Happy Friday everyone! It’s been a long week and I’m so excited for the weekend. For today’s card, I’m sharing process photos on the Birch Press Design blog how to create this fall themed Thanks card. With Thanksgiving looking a lot different this year, I thought it would be nice to mail some thankful cards to friends and family to let them know I’m thinking of them.

I paired some fun ink blending with distress oxides with mirrored cardstock on this layered die cut card. For a little extra interest I even added spritzed water to the distress oxides and flicked gold watercolor too. Seriously people, I love making a mess in the craft room!

Here’s a different look at it tipped in the light. That mirrored cardstock is just fabulous and adds so much to the layers. Don’t you think?

How is Thanksgiving looking for you this year? I’m curious how many people are altering their celebrations and how creative are you getting. Please share in the comments.

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

I’m back today with my final contribution to the 25 Days of Christmas tags featuring a set of 3 using stamps and dies from Birch Press Design. I enjoyed mixing and matching different products for today’s project. I hope you like them too.

To make these tags, I die cut the Pinpoint Snowflake 3 times using the Memory Box delicate pastels glitter cardstock. I love this die because you can choose to cut the pinpoint detail or not. So then I cut 3 more snowflakes without the detail from white cardstock and glued them back-to-back so I had a nice clean place to write the recipient’s name.

Then I die cut the Frosty Flake – Layer A 3 times from white cardstock and only glued it to the glitter snowflake in the center so the points lifted a little on their own. I really like this little detail.

Finally I took the wavy labels stamps from Christmas Ornament and Labels set, stamped and heat embossed them silver and used the coordinating die to cut them all out. These are all popped up with foam squares.

To finish these beautiful tags off, I added some silver baubles to the snowflake and glued some silver cording between the layers of the pinpoint snowflake. I used my tweezers to clamp this down while each one dried to make sure it had a good bond.

Don’t forget to head to Tracey’s main post HERE and see how to participate in the event and be eligble to win one of the incredible prizes she has up for grabs!

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

Hello again! I’m over on the Birch Press Design blog today with this soft, watercolor fall card featuring some goodies from the new mini release.

I had fun watercoloring with my Tombow markers and then die cutting one of the coverplates from the Autumn Breeze set. If you’d like to see how it all came together, head to the Birch Press blog for a photo tutorial.

The layers of this add so much interest and the different colors are just wonderful for a light fall feeling. I also love gold heat embossing for that fall feel! Don’t you?

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

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!