Hi, crafty friends. Today’s cards features THIS new Card Kit… To create these cards, I used the kit’s embossing folder on three pieces of the Color Blend cardstock (included in the kit). I stamped a sentiment and image from the kit’s stamp set on one of THESE arches. For all the embellishments, I applied clear VersaMark ink on a piece of white cardstock and added the kit’s embossing powder on top and heat set....
Hello, crafty friends. Today’s card is part of THIS Blog Hop celebrating THIS new release. It is actually part two of THIS card that I shared yesterday…. When I foiled the card from yesterday, I was left with the negative of the pattern. I didn’t want that piece to go to waste so I laid it on top of one of THESE White Poly-Glaze Sheets and ran it through my MINC machine. I love...
Hello, crafty friends. I have several cards to share today featuring some fun dies from Spellbinders. I just couldn’t make one because all of the dies were too adorable. To create these cards, I die cut the dies from patterned paper and colored cardstock. I adhered the slipper dies on an embossed background and a wood floor created with THIS cardstock and a strip of white cardstock resembling a baseboard. For the first card… I...
Hello there, crafty friends. Today’s card features THESE new colors of Distress Spritz. I used them to enhance Distress Oxide ink blended backgrounds and highlight embossed backgrounds. For all of the cards, I started by ink blending a panel of white cardstock with Distress Oxide inks. I started with a light shade of the card and applied a darker color of the same shade around it for some variation. Next, I spritzed it with...
Hello, crafty friends. Today’s card features THIS STAMPtember Collaboration stamp set from Clearly Besotted… To create this card, I started stamping the images from THIS stamp set, colored them with Copic Markers, and used THESE coordinating dies to cut them out. For the background, I applied ink through THIS rectangle mask. I applied green ink at the bottom to resemble grass and blue towards the top to resemble the sky. I stamped a coordinating...
Hi there, crafty friends. Today’s card features THIS new card kit from Simon Says Stamp… To create this card, I created the background with the kit’s embossing folder. I gold heat embossed the images and sentiment from the kit’s stamp set and stamped the color layer from the stamp set on top to color them in. I used the kit’s mini ink blending tool to dab away any harsh lines between the color ink...
Hi again, crafty friends. Today’s card features THIS new card kit… The kit contains multiple white tags so I thought it would be fun and different to create a tag card. I started by applying Distress Oxide ink to the inside of the kit’s embossing folder. I applied it on the flat side, not the raised side. Next, I spritzed it with water, laid my tag inside and ran it through my die cut...
Hi there, crafty friends. Today’s card was inspired by a card I taught at CREATE (back in April) in one of the make it and take it booths. If you are not familiar with CREATE, it’s an event hosted by Simon Says Stamp every year in Columbus, Ohio. It’s two days filled with creative fun. The card we taught had an embossed image that had some ink blending on top and finished off with...
Hi there, crafty friends. Today’s card features THIS new card kit… To create these cards, I started by embossing THESE Color Blend Panels with THIS embossing folder (all included in the kit). After adhering the panels to top folding white note cards. I stamped the sun image from THIS stamp set from the kit twice. One i yellow and one in orange. I fussy cut them out and adhered them to the embossed panels...
Hello there, crafty friends. Today’s cards were inspired by the last day of THIS Embossing Folder class from Online Card Classes where Jennifer McGuire taught a lesson on embossing folders and gelli plates… I love this technique as it creates two cards from one technique. For each set of cards, I would ink up THIS gelli plate with Distress Oxide inks, press the embossing folder on top of the gelli plate into the ink...
