Hello, Gemma here today and I’m excited to share some sneak peeks of two fabulous new stamp sets – Dinosaur Friends and Dinosaur Additions. These sets release on June 16th.
For my first card, I stamped out images from both sets and coloured with my copic markers. I then die cut the images with the coordinating dies.
I added extra die cut layers behind the dinosaurs, then arranged all the images on a white card panel. I left space to stamp two ‘rawr’ words between the images. This is from the Dinosaur Additions stamp set.
On a 4.75” square card base, I customised a greeting using two of the sentiment stamps from the new Dinosaur Friends stamp set.
On my second card, I created a mini scene using the volcano image from the Dinosaur Additions stamp set. I cut two pieces of patterned paper to create a dramatic sky with ground, then adhered this to my A2 card base. I left space to the side to stamp a sentiment from the Dinosaur Additions stamp set.
The images used are from both Dinosaur Friends and Dinosaur Additions, coloured with copic markers and die cut with the coordinating dies.
I adhered some images with liquid adhesive and others with foam tape, placing them both on the background area and on the white space, to break out the scene.
Thank you for stopping by! Join us tomorrow for a sneak peek of the new stencils coming on June 16th.
Hello friends, Tammy here. I had so much fun creating these cards featuring the new set, Construction Trucks that releases on June 16th. This set is so much fun, and would be perfect to create party favors for a construction themed party!
To begin, I stamped the images from the Construction Trucks Stamp Set onto Bristol smooth cardstock and colored with Copic markers. I then die cut the colored images using the Construction Trucks Coordinating Dies.
To create this A2 card, I began with an A2 panel and attached black and yellow cardstock strips die cut using the Simple Strips Dies. I adhered the strips diagonally, cutting off the excess to create a fun background. Next, I cut a smaller rectangle panel from Bristol smooth cardstock. I created the dirt hills using the new Layered Roads Stencil, and blended Antique Linen and Vintage Photo Distress Oxide inks. I then splattered some Vintage Photo ink, thinned with water, to add some interest to the hills. Next, I ink blended the top of the card with Salty Ocean and Tumbled Glass Distress Oxide inks and attached it to a white mat before attaching to the striped background. Lastly, I stamped the sentiment in black ink and attached it to an A2 white card base to complete my card.
I also created a fun, coordinating box card using the Construction Trucks stamp set. I began by cutting the base of the box from black cardstock. I added some yellow cardstock strips die cut using the Simple Strips Dies, attaching them diagonally as I did the A2 card. Next, I finished assembling the base of the box. The backdrop was cut from Bristol smooth cardstock, and the top was ink blended with Salty Ocean and Tumbled Glass Distress Oxide inks. I created the dirt hill using the Layered Roads Stencil, and blended Antique Linen and Vintage Photo Distress Oxide inks. I then splattered some Vintage Photo ink, thinned with water, to add some interest to the hill. I then attached my backdrop to a white mat and adhered it to the box.
I attached the colored images to the box, using foam tape on some for both dimension and to add some stability to the box. Lastly, I stamped the sentiment onto a strip of white cardstock and attached to the front of the box card and finished it off with a little truck attached with foam tape.
I hope you were inspired to create some fun Construction themed projects! Stay tuned for more sneak peeks of the upcoming June 16th release!
Good morning! It’s Lindsey here today and I’m excited to give you a peek at the brand new Across the Miles stamp set releasing on June 16th. This darling transportation set coordinates perfectly with several other stencils and stamps being released thismonth. I’ve got three projects to share today, so let’s get started!
First up is a card that uses just Across the Miles, so you can see how cute it is on it’s own. I stamped all the vehicles in the set on golden/dijon yellow, mint, and light grey cardstock and cut them with the coordinating dies.
I then arranged them in rows of traffic on my card base. You’ll notice that half of the images in the set are right facing and the other half are left facing.
I finished my card off by layering a couple of off-set squares and stamping a sentiment from Across the Miles. Don’t you just love the font pairing? I’m a huge fan!
There is a darling truck in this set, and it was begging to be filled, so I did just that on the next card.
Let’s start with the card base. I began by alternately stamping “vroom!” and “beep!” until the center of the card base was filled. To keep the background a bit more subtle, I layered a piece of vellum on top.
Next I stamped the truck and did the tiniest bit of coloring with a white gel pen for the lights and a black marker for the tires. It’s surprising how adding just this tiny bit of black really draws the eye in.
I had SO many ideas for fillers for this truck, but I chose to make a birthday truck by filling it with balloons using the Balloon Numbers and Balloon Alphabet stamp sets and dies. The balloon strings weren’t quite long enough for my tallest balloon (“4”), so I stamped two strings, connected them together, and hid the overlapping portion behind the mint party balloon.
I added tiny little sentiments from Let’s Party to the center of the balloons and popped everything up on my card base.
On my final card in the trio I wanted to pair Across the Miles with one of the new stencils- Layered Roads. In order to create a larger scene, I chose to make a slimline card.
I blended the roads in a very dark grey onto a stitched base from the Slimline: Peekaboo Windows Dies. I only used two of the stencils, the road and the dotted lines. With some trial and error, I found that the easiest way to create crisp, vibrant white lines is to use a gel pen with the stencil.
This card happens to be traveling to a friend who lives across the country in a place full of sunshine and palms, so I pulled out the Hugs(sun, clouds) and Summer Wreath(palm tree) stamp sets and dies to add a little color the scene.
Though subtle, I wanted to point out the cutePinstripe Stencil on my card base. Due to the nature of the stripes, this stencil is really easy to align for a taller card base and added just a bit of fun and color.
I stamped the sentiment at the top, and to add just a little emphasis on the desire to quickly send those smiles, I added “vroom!” in a couple places. :)
Here’s one last peek of the cards all together.
Thanks so much for visiting today! Make sure to come back again tomorrow for more fun peeks of this fabulous new release!
Hello, Gemma here. Today I’m sharing a clean and simple card, using the Floral Arch die from the May release.
I die cut the Floral Arch die from white card several times. I find it helps to add a double sided adhesive sheet, like Stick It Adhesive, to the white card before die cutting.
I layered three of the die cuts together for a focal piece in the centre of a square card base. Below this, I stamped a sentiment from the new Celebration Scripts stamp set.
I then adhered more floral arch white die cuts to the background of my square card base.
To add some colour to the centre floral, I die cut the Floral Arch from different colours of card stock. I adhered to the pieces onto the card to finish. The colours of the central Floral Arch really pop against the CAS background.
I hope you enjoyed this card. If you’re on Instagram, there will be a reel of how to create this card up very soon.
One of my favorite techniques is to do background stamping on a card front, but instead of using a background stamp, I used smaller individual stamps to create the background. I used the Spring Flowers stamp set and randomly stamped the flowers and leaves on a card panel that measures 5 3/8” x 4 1/8”. I like to think of this as creating my own pattern paper. After I stamped the images, I colored them with Zig Clean Color Real Brush pens. The colors I used are as follows: Deep Violet, Lilac, English Lavender, Bright Yellow, Yellow, Lemon Yellow, Brown, Olive Green, Light Green, Deep Red, Pale Rose, Sugar Almond Pink, and the Blender.
For the sentiment, I used the Celebration Scripts stamp set. I stamped out Happy Anniversary onto white cardstock and then used the coordinating dies to die cut the word “Anniversary.” I felt like the white cardstock from the sentiment blended into the background too much, so I decided to color the sentiment with the Yellow and Lemon Yellow Zig pens.
Next, I cut a piece of white cardstock to 5 ½” x 4 ¼” to be used for the bottom layer of the card. Because I wanted to bring out more of the yellow from the sentiment, I used my Yellow Zig pen to color the outside edges of the cardstock to match the sentiment. Finally, I added the panel to an A2 card base and added some of the Sparkling Clear Confetti Mix for some sparkle.
Thank you so much for stopping by today. Have a wonderful day!
Hello friends! It’s Leica here with a circle-shaped card, using a combination of previously-released stamp sets. I used the Spring Wreath stamp set and the Bee Friends stamp sets and their coordinating dies.
To start, I cut a 4.5 inch circle and ink blended it with Kitsch Flamingo Distress Oxide Ink. I sprayed some water to get an oxidized effect and also splattered it with white acrylic paint. I also cut another 4.5 inch circle, ink blended it with Mowed Lawn and Twisted Citron Distress Oxide Inks, and cut with a grass die. I adhered the grass area onto the Kitsch Flamingo panel.
Next, I stamped, colored, and cut the wreath from the Spring Wreath stamp set and bees from the Bee Friends stamp set. I used Copic markers – BG10, N3/1/0, R22/20/00/000, Y15/13/11, YG23/21.
I then adhered the wreath onto the card panel and placed a smaller vellum on top for a softer look. I foam mounted the bees on top of the vellum. The sentiment is white heat embossed on a strip of black cardstock and adhered on the vellum. Lastly, I cut a 5 inch circle in light pink cardstock and adhered onto a card panel.
That’s all for this card. I hope that you like today’s card share and that I’ve inspired you to create a circle-shaped card.
There are so many ways to color up this stencil. So many in fact, that it was overwhelming me so I googled clipart mail to narrow down a color combination I liked best. I often do this when I just can’t seem to get a start.
I liked the brown letter look as it reminded me of packages and getting packages in the mail is fun!
TheLayered Letters stencil is a 3-piece stencil. I started with the most open area stencil and ink blended on a light brown which in my case is Sandy Beach from Gina K Designs.
The next layer of the stencil that I’m going to use has the details of the letters and a little postage mark. I masked off the postage mark with post it tape and ink blended a darker shade of brown, Kraft ink, using a blending brush.
I’ll wipe off the excess ink, remove the post it tape and using a small blending brush, ink up the postage areas with Blue Lagoon ink. Those small blending brushes really help get in those small areas without having to mask everything else off.
Since this background is pretty much my focal point, I’m going to keep the sentiment small.
I’ll be using theSimple Sentiments stamp set. I picked three that I thought went together well and heat embossed them in white embossing powder onto Blue Lagoon cardstock.
After trimming the sentiments down to a thin strip, I can add them to the front of the card using liquid glue which holds up nicely against a textured background.
Hope you enjoyed today’s card and it has inspired you to create! Have a great day!
Hello crafty friends. It’s Lisa Mears here. Today I’m sharing a clean and simple card design featuring the Floral Arch die set.
For my card, I started by using Spectrum Noir Sparkle pens to make a watercolor background. I love how easily these pens blend together while adding a touch of glitter and shine to the background! Next, I cut the panel to 3” x 4”. I die cut the Floral Arch twice from white cardstock and added the die cut to the top right corner and the bottom left corner of the watercolored background. I die cut a Scallop Frame die from white card stock and added it to the top of the watercolored background. Using the white die cuts on the blue watercolored background really makes the card pop!
Hello crafty friends. It’s Leica here today with a fun birthday shaker card. This is simple to recreate and great for mass-producing to have birthday cards in hand to send to friends and loved ones.
I first cut the Birthday Cake Die in gold glitter cardstock that already has adhesive on the back. I got this from the big box store. I then adhere the cover panel onto a 4.25 x 5.5 inch clear acetate to make a window for the shaker. For the background, I used a cardstock that has dot prints. You can also make your own background using the Mini and/or Medium Polka Dots Stencils. For the shaker bits, I used the Cupcake Clay Confetti and Sherbet Clay Confetti. The sentiment is stamped onto a strip of pink cardstock and adhered onto the front of the card. Lastly, I adhered the shaker panel onto an A2 sized card base.
That’s all for this birthday card. I hope that I’ve inspired you to make a shaker card with this previously-released Birthday Cake Die. Have a great day!
Hello crafty friends! It’s Leica here today with a square-shaped card, using the new Layered Spring Flowers stencils and Celebration Scripts stamp set. For this card, I went with a Congratulations to you sentiment. However, I think this design would also make a beautiful card for other occasions.
I started by cutting a 5 inch cardstock in purple and a smaller panel in white cardstock. I then inked through the smaller panel with Distress Oxide Inks – Milled Lavender + Kitsch Flamingo, and Cracked Pistachio + Salvaged Patina. I shifted Layer C to have dots on the negative space of the panel. I adhered the panels together.
Next, I stamped the sentiment using Kitsch Flamingo Distress Oxide Ink on white cardstock and cut with the coordinating die. I then cut a few more of the coordinating die in pink cardstock and adhered them together for a stacked look. I white heat embossed “to you” on a strip of black cardstock and foam mounted it onto the card panel. For added dimension, I adhered Pink Blush Pearls on the center of the flowers. Lastly, I adhered the card panel onto a 5 inch square card base.
That’s all for this card. Thanks for stopping by today! Have a great day!
