Winter White village

Hi everyone,

Today I have a fun project to share that was very time consuming but crazy enjoyable to create using the Tim Holtz village series dies.

This is my village.

I created 6 houses for my piece.

My husband cut a couple of nice wood slices from some firewood that we had and I built up my village from there. The only thing I wish I had when making this were some Distress Mica flakes. They would have added a nice touch. I used what I had on hand from the $$ store.

I used 2 large wood slices and glued them together a little offset for my base. I added a bunch of wood shavings, glitter, red berries, branches, pine cones, styrofoam balls etc. I adhered all the houses and added my white tree to the middle.

I added Aleene’s Glitter Snow paste to all the roof tops and doorway peaks to add a subtle sparkle. The red bird is a die from Lawn Fawn.

Overall size is approximately 8.6” L x 6” W.

Well this is it for my project and stay tuned for my house projects as I now have the 87 piece set from Sizzix and Tim Holtz.

Supplies:

Sizzix/Tim Holtz Thinlits 664741 & 665585

 

Holiday note

 Hi everyone,

Well it’s been a while since I have posted here but I hope you have all had a joyful Christmas as much as anyone can under the current circumstances.

Well that said I have a card to share with you today.

I started with a green stitched panel and adhered my stencil from the Warm Wishes Collection by Vicki Boutin and then added green glitter over top. 

I added red Stickles to the berries and set the whole thing aside to dry.

The sentiment was stamped on black card stock and heat embossed with white embossing powder.

I used the coordinating die to cut it out.

I adhered my panel to a lighter piece of green card stock and then added it to my white card base.

This is a pretty quick card and oh so pretty with all that glitter.

Well that’s it for my card and thanks so much for stopping by🙏🏻

Supplies:

Vicki Boutin Warm Wishes stencil collection - Christmas Pine Tree Foliage pattern

Simon Says Stamp Stitched Rectangle die

Pinkfresh Studio Perfect Sentiments Holiday - stamp and die set

Gina K Glitz Glitter gel - Grass Green

Stickles - Christmas Red

White embossing powder

Peace & Joy

 Hi everyone, 

Today I have a stencilled card to share with you.

I used a new stencil from Vicki Boutin and some Distress inks.

I adhered my stencil to a piece of white card stock and starting from the centre of the stencil blending first the purple colour and then blending a blue ink colour to the edges.

Once I was finished with the blending I ran my piece through my die cut machine using a stitched rectangle die.

I added my panel to a white card base and added a sequin to the centre of where each of the star design meets.

The sentiment was stamped onto a piece of black card stock and heat embossed with silver embossing powder.

Well that’s it for this card and thanks so much for stopping by 🙏🏻

Supplies:

Vicki Boutin Warm Wishes stencil set

Pinkfresh Studio Perfect Sentiments - Holiday stamp and die

Simon Says Stamp Stitched Rectangle die 

Distress inks - Wilted Violet, Blueprint Sketch 

Silver embossing powder 

Sequins - Studio Majestic Confetti 

Snowflake greeting

 Hi everyone,

Today I have a card to share using alcohol inks. I guess I was on a bit of a roll with alcohol inks lately.

I created my background using 3 colours of ink.

Once I was happy with the blending I set the piece aside to dry.

I die cut the snowflake using Thermoweb Deco Foil.

The sentiment was stamped with black ink and adhered to my card with foam tape onto a circle die cut piece of turquoise card stock.

Well that’s it for my card and thanks so much for stopping by 🙏🏻

Supplies:

Lawn Fawn Magic Iris Snowflake add on die

Lawn Fawn Magic Holiday Messages stamp set and die

Simon Says Stamp Stitched Circle die

Alcohol inks - Limeade, Glacier and Laguna

Thermoweb Deco Foil - Silver Stars

Hello sunshine

 Hi everyone 🍁

Well Fall is definitely in the air and so are all the beautiful leaf colours.

Today I have a card to share for the current Simon Says Stamp IG challenge and also their Wednesday challenge.

I die cut a piece of 80 lb card stock with a large stitched rectangle die.

I then used a leaf stencil set to create my background blending 2 different colours of Distress ink. When the panel was dry I added stencil paste over one of the stencils to add sparkle to only some of the leaves.

I die cut 2 small leaves and blended with Distress inks and then heat embossed the edges with gold embossing powder.

The centre sentiment piece was stamped with Versamark and also heat embossed with gold embossing powder.

I mounted the panel and the sentiment to my card base of yellow card stock with foam tape and adhered the leaves directly.

Well that’s it for my card and thanks so much for stopping by 🙏🏻 🍁 

Supplies:

Simon Says Stamp stitched rectangle die set

Lawn Fawn Fall Leaves Background stencils 

Lawn Fawn Magic Messages stamp set

Lawn Fawn Fairy Dust stencil paste 

Distress Oxide inks - Candied Apple, Fossilized Amber

Leaf - Lawn Fawn Magic Iris Fall Leaves add-on die

Merry & Bright

 Hi everyone,

Well today I have my first Christmas card for this year to share with you.

I started by layering each stencil at a time and blending the colour with my lightest shade of ink working to the darkest shade.

Before adding my finished piece to my card base I decided to heat embossed the edges with red glitter embossing powder.

I stamped my sentiment with Versamark ink and heat embossed with white embossing powder.

I added the panel directly to my card base and foam mounted the sentiment.

To finish the card off I added some red Stickles to some of the red berries.

Well that’s it for my card and thanks so much for stopping by 🙏🏻

Supplies:

Pinkfresh Studio Holiday Botanical Background stencil set

Pinkfresh Studio Perfect Sentiments: Holiday stamp and die

Pinkfresh Studio ink cubes - Fresh Pear, Grassy Knoll, Key Lime

Lawn Fawn Lobster ink

Stickles Xmas Red

Red embossing glitter

Here comes Halloween

 Hi everyone,

Today I have 3 Halloween cards to share with you which I used alcohol inks on each of them. 

For my first card I used a ruler with a strip of felt and added drops to the edge and began pouncing the ruler up and down on the long thin edge to create my background.

For my second card I added alcohol inks directly to a piece of Yupo paper and blended them together with the help of my Tim Holtz air tool to move them around.

For my third card I die cut the words Happy Halloween from the background piece which was used from the second card before I had assembled it.  For the negative space that was left on my second card I die cut the Happy Halloween die from silver sparkle paper and glued it directly into the space.

I used various Lawn Fawn stamp and dies and coloured my images with Copics.

I added Glow in the Dark stencil paste to the tops of the trees on Card 1 and the windows and stars on Card 2 and used a starry sky stencil to add glow in the dark to the striped background.

Well that’s it for my fun Halloween cards for today and thanks so much for stopping by 🙏🏻

Supplies:

Lawn Fawn Giant Happy Halloween die

Lawn Fawn Spooky Village stamps and dies

Lawn Fawn Scootin’ By stamps and dies

Lawn Fawn Stitched Tree border die

Lawn Fawn Pick of The Patch stamps and dies

Lawn Fawn Costume Party stamps and dies

Lawn Fawn Starry Sky stencil

MFT Die-namics Stitched Rectangle Scalloped Frame die

Lawn Fawn paper pad

Alcohol inks - Valencia & Amethyst 

Lawn Fawn Glow in the Dark paste

Sending hugs

Hi everyone,

Today I have a card to share using alcohol inks on a gold foiled acetate sheet.

I used gold foil on a piece of acetate with leaves on it. As the foiling didn’t take completely to the black images I decided to scratch off some of the gold foil to give it a distressed look.

I added colour to the acetate by applying some alcohol inks to the back side. For a little extra interest I sprinkled on some red glitter while the ink was still a bit wet. I added the acetate panel to a piece of white card stock and then adhered that to a piece of orange card stock. Instead of adding the whole panel to a white card base I added it to a yellow panel with tiny flowers.

The sentiment was stamped onto black card stock and embossed with white embossing powder.

To finish off my card I added a few tiny orange rhinestone crystals.

Well that’s it for my card and thanks so much for stopping by 🙏🏻

Supplies:

Simon Says Stamp Tumbling Leaves Acetate sheet

Pinkfresh Studio Perfect Sentiments Stamp and die

Alcohol inks - Dandelion, Valencia

Boo card

 Hi everyone,

Today’s card is just the beginning of my Halloween cards for this year.

I started by ink blending my background with 2 different colours of Distress ink.

I die cut the circle background from a piece of black card stock. I stamped the images and coloured with Copics.

I decided to add a little sparkle to the card base by inking the edges with Versamark ink and embossing with Black Diamond embossing powder.

I added a white panel to my card followed by the ink blended panel and then the circle die last.

The BOO letters were die cut with black card stock twice. One set I left black and the other set I added some metallic ink over top.

I stamped Boo in each corner circle then added all my other elements with foam tape.

Well that’s it for my card and thanks so much for stopping by.

Supplies:

Studio Katia Dotted Patterns Loops die

Lawn Fawn Oliver’s Stitched ABC’s die set

Mama Elephant Little Boo Agenda stamp set

Distress ink - Carved Pumpkin, Wilted Violet

Autumn blessings

Hi everyone,

Today I have a card to share that I created using a new die from Hero Arts called Sun Flare.

I started by running the die through my die cutting machine to cut out the white outline.

I then ran the die through my die cutting machine several more times in order to cut out all the different colours of card stock and glitter card stock.

Before I glued the small middle panel to my card base I stamped the sentiment in dark brown ink.

I used a stitched leaves die set to cut out the 2 leaves from shiny card stock and added them to my card with foam tape.

Well that’s it for my quick and colourful card and thanks so much for stopping by 🙏🏻

Supplies:

Hero Arts Sun Flare die

Lawn Fawn Small Stitched Leaves die set

Honeybee Sending You Sentiments stamp set 

Distress ink

 

Mermaid hello

Hi everyone, 

Today I have a card to share that I created for the current Lawnfawnatics challenge #108 using their Inspiration photo 

Here’s my card.

photo 

I created my background using a Ken Oliver’s Color burst powder which I adhered directly to my card base.

I then die cut all my Mermaids and the rock and then coloured them with Copics. All other images were stamped directly using various colours of ink pads.

I assembled my scene adhering some of the images directly to my panel with glue and the others were adhered with foam tape.

Stickles was added to the Mermaids in colours to match their outfit.

Well that’s it for my card and thanks so much for stopping by 🙏🏻

Supplies:

Lawn Fawn Mermaid for You stamps and dies

Lawn Fawn Wavy Sayings stamp set

Lawn Fawn Simply Wavy banner die

Ken Oliver Color Burst powder 

 

Sparkly thank you card

Hi everyone,

Today I have a card to share using a stencil from Pinkfresh Studio and some ink blending with Distress 

Oxides.

I started by securing a slimline stencil to a white panel on my Make Art Stay-tion. As this was a slimline stencil I used a rectangle masking stencil over top so that I could have a nice clean white border around the edges of my panel and then began blending.

When I was finished with the blending I die cut a scalloped frame to go over top. I adhered the panel and my frame to my card base. The sentiment (Perfect Sentiments from Pinkfresh Studio) was stamped with black ink and cut out with the matching die. 

The wonderful thing about this stamp and die set is that you can stamp and die cut several different sentiments at once having some left over for other cards.

After the sentiment was adhered with foam tape I added the jewels to my card. Two rows of turquoise and one row of yellow. These beautiful sparkly jewels are also from Pinkfresh Studio.

Well that’s it for my card and thanks so much for stopping by 🙏🏻

Supplies:

Pinkfresh Studio Diamond Motif slimline stencil

Pinkfresh Studio Perfect Sentiments stamp and die

Taylored Expressions Rectangle Masking stencil

MFT Die-namics Stitched Rectangle Scalloped Frame die

Pinkfresh Studio jewel embellishments - Ocean Breeze, Sunshine

Distress Oxide inks - Tumbled Glass, Twisted Citron, Squeezed Lemonade, 

Mermaid Lagoon, Blueprint Sketch 

 

Find joy every day

 Hi everyone,

Today I have a card to share for the current Simon Says Stamp Flickr challenge where the theme is Fall.

I used the Floating Leaves stencil from Simon Says Stamp and ink blended 5 different colours of Distress inks on to a white card base.

The sentiment is from Hero Arts and stamped onto white card stock and gold embossed. I fussy cut the stamped sentiment and also a piece of vellum.

I heat embossed the edges of a tan card with gold embossing powder and added my panel to a piece of white card stock and then popped it up with foam tape.

I added a few rhinestones and that completes my card. Thanks so much for stopping by 🙏🏻

Supplies:

Simon Says Stamp Floating Leaves stencil

Hero Arts Find Joy stamp set

Distress inks - Festive Berries, Ripe Persimmon, Mustard Seed, Vintage Photo, Mowed Lawn

Gold embossing powder 

Wild birthday

Hi everyone,

Today I have a card to share that I am entering in the Lawn Fawn current Lawnfawnatics challenge #107 where the theme is 3D cards.

Details on their blog here

I started by die cutting the pieces for the box with cream coloured card stock. I then used the tropical leaves stencil set to apply 2 different colours of Distress ink.

I die cut the grassy border with green card stock and die cut and Copic coloured all the other images.

I assembled the box and added the toucans onto strips of acetate so they could move. Once everything was added in place I added glitter glue accents here and there.

It has been a while since I created one of these boxes and forgot just how much fun they are to make and I hope you like it.

Well that’s it for my card/box project and thanks so much for stopping by 🙏🏻

Supplies:

Lawn Fawn Toucan Do stamps & dies

Lawn Fawn Tropical Leaves die set

Lawn Fawn Magic Messages stamp & die

Lawn Fawn Tropical Leaves Border die

Lawn Fawn Tropical Leaves Background Stencils

Lawn Fawn Watercolor Wishes Rainbow 6x6” paper pack

Distress inks - Shabby Shutters, Peeled Paint

Hey there sunshine

 Hi everyone,

No doubt we have had an ample amount of sunshine this summer. Nice day to be on the water in a boat or just in the water period. Hence, my card. Entering in the current Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge https://www.simonsaysstampblog.com/wednesdaychallenge/

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I started by creating my background using a slimline stencil and ink blended 3 different shades of Distress inks.

The sailboats were die cut twice from white card stock and just the masts and boat hulls were coloured with Distress inks also.

The die sentiment was cut from a piece of orange glitter card stock and glued directly to my base whereas the other sentiment cut from a Paper Rose collection and foam mounted to my card.

I added a strip of patterned blue paper to the background and added my panel to that. The boats were glued directly to the background and some glossy accents was added to each.

Well that’s it for my card and thanks so much for stopping by 🙏🏻

Supplies:

Simon Says Stamp Sunshine and Sailboat dies

Pinkfresh Studio Slimline Layered Starburst stencil

Paper Rose black & white sentiments

Lawn Fawn patterned paper

Distress inks - Squeezed Lemonade, Mustard Seed, Wild Honey - Rusty Hinge, Blueprint Sketch 

Glossy Accents

You make my heart smile

 Hi everyone,

Don’t know where you are but it’s awfully hot here in Montreal so I decided to hide away in my craft room for a while.

Today’s card i a  entering in the current Simon Says Stamp IG challenge where the theme is to use a stencil and the current Flickr challenge #181 where the theme is Friendship and Flowers.

I chose the Flora stencil from SSS and used it on purple card stock with Nuvo Glacier paste. I love all the glossy shine that it gives. As this stencil is quite delicate I used an adhesive spray to hold it in place so I could apply the paste.

I used both vellum and a piece of black card stock to die cut the Hugs word. The other is a preprinted sentiment from Paper Rose.

Well that’s it for my card and thanks so much for stopping by 🙏🏻

Supplies:

Simon Says Stamp Flora stencil

Nuvo Glacier paste - Winter White

Birch Press Designs Big Hugs Sugar Script die

Paper Rose sentiment sheets

Rainbow raindrops

 Hi everyone,

Today I have a card to share for the August Simon Says Stamp IG challenge where the theme is to use a stencil.

I used the Raindrop stencil and ink blended a bunch of Distress inks in rainbow order onto white card stock.

The sentiment and word die are from Altenew. I die cut the word from white vellum and stamped over top with a mix of blue and purple Distress inks to follow the order of the raindrop colours on the card. I also heat embossed it with clear embossing powder.

The sentiment was stamped on black card stock and embossed with white embossing powder.

I used a rainbow paper from Lawn Fawn to cover my card base and adhered the blended panel with foam tape and added the word sentiment with foam tape also.

Well that’s it for my card and thanks so much for stopping by 🙏🏻

Supplies:

Simon Says Stamp Raindrops stencil

Altenew Halftone Smile stamp set and die

Distress inks 

Lawn Fawn Really Rainbow 6x6” paper pack

White and clear embossing powders

Aloha

 Hi everyone,

I’ve been a little quiet lately just enjoying the outdoors and soaking up the sunshine ☀️ but I do have a card today to share with you using Lawn Fawn and Simon Says Stamp products.

I applied my stencil to a piece of white card stock and then began blending the different colours of neon inks masking sections of the stencil as I added my colours.

I die cut the word die once with black card stock and than again with pink card stock. I glued the two together offsetting them.

The other sentiment was stamped with clear embossing ink and heat set with white embossing powder.

I added my panel to a piece of black card stock and added that to my card base.

Both the die cut word and sentiment strip were added with foam tape.

Well that’s it for my card and thanks so much for stopping by🙏🏻

Supplies:

Simon Says Stamp Prayers stamp set

Lawn Fawn Tropical Leaves stencil

Lawn Fawn Aloha die

Hero Arts Neon ink cubes

I like you more than naps

 Hi everyone,

Hope you are all enjoying a great summer so far. The weather here has been nice and hot 🥵 

Today’s card was made with some Lawn Fawn products and a Simon Says Stamp stitched rectangle die.

I started by creating my background using a Plaid stencil set and 3 different colours of Distress oxide inks.

I then stamped and Copic coloured my cute little sloth and also the leaves.

I die cut an oval from some patterned cardstock for the backdrop to my coloured pieces.

The sentiment was stamped and embossed with white embossing powder.

I used a large stitched rectangle die to cut my stencilled piece.

All the elements were either added with foam tape or adhered directly with glue. I also a little Stickles to the leaves.

Well that’s it for my card and thanks so much for stopping by 🙏🏻

Supplies:

Lawn Fawn Plaid Stencils

Lawn Fawn I Like Naps stamp set

Lawn Fawn Large Sticked Oval Stackables die set

Simon Says Stamp Stitched Rectangles die set

Distress oxide inks - Squeezed Lemonade, Cracked Pistachio, Salty Ocean

Lawn Fawn Watercolour Wishes 6x6 paper pack

Stickles Lime Green

Copics

You make me smile

 Hi everyone, 

Today’s card features a stencil from Pinkfresh Studio and a stamp and die from Lawn Fawn.

I started by dry embossing the stencil onto a piece of white card stock. I left the stencil in place and began to blend the different colours masking off each section as I applied he inks.

The sentiment was stamped and die cut using the matching die. I added a little Copic colouring.

I coloured the little hearts with the same Copic colour and die cut them out. I added a little shimmer with a Nuvo glitter pen.

I mounted my panel onto a piece of grey card stock and added that to my card base.

Well that’s it for my card and thanks so much for stopping by 🙏🏻

Supplies:

Pinkfresh Studio Diamond plaid stencil set

Lawn Fawn Magic Messages

Distress Oxide - Picked Raspberry, Spun Sugar

Hero Arts Soft Granite ink

Distress ink - Black Soot

Nuvo Aqua Simmer pen

Copic RV17

Tropical birthday

 Hi everyone,

Today I have a fun card that I made using products from Lawn Fawn’s latest release.

I started by creating my background with a 2 stencil set and ink blending Salvaged Patina over the 1st stencil and Twisted Citron with the 2nd stencil.

I stamped all the other elements to the card and coloured them with Copics.

The large word die was cut once from turquoise card stock and a second time from plain white card stock. I offset the white die cut over the turquoise and glued in place. It gives a nice shadow effect.

I added all the elements to my card, some with foam tape and others glued directly.

A little glitter was added with a Nuvo glitter pen.

Well that’s it for my card and thanks so much for stopping by 🙏🏻

Supplies:

Lawn Fawn Tropical Leaves Background stencils

Lawn Fawn Giant Happy Birthday die

Lawn Fawn Toucan Do It stamp and die set

Distress inks - Salvaged Patina, Twisted Citron 

The best is yet to come shaker

 Hi everyone,

I have a fun shaker card to share today using Waffleflower products. I created this for the current challenge over at Waffle Flower where the theme is rainbow. Details can be found on their blog Here 

I started by creating a rainbow background directly on my card base. I then die cut the large panel from white card stock and adhered that directly to my rainbow card. I was going to leave it like that but decided instead to create a shaker card. I haven’t made a shaker card in quite a while so I went for it.

The top panel was cut from a rectangle set of dies and added to the top which was perfect for matching the card base stitching.

Well that’s it for my card and thanks so much for stopping by 🙏🏻

Supplies:

Waffle Flower Herringbone Panel die

Waffle Flower Herringbone sentiments

Simon Says Stamp Stitched Rectangles die set

Distress oxides - Barn Door, Spiced Marmalade, Squeezed Lemonade, Twisted Citron, Blueprint Sketch, Wilted Violet 

Doodlebug Sequins  

Teacher themed appreciation cards

 Hi everyone,

Hope everyone is doing well and enjoying some sunshine and beautiful weather.🌞🏝

I have a bunch of teacher themed cards that I made using Sunny Studio stamps and dies and a couple of other companies.

I had so much fun making these which I must say were quite a bit of work as they are multi layer stamp sets.

I used multiple colours of ink pads and and a few different companies.

Jennifer McGuire has a great video explaining how to speed up the process of stamping multiples and how to successfully line everything up. It certainly helped me a lot ❤️

I hope you have enjoyed seeing these cards and thanks so much for stopping by🙏🏻

Supplies:

Sunny Studio Stamps Color My World stamps and dies

Sunny Studio Stamps Teacher Appreciation stamp set

Sunny Studio Fancy Frames Circle die set

Honey Bee Watercolor Lines stencil set

MFT Die-namics Stitched Rectangle Scalloped Frames die set

Cuttlebug Swiss Dots embossing folder 

Distress inks

Altenew inks

Kaleidacolor ink

Gina K Amalgam ink

Lawn Fawn paper

Glossy accents 

Gansai Tambi watercolours