Ice Cream Birthday card

Happy birthday to Pretty Pink Posh! I was happy to be a guest designer this month for the new Pretty Pink Posh's birthday release! I just love the amazing layering stencils that easily create such a fun background for any card from this release. I especially love the ice cream layering stencil. 

Using this stencil, I create a birthday card with a very sweet background. 

I made this card using an A2 card base made from smooth white cardstock. I then trimmed down another piece of white cardstock to create a panel for my background. I used each layer of the stencil set starting with the cones in a light and dark brown ink. I then inked the tops of the ice cream cones using pink and peach distress oxides for a pretty blend. The last stencil was the toppings for the ice cream cones and I used texture paste for some dimension. 

I set that aside to dry while I die cut the Celebrate sentiment out of gold matte cardstock and fun foam for thickness. The shadow was cut from white cardstock. I heat embossed the "It's time to" sentiment from the Birthday Sentiments clear stamps using gold embossing powder and clear embossing ink. I then die cut it out using a sentiment strip die from more white cardstock.

I hope you enjoyed I card I made for this fun release and got some inspiration. I have listed and linked all the supplies I used to make this card for your convenience. I have used affiliate links at no extra cost to you. Thank you so much for stopping by. Leave me a comment if you have any questions.

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My Favorite Things Fun with Dies

Hi all and welcome to another week of the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge.

This week's challenge theme is Fun with Dies!

We are showcasing products from My Favorite Things. You don't have to use them to join in but if you have some we would love to see what you make! As always just for entering you will be eligible for the the drawing of a $25 voucher to the Simon store!

Some of my favorite things are products from My Favorite Things! Like this Frosted Cupcake die set. I have a love for cupcakes and this die set has been so fun to play with but I have admit it has spiked my cravings for a cupcake!

For the challenge this week I could not stop making cupcakes, so I made a birthday card with a couple of matching tags.

I made the card using an A2 size card base made from smooth white cardstock. Then I die cut a scalloped rectangle panel also from white paper. Keeping with my obsession with homemade plaid paper, I trimmed down a panel to make a plaid background. I used some red line sticky strip to add some sparkle to the plaid.

I then went to work of the cupcakes! I made a total of 6 cupcakes but only ended up using 4. I made three pink and three yellow from light pink and pale yellow cardstock. I also fog cardstock for the cupcake liners or wrappers. I used some distress ink to add shadows to the cupcake dies. I die cut the Let's Celebrate sentiment from heavy white cardstock 3 times for thickness and added it underneath the cupcakes. I then stamped the sub-sentiment from the Simon Says Stamp Happiest Wishes stamp set using gray dye ink.

The tags were cut using the Simon Says Stamp Large Rounded tag die. I coordinated the colors and added a cupcake to each tag! Each cupcake has been finished off with some white sparkles for sprinkles.

I hope you have enjoyed the card I made today and got some inspiration! For your convenience I provided affiliate links to all of the products I have used for this card. 

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Now it's you turn! Happy crafting!

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Two Projects from the Kisses release

Just a couple of projects made with a few goodies from the new Kisses release.💋

This first project is some quick and easy Valentine's day mini cards. They are made from partial die cutting using the Nested Heart dies.

I die cut the "hi there" sentiment from some sparkly silver glitter cardstock for a bit of bling. Each of the mini cards are stamped messages in red dye ink using the From the Heart stamp set that fits perfectly inside each heart card.

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Next, is the a fun Hi card to brighten up anyone's day!

I made this card using the standard A2 size card base from smooth white cardstock. Using the Printmaking stamps and dies I cut each stamp image out of a colored cardstock. Each image of the stamp has been colored with copic markers. I added the sentiment using some alpha dies. I used the Simon Says Stamp Stitched rectangle frames to pull it all together.

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Clearly Besotted Love is in the air

Hi all and welcome to another week of the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge.

This week's challenge theme is Love is in the Air!

We are showcasing products from Clearly Besotted. You don't have to use them to join in but if you have some we would love to see what you make! As always just for entering you will be eligible for the the drawing of a $25 voucher to the Simon store!

It's February 1st and Love is in the Air! Such a fun time to make cards for those you love and want to let them know. What better way than with a hand made card!

This week's challenge card is a little different from your traditional valentine's colors. I just love blending bright colors these days. I used the Clearly Besotted Splattered Shapes Stencil for the focal point of my card.

I began with a piece of heavy weight white cardstock that I taped the stencil over and masked off the heart image. I then used distress oxides to ink blend from top to bottom. Leaving the stencil in place I then added some shiny texture glaze over the whole image. This will give it a glass like look. I set that aside to dry. I then die cut the You 3 times out of more white cardstock for thickness. 

I then used a stitched square die to frame my stenciled heart. Using smooth white cardstock I created a diy plaid panel. I just used some stencils and stamps that I had in my stash to make the plaid with coordinating distress oxide colors. I also trimmed down very thin strips of gold cardstock to add a bit of shine to my plaid panel. I adhered it all to an A2 card base. I heat embossed the sub-sentiment using gold embossing powder and added a few gold sequins.

I hope you have enjoyed the card I made today and got some inspiration! For your convenience I provided affiliate links to all of the products I have used for this card. 

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Now it's you turn! Happy crafting!

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Simon Says Stamp February 2023 Card Kit

I wanted to share a card I made exclusively from the new Simon Says Stamp February Card Kit. This kit really amazed me when I saw it! It has such a wide variety of coordinating supplies to make not just valentine cards but so much more!

My love for donuts is no secret! Funny question, is it spelled donut or doughnut? You know, either way they are delicious.🍩 

I made this card using an A2 size card base made from smooth ultra white cardstock. I then cut another piece of white cardstock for a panel a bit smaller than the card base. I like to leave a bit of white border on my cards if I can. I then took that panel and ink blended the edges using a pink distress ink.

I then stamped the donut images from the Sweet Days stamp set with dies included in the kit. I stamped them a few times and colored them using copic markers. I tried to used only a few of the same colors to pull the card together. I then fussy cut the donuts out and added them around the inked panel with foam adhesive. I trimmed the excess off and adhered it to the card base. I then stamped the sentiment also from the stamp set on to white cardstock and trimmed it down to a rectangle. I inked the edges as well and matted it with more white cardstock. Using more foam adhesive I popped it up in the center of the card. 

Hope you liked my donut card and it gives you some inspiration! Make sure you grab this card kit if you like it before it's gone. I have lots of affiliate links to all the supplies I used to make this card below. Thank you so much for stopping by!!!

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Wild About You Valentine's card

This was a fun card to make. I guess I went a little wild with this leopard print stencil! I love pink what can I say?💕

I used the Simon Says Stamp Animal Print Stencils from the new Kisses release. Stencils are so different from stamps and dies. I love being able to add texture to my project with texture pastes, glitter gels or glazes. 

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I made this card using an A2 size card base from smooth white cardstock. I then trimmed down another piece of white cardstock to make a panel for the background. I first ink blended pink ink over the stencil. Leaving the stencil in place I added a dark pink color with a copic marker. I then added a shimmery texture glaze over the stencil. I removed the stencil and set aside to dry.

I then die cut the Wild About You sentiment from dark pink cardstock. I cut the shadow from white cardstock. I also die cut the sentiment from a sheet of fun foam to add dimension. Yes, I did add a very small shaker element to the heart! I did this by trimming down a small piece of acetate and glueing to the heart before layering to the fun foam and adding a few sequins to the space.

I stamped the sub-sentiment from the Love You Greetings stamp set on more dark pink cardstock and heat set it using white embossing powder. I did go back and ink blended the entire panel with pink distress ink just to add even more pink. 

I have made a little video to show off the shimmer of this card. 

Hope you enjoyed the card I made to day and got some inspiration to make some fun valentine's cards. I have affiliate links below to all the supplies I used to make this card. Thank you so much for stopping by!

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Newton's Nook Anything Goes

Hi all and welcome to another week of the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge.

This week's challenge theme is Anything Goes!

We are showcasing products from Newton's Nook Designs. You don't have to use them to join in but if you have some we would love to see what you make! As always just for entering you will be eligible for the the drawing of a $25 voucher to the Simon store!

I love when the challenge theme is Anything Goes! The possibilities are endless. I just love playing with stencils so I choose the Newton's Nook Petite Flower stencil to play with.

I wanted to play with some color and first I was going to use some water colors but sadly realized I was out of water color paper! So I created a water colored look with distress oxide inks. I have a video below to show you the process.

I created the base of the card using smooth white cardstock cut to an A2 size card base. I then used another piece of white cardstock to create my ink blended background. I then laid the stencil on top of the inked background and applied white texture paste and set it aside to dry.

From heavy white cardstock I die cut the Etched Layered Daisy Stem and added to the Thin Frames circle die and cut the bottom of the flower stem so it would fit inside the circle. I then die cut just the center of the flower from silver cardstock and also the Happy Birthday die and adhered them to the card with glue.

It's really a pretty easy card to put together and I think it has a great impact.

I hope you have enjoyed the card I made today and got some inspiration! For your convenience I provided affiliate links to all of the products I have used for this card. 

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Now it's you turn! Happy crafting!

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