Slice of happiness

 Hi everyone,

Well the heat wave has finally left us for now but there is always time for delicious citrus fruit to stay cool and hydrated.

I started by ink blending my background with Distress oxide inks. When done I ran the panel through my die cutting machine using a stitched rectangle die. I then ran it through again but this time with an embossing folder.

The fruits I had in my stash from last year all stamped and ready to use. The sentiment was stamped using the same colours of Distress oxide inks.

I covered my card base with a piece of patterned paper and added my panel and popped all the elements up with foam tape.

I added glossy accents to the watermelon seeds and some confetti embellishments to my card.

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

Supplies:

Sunny Studio Slice of Summer stamp set

Altenew Angled Mosaid 3D embossing folder 

Distress oxide inks - Squeezed Lemonade, Twisted Citin, Kitsch Flamingo, Saltwater Taffy, 

Tumbled Glass

Honeybee Back to Basics paper pad

Studio Katia Majestic confetti

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

 

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

Sparkle heart

 Hi everyone,

Good morning to Sunday. 

Today I have a card to share using the 2nd heart stencil from Honey Bee stamps.

This stencil has smaller hearts than the one I used in my previous post.

I started by applying some Nuvo glimmer paste (which is the first time I have used it and quite like the colour) to a piece of black card stock over my stencil. I originally had a square piece but after the paste was dry I decided to use a die to cut out a heart instead.

I die cut a smaller white panel using a stitched die and blended some ink over the centre. I stamped my sentiment with black ink just under where I would adhere the heart.

I added foam tape to the panel and foam tape to the heart and adhered them to the card.

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

Supplies:

Simon Says Stamp Stitched Rectangle die set 

Honey Bee Fluttering Hearts stencil set

Hero Arts Find Joy stamp set

Heart from Lawn Fawn Magic Color Slider die set 

Distress Oxide Spin Sugar

Nuvo Raspberry Rhodolite Glimmer paste

Sending you hugs

Good Saturday morning,

Today I have a card to share using a bunch of different products from various companies.

I taped down my stencil and blended 5 different colours of Distress inks over top. I then ran the panel through my die cutting machine using a large stitched rectangle die.

The Hugs die was cut once from black card stock and once from a gold glimmer card stock. I added foam tape to the back of the black piece and glued the gold piece over top offsetting it a little as to give it a slight shadow effect.

I stamped the other words with black ink directly to the panel and then added my die cut word piece.

I die cut some little tiny hearts from the gold card stock and glued them to the panel. I then added the whole panel to a Kraft coloured card.

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

Supplies:

Honey Bee Fluttering Hearts stencil set

Simon Says Stamp stitched rectangle die set

Birch Press Design Big Hugs Sugar Script die set

Altenew Halftone Smile stamp set

Tiny heart from the Lawn Fawn Gingerbread House add-on die set 

Distress inks - Twisted Citron, Mustard Seed, Ripe Persimmon, Picked Raspberry,

 Tumbled Glass, Shaded Lilac

Winter Trees

 Hi everyone,

Today I have a card to share using an older Hero Arts stamp called Winter Trees.

I started by stamping the image using a tri-colour ink pad. When dry I stamped over the image again with Versamark clear ink and embossed with Psychedelic glitter powder. It added such a rainbow of colour to my image.

The sentiment was stamped directly to the bottom of the card. I decided last minute to add a die cut stitched rectangle border around the image. In doing so, it cut off part of the word winter.

I had to fix this by stamping the words winter cheer onto a strip of white card stock and foam taping it over the 2 original stamped words. Seemed to have fixed my issue. Yeah!

I die cut a tiny snowflake from a piece of Holographic paper and added that to my card.

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

Supplies:

Hero Arts Winter Trees 

Simon Says Stamp Stitched Rectangle die set 

Honey Bee Sending You Sentiments stamp set

Lawn Fawn Mini snowflake die set

Hero Arts Ombré Mint to Green ink pad

Psychedelic embossing powder

Versafine black ink

Ghostly haunting

 Hi everyone,

Today I have a card to share using the Little Boo Agenda stamp set from Mama Elephant.

I stamped all the cute little ghost images and coloured them using Copics. I set those aside and went on to blending my background with Distress inks. Once I was finished I stamped the Lawn Fawn sentiment and embossed with clear embossing powder.

I adhered my blended background panel onto my card base which I had added a striped panel to from Honey Bee.

I die cut a cover up window panel from black card stock and adhered that to my card.

All the the ghosts were added with foam tape and I also added some Stickles and Nuvo Aqua shimmer pen for a little accent.

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

Supplies:

Mama Elephant Little Boo Agenda stamp set

MFT Die-namics Collage Cover Up die

Lawn Fawn Spooky Village stamp set

Honey Bee Back to Basics 6x6 pad

Distress Oxide inks- Candied Apple, Spiced Marmalade, Wilted Violet, Blueprint Sketch 

Distress ink - Chipped Sapphire 

Nuvo Aqua Shimmer

Glossy Accents

Stickles

Warm Wishes

 Hi everyone,

Well it is Thanksgiving Day here in Canada and I want to wish everyone a very Happy Day. As we are in the Red zone here in Montreal and cannot celebrate together we can always be together in our hearts and minds ❤️

Anyways I have a card to share wishing everyone Well Wishes.

I started by creating my background with my stencil and ink blending 3 different colours of Distress Oxide inks.

I die cut the large word die from brown card stock which is the same as my card base and the other sentiment was stamped with Hero Arts brown ink.

I adhered the stencilled panel to my card and the large word die to the centre of my panel. I added some confetti pieces from Simon Says Stamp Hawaiian Sunset blend.

Also entering this in the current Simon Says Stamp IG challenge.

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

Supplies:

Simon Says Stamp Floating Leaves stencil

Lawn Fawn Stitched Slimline die set
Hello Bluebird Warm Wishes die set
Honey Bee Sending you Sentiments stamp set

Hero Arts Cup O’ Joe shadow ink

Distress oxide inks- Candied Apple, Spiced Marmalade, Fossilized Amber

Simon Says Stamp Hawaiian Sunset confetti

Bright side

 Hi everyone,

Today I have a card to share that I created using a stencil from Honey Bee and some Distress Oxide inks.

I have made a few cards lately but haven't posted them as I have been going for super long power walks, Pilates and Yoga outside and generally enjoying the beautiful summer weather without actually spending time with anyone. Oh, and throwing in a couple of Zumba online classes each week. 

Keeping the social distancing thing going as long as we need to but I must admit I do miss my gym friends but don't feel comfortable going back to the gym just yet.

Anyways, here's my card.

I first die cut my panel using a stitched rectangle die from Simon Says Stamp. Which by the way is one of my go to dies for cardmaking. I use it a lot.

I taped down my stencil to my panel and then started to blend each stripe with a different colour of DO ink using my blending brushes. Distress Oxides blend so beautifully that it makes the stripes look as though they were painted onto my panel.

Once I was finished blending I adhered my panel to my card base using some foam tape.

The sentiment is from Paper Roses which I cut to size and foam mounted to my panel as well.

This was such a quick and easy card to make. 

Well that's it for this card and thanks so much for stopping by.

Supplies:

Honey Bee Watercolor Lines stencil

Simon Says Stamp Stitched Rectangle die

Paper Roses Sentiment sheets

Distress Oxide inks - Squeezed Lemonade, Spiced Marmalade, Candied Apple, 

Picked Raspberry and Wilted Violet

Rainbow cards

Hi everyone,

Today I have a couple of cards to share with a rainbow theme. As rainbows are everywhere these days I thought I would make a few different cards.

 

I started by creating my rainbow using a circle die from Spellbinders and different colours of cardstock. The white base of my card was die cut using a stitched rectangle die.

The sentiment was stamped with black ink and I added a little glitter heart where there was an open heart image.

The second card was created by using a stencil and dry embossing to create my background piece. The rainbow pieces were created using an Infinity die set from Hero Arts.

I layered the coloured pieces together and then used a white piece for the sentiment in the middle. I die cut several pieces of the white centrepiece and adhered them together so that they would create a nice raised image. The sentiment was stamped with black ink and some clear sequins were added for a little accents.

Well that's it for both of my cards and thanks so much for stopping by. I will be adding a couple more rainbow cards soon so stay tuned.

Supplies used:

Spellbinders Standard Circles large die set

Hero Arts Infinity Rounded Rectangles die set 

Sunny Studio Stamps Happy Home stamp set

Mama Elephant Up and Away stamp set

Honey Bee Fluttering Hearts stencil set

Bazzil card stock

Thankful for you

Hi everyone,

A pretty heart stencil card for today dedicated to all the wonderful hard working people here in Canada and around the world for keeping us safe and fed.  We just can't express in enough words how very thankful we are to them putting themselves at risk every single day.

I used a Simon Says Stamp stitched rectangle die to cut out my background piece and then used my pink blending brush from Taylored Expressions to fill in the stencil with a heavy hand and went with a lighter hand towards the centre of the stencil using Picked Raspberry Distress Oxide ink.

The larger sentiment was die cut from shiny black cardstock and the smaller sentiment was die cut once with white cardstock and then again with the same shiny black cardstock and the letters were inlaid into the sentiment.

I added a little glitter to the two o's and the r in the You sentiment to give in a little sparkle.

Pink pearl embellishments were added and that completes my card.

Thanks so much for stopping by.

Supplies:

Honey Bee hearts stencil
Hello Bluebird dies
Simon Says Stamp Stitched Rectangle die set
Distress Oxide ink - Picked Raspberry
Taylored Expressions blending brushes