Carrie Stamps

DIY Christmas Bingo

Hello there my stamping friends. I feel so accomplished today!  I have started on my Christmas gifts!!! When I saw the new Christmas Icons stamp set from Scrappy Tails I knew it would be perfect for making a Christmas Bingo game!  

My family plays Christmas Bingo every year. We use a set that I mad a VERY very very long time ago. My husband thought it would be a good gift idea for me to make another set for his brother's family. However, I did not have all the things I had when I made our set. THEN, Scrappy Tails released this new stamp set, Christmas Icons and the gift making was underway!!! This stamp set has 25 images that are just under 1". They are all Christmas related and are solid images that do not have to be colored in. I mean, it was almost as if it was made for me to make these Bingo cards!!! 

You can see my Christmas Bingo set come together in this video. It's so easy you might want to make your own set. 

If you can not see the video up on this screen, you can also view it on my YouTube channel. 

All I needed now was the actual bingo card. So I went to Etsy and searched. I right away found a blank and printable Bingo card from the Heavy Feather Designs shop. It was only $3.99. Once I paid, the file was emailed to me, I downloaded it and print it out. The printable fits two cards on one sheet of 8-1/2" x 11" piece of card stock. I used light weight card stock that I buy in a ream at Walmart for my printer. This bingo card even prints out lines for you to cut on. So, I trimmed out the cards with my paper cutter and then was able to mount each card on to a 5" x 7" piece of colored card stock. 

Now let's chat about stamping the images on you bingo card. There are 25 spaces and 25 images in the stamp set. So, I chose 5 colors of ink and decided I stamp 5 images in each color. Then I set to randomly stamping out the images one at a time. Stamping each card with each image and then moving on to the next. I stamped all the images of one color before moving on to the next color. This worked really well, and I only ended up putting the same image in the same spot twice, oops! I made 5 Bingo cards and to complete the set I think I will make 5 more. It is nice to have plenty for a big group to play and it is nice for players to be able to switch out their cards. 

Other things you are going to need when making a bingo set are the calling pieces and markers. 

I used my Cameo Silhouette to cut out circles that are just under 1" for my markers. I made some in each of the five colors of card stock that I used to back my cards. I also cut these same size circles in white and stamped each image on to a white circle to make the calling pieces. If you do not have an electronic cutting machine you can always use a punch or a die to make your circles. 

I also cut circles slightly bigger from colored card stock to mount the calling pieces on to, this makes them more sturdy. 

The Bingo cards I purchased had large open letters. I thought it was fun, it gave me an opportunity to dress up my cards, give them more character. So I colored in each letter in with an ombre effect, using each of the five colors I chose for my cards; card red, dark green, dark brown, gold, and light blue. 

There was a bit of open space at the top of each card, above the word BINGO, I stamped "Merry Christmas" in this space. This sentiment is also found in the Christmas Icons stamp set. And if you like the Christmas Icons stamp set, there is a similar stamp set called Religious Christmas that would also work for making the bingo cards. 

I am very excited to gift this Christmas Bingo game to my brother-in-law. I am going to find a cute Christmas tin to put it in, that will be cute gift wrapping and a nice place to store the game as well. Let the Christmas memories begin! 

Below I have linked all the supplies I used to make this game. 

 

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.

Spellbinders Holiday Inspiration Hop

Hello there stamping friends and welcome to the Spellbinders Holiday Inspiration Hop! 

Today several designers have come together to bring you beautiful ideas using products from the latest Spellbinders release. You will see projects from Halloween to Christmas!  If you are already hopping a long with us then you will have arrived here from Nicole Spohr's blog. Welcome!!! I am Carrie Rhoades and I have been paper crafting for over 20 years. I am currently in love with making slimline cards!  I live in Eagle, Idaho with my hubby and our two teenage daughters. I am blessed to work from home doing what I love, paper crafting. I also love to go camping and am learning how to crochet. 

Now let's chat about my projects for this hop. 

I am using three products from the Be Merry Collection; Shopping Spree Die set, Chill Bear Die set, and the Gifts of Christmas Glimmer Hot Foil set. 

With these fun new things I have created two slimline cards as well as a full panel shaker tag. Let's take a look. 

 

As you can see each of these projects has the Shopping Spree girl on it, holding a large stack of presents. This die set is another of Spellbinders Kinetic sets. It is designed so that the legs swing back and forth. It is such an easy interactive element to add to a card and adds that little touch of wow and I LOVE it. Two of my projects have this kinetic feature, but on the polar bear cards I did not have the legs swing. Let's take a close up look at each of these projects. 

My first card finds this power shopper overloaded with packages and as she is slipping and sliding on the ice her packages are falling. 

The background of this card is embossed with the Big Dot Slimline folder. 

I added a foiled sentiment using the Gifts of Christmas Glimmer Hot Foil set and Viridian Green foil.  I love the classy look of a foiled sentiment! 

This die set is so much fun, I so enjoyed mixing matching the coat with different colors of tights and boots and gloves and presents. I loved it so much I had to make two more of these power shopping girls. Here's how I used the next one. 

For this card I made the girl a little shorter to fit on the slimline card that is horizontal. Because of that I decided not to make her legs swing. I love that I can easily adjust the height of this girl as the legs are a separate die from the coat. 

I think this girl was shopping for presents for her woodland friends and has finally arrived and is BEARing gifts!  

I added another hot foiled sentiment to this card, using the same Viridian Green foil. I am loving the font of this hot foil set, Gifts of Christmas. 

This polar bear is so dar cute! I just love his scarf. I added a bit of shading to the bear using a C0 Copic marker. This just helps him to stand out off the white background. The white background is embossed with the Diagonal Strips embossing folder. I was so excited to have some Slimline sized embossing folders and dots and stripes are the perfect two to use on all kinds of cards. 

For my last power shopper I created a tag, not just any tag, but a full panel shaker tag. 

Full panel shaker means that a piece of plastic sheeting was wrapped around the front panel of a project. The sides attached to the back on three sides. Then you add in your shaker elements before attaching the four side of the window.  The plastic I used was the plastic that the embossing folders came it. Wrapping like this is the perfect material for full panel shakers. 

Once the front panel was wrapped in plastic, I added it to a red card stock base. The power shopper was attached to the front of this with foam squares. And the legs DO swing back and forth.

There did not seem to be much room on this front of this tag for the sentiment I wanted to use. But there was plenty of room on the back! 

What a sweet sentiment!!! 

Do you like to make your own Christmas tags? I'd love to know, leave me a comment below and tell me. I'd also love to know if you'd like some ideas on making christmas tags. 

Now it is time to hop along, your next stop on the hop is: Susan Tierney-Cockburn. Included in this hop is a GIVEAWAY!  

Giveaway:
To celebrate this event, Spellbinders is giving away a $50 gift certificate to 3 lucky blog readers – who will be randomly selected from the comments on the Spellbinders blog.  Giveaway closes on Sunday, August 29th 11:59 pm EDT. The winners will be announced in the Spellbinders blog hop post the following Wednesday. Winner is responsible for shipping cost, duties and taxes.

In case you got lost along the hop, the entire list of hoppers is below for you. 

 

Spellbinders Blog
Jennifer Mcguire
Yana Smakula
Becca Feeken
Jill Hilliard
Jackie Pasko
Becky Roberts
Nichol Spohr
Carrie Rhoades ------------ YOU ARE HERE! 
Annie Williams
Sandi MacIver
Jennifer Kotas
Virginia Lu
Joy Baldwin
Jenny Colacicco
Linda Parker
Rosemary Dennis
Betty Wright
Michelle Short
Norine Borys

Thank you so much for stopping by and hopping along with us! All the supplies I used 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.

Full Panel vs. Traditional Shaker Card

It's release day at Trinity Stamps and I am playing with one of my favorite dies from this release. And it is part of a YouTube hop! You are going to LOVE all the new inspiration in the projects you see today. 

You can check out ALL of the products in this amazing new release right HERE.

For my projects I chose to play with the new Slimline Skelly Die set. And when I first saw this skeleton die set I really wanted to make a rainbow skeleton!  And that is what I did today. I die cut the skeleton one time, but was able to make 2 shaker cards!!! One being a FULL PANEL shaker and the other traditional style shaker. You can check out the video right here and see these fun cards come together. 

If you can not see the video up on this screen, you can watch it right HERE. 

The Slimline Skelly die set is very cleverly designed because it has a die that cuts out all the bones and it has a die that cuts all around the skeleton. As well as a few accent pieces for it; a hat, bow, and heart. At the end of this post I share two other cards I made using the skeleton die with the outline die. For these cards I ink blended a panel of white card stock with the following Distress Oxide colors; Kitsch Flamingo, Mustard Seed and Salvaged Patina. This blended into a beautiful rainbow panel. I die cut the skeleton from this panel. I used the bones for my full panel shaker card and the negative panel for a traditional shaker card. Tell me what you think of a rainbow skeleton. I am loving how it turned out and think this could be used other times beside just Halloween. 

If you are not familiar with a Full Panel style shaker card it is very easy to create!  You just need to save up some cellophane type packaging material. The piece I used was the packaging from a pack of vellum. I cut it so it was larger than my card front panel. The panel is 3-1/4" x 8-1/4", the plastic is about 4-1/4" x 9-1/4".

Once your card panel is complete you lay it face down onto the plastic sheet, so it is centered. Cut off the corners of the plastic sheet, pretty close to the card front panel. Then using double stick tape you wrap and adhere the flaps of the plastic around the card front panel, only doing 3 sides. Do not pull it back too tight. Leaving one end open allows you to now add the shaker elements. I used the Oh My Stars Silver Holographic mix.   Lastly, fold over and adhere the third flap. Then you can adhere this panel down to your card as normal. 

I attached my full shaker panel to a scalloped border from the Slimline Scalloped Card Panel Die set, which also has the die I used to cut the black sentiment strip. The sentiments are both from the new Shaker Your Bones stamp set, which if you love skeletons, you are going to LOVE. It is stamp set of skeletons in all different poses and some punny sentiments. Like, "it's going tibia okay". 

If you look closely to at the background behind the skeleton in this full panel shaker cards you may be able to see some wispy clouds in a Metallic Frost ink. I stenciled those on used the October Night stencil set. 

Now let's chat about the traditional shaker card. 

I loved my ink blended rainbow panel so much that I could not just throw out the panel after die cutting it. I thought it would make a great shaker card panel. So, I adhered it to a window sheet and piece in the eyes, nose, ribs and pelvis bones. I added the bow and heart die cut from glitter paper, as I did on the first card as well. Then I lined the back of it with foam strips, add more of the Oh My Stars mix and backed that with another window sheet. Doing the sandwich method with the window sheets makes it so much easier to then add the shaker to the card. 

Since my original ink blended panel was only 7" long. I added a strip of glitter paper to the top and bottom of the card and this made the perfect spot to add my sentiments. 

You can really see all the shimmer I added to the rainbow panel in the picture below. That is good old Perfect Pearls mixed with water and splattered on.

I added some bling to my cards too, the Melanite Magic Rhinestones. They are black gems with an iridescent finish. 

I would love to know which card is your favorite! Leave a comment below to let me know, I so enjoy chatting with you. 

As this is part of a YouTube video hop you should check out my video for these cards and from there get the next stop on the hop. Be sure to like comment and subscribe as you hop a long for a chance to win one of two $25 gift certificates being given away to the Trinity Stamps shop. All the details about the giveaway are in the description box of the video. 

Below are all the supplies I used to make today's cards as well as the entire Autumn Impressions release. 

 

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.

Quick and Easy Watercolored Background

Today I was on the Trinity Stamps Instagram doing a live video where I shared the Summer Blooms Kit and how to do loose watercoloring. 

I stamped all of the line images from the Summer Blooms stamp set as well as the First Blooms stamp set (both of these sets were designed by Melanie of Paper Starr) on to watercolor card stock with clear ink and embossed them with clear embossing powder. 

Then I was able to watercolor these flowers, but before I explain the technique I used take a look at the finished card. 

For this loose watercolor look I started by spraying the paper with water. I used the Atelier inks show in the photo, Petunia Pink, Goddess Green and Marigold Orange. I pressed them down onto my glass mat and watered them down a bit with my water brush. I added the ink to my wet and embossed panel. I let the ink flow outside the lines of the images. One that was done I dried the piece a bit with a heat tool. Then I went back in with more ink, less watered down to give the images more depth and dimension. The last step was to splatter on some of the ink to finish off the look. 

You can watch it come together in the Instagram video right here:

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The finished card is A7 size; 10" x 7", scored at 5". After my watercolored panel was dry I die cut it out with the second to largest die from the A7 Modern embossed panel die set, giving the edge a nice embossed line detail. 

The sentiment I added is from the amazing stamp set; A Sentiment for ALMOST Everything. Speaking of everything, I have all the things I used to make this card listed and linked for you below. 

 

If you love both of these stamp sets you can get the First Blooms stamp and die set at a discount when you purchase the Summer Blooms kit! AWESOME, right! Trinity Stamps is offering 20% off the First Bloom stamp set and and die set when you purchase your Summer Blooms kit. Just add the Kit, the First Bloom Stamp Set and Die set to your cart then enter FirstBloom20off at check 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.

 

Teddy Bear Picnic Shaker Card

Hello there, it is time for Episode 3 of my August Stamp Set of the Month series. Every Tuesday this month I am sharing creations made using the Forest Par-Tea stamp set from Trinity Stamps. 

This week I am making a slimline scene for a Teddy Bear picnic and it is a shaker card too! 

You can watch this weeks episode below. 

If you can not see the video up on this screen, you can also watch it right here on my YouTube channel. 

To make this card a cool shaker I used the Foliage frame die as my window. I love this leafy border and thought it would make a great frame for a picnic in the woods with a teddy bear and 3 mice. 

To create the woodland background I used the Layered Birch stencil set. A little sponging and splattering of Rustic Wilderness ink helped set the scene. 

Speaking of the scene. This teddy bear invited the mice to the party and did not know they were going to take over!  These mice are from the Mouse House stamp set. I love how this card came together and the strawberry shaker elements were the perfect thing to add to this shaker! 

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.

Summer Blooms Kit by Trinity Stamps

I am excited to share with you the all new Summer Blooms Kit by Trinity Stamps. 

It's first every kit by Trinity Stamps and it is a GREAT kit. 

Not only am I sharing this fabulous new kit but so is the entire design team at Trinity Stamps. You can get more inspiration and enter the giveaway over on Instagram, start the hop right here: https://www.instagram.com/carrierhoades

You can see the entire kit contents and watch this card being made in the video below.

If you can not see the video up on this screen you can also view it right here. 

The blooms in this stamp set are defects. They are slightly graphic with a realistic feel.  They were designed by Melanie from PaperStarr. Who also designed the First Bloom stamp set. These two sets will work great together! AND SO, Trinity Stamps is offering 20% off the First Bloom stamp set and and die set when you purchase your Summer Blooms kit. Just add the Kit, the First Bloom Stamp Set and Die set to your card then enter FirstBloom20off at check out!  

If you are not familiar with the First Bloom stamp set, here's a look at a card I made with that set. 

You can see that these blooms will coordinate so good with the blooms from the Summer Blooms kit! 

Start shopping for your kit and more right here.

This kit comes with INK cubes from Ink On 3! The Fade Out No Line Coloring ink is one of them. I was so super excited about that and had to do some no line coloring with this stamp set. 

I found it to be very easy with this set and it was so enjoyable bringing these blooms to life. 

Here are all the yummy things that come in the Summer Blooms Kit: 

4x8 Summer Blooms Stamp Set.

Coordinating Die Set.

1 4x8 Trinity Stamps Product Pocket for Stamp/Die Storage.

12 piece collection of double sided 6x9 papers - two sheets of 6 double-sided designs.

Summer Sparkles - Kit Exclusive mix of rhinestones in Trinity Stamps Signature storage box.

InkOn3 Mini Ink Cubes! One of each color in: Fadeout no-line coloring ink, Sweet Petunia Pink, Marigold Orange, and Goddess Green.

This exclusive kit is available only while supplies last. If purchased separately, these items total over $75.00... That's a savings of $35!

GET YOUR SUMMER BLOOMS KIT HERE

If you are interested in the other products I used to make today's card I have them 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.

 

 

 

Slimline Wide Box Forest Par-Tea Scene

Welcome back! This post is for Episode Two of my August Stamp Set of the Month series. This month I am featuring the Trinity Stamps set, Forest Par-Tea. And in this weeks episode I am making a slimline wide box card. It is such a fun style of card to do with a 3D scene. 

This card was made using the Slimline Wide Box die set by Trinity Stamps. I love that the guess work of making a card like this is done for me with the help of this die set. 

You can see it all come together in this episode below. 

If you can not see this card up on the screen, you can view it right here. 

To create the scene inside this box I used image from the Forest Par-Tea set of course, but also the Bunny Burrow set which coordinates with this et so nicely! I used the flowers, the forward facing bunny, and the insects to add to this picnic par-tea in the park. The die cut trees and birds are from The Great Outdoors die set. I love this set with is elements that help build an outdoor scene! 

If you like this card you will also like the backyard par-tea scene I created for Episode One, you can watch it right here. 

All the supplies I used to make today's card are listed and linked for you below. Be sure to check back in next Tuesday night for another Episode featuring this 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.

Introducing Crescent Creation

Hello stamping friends. Today I am part of a blog hop celebrating the opening of the online shop, Crescent Creation. The shop owner is my friend Neha Tulsyan. She previously had an Etsy shop where I would get some of my favorite shaker elements from. On her new website you can still get these fun embellishments but she has also expanded her line. She now carries her own Digital stamps as well as products from several companies that you already love like; Lawn Fawn, Honey Bee Stamps, Avery Elle, Ranger, Pink Fresh Studio and more!  

As part of this hop celebration there are several designers creating fun projects to inspire you, several of whom are my friends, so make sure to hop along with us and leave comments as you so. 

The second part of the hop that is so fun, is that Neha is giving away FOUR $25 shopping sprees to her new shop!  Winners will be announced on August 17th, so be sure to get all your hoping done before then. 

To make sure you are entered follow Crescent Creation. 

Website

Facebook

Instagram

Pinterest

YouTube

Now let's take a look at the card I made for this hop and then I will have all the hop links for you below. 

For this card I combined Digital Stamps and traditional stamps. The slide image is from a Digital Stamp Set, Park Fun. I thought a slide image was such a fun image to add to my collection. And I knew it would pair well with my Avery Elle Peek-a-Boo critters. So, I asked my daughter, what animal is most likely to go down a slide. She said PENGUIN! And so this card was born. I thought it would be really fun to do a Christmas card with this slide. I'm pretty sure I have never seen a Christmas card with a slide before!!! 

You can see this card come together in the video below.

If you can not see the video up on this screen, you can also view it on my YouTube channel. 

The little penguin I added to the top of the slide is from the Avery Elle stamp set, Polar Peek-a-Boo Pals. I love that it looks like he is about to take a slide down, he even looks a little apprehensive.  But not to worry, his friend (in this case) the polar bear safely made it down the slide and over the snow. 

I found some glitter paper from my stash with a light pink tint and thought it would be perfect for my snowy or icy hill. I also paired up Digital sentiments from the Park Fun set with a traditional stamped sentiment on this card. 

I altered the "to say" sentiment by cutting off the word "hi", so it would then say... "Sliding by to say Happy Holidays". 

I accented this card with some clay elements, Snowflake Mix, also from the Crescent Creation shop. These darling snowflakes were the perfect finishing touch. 

I hope you are enjoying the hop and found some inspiration here. The next stop on the hop is my friend Marla Harris at Mad About Cards & Crafts. 

If you missed a stop on the hop you can find the entire line up right here. Some of the stops are blog some are YouTube videos. 

Crescent Creation Blog

Carrie Rhoades ---------- YOU ARE HERE

Marla Harris

Ashley Young

Silvia Galloni

Erin Reed

Lisa Blanton Mensing

Lauren Taylor

Candice Richardson

Arjita Sepaha Singh

Ishani S

Deborah Jenkins

Don't forget to leave some love along the way to be entered into the giveaway! 

 

 

Positive-Tea Shaker Card

Hello my stamping friends. Today I got to go LIVE on the Trinity Stamps Instagram. I played with some new things paired with an older stencil I had yet to use and made a card inspired by my grandmothers china. I could not be more happy with how this card turned out. It's a bit of a break from my norm of bright colors and has a vintage feel to it.  If you missed the LIVE video you can still watch it right here. 

 

 

 

 

 

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And now let's take a closer look at the card I made.

This card began with a little inspiration from a tea cup, from my grandmother's set of china, Desert Rose. 

I thought the Bed of Roses stencil set could make a great background for this tea cup and then I immediately  thought of the Desert Rose dishes I have of my grandmother's. This card makes me so happy and I am sure my grandma, Teddy, would love it. I miss her sweet little face! 

The focal point of the card is a sweet 4" x 3" stamp set designed by one of Trinity Stamps beloved designers, Love, Dani Studio. It is one set but comes with 4 dies to cut out the images individually if you like. I love how Love, Dani Studio always incorporates uplifting sentiments with her darling images. 

I added the cup to a background stamped with the Encouragement Text 6" x 6" background that was cut down to 4-1/4" x 2-7/8" to fit  behind the pink scalloped frame die cut using the 4 Bar Card Builder Die set .  This frame became the front of my shaker whichhas a few clay lemon slices in it to shake around. 

The second sentiment on this stamp is able to be die cut using a banner die in this same die set. I embossed mine with white onto some dark green card stock. Then added the banner to the bottom of the shaker. All of this fit on to my A-7 sized card,  5" x 7". The two panels on this card were die cut using the Modern Embossed A-7 Layering Die Set. I love the etched line these panels have from this die set. It really adds to the design of this card. 

Below you will find all the supplies I used to make this card. Thank you so much for stopping by and letting me share this special card with you. Please let me know if you have any questions. 

 

 

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.

Backyard Tea Par-Tea

Hello and welcome to Episode ONE of my August Stamp Set of the Month series! 

This month I am featuring a stamp set I picked because I love it, it is the Forest Par-Tea stamp set by Trinity Stamps. 

This stamp set has cute critters and all the fixings for a perfect tea party! 

I decided to set this tea party scene in a backyard setting, as it is a scene I saw a lot of when my two girls were little. They would dress up and I would help make them fun little foods and they'd pull out their little tea set. How I miss those days! 

You can see this card come together in the video below. 

 

If you can not see the video on this screen, you can view it on my YouTube channel. 

The houses I used to create this scene are from the Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood stamp set. I love the size of these houses, not too big and not too small. and such a great variety of images in the set. And they work great with the fun images from the Forest Par-Tea set I am using as well. 

I love the critters in this stamp set, but all the other supporting images just MAKE this set. The stump as the table and the tiny cookies and strawberries are so very adorable. I was so happy to add them to my scene. And can you see the little hats for the critters to dress up in!  Darling. 

Creating little scenes like this is one of my favorite kind of cards to make. How about you? Do you make scene cards? Let me know in the comments below. 

If you are interested in any of the products I used to make today's card I have them all 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.

Tune in every Tuesday night at 8pm MST on my YouTube channel this month for a new episode featuring this stamp set.

Glimmer Kit of the Month August 2021

Hey there, I love the beginning of the month and sharing with you the new kits from Spellbinders. In this post I am sharing the Glimmer Kit of the Month for August 2021. This kit has 4 hot foil plates and 1 die. The hot foil plates are two floral sprays, one sentiment and one hex shape. The die is a larger hex shape that will die cut around the hot foiled shape. These florals are beautiful and are great for repeat foiling to create a background. Which I did a bit of on my slimline card. I also used the die to make a mini shaker on this card. I also used the Bright Pink foil that comes in the kit to do all of the foiling on this card. 

You can see this kit in action and this card come together in the video below. 

If you can not see the video up on this screen, you can view it right here. 

You can see here that I not only used this set to make a floral background, but I used the die and the sentiment to make a mini shaker window on this card. 

To give my flowers a bit more interest I added a bit of shading with some colored pencils. I used white on the centers of the flowers and the stems and branches. Light pink on largest flowers and a darker pink on the small flowers. I love the pop this gave the flowers and that it still kept with the pink theme of the card. 

I finished off the card with a splattering of Bubble Gum and Sparkle silk. 

Another thing to note about the kits of the month is that several of them work together. This month the Large Die of the Month, Small Die of the Month, Clear Stamp of the Month and the Glimmer Kit of the Month all coordinate!  I love that mixing and matching the different kits just expands my creativity. If you are interested in receiving multiple kits at a time Spellbinders has bundle options available. 

Below I have listed and linked all the supplies I used to make this card, as well as all the kit options that Spellbinders has to offer. 

 

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Hex Kaleidoscope Slimline Dies

The Large Die of the Month for August 2021 is here. Spellbinders has another great slimline die set for this month's kit. It is the Hex Kaleidoscope Slimline Die set. This die set has 5 dies in it. Two are slimline dies that nest together and three are layering hex shaped kaleidoscope pieces. These pieces then fit on to the slimline cover plate die cut. It is a beautiful set. 

Let's take a look at it in action in this video. 

If you can not see the video up on the screen, you can also view it over on my YouTube channel. 

This die set is so pretty and just by changing up the colors you use can create so many different looks. 

As with so many kits of the month that Spellbinders has to offer this months kit coordinate together. The floral images and the sentiment on this card are from the Clear Stamp of the Month for August, Hex Tile Stamps. The florals in this stamp set are awesome. It has a black outline stamp and then solid shape stamps to stamp over the top to fill in the flower with color!  The result is stunning. And I love that the sentiments in this stamp set fit the hex shape perfectly. 

I also used the Glimmer Kit of the Month on this card. The Glimmer Kit is a Hot Foil kit, but also in this months kit there is a Hex shaped die that fits on this die perfectly. I used that die to cut out the vellum over lays for this card. Stay tuned for a video and post featuring the Glimmer Kit tomorrow! 

If you are interested in Spellbinders Kits of the Month I have them all linked for you below. They are such a great value and never disappoint. Let me know if you have any questions about them.  If there are several kits you are interested in getting they do offer bundles and I have those linked for you to check out as well. 

Thank you so much for stopping by! 

 

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.