Hey friends! Have you taken a moment to check out the most recent Trinity Stamps release yet? It’s a really big release and has lots and lots of different style products to appeal to different crafters.

Today I have two cards to share using some of the new word art stamps from Love Dani Studios. These stamps always have uplifting messages to share. This time I heat embossed both images on watercolor paper and went to town with my watercolor powders.

While my watercolor panels were drying, I took a piece of white cardstock and spritzed distress oxide sprays on it in similar colors to the watercolor choices. Then I left it all to dry over night. Trust me…it was wet and inky. So much fun!!!

With the word art images dry, I used the coordinating dies to cut each one out. Then, for this card I glued the distress oxide panel to a card base with liquid glue. Then I cut the largest ticket from the Slimline That’s the Ticket die set from black cardstock. I cut it in two, offset and popped it up with foam tape so the ends met toward the bottom of my card front.

Then I popped the image up with foam tape as well and glued a scattering of Kelly Green Heart Baubles around the design.

For the other card, I reached deep down and tried to pretend I knew what I was doing with a mixed media style card. If nothing else, this was really fun to get grungy and messy while creating!

I had spritzed a panel with distress oxide sprays at the same time I was doing one for the first card, so everything was already dry. This time I took a piece of pink cardstock and smeared my purple ink pad across it for texture. Then I cut the Sweetheart Slimline panel from a dotted pink cardstock in my stash and tore it up.

I cut some vellum to go behind the sentiment and help it stand out. But at this point when I was trying to layer things together, they were all too perfect. So I took out a REALLY OLD distressing tool from my stash and started ripping up the edges on everything. That’s when I started to love it.

I glued things to the card base at all weird angles and trimmed off the excess. Then I added the sentiment to the vellum with foam tape and glued it down. I added some staples and twine for interest and then spotted the hearts that came from the slimline die cut. So I added those with liquid glue and foam squares too.

I know this style isn’t for everyone but I really enjoyed creating these cards and have some people in my life who will love the eccentric style hitting their mailbox.

Products used:
That’s the Ticket slimline dies
Sweetheart slimline die
All Kinds of Wonderful stamps and dies
You Make a Difference stamps and dies
Distress Oxide Sprays
Liquid glue
Foam tape and squares
Water Color Burst Powders
Distress Sprayer

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Hello friends! We’re having another bit of snow this morning so I wanted to pop in and share some rainbows and happiness with you. My daughter and I are dreaming of summer and sunny days so this card definitely comes from that mind set.

I used the new Trinity Stamps Ray Bow die set to create a fun see through front card. I started by cutting the rainbow rays from white cardstock and used blending brushes to add color to each one. Then I took a top fold A2 size card and used the cloud border die in the set to cut the front short. Using the rest of the card front, I cut another matching cloud strip, plus a second set for the bottom too.

I chose my sentiment from the Simply Sentimental – You stamp and die set. I stamped and cut the banner for the second part of the sentiment and die cut “you” from black and silver glitter cardstock. Now to assemble everything.

I glued the rays to the back of the short flap on the card front and then glued the second layer of clouds behind that. It keeps everything more secure and looks nicer on the inside too. Following the rays to the bottom I glued another set of matching cloud borders to that end as well. Next, I used foam squares and strips to add the sentiment to the rays.

After using the excess from the front panel to cut those extra strips of clouds, I ended up with a scrap that had different cloud formations on each side. I used that as a stencil to ink light cloud borders all the way down the inside of the card. Then I added a sentiment from Newton’s Nook on the inside.

Products used today:
Ray Bow dies
Simply Sentimental – You stamps and dies
Newton’s Nook Uplifting Wishes stamps
Blending brushes
Liquid glue

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Hey crafty friends! It’s release day for Trinity Stamps and I had the pleasure of playing with some of these goodies early. They are so fun to create with. I have a card and a pillow box to share with you today and will be back soon with even more!

For my card today, I inked up the awesome Checkered Background: Hearts stencil layers on a melon cardstock. I faded the inking as I went down the panel just a bit. I feel like that detail shows up much better in person than in photos.

I kept the two cutting dies in the Dainty Heart Die and Foil set together to cut out a beautiful frame. I added foam strips to that and popped it up on the stenciled panel. Then I stamped Happy Valentine’s Day from Sucker For You and used the coordinating die to cut it out before popping it up with a foam strip as well.

I adhered the panel to a white card base and my card is all finished. I love how simple but pretty this card turned out. If you wanted to step it up a bit you could add a scattering of glitzy embellishments across the design or turn that heart frame into a shaker too! Lots of fun options!

Next, I pulled out my very favorite Pillow Box dies to create a treat box for Valentine’s Day and paired it with the fun Sucker For You stamps and dies.

I started by stamping and coloring the image from Sucker For You and used the coordinating die to cut it out. After it was cut out, I thought it would be fun to turn it into a shaker. To do that, I chose a circle die and cut out the face. Then I die cut another full image from acetate and glued it to the back. I stamped and colored just the face on a second image and cut that out too. To assemble it all, I added foam strips and squares to the back of the acetate layer, added some sprinkles and sealed it up with the second die cut image.

Next, I die cut the pillow box from teal cardstock and inked it up with the Heartburst stencils. I added adhesive tape and sealed the box up before tying twine around it and adding the shaker sucker with foam squares.

Be sure to take a moment and go check out the whole new release. It’s got great things for Valentine’s Day, New Year and Chinese New Year, plus more!

Products used today:
Sucker For You stamps and dies
Dainty Heart Die and Foil set
Pillow Box die set
Checkered Background: Hearts stencils
Heartburst stencils
Cupcake Sprinkles embellishments
Foam strips and squares
Scrappy tape – 1/4 inch

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Happy Friday my friends! I’m so glad you’re here. Thanks for stopping by. Today I’m sharing a fun card using stamps, dies and stencils from the Trinity Stamps Autumn Gathering release. They did just have a new release this week (those goodies are on their way to me now) so be sure to check it all out for fall and winter crafting goodness! Click HERE to get to their store.

For my card today, I really wanted to play with the Moon Layers stencil so that’s where I started. I just used dye inks from my stash in light gray and yellow, with a little purple for the bottom part of the panel. Then I took a 4×5.25 inch piece of black cardstock and used the Haunted House Cutout die on the upper middle of the panel.

I stamped and colored that cute dino from Spookysaurus with my copic markers and used the coordinating dies to cut him and the sentiments out. Now it’s time to assemble all the layers together.

I glued the haunted house panel to the moon panel with liquid glue and colored in the openings with copic markers. I popped that panel up on a piece of purple dot texture cardstock from my stash with foam tape. Then I added the dino and sentiments with foam squares for that extra dimension.

For finishing touches, I stamped the emphasis marks on the black panel and heat embossed them white to make that RAWR stand out more. Then I added black glaze pen to the dino’s eyes and glossy accents to his sucker and pumpkin bucket.

I love this so much! I have a fun shaker card planned for the haunted house die next. And maybe a sweet tag for a treat bag with that dino. He was really fun to color. Are you still making Halloween projects?

Products used:
Spookysaurus stamps and dies
Haunted House Cutout die
Moon Layers stencil
Foam tape and squares
Glossy accents

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Hello everyone! I’m excited to share a fun trio of cards that I made for my daughter when she was away at dance camp last week. I absolutely love the Trinity Stamps Love Dani line of 3×4 stamps and think they are so fun to watercolor. When the most recent additions release, I just had to have them and couldn’t wait to play!

To create these cards, I die cut the mini card that is part of the Slimline Frame & Fold die set from Trinity Stamps. It gives you this really fun 3×4 miniature card. I cut mine from Bristol Smooth cardstock because I knew I was going to heat emboss and watercolor my images with Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers.

These were so much fun to color and experiment with. I also love that the Zigs don’t bleed through so I didn’t need an extra layer of cardstock to hide anything.

As I said earlier, these cards were for my daughter. She went away to a 4-day dance camp and I thought it would be fun to stash some happy thoughts in her suitcase. After I watercolored each card and let it dry, my husband and I each wrote different messages inside each card so she could open them each day.

Then, I used my WeRMemory Keepers envelope punch board to create coordinating envelopes that went with the colors on each card. I used some fun washi tape to seal each one and tied them together with baker’s twine.

This was silly and so much fun to create! These cards are also perfect for holding a gift card if you wanted to do that too!

Products used today:
Slimline Frame and Fold dies
Rooting For You stamps
Easy Peasy stamps
One in a Melon stamps
Watermark & Embossing Ink
Embossing powder – licorice
Magic Anti-static Brush
Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers

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Happy Independence Day to all of my USA friends! Today I’m guest designing on the Trinity Stamps blog and couldn’t resist using the new Cupcake Card die set to create a really fun 4th of July themed card to share! Creating this card just reminded me how fun it is to take things typically meant for something specific and twisting things like color schemes and sentiments to broaden their use.

To start today’s project, I pulled out the dies from the set I intended to use and cut everything from white heavy weight cardstock. I folded the card base on the score line and set it aside to add color to my pieces.

Here’s a quick and easy photo to show you the colors I used for all the pieces. It’s really simple when you break it down. I inked up the cupcake liner with distress oxide in blueprint sketch and salty ocean. Then I added it and the frosting piece to my splatter box and flicked watered down ink in both blues to both pieces. I removed the liner paper and flicked some candied apple on the frosting to bring that classic red into the mix. I set those aside to dry while I colored the remaining pieces with copic markers.

Next, I pulled out the Simply Sentimental – Happy stamps and dies out to work on my sentiment. I cut the shadow from vellum and the word “happy” from white cardstock 4 times and adhered them all together with liquid glue. Then I stamped “Independence Day” from the stamp set in black ink and used the smallest Embossed Edge Rectangle die to create a sentiment strip.

To assemble all my pieces, I used liquid glue starting with the cupcake liner piece first, then the cupcake and finally the frosting and cherry. I added “happy” with liquid glue and popped the sentiment strip up with foam tape.

For finishing touches, I added glossy accents to the cherry and one Jelly Drop Heart embellishment below the sentiment.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project and find some inspiration to create something fun to share with someone.

Products used today:
Cupcake Card dies
Embossed Edge Rectangle dies
Simply Sentimental – Happy stamps and dies
Jelly Drop Hearts – red
Foam tape
Bearly Art liquid glue
Distress Oxide Ink – blueprint sketch, salty ocean, candied apple
Glossy accents

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