Hello again my crafty friends. Today I am not making a card! Instead I am using stamps to make a home decor piece. When I saw the Porte-Hello stamp set from Trinity Stamps I knew I wanted to make something for my daughter's room. She love mushroom things and this image fits her style. That is where the idea for this project came from.
I used a couple things from the thrift store to create this wall hanging. The first is the sheet music that I stamped my image on. I saw it and bought it, not knowing exactly what I would use it for and a few years later, I am using it for this project. I have also used a few sheets of this when making Gel Press Prints.
The second thrift store find I used is the embroidery hoop. They are pretty easy to find when thrifting and are great to use for other things besides cross stitch.
You can see this project come together in the video below.
If you can not see the video up on this screen, you can view it right here.
To color in this image I used colored pencils, it was the perfect medium for coloring on top of this thin sheet music.
A bit of ink blending and splattering was the perfect touch to give this piece a vintage feel.
To embellish this I used a couple different clay elements from Trinity Stamps, a sunflower and some bees. I have both of these as well as all the things I used listed and linked for you below.
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Hey there stamping friends. I am thrilled to help my friend Jamie Peters celebrate her YouTube channel, Not 2 Shabby, reached 10K subscribers. To celebrate 10 designers have come together for a YouTube hop! And there are 10 sponsor, each designer will be showcasing one of these sponsors. And each sponsor has a gift card to giveaway!!! Tons of fun right here today!
I will be showcasing Lawn Fawn and making some easter themed projects.
Now let's take a look at the projects that I made using Lawn Fawn products for this hop.
The Build-a-Basket die set is the perfect Easter die set that you can use with any other easter stamps you might have. It is one of those timeless die sets that I will hold on to and use for years to come. With this die set I made a mini slimline card and a gift tag with a pull out piece.
This basket fits perfectly on a mini slimline card! I love that the basket can be the star of the show on this size card. If you are not familiar with a mini slimline card they are 3" x 6", super easy to make using a 6" x 6" piece of card stock and just fold it in half.
For my background I used Watercolor Wishes patterned paper. I added a bit of sparkle to the blue background using the Lots of Hearts stencil and Fairy Dust Stencil Paste. It makes for a nice subtle something in the background.
The sentiment on this card is from a Not 2 Shabby stamp set, Easter Wishes, I fit perfectly on the grass and is a great style for this card. I love it embossed with white, it gives it such a fun spring feel.
I played with different colors of card stock to create my two toned pieces. I love using a light and a dark card stock of the same color family for the eggs, basket and bunny.
Now let's take a look at the tag. I know it is a bit big for this stuffy peep bunny, but it is what I had. But this tag would fit nicely on a bigger stuffy, maybe one that would not fit in an easter basket. Or an a gift for a person that might not get an easter basket anymore. But wait, there is more to this tag, when you pull on on the eggs.....
This pull out is 1-7/8" x 1-3/4" and it just the right size for a little message or for your "To and From". Make sure to watch the video to see how this goes together.
If you'd like more inspiration with this die set be sure to check out this video, where I make a banner and place card with it.
If you are not familiar with Not 2 Shabby, they carry their own line of stamps, dies, paper, stencils and digitals stamps. AND, you can find products from your favorite stamp companies as well. I order my Lawn Fawn products from the Not 2 Shabby shop most of the time, it's because I love supporting not only one of my favorite product lines but also a small business run by a person I know. And Jamie is so great with customer service and getting orders out quickly.
If you want to shop the Not 2 Shabby shop you can use my discount code N2S10 to get 10% off your order at check out (some new or sale items may not apply).
If you'd like to hop along with us and enter the giveaway you will want to do that over on YouTube, as this is a video hop. Here are all the stops on the hop.
Below I have links to the products I used on 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.
WELCOME to the Heffy Doodle + Time for Tea Collaboration Blog Hop!
I am very excited about this month's collaboration hop with Heffy Doodle! This month we are collaboration with Time For Tea, another of my favorite stamping companies. They have a similar style to Heffy Doodle, so this is going to be a very fun mash up and hop.
Design Team members from both companies are sharing inspiration using products from both companies! You are going to love all the cute designs and inspiration!
Okay, let's take a look at the card I made for this collaboration, using stamps and dies from both companies.
It's a slimline shaker card, if you know me, then you are not surprised, as I LOVE slimline card and shakers are my favorite kind of card to make!
So much fun going on in this card, you can see it come together in the video below.
If you can not see the video up on this screen, you can also watch it right here.
The die I used for the shaker window, Skies The Limit, is such a cool slimline die. I knew when I first saw it that I wanted to make a shaker card. But I also want to do and inlaid technique with this die, watch for that in a later post! For this card, I die cut the Skies the Limit die from white card stock and made an ink blended background to go behind it. I just love the look. For my shaker elements I used some raindrop shaped sequin like confetti from Trinity Stamps. When you have clouds, sun and rain, you are going to get a rainbow right! To help the rain confetti pieces move around a little better I added a little bit of micro beads. And I have to say my secret ingredient when making a shaker card has to be the foam tape from Heffy Doodle. It is nice and thick and does not have a sticky edge! In my humble opinion, it is the best!
The scene on this card is a combination of stamps and dies from Time for Tea and Heffy Doodle. Let's break it down.
The cafe and critters images are from a new stamp set from Time for Tea, Cafe Critters. I fell in love with it right away, seeing how critters and food are some of my favorite stamps to play with. I used a slimline border die set, Slimline Scenery, from Heffy Doodle to create the sidewalk. The trees are also from a Heffy Doodle die set, Forest Builder, I felt they really helped to set the scene and bring out some green from the rainbow background. I knew I wanted a sun in my scene so I searched through my Heffy Doodle stash and found the perfect little sun in the Flying High stamp set. I wanted to make this card a cheery get well card tell in a friend that when they are feeling better we could get together again, maybe for a coffee, like in the scene. The die cut get well sentiment is one of several die cut sentiments in the Heffy Doodle collection. There is even Get Well Sentiments to go with this die cut and I used one that says, "so sorry your under the weather" on the inside of this card.
I had so much fun making this card and love to combine new stamp with things I already have in my stash. I know you are going to love this hop and seeing the creations of the rest of the designers. Below you will find all the info on the GIVEAWAYS, be sure to comment and enter.
GIVEAWAY DETAILS:
To be entered to win the giveaway, all you need to do is comment at each stop along the Blog Hop! Time for Tea will be giving away £25 and Heffy Doodle will be giving away £25 to their respective stores! Be sure to comment before 11:59 PM EST on Mar 2nd to be entered to win!
Each company will post their random winner on Mar 3rd at 10AM EST! Make sure to check theHeffy Doodle Blog and Time for Tea Blog to see if you’re a winner!
Thank you so much for stopping by and hopping along with us. Below I have listed and linked the supplies I have used.
SUPPLIES:
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.
You've heard that GOAT stands for GREATEST OF ALL TIME, right. Well,I think this die set, the Wide Box Die Set by Trinity Stamps is one of those die sets! I use it a lot and love to create a 3D scene in this box that folds flat and can be sent in a business sized envelope. For today's card I am bringing out one of the newest stamp sets from Trinity Stamps, I Goat You, Babe. These goats are so darn cute!
You can see this card come together in the video below.
A hand stamped card is always special, but there is something about a 3D scene that makes it seem a bit more special. That is what I love about creating cards using the Wide Box die set.
The goats and clothes on the link are all from the I Goat You, Babe stamp set. I just love these goats, they are so darn cute!
I also have to point out the rainbow in the back of the card, I made this using the Slimline Rainbow Builder die set, another of my favorite things from Trinity Stamps.
I love the Simply Sentimental You for a fun sentiment on the front flap of this card, it fit perfectly.
Below I have listed and linked all the supplies I used to make this card. If you have any questions be sure to let me know.
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.
Howdy Y'all! Today's share is a couple of cards that took on a country vibe and I just went with it!
I am using the Highland Honeys stamp set from Heffy Doodle, a family owned stamp company from Scotland. The Highland Cow (furry cows) are from there. But when I started coloring this little guy he clearly wanted to see what the wild Wild West was all about. I did not mean to make a couple of country themed cards but that's the direction it started to take and I just went for it.
Below you can watch these cards come together. I did some masking to make the scenes, no line coloring for a more story book look and a bit of fun with distress products for the backgrounds.
Both of these cards use the Woodgrain Texture Die for the background. This die leaves behind stitched lines of woodgrain. I LOVE IT.
For this background I accented the stitched lines using a Distress Crayon, Crooked Broomstick. I love how the Mica in this crayon subtly highlights the stitched lines.
For the images I did some no line coloring with my Copic Markers. I thought a softer more storybook feel would be a great look for these cards.
The background of this card started out with Vellum. I used 3 different colors of Distress Oxide ink and just drug the pad across the back of the vellum to get a faux wood grain look. I backed it onto a piece of Kraft cardstock. And here you can see I dress up the corners with EYELETS. I have not used eyelets on a card for at least 100 years!!! I even love the one that got smashed, gives it more of that rustic look.
I am pretty sure this Highland Cow is LOVING the country and all the field of grain. I live in Idaho and just around the corner from where I live is a little farm that has three of these cows and that might be what inspired these cards. As I so love seeing them when I drive by.
Thank you so much for stopping by and letting me share these cards with you! Below you will find the supplies I used linked for your convenience.
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.
Hey there stamping friends. Today I am sharing a video that I am super excited about. I bought some digital downloads from Love, Dani Studio. I love her art work and was excited to have digital images of hers to color. If you recognize her style that is because she is one of the stamp set designers for Trinity Stamps as well. But the main reason I bought them was because all proceeds of the sale went to support all those still displaced by the Boulder County Wildfire that took place on December 30, 2021. This fire that devastated the small town of Superior, Colorado left thousands of people homeless as 1,000 homes were destroyed. Entire subdivisions were reduced to nothing but ash. Dani of Love, Dani Studio lives there. Although her home was spared her heart is broken for the friends and neighbors who's lives have been forever altered and the devastation they face. She wants to make a difference in her community and so she used her gifts and talents to raise money by selling these five printable color sheets.
This download is only $2.50 and all the proceeds go to the Boulder County Wildfire Fund. Click here to get yours.
You can also donate directly to the Boulder County Wildfire Fund HERE.
I printed out these fun word art images at 65% to be able to fit them onto an A7 sized card. You can watch the video below to see how they came together.
AND! I am selling each of the five cards I made to raise money for the Boulder County Wildfire Fund. Each card is $10 and all the proceeds will go to this fund. You can purchase a card over on my Facebook page, HERE.
Now let's take a close up look at each of these five cards.
I just love that Dani creates images with word art and each and every image is uplifting and inspirational.
I used Copic Markers to color this image and I just love how it turned out!
Embellishments on this card are so much fun, rainbow jelly hearts from Trinity Stamps. And I added touches of glitter as well with some Diamond Stickles.
Do you see the patterned paper I used in the background? That paper is part of a collection, designed by Love, Dani for Trinity Stamps. It's delish paper and is linked for you below.
I only wish I could make bubble letters like this, but that is why I am a stamper and not an illustrator. Thank goodness for Dani who shares her art with the world and brings joy to everyone who either makes with it or receives it.
Again, on this card I did my coloring with Copic Markers, my favorite thing to do with word art is to color it with a ombre effect.
You'll see that I brought back the Diamond Stickles to dress up the hearts once again. To embellish, rhinestones in all colors of the rainbow, also by Trinity Stamps.
Don't you love the nice highlight that the white gel pen gives the letters!
I had my fun with my Copic Markers and something just led me to pull out my watercolors and paint this image. Now, I printed this out on some cheap card stock that I buy in a ream from Walmart, sooooo, special care was taken to paint with little water. I can say, I had tons of fun painting this and I love the soft imperfect look of watercolor.
I added a bit of Sparkle Silk for some shimmery splatter on this card and some white gems. And, yes, Diamond Stickles.
For the four card I pulled out another coloring medium, colored pencils. It's been a while since I used them and it was refreshing and I always feel so artsy when I use them.
Do you see the nice embossed line around the edge of the die cut rectangle? That was created with the use of the Modern Edge A7 rectangle dies. I love that little touch, so much nicer than just using a rectangle that I cut with my paper trimmer.
You can see touches of Diamond Stickles in the confetti on this card.
Went a little crazy with color on this card. I made these stripes on this card using ink cubes from Concord & 9th. Then I darkened the letters with colored pencils. Speaking of crazy.... I added glaze to the largest words to help them POP.
And I had fun with the embellishments too. I love the clay hearts and rainbows! Such a cute touch.
You can find all the things I used to make today's cards listed and linked for you below. And, if you are interested in purchasing one of these cards be sure to visit my Facebook page.
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.
Hey there stamping friends, today I am back with another of the new stamp sets from the Sweet Shop release from Trinity Stamps. This is the Bon Bon Box stamp set. It is a sweet little stamp set with a box of chocolates. The coordinating stamp and dies make this set a lot of fun to play with. You decide wether you want to color in the chocolates, stamp the chocolates or paper piece the chocolates. Or a combination of these things.
I decided to make 3 card, one with each of these options.
Here are some close up pictures of each of the cards.
CARD ONE
This card is a 4 Bar card, which is a 5" x 3-1/2" card, also called an RSVP card. If you want to see more 4 Bar cards, watch my "What is a 4 Bar Card?" video.
As I mentioned above you can add color to these chocolates in a number of ways, one of them is to use the small stamps in the set to stamp each of the chocolates. The stamp will only cover the chocolate or bon bon and not the paper wrapper around the bon bon.
Then I used the coordinating stamps that create sprinkles or drizzle on top of the chocolates. I stamped in the images in Versamark ink and embossed them with white powder. The rest of the box I colored in with Copic Markers.
CARD TWO
For this box of chocolates I used the coordinating dies to cut out the bon bon shapes. This is my favorite way to add color to the bon bons, as it gives them a bit more dimension. I also added glaze over the top of them and a sprinkle of chunky glitter. I just love how it turned out.
This card is a mini slimline size, 3" x 6". So you can see how this box of chocolates fits on different size cards.
CARD THREE
For this last card I colored in the chocolates with my Copic Markers. This gives you the most ability to add shadows and highlights. I also did a bit of stamping on top of the coloring.
I loved adding the glaze to the chocolates so much that I added it to these as well.
All the supplies I used to make these cards are listed for you below. Please let me know if you have any questions or your thoughts on today's cards in the comments below, I love to chat with you.
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 creations with you.