks by purchasing a few bottles of the alcohol pearls and couldn’t wait to play! I created a coffee card last week with my first background but who can stop with just one when you’re playing with those inks??? No one, that’s who! So, of course I kept going and then had a fun idea what to do with them…hence today’s card!

I created a few backgrounds with the various colors that I have and then used my new Spellbinders Pool with a View die set to die cut the various pieces. I found this fun yellow Avery Elle patterned paper in my stash and used it for a background for my scene.

The shimmer that the alcohol pearls give is so pretty in the light. I love it! And the different texture they give is so fun too!

I adhered all the pieces together with liquid glue and popped the umbrella up with foam squares for a little dimension. The yellow panel was then popped up with foam tape and put on a white card base.

I pulled out my Hello Sunshine Lawn Fawn set and stamped a sentiment from that on the front as well.

Isn’t this card so happy?!? It has been dreary and rainy at home so this was my bit of sunshine during the storm.

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

Coffee Loving Cardmakers – Mugs and Kisses

Happy Tuesday everyone! It’s Tuesday Tea with Twiddler’s Nook over on the Coffee Loving Cardmakers blog today and I have a gorgeous, sparkly fun card to share with you! I recently got the amazing Brewtiful stamp set from Miss Ink Stamps and couldn’t wait to ink it up! This set has so many fun images that can be paired in so many combos and will be great to combine with other sets as well.

I create this card, I started by laying my stamps out on an A2 card base to decide if the idea in my head would work. After I figured it out, I stamped and colored my images, then cut it all out with my scan-n-cut. Next, I found a yellow cardstock that matched my mug and used the scallop stencil with some white glitz gel. I left this overnight to dry and came back to assemble everything the next day.

Whenever I stencil a large panel, I always use a piece bigger than what I need so I can trim it down. So, that’s what I did with the yellow panel first – trimmed it down to 4×5.25 and popped it up with foam tape on a white card base. Then I die cut a scalloped frame from Lawn Fawn and adhered it with liquid glue. Because of the glitz gel, I put a few acrylic blocks on top and left it for a little bit to dry before moving on.

I attached most of my images with foam squares, with the exception of the small flowers behind the X and the sentiment strip on the upper right. Those were adhered with liquid glue like the frame.

Finally, I moved on to finishing touches. I started with some white gel pen accents to the images and moved on to glossy accents on the mug dots and stamen of the flowers.

I am in love with this card and can’t wait to share it with someone. It’s so bright and cheery and is certain to make someone smile!

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

Clearly Besotted – Picture Perfect

Hello everyone! I’m so excited to share today’s card with you! It’s bright and happy, which I thought was perfect for the beginning of June. A new month, closer to summer and all things sunshine and happy!

Last week I shared a couple of cards featuring Clearly Besotted stamps and stencil, a new-to-me company. Today I’m back with another stamp set I snagged at the same time as those. It was too cute to resist.

To create this card, I started by stamping images from Picture Perfect, colored them with my copics and used my scan-n-cut to cut them out. Then I pulled out that awesome Stamp On It stencil and inked a white 3.5×3.5 square using it. I started with a melon colored ink in the center and then a yellow on the edges, blending them together in the middle. I love how this turned out!!!!

Using my images as a guide on the inked panel, I stamped a few sentiments from the set in one of the stenciled squares.

Next, I moved on to assembly and decided that the melon cardstock I chose for my background was too plain. I pulled out the smaller, secondary images from the stamp set and created my own tone-on-tone patterned paper for a little extra interest.

After that was fixed, I adhered the melon cardstock to a white cardbase and popped up the inked square with foam tape. Then I popped up my images with foam squares and moved on to finishing touches.

For those, I added glossy accents to the camera and Stickles to the smaller images for a little sparkle.

This set has so much potential and I’ve got so many ideas for it! I can’t wait to keep creating! I think a bunch of photos taped to a wall or hung on a line will be so much fun!

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

Birch Press Design – Masculine Encouragement Card

Hello everyone! Thanks for stopping by this fine Saturday. I’m up on the Birch Press Design blog today with that masculine feeling encouragement card. It was definitely trial and error but I love how fiddling with the background came out and the whole feel of this card.

Be sure to head over to the Birch Press Design blog for a step-by-step tutorial and process of how I created this awesome card.

Trial and error, perseverance and determination got me to this end result. This card was a great reminder to keep trying if you don’t like how something looks at first and also to walk away and come back later. Your whole mindset and view on things changes.

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

Newton’s Nook Take 2- Spring-Summer CLC Hop

Hello again. I made another Newton’s Nook card for the Coffee Loving Cardmakers Spring-Summer Hop and just had to share it with you. It’s too cute and fun not to!

Here’s a quick view of the front. I used the sky borders die to create a tree. Then I added some flowers from the flower trio set and used the alphabet dies to add emphasis to my sentiment. So much fun!

Inside I have another layer of tree and a limb created with the forest scene builder dies. And that cute owl from Sending Hugs holding his cup of coffee. Such a silly but fun card.

I hope you enjoyed it. I’m linking it up to the Coffee Loving Cardmakers Hop HERE.

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

Newton’s Nook – CLC Spring-Summer Hop

Today is the last day to link up your amazing caffeinated projects for the Coffee Loving Cardmakers Spring-Summer Hop. I hope you’ve had fun, been able to create somethings and found inspiration with all of the fun entries.

Today I’m sharing a fun card using on of the little 2×3 sets from Newton’s Nook – Slothy Coffee. I absolutely adore sloths and this set was just too perfect not to pull out this week.

So, full disclosure here…the inked panels you see behind the sloths were from a card I made a few weeks ago. They were the windows I die cut out of a panel but the hoarder in me wouldn’t let me toss them. Then this idea popped in my head and it was so perfect!

I stamped my sloth 3 times and colored them all the same. Then I colored the mugs coordinating with the inked squares I had in front of me. I used the coordinating die to cut them all out and set them aside. Then, I used my waves stencil with gray ink on a white cardbase for just a little subtle texture. Finally I added my squares and images with foam squares for some dimension.

Last, I pulled out my speech bubbles, die cut one and stamped my sentiment on it with the same gray ink from the background. Moving on to finishing touches, I added glossy accents to the sloth noses, black glaze pen to the eyes and white gel pen highlights throughout.

I’m linking this last card up to the Coffee Loving Cardmakers Hop HERE. I hope you’ve had a chance to play along with us and enjoyed all the inspiration shared.

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