Happy Easter to you all! I hope you have a wonderful Easter weekend! I’ve finally published my 10 Cards, 1 Kit video using Simon Says Stamp’s limited edition card kit. This kit was packed with pastel fun!! I loved all the Easter Bunny images and the cute sentiment stamps!

I am publishing this super late because my father in law passed away a few weeks ago. We will be missing him greatly this weekend when we get together as a family to celebrate Easter. It will be good to remember on Easter that because of Jesus, we will see him again. My father in law left a wonderful legacy of love for his family and a great example of kindness and service to others.

Thank you all for your continued support and kindness to me!!

Card One: Easter Egg Frames Card

Card Two: Pattern Stamping Card

Card Three: Mirror Stamping Card

Card Four: Bold Sentiment Easter Egg Card

Card Five: Decorated Easter Eggs

Card Six: Easter Wishes Card

Card Seven: Watercolor Easter Bunny Card

Card Eight: Yellow Jelly Bean Background Card

Card Nine: Green Jellybean Background Card

Card Ten: Easter Wreath Card

Below is the video for this card kit. You can watch it here or over on my YouTube Channel in HD.

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Hi crafty friends! I hope your weekend is off to a great start! I’m excited to show you all the cards I designed with Simon Says Stamp’s March card kit. The largest of the two stamp sets in this kit is called “Amazing,” and that’s exactly what I thought of it. I love geometric shape stamps, and the circles from this set has lots of fun patterns to them.

The small stamp set is called “Wooly Lucky,” and it is St. Patrick’s Day themed. I don’t usually send out happy St. Patrick’s Day cards, but the stamp set was sure fun to play with. I love the llama image in this set.

Card #1: Diagonal Flowers Card

I really love the circle image I used on this first card. It looks like a rose to me, so I used it that way. I stamped two flowers on a piece of white cardstock and die cut the center circle with a faux stitched circle die to make it a little smaller. I popped it up with foam squares between the larger flowers to give the card some dimension. I drew in my own leaves and cut it out on a diagonal. I used a piece of Doll Pink cardstock behind it, and heat embossed my sentiment with white embossing powder.

Card #2: Rainbows & Dots

This was a fast card to put together. I stamped out all the solid circle images with the Lucky green mini ink cube around my sentiment. I also stamped out a few black circles to match the black sentiment. I added a few green pearls and stars from the Lucky Charms sequin mix–loved this mix of sequins!

Card #3: Rainbows & Unicorns

I knew I had to use some of the Doodlebug stickers to make a birthday card for my daughter. She loves rainbows and unicorns, so I turned this card into a birthday card by adding my own birthday die cut. I love the sticker from this kit–great on card fronts as well as on the insides of the cards. Decorating the insides of your cards makes them extra special in my opinion. It doesn’t have to be elaborate, but it does add a lot more fun.

Card #4: Wonky Flowers

I love the look of colored pencils on dark cardstocks! I stamped out these circles stamps with white pigment ink first, and then I colored over the images with polychromos pencils. I then stamped them again–I made sure to keep the stamps on the door of my Mini Misti. I used clear embossing ink this time and poured on some white embossing powder. I also white heat embossed my sentiment. A few white Nuvo Drops across the panel helped brighten it up a little.

Card #5: Wooly Lucky Llama Card

I had to color in this little llama with my medium-of-choice–colored pencils. I used more of the pattern paper and cardstock from this kit behind him. I love how the yellow circle die cut really makes the llama stand out as the focus of this card.

Card #6: Rainbow Llama Card

I thought i’d go all out for this card and color an Irish scene behind the llama including some purple Irish heather. I used my softest shades of Copic markers to color a rainbow behind him. I didn’t want the rainbow taking over the show.  I also colored in the llama with soft earth tone Copics. I think this card it my favorite of the lot.

Card #7: Rainbow Circle Die-Cuts

I have a very eclectic assortment of circle dies. Sometime I want to purchase an infinity set of circle dies without stitches or anything–just circles. However, I used what I had to cut out my white heat embossed circle images. I used Distress Oxides to color them in. I didn’t put them on my card in rainbow order, but all of the colors are there. I used foam squares behind my sentiment as well as behind some of the circles.

Card #8: St. Patrick’s Day Shaker Card

I used a tag die from my stash to partially die cut a window in my green leaf cardstock. I made this into a little shaker window and placed another tag over it. I love this little Irish girl sticker and placed her on the tag. No coloring went in to the creation of this card, but I love how it turned out!

Card #9: Sunflower Card

I really love the sentiments from this set. They are encouraging, substantial and just fun! The one I stamped on this card it my favorite. I used two of the circle stamps to create what I hope look like sunflowers and stamped them across this panel. I also added a few small circle stamps to add lightness to the panel. After all my stamping was done, I used a wonky stitched die to cut out the sentiment. I matted it with more orange peel cardstock and popped up the panel with foam tape.

Card #10: Purple Fireworks Card

This was another quick and fun card to put together. I wanted the circle stamps to look like fireworks and confetti this time. I used more of the blue violet cardstock from the kit as well as a piece of the purple rainbow pattern paper. I stamped out my circles on a piece of white cardstock and matted it with blue violet cardstock. I chomped the corners to soften them. To make the sentiment really pop and not get lost on this busy panel, I heat embossed it with more white embossing powder on blue violet cardstock and then cut it out with a banner die.

Here is the video I created showing how I made these cards. You can watch it below or on my YouTube Channel in HD.

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Happy Valentine’s Day! I love making Valentine’s, and this Limited Edition Card Kit from Simon Says Stamp called Valentines was packed with cute products that inspired me to create lots of sweet Valentines. My favorite item from this kit is the 6×8 stamp set called “The Sweetest.” The critters in this set are adorable, and I enjoyed coloring them in. Below are pictures of all my cards, as well as pictures of the insides. I love adding a little something on the inside my cards–it makes them that much more fun for the recipients.

I used a wide variety of mediums and techniques to create these cards. I love being elbow deep in paper, colored pencils, stamps and etc. When I am in the middle of creating cards with these kits, my desk becomes a lovely, chaotic mess, but that’s part of the fun! I have a link to my video below. 😉

Card #1: Fast & Easy Pattern Paper & Ephemera Card

Card #2: Chalkboard Heart Card

Card #3: Lots of Happy Mail Card

Card #4: You Stole My Heart Mini Valentine

Card #5: Die Cut Sloth Mini Valentine

Card #6: Die Cut Hedgehog Mini Valentine

Card #7: Love Notes Card

Card #8: Watercolor Foxes in the Grass Valentine Card

Card #9: Sloth Heart Window Card

Card #10: Mini Fold-out Card

I hope you like the cards I created, and you are inspired to create some of your own! You can watch the video here or over on my YouTube channel in HD. Thank you for visiting! Have a wonderful day!

Hello Friends! I have another set of Christmas cards for you. I wanted to use an unusual color to add to my Christmas card crafting. I picked teal! It seems to be a very popular color lately, and it goes fabulously with the pops of red and green included on my cards. I used older stamps from my stash for the images and the sentiments. Use whatever you have in your own stash to make some fun teal colored Christmas cards. I hope you enjoy it! Thanks for visiting!

Card #1: Poinsettia Card

Prismacolor Pencils: Poppy Red 922, Crimson Red 924, Tuscan Red 937, Charteuse 989

Polychromos Pencils: Emerald Green 9201-163, Light Green 9201-171

Card #2: Christmas Cardinal Card

Inks: Memento: Lady Bug, Rhubarb Stalk, Hot Cocoa, Cottage Ivy,Tuxedo Black  MFT Ink: Pure Plum

Card #3: Christmas Ornaments Card

Card #4: Structured Snowflake Card

Here is my video for these cards. You can watch it here or over on my YouTube channel in HD.

Thanks for watching! Have a wonderful day!!

Hello! I hope you’re all having fun with your Christmas card crafting this year! I sure am, but I really like re-purposing stamps I have in my stash. Buying the latest and greatest stamps gets expensive. I have a fun video for you today where I visit my stamps from card kits past and use them to create some Christmas cards. These are all Simon Says Stamp card kits. None of these sets are Christmas stamps, but I was able to design some quirky and fun cards with them. It’s also amazing what some red and green inks and cardstocks can do!

Card #1: Flowers & Hearts Christmas Tree Card

The stamp sets I used for this card are May’s Take Heart set for the flowers and June’s Beautiful Flowers for the sentiment. I cut out a cylinder shape from a piece of typing paper to create my stencil, and then I randomly stamped my flowers, leaves, hearts and dots with Poppy Red ink and Elf Green ink from MFT. I made sure to stamp some of them off the side to build my tree shape. I stamped my sentiment in place of the trunk. I used a piece of MFT Poppy Red cardstock to mat my panel and adhered some Irridescent Bubbles from Studio Katia inside the flower for a touch of sparkle.

Card #2: Christmas Flowers Pattern Paper Card

I love creating my own pattern papers, and with this card, I used the flower image from October’s card kit called Sketched Blooms. It looked kinda Christmasy to me. I used the same Joy sentiment from my first card, and the dot and heart stamp from July’s card kit stamp called One Cool Pineapple. I colored in the flowers and sentiments with a Poppy Red and white Prismacolor pencil. I stamped out the dots with Poppy Red ink from MFT and Bamboo Leaves Ink from Memento. I used another piece of Poppy Red cardstock to mat this panel. I adhered some Bronze Simon Says Stamp sequins to add a more Christmasy feel to the card. 

Card #3: Cactus Christmas Tree Card

Here is the perfect card to send to a desert-dwelling friend. This cute cactus comes from July’s card kit set called One Cool Pineapple. I used a Santa hat from a snowman stamp set from Stampendous called Smiling Snowman. It wouldn’t have been too hard to hand draw the hat either. I colored in this cactus and hat with some Prismacolor pencils. I adhered one single Christmas ornament using another Iridescent Bubble.

Card #4: Christmas Mermaid Card

This card has to be my favorite of the set. This mermaid comes from August’s card kit stamp set called Beautiful Mermaids. It looks likes she could very well be holding up a Christmas star. I colored her in with Copic markers. To create the sky and water, I used some Distress Oxide inks in various blue colors. I had to mask her off so I could easily blend the inks around her, and then I peeled off the mask and ink blended lightly over her tail. I masked her tail because I didn’t want to obscure it with too much ink. I used a white gel pen to draw in the foam on top of the water, making sure to draw the foam line over my mermaid. This makes her appear as though she’s in the water and not merely in front of it. I also added falling snow with the gel pen. I was having so much fun creating this card that I almost forgot my sentiment. I had to put my completed card back into my Mini Misti to ink up the sentiment. I then poured over some white embossing powder and melted it with my heat tool. The white sentiment really pops off the blue of the card.

Below is my process video for these cards. You can watch it here or on my YouTube channel in HD.

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Hello! I hope you are all having a great weekend so far! I’m back with another 10 cards, 1 kit. Simon Says Stamp’s November card kit is filled with fun items to create some fall themed cards. The stamp set, also called Thanks & Leaves, includes a variety of solid image leaf stamps and gorgeous sentiments. However, there were two items in this kit that didn’t play nice with the rest of the items–the butterfly adornments and the Snarky Small Talk stickers. I love them both, I made cards with them both, but they weren’t fall themed cards. Lol!  See cards #4 and #11. I try to incorporate everything included in the kits in my cards. I also felt a bit coloring deprived with this kit, but I do manage to use my Prismacolor pencils on card #10.

I’ve included pictures of all my cards, as well as the inside designs. If you’re interested in what colors of inks I use, they are also listed below.

Card #1: Stamped Pattern Paper Card

Distress Oxides: forest moss, spiced marmalade, fired brick

Card #2: 4 Bar Card

Memento Ink: Dandelion, Rhubarb Stalk, Tangelo, Bamboo Leaves

4 Bar Card is 3 1/2 x 4 7/8

Card #3: Thank You Window Card

Distress Oxides: forest moss, spiced marmalade, fired brick, fossilized amber

Card #4: Butterfly Card

Distress Oxides: worn lipstick, wilted violet, twisted citron, lucky clover

Card #5: Thankful for You Card

Inks: MFT Jellybean Green, Ranger Dye Ink Cheese Puff, SSS Hybrid Melon

Card#6: Embossed Tag Card

Distress Oxides: fired brick, fossilized amber

Card #7: So Happy You are Family Card

Ranger Dye Inks: Java Bean, Lemon Twist, Electric Lime, Cheese Puff

Card #8: Wreath Shaker Card

Distress Oxides: spiced marmalade, evergreen bough, candied apple, seedless preserves

Card #9: Rainbow Leaves Card

Memento Inks: Lady Bug, Tangelo, Dandelion, Bamboo Leaves, Danube Blue, Grape Jelly

Card #10: Colored Pencil On Kraft Card

Prismacolor Pencils: Orange 918, Scarlet Lake 923, Crimson Lake 925, Canary Yellow 916, Apple Green 912, Olive Green 911

Card #11: Bonus Card – Sending You Smiles Card using Snarky Small Talk Stickers

Here is my process video which you can watch here or over on my YouTube channel in HD.

Thank you for visiting my blog and YouTube channel! I hope you’re all enjoying your kits, and if you didn’t purchase the kit, that you are inspired with some of the techniques I used to create these cards! I’m so grateful for our fun, crafty community! Hugs!!

Joy to the World! That song so reminds me of Christmas because as a little girl I was full of joy and glee waiting for Christmas to arrive. Of course though, what child isn’t? Right? Well, I feel the same way every single month when it comes time to reveal the card kit. This month is no exception because Christmas cards are my most absolute favorite cards to make! So let’s get cracking on those Christmas cards! Have you started yours yet? Well, if not, here are some fantastic little collections to get you going. So run, don’t walk to make sure you get your Flavor of the Month kit this month; it is packed full of JOY! Also, you could win a past kit if you head back to the SFL blog and join in by participating in our rafflecopter!

Hello and welcome! Today I am thrilled to present to you the October card kit for Scrapping for Less. I was invited to be a guest designer this month, and today is reveal day! The Flavor of the Month Card Kit this month is called, “Joy to the World.” This title describes my feelings exactly upon seeing this kit in person and creating cards with it.

This month’s kit is all about Christmas–my favorite holiday to make cards for! I created two cards with each Double Dip Sundae collection and two with the Banana Split ingredients. However, I could have kept on creating with the myriad of supplies included in each collection.

There are four collections in the Double Dip Sundae Kit as well as 6 sheets of colored cardstock and 2 of Neenah 110lb smooth white. Each collections is packed with creative fun. I was also sent the Banana Split ingredients–mine included Frosted Lace Stickles, a jute stocking, a tag die, and a darling stamp set by Scrapping for Less called, “Reindeer Games.” The Flavor of the Month Card Kit is an incredible value!

Card #1: Christmas Tree Ephemera Card

For my first card I chose this cute Christmas tree ephemera as my focus. This is a very feminine card with the pink pattern paper and the pink oval die cut. My sentiment came from the stamp set included in this collection called, “Christmas Bug.” I dipped into the Banana Split ingredients and pulled out the Frosted Lace Stickles and applied it over the bulbs on the tree. This was a quick and delightfully fun card to put together.

Card #2: Christmas Bug Card

Prismacolor Pencils: Bug – Canary Yellow 916, Goldenrod 1034  Tree – Apple Green 912, Olive Green 911  Tires – 90% Warm Grey 1058, 50% Cool Grey 1063, 10% Cool Grey 1059 Snow – Blue Slate 1024  Sky – Light Cerulean Blue 904

I was excited to ink up the bug image from this first collection and color it in with my favorite medium–Prismacolor pencils. This would make a great masculine Christmas card; however, it would really work for anyone. I used sketch #3 from the Flavor of the Month Card Sketches to pattern my card after. I’ve never really used sketches before, but I gotta tell ya, it took my creative tendencies in a direction they never would have gone, and I love the result.

Card #3: Deck the Halls Baubles

Distress Oxides: Twisted Citron & Fired Brick

I love Gina K Designs products; so, when I saw this fabulous Gina K stamp set, I couldn’t wait to play with it! I used Distress Oxides to ink it up, and then I heat embossed the sentiment, the stars, and the toppers with some silver glitter embossing powder from Wow. To put the focus on the pretty baubles, I adhered a white circle die cut behind them. The plaid pattern paper behind that coordinated perfectly. I also use the ribbon from this second collection to tie onto the baubles.

Card #4: Silver & Gold Baubles

Silver and gold go hand-in-hand with Christmas cards. For this card I heat embossed the baubles with gold embossing powder and added accents to them with silver embossing powder. This stamp set is fun because you can mix and match all the smaller images to decorate the baubles. The pattern paper I used behind my main panel is a beautiful plaid, and I’m going to need much, much more of this in my stash. Lol!

Card #5: Cute Carolers Card

Collection three made me kinda giddy. I love the Christmas carolers in the “Joy to the World” stamp set and the pink plaid pattern papers–both of which were created by Pink and Main. I colored in this little quartet with Copic markers. I cut them out with the tag die from the Banana Split collection and popped it up on the plaid paper with some foam tape. I used sketch #4 to put this card together.

Card #6: Gingerbread Cookie Card

Copic on gingerbread cookie – E35

Shaker card time! This gingerbread wooden Christmas shape was the perfect focus for card #6. The white sequins around him look like sprinkled sugar. I did color in my little gingy with a Copic marker to make him look like he was baked and ready to pop out of the oven. This will make a great kid’s card!

Card #7: Santa in the Chimney Card

Copics: Bricks – E07, W3   Gray Bread & Fur – C2, C00  Snow – B000  Red Coat & Hat – R89, R29, R27  Skin – E51, E11, R11  Sky – B60, B000

I patterned this card after sketch #2. I really had fun using these sketches. I colored in this little Santa from the stamp set by Scrapping for Less called, “Cookies for Santa” with Copic markers. My favorite part of the coloring was making this chimney into a brick chimney with more Copics. My sentiment that simply says, “Christmas” comes from one of the cut-apart pattern papers from this collection. I stamped another sentiment on the inside of the card that says, “Be Good for Goodness Sake.”

Card #8: Cookies & Cocoa for Santa Shaker Card

I think this card is my favorite. I really enjoyed stamping the two small images from the “Cookies for Santa” stamp set repeatedly across this panel of Paper Bag Kraft cardstock. I colored them in using some polychromos colored pencils. I used the same medium to color in the Santa, and I fussy cut him out so he looks like he’s inside the window waving hello. I used all the sequins from this collection inside this shaker window.

Card #9: Jute Christmas Stocking Card

I wish I could have found a small candy cane to put in this stocking, but they didn’t have any at my local grocery store yet–soon, I’m sure. This stocking is from the Banana Split collection, and I adhered it to my card base with some strong double-sided adhesive. To make it coordinate more with the paper of the card, I added more paper on top of it. I thought the pattern paper behind it was a perfect backing for this cute stocking.

Card # 10: Joy to the World Card

I love the images from the stamp set in the Banana Split collection. This set was created by Scrapping for Less and is called, “Reindeer Games.” I’m definitely going to make more, a lot, lot more cards with it. I colored in the images with Copic markers and fussy cut them. I ink blended some Abandoned Coral Distress Oxide onto a piece of Bristol Smooth cardstock to add color to the scene behind the little characters. I popped them up on the card with foam squares. The green cardstock framing them was left over from my first card where I die cut an oval out of it. I love putting scraps to good use!

Here is the instructional video for these cards. You can watch it here or over on my YouTube Channel in HD.

A BIG THANK YOU to Scrapping for Less for inviting me to be a guest designer! Check out this fabulous card kit over on their blog: Flavor of the Month Card Kit.

You can also go to their Web Site to download the Checklist and the Sketch Sheets.

Next on the blog hop is the fabulous Mary Polanco! Keep hopping along for some more crafty inspiration.

Thank you for stopping by, and I hope you have a wonderful day!