Hello again, crafty friends. Today’s card features repeat die cutting to create a background… To create this card, I die-cut the Stained Glass Bird die four times from a white A2 cardstock panel. I left three of the birds all white. For the fourth opening, I removed all the white pieces and used the Stained Glass bird stencil to do some ink blending on the card base behind the die-cut panel. I die-cut the...
Hello, crafty friends. I have a thank you card set to share today… I started by stamping the Delicate Floral Background on five different colors of cardstock using ink that coordinated with each color. I cut each piece down in one inch strips and adhered them to A2 white panels making sure each color strip lined up to complete the background pattern. I added small strips of black glossy cardstock to the top and...
Hello, crafty friends. I’m excited to be part of THIS Blog Hop celebrating THIS new release. I have a card set to share that features hot foiling on black glossy cardstock… Now I am late to the hot foiling party and just started doing hot foiling on my projects and absolutely love it. I’ve been mainly using white paper for all my foiling and wanted to switch it up so I tried it on...
Hello again, crafty friends. Today’s cards feature THIS new card kit from Simon Says Stamp… I decided to keep these cards super simple and just do some basic stamping. This is great to do with solid image stamps because it will fill up a card nicely. I stamped the floral images from the Brushed Flowers Stamp Set (included in the kit) using the kit’s mini ink cube colors. These ink cube colors are gorgeous...
Hello, crafty friends. So, I finally decided to jump on the Hot Foil Bandwagon and I’m so glad I did. It’s so fun.. With any new product/technique, there is a bit of a learning curve. If you are starting out, I highly suggest watching THIS video by Yana Smakula. She shares great tips and tricks for any beginner and it really helped me. I used the Heart Grid Hot Foil Plate along with several...
Hi there, crafty friends. I have more inspiration to share using THIS new release. I’ve been working on creating Thank You card sets to give to my son’s teachers during Teacher Appreciation week and have a set to share today… Let’s start with the backgrounds. I started by popping out the pieces that are cut from the Folk Art Flowers Background Stamp. I set them aside in the order that they came off so...
Hi there, crafty friends. I have a card set to share that uses the positive and negative pieces while foiling… To create these cards, I started by laying pieces of the Mystic Rainbow Foil on top of the Rainbows Galore Toner Card Fronts, placing them inside a piece of parchment paper, and running them through my hot laminator… A closer look… Once I peeled off the foil when they came out of the laminator,...
Hi, crafty friends. I have a card set to share today that features the February Card Kit from Simon Says Stamp… I started by stamping the large floral image from the Orchid Rose Bouquet Stamp set on six pieces of Concord & 9th cardstock panels. I used the coordinating ink color and stamped it repeatedly to get a darker image. I adhered the pieces to a top folding, white notecard and rounded the two...
Hello, crafty friends. I’m kicking off this week with more inspiration using the Warmest Wishes Card Kit from Simon Says Stamp. I shared inspiration HERE and today’s card kicks it up a notch with an interactive box card… To create this card, I started with a white panel that measures 3.5 x 4.25 inches. I used the Glitter Glitz included in the card kit and applied it through the kit’s snowflake stencil. This piece...
Hello, crafty friends. It’s time for another STAMPtember collaboration stamp set. This time it’s from Colorado Craft Company… I started by stamping the background with the Friendship Text Background and die-cut it with the Wonky Rectangles Die. I die-cut the Stitched Arch die from white card stock and stamped the mice image from the Life Happens stamp set and colored it with Copic markers. I stamped it again on masking paper, cut it out,...
