Carrie Stamps

Not 2 Shabby Digi Stamp and No Line Coloring

I am so excited about today's card and video because I did a lot of things just outside my comfort zone for my second #not2shabbydigichallenge

Every month I host a challenge for the Not 2 Shabby Digi Design team. For August that challenge is to create a project using a digital stamp that has food in it and use a stencil.  We would LOVE for you to play along with us. Just grab the digital stamp of your choice from the Not 2 Shabby Shop and create a project that also uses a stencil.  When you post your project make sure to use the hashtag #not2shabbydigichallenge. I will then be able to find your project and share it here on my blog. 

I already made a card for this challenge, you can check it out here if you missed it. 

Today's card was inspired by Bitty Penny, who created a card for this challenge that was done with no line coloring on a digital image. I have yet to try this and used her hack to do so. You can see her video right here. 

The image that I chose is brand new in the Not 2 Shabby shop, it is the Pupuccino Digital Stamp.

I wanted to color this image to look like my doggie, Toby. And no line coloring seemed like the perfect way to go. You can see Toby in the picture below. 

While I was making this card my daughter, Hannah staged this photo for me!  I had to include it!  

Another way I went out my comfort zone on this card was to make a one layer card and use masking. I masked the dog and stamped the table cloth with the Flannel Life background stamp and then sponged the background using the Splashes stencil around the dog. 

When making the card front I had a long panel and had to cut it down to 8-3/4" x 4" for my card base.  This left me with a scrap of the gingham stamped piece that I saved to make a pocket on the inside of my card. Perfect for a gift card. 

The sentiment for this card is also a digital image, one I created myself. I have it for you to print and use below. If you can not open the attachment below here is a link to the document so you can have your own Doggone Birthday sentiment. 

 

You can see all my no line coloring and masking in the video below. 

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Also, I'd love to have you play along with our challenge. You can check out the Not 2 Shabby Shop, the digital images available there as well as tons of great stamping supplies from all the companies you love.  If you do play along with our challenge post your card using the hashtag #not2shabbydigichallenge so that I can find your card to post on my blog  on the 14th of September. Remember, just use a digital stamp with food in it from the Not 2 Shabby Shop and a stencil to create your project for this challenge. 

You can see all the supplies I used to make this card below. 

Puppuccino Digital Stamp can be found HERE. 

Pup in a Cup Stamp set can be found HERE.

My Favorite Place to Shop for Copic Markers

 

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Hello, I am back with Episode Four of my stamp set of the month series for August. This month I have shared cards made using the Honey Bee Stamp set, Way to Goat. In this Episode I am making A9 cards, cards that measure 8-1/2" x 5-1/2" when shut. You make one by folding an 8-1/2" x 11" piece of card stock in half. I wanted to do this large sized cards because I wanted to make a card with the barn from the die set, Barn Scene Builder on it. The barn itself is 5-1/2" x 5-1/4", so this A9 sized card allows me to put the barn on the card and have room left for a scene as well. 

I made two cards for this episode, Fall on the Farm and Halloween on the Farm. 

First let's take a look at Fall on the farm. 

I had so much fun playing with fall colors for this card. I love the golden grass colored hill and how it contrasts so well with the blue sky. 

The background was an easy ink blending job with just Speckled Egg Distress Oxide ink. 

I colored images from the Way to Goat Stamp set as well as the Warm Wishes stamp set with Copic Markers. 

I used Brushed Gold card stock for accents on this card and it is such a stunning look. I love that I was even able to make white highlights on it with my white Gelly Roll pen. 

For the sentiment on this card I used the Grateful stamp set and coordinating die set. I love the large brush lettered sentiment mixed with the smaller type font. 

The door opens to reveal a duck and the top window opens to as well, where all the fall apples are being stored. 

Now let's take a look at the Halloween on the farm. 

You can see the layouts of these cards are basically the same. I used Twisted Citron for the Halloween sky. I love a good green sky for a Halloween card with a giant moon.  

Besides the Way to Goat and Warm Wishes stamp set I used two Lawn Fawn stamp sets to add to this scene. I used Happy Harvest for additional pumpkins and the crows. I also used Tiny Halloween for the bats, the spider and images inside my little windows. 

I love having these little interactive windows on my card! 

These giant cards were so much fun to make and fill up with images to create these scenes.  I love the goat walking on the fence and all the fun halloween colors. 

You can watch the making of these cards in the video below, Episode 4. Be sure to click over and watch this on YouTube and leave a comment there for a chance to win one of the cards I made in this video! 

 

 

Did you miss any of the Episodes?  If so you can find each one linked for you below. 

Missed an episode in this series? You can find them all right here:

Episode One: https://youtu.be/nXrdJeQHLQE

Episode Two: https://youtu.be/axzh75Wmi9Y

Episode Three: https://youtu.be/Nnukxg3Vz5w

BONUS video made by me for Scrapbook Pal: https://youtu.be/zWnEBNVql1Q

Below I have listed and linked all the things I used to make today's cards. Including some envelopes that fit A9 sized cards. 

 

 

My favorite place

to shop for Copic Markers

- Scrapbook Pal

 

 

 

 

Affiliate links have been used, at no cost to you. Affiliate links are a collaboration between online shops and makers. When you shop these links the retailer gives a small percentage of the sale to the maker, at no cost to you. It is a great way of supporting your favorite businesses and the makers who inspire you. Thank you for shopping my links. Sharing my creations is my favorite thing to do and you have helped make it possible.

Thank you so much for stopping by!  I will be back on Monday for my Recap post and reveal the September stamp set of the month. 

Hello and welcome to another Spellbinders Blog Hop. We are sharing inspiration today for the August club kits. 

I am featuring the Large Die of the month, 3D Still Life Easel and Canvas, for my two projects. If you want to see this die set in action, the making of the Easel and Canvas watch this video where I show you how to put it all together step by step, as well as share some ideas with this die set. If you are new to the Spellbinders Club Kits you can see all of them here.

Also, along with this hop there are GIVEAWAYS. Here's how you can win. Leave a comment on the blogs as you hop a long, the more you comment the more chances you have at winning at $25 shopping spree to the Spellbinders shop. Also, make sure you leave a comment on the Spellbinders Blog for a chance to win a $50 shopping spree!  Winners will be announced on August 30th!  

Right after making my first easel with this set I knew I wanted to make some Christmas ornaments with it. 

I stared out by making two easels, one in gray the other in Kraft card stock. 

I went through all my Christmas stamp sets and pulled out some I thought would make a fun watercolor looking art piece on this mini canvas. 

I die cut the two canvas pieces from watercolor paper. Then I taped one to my glass mat and spritzed it lightly with water. Then I inked up the largest Poinsettia from the Poinsettia Bust stamp set with Rouge and then just the edges with Velvet ink. Before stamping that down I spritzed it lightly with water. 

I repeated this with the smaller poinsettia and some greenery.  Then I watercolored around the images with Aqualicious ink. 

To finish off the canvas I splattered on some Gold Silk while it was still a bit wet. I set that aside to dry and worked on the second canvas.  Once dry I stamped 
"Joy to the World" in Jet Black ink from the Holiday Joy stamp set. 

For this canvas I first painted the damp watercolor paper with Aqualicious ink. Then I inked up with wise men image with Almond Butter ink and stamped it on the wet paper. The tree image was inked up with Milk Chocolate ink.  Next I added the sentiment with Teal Cave ink, so I knew where would be the best space to add the star. Which I stamped in Hazelnut Ink. 

I finished off this canvas with a splattering of Gold Silk as well. 

After the watercoloring was dry I folded in all the edges to give them that authentic boxy canvas look. 

Then I heated up my Glimmer Hot Foil machine and gave each of these an additional sentiment  that was hot foiled for the addition of shine to bring out the shine of the gold accent piece on the easel.  The glimmer hot foil sets I used are linked for you below. 

I glued the canvases to the easel, so they would be permanently attached. I added some gift twine transforming this easel into an ornament. The gift twine is white with a gold thread running through it. Perfect for both of my ornaments. 

I think these will be so much fun to give to my crafty friends. 

Now it is time to hop along and see what the other designers have created with Spellbinder Club Kits. I know you will find lots of different ideas as there are so many Club Kits that Spellbinders offers. Enjoy and comment along the way for a chance to win at $25 shopping spree to the Spellbinders shop. 

 

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Nichol Spohr
Tina Smith
Carrie Rhoades
Bibi Cameron
Jenny Colacicco
Laurie Willison
Joy Baldwin
Michelle Short
Jean Manis
Hussena Calcuttawala
Jill Hilliard
Virginia Lu
Ilina Crouse
Varada Sharma
Henriëtte van Mierlo

Below I have listed and linked all the things I used to make my ornaments incase you'd like to check them out. 

 

Affiliate links have been used, at no cost to you. Affiliate links are a collaboration between online shops and makers. When you shop these links the retailer gives a small percentage of the sale to the maker, at no cost to you. It is a great way of supporting your favorite businesses and the makers who inspire you. Thank you for shopping my links. Sharing my creations is my favorite thing to do and you have helped make it possible.

Thank you so much for stopping by and letting me share my Christmas creations with you. Don't forget to comment below, let me know which of these ornaments is your favorite and you'll be entered to win at $25 shopping spree to Spellbinders.  I'll be back again soon with more creative ideas for you. 

I am so in love with entire Christmas release over at Spellbinders. They have some AMAMZING new things in dies and glimmer hot foil plates!  Today I am sharing one of my absolute faves!  The Snowflake Sparkle Background Glimmer Hot Foil plate. This plate hot foils an entire A2 sized card front of SNOWFLAKES, leaving an opening in the center for you to add something cute. So many possibilities with this plate. 

I wanted to make old fashioned, traditional cards right way, so that is what I am bringing you today. 

Isn't that snowflake backgrounds so beautiful, I wish you could hold these cards in your hand and turn them in the light to see all the shine of the foil! 

On both of today's cards I also used the Christmas Essential Glimmer Circles on the inside of the circle opening left by the Snowflake background plate. I love the plate with the cross stitch x's. 

The Red and Green foils I used here are both from the Shimmering Holiday Variety Pack, the 4 foils in this pack all have a special effect. Check them out right here. Like a pattern in the foil that creates a variance. 

Isn't this background the perfect spot for a die cut element. I used the Die D-Lite Reindeer set to make this guy. 

For my next card I pulled out my Tux die set for a cute Penguin to be focus of this card. 

I LOVE the snowflake background foiled in black on white!!! 

The sentiments on these cards are from the Holiday Sentiments Series 2 Glimmer Plate Set. I love layering up all the foiling in different configurations. 

I know I will be using this snowflake glimmer plate again and again. It made fast work of these cards and they turned out beautiful!  I'd love to know which is your favorite of these cards. 

Below are all the supplies I used to make these cards, linked so you can easily check them out if you are interested. 

 

Affiliate links have been used, at no cost to you. Affiliate links are a collaboration between online shops and makers. When you shop these links the retailer gives a small percentage of the sale to the maker, at no cost to you. It is a great way of supporting your favorite businesses and the makers who inspire you. Thank you for shopping my links. Sharing my creations is my favorite thing to do and you have helped make it possible.

Thank you so much for taking time out of your day to visit my blog!  I hope you are inspired to play with the amazing new Christmas Glimmer offerings at Spellbinders. 

 

Hey there stamping friends!  I love being able to get multiple uses from my stamp sets, like using my Christmas stamp sets for other occasions. For today’s card I challenged myself to use the Christmoose stamp set  from Dare 2B Artzy to make a fall card. I love the moose in the puffy vest and thought it would be perfect for my autumn challenge.

I knew the key to getting that fall look would be in how I colored in this image. So I took my inspiration from the Autumn Leaves Paper Pack. In this pack one side of the paper is plaid and the other is leaves.

Here you can see all the Copic Markers I used to color my cute moose in fall fashion, to coordinate with the paper.

I added some gel pen high lights to finish off this moose and set to putting my slimline card together.

This slimline card measures 9″ x 8″, scored at 4″, because that best fits the business size envelopes that I have on hand. That means that I cut my plaid paper to 8-3/4″ x 3-3/4″, so it would have a nice border of the card base around it.

To add to my large background I cut leaves from the other side of this paper and added them to enhance the feel of autumn on this card. And, did you know that there are dies that cut out these leaves?!? It’s true, D2BA is cool like that. The Fall Leaves die set not only cuts out the leaves on this paper but there are also THREE stamp sets that you can get to go with this die set! One die set, three stamp sets and printed paper, these are the things that get me excited. The three stamp sets all have a different style of art to make leafy cards with a different feel. There is the Many Thanks stamp set, Give Thanks stamp set, and the Tangle Leaves stamp set. I think these leaves just make the background on this card.

Now my moose needed a place to hang out, so I die cut a circle, stamped it with an image from the Wishing Happiness stamp set for some added interest. I popped up my moose and sentiment with foam squares to this circle. But I still needed something to help ground this circle to the card. In comes the burlap ribbon, hiding away in my stash. One 4 inch piece was the perfect thing to ground my circle to my card and add some fun fall texture to this card. Also in my stash I found some gems that ended up being the perfect details finish off this card.

But we can not forget about the inside of the card! It’s such a big space, there is plenty of room for dressing it up and a hand written message.

I decided to waste not want not and use one of the leaves on the edge of the printed paper to put on the edge of my card. One little fun something on the inside sure makes the card feel complete. I had so much fun playing with this paper and creating a fall scene for my moose!  

I thought you might like to see a Christmas card I made with this set last year. 

Below I have listed and linked all the supplies I used to make my fall card. 

 

ffiliate links have been used, at no cost to you. Affiliate links are a collaboration between online shops and makers. When you shop these links the retailer gives a small percentage of the sale to the maker, at no cost to you. It is a great way of supporting your favorite businesses and the makers who inspire you. Thank you for shopping my links. Sharing my creations is my favorite thing to do and you have helped make it possible.

Thank you so much for stopping by, I love sharing my creations with you!  And, I would love to chat with you! Tell me what you think of today's card?  Do you have stamp sets you have used for other occasions than what they are intended for?  Leave a comment below so we can connect. 

 

 

 

 

Happy Tuesday my stamping friends. I am here to share with you 2 Slimline cards with the August stamp set of the month, Way To Goat by HoneyBee Stamps. 

You all know I am in love with slimline cards. And I thought it would be fun to stack up some goats for a tall slimline card. Goats doing goat yoga!!! And I thought it would also be fun to challenge myself to make a card that does not use the goats at all.

You can watch Episode 3 right HERE. 

Now let's take a look at these fun cards.

The size of slimline cards I make is 9" x 8", scored at 4".  This is what fits in the business sized envelopes that I purchased. Plus, I love having all the space to fill up. I don't know how, but I always seem to easily fill up my slimline and sometimes fun out of room! 

I used all five of the goats from the stamp set for this card. Don't they look so cute doing goat yoga!?!  

I colored in all the images using Copic Marker. I really wanted to color each goat differently. I am in love with the spotted goat at the top. 

The background for this card uses stencils and Distress Oxide ink. It really sets the scene for some morning yoga. 

For card two I chose to use the pig image fro the Way to Goat set and not use any goats. 

Since there is only one pig stamp in this set I used my Gel Press to get a reverse image of this pig. Now I have pigs facing both directions. 

You can see me do this in the video below. 

For this card made custom sentiment. I brainstormed and researched and typed up a bunch of Punny Piggy Sentiments. They are all sized to be die cut using sentiment banners. I have them below for you to use with your piggy stamp sets. Just print them out and die cut or paper cut them to fit your cards. There are two pages. If you are having trouble printing what is below here is a link to the PDF. 

Below is Episode 3 where you can watch the making of this card. 

 

If you are unable to see the video above you can view it on my YouTube channel. 

If you missed the other episodes in this series, they are linked for you below.

Episode One - Lift the Flap Slimline Barn Card

Episode Two - Interactive Barn Shaped Cards

BONUS VIDEO - Way To Goat card I made for Scrapbook Pal

All the supplies I used to make these cards are listed and linked for you below. 

My favorite place to shop for Copic Markers

 

 

 

 

Affiliate links have been used, at no cost to you. Affiliate links are a collaboration between online shops and makers. When you shop these links the retailer gives a small percentage of the sale to the maker, at no cost to you. It is a great way of supporting your favorite businesses and the makers who inspire you. Thank you for shopping my links. Sharing my creations is my favorite thing to do and you have helped make it possible.

By now you probably know that I love Glimmer Hot Foil.  So when Yana Smakula released her Christmas collection I was so excited to get my hands on it and play. Yana is the queen of the Glimmer Hot Foil system so I knew her line would be amazing. 

For today's cards I am using 3 products from her new line; Glimmer Winter Village, Yana's Christmas Sentiments, the Glimmer Gift Border. I also used another plate from her line that is on one of my faves, Polka Dot Strip. 

I love playing with color for Christmas cards. Changing up one color like using pink instead of red gives a different feel to these cards. I think they have a bit of a retro look to them. 

This first card uses both of the village scene plates and the snow plate to create mini scenes for each scene on the ends of this slimline card. 

The snow plate is unique in that it fits around each of the village dies . See the wonky edges, one side of this plate fits perfectly around the lodge looking building and the other side of the snow plate fits around the smaller village buildings. Genius!  

I used Magenta foil on Bubble Gum card stock and Viridian Green on Lemongrass card stock. I die cut these images with a circle die and backed them with a darker card stock, Sweet Berry and Kiwi Slice. 

For the sentiment I hot foiled Happy Holidays from Yana's Christmas sentiments, in Polished Brass foil onto Brushed Gold card stock. I am LOVING this look!  The All is Calm, All is Bright is also from Yana's Christmas Sentiments and I used the same Polished Brass foil to foil this part of the sentiment on Whip Cream card stock. I backed the brushed gold circle in Mirror Gold card stock for an eye catching focal point to this card. 

The village pieces are glued down to 9" x 4" panel that I hot foiled with the Polka Dot Strip plate and Opal foil. I popped up the sentiment circle in the center. To finish it off I tied on some Gift Wrap twine. 

For this card I used the new Glimmer Gift Border plate to hot foil a long border down the side of my slimline card front (8-3/4" x 3-3/4") in Polished Brass foil. 

I then used some Distress Ink (Mowed Lawn and Picked Raspberry) to watercolor in a few of the presents. 

Another circle sentiment for the focal point of this card, using Merry Christmas from all of us, a combination of 3 plates from Yana's Christmas Sentiments. The plate for "from" has tabs that fit into notches on the "all of us" plate. Which makes it really easy to hot foil them together, but you also have the option to foil them separately. 

I added some more twine and embellishments from the All the Things pack. 

I am in love with making Slimline cards right now and have a goal to send out all Slimline cards for Christmas this year, or mostly all.  

You can watch the making of these cards and see Yana's collection in action right here. 

 

If you do not see the video above you can also view it right here. 

Below I have listed and linked all the things used to make today's cards. 

 

 

Affiliate links have been used, at no cost to you. Affiliate links are a collaboration between online shops and makers. When you shop these links the retailer gives a small percentage of the sale to the maker, at no cost to you. It is a great way of supporting your favorite businesses and the makers who inspire you. Thank you for shopping my links. Sharing my creations is my favorite thing to do and you have helped make it possible.

Thank you so much for stopping by. I love sharing my creations with you. I will be back again very soon with another creation for fall this time!  

Hello!  Today I am hopping along with some talented designers showcasing new products from Not 2 Shabby's fall release. I am featuring the stamp set, You, Me and Pumpkin Spice. This is a YouTube hop with giveaways to the Not 2 Shabby shop, so make sure you click over and check out my video and leave a comment on each video in the hop to be entered to win. To find all the videos you just search the hashtag #N2SFALLRELEASE on YouTube. 

You can watch my video right here. 

Here are the two cards I made in today's video. I challenged myself to see if I could use all the stamps in the You, Me and Pumpkin Spice stamp set. And I did!  

This first card features the little squirrels from the set. I colored them in with Copic Markers. 

And did some ink blending over stamped images from the featured stamp set with Wild Honey and Barn Door Distress Oxide inks. 

The touch of burlap really adds to the fall feel of this card and I love different textures on my creations. 

For the second card I used the girl image as the focal point. 

I think she is so cute in her leggings and slouchy sweater. 

I thought the colors for this card were so fun for fall. 

I love the yellow ombre background on this card with simple clear embossing on each panel and a bit of Warm Sunshine shimmer spray over the top. 

Watch the making of these cards in the video below and make sure to click over and comment on each video in the hop for a chance to win one of three gift certificates to the Not 2 Shabby shop. 

If you can not see video above you can find it here.

All the Supplies I used to make these cards are linked for you below. 

My Favorite Place to shop for Copic Markers

You Me and Pumpkin Spice Stamp Set

 

 

Affiliate links have been used, at no cost to you. Affiliate links are a collaboration between online shops and makers. When you shop these links the retailer gives a small percentage of the sale to the maker, at no cost to you. It is a great way of supporting your favorite businesses and the makers who inspire you. Thank you for shopping my links. Sharing my creations is my favorite thing to do and you have helped make it possible.

Thank you so much for stopping by and hopping along with this YouTube hop. I hope you find inspiration along the way. See you again very soon with more crafty ideas! 

 

Hey there my stamping friends!  I am so excited today to be sharing my first Halloween creation for this year! I love the fun color combinations and fun images there are to play with this time of year!  And for some reason I love spider webs and spider images. BUT NOT THE REAL THING!!! So, I was thrilled to be creating with the Spider Web corner die set that Spellbinders just released!  It's a two piece die set with a great price point!  And I can mix it with all my other Halloween products, love that! 

I decided to make a shaker card with this frame set and a coordinating tag that is a shaker too. Take a look at these awesome die set!  You can also see these projects being made in this video. 

This die set links together to make the coolest frame!  

I adhered my die cut frame and connecter pieces to a sheet of vellum with an oval die cut from the center to make the frame for the front of this shaker card. 

To make my pumpkin glow I inked it up with a rich yellow, Summer Day ink and then inked only the edges with a Rock and Roll technique, with Tangerine Fusion ink.  This pumpkin is from the Hey Boo stamp set. Had to have this set because of the cute cat and spider in it, so, I will be using this set again soon! 

Behind my shaker is an ink blended and splattered background. It's perfect for my halloween shaker elements. Which are seasonal confetti I found at the Dollar Tree. But to make it even more special I added some Silver Shavings Glass Glitter to the mix!!! 

Now let's take a look at the tag. 

I used just the connector piece to make little halloween wrapped candies. 

The shaker tag was made using the Special Day Tag die set. I use this die set a lot. It has a lot of great dies, I love this tag because I can make a frame and create a shaker tag. 

On both of these shakers I hot foiled a sentiment because I got the new Spooky Greetings set for just this thing, adding glimmer hot foil sentiments to my Halloween projects!  
So, what do you think of using this piece to make candies??? 

You can see the making of these projects in the video below. 

 

If you can not see the above video on this scene, here is a link to view it on YouTube. 

Below I have listed and linked all the things I used to make these projects. 

 

 

Affiliate links have been used, at no cost to you. Affiliate links are a collaboration between online shops and makers. When you shop these links the retailer gives a small percentage of the sale to the maker, at no cost to you. It is a great way of supporting your favorite businesses and the makers who inspire you. Thank you for shopping my links. Sharing my creations is my favorite thing to do and you have helped make it possible.

Thank you so much for stopping by, I love creating for Halloween and sharing it with you! 

 

Hello!  It's Tuesday and time for Episode 2 of my Way To Goat stamp set of the month series! 

In this Episode I am making shape cards with the Barn Scene Builder die set, that are also interactive. 

Both of these cards have interactive elements and fun going on on the outside as well as the inside of the card. 

This barn shaped card has a door that you can open to get a peak at the inside of the card. 

To see the entire scene open the card all the way. 

I love the pig and little chick in the hay loft that. 

For this card I colored in my images with colored pencils. I use the Professional Colored Pencils by Arteza. I love these pencils because they are such a great quality for such a great price! 

For the second card I use the same pencils but did no line coloring. 

This shape card has a sliding barn door. And two shaker windows. 

You slide the barn door open to see the shaker window, which has hay and baby chicks jumping around. The smaller top window is the second shaker window. 

This card also opens for more fun animals from this set. 

These barn shaped cards measure 5" x 5". I chose to hinge two die cut barns together of the left side to make these shape cards. The hinge is 2" x 1/2" score at 1/4". 

You can see the making of these cards in Episode 2 below.

 

If you can not see the video on this screen you can watch it on my YouTube channel right HERE. 

If you did not catch Episode One, a Slimline Lift the Flap card you can catch that one right HERE. 

Be sure to click over to my YouTube channel and leave a comment on the video for a chance to win one of the cards from this video! 

All the supplies used to make todays cards are listed and linked for you below. 

My favorite place to shop for Copic Markers

 

 

Affiliate links have been used, at no cost to you. Affiliate links are a collaboration between online shops and makers. When you shop these links the retailer gives a small percentage of the sale to the maker, at no cost to you. It is a great way of supporting your favorite businesses and the makers who inspire you. Thank you for shopping my links. Sharing my creations is my favorite thing to do and you have helped make it possible.

Thank you so much for stopping by for Episode 2, I will be back next Tuesday for more ideas with this stamps set! 

Hello there! I am back today sharing another layering Glimmer Hot Foil set, Especially For You. This set foils a flower, has a die to cut that out and a die to add a layer to this flower. This results in a beautiful layered flower and one of the layers is shining foil!  

To go with your flowers there is a leaf to hot foil and a die to cut it out. There are also 3 stand alone dies that die cut a small branch of leaves and the other two pieces to create another smaller flower to accent your larger hot foiled and layered flower.  And besides the cute flowers in this set there is a large sentiment, FOR YOU, that you hot foil. To build on that sentiment there are 4 supporting sentiments you can foil to go with it; Heartfelt Thoughts, I will do anything, On your birthday, and Especially.  

The Glimmer Hot Foil plates are shown in the tan and the dies are shown in the gray. 

I used SO many colors of foil. I wanted a colored card stock and coordinating foil for each of the flowers on this card. I think it is so cute to dress up the letters on this sentiment with the layered flowers and leaves. 

Take a look at the edge of this card. I created this tone on tone look using Opal Foil and the Gilded Frames Hot Foil plate set. 

I am in LOVE with that Opal Foil, it is a clear foil that leaves behind an opal or pearlized finish. 

You can see this card being made right here. 

If you can not see the video above you can view it on YouTube right here. 

 

This card is part two of my layering Glimmer Hot Foil videos. Below you can see the card I made with another layering Glimmer Hot Foil set, Glimmered Botanicals. It's an amazing set that makes the most stunning flowers!

 

If you did not catch the video for the Glimmered Botanical card it is right here. 

Thank you so much for watching. If you have any questions about Glimmer Hot Foil, do not hesitate to ask. And, I have a lot more Glimmer Hot Foiling videos you might find helpful. You can check them out right here. 

All the supplies to make these cards are listed and linked for you below. 

 

 

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Thank you so much for stopping by and letting me share my love of Glimmer Hot Foiling with you!  

 

 

I have a new favorite Glimmer Hot Foil plate set!!!!! It is the Glimmered Botanical set. This set not only has glimmer hot foil plates in it, but it has die to cut out the florals and other dies that create layering pieces for those florals. The result is stunning multi-layered flowers. You have to see how it works, that's why I have a video of the making of this card. 

See how stunning these flowers are with layers of card stock and foil!  Let me break down how this works. 

Here are 3 pieces from this set, used to make the largest flower.  Starting with the plate at the top of this picture.  This is a glimmer plate. Hot foil this piece. On my card I hot foiled this with Magenta Foil on Watermelon Fusion card stock.  Then I used the die, the middle piece in this picture to die cut that out.  When die cuts the flower there will still be card stock showing around the hot foiled area.  This gives it more of a layered look. Set this aside and die cut the piece at the bottom of this picture to layer over the first piece. I die cut mine from Bubble Gum card stock. This creates the middle layer, adding more detail to the flower. Now let's talk about the center of the flower.

The top plate in this photo is the glimmer plate. You can die cut out this glimmered piece from either of the dies shown below it. The one on the left creates the center for the large flower I discussed above. The die on the right die cuts half of the glimmer plate, creating the center for the medium flower. Show in the photo below in orange and blue. 

Here are the dies and plate used to make the medium flower. 

The top piece is the glimmer hot foil plate. I used Tangerine Foil and Tangerine Fusion card stock to make my medium flower. Then I die cut it using the die shown in the center of this picture.  The bottom die was die cut from Citrus Cooler card stock and mounted over the top of the glimmered flower. Then the center piece was added (using the center piece shown above with the half die) with a foam square to finish off the medium flower. 

There is also a glimmer plate and die to make the small flower. And for the leaves there is one glimmer plate and two dies. One die cuts out the entire glimmered leaf the other cuts out a smaller portion making a smaller leaf. This gives you two different sizes leaves to create your floral arrangement. 

Now let's chat about the background on this card!!! If you look closely you can see a subtle shine of dots. I used Opal foil and the Scattered Dots glimmer hot foil plate to create this.  The Opal foil is clear with a pearlized finish. It's the coolest foil!  Because it is clear, the color of the card stock shows through and the pattern of the plate is now a pearlized look. I also used the Opal foil to foil my sentiment on black card stock!  You can see it in action in the video below where I show you how I made this card using the Glimmered Botanical set. 

If you like the layered glimmer hot foil look come back again tomorrow. I am sharing the Especially For You Glimmer Plate set which does the same thing, on a smaller scale. 

Below I have listed and linked all the things I used to make this card. 

 

 

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Thank you so much for stopping by and letting me share this card with you. I love the Glimmered Botanical set soooo much and was so excited to show it to you. See you again tomorrow for another look at a layering Glimmer Hot Foil set! 

Hello there stamping friends. I am back with another Dare 2B Artzy project for you. It features the Christmas Puppy stamp set! I love it because it looks like my puppy, Toby!  So the first card I made, I colored to look like him. Which by the way, Toby turned 1 yesterday!!! (Copic used to color puppy: E53, E13, E11)

So cute, right! I love the little supporting images in this set that let you dress up your puppy for Christmas!  

I used the Snow Much Fun paper pack for the background of my shaker. And my shaker elements have been in my stash for about 100 years. They are clear micro beads. And they sounds amazing in a shaker by the way!  I added in a few iridescent heart confetti pieces too, which were also in my shaker drawer for an amount of time that equates with me not knowing where they came from. And Yes, I have a shaker drawer, with things I have collected to use to make shaker cards. That is how much I love to make shakers. 

For my second card I used the negative piece from around the circle I die cut out for the first card. 

I colored this puppy to look like one of Toby's friends, Archie. Both are Cockapoo's and in my opinion, adorable. I thought you might want see a picture of my coloring inspiration.  (Copic used: E19, E15, E13)

Now let's take a look at the video making of these cards. 

 

Below are the supplies I used to make these cards.

My favorite place to shop for Copic Markers

 

   

 

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Thank you so much for stopping by and letting me share this cute puppy stamp set with you! I'll be back again soon with more card creations! 

 

Hello and welcome to my August Stamp Set of the Month series. This month I will be featuring the Honey Bee Stamps set, Way to Goat. 

It is a huge set and is going to be so much fun to play with as we wind up summer and look forward to fall. 

To make this card I used the Build a Barn die set, also by Honey Bee to make some DIY flaps on the front panel. 

Inside the barn doors are little scenes with goats and a fun sentiment that builds as you open each one. 

The backgrounds of each scene were ink blended with the new Speckled Egg Distress Oxide ink and a splash of water.  So quick and easy. 

All of the backgrounds have die cut bails of hay as well. Which is just one of the dies from the Build a Barn die set. I give them more interest I used Copic Markers to add shadows. 

I love that there are 5 different goats in this set, so you can create unique scenes. Plus all the little farm animals that you can add in with them and punny sentiments. It really is a great stamp set!  

You can see how I made these barn door flaps in the video below.  

 

 

I also have a video up on the ScrapbookPal.com YouTube channel today featuring this stamp set, you can watch that video right HERE.

I have listed and linked all the supplies I used for you below: 

My Favorite Place to shop for Copic Markers

 

 

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Thank you so much for stopping by and checking out Episode One of my August Stamp Set of the Month series. I will be back next Tuesday with Episode Two, to share more ideas with this stamp set!  See you then, if now sooner, so many crafty things cooking up in my studio! 

 

I can't put it down!  I am in love with the Glimmer Hot Foil Kit of the month for August! It's such a fun crafty themed plate set, and is named Have a Crafty Day!  This month's kit comes with my favorite foil color, Aura!  

With this month's kit you can make the cutest cards for all your crafty friends. It included a background plate and 3 sentiments too!  There are also add ons that coordinate with this plate set; an additional Hot Foil plate set called Crafty Sentiments and a Stamp and Die set called Craft Happy.  

Let's take a look at the six cards. 

For all of the cards I used Gel Press prints that I had on hand, I have SO many that is feels so productive to use them up. Do you have a stash of background that you've made, waiting to be used? 

Card One

It's a shaker card, you know they are my favorite!  I use the background plate to foil over a gel press print in Aura Foil creating a stunning background for my sequins and shrinky dinks to glide across. 

I did say shrinky dinks!  I used the Craft Happy stamp and die set to create a paint brush, scissors and tube of pain to add a surprise to my shaker card. My friend Steph Williams has a few shaker cards that she made with shrink images and I have been dying to give it a go for so long now. I have made tons of shrink images but not for a shaker card and I am IN LOVE with it! 

The Have a Crafty Birthday sentiment is from the GOM Kit. 

Card Two 

Look at this background, made using a print that my friend Cassie Trask sent me in a background swap we did. It's pretty yummy, thanks Cassie! So, I thought it fitting that this card would have the "Crafty Friend" sentiment on it!  "Crafty Friend" is from the Crafty Sentiment plate set. 

I used image from the Craft Happy stamp set to embellish this card, I LOVE that ruler image. I colored all my images, including the shrink plastic with Copic Markers. 

The foil I used on this card is called Prism. The Aura and Prism foil are very much a like, they are both iridescent, the difference is that Aura has a gold tone and Prism has a silver tone. 

Card Three

For this background strip on this card I used Opal foil. This foil is unlike any of the others. It is clear with an iridescent pearl finish!  So, what ever color of card stock you foil it on the color of the card stock will show through and the images will be pearlized!  It's magical, trust me! 

The sentiment is another from the GOM kit, I foiled it using Magenta foil. This handmade for you sentiment would be great foiled on the back of every card I make, right?! 

And I have to say the dauber image, perfect! I just think it is so cute. 

Card Four

Again, I used Prism foil on this card, for the background and for the sentiment. I think this is my favorite of the sentiments from the GOM Kit!  I die cut the sentiment using the Essentials Circle die set. It die cuts circles as well as the intricate dotted circle. It is the only circle die set I used to make these cards. I also used it to make the frame around the sentiment on card five, below.

Card Five

For this card I hot foiled the sentiment in two colors of foil because in the plate sets the script sentiment and the typed sentiment are separate plates, so you can have fun with it! I used Aura and Magenta foils on this light orange card stock.   Let's Get Crafty is from the Crafty Sentiments Plate Set. 

Card Six

Another shaker card with shrinky dinks!  I was not sure the roll of twine would be easily recognizable in the shrunk down form. So the idea came to me to repeat the shrink images on the front of the card.  

For my main shaker element I used Spakle Cuts, because a crafter who gets this card is going to appreciate the shrink image, glitter, foiling, a gel press background, a shaker, Copic colored images and all the love that went into this card. 

Take a close look at the sentiment on this card, from the Crafty Sentiments plate set, I used Rainbow Foil!!! Another fave of mine. 

You can see the GOM Kit and the Add Ons in action in the video below. 

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Want to learn more about making Gel Press Prints, check out these videos. 

All the things I used to make today's card are listed and linked for you below. 

My favorite place to shop for Copic Markers

 

 

 

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Thank you so much for stopping by today and letting me share all the fun I had using the new Glimmer Hot Foil kit of the month. I will be back again very soon with an all new Stamp Set of the Month series! 

Happy Sunday to you!  I have some exciting news!  I am officially a member to of the Dare 2B Artzy design team!  They put out a call about a month or so ago and I submitted an application.  I was thrilled when they offered me the spot and accepted right away.  You may have seen me play with their images before, so I already know I love their cute stamps and the quality of their products.  So, you will now start to see me share creations more often with this fun products. 

My first project on the team was to create a card for the August Dare 2B Artzy challenge. It was so fun because this month the theme is, Anything Goes!  

You can see the Dare 2B Artzy blog post with all the designers creations and all the play along rules HERE. You will want to play along because there is a PRIZE!!! 

Now let's take a look at the card I made for this challenge. 

I used a CUTE set, Honey Bees, because I love the style that these bears are drawn in. You may have seen my recent Christmas card with another set, Skisons Greetings, with bears in this same style! I think they are darling and just love their little cheeks! I colored in all the stamped images with Copic Markers. 

 

You can see here all the markers I used to color in these images. They were so fun to color, I made each bear a different shade, just as we are all different shades. 

Now let's chat about slimline cards. There are no set sizes for these cards, you just want your card to fit into a business size envelope.  The business size envelops I purchased, at the Dollar Tree, are 9-1/2" x 4-1/4".  So I make my slimline cards 9" x 8", scored at 4".  But it is nice that these is wiggle room with these cards, so that you can fit what you are creating on to a card.  

To create the front panel of this card (8-3/4" x 3-3/4") I die cut three circles using my D2BA circle dies. These dies cut out a circle with piercing and leave piercing behind where you cut out the circle!  LOVE that! 

To help me get them placed evenly I used a T-square ruler to find the center of the card, drawing a center line from top to bottom and side to side as well. I put my circle die over the center of the card first, lining it up so the cross hairs were centered in the die. After die cutting this it was easy to cut the top and bottom circles.  

I went through all my D2BA papers and picked out 3 patterns that I liked for this card that would go with how I colored up the images. I cut these to fit behind the circles and glued them onto my card base. 

I stamped the sentiment on the yellow patterned paper with Totally Black ink and set that aside to work on the front panel.  I arranged all my die cut images and then stamped the small bee all around randomly for a little something to make the empty spaces have a bit more interest. With all my images in place, I adhered the front panel to the card with foam tape. 

I just had to add one of the sentiments from this set to the inside of my card!  It says, " A day without a friend like you is like a pot without a single drop of honey - Winnie the Pooh" I adore Pooh bear, so I had to add it. And I wanted to dress it up a bit, so I hand drew some drip and cut them out to glue to the top of the inside of the card. A few stamped bees finished off the look. 

Now it’s your turn!! I'd love for you to play along with the challenge! 

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 Most importantly….HAVE FUN!

I have listed and linked the fun things from Dare 2B Artzy that I used to make this card for you below.

 

 

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Thank you so much for stopping by, I look forward to sharing more of my creations with you soon!

Hello my crafty friends. Can you believe it is August 1st?  The exciting thing about the first is that is when the new Club Kits from Spellbinders are revealed! 

I love sharing the Large Die of the month with you. What I love about getting this die of the month is that is challenges me creatively.  I end up making things I never thought of making because I am getting something new a different every month. 

This month's die set creates a 3D project! It is the 3D Still Life Easel and Canvas die set. You get dies to make a 3D standing easel from card stock!  And a canvas!  It is so crazy cute! 

Here is a look at the Easel and Canvas that I made. 

This is just so cute and not hard to make either. This die set also comes with the little accent pieces like the paint palette and paint brush!  Take a quick look at the entire 12 piece die set. 

Don't be intimidated by all the pieces, in the video below I show you how to easily put this easel and canvas together! And look at all the fun extra dies you get to help you create an artsy look.

After making my first Easel and Canvas I wanted to think outside the box and see what else I could create with the dies from this set. 

I am a card maker, so I wanted to incorporate elements of this set into a card. 

For this slimline card I used the canvas to make mini shadow boxes. It's just the canvas flipped over. And three of these fit perfectly on my slimline card. This slimline card measures 9" x 8" and is scored at 4".  This size fits perfectly in the business sized envelopes I purchased, at the Dollar Tree! 

For my background I used a Gel Press Print from my stash. If you are not familiar with Gel Press Printing, you can check out my videos making prints right HERE. I use my Glimmer Hot Foil machine and the More Sentiments Plate set to create the sentiment for this card.  If you'd like to check out more Glimmer Hot Foil videos I have a bunch right HERE. 

To see this die set in action and how to put together this easel and canvas check out my video below, it is easier than you think! 

 

All the things I used to make today's card are listed and linked for you below. 

My favorite place to shop for Copic Markers

 

 

Affiliate links have been used, at no cost to you. Affiliate links are a collaboration between online shops and makers. When you shop these links the retailer gives a small percentage of the sale to the maker, at no cost to you. It is a great way of supporting your favorite businesses and the makers who inspire you. Thank you for shopping my links. Sharing my creations is my favorite thing to do and you have helped make it possible.

Thank you so much for stopping by and letting me share this fun new die set with you. I'll be back again very soon for some more crafty fun!  

 

Way To Goat Episode Four

Hello, I am back with Episode Four of my stamp set of the month series for August. This month I have shared cards made using the Honey Bee Stamp set, Way to Goat. In this Episode I am making A9 cards, cards that measure 8-1/2" x 5-1/2" when shut. You make one by folding an 8-1/2" x 11" piece of card stock in half. I wanted to do this large sized cards because I wanted to make a card with the barn from the die set, Barn Scene Builder on it. The barn itself is 5-1/2" x 5-1/4", so this A9 sized card allows me to put the barn on the card and have room left for a scene as well. 

I made two cards for this episode, Fall on the Farm and Halloween on the Farm. 

First let's take a look at Fall on the farm. 

I had so much fun playing with fall colors for this card. I love the golden grass colored hill and how it contrasts so well with the blue sky. 

The background was an easy ink blending job with just Speckled Egg Distress Oxide ink. 

I colored images from the Way to Goat Stamp set as well as the Warm Wishes stamp set with Copic Markers. 

I used Brushed Gold card stock for accents on this card and it is such a stunning look. I love that I was even able to make white highlights on it with my white Gelly Roll pen. 

For the sentiment on this card I used the Grateful stamp set and coordinating die set. I love the large brush lettered sentiment mixed with the smaller type font. 

The door opens to reveal a duck and the top window opens to as well, where all the fall apples are being stored. 

Now let's take a look at the Halloween on the farm. 

You can see the layouts of these cards are basically the same. I used Twisted Citron for the Halloween sky. I love a good green sky for a Halloween card with a giant moon.  

Besides the Way to Goat and Warm Wishes stamp set I used two Lawn Fawn stamp sets to add to this scene. I used Happy Harvest for additional pumpkins and the crows. I also used Tiny Halloween for the bats, the spider and images inside my little windows. 

I love having these little interactive windows on my card! 

These giant cards were so much fun to make and fill up with images to create these scenes.  I love the goat walking on the fence and all the fun halloween colors. 

You can watch the making of these cards in the video below, Episode 4. Be sure to click over and watch this on YouTube and leave a comment there for a chance to win one of the cards I made in this video! 

 

 

Did you miss any of the Episodes?  If so you can find each one linked for you below. 

Missed an episode in this series? You can find them all right here:

Episode One: https://youtu.be/nXrdJeQHLQE

Episode Two: https://youtu.be/axzh75Wmi9Y

Episode Three: https://youtu.be/Nnukxg3Vz5w

BONUS video made by me for Scrapbook Pal: https://youtu.be/zWnEBNVql1Q

Below I have listed and linked all the things I used to make today's cards. Including some envelopes that fit A9 sized cards. 

 

 

My favorite place

to shop for Copic Markers

- Scrapbook Pal

 

 

 

 

Affiliate links have been used, at no cost to you. Affiliate links are a collaboration between online shops and makers. When you shop these links the retailer gives a small percentage of the sale to the maker, at no cost to you. It is a great way of supporting your favorite businesses and the makers who inspire you. Thank you for shopping my links. Sharing my creations is my favorite thing to do and you have helped make it possible.

Thank you so much for stopping by!  I will be back on Monday for my Recap post and reveal the September stamp set of the month. 

Spellbinders August Club Kit Hop

Hello and welcome to another Spellbinders Blog Hop. We are sharing inspiration today for the August club kits. 

I am featuring the Large Die of the month, 3D Still Life Easel and Canvas, for my two projects. If you want to see this die set in action, the making of the Easel and Canvas watch this video where I show you how to put it all together step by step, as well as share some ideas with this die set. If you are new to the Spellbinders Club Kits you can see all of them here.

Also, along with this hop there are GIVEAWAYS. Here's how you can win. Leave a comment on the blogs as you hop a long, the more you comment the more chances you have at winning at $25 shopping spree to the Spellbinders shop. Also, make sure you leave a comment on the Spellbinders Blog for a chance to win a $50 shopping spree!  Winners will be announced on August 30th!  

Right after making my first easel with this set I knew I wanted to make some Christmas ornaments with it. 

I stared out by making two easels, one in gray the other in Kraft card stock. 

I went through all my Christmas stamp sets and pulled out some I thought would make a fun watercolor looking art piece on this mini canvas. 

I die cut the two canvas pieces from watercolor paper. Then I taped one to my glass mat and spritzed it lightly with water. Then I inked up the largest Poinsettia from the Poinsettia Bust stamp set with Rouge and then just the edges with Velvet ink. Before stamping that down I spritzed it lightly with water. 

I repeated this with the smaller poinsettia and some greenery.  Then I watercolored around the images with Aqualicious ink. 

To finish off the canvas I splattered on some Gold Silk while it was still a bit wet. I set that aside to dry and worked on the second canvas.  Once dry I stamped 
"Joy to the World" in Jet Black ink from the Holiday Joy stamp set. 

For this canvas I first painted the damp watercolor paper with Aqualicious ink. Then I inked up with wise men image with Almond Butter ink and stamped it on the wet paper. The tree image was inked up with Milk Chocolate ink.  Next I added the sentiment with Teal Cave ink, so I knew where would be the best space to add the star. Which I stamped in Hazelnut Ink. 

I finished off this canvas with a splattering of Gold Silk as well. 

After the watercoloring was dry I folded in all the edges to give them that authentic boxy canvas look. 

Then I heated up my Glimmer Hot Foil machine and gave each of these an additional sentiment  that was hot foiled for the addition of shine to bring out the shine of the gold accent piece on the easel.  The glimmer hot foil sets I used are linked for you below. 

I glued the canvases to the easel, so they would be permanently attached. I added some gift twine transforming this easel into an ornament. The gift twine is white with a gold thread running through it. Perfect for both of my ornaments. 

I think these will be so much fun to give to my crafty friends. 

Now it is time to hop along and see what the other designers have created with Spellbinder Club Kits. I know you will find lots of different ideas as there are so many Club Kits that Spellbinders offers. Enjoy and comment along the way for a chance to win at $25 shopping spree to the Spellbinders shop. 

 

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Nichol Spohr
Tina Smith
Carrie Rhoades
Bibi Cameron
Jenny Colacicco
Laurie Willison
Joy Baldwin
Michelle Short
Jean Manis
Hussena Calcuttawala
Jill Hilliard
Virginia Lu
Ilina Crouse
Varada Sharma
Henriëtte van Mierlo

Below I have listed and linked all the things I used to make my ornaments incase you'd like to check them out. 

 

Affiliate links have been used, at no cost to you. Affiliate links are a collaboration between online shops and makers. When you shop these links the retailer gives a small percentage of the sale to the maker, at no cost to you. It is a great way of supporting your favorite businesses and the makers who inspire you. Thank you for shopping my links. Sharing my creations is my favorite thing to do and you have helped make it possible.

Thank you so much for stopping by and letting me share my Christmas creations with you. Don't forget to comment below, let me know which of these ornaments is your favorite and you'll be entered to win at $25 shopping spree to Spellbinders.  I'll be back again soon with more creative ideas for you. 

Glimmer Snowflake Sparkle Background

I am so in love with entire Christmas release over at Spellbinders. They have some AMAMZING new things in dies and glimmer hot foil plates!  Today I am sharing one of my absolute faves!  The Snowflake Sparkle Background Glimmer Hot Foil plate. This plate hot foils an entire A2 sized card front of SNOWFLAKES, leaving an opening in the center for you to add something cute. So many possibilities with this plate. 

I wanted to make old fashioned, traditional cards right way, so that is what I am bringing you today. 

Isn't that snowflake backgrounds so beautiful, I wish you could hold these cards in your hand and turn them in the light to see all the shine of the foil! 

On both of today's cards I also used the Christmas Essential Glimmer Circles on the inside of the circle opening left by the Snowflake background plate. I love the plate with the cross stitch x's. 

The Red and Green foils I used here are both from the Shimmering Holiday Variety Pack, the 4 foils in this pack all have a special effect. Check them out right here. Like a pattern in the foil that creates a variance. 

Isn't this background the perfect spot for a die cut element. I used the Die D-Lite Reindeer set to make this guy. 

For my next card I pulled out my Tux die set for a cute Penguin to be focus of this card. 

I LOVE the snowflake background foiled in black on white!!! 

The sentiments on these cards are from the Holiday Sentiments Series 2 Glimmer Plate Set. I love layering up all the foiling in different configurations. 

I know I will be using this snowflake glimmer plate again and again. It made fast work of these cards and they turned out beautiful!  I'd love to know which is your favorite of these cards. 

Below are all the supplies I used to make these cards, linked so you can easily check them out if you are interested. 

 

Affiliate links have been used, at no cost to you. Affiliate links are a collaboration between online shops and makers. When you shop these links the retailer gives a small percentage of the sale to the maker, at no cost to you. It is a great way of supporting your favorite businesses and the makers who inspire you. Thank you for shopping my links. Sharing my creations is my favorite thing to do and you have helped make it possible.

Thank you so much for taking time out of your day to visit my blog!  I hope you are inspired to play with the amazing new Christmas Glimmer offerings at Spellbinders. 

 

Fall Christmoose Slimline Card

Hey there stamping friends!  I love being able to get multiple uses from my stamp sets, like using my Christmas stamp sets for other occasions. For today’s card I challenged myself to use the Christmoose stamp set  from Dare 2B Artzy to make a fall card. I love the moose in the puffy vest and thought it would be perfect for my autumn challenge.

I knew the key to getting that fall look would be in how I colored in this image. So I took my inspiration from the Autumn Leaves Paper Pack. In this pack one side of the paper is plaid and the other is leaves.

Here you can see all the Copic Markers I used to color my cute moose in fall fashion, to coordinate with the paper.

I added some gel pen high lights to finish off this moose and set to putting my slimline card together.

This slimline card measures 9″ x 8″, scored at 4″, because that best fits the business size envelopes that I have on hand. That means that I cut my plaid paper to 8-3/4″ x 3-3/4″, so it would have a nice border of the card base around it.

To add to my large background I cut leaves from the other side of this paper and added them to enhance the feel of autumn on this card. And, did you know that there are dies that cut out these leaves?!? It’s true, D2BA is cool like that. The Fall Leaves die set not only cuts out the leaves on this paper but there are also THREE stamp sets that you can get to go with this die set! One die set, three stamp sets and printed paper, these are the things that get me excited. The three stamp sets all have a different style of art to make leafy cards with a different feel. There is the Many Thanks stamp set, Give Thanks stamp set, and the Tangle Leaves stamp set. I think these leaves just make the background on this card.

Now my moose needed a place to hang out, so I die cut a circle, stamped it with an image from the Wishing Happiness stamp set for some added interest. I popped up my moose and sentiment with foam squares to this circle. But I still needed something to help ground this circle to the card. In comes the burlap ribbon, hiding away in my stash. One 4 inch piece was the perfect thing to ground my circle to my card and add some fun fall texture to this card. Also in my stash I found some gems that ended up being the perfect details finish off this card.

But we can not forget about the inside of the card! It’s such a big space, there is plenty of room for dressing it up and a hand written message.

I decided to waste not want not and use one of the leaves on the edge of the printed paper to put on the edge of my card. One little fun something on the inside sure makes the card feel complete. I had so much fun playing with this paper and creating a fall scene for my moose!  

I thought you might like to see a Christmas card I made with this set last year. 

Below I have listed and linked all the supplies I used to make my fall card. 

 

ffiliate links have been used, at no cost to you. Affiliate links are a collaboration between online shops and makers. When you shop these links the retailer gives a small percentage of the sale to the maker, at no cost to you. It is a great way of supporting your favorite businesses and the makers who inspire you. Thank you for shopping my links. Sharing my creations is my favorite thing to do and you have helped make it possible.

Thank you so much for stopping by, I love sharing my creations with you!  And, I would love to chat with you! Tell me what you think of today's card?  Do you have stamp sets you have used for other occasions than what they are intended for?  Leave a comment below so we can connect. 

 

 

 

 

Way to Goat Episode 3

Happy Tuesday my stamping friends. I am here to share with you 2 Slimline cards with the August stamp set of the month, Way To Goat by HoneyBee Stamps. 

You all know I am in love with slimline cards. And I thought it would be fun to stack up some goats for a tall slimline card. Goats doing goat yoga!!! And I thought it would also be fun to challenge myself to make a card that does not use the goats at all.

You can watch Episode 3 right HERE. 

Now let's take a look at these fun cards.

The size of slimline cards I make is 9" x 8", scored at 4".  This is what fits in the business sized envelopes that I purchased. Plus, I love having all the space to fill up. I don't know how, but I always seem to easily fill up my slimline and sometimes fun out of room! 

I used all five of the goats from the stamp set for this card. Don't they look so cute doing goat yoga!?!  

I colored in all the images using Copic Marker. I really wanted to color each goat differently. I am in love with the spotted goat at the top. 

The background for this card uses stencils and Distress Oxide ink. It really sets the scene for some morning yoga. 

For card two I chose to use the pig image fro the Way to Goat set and not use any goats. 

Since there is only one pig stamp in this set I used my Gel Press to get a reverse image of this pig. Now I have pigs facing both directions. 

You can see me do this in the video below. 

For this card made custom sentiment. I brainstormed and researched and typed up a bunch of Punny Piggy Sentiments. They are all sized to be die cut using sentiment banners. I have them below for you to use with your piggy stamp sets. Just print them out and die cut or paper cut them to fit your cards. There are two pages. If you are having trouble printing what is below here is a link to the PDF. 

Below is Episode 3 where you can watch the making of this card. 

 

If you are unable to see the video above you can view it on my YouTube channel. 

If you missed the other episodes in this series, they are linked for you below.

Episode One - Lift the Flap Slimline Barn Card

Episode Two - Interactive Barn Shaped Cards

BONUS VIDEO - Way To Goat card I made for Scrapbook Pal

All the supplies I used to make these cards are listed and linked for you below. 

My favorite place to shop for Copic Markers

 

 

 

 

Affiliate links have been used, at no cost to you. Affiliate links are a collaboration between online shops and makers. When you shop these links the retailer gives a small percentage of the sale to the maker, at no cost to you. It is a great way of supporting your favorite businesses and the makers who inspire you. Thank you for shopping my links. Sharing my creations is my favorite thing to do and you have helped make it possible.

Yana's Glimmering Christmas Collection

By now you probably know that I love Glimmer Hot Foil.  So when Yana Smakula released her Christmas collection I was so excited to get my hands on it and play. Yana is the queen of the Glimmer Hot Foil system so I knew her line would be amazing. 

For today's cards I am using 3 products from her new line; Glimmer Winter Village, Yana's Christmas Sentiments, the Glimmer Gift Border. I also used another plate from her line that is on one of my faves, Polka Dot Strip. 

I love playing with color for Christmas cards. Changing up one color like using pink instead of red gives a different feel to these cards. I think they have a bit of a retro look to them. 

This first card uses both of the village scene plates and the snow plate to create mini scenes for each scene on the ends of this slimline card. 

The snow plate is unique in that it fits around each of the village dies . See the wonky edges, one side of this plate fits perfectly around the lodge looking building and the other side of the snow plate fits around the smaller village buildings. Genius!  

I used Magenta foil on Bubble Gum card stock and Viridian Green on Lemongrass card stock. I die cut these images with a circle die and backed them with a darker card stock, Sweet Berry and Kiwi Slice. 

For the sentiment I hot foiled Happy Holidays from Yana's Christmas sentiments, in Polished Brass foil onto Brushed Gold card stock. I am LOVING this look!  The All is Calm, All is Bright is also from Yana's Christmas Sentiments and I used the same Polished Brass foil to foil this part of the sentiment on Whip Cream card stock. I backed the brushed gold circle in Mirror Gold card stock for an eye catching focal point to this card. 

The village pieces are glued down to 9" x 4" panel that I hot foiled with the Polka Dot Strip plate and Opal foil. I popped up the sentiment circle in the center. To finish it off I tied on some Gift Wrap twine. 

For this card I used the new Glimmer Gift Border plate to hot foil a long border down the side of my slimline card front (8-3/4" x 3-3/4") in Polished Brass foil. 

I then used some Distress Ink (Mowed Lawn and Picked Raspberry) to watercolor in a few of the presents. 

Another circle sentiment for the focal point of this card, using Merry Christmas from all of us, a combination of 3 plates from Yana's Christmas Sentiments. The plate for "from" has tabs that fit into notches on the "all of us" plate. Which makes it really easy to hot foil them together, but you also have the option to foil them separately. 

I added some more twine and embellishments from the All the Things pack. 

I am in love with making Slimline cards right now and have a goal to send out all Slimline cards for Christmas this year, or mostly all.  

You can watch the making of these cards and see Yana's collection in action right here. 

 

If you do not see the video above you can also view it right here. 

Below I have listed and linked all the things used to make today's cards. 

 

 

Affiliate links have been used, at no cost to you. Affiliate links are a collaboration between online shops and makers. When you shop these links the retailer gives a small percentage of the sale to the maker, at no cost to you. It is a great way of supporting your favorite businesses and the makers who inspire you. Thank you for shopping my links. Sharing my creations is my favorite thing to do and you have helped make it possible.

Thank you so much for stopping by. I love sharing my creations with you. I will be back again very soon with another creation for fall this time!  

Not 2 Shabby Fall Inspiration Hop

Hello!  Today I am hopping along with some talented designers showcasing new products from Not 2 Shabby's fall release. I am featuring the stamp set, You, Me and Pumpkin Spice. This is a YouTube hop with giveaways to the Not 2 Shabby shop, so make sure you click over and check out my video and leave a comment on each video in the hop to be entered to win. To find all the videos you just search the hashtag #N2SFALLRELEASE on YouTube. 

You can watch my video right here. 

Here are the two cards I made in today's video. I challenged myself to see if I could use all the stamps in the You, Me and Pumpkin Spice stamp set. And I did!  

This first card features the little squirrels from the set. I colored them in with Copic Markers. 

And did some ink blending over stamped images from the featured stamp set with Wild Honey and Barn Door Distress Oxide inks. 

The touch of burlap really adds to the fall feel of this card and I love different textures on my creations. 

For the second card I used the girl image as the focal point. 

I think she is so cute in her leggings and slouchy sweater. 

I thought the colors for this card were so fun for fall. 

I love the yellow ombre background on this card with simple clear embossing on each panel and a bit of Warm Sunshine shimmer spray over the top. 

Watch the making of these cards in the video below and make sure to click over and comment on each video in the hop for a chance to win one of three gift certificates to the Not 2 Shabby shop. 

If you can not see video above you can find it here.

All the Supplies I used to make these cards are linked for you below. 

My Favorite Place to shop for Copic Markers

You Me and Pumpkin Spice Stamp Set

 

 

Affiliate links have been used, at no cost to you. Affiliate links are a collaboration between online shops and makers. When you shop these links the retailer gives a small percentage of the sale to the maker, at no cost to you. It is a great way of supporting your favorite businesses and the makers who inspire you. Thank you for shopping my links. Sharing my creations is my favorite thing to do and you have helped make it possible.

Thank you so much for stopping by and hopping along with this YouTube hop. I hope you find inspiration along the way. See you again very soon with more crafty ideas! 

 

Spellbinders Spider Web Corners Shakers

Hey there my stamping friends!  I am so excited today to be sharing my first Halloween creation for this year! I love the fun color combinations and fun images there are to play with this time of year!  And for some reason I love spider webs and spider images. BUT NOT THE REAL THING!!! So, I was thrilled to be creating with the Spider Web corner die set that Spellbinders just released!  It's a two piece die set with a great price point!  And I can mix it with all my other Halloween products, love that! 

I decided to make a shaker card with this frame set and a coordinating tag that is a shaker too. Take a look at these awesome die set!  You can also see these projects being made in this video. 

This die set links together to make the coolest frame!  

I adhered my die cut frame and connecter pieces to a sheet of vellum with an oval die cut from the center to make the frame for the front of this shaker card. 

To make my pumpkin glow I inked it up with a rich yellow, Summer Day ink and then inked only the edges with a Rock and Roll technique, with Tangerine Fusion ink.  This pumpkin is from the Hey Boo stamp set. Had to have this set because of the cute cat and spider in it, so, I will be using this set again soon! 

Behind my shaker is an ink blended and splattered background. It's perfect for my halloween shaker elements. Which are seasonal confetti I found at the Dollar Tree. But to make it even more special I added some Silver Shavings Glass Glitter to the mix!!! 

Now let's take a look at the tag. 

I used just the connector piece to make little halloween wrapped candies. 

The shaker tag was made using the Special Day Tag die set. I use this die set a lot. It has a lot of great dies, I love this tag because I can make a frame and create a shaker tag. 

On both of these shakers I hot foiled a sentiment because I got the new Spooky Greetings set for just this thing, adding glimmer hot foil sentiments to my Halloween projects!  
So, what do you think of using this piece to make candies??? 

You can see the making of these projects in the video below. 

 

If you can not see the above video on this scene, here is a link to view it on YouTube. 

Below I have listed and linked all the things I used to make these projects. 

 

 

Affiliate links have been used, at no cost to you. Affiliate links are a collaboration between online shops and makers. When you shop these links the retailer gives a small percentage of the sale to the maker, at no cost to you. It is a great way of supporting your favorite businesses and the makers who inspire you. Thank you for shopping my links. Sharing my creations is my favorite thing to do and you have helped make it possible.

Thank you so much for stopping by, I love creating for Halloween and sharing it with you! 

 

Way To Goat Episode Two

Hello!  It's Tuesday and time for Episode 2 of my Way To Goat stamp set of the month series! 

In this Episode I am making shape cards with the Barn Scene Builder die set, that are also interactive. 

Both of these cards have interactive elements and fun going on on the outside as well as the inside of the card. 

This barn shaped card has a door that you can open to get a peak at the inside of the card. 

To see the entire scene open the card all the way. 

I love the pig and little chick in the hay loft that. 

For this card I colored in my images with colored pencils. I use the Professional Colored Pencils by Arteza. I love these pencils because they are such a great quality for such a great price! 

For the second card I use the same pencils but did no line coloring. 

This shape card has a sliding barn door. And two shaker windows. 

You slide the barn door open to see the shaker window, which has hay and baby chicks jumping around. The smaller top window is the second shaker window. 

This card also opens for more fun animals from this set. 

These barn shaped cards measure 5" x 5". I chose to hinge two die cut barns together of the left side to make these shape cards. The hinge is 2" x 1/2" score at 1/4". 

You can see the making of these cards in Episode 2 below.

 

If you can not see the video on this screen you can watch it on my YouTube channel right HERE. 

If you did not catch Episode One, a Slimline Lift the Flap card you can catch that one right HERE. 

Be sure to click over to my YouTube channel and leave a comment on the video for a chance to win one of the cards from this video! 

All the supplies used to make todays cards are listed and linked for you below. 

My favorite place to shop for Copic Markers

 

 

Affiliate links have been used, at no cost to you. Affiliate links are a collaboration between online shops and makers. When you shop these links the retailer gives a small percentage of the sale to the maker, at no cost to you. It is a great way of supporting your favorite businesses and the makers who inspire you. Thank you for shopping my links. Sharing my creations is my favorite thing to do and you have helped make it possible.

Thank you so much for stopping by for Episode 2, I will be back next Tuesday for more ideas with this stamps set! 

Especially For You Glimmer Hot Foil Set

Hello there! I am back today sharing another layering Glimmer Hot Foil set, Especially For You. This set foils a flower, has a die to cut that out and a die to add a layer to this flower. This results in a beautiful layered flower and one of the layers is shining foil!  

To go with your flowers there is a leaf to hot foil and a die to cut it out. There are also 3 stand alone dies that die cut a small branch of leaves and the other two pieces to create another smaller flower to accent your larger hot foiled and layered flower.  And besides the cute flowers in this set there is a large sentiment, FOR YOU, that you hot foil. To build on that sentiment there are 4 supporting sentiments you can foil to go with it; Heartfelt Thoughts, I will do anything, On your birthday, and Especially.  

The Glimmer Hot Foil plates are shown in the tan and the dies are shown in the gray. 

I used SO many colors of foil. I wanted a colored card stock and coordinating foil for each of the flowers on this card. I think it is so cute to dress up the letters on this sentiment with the layered flowers and leaves. 

Take a look at the edge of this card. I created this tone on tone look using Opal Foil and the Gilded Frames Hot Foil plate set. 

I am in LOVE with that Opal Foil, it is a clear foil that leaves behind an opal or pearlized finish. 

You can see this card being made right here. 

If you can not see the video above you can view it on YouTube right here. 

 

This card is part two of my layering Glimmer Hot Foil videos. Below you can see the card I made with another layering Glimmer Hot Foil set, Glimmered Botanicals. It's an amazing set that makes the most stunning flowers!

 

If you did not catch the video for the Glimmered Botanical card it is right here. 

Thank you so much for watching. If you have any questions about Glimmer Hot Foil, do not hesitate to ask. And, I have a lot more Glimmer Hot Foiling videos you might find helpful. You can check them out right here. 

All the supplies to make these cards are listed and linked for you below. 

 

 

Affiliate links have been used, at no cost to you. Affiliate links are a collaboration between online shops and makers. When you shop these links the retailer gives a small percentage of the sale to the maker, at no cost to you. It is a great way of supporting your favorite businesses and the makers who inspire you. Thank you for shopping my links. Sharing my creations is my favorite thing to do and you have helped make it possible.

Thank you so much for stopping by and letting me share my love of Glimmer Hot Foiling with you!  

 

 

Glimmered Botanical Slimline Card

I have a new favorite Glimmer Hot Foil plate set!!!!! It is the Glimmered Botanical set. This set not only has glimmer hot foil plates in it, but it has die to cut out the florals and other dies that create layering pieces for those florals. The result is stunning multi-layered flowers. You have to see how it works, that's why I have a video of the making of this card. 

See how stunning these flowers are with layers of card stock and foil!  Let me break down how this works. 

Here are 3 pieces from this set, used to make the largest flower.  Starting with the plate at the top of this picture.  This is a glimmer plate. Hot foil this piece. On my card I hot foiled this with Magenta Foil on Watermelon Fusion card stock.  Then I used the die, the middle piece in this picture to die cut that out.  When die cuts the flower there will still be card stock showing around the hot foiled area.  This gives it more of a layered look. Set this aside and die cut the piece at the bottom of this picture to layer over the first piece. I die cut mine from Bubble Gum card stock. This creates the middle layer, adding more detail to the flower. Now let's talk about the center of the flower.

The top plate in this photo is the glimmer plate. You can die cut out this glimmered piece from either of the dies shown below it. The one on the left creates the center for the large flower I discussed above. The die on the right die cuts half of the glimmer plate, creating the center for the medium flower. Show in the photo below in orange and blue. 

Here are the dies and plate used to make the medium flower. 

The top piece is the glimmer hot foil plate. I used Tangerine Foil and Tangerine Fusion card stock to make my medium flower. Then I die cut it using the die shown in the center of this picture.  The bottom die was die cut from Citrus Cooler card stock and mounted over the top of the glimmered flower. Then the center piece was added (using the center piece shown above with the half die) with a foam square to finish off the medium flower. 

There is also a glimmer plate and die to make the small flower. And for the leaves there is one glimmer plate and two dies. One die cuts out the entire glimmered leaf the other cuts out a smaller portion making a smaller leaf. This gives you two different sizes leaves to create your floral arrangement. 

Now let's chat about the background on this card!!! If you look closely you can see a subtle shine of dots. I used Opal foil and the Scattered Dots glimmer hot foil plate to create this.  The Opal foil is clear with a pearlized finish. It's the coolest foil!  Because it is clear, the color of the card stock shows through and the pattern of the plate is now a pearlized look. I also used the Opal foil to foil my sentiment on black card stock!  You can see it in action in the video below where I show you how I made this card using the Glimmered Botanical set. 

If you like the layered glimmer hot foil look come back again tomorrow. I am sharing the Especially For You Glimmer Plate set which does the same thing, on a smaller scale. 

Below I have listed and linked all the things I used to make this card. 

 

 

Affiliate links have been used, at no cost to you. Affiliate links are a collaboration between online shops and makers. When you shop these links the retailer gives a small percentage of the sale to the maker, at no cost to you. It is a great way of supporting your favorite businesses and the makers who inspire you. Thank you for shopping my links. Sharing my creations is my favorite thing to do and you have helped make it possible.

Thank you so much for stopping by and letting me share this card with you. I love the Glimmered Botanical set soooo much and was so excited to show it to you. See you again tomorrow for another look at a layering Glimmer Hot Foil set! 

Christmas Puppy Shaker Cards

Hello there stamping friends. I am back with another Dare 2B Artzy project for you. It features the Christmas Puppy stamp set! I love it because it looks like my puppy, Toby!  So the first card I made, I colored to look like him. Which by the way, Toby turned 1 yesterday!!! (Copic used to color puppy: E53, E13, E11)

So cute, right! I love the little supporting images in this set that let you dress up your puppy for Christmas!  

I used the Snow Much Fun paper pack for the background of my shaker. And my shaker elements have been in my stash for about 100 years. They are clear micro beads. And they sounds amazing in a shaker by the way!  I added in a few iridescent heart confetti pieces too, which were also in my shaker drawer for an amount of time that equates with me not knowing where they came from. And Yes, I have a shaker drawer, with things I have collected to use to make shaker cards. That is how much I love to make shakers. 

For my second card I used the negative piece from around the circle I die cut out for the first card. 

I colored this puppy to look like one of Toby's friends, Archie. Both are Cockapoo's and in my opinion, adorable. I thought you might want see a picture of my coloring inspiration.  (Copic used: E19, E15, E13)

Now let's take a look at the video making of these cards. 

 

Below are the supplies I used to make these cards.

My favorite place to shop for Copic Markers

 

   

 

Affiliate links have been used, at no cost to you. Affiliate links are a collaboration between online shops and makers. When you shop these links the retailer gives a small percentage of the sale to the maker, at no cost to you. It is a great way of supporting your favorite businesses and the makers who inspire you. Thank you for shopping my links. Sharing my creations is my favorite thing to do and you have helped make it possible.

Thank you so much for stopping by and letting me share this cute puppy stamp set with you! I'll be back again soon with more card creations! 

 

Way to Goat Episode One

Hello and welcome to my August Stamp Set of the Month series. This month I will be featuring the Honey Bee Stamps set, Way to Goat. 

It is a huge set and is going to be so much fun to play with as we wind up summer and look forward to fall. 

To make this card I used the Build a Barn die set, also by Honey Bee to make some DIY flaps on the front panel. 

Inside the barn doors are little scenes with goats and a fun sentiment that builds as you open each one. 

The backgrounds of each scene were ink blended with the new Speckled Egg Distress Oxide ink and a splash of water.  So quick and easy. 

All of the backgrounds have die cut bails of hay as well. Which is just one of the dies from the Build a Barn die set. I give them more interest I used Copic Markers to add shadows. 

I love that there are 5 different goats in this set, so you can create unique scenes. Plus all the little farm animals that you can add in with them and punny sentiments. It really is a great stamp set!  

You can see how I made these barn door flaps in the video below.  

 

 

I also have a video up on the ScrapbookPal.com YouTube channel today featuring this stamp set, you can watch that video right HERE.

I have listed and linked all the supplies I used for you below: 

My Favorite Place to shop for Copic Markers

 

 

Affiliate links have been used, at no cost to you. Affiliate links are a collaboration between online shops and makers. When you shop these links the retailer gives a small percentage of the sale to the maker, at no cost to you. It is a great way of supporting your favorite businesses and the makers who inspire you. Thank you for shopping my links. Sharing my creations is my favorite thing to do and you have helped make it possible.

Thank you so much for stopping by and checking out Episode One of my August Stamp Set of the Month series. I will be back next Tuesday with Episode Two, to share more ideas with this stamp set!  See you then, if now sooner, so many crafty things cooking up in my studio! 

 

Spellbinders Glimmer Hot Foil kit of the Month

I can't put it down!  I am in love with the Glimmer Hot Foil Kit of the month for August! It's such a fun crafty themed plate set, and is named Have a Crafty Day!  This month's kit comes with my favorite foil color, Aura!  

With this month's kit you can make the cutest cards for all your crafty friends. It included a background plate and 3 sentiments too!  There are also add ons that coordinate with this plate set; an additional Hot Foil plate set called Crafty Sentiments and a Stamp and Die set called Craft Happy.  

Let's take a look at the six cards. 

For all of the cards I used Gel Press prints that I had on hand, I have SO many that is feels so productive to use them up. Do you have a stash of background that you've made, waiting to be used? 

Card One

It's a shaker card, you know they are my favorite!  I use the background plate to foil over a gel press print in Aura Foil creating a stunning background for my sequins and shrinky dinks to glide across. 

I did say shrinky dinks!  I used the Craft Happy stamp and die set to create a paint brush, scissors and tube of pain to add a surprise to my shaker card. My friend Steph Williams has a few shaker cards that she made with shrink images and I have been dying to give it a go for so long now. I have made tons of shrink images but not for a shaker card and I am IN LOVE with it! 

The Have a Crafty Birthday sentiment is from the GOM Kit. 

Card Two 

Look at this background, made using a print that my friend Cassie Trask sent me in a background swap we did. It's pretty yummy, thanks Cassie! So, I thought it fitting that this card would have the "Crafty Friend" sentiment on it!  "Crafty Friend" is from the Crafty Sentiment plate set. 

I used image from the Craft Happy stamp set to embellish this card, I LOVE that ruler image. I colored all my images, including the shrink plastic with Copic Markers. 

The foil I used on this card is called Prism. The Aura and Prism foil are very much a like, they are both iridescent, the difference is that Aura has a gold tone and Prism has a silver tone. 

Card Three

For this background strip on this card I used Opal foil. This foil is unlike any of the others. It is clear with an iridescent pearl finish!  So, what ever color of card stock you foil it on the color of the card stock will show through and the images will be pearlized!  It's magical, trust me! 

The sentiment is another from the GOM kit, I foiled it using Magenta foil. This handmade for you sentiment would be great foiled on the back of every card I make, right?! 

And I have to say the dauber image, perfect! I just think it is so cute. 

Card Four

Again, I used Prism foil on this card, for the background and for the sentiment. I think this is my favorite of the sentiments from the GOM Kit!  I die cut the sentiment using the Essentials Circle die set. It die cuts circles as well as the intricate dotted circle. It is the only circle die set I used to make these cards. I also used it to make the frame around the sentiment on card five, below.

Card Five

For this card I hot foiled the sentiment in two colors of foil because in the plate sets the script sentiment and the typed sentiment are separate plates, so you can have fun with it! I used Aura and Magenta foils on this light orange card stock.   Let's Get Crafty is from the Crafty Sentiments Plate Set. 

Card Six

Another shaker card with shrinky dinks!  I was not sure the roll of twine would be easily recognizable in the shrunk down form. So the idea came to me to repeat the shrink images on the front of the card.  

For my main shaker element I used Spakle Cuts, because a crafter who gets this card is going to appreciate the shrink image, glitter, foiling, a gel press background, a shaker, Copic colored images and all the love that went into this card. 

Take a close look at the sentiment on this card, from the Crafty Sentiments plate set, I used Rainbow Foil!!! Another fave of mine. 

You can see the GOM Kit and the Add Ons in action in the video below. 

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Want to learn more about making Gel Press Prints, check out these videos. 

All the things I used to make today's card are listed and linked for you below. 

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Affiliate links have been used, at no cost to you. Affiliate links are a collaboration between online shops and makers. When you shop these links the retailer gives a small percentage of the sale to the maker, at no cost to you. It is a great way of supporting your favorite businesses and the makers who inspire you. Thank you for shopping my links. Sharing my creations is my favorite thing to do and you have helped make it possible.

 

Thank you so much for stopping by today and letting me share all the fun I had using the new Glimmer Hot Foil kit of the month. I will be back again very soon with an all new Stamp Set of the Month series! 

Dare 2B Artzy August Challenge

Happy Sunday to you!  I have some exciting news!  I am officially a member to of the Dare 2B Artzy design team!  They put out a call about a month or so ago and I submitted an application.  I was thrilled when they offered me the spot and accepted right away.  You may have seen me play with their images before, so I already know I love their cute stamps and the quality of their products.  So, you will now start to see me share creations more often with this fun products. 

My first project on the team was to create a card for the August Dare 2B Artzy challenge. It was so fun because this month the theme is, Anything Goes!  

You can see the Dare 2B Artzy blog post with all the designers creations and all the play along rules HERE. You will want to play along because there is a PRIZE!!! 

Now let's take a look at the card I made for this challenge. 

I used a CUTE set, Honey Bees, because I love the style that these bears are drawn in. You may have seen my recent Christmas card with another set, Skisons Greetings, with bears in this same style! I think they are darling and just love their little cheeks! I colored in all the stamped images with Copic Markers. 

 

You can see here all the markers I used to color in these images. They were so fun to color, I made each bear a different shade, just as we are all different shades. 

Now let's chat about slimline cards. There are no set sizes for these cards, you just want your card to fit into a business size envelope.  The business size envelops I purchased, at the Dollar Tree, are 9-1/2" x 4-1/4".  So I make my slimline cards 9" x 8", scored at 4".  But it is nice that these is wiggle room with these cards, so that you can fit what you are creating on to a card.  

To create the front panel of this card (8-3/4" x 3-3/4") I die cut three circles using my D2BA circle dies. These dies cut out a circle with piercing and leave piercing behind where you cut out the circle!  LOVE that! 

To help me get them placed evenly I used a T-square ruler to find the center of the card, drawing a center line from top to bottom and side to side as well. I put my circle die over the center of the card first, lining it up so the cross hairs were centered in the die. After die cutting this it was easy to cut the top and bottom circles.  

I went through all my D2BA papers and picked out 3 patterns that I liked for this card that would go with how I colored up the images. I cut these to fit behind the circles and glued them onto my card base. 

I stamped the sentiment on the yellow patterned paper with Totally Black ink and set that aside to work on the front panel.  I arranged all my die cut images and then stamped the small bee all around randomly for a little something to make the empty spaces have a bit more interest. With all my images in place, I adhered the front panel to the card with foam tape. 

I just had to add one of the sentiments from this set to the inside of my card!  It says, " A day without a friend like you is like a pot without a single drop of honey - Winnie the Pooh" I adore Pooh bear, so I had to add it. And I wanted to dress it up a bit, so I hand drew some drip and cut them out to glue to the top of the inside of the card. A few stamped bees finished off the look. 

Now it’s your turn!! I'd love for you to play along with the challenge! 

AND, the Challenge winner will get a $15 Gift Certificate!!

Be sure to join in the fun for your chance at winning!!

Some Challenge Rules:

– The challenges are open to everyone; those entries featuring a Dare 2B Artzy image will get a second entry into the drawing!

*Add D2BA to your entry title so we know and you'll get a 2nd entry!

– Your submission must be NEW, no back linking projects.

– You must add a link to our blog in your post or mention us in your gallery.

– Leave a link to your actual blog post.

– You may enter each challenge ONLY 3 times.

We reserve the right to remove any submissions that do not follow the rules.

– Please turn off word verification so we can leave comments on your challenge entry!

-Here is the blog post where you can add your links: http://blog.dare2bartzy.com/august-challenge-anything-goes-2/

 Most importantly….HAVE FUN!

I have listed and linked the fun things from Dare 2B Artzy that I used to make this card for you below.

 

 

Affiliate links have been used, at no cost to you. Affiliate links are a collaboration between online shops and makers. When you shop these links the retailer gives a small percentage of the sale to the maker, at no cost to you. It is a great way of supporting your favorite businesses and the makers who inspire you. Thank you for shopping my links. Sharing my creations is my favorite thing to do and you have helped make it possible.

Thank you so much for stopping by, I look forward to sharing more of my creations with you soon!

Spellbinders Large Die of the Month - August 2020

Hello my crafty friends. Can you believe it is August 1st?  The exciting thing about the first is that is when the new Club Kits from Spellbinders are revealed! 

I love sharing the Large Die of the month with you. What I love about getting this die of the month is that is challenges me creatively.  I end up making things I never thought of making because I am getting something new a different every month. 

This month's die set creates a 3D project! It is the 3D Still Life Easel and Canvas die set. You get dies to make a 3D standing easel from card stock!  And a canvas!  It is so crazy cute! 

Here is a look at the Easel and Canvas that I made. 

This is just so cute and not hard to make either. This die set also comes with the little accent pieces like the paint palette and paint brush!  Take a quick look at the entire 12 piece die set. 

Don't be intimidated by all the pieces, in the video below I show you how to easily put this easel and canvas together! And look at all the fun extra dies you get to help you create an artsy look.

After making my first Easel and Canvas I wanted to think outside the box and see what else I could create with the dies from this set. 

I am a card maker, so I wanted to incorporate elements of this set into a card. 

For this slimline card I used the canvas to make mini shadow boxes. It's just the canvas flipped over. And three of these fit perfectly on my slimline card. This slimline card measures 9" x 8" and is scored at 4".  This size fits perfectly in the business sized envelopes I purchased, at the Dollar Tree! 

For my background I used a Gel Press Print from my stash. If you are not familiar with Gel Press Printing, you can check out my videos making prints right HERE. I use my Glimmer Hot Foil machine and the More Sentiments Plate set to create the sentiment for this card.  If you'd like to check out more Glimmer Hot Foil videos I have a bunch right HERE. 

To see this die set in action and how to put together this easel and canvas check out my video below, it is easier than you think! 

 

All the things I used to make today's card are listed and linked for you below. 

My favorite place to shop for Copic Markers

 

 

Affiliate links have been used, at no cost to you. Affiliate links are a collaboration between online shops and makers. When you shop these links the retailer gives a small percentage of the sale to the maker, at no cost to you. It is a great way of supporting your favorite businesses and the makers who inspire you. Thank you for shopping my links. Sharing my creations is my favorite thing to do and you have helped make it possible.

Thank you so much for stopping by and letting me share this fun new die set with you. I'll be back again very soon for some more crafty fun!