In today’s post, I’m playing with the Freshly Made Sketches #596 using Bird’s Eye View and Artistic Mask to create a black & white card with pop of color.
Here For You Z Fold, Stitched Triangles, Color & Contour
Make a clean & simple Z fold card using the Color & Contour stamp. The card incorporates three embossing folders for added texture.
Pierced Blooms Again – Don’t Grow Up It’s A Trap
Pierced Blooms flowers combined with the Watercolor Shapes makes a pretty card. Use your discarded die cuts to make a quick card.
Amazing Silhouettes & Special Moments For Someone Wonderful
Create clean & simple cards with the Amazing Silhouettes stamp set. Read more to find out how I created this card and brought this silhouette to life.
Special Moments & Island Vibes Brighten Up My Day
Cards don’t always need to have tons of layers. The Island Vibes & Special Moments Sale-A-bration stamps makes a great clean and simple card.
Valentine’s Day – Nuts & Bolts, Sweet Talk Again
Need a quick and easy card to celebrate Valentine’s Day? Today’s card using the Nuts & Bolts and Sweet Talk DSP is perfect.
My Meadow – Kindness Makes the World Brighter
Today’s card is a simple card using only ink, paper and stamps. I used My Meadow stamp set along with a sentiment from the Waterfront stamp. You can see two cards using the Waterfront stamps here and here. My Meadow, Waterfront & Snow Front are 3 similar type sets which allow you to stamp different scenes. If you’re the type of stamper that likes to …
Dandelion Wishes – Sending Well Wishes Your Way
Hello Crafty Friends! There is only more week to get any retiring products that are on your wish list. Today we’ll look at two of the products that are retiring – the Dandelion Wishes and Whisper White Polka Dot Tulle. Today’s card is a quick and easy card that you can make in no time. Quick enough to make several for when you need them. …
Cute Fruit – You’re One In a Melon Sweet Friend
The Cute Fruit stamp is perfect for #simple stamping. All you need is the stamp, ink, paper and adhesive – no other tools to make this sweet friend card. This stamp set is perfect for the beginner or for the person who likes to make quick cards. If you haven’t seen this set in the catalog it’s because the set is in the Beginner’s Brochure. …
Let’s Paint the Town with Brushed Blooms
In yesterday’s post we featured the Beautiful Brushstrokes dies and today we’ll talk about the coordinating Brushed Blooms stamp. This set includes 13 cling stamps – 5 sentiments and 8 images. One of the things that drew me to this stamp, was this particular greeting. I think it can be used in many crafty ways that would add some humor to your projects. This is …
Berry Delightful – You Always Have a Way of Making My Day
Today we’ll look at another card using the Berry Blessings stamp and Berry Delightful DSP. Wouldn’t it bring a smile to your face if you received a card that said “You always have a way of making my day”? That’s a feel good sentiment, for sure. In yesterday’s post, we saw how well the blueberries coordinated with the paper and today we’ll focus more on …
You Snailed It – Cuteness Overload
Snailed It is an adorable stamp set found on page 55 of the 2021 January – June Catalog. I think it’s a playful and feel good set and you can easily create a clean and simple card. Card Details This was a pretty easy card to make. Because the images are not too big, the coloring with Stampin’ Blends went pretty quick. This happens to …
Friendship’s Sweetest Thoughts
Happy New Year! The 2018 Occasions catalog went live today and is full of fun and interactive products for any occasion. Today I want to share with you a card created with Friendship’s Sweetest Thoughts – a sweet new set that can be used in different ways. I kept my card clean and simple with only one layer. I wanted to use the delicate swirl …
So Very Much
Today’s card is a quick and easy card which does not require too many supplies. I combined two Sale-A-Bration stamps – So Very Much and Delicate Details to make this clean and simple card. The ‘Thank You’ is big enough that you don’t need anything else. The card was cut at 5-1/2″ x 7-1/2″ and scored at 4-1/8. This way you can see the doily …
Pop Of Paradise
I recently got the Pop of Paradise stamp set and finally got around to inking it this week. It’s a fun summery set with flamingos, pineapples and some other fun images. Have you noticed that flamingos and pineapples have been popping up everywhere this summer . . . in home decor, outdoors, clothing, bed sheets, even wall paper? To be honest, I wasn’t aware that they were …
Birthday Subway Art – Stampin’ Up!
Today’s card incorporates 10 stamp sets to create this birthday subway art type of card. This makes a great masculine or teen card – doesn’t it? Change the colors and make it a girly card. I started by first stamping the biggest greeting in the center and stamped all the other greetings and images around it. Check your stamp collection and make your own subway …
3″ x 3″ Love You Sew & Best Thoughts Cards
Today I’m featuring two 3″ x 3″ cards using a hostess set from the Occasions catalog and one from the Annual Catalog – both retiring soon. The first stamp is Love You Sew. I made a spool shape card with the Envelope Punch Board following a tutorial I came across from Papercrafter45. The sentiments in this set are cute. I like everything about the card – the sentiment, …
Kinda Eclectic – Clean & Simple
Today’s clean and simple card was done for the CAS(E) this Sketch 167 challenge. I like clean and simple cards but usually don’t make them. I always feel the card needs something more, yet when I see other clean and simple cards, I love the simplicity and clean lines. So who knows, there may be more of these coming. I used the Kinda Eclectic stamp to …
Summer Silhouettes Birthday Wishes
Here’s a card I made back in November but hadn’t posted yet. Today’s card features Summer Silhouettes. I like the frilly flowers which allows you to make some pretty cards. The good thing about stamping is that you can create your own color flowers even if they don’t exist in real life. That’s ok – that’s called being creative. Click here and here to see …
For All Things Sympathy
Today’s card is a clean and simple sympathy card using the For All Things stamp set. I made this card back in May 2015 and hadn’t posted it – actually there are several I made last year that I haven’t posted so I’ll be posting those soon. For this card, I embossed half of the Whisper White cardstock so I could stamp my sentiment below …