Hello, crafty friends. I have an Easter card to share today… To create this card, I started by die cutting THIS cover plate two times. I punched out the die cuts and adhered the pieces together for dimension. I used the same die to emboss a piece of A2 white cardstock. To emboss the die pattern instead of cutting it, I used THIS embossing mat in the die cut machine. I adhered the die...
Hi, crafty friends. Today’s card features products from THIS new release… To create this card, I applied ink to the raised portion of THIS Embossing Folder and embossed a light blue piece of A2 cardstock. The ink makes settles into the groove of the pattern to resemble rain. I adhered the panel to a top fold note card. I die cut a grass border and adhered it along the bottom of the card. I...
Hi there, crafty friends. Today’s cards feature THIS new release from Simon Says Stamp… To create these cards, I die cut THIS and THIS die from white and the pieces from colored cardstock. The main die creates lines to show exactly where to adhere the pieces. I created one with warm colors and the other with cool colors. I adhered them on gray cardstock panels that were trimmed slightly smaller than the card base....
Hi there, crafty friends. I love using coordinating products because it makes it so simple to put together a card quickly. Today’s card share features an Embossing Folder and Layering Stencils combo… To create this card, I embossed THIS image on a piece of A2 cardstock. I applied Distress Oxide inks through THESE stencils to add color to the embossed image. I chose Oxide inks because of its pigment properties so it would show...
Hi there, crafty friends. I love to add in texture whenever I can. Lately, I have been embossing over a stamped panel to add texture and just love the result it gives… To create this card, I started by stamping THESE images on a white panel cut with THIS die. I colored in the images with Copic Markers and added texture on top by embossing it with THIS embossing folder. I love the dimension...
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...
