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.
How To Emboss Resist With Nature’s Prints & Foursquare Masks
Ever embossed with stencils? Today’s post focuses on heat embossing with two different colors using one of the stencils from the Foursquare Decorative Masks.
Exciting News & Friends Are Like Seashells Diorama Card
The Friends Are Like Seashells stamp, dies and coordinating embossing folder coordinates well with the Layering Diorama dies to create a great friendship card.
On The Horizon With Nature’s Harvest Coneflowers
The Nature’s Harvest bundle is a must have if you love coneflowers! The stamp and dies make these dainty flowers pop on your cards.
Tasteful Touches & Timeless Tropical Memorable Birthday
Today’s card features two carry over stamps in the 2021- 2022 Annual Catalog – Tasteful Touches and Timeless Tropical and one new product – the Tailor Made Dies. I love how this card turned out. I used colors that I don’t normally use like Blackberry Bliss and Rich Razzleberry. We have 50 colors to choose from (not counting the basics – Very Vanilla, Basic White …
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 …
Game On, Swirly Frames – It’s All About the Color
Hello Crafters! Today I’m sharing with you two cards that feature the Game On & Swirly Frames stamps. Both cards are identical except for the colors – one has manly colors and the other girly colors. Remember in yesterday’s post how I used the circles from the Swirly stamps? Today we’ll look at the stitched lines from the same set. Notice the lines in between …
Woodland Wonder, You Are So Loved
Happy Valentine’s Day! Woodland Wonder is an adorable set so I had to use it for my grandkids’ Valentine’s Day card because they are so loved. The Woodland Wonder stamp has 3 different sections of a tree so you can lengthen or shorten the tree. In this card, I did not include the leaves on the tree. The set has several little images like music …
Painted Poppies – Fabulous At Any Age
When I first saw the Painted Poppies stamp set in November 2019 at a Stampin’ Up! event where the 2020 January – June catalog was revealed, I immediately fell in love with it. Not only did I love this stamp but I also got it free at the event! During these events, we stamp and play with new products and this was one of them. …
Timeless Texture . . .Fear Not
Today’s card features the Timeless Texture stamp as the background and Rose Wonder for the sentiment. I love all the texture and grunge stamps Stampin’ Up! offers in their catalog – Gorgeous Grunge (you already know it’s a favorite), Timeless Texture, and Touches of Texture. I combined all the images from the Timeless Texture stamp and used different color inks to create the background. I …
A Special Garden In Bloom
Today’s card features Garden in Bloom which is another favorite stamp set of mine. I needed an encouragement card and I thought this was the perfect sentiment . . . “Hope you’re feeling special because that’s just what you are”. I stamped off some of the flowers, embossed the flowers on the vellum paper with Gold Embossing Powder and tied 3 Burlap strands from the …
Dove of Peace
Isn’t this dove beautiful embossed in gold? This is one of the cards we did for my Christmas Card class earlier this month. The Dove of Peace stamp comes with the sentiment right below it but I decided that I wanted to separate it from the dove and give the sentiment its own wood block that way I can always use it separate from the …
No Bones About It
I thought you might need a break from flowers, so let’s go with something that may eat them up! I know, I know . . .. not all dinosaurs eat plants . . .or that they eat flowers, but let’s just pretend. The No Bones About It stamp set is a great set. It comes with 4 dinosaur images and their skeletal bodies, along with …
Moon Lake Birthday
This image from the Moon Lake stamp set with the tree and canoe has such a calming affect, doesn’t it? I wish I was there right now instead of surrounded by snow and ice. I’m tired of this weather!! I want spring, flowers and warmth! Of course, with that comes gardening work outside which means less crafting . . . hmm. . . I’m torn. …
Timeless Talk Record Card
Today’s card is an interactive one using the Circle Card Thinlits and Timeless Talk stamp that I made back in May but hadn’t posted it yet. I wanted to make a card with a LP record for my dad who loves to play music. Some of you may be saying, what is that?! Okay let me explain . . . some time ago, way back in the …
The Open Sea Birthday
Here’s a card I made for my husband using The Open Sea stamp, and a couple of other retired stamps in my stash. I know he likes the sea and boats so I decided to make one with a nautical theme. I used the faux layer and masking technique. I also embossed the Off the Grid stamp on the Crumb Cake card stock layer with …
You Make Me Happy Valentine
Here’s the other Valentine’s Day card using the Bokeh Technique in a different way – this time using hearts. So sorry for the delay. Here’s the scoop on what I did . . . I cut out the center heart with the Hearts Framelits and then embossed the sentiment with Early Espresso Embossing Powder. For the small heart I applied some heat and stick …
Bokeh Perfect Pennants
Here’s a non-traditional color for a Valentine’s Day card. On this card, I used the Perfect Pennant Bundle (Perfect Pennants stamp & Banners Framelits) as well as Sponge Daubers to create the Bokeh technique effect. I’ll be teaching this technique to my stamping club this week. I used the Decorative Dots Embossing Folder and Banner Blast Stamp Set which is FREE to anyone who purchases $50 …
Christmas Messages Tag
Make your own gift tags this Christmas. They’re quick and easy. Here’s one we made at my Tag It Class earlier this month using the Christmas Messages Stamp Set and the Season of Style Designer Series Paper. We embossed the saying with Gold Embossing Powder and used one of the framelits from the Deco Framelits Collection. This tag is similar to a small card – it measures …
Betsy’s Blossoms Emerging Colors
In today’s card I used the Emerging Colors technique which is a variation of the embossing resist technique. See another variation in this post. Do you see the colors coming through the Besty’s Blossoms image? Can you guess which stamp I used for the colors that show through the blossom? Gorgeous Grunge – one of my favorites! It is so versatile!! So did you guess right? I also …