Carrie Stamps

Heffy Doodle New Release Inspiration Blog Hop

Welcome to the Heffy Doodle New Release Inspiration Blog Hop!  We are so excited to share amazing cards from 8 Design Team members using the new release!  For today's special Blog Hop, you can win a £50 voucher to the Heffy Doodle store! International entries welcome. 

To be entered to win the giveaway, all you need to do is comment at each stop along the Blog Hop before May 4th, 2022 at 11:59 PM EST.  The winner will be announced on the Heffy Doodle Blog on May 5th at 10:00 AM EST!

This new release has to be one of my most favorite! Such cute new image and fun new die sets! For my card I am using Farmyard Fun Stamps and the Stitched Birthday Trio A2 Frame die. I thought it would be fun to make a John Deere inspired shaker card. 

The Stitched Birthday Trio die set really has so many options on which parts you are going to use and how and I just love that about this die set. I chose to use the frame and the negative pieces from die cutting the "happy bday to you". I put all the pieces together to make the front of my shaker card. 

I filled my shaker with some red clay hearts for some nice contrast with the yellow and green. Knowing I was using these red hearts I made sure that my stamped images reflected this color for cohesiveness. 

Isn't that tractor so cute!  The heart detail in this set that you can add to the exhaust pipe makes me smile! And it was the the inspiration for putting hearts in this shaker card. 

You can see this card come together in the video below. If you can not see the video up on your screen, you can watch it HERE.

 

Now it is time to HOP along with us! You should have come from Amanda Stevens blog and the next stop is the Heffy Doodle blog. 

Here is the entire hop line up incase you missed a stop along the way.

Heffy Doodle Blog

Claudia Mauri

Amanda Fitterer

Tatiana Trafimovich

Lauren Taylor

Zsofia Molnar

Ali Farmer

Amanda Stevens

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

Below I have listed and linked the supplies I used as well as all the products in the new release. All stamp sets have coordinating dies available, even if not shown in the list. Click on the stamp set and you will see the coordinating die set in the shop. 

 

 

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.

 

 

 

Light Up Shaker Card

Hello there my stamping friends! Over the last 2 weeks I have been sharing the Enchanted Woods release from Trinity Stamps over on my YouTube channel. If you have missed any of the videos check out my Trinity Stamps Playlist. 

Today I am sharing a few more of the products from this fun new release. I'll be making a shaker card using the Floral Mini Slimline Die. And a super cute stamp set; Tiny Fairy Silhouette's. But I am not stopping with a shaker card, I added another interactive element to this card, it also lights up! 

To make this card light up, I used the One Light from Pear Blossom Press. It is the newest in their line of user friendly light products for paper crafting. The One Light has got to be the easiest light I have ever used to make a card! 

You can see this card come together in this video. If you can not see the video up on your screen, you can also view it right here. 

So, what do you think of the One Light??? Pretty easy! And there are so many different ways you can used this fun little light. I think it would be lots of fun to add to a scrapbook page too. 

Here's another look at the card. 

Let's chat about the shaker on this card. I knew the background could not be too busy and with this intricate floral die cut as my background and then filled with shaker bits, it had the potential to be very busy looking. Here's how I kept the background from distracting from the focal images on this card. I die cut the Floral Mini Slimline cover die from gold mirror card stock. After adding a window sheet to the back of that and foam tape around the edges I used Diamond Dust to fill. Diamond Dust is clear, cut glass pieces. It's gorgeous. And being that it is clear, it will not only look like fairy dust, but not be too much of a distraction in the background. I could have backed my shaker with white card stock and the pattern in the floral panel would have really stuck out. Instead I chose brushed gold card stock. This is very similar in color to the gold mirror card stock I used on the front of the card, but still with a bit of contrast. This made for a very cool shaker that was not to overwhelming for the fairies on the front. 

For my Tiny Fairy Silhouettes I stamped and embossed each using specialty embossing powders from WOW. 

These solid images are perfect for using your unique embossing powders with. I used the Party Popper collection of powders. Each powder has larger flecks of white and gold embossing powder suspended in the color powder. When this melts you have an awesome speckled image.  

The One Light fit perfectly behind this 1-3/4" circle. I love that I was able to add a light up element to my shaker card because this light has so few parts and is small. I used a paper piercer to poke holes in the center of the sparkles. This creates a concentrated spot fo the light to shine through. 

If you'd like to see more Light Up cards here are my other videos. 

Below I have listed and linked all the supplies I used to make today's card. 

Pear Blossom Press Supplies: 

One Light Two Pack

One Light Five Pack

Narrow Foam Tape

Wide Foam Tape

Interactive Label Stamp set - MFT 

Diamond Dust found in my Amazon Storefront 

 

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.

 

 

COOL new stamps for WINDOW CARDS!

Super excited today to share my favorite stamps sets from the Enchanted Wood release with you today. It's the Oh Happy Day and Thinking Tree stamp sets that I am talking about. Both of these stamp sets have some large and very woodland images great for scene building. But when I first saw them and the unique dies that cut them out I immediately knew I wanted to make window cards with them. 

Both of these cards use window sheets so when you open them up you get a little surprise of elements that appear suspended or just the fun of being able to see a bit of what is going on on the inside of the card on the outside. 

Watch them come together in this video. 

If you can not see the video up on your screen, you an also watch it over on my YouTube channel, right HERE. 

The first card with the Oh Happy Day stamp set is an A2 sized card and the window sheet panel is a trim-fold. 

The frog appears to be sitting on the stump, but when you open up the card you can see that he is on a different layer of window sheet. 

Then the layer with the stump opens up as well to reveal the background of the card. 

And you can see there are a few fun elements on this panel as well. I love that little snail peaking out from behind the flower! 

For my second card I made an A7 sized card ( 5" x 7"). 

The focal image in this stamp set is much bigger and even works on a slimline sized card. Watch my video to learn how you can customize this image to work on different sized cards. 

This window card only has one window panel, a simpler look that is easily regrettable with images you might already own. 

On the inside you get a full look at the gnome and that darling earth worm. 

I just love the images in these stamp sets, they were a delight to color up and the turn into cards. 

If you want to see the entire Enchanted Woods release, check out my REVIEW video. 

Below you will find all the supplies I used to make todays card. 

 

Thank you for spending some time with me today! I will be back with more ideas and videos with the Enchanted Woods release for you soon! 

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 Floral Swag Die

Today I am sharing one of the new Slimline dies from the latest Trinity Stamps release in a 5 minute card making video. 

The die is a beautiful Floral Swag. It's dainty and so pretty. I added over the top of a gel press print in white. 

Watch the video below to see it come together. 

If you can not see the video up on your screen, you can also catch it over on my YouTube channel right HERE.

When you have such a beautiful die like this it is easy to make a card. This die steals the scene! All I needed was a sentiment and of course some gems to finish it off. You can find all of the gems I used at the Trinity Stamps shop, under embellishments.

Below I have the video where I share and review the entire Enchanted Wood release, incase you missed it. 

You can also watch it on my YouTube channel if you cannot see it on this screen.

Below I have linked all the new products for you to check out. 

 

Thank you so much for stopping by, tomorrow I will be sharing two cards made with window sheets and my FAVORITE stamp set from this 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.

 

Enchanted Woods Release is HERE

Hello there my stamping friends. Today is RELEASE day over at Trinity Stamps! 

This is the Enchanted Woods Release!

You are going to love all the fun things Trinity Stamps has in this new offering! 

I have two videos to share with you today. First up is the Trinity Stamps Design Team inspirational hop. 

For my project I am using several new products to make a slimline card that has a woodland feel and it's for Mom! 

This video is part of a hop, which means a GIVEAWAY! So be sure to click over to this video on my YouTube channel to comment and hop along, so you can be entered into the giveaway! 

We also have a giveaway happening over on Instagram. Visit the Instagram hop here.

And I also have a video of the ENTIRE release for you. In this video I am sharing each product in depth. You see all the things stamped, die cut, stenciled and even hot foiled. And I have a card created with each of the products to share with you as well. Check it out here. 

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

Below you will find all the products from this release! Check them out and let me know which one is your favorite! 

 

 

Thank you so much for stopping by! Let me know if you have any questions about this new release! And stay tuned to my YouTube channel this next few days for videos on the cards I shared in the release video!
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.