Hello my friends! Happy Earth Day! I created some really fun cards that celebrate spring. These are from the Cardmaker Stamp Collection. I’m using the sets called Cute Boots and Windy Sky. These sets are charming; I love how sketchily they are drawn.
I’m stamping and coloring these images on some colored cardstocks. This is a fabulous technique–it gives you a base color to build up your pencils on. I also did some heat embossing.
Card 1
On my first cards I stamped a pattern with the large umbrella stamp and colored it in with colored pencils. The paper I used is Silver Fox. I made sure to allow some of the paper to show through. It makes for some fast coloring too. I stamped the girl holding the umbrella onto a piece of Glacier cardstock. This is a beautiful soft blue. I also colored her in with more Caran d’Ache colored pencils.
Card 2
The Stormy Sky stamp is a background stamp, and it is stunning! I chose to stamp this with VersaFine Onyx black ink and heat emboss it with clear embossing powder. This will be a great stamp to use on underwater scenes for summer. I stamped the girl on a piece of white cardstock and colored her in with Copic markers.
If you would like to see how I put these cards together, you can watch the video here or over on my YouTube channel in HD.
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Hello! Welcome. I’m creating something a little different today. Spellbinders sent me some really adorable cutting dies to kick off our Halloween and Christmas crafting. I’m not ready for fall yet, but crafty supplies like these make me feel a little bit better about our impending fall and winter seasons. These are some new dies set in the Spellbinders shop designed by Becca Feeken, and they are called Charming Cottage and Spooky Cottage dies. I created two treat boxes using elements from both sets. However, I am planning on creating some spooky, fun Halloween cards using these dies.
There are actually three sets in this new release, but I have two of them to show you. I love all the embossed details that these dies create. The spooky tree is just fabulous–the die embosses the grain of the bark!
I filled my treat boxes with lots of Halloween candy–yes, it’s August and the stores are already selling Halloween candy! You can put a lot of candy in these seemingly little boxes.
Hello! Thanks for stopping by! I have never used acrylics of any sort in my art or my cards, and today I’m trying out Jane Davenport’s Storytime Paint Pens called Wonderland. I love trying out new art mediums, and I really had fun with these pens. The set comes with 5 bold pens and 5 fine pens of the same colors. I love how smooth they go down on the paper, and I love that they look bold and bright on any color of cardstock you use.
Today they are giving this set of pens away with a purchase of $75 or more. It’s a $39.99 value! They also have black and white acrylic pens.
Card #1: Doodle Flower Die Cuts Card
On my first card I began by doodling on kraft cardstock with these pens. I wanted some of the kraft to show through, but I added many layers of colors. The pens are opaque, so you can add lots of layers and the colors show up brilliantly. I then die cut them with a set of Spellbinders floral cutting dies which came in a previous card kit. However, use whatever dies you have on hand if you want to give this technique a try. I love the look of these flowers–so fun and bright!
Card #2: Doodle Flower on Black Cardstock
I drew in my flower with a white charcoal pencils on a piece of black cardstock. I then went over my lines with these pens. I added lots of dots and doodles, and I thoroughly enjoyed painting with these pens.
Hello everyone! I created a set of note cards using the Small Die of the Month from Spellbinders. It’s great to have non-occasion cards in your stash that you can grab and send out to friends anytime. The set includes four beautiful dies, and the first thing I thought of when I saw them was stained-glass windows. It’s called Ornamental Floral Card Creator.
The largest of the dies cuts out a beautiful, delicate frame. I die cut everything with white cardstock so you could see it clearly. The blue cardstock is cut to a standard A2 sized panel, 5.50 by 4.25. The frame reaches to the edge of the panel.
The other three dies cut out gorgeous flowers.
Card #1: Stained Glass Window Note Card
For my first card cut out these images with many different colors of cardstock and paper-pieced them back into the black frame and the white flower outline.
Card #2: Delicate Purple Flower Card
I used some pattern paper from Spellbinders and allowed that to do most of my work for me. The paper pad is called Express Yourself. This was a fast and easy card to create. I cut out my flower image with white, purple and green cardstock. I used the white for the frame and the flower outline, and then I paper-pieced the purple and green cardstock inside the flower outline.
Card #3: Partial Paper-Pieced Card
I used more Spellbinders Cardstock for this card. This pattern comes from the paper pad called Weekend Fun. I cut the dies with gold cardstock this time and popped in pieces here and there. I love the touch of gold.
Card #4: Copic Colored Card
This time I only cut out the dies with black cardstock. I used Copic markers to quickly color in each of the frames. I added some Nuvo drops around my flower and that was it!
Card #5: Rainbow Smiles Card
Here’s another piece of gorgeous Spellbinders pattern paper. This pattern if from the pad Life is a Party. I cut out the flowers with white cardstock and glued them flat onto my card. I stamped out a sentiment from July’s Card Kit and heat embossed it with clear embossing powder.
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Hello Crafty Friends! I have some fabulous products that I just know you are going to fall in love with. I sure did! Spellbinders and Fun Stampers Journey have a new line of goodies called Happy Place. I have three products to show you from this collection: Sunny Day Stencil, Pool with a View Die Set, and Make a Splash Stamp set. I had a blast creating with these products!
Sunny Day Stencil:
Pool With a View Die Set:
Make a Splash Stamp Set:
To create my card I pulled out my Distress Ink Cubes. I haven’t used these for a long time. I taped the Sunny day stencil to a piece of white cardstock and blended on Wild Honey and Mustard Seed to create my sunshine. I then cut this panel down to 5.25 by 4 inches. I used more white cardstock to cut out my Pool With a View Dies. On the rim around the pool I used Hickory Smoke and for the water I used Peacock Feathers.
To distress the pool water, I flicked on droplet of water and dabbed them up with a cloth. These Distress Inks are so much fun to play with and they distress beautifully!
I stamped my images onto another piece of white cardstock and colored them in with Copic markers. I didn’t plan out my colors, I just randomly pulled them out of my Copic storage contains and had fun coloring. I adore all the images in the stamp set! I fussy-cut them out. To put this card together, I adhered everything down flat onto my sunshine panel. I matted this with a piece of green cardstock. I added my sentiment and a few water droplet gems and my card was done!
Hello everyone. Thank you for stopping by. It’s June 1st and time for Spellbinders latest Card Kit! This one is called, “Life is a Party.” It’s filled with bright papers, happy sentiments and darling images. I had so much fun creating with this beautifully coordinated kit!! My favorite item from the kit this time is the cutting dies set. They cut out beautiful flowers and leaves. (One die even cuts out the leaf veins! Love it!) Also the pattern paper this time is fabulous. I loved working with all the bright, summery colors. The kit this month hit it out of the park!
Hello and welcome! I hope you’re having a wonderful day! The May card kit for Spellbinders is here, and I created five card projects with it. This kit is called All the Little Things, and it’s filled with lots of darling little things.
I love all the fun elements in this kit, but I especially love the stamp set–it includes the cutest cat and butterfly images! I also had a lot of fun with the dies. You get coordinating dies for the butterflies from the stamp set! I also really had fun with the unusual frame dies. This is another great kit from Spellbinders!
Card #1: Lovely Floral Card
For this card I used a flower sprig and butterfly die cut shape as my focus. To help my flower die cut really pop, I framed it using the frame dies and metallic gold paper. The pattern paper also has metallic gold detailing, and it helped bring everything together.
Card #2: Oh Happy Day Cat Card
I love this little cat–his expression just makes me smile! I stamped him on a piece of white cardstock and colored in some gray shadows and pink ears and cheeks with two different Copic markers. I wanted him to be a white cat so I could use this darling floral pattern paper behind him. I also stamped out one of the butterflies onto pink card stock and added shadows with another Copic marker.
Card #3: Off-the-Beaten-Path Card
This card is mostly made up of die cut shapes. I loved the tree die cut shapes! First I adhered down this darling piece of scenic pattern paper onto my card base. I also die cut an oval out of the yellow pattern paper with a Spellbinders oval die. This oval helped to spotlight my die cut pieces as well as help differential them from the green background. To me this card has a very Italian Countryside feel to it.
Card #4: Flowers & Stripes Card
I love the blue striped pattern paper, and I wanted to pair it with more florals. I used another flower die cut shape and then I added a flower dimensional stick on top of it. I decided to stamp out my sentiment in between the blue stripes.
Card #5: A Card for Card Crafters
The envelope with the flower popping out is my focal piece on this card. I thought it went perfectly with the die cut shapes of the stamps, ink bottle and pencil. I used another piece of patter paper to stamp out my sentiment onto. I really like the look of stamping in between the lines on my last card, so I did it again on this card.
Hello! I hope you are all having a great weekend! I’m here for Spellbinders today. I get to show you their latest card kit, and today is the big release! I’m super excited about this kit because it’s all about spring and Easter! I’m so weary of winter, and creating with this kit made me feel like spring isn’t all that far away. Below is a peek at some of the goodies included in the kit.
I had so much fun crafting with this kit!! I created 10 cards; some are Easter cards, some are spring–there is a wide variety of materials in this kit. At the beginning of my video I show the unboxing of this kit.
You can subscribe to the this monthly kit, or if you’d prefer, you can purchase the add-on items separately. This month the add-on items are the Pad of Pattern Paper, the Die Cut Shapes, and the Gold Fleck Gemstones. Some of the cards I created use only these add-on items. Below you’ll see pictures of all my cards, my video, and links to all the supplies.
Card #1: Easter Bunny Card
Card #2: Spring-Time Butterflies Card (Created with only the Add-on Items.)
Card #3: Bunny Basket Card (Created with only the Add-on items.)
Hello! Thanks for stopping by. I have some fabulous new crafty products to show you! Spellbinders has new embossing folders in their shop! I love creating cards using embossing folders; they provide so much fun texture and dimension. However, the folders I’m using today also cut as they emboss!
The first Cut & Emboss Folder I’m using is called Kyoto, named after a city in Japan. Don’t you love the beautiful fans it embosses onto the paper? To me the look is also reminiscent of the 1920’s Art Deco era with its clean, geometric shapes.
I chose a very pale pink piece of card stock to emboss. To accentuate the design, I blended some Worn Lipstick Distress Oxide Ink across the panel with a foam blender. The raised edges pick up the ink and really bring it to life. I matted my panel with a piece of gold mirror card stock to show off the diamond-shaped cuts.
I embossed it again with another piece of pink paper and cut out one of the fans, so I could showcase it on the front of the card. I also added a little tassel with some baker’s twine.
On my second card project I used the folder called Lahaina named after a city in Hawaii. I love all the gorgeous leaves leaves on this folder!
To create my card I used a piece of bright green card stock. I blended on more Distress Oxide Inks to bring out the texture. The colors I used are Crushed Olive, Evergreen Bough and Peacock Feathers. I used white card stock behind this panel, and I love how brightly the white shows through.
I didn’t create a video for my projects; however, below is a link to the video that Spellbinders produced showing all four of their new cut and emboss folders.
Thank you for visiting today! I hope you have a wonderful weekend! Below are the links to all the products I used to create these cards.
Hello! Welcome to my blog! I created 10 cards with Spellbinders card kit called Hey Foxy. As always, I had a ball playing with their kit. I enjoy working with them because I never know what my card is going to end up looking like. I always have a plan in my head when I start designing a card, but the contents of these kits are so eclectic that I end up with something I didn’t imagine. They are usually very fast cards to put together too. They don’t involve a lot of coloring, although I usually find a way to use one of my art mediums. Check out my process video below, and I’ve included links to most of the products I used.
Card #1: Stamped Pattern Paper Card
I stamped out my own pattern paper for this card using all the pretty stamps from the set included in the kit. I used a beautiful brown-toned gray ink called Stone. I then used some of the ephemera pieces on top of it.
Card #2: Easy Wreath Birthday Card
This was the fastest of the cards to put together. I used pattern paper and ephemera pieces. I also used a few gold sequins for a touch of shine. (I love the green striped paper!)
Card #3: Butterflies & Flowers Card
The focal point of this card is the oval in the center of the card. I surrounded it with ephemera pieces and backed it with pattern paper. The font of these stamps is very pretty!
Card #4: New Home Card
This is one of my favorite cards! For the sunshine I used an old die from my stash and cut it out with the gold metallic paper. The sentiment fit inside it perfectly. I had to use the house pattern paper and the house ephemera pieces together to create a congrats-on-your-new-home card.
Card #5: Stripes & Florals Card
Again, love the striped paper–it has craft stripes! I really need more of this paper. There is nothing better than flowers and stripes together.
Card #6: Foxy Polka Dot Card
I intended this to be a masculine card, but I couldn’t help adding the pink flowers and the cute little fox. I used another die from my stash to create the rectangle piece. The die also cuts out the thin frame.
Card #7: Queen Fox Card
My favorite part of this whole card is the little crown on the fox’s head. So darling! The fox took some work to die cut and put together, but I love how it turned out.
Card #8: Happy Bear Card
This card kept changing as I was creating it. I tried to use the sticker that said, “happy,” but it was so thin that I ripped it. I used an ephemera piece instead. I just kept adding ephemera pieces to this card until I couldn’t fit anymore on.
Card #9: Stamped and Colored Pattern Paper Card
Card 9 is another of my favorites. I love the kraft card stock they usually always include in their kits. It has a very unique coloring to it. I stamped my patter paper using the stamps again, but this time I had to color them in. Card card stock demands colored pencils. I used my polychromos pencils to color in all the images.
Card #10: Dreams & Flowers Card
I had a lot of fun creating this card. I used a piece of the black card stock behind my images, and I think that makes it look so dramatic. I used Copic markers to color in the girl ephemera picture–her hair was so fun to color in! The sentiment is another sticker, and I love how it blends into the background.
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The largest of the dies cuts out a beautiful, delicate frame. I die cut everything with white cardstock so you could see it clearly. The blue cardstock is cut to a standard A2 sized panel, 5.50 by 4.25. The frame reaches to the edge of the panel.
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