Hello everyone. Today I’m over on the Jane’s Doodles blog with a card featuring a new digital stamp called Home. This stamp is a fundraiser for relief efforts in Ukraine. This is one of two sets you can purchase from Jane’s Doodles to contribute. I purchased both sets and will be coloring images from the other one very soon.
I printed the image on white cardstock and colored it with my copic markers. Then I used a Pink & Main Zig Zag Circle die to cut it out. I used the next size up to cut a karft circle for a border. Next, I cut a white panel and embossed it with the Pink & Main Sunray embossing folder for some texture. I trimmed it down to 4×5.25 inches before splattering it and the kraft circle with gold watercolor.
Once the watercolor was dry, I adhere the white panel to a white card base with foam tape. Then I added the image circle to the kraft circle with foam tape as well. The kraft circle is adhered to the card front with liquid glue and I placed acrylic blocks on top to help it adhere to the texture while it dried.
I just love this image and had fun coloring it up. A fun aspect to digital stamps that I often forget is that you have control over the size of your images. I intentionally printed this one smaller to fit portrait on an A2 size card but I think it would be fun to make it larger to create a landscape scene with it.
YIPPEE!!! It’s time for another fantastic release from Trinity Stamps! I was fortunate enough to be gifted this sweet rainbow snail stamp and die set early and be able to share some cute projects with you today! I have two cards and a pillow box – all birthday themed – with this adorable rainbow snail.
I had so much fun creating with this stamp set that I made all three of these snails straight away and then decided what to do with them later on! I created a jig to help mass stamping this guy, which is so helpful and really simple too.
I took a scrap of cardstock and die cut the main image from the center of it. I used white so I actually used this cut out but you wouldn’t have to, you mainly want the negative space left over. I placed the negative in my MISTI and held it down with magnets. I started with the body stamp first, lining it up in the space so it was even all around, used the lid of the MISTI to pick it up and placed my die cut in the space. I inked up the stamp and stamped it down. With this jig in place, you can add your same image and double-stamp if you need to and it will be in the same place, or you can place another blank cutout in the opening and keep creating bunches of snails at a time. I just wiped the stamp off between each color and did the same part of the image on all the die cuts before moving on to the next one.
With my snails created, I glued the hats on each one and started playing with designs. Originally I thought I would put all 3 on a slimline card but didn’t love it so I scrapped that idea and went to my stash for inspiration.
For this card, I cut 3 balloons from the Bunch of Balloons die set and tied thread to each one leaving it extra long because I wanted to make sure it was long enough to extend the whole card length. I inked blended blue and teal on a white panel for my background but thought it was a little plain.
To make things more fun, I created a shaker instead of just an ink blended background. For that I die cut a white panel with the largest slimline stitched panel and then cut the middle out with a slimline dainty scallop die to create a wide frame. I lined it with acetate and then foam tape around the edge.
I poured some shaker bits in the center and sealed it up. I added the shake mechanism to a white card base and then added my snail and balloons with foam squares. I hid the end of the thread behind the snail and secured them in place with the foam squares. The sentiment in the set has a coordinating die so I added it to a balloon with foam squares as well.
With my second snail, I really wanted to create a little scene so I pulled out the Rainbow Funshine dies to cut the rainbow, clouds and sun. For the grass I used a slimline great outdoors border die.
I adhered the elements of my rainbow with liquid glue, blended some blue ink for my sky and green ink for my grass panel. I splattered the sky and grass for some fun texture and started adhering everything together.
The rainbow and grass are adhered the the sky panel with liquid glue. Then The snail and sun are popped up with foam squares. I was playing around with placement for the sentiment and absolutely love how it looks on the sun. Then I found the little heart die in the Rainbow Funshine set and cut one from the same cardstock as the rainbow and added it for a sweet touch too!
For finishing touches on this card, I did pull out the glossy accents and unicorn Stickles. I added glossy accents to the tops of the snails little antennae and his party hat, then I went ahead and put some on the heart too. For just a dab of sparkle I added the Stickles to the top of the party hat.
For my final project I pulled out my favorite pillow box dies and created a pink box base. I used the candle half of the cake and candles slimline stencil to decorate it. With the stencil in place, I took the dotted layer from the rainbow snail and stamped some texture in each candle for fun too.
I removed the stencil and adhered my box together. I adhered the sentiment to the edge of my snail with liquid glue and added foam squares to the bottom half of him. I tied some twine around the box and added the snail over the top. The snail keeps the twine in place so the bow can be untied and retied easily.
For finishing touches I added Wink of Stella glitter brush pen to the candle flames, the cheeks on my snail and also his hat.
I know this was a super long post and I truly appreciate you sticking with me to the end. Click HERE to check out the Trinity Stamps new release.
Hello everyone. I hope your week is chugging along nicely. We have had some wild weather the last few days but it’s so sunny and nice today, it’s hard to believe the hail and downpours we had just yesterday.
Today I wanted to pop in and share a set of 4 cards I created using the most recent Mama Elephant release paired with shaker bits from the Twiddler’s Nook shop.
I couldn’t resist this adorable Little Line Agenda set. It was a freebie last year that I missed out on and was ecstatic when they brought it out for regular purchase. These cuties are so fun and these arrangements are great for so many occasions!
I stamped each of the images on Bristol Smooth cardstock with VersaFine ink and colored them with my Zig Clean Color Real Brush markers. This is not my go-to coloring medium but sometimes a change is just so refreshing. I saw down and colored them all and then assembled them in the same layout for a great set to use or give as a gift.
I chose a textured cardstock from my stash for the background of each card, cut to 3.75×5 inches for that extra wide white edge. Then I used the new Two Scallop Frames die set to create the shaker mechanisms.
For sentiments on each card, I used the Easy Sentiments stamps and coordinating die. I absolutely love this set and being able to have multiple sentiments at a time is fantastic! I have pre-mades ready to go in white, kraft and black cardstock.
The shaker filler for each of these cards come from the Twiddler’s Nook shop. The kitties at the beginning have pink primrose confetti bits, the bunnies have fresh as a daisy clay bits, the puppies have a combo of love letters and sweethearts clay bits and the last card with the packages has wishing on rainbow stars confetti.
Aren’t these all just the sweetest!?! They have a really clean and simple design but I feel like the shaker adds so much and makes them so fun!
Happy Tuesday everyone! Grab a cuppa and head over to the Coffee Loving Cardmakers for Tuesday Tea with Twiddler’s Nook and a how-to on this adorable spring-themed coffee mug card I created!
The stamps and dies are from Pretty Pink Posh with the coffee mug die being an oldie but goodie from Trinity Stamps!
This spring die is just adorable and I’m so happy it fits so well on this coffee mug because I have a summer and winter version, that you can bet your bottom dollar I’m going to be recreating this card with!
Click HERE to head to the Coffee Lovers blog for all the deets and links to products used.
I appreciate you sharing your time with me. Have a fabulous day!
Hey everyone! I’ve started making tags for Easter baskets this weekend and wanted to pop in to share one that I had too much fun creating!
For this tag, I cut all the pieces for the Chickie Favor Bag Accessory from cardstock and adhered the pieces together with liquid glue. Then I cut a second “body” piece from white cardstock and adhered it to the back.
Next, I pulled out the Little Chickie Agenda stamps and chose a few to decorate my big chickie with. I stamped them out and colored them with copic markers before using the coordinating dies to cut them out.
I adhered them with liquid glue and kept finishing touches simple with white gel pen highlights to all of the images.
Last, I added some baker’s twine to the back with washi tape so it could be removed later on. There is lots of space to write the recipient’s name plus a message or maybe stamp a sentiment too.
Hello again! Today I’m over on the Pink & Main blog sharing this pair of cards I made with the March release of birthday amazingness! The new version of stencils from Pink & Main are wonderful for all sizes of cards – A2, A7 and slimline alike! So today I took a fun design and made it in A2 and slimline versions to show you.
I started by creating the backgrounds just to play with the new Birthday Candles layering stencils. They are so fun and I just had to play. After creating the A2 version, I tested the size of a slimline and was SO HAPPY to realize it fits perfectly there too! So I made a second one the exact same way.
The candles are just light and dark teal ink for the candle, yellow ink for the flame and glossy gel through the inner flame. After I removed the stencil from the glossy gel, I poured on sparkling monarch flock and tapped it into each flame. I flicked off the excess and set the panels aside to dry.
While the panels were drying, I stamped images from Yappy Birthday and colored them with my copic markers. I used the coordinating dies to cut them out and set them aside. Next, I die cut “HBD” letters from peach cardstock once for each card and white cardstock 3 more times for each card. I used my EZ Squeeze liquid glue to adhere the letters together and put acrylic blocks on top while they dried.
I chose sentiments for each card from Yappy Birthday and heat embossed them in white on black cardstock before cutting them into strips. Then I glued the letters down with liquid glue and popped the image and sentiment strip up with foam squares.
I absolutely made these cards simultaneously and the process was the same on both. I just used different pups for each card because it was a fun excuse to color different cuties!
For finishing touches on both cards, I added a scattering of enamel dots across the designs and unicorn Stickles on tops of the party hats. Then, last I added glossy accents to both images on the party hats, puppy noses and bowtie/collar.
I hope you liked seeing this card design and how you can do similar designs on different size cards depending on your need or mood.
Hello friends! Today I have a little inspiration featuring that fabulous tiger from the new Miss Ink Stamps Jungle Friends stamp set. I finally had a moment to play with one of the new stencils too and tried a new idea for extra texture.
I started by stamping and coloring my image with copic markers. Then I cut a strip of green cardstock and inked up the new Boho Blocks stencil with a darker green ink. For a little bling and texture I took gold glitz glitter gel and randomly spread it through the stencil in various areas. I cleaned up and set this panel aside to dry while I worked on some more stamping.
Next, I cut an A2 piece of kraft cardstock and chose my sentiment. I positioned it in the middle left of the panel and stamped it with brown ink, using my MISTI. I just shifted my cardstock 1/4 inch and kept stamping until the whole line was complete. Then I took a piece of white cardstock and stamped it in black once. I cut this out with a banner from Trinity Stamps 4-Bar Card dies and added a foam strip to the back.
I found some fun gold striped washi tape in my stash so I added it to the right side of the kraft panel before popping the green stenciled panel up with foam tape. Then I added foam squares to the back of the tiger and popped him in place. For the sentiment I just lined the banner up with one of the lines I already stamped so it flows perfectly and trimmed off the excess.
For finishing touches I just added black glaze pen to the tiger’s eyes and glossy accents to his nose. I glued the whole panel to a white card base and it’s all finished.
Holy wow friends! Thermoweb has a release of brand new products today and I can’t express enough how much I love them!!! They are deco foil adhesive transfer sheets and new craft & carrier sheets for foiling and other things.
I’m up on the blog today with this pair of cards using both versions of the new adhesive transfers! Gina K Designs has 3 new sheets that have images and sentiments together, while Unity Stamp Co is releasing 2 new sheets with combo sentiments. They’re all incredible!
For this card I did some glitz gel and foiling with stencils for my background and let the images and banner sentiment shine from the new adhesive transfers in the foreground.
And this card was so fun to ink blend and copic color while leaving the sentiments to shine with their fabulous foiling! I really love the combo of the large brush words with the sans serif simple secondary sentiments on these sheets. So good!!!
Head to the blog for all the details on these cards and then to Instagram for a hop! Remember to comment everywhere for chances to win all the fun things too!
I appreciate you sharing your time with me. Have a fabulous day!
Welcome! Thanks for stopping by today. I have been making lots of Easter cards lately and had an interactive idea pop in my head that I was very excited to try. I have a bunch of Pretty Pink Posh Easter themed products that I hadn’t inked up yet and this was the perfect opportunity to play with them.
I wanted to take this adorable basket die and turn it into a pop up card full of Easter eggs and goodies! To start, I stamped and colored images from Spring Eggs and Bunny Friends with my copic markers. Then I used the coordinating dies to cut everything out and set the images aside.
Here’s an aerial view of the card standing up so you can see what I did. I cut 2 sets of basket pieces from kraft cardstock and the trim from white. I ink blended the pieces for some dimension and interest, and then assembled those with liquid glue. Next, I took I strip of kraft cardstock and cut it to 1×5 1/2 inches and scored it at a 1/4, 2 1/4, 3 1/4, and 5 1/4 inches. I adhered the 1/4 inch flaps together to create a box. Next, I took a 2 1/2 inch strip and scored it at 1/4 inch from each side and inserted it in the middle of the box, adhering the flaps to the box sides. Then I glued one basket on each side of the box.
Next, I arranged the eggs in a trio and glued them together. I took another three eggs and arranged them the same way and glued them to the back of the first three, only at the top half. So things didn’t shift while I was manipulating them, I let the eggs dry a few minutes before adding glue inside the bottom half of them and sliding them onto the center of the box we created in the last step.
The Spring Eggs set has eight eggs so I had two left which I glued to the front of each side of the basket with a bunny on each side too. To finish things off I added a bow to the top of each side.
This card folds flat to fit in an envelope to mail and pops up to stand perfectly when it comes out! And because it’s symmetrical, both sides are decorated and pretty so it can sit out as a decoration. I think they would be super cute on the dinner table at each place setting or on a mantle of decorations too!
Hello friends! Today I have the awesome opportunity to guest design for Ellen Hutson and play with that adorable bear and all his dress up accessories again! I had a hard time choosing but thought it would be fun to add to the thank you card stash with a police bear in the city.
I started my card by choosing and stamping my images. Then I colored them all with copic markers and cut them out with the coordinating dies. That is, except for Mr. Bear. His die is solid so it’s practically impossible to line it up after you’ve stamped. So today, I have a little trick to how I stamp this guy whenever I’m creating with him.
Once upon a time, at the beginning of getting this stamp set, I cut the bear shape from a scrap of cardstock and kept the negative piece in my die packaging for future use. Whenever I stamp this image, I place the negative scrap in my MISTI. Then line the stamp up in that area, use the lid to pick up the stamp and place my blank die cut shape in the void. I ink up the stamp and stamp it down. This also works to re-stamp if you didn’t get a good impression because the space holding your bear didn’t move. It works great! The image you see on the right has been double stamped because his nose didn’t cooperate and was blotchy the first time.
With my images all taken care of, I switched over to my background where I had a fun idea to create a little cityscape. I used the Essentials By Ellen Big City die to cut a border from 2 different gray cardstocks and also black cardstock. I took a white A2 panel and used a Trinity Stamps embossed edge circle stack die to cut a window. Using this window as a guide I adhered the layers of city buildings together and a pencil to mark where I needed to trim off the excess.
Next, I took a white card base and inked up my sky using distress oxide ink in fossilized amber and wild honey. Finally, I used liquid glue to adhere everything together.
I stamped and heat embossed a sentiment from Bear Ware Dress Up sentiments on the darker gray cardstock used in my buildings. I added foam strips to these and foam squares to my dressed up bear before popping them all in place on my card front.
For finishing touches I added black glaze pen to Bear’s eyes and glossy accents to his nose, the shield on his hat and car, and the car’s lights too.
Isn’t this such a fun card!?! I’m so happy with how it turned out and had a blast playing with this bear and all of his accessories.
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