Hello everyone! I’m up on the Trinity Stamps blog today sharing this absolutely awesome card featuring some new and some older stamps and dies. This card started as a simple idea and completely grew a mind of its own. And I’m so glad it did. It’s so much fun!

Originally, my idea for this card included the Just For You gnome and Mr. Snailman but it quickly grew to include my favorite Mouse House too! I stamped my images out and spent some time coloring. It was wonderful! Then I used the coordinating dies to cut them all out and moved to the background.

For that I cut the middle Slimline Stitched Panel die from a white panel and then cut that panel into sections with the Slimline Scenic Borders. According to each panel, I inked them up a little differently with distress oxide inks and spritzed it all with water. I die cut a second panel and adhered all my levels to that for stability.

Then, using liquid glue I adhered all of my images to the background and moved on to finishing touches. I added white gel pen accents to most of the images and then moved in with my glossy accents.

Those are scattered about on things like the hearts, package bows, mushroom spots…kind of random but throughout the whole design. Then I thought it would be good to bring in the black glaze pen on the mice eyes and noses. I love what this little bit of dimension and glossy does for them.

Seriously, all the way up until now, I hadn’t actually planned out my sentiment placement. Totally winging it! Since the awesome Trinity Stamps sets almost always die cut the sentiments too, I decided to trail my sentiment throughout the card design, hoping it would draw the recipient to enjoy the whole design. Then I added a little Wink of Stella glitter brush pen to the words.

Finally, I die cut the largest Slimline Stitched Panel in purple and adhered it to a white card base that measures 3.5×8.5 and popped my scene panel up with foam tape. I also decided to pull from the fun colors I used and make a coordinating envelope in yellow with the Slimline Envelope Builder dies.

If you’ve followed me for very long, you know I like full cards…and I LOVE THIS ONE! It’s got so many fun things to see. Those playful mice and that sweet gnome bearing gifts, finishing it off with Mr. Snailman delivering some happy mail! I hope you enjoyed today’s card and find some inspiration to create something wonderful!

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Welcome back! I hope your week is going well. We’re on the downward end and sailing into the weekend now.

I had an idea pop into my head that I just couldn’t wait to try out and today I finally get to share it with you. It features some new and some older Trinity Stamps prodcuts. Get your gear, we’re heading under the sea again.

The idea that I most wanted to try was layering my distress oxides with the waving hello stencil so that’s where I started. I cut a 3.5×8.5 panel and blended mermaid lagoon, blueprint sketch and seedless preserves. I spritzed it with water and blotted it dry. Then I used both layers of the waving hello stencil with the same colors over the top. I love how this turned out! I inked up another little panel with tea dye and gathered twigs and die cut it with the scenic borders for some sand.

Next, I grabbed shark bait, ocean reef builder and turtlely awesome stamp sets to ink up and get coloring. After that I die cut them with the coordinating dies and started building my scene.

After I decided on placement, I started adhering everything down with liquid glue. I specifically left room for my sentiment in the middle of my scene so I made sure to stamp and cut that out from shark bait as well.

After building my scene, I thought it would look nice to frame it up so I pulled out the scalloped frame die from the slimline envelope builder set and cut one out in white to glue on top. Then I moved on to finishing touches.

For those, I added unicorn Stickles as bubbles and also on some of the coral on the sea floor. Then I gave little bits of shiny to all the critters with glossy accents. Last, I added some shimmer with my Wink of Stella glitter brush pen to some of the plants and the sentiment.

I love how all of these sets go together so well and using them on a slimline card gives you so much real estate to build an awesome scene.

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Hello everyone. I’m over on the Trinity Stamps blog today sharing a really fun beach card using some fun stencil techniques and new products from the recent Trinity Stamps 2nd Birthday Release! Let’s check it out!

This can seem like a complicated card to make so I’m going to break it down into two parts – beach and ocean. Starting with the ocean, I stamped, colored and cut out my images from Shellabration and set them aside. Then I took the Slimline Wonky Stitched Wilderness and die cut 2 panels from white cardstock. I took one and used the scenic borders dies to cut it down for my under water portion. Let’s focus on that panel now.

Using my blending buddy brushes, I inked the panel up with a blue dye ink and then used the Scenes From the Sea stencils to add the ground, seaweed and fish in the background. Using my images as a guide I stamped the string for the balloon and then adhered everything down. I went ahead and added some embellishments to fill in my scene as well…starfish wish and gold fishes for the underwater portion. Then I moved above water. 😉

Now I moved on to the full white panel cut from the Slimline Wonky Stitched Wilderness dies. Using the water panel as a guide I pulled out the new Layered Palm Tree stencils and created my sand mounds. From there I continued with those stencils and added my palm trees. I just flipped the stencil over to get the trees to lean toward each other. Next, I placed the negative pieces of the palm trees on top to mask them and used one layer of the Catching Some Rays stencil to add a sun in the upper left corner. Last, I stamped my sentiment from Shellabration and added a few more embellishments – Having a Ball and more Starfish Wish.

To assemble everything, I cut a card base measuring 3.5×8.5 and adhered my 2 layers to it. At this point I also decided to draw the string into the crabs pinchers and all the way up to the bottom of the balloon too.

I love the sentiment on this card! It kind of eludes to a birthday but really, you could be shellabrating anything at all! I know I have days like that. Treat yo’self! ❤

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Hey there! I’m over on the Trinity Stamps blog today with a super fun shaker card showcasing one of the super cute gnomes from the release on Friday!

This was a total winging it card. LOL! I started by coloring this cute gnome from Make a Wish and die cutting him out. Then I looked at him for a bit and decided it would be fun to use the punny sentiment in the set and suddenly the idea hit me for a shaker card!

I used the lots of dots stencil on a panel and then die cut the I ❤ YOU with the marshmallow alphabet dies and glued it to a piece of acetate. Pulling from colors used on my image I cut a blue panel the same color as the gnome’s accents, added foam tape, added my shaker bits and closed it all up. I used some clear microbeads from my stash and the twitterpated hearts from Trinity for my shaker. The heart in the marshmallow alphabet dies cuts a frame so I cut it from the same blue in the background and glued it to the acetate opening too.

I stamped and die cut my sentiment and then popped it, and my gnome, up with foam squares. Then I finished the card off with glossy accents on the gnome’s hat, shaker and some of the cake decorations. I also added Wink of Stella glitter brush pen to the stamped sentiment.

Such a fun card! I have so many gnome lovers in my life that I know would enjoy this. Also, I can’t stop playing with the shaker. They are so entertaining.

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