Love...and It's Your Birthday!

Sometimes I just can't think of anything clever to title a post. :)

Today I got a chance to play with some new stamps and dies that arrived in the mail. The first is a birthday card. I don't know about you, but I seem to know a lot of people with winter birthdays. 

To make this card, I white heat embossed the word "birthday" and then stamped the flowers over the top. Antique Linen Distress Ink helped the embossing to stand out.

The second card is a Valentine card. 

I fell in love with this Papertrey Ink "Love" die the first time I saw it and had to have it. I love the beautiful window effect. 

I die cut it from the center of the card, glued it to some pattern paper and then adhered that to the back of the card face. To get it centered right, I temporarily attached the patterned paper with some post-it tape, applied glue to the Love die and then pressed it into the center frame. I then removed the post-it tape and glued the entire panel in place.

The border around the frame is stamped once again using my all time favorite background stamp, "Splatter" from Impression Obsession. I use this stamp all the time. I used Charcoal Grey Shadow Ink and Unicorn White Ink both from Hero Arts. 

Happy Stamping!!

Vellum window set

Happy Thursday everyone!

I thought I would pop on here and share some recent cards I made. I love when you can keep a process the same but change out the stamps and create completely different looks. This makes it easy to crank out multiple cards that would work for a gift set or just to restock your available card supply. 

This first one is my favorite. I am loving the Memento Luxe Inks and these chevrons are done in nautical blue. The paint splotches are Hero Arts Cement Shadow Ink. This color combination would be great for a guy's brithday card.

I did some pattern piecing for the Paper Smooches sailboat. and covered the window in vellum.

Of course, I had to add something to the inside...

This second one is the same format but done in bright spring colors. The Penny Black daisies are another stamp I turn to all of the time. Notice once again the "Splatter" stamp from Impression Obsession over the top of the "Fluff" stamp, also from Impression Obsession.

I love the trick of using stamps in different ways. Check out the large background stamp on the butterfly! 

and the inside...

Here are two more cards using the same technique:

I hope this inspires you to find a card or technique you love and see how many variations you can make.

Happy Stamping!!

Because of You

I haven't practiced my watercoloring in awhile, so I decided to break out my distress markers and go for it. What better than this BIG beautiful flower from The Craft's Meow. Not only is it fun to practicing painting on, but it was fun to escape winter for a little while and imagine that it is warm and beautiful and sunny outside. I couldn't resist going with a blue, my favorite color!

I also got a chance to use Hero Arts new Five Line Background stamp. I can see myself using this awesome stamp quite a bit. I finished it off with Lawn Fawn sequins.

...and a close up...

Happy Stamping!!

Embossed Glitter Thank you Cards

Happy New Year! 

I thought I would pop in quickly and share a gift set I made over the Christmas holidays. This one is all Hero Arts. I love how this background stamp looks when you white emboss it on kraft card stock. I then, used some double sided sticky paper and covered it in micro fine glitter and die cut the Thank You sentiment several times. I colored each thank you in a different color using Copics. To finish up I scattered some pearls on the cards.

Here is a picture of the complete set.

Here are some close up shots of the glittery yumminess (are those even real words?)

Have a great week. I've already gotten a jump start on some Valentine's Day Cards. Watch for those posts soon.

Happy Stamping!!

Winter Birthday Card

Hi card crafting bloggers. I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas! 

While I haven't done much blogging the past couple of months, it doesn't follow that I haven't kept up on the trends. I've been fascinated with the embossing paste mania and couldn't wait to try it out for myself. Oh my STARS, this stuff is SO FUN to play with. 

I started this card with a simple light blue cardstock and used my favorite background stamp from Impression Obsession called "splatter" I used Hero Arts Tide Pool Ink and Soft Granite Shadow Ink to create a starry night backdrop. I love the three dimensional effect it gives. After using the embossing paste with a star stencil, I used Silver Wink of Stella Glitter Pen to make them really shine. 

The heart is die cut and covered in glossy accents. The little critter is from Lawn Fawn's Into the Woods stamp set...my all time favorite stamp set ever. I colored him with Copics and covered him in Star Dust Stickles. Putting him in a party hat transforms this into a birthday card. 

Happy stamping!

Christmas Project Cheer Part Two!

Hi! Terri here. I'm popping in as promised to share three more Christmas tags I've been working on for the holidays. 

I love the freedom the larger tags give you because you are not limited in space.

This first tag is a Penny Black stamp with a Hero Arts sentiment. I love her spunk and fun personality and so I had to use her on a package for my daughter.

I went bright on the copic coloring and used Star Dust Stickles and my white gel pen for accents. It's amazing how much fun you can have with a white gel pen. Knowing when to stop having fun is the hard part for me. I finished her off with glossy accents on the goggles and the surf board. 

So, yes…I jumped on the glittered snowflake band wagon. Who wouldn't after seeing what great results you can get from that yummy Clear Rock Candy Glitter?

More snowflakes? Yes please. I'm also in love with Evergreen Bough Distress Paint. I mixed in some Broken China and Brushed Pewter for this background. I silver heat embossed the greeting and of course, center stage is Lawn Fawn's adorable Polar Bear from their Critter Series. 

Have a great weekend, and Merry Christmas!!

Happy Stamping!

Some Christmas Project Cheer

Hi. It's been a long time since my last post but that doesn't mean I've not been crafting. I've actually been very busy working on an art journal for my daughter. Hopefully, I will post pictures one of these days soon. 

Today, I thought I'd share a sampling of some tags I've been working on while there is still a few days left before Christmas. Some of them are already under the tree so the pictures aren't the greatest. I hope you enjoy them anyway. 

I know this Lawn Fawn Bunny has been around for awhile but some things are so cute they never grow old. I'll probably use it a few more times on a few more packages before I'm done stamping. :)

I love this deer in a Santa hat SO MUCH that I colored him multiple times and he flew out on many mailed cards and packages. My grandma used to have a book about Davy Deer and His New Red Scarf. It's not a scarf, but it's a hat…and it makes me happy.

I'm also digging the chalkboard look, so that is showing up a lot as well. I love how coloring with Prisma Colored Pencils shows up so well on black card stock. 

I used some Penny Black Stamps on the next couple of tags. I think this boy and girl is so cute. Copic coloring during Christmas movies is fun and relaxing. Except the part about trying to keep what I'm coloring a secret from those watching the movies with me.

This poinsettia is also Penny Black. I tried a messy look by just coloring it in with sponge daubers. I don't know that I love it, but I'm intrigued enough to keep practicing. 

This last tag, is a Hero Arts Christmas Tree Stamp. It's not a great picture so sorry about that. I colored the tree blue and red to match the wrapping paper. The stars are covered in Christmas Red Stickles although you can't really tell by the picture.

Tomorrow, I will post part two of my sampling of Christmas tags. Until, then, I hope everyone is having a wonderful Christmas season and enjoying all of the little things along the way.

Happy Stamping!!