Paperie Ink – Hello, I Miss You So Much

Welcome back everyone. Thanks for stopping by. Today I’m sharing a card by a new-to-me stamp company just starting out on Etsy called Paperie Ink. Her images are to-die-for adorable and I was very fortunate to win an Instagram contest that gifted me three sets recently.

I finally took time to play with one – Hello Hummingbirds – and had so much fun creating this little scene.

For this card, I used my stamps to get an idea of the layout to make sure everything would fit. Once I decided, I stamped them out and colored them with copics. I used my scan-n-cut to cut them out and moved on to the large image and final layout.

I die cut a piece of Bristol smooth cardstock with the smaller scalloped panel in the Newton’s Nook Framework die set and stamped the hello image with copic-friendly ink. I colored it up and stamped the rest of the sentiment in gray below it. Using my images for a guide, I stamped the water sprinkling out of the watering can in the same gray.

Moving on to final assembly, I trimmed down some text patterned paper and adhered it to a card base. Then I popped the scalloped panel up with foam tape and added my images to that with foam squares. Some parts that are hanging off have double layered foam squares to keep them laying nice and flat.

For finishing touches on this sweet card, I added glossy accents to the bird beaks and feet, the bunny’s nose and water in the watering can. I also added white gel pen accents throughout the images and black glaze pen to the eyes.

I hope you enjoyed this sweet card today.

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

Neat & Tangled – Puppy’s Favorite Things

Welcome! I picked this sweet puppy up from Neat & Tangled a while ago and finally had a chance to ink him up. He’s just adorable and so fun to color! I paired him with some fun Newton’s Nook products to create a birthday card for a change of theme these days.

I started by stamping and coloring the images from Puppy’s Favorite Things and then used the coordinating dies to cut them out.

Then I grabbed my Newton’s Nook balloons stencil and my Trinity Stamps blending buddy brushes to ink up the balloons different colors. Then I used the Framework dies from Newton’s Nook to cut the panel out along with an orange woodgrain floor. I trimmed down a teal piece of cardstock to 4 1/8×5 3/8 and popped the stenciled panel on it with foam tape. This is all glued to a white card base.

I had used the special die to cut the puppy’s hands out so he could hold the cupcake so I glued that in place. Then I added foam squares to the back of all my images and put them in place. Last, I die cut a banner from the Newton’s Nook Frames and Flags set and stamped my sentiment. This banner is also popped up with foam squares.

For finishing touches I added white gel pen accents throughout the images, black glaze pen to the puppy’s eyes and nose and glossy accents on a few images. I also added sprinkled sugar Stickles to the cupcake frosting and yellow Stickles to the top of the birthday hat.

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

Coffee Loving Cardmakers – Thanks a Latte

Hey all! It’s another Tuesday Tea with Twiddler’s Nook over on the Coffee Loving Cardmakers blog and I’ve got a fantastic card to share with you!

I am so excited with how this fun card turned out. I started by stamping images from Lawn Fawn sets – Thanks a Latte, Oh Gnome and Gleeful Gardens. Then I cut some masking paper for the mugs and stamped the flowers and mushrooms from Oh Gnome on them. I set to work coloring everything with my copic markers and then used the coordinating dies to cut it all out.

I set those aside and started working on my background. I took three white panels and inked them up with distress oxide inks for dirt, grass and sky. I used tea dye and gathered twigs, twisted citron and mowed lawn, and tumbled glass and salty ocean. Then I spritzed the panels with water, blotted them dry and die cut each with the largest stitched rectangle. I glued the blue one to a card base and die cut the other two with hills from the simple stitched hillsides. Then I adhered those as well and started deciding on final placement all of my images.

Everything is glued directly to the cardfront, tucked behind the hills with tape runner, with the exception of the hummingbird in the sky, the cups, gnomes and snails on the bottom.

I used my MISTI to stamp a sentiment at the top and moved on to finishing touches. At first I wasn’t going to do much but that went out the window quick. I added unicorn Stickles to the flower centers and glossy accents to the mushroom dots. Then I added Wink of Stella glitter brush pen to the hummingbird. I thought I was done but I was wrong. 😉 I added glossy accents to the snail shells and mugs and then for fun, I added Wink of Stella to the whipped cream and marshmallows too.

It’s a super busy card but I love it! It’s like we’ve discovered a little gnome coffee date in the middle of a flower garden or something.

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

Miss Ink Stamps – Unstoppable Trio

Hello again! Today I’ve got a seriously Unstoppable trio of super fun cards to share with you. 😉 I recently purchased a grab bag from Miss Ink Stamps with my fingers and toes crossed that I might get the awesome dinosaur set they have called Unstoppable. AND I GOT IT!!!! Yes, I’m yelling. I was SO excited about this! I couldn’t stop myself and created 3 fun cards with it right away.

The first one I’m sharing is a very clean and simple design…completely out of my comfort zone but I felt like the look on this little dino just called for something simple.

I masked off the bottom of a white panel and inked it up with distress oxides in blueprint sketch, chipped sapphire and gathered twigs. Then I created a dark blue card base, trimmed a brown panel down to 4 1/8×5 3/8 inches and adhered it down. I trimmed the inked panel down to 4×5.5 inches, stamped the palm tree in black ink and head embossed the sentiment before popping it up with foam tape. Then I popped the dino up with foam squares as well. I used black glaze pen with a white gel pen accent on his eyes and glossy accents on his claws for a little added interest.

For this next fun card I knew I wanted to pair this sentiment with the dino and his claw arms. It’s just too cute together! I trimmed down a white panel to 3.75×5 inches and inked the edges. Then I used the My Favorite Things stitched window die to cut a hole. I lined the window with acetate and covered the back of the panel with foam tape. I adhered the red patterned paper to a white card base and sprinkled some champagne stardust glitter that came in my grab bag too! I popped the window panel on the card to create a shaker and used my MISTI to stamp the sentiment under the opening. Then I popped up my dino with his cute claw arms and moved on to finishing touches.

For those I added black glaze pen with white gel pen highlight to his eyes and glossy accents to his claws – including the extended claws. haha! So much fun!

For this my card I had a blast creating an apocalyptic scene and added a silly sentiment to go with it. I ink blended tumbled glass and salty ocean distress oxides on my card front and then gathered twigs and ground espresso on a panel for some dirt. I die cut the ground with Lawn Fawn simple stitched hillside border and glued it to the card front. I die cut a window from dark gray cardstock and then used an embossing folder from my stash on it. This panel is popped up with foam tape.

Now to set the scene. I tucked the volcano behind the dirt and adhered it with liquid glue. Then I added the palm trees and meteors with a combo of liquid glue and foam squares. Last I added my dino and sentiment banner with foam tape.

For finishing touches I added glossy accents to the meteors, lava and dino claws. Then I added black glaze pen to the dino eyes with that white gel pen highlight again.

Phew! I know that was a lot and I really appreciate you sticking around until the end. I hope you enjoyed today’s cards and find some inspiration to go make something you love.

Have a fabulous day!

Lawn Fawn – Star Shape Card Set

Hey there! Happy weekend everyone! I’m up on the Scrapbookpal.com blog today with this awesome set of cards today that were inspired by my friend, Jenn Bena’s, video a couple weeks ago. Hers were uber fabulous and although I don’t have all the same goodies she does, I dug in my stash and found some fun things to use instead.

To make these cards I started with a ton of die cutting. Here’s a list to get you going:

From the largest of the puffy stars
- 4 black stars
- 2 white stars
- 2 iridescent vellum stars
- 4 white stars folded in half for the card base – crease line about 3/4 inch below the cut line
Take your white and vellum stars and use the puffy cloud borders to cut your clouds. You can get 2 from each star.

From here I actually adhered everything together then took the stars from Upon a Star and heat embossed them in the sky with silver embossing powder. This looked a little plain so I created a cloud mask and splattered the sky with gold and pearl watercolors. I love this now!!!

I stamped, colored and die cut the small fox and bunny from Upon a Star and popped them up with foam tape on the cloudy ground. Last, I pulled out my Lucky Stars sentiments and stamped them on two cards. Then for the other two I split the sentiments from Upon a Star part on the front and the large word inside the cards.

These cards fit in a standard A2 size envelope and mail with a regular stamp. But how much fun would it be to received these fun shaped cards! Such a small change makes a huge impact on your card.

Do you make shaped cards? Share in the comments. I’d love to know.

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

Birch Press Design – Design Team Addition

I’m beyond excited to finally announce that I am joining the design team for Birch Press Design! This is an incredible opportunity and I’m so grateful for it. To celebrate I’ve made a simple card featuring a couple of their wonderful products.

To make this beautiful card, I started with the mini dahlia frame. I die cut the layers from three shades of pink cardstock and one white. I layered the pieces together and adhered them with liquid glue. Then I trimmed the dahlia out of the white one and glued the frame on top.

Next I took a 4×5.25 inch piece of white cardstock and blended some peach and pink inks on it, fading out toward the edge. I adhered the dahlia frame and popped this panel up with foam tape on a 4.25×5.5 inch orange panel.

Next I pulled out the Lovely Butterflies stamps, inked one up, colored it with my copics and die cut it out. I glued this to the dahlia just in the center and folded the wings up a little so it looks like it’s just sitting there. Then I took a sentiment from the set and stamped in in black on the lower right inside the frame.

I adhered the whole panel to a white card base and finished this beautiful card off with some Wink of Stella glitter brush pen on the butterfly for just a bit of shimmer.

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

Trinity Stamps – You Rock!!!

I’m so happy to be joining you again with a totally awesome card featuring fun products from the Spring Break Release along with an oldie but goodie die set from the stash!

To make this card I used the straight stripes stencil but tilted it at an angle on a panel I die cut from the narrow card and bookmark die set. I started with cracked pistachio distress ink and moved on to abandoned coral and then finished with scattered straw. I blended just a bit on one stripe between each color.

Then I found copic colors to match those and colored my image from You Rock. I used my scan-n-cut to cut the images out. Using the images as a guide I chose where to stamp my music notes and decided to heat emboss them black for some shine. Then I popped my images up with foam tape and adhered the panel to a dark gray card base.

I created an envelope with the same gray and went back to the card for finishing touches which were very simple this time. I just adhered some glass slipper confetti embellishments around the design and thought it looked perfect!

I am loving this retro look and can’t wait to share it with someone who appropriately loves the 80s as much as I do! ❤

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

Trinity Stamps – Dust Because

I have just fallen in love with the newest bunny additions to the Trinity Stamps family. They are the absolute cutest and so much fun to do a variety of things with.

Today I’m sharing a card featuring the Dust Bunnies set and a couple of the famous slimline series dies.

I started out by die cutting the slimline scalloped panel from white cardstock. I quickly decided I wanted extra dimension so I went back and cut the smallest from the slimline stitched panels and started ink blending. I used scattered straw and abandoned coral distress inks. I popped this panel up with foam tape on the scalloped one.

I had already used my Dust Bunnies stamps as a guide to decide on a design so now I just had to stamp, color and cut them out with the coordinating dies. I popped everything up with foam tape except for the images under the bed. I love how having them set back makes it look like they’re really under there. So cute!

Another thing I just love is that this set also die cuts the words out for you. It’s fabulous and makes it fun to have your sentiment really pop!

This sweet card is just perfect for sending some happy mail to someone you’re missing or to someone “dust” because. 😉

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

Miss Ink – Java Joe’s

Hello everyone! I’ve got a couple of super fun slimline cards featuring the Miss Ink set called Java Joe’s and the fabulous Trinity Stamps slimline dies.

This first card had been floating around in my head since I bought this set. I just had to put ink to paper and make it happen. I love how it turned out soooo much!!!

To make it, I die cut 2 white slimline panels from the Trinity Stamps Stitched Panel and Windows set. I ink blended 2/3 of one with pumice stone and gathered twigs distress oxide. Then I used the slimline scenic borders to cut it. Then I inked the rest of that panel up with twisted citron and mowed lawn distress oxides and cut the top with the same scenic border die. For the second panel I inked the top up with tumbled glass and stormy sky distress oxides. Then I spritzed the panels with water and blotted them dry. I adhered all of these panels together and mounted them on a card base.

I stamped and colored my Java Joe’s images with copics; then used my scan-n-cut to cut them all out. I arranged everything how I wanted it and added foam squares to them all and stuck them in place. At this point I carefully stamped and head embossed my sentiment with black embossing powder next to Java Joe.

For my next card, I originally planned it to be a regular A2 size card but something hit me when I was laying it out that it might look cool as a more simple slimline. I’m still baffled at how awesome this turned out! I used the new Trinity Stamps slimline wonky stitched wilderness die for this one. Don’t you love that extra texture?

I had my images already colored and cut out from the round of coloring I did for the first card so I immediately set to figuring out my general layout. I grabbed my distress inks for this one – walnut stain, tea dye and antique linen. Starting from the bottom right corner and working my way lighter I blended them together. Then I pulled a fun Bo Bunny set out called Distress Textures which has a coffee cup ring stain and some splatters in it. I love using this for backgrounds on all kinds of cards. I stamped it in 3 different brown inks – darker to lighter following the shade of the distress inks.

Then I popped up my images and used a dark brown ink to stamp my sentiment on the left side of the card.

I almost forgot to mention that for both of the sandwich boards I head embossed white hearts on them for a bit of a chalkboard look. I love this little detail.

I hope you enjoyed today’s fun cards!

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

Paper Smooches – Bee Hi

Thanks so much for sticking through all four days of my super fun Paper Smooches Happy Hellos series. Today features the final image in the stamp set – the adorable upside down bee! He’s the cutest and I was extra excited to plan something out with him.

This card was the biggest struggle out of them all but I think I love it the most! I started by stamping, coloring and cutting out my bee image. Then I had an idea that he would be fun on a tag so I started playing around with the design but it was too simple. That’s where distress oxides and some heat embossing played a big part!

I die cut the Newton’s Nook Fancy Edges Tag from yellow and black. Then I used the zig zag die to cut the bottom of the black off. I cut a yellow hole reinforcer from the same set and used some gathered twigs distress oxide on all the of the yellow for a little depth. I adhered all the pieces, strung some ribbon through the hole and tied it with baker’s twine. Then I popped the bee image up with foam tape and set it aside to work on this plain background.

I took a teal panel and inked the edges with peacock feathers distress oxide ink. Then I stamped the double hexagon image from Happy Hellos repeatedly around the panel with VersaMark and heat embossed it with yellow embossing powder. I trimmed this panel down to 4×5.25 and popped it up on a black card base with foam tape. Then I also popped the tag up with foam tape.

For finishing touches on this card I added Unicorn Stickles to the bee wings, black glaze pen to his eyes and some white gel pen accents to the whole image including the letters.

This is such a fun, bright card with the contrasting colors, I just love it!

This is my final link up for the HAPPY – Paper Smooches Challenge this month. I look forward to playing along with the next challenge as well.

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