Hello, Gemma here today with a summer card to share. I was inspired by the recent Wimbledon tennis coverage in the UK, which goes hand in hand with strawberries.
I began with the Layered Strawberries stencil, blending over each of the 4 layers with distress oxide inks on a piece of 6″ square panel, to build up the lovely strawberries. I then adhered this stencilled panel to a 6″ square card base.
Next, I made some die cut strawberries, using the Fruit Mug Additions set. These are really quick and easy to put together.
For the strawberry pot, I die cut the cake wrapper from the Big Birthday Cupcake set. I also used the ‘celebrate’ banner from the same set. The stick for adding the banner is from the Big Valentine Cupcake set.
To give the strawberries somewhere to sit on the card, I die cut a pearl white Eyelet Circle, adhering in the centre of the card, before adding the pot of strawberries and celebrate banner. I finished by adding a single strawberry sitting at the side of the pot.
I hope this card inspired you to use some of the smaller elements from the cupcake and mug die sets. There are so many great ones packed into those sets!
Hi, friends! It’s Lauren and I am back with a new post and video today. I have been really enjoying the Christmas in July inspiration this month and I wanted to share some non-traditional colors for the holiday with you, too! I’m going to be using a mix of different products but this technique can be easily adapted with a different color scheme, shaker die or theme!
I started with doing some die cutting with the Pierced Snowflakes Die with some light teal cardstock. I then cut it down with the largest Stitched Torn Rectangle Die and the Mitten Shaker Die from the center. This will be the front of our shaker panel. I added some white paint splatter and set it aside to dry.
Using the Mitten Shaker Die, I cut out the mitten and snowflake out of sparkly white cardstock and the Merry Script Die out of green and purple cardstock for the sentiment of the card. When the splatter was dry, I added acetate to the back side of the light teal panel and a piece of purple cardstock to the card base to be the “back” of the shaker.
You can follow along in my video today to see how my shaker is put together, but I added foam adhesive around the back side of the light teal shaker panel to outline around the mitten shaker opening and the shaker bits on the purple cardstock, then sandwiched them inside by adhering the light teal shaker panel to the front of the card base. My shaker bits were made of Aqua Shimmer Confetti Mix, Purple Shimmer Confetti Mix, and Pastel Party Shaker Beads.
I adhered the white mitten die cuts to the front of the card to finish off the shaker opening. My sentiment was layered together so the purple “merry” creates a drop shadow look behind the green and adhered the sentiment to the card.
I hope you had some fun with me today and you’re inspired to get a head start on your holiday card making!
Hey there! It’s Leica, and I’m here to share a berry cute Thank You card with you today featuring the Fresh Berries stamp set. I’m telling you, this card turned out super cute!
To start, I took a 4-inch square white cardstock and blended it with Spun Sugar Distress Oxide Ink. Then, using the Starburst Stencil and Kitsch Flamingo Distress Oxide Ink, I stenciled some fun patterns over it. And to make it even more interesting, I splattered some white ink around.
Next, I stamped and colored the adorable images from the Fresh Berries stamp set. After coloring, I cut them out using their coordinating dies. I used different Copic Sketch Markers: YG67/17/03 for the greens, R29/27/24/22 for the reds, BG15/13/11 for the teals, and Y18 for the yellows.
I used foam tape to attach the stamped images onto the card panel, giving them a nice dimension. Then, for the sentiment, I stamped “Berry Much” on white cardstock using red ink and cut it out using the coordinating die. I also created a few extra pieces and stacked them together for added dimension. To complete the sentiment, I white heat embossed “Thank You” on a strip of black cardstock and foam mounted it on the berry basket. I love the dimension and depth it adds to the card.
Lastly, I glued the card panel onto a 4.25-inch white card base and added some Strawberry Shimmer Mix here and there for a touch of shine and texture.
That’s all for my card! Thanks for stopping by, and I hope I’ve inspired you to create a card with the Fresh Berries stamp set. Happy crafting!
Hi friends, Debbie here with a Christmas in July card. This is my first Christmas card for the year and it’s a cute one!
I started off with my panel doing a ombré red ink blending from the bottom up. Then with the Winter Words Stencil I added Distress Grit Paste Opaque. While waiting for the panel to dry, I stamped and Copic colored the images from Christmas Cupcakes with X-Press It smooth white cardstock with Copic friendly ink in the Misti. Once finished I die cut them out with the Christmas Cupcakes coordinating dies.
My final touch was die cutting out a little Holly from Winter Mug Dieswith red and green card stock. Popping it up with 3D foam squares and the images and sentiment, attach the circles with liquid glue to the panel.
Hello crafty friends, Marine here with you today, I’m glad to be back on the blog to offer you a duo of refreshing fruity summer cards showcasing several products that were released last summer. I love those images very much, and thought it was the perfect timing to use them on cards.
I started off with the Citrus background, and cut a 5,5 x 4,25 inches panel out of kraft cardstock. To make the colors pop on the kraft paper, I first applied a coat of white pigment ink using the three Layered Citrus stencils. Next I layered the stencil #A, and applied squeezed lemonade, twisted citron and dried marigold oxide inks to create the middle of each citrus image. I layered the stencil #B, and applied mustard seed, mowed lawn and carved pumpkin oxide inks to make the peel, and with those same oxide inks and the stencil #C, I created the juicy droplets. To finish my Citrus background, I mixed some copic opaque white ink with water, and used a small brush to make splatters on my panel.
Next I created the Watermelon background, and cut a 5,5 x 4,25 inches kraft panel that I first colored using the three Layered Watermelon stencils along with white pigment to make a base. Next I layered the stencil #A, and applied candied apple oxide ink to make the inside of the fruit. I layered the stencil #B, and applied mowed lawn oxide ink to make the peel, and then layered the stencil #C and applied hickory smoke oxide ink to make the seeds. And to finish my Watermelon background, I mixed some copic opaque white ink with water, and used my small brush again to make splatters all over the panel.
I stamped all my images on the same kraft cardstock as the one I used to make the backgrounds using an alcohol marker friendly black ink, cut them using the matching dies and colored everything using my Spectrum Noir Illustrator markers and my Graph’it brush markers. I used all the stamps from Citrus, all the stamps from Watermelon, and two Fruit Borders.
I stuck my images on the panels using 1mm and 2mm foam squares, added highlights and details using a white gel pen, and then created my greetings. I made them identical, but used different colored cardstock to coordinate with each card: “Hi sweet friend” is from Watermelon, “Summer” is from Summer Drinks, and “Happy” is from Sentiment Strips: Birthday, I just cut one of my stamps to only stamp “Happy”. I used the matching dies and Sentiment Strips die to cut those different pieces, and attached them all on my panels using foam squares. And finally I stuck each panel to a matching A2 kraft card base.
And that’s it! Thanks so much for stopping by, and see you next time!
Hello, Gemma here today with a birthday card featuring the Football Shaker die set. This set can be used both as a shaker or as a simple die cut image, which I’ve done on my card.
I began by die cutting the larger of the two football shaped dies from the set, using two different shades of orange card. I also cut the stitching pieces from white card.
Taking the darker orange football die cut, I trimmed it down to create a smaller shape, which I then adhered to the lighter orange piece. This gives some dimension to the football. I then adhered the white details on top.
Next, I die cut a piece of green card using the Wonky Stitched Squares die set. To add some texture, I flicked the panel with white acrylic paint and left it to dry.
On a 6” square card base, I stamped a greeting from the Sentiment Strips: Birthday stamp set, rotating the card in my stamp positioner and repeat stamping until I had 4 greetings. I then adhered the green wonky stitched square in the center.
Finally, I adhered the football die cut with foam tape to finish my card.
I hope you enjoyed this birthday card idea for a football fan. Thanks for stopping by!
Hi, friends! It’s Lauren and I am back with a new video today. I’m not sure why the Barbie movie was on the brain, but I wanted to take a fun approach to the latest release with lots of PINK! Now, I know girls can play with yellow dump trucks – toys don’t have to be pink. But if Barbie had a construction company, you know they would be all kinds of pink!
I started with cutting the Big Dump Truck Dies and Big Excavator Dies out of different shades of pink and holographic cardstock – the windows were blue and dirt pieces were shades of brown. You can follow along in today’s video if you want to see how I assembled them together.
Next I began stenciling with the Brick Background Stencil on a sheet of A2 white cardstock with Kitsch Flamingo and Picked Raspberry Distress Oxides. I also stenciled the design on the smallest of the Fancy Card Dies. I stamped my sentiment from the Utility Vehicles stamp set with black ink on the A2 piece so it would be covered by the Fancy Card Die piece as this would be the front of my card.
I cut another piece of A2 white cardstock, adhered the small flap of the Fancy Card Die piece to the lower left corner, then adhered my stenciled and stamped piece on top to sandwich the flap in between the layers. I attached the Big Excavatorto the “inside” of the card so that you could see it above the Fancy Card Die piece with 1mm foam adhesive. My Big Dump Truckis adhered to the Fancy Card Die piece with 2mm foam adhesive.
For my die cut sentiment, I cut the Large Hugs Shadow Die – the sentiment in white and the shadow in pink – and trimmed the “u” to make the word “Hi”. I started with trimming the white sentiment, adhered it to the pink shadow, and then trimmed the pink shadow to match. I adhered this to my card as well as some Strawberry Shimmer Confetti Mix around the card for some final shine!
I hope you had fun with this card and can picture Construction Barbie on the job with her personalized trucks!
Hi friends, Christina here. I’m so excited to share these sweet, market-fresh citrus cards with you today. I just love how these mini 4×4 cards turned out, especially the chalkboard-feel of the patterned paper background I made. These came together so quickly that I ended up making two so I could take advantage of all the elements in the super cute Citrus Stamp Set. Let’s get started!
My first step was to stamp the images on white cardstock with black ink and then color them with alcohol ink markers. I then die cut them with the coordinating dies before adding white gel pen highlights.
Next, I created the backgrounds. I started with black cardstock and die cut the medium Eyelet Square twice, one for each background. I masked the eyelet edges with low-tack tape and then stamped the flower and the citrus slices with white pigment ink all across the panels, leaving space for the sentiments in the bottom right corners. Then, I stamped and heat embossed the sentiments with white embossing powder.
To assemble the cards, I attached the background panels to the centers of white cardstock pieces trimmed to 4 x 4 inches. Then, I added small Scallop Squares that I die cut from kraft cardstock to frame up the backgrounds. Lastly, I attached the colored and die cut citrus images with a combination of liquid adhesive and foam squares, overlapping and tucking them here and there for a little dimension. The final detail was to add a few clay confetti pieces from the Bright Rainbow Mix in coordinating colors to each design.
And that’s all there is to this sweet, citrus duo! I hope you’re inspired to make your own mini-fruit cards. By the way, if citrus isn’t your thing, you could easily use any of the fruit stamps in the Pretty Pink Posh Shop. How cute would the cherries be?!?
Welcome to Animal Theme Week!! Hey friends! This is Mindy Eggen with you today to share these adorable toucans with you from the Tropical Toucans stamp set.
To create my card, I stamped the images in an alcohol marker friendly ink and then colored with my copic markers. I used the coordinating die to cut them out.
My toucans needed a tropical background so I used the leaf layer stencil from the Layered Leaves and Flowers stencil set. I used the colors Key Lime and Lucky Clover from Gina K Designs to color in my leaves using a blending brush. Then after removing the stencil I went over the background again so the background wasn’t so stark white.
I trimmed the panel down to 3″ x 4 1/4″ and stamped a sentiment from the Just A Note stamp set. I masked off the sentiment and flicked on some Twisted Citron Distress Spritz. I added my branches with a tape runner and popped up the toucans with foam squares.
To finish off the card, I added foam tape behind my blended panel and added to a side folding card base.
Hi Crafty Friends! Carly here and I love coloring adorable animals but coloring takes me ages so today I have two card designs to share with you…one with no coloring that you can whip up in ten minutes and one with lots of coloring for when you have all the time!
stamp, die cut and color bunches of little images (TIP: when doing a bunch of small images, I like to die cut first and then make a “jig” to put into my MISTI. I die cut the shapes again from a piece of cardstock, put a little low tack tape on the back and put it in my MISTI. Then I position the stamps in my MISTI to stamp in the die cut spots and I can quickly load the blank die cuts into the jig, stamp, remove and load more)
arrange the small images around the puppy in a pile
