Sending Hugs – Sweet Cherry Blossoms

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Hello, fellow cardmakers and crafters!! Brenda here with a “sending hugs” card featuring several products from the latest release!! I love creating cards with this sentiment!! It’s so versatile and can be used for so many occasions…everything from birthday to sympathy!!

I started by stenciling the Sweet Cherry Blossoms Stencil Set onto white cardstock with Peach Blossom, Coralline, Coral Cavern, Spiced Chai, Aspen Cocoa and Bright Fern inks. I added dots to the centers of the flowers with a yellow gel pen, then used the Coordinating Die to cut it out.

For the background, I die-cut the Postage Party Die from white cardstock and stenciled the Postage: Window Stencil onto it with Cali Blue and Soft Garden inks. I splattered it with diluted white gouache and adhered it to a white A2 card base, once it was dry.

The sentiment, from the Easy Expressions: Just Because Stamp Set, was stamped onto white cardstock with Noir ink, cut out with the Coordinating Die and popped up with foam tape. Rose Gold Rhinestones add a bit of sparkle. They’re the perfect shade of peach!!

I’m really into peach right now and this color combo makes my heart happy!!

Thanks so much for stopping by today!! Have a wonderful weekend!!

Brenda

Always Cherry Blossoms belated Birthday

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Happy Monday, everyone! Anna here today with a spring birthday card.

I started by stenciling cherry blossoms images using Always Cherry Blossoms Layering Stencils with Beach Blondie, Bubblegum, Peach Blossom, Aspen Cocoa and Spring Salad inks. To make stamens, I used Always Cherry Blossoms stamp set. Next, I fussy cut them all. For the background, I ink blended Spring Salad on a white cardstock card base. I die cut a white cardstock panel with the Geometric Circles Coverplate Die. Next, I adhered the panel on the card base.

I stamped the sentiment using Easy Expressions Birthday stamp set with Noir (but “Birthday” was gold heat embossed) and cut out with Easy Expressions Birthday Coordinating Die. To embellish the card, I added a few rhinestones from Rhinestones Mixed – Pale Yellow Opaque.

Hope you have a great start of the week! Thank you for stopping by!

Anna

Floral Bits + Postage Party Die

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Hello and happy Friday everyone! It’s TaeEun here today with a fun floral thank you card. I used the Postage Party die to get the small panels for the floral bits! 

Since the Postage Party perforates the lines partitioning an A2 panel in six parts, I thought it would be fun to cut them off and rearrange them for my card. To embellish the small panels, I stamped the Floral Bits and placed the small floral clusters on each panel. 

Floral Bits is a grouped layering stamp set. Using it, you can stamp multiple images at the same time and cut them all in one step using the coordinating die. 

The yellow flowers were stamped in Lemon Drop and Amber Citrine, the orange buds in Coralline hybrid ink. The pink flowers were stamped in Ballet Slippers, Hollywood Star, and Cosmopolitan Pink, and the blue ones in Arctic Sky, Cali Blue and Azurite.

The stems and leaves were stamped in Soft Garden and Bright Fern. The die cut flowers were set aside. 

I cut a white panel using the Postage Party die and cut the small rectangles. To add some interest to the background, I ink blended the front of a Kraft cardbase irregularly in white and dry embossed it using the Single Plaid coverplate die. 

I arranged the small white rectangles as shown in the picture, placed them using foam tape to the card and added the small floral clusters to them also using some foam adhesives.

One of the postage rectangles was used for the sentiment from the Postage: Sentiments stamp set. I stamped each word of the sentiment in different colors : Dark Roast, Coralline hybrid, Azurite and Spring Salad. 

For some bling, I added one or two Rose Gold gems to each small panel and my card was done!

Thank you so much for stopping by today!

Wishing you a great weekend ahead!

TaeEun

Congratulations – Peaceful Peonies

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Hello, fellow card makers and crafters!! I hope your week is going well!! Brenda here with you today!! Stenciling is all the rage right now, so I decided to revisit some of my favorite layering stencils and the Peaceful Peonies Stencil Set is definitely at the top of the list!!

I started by stenciling the Peaceful Peonies Layering Stencils onto Bristol smooth cardstock with dye inks. I used Bright Fern for the leaves; Peach Blossom, Coralline and Coral Cavern for the small flowers; Soft Orchid, Dolled Up and Grand Fuchsia for the peonies; and Beach Blondie for the flower centers.

I used the Peaceful Peonies Coordinating Die to cut it out, then die-cut it with the largest die in the Rectangle A2 Die Set. It was adhered to a panel of teal cardstock that was die-cut with the same die.

The sentiment, from the Easy Expressions: Just Because Stamp Set, was stamped with Noir Ink and cut out with the Coordinating Die. It was popped up with foam tape and Pale Yellow Opaque Gems were added to the centers of the small flowers to finish it off and add a bit of sparkle.

I am in LOVE with this color combo!!

That does it for me today!! Have a great Wednesday!!

Brenda

Blooming Shelves

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Hi friends. Vera here. I recently went through my stamp collection and upon seeing this Blooming Shelves set, I am reminded that I haven’t shown this beautiful set much love. So, to correct this, today I am showcasing this fun set and by using this set I am also reminded how I really haven’t used my Copic as much as I used to.

This image pretty much cover the whole front of the card. I simply stamped the image and then went t town coloring with with Copic markers. Once done, die cut the image with Blooming Shelves Coordinating dies.

Adhere to card base and stamp the sentiment. However, once I did this, I decided a little shimmer wouldn’t hurt, so I added some gold metallic watercolor to the mirror part of the image. Finish by adding some enamel drops.

I am happy that I get to use this set again. I feel as card maker we tend to collect stamp sets, yet we often focus only on new sets or only use the sets when we first got them. For a change let’s take a look back at all the sets that we have in our collection. If after all these years you still love them, then how about using the sets again? I feel this is pretty invigorating and I hope you feel the same. That’s all for now friends. May today something good happens to you. Big hugs!

Hello card with beautiful Cosmos flowers

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Today Anna here with a Hello card showcasing Calming Cosmos 1+2 Layering Stencils.

I started by stenciling flowers with Soft Orchid, Orchid Crush and Dolled Up inks (Calming Cosmos 1), Dolled Up, Deep Peony and Pink Derby inks (Calming Cosmos 2). The centers of flowers were colored in Amber Citrine. I then fussy cut all flowers. To make the background, I ink blended Stormy Sea and Meadow on the piece of white cardstock and cut it out with Diamond Plaid Layering Coverplate Dies. Next, I adhered this panel on a white cardstock card base.

“Hello” was made with Script Word dies and Meadow ink. I added a few gems from Rhinestones Mixed – Pale Orange Opaque to finish it up.

Hope you have a great day!

Anna

Darling Daisies + Postage Party die

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Hello everyone! Hope you’re having a great week so far! It’s TaeEun here today with fun floral background card featuring the Darling Daisies layering stencils, the Postage Party die and the Not a Bill stamp set. I used a Spring-y color palette to create the airy background and added a large die cut sentiment to the card. 

To start, I stenciled the Darling Daisies on a white panel. I placed the paper on the Grip mat and stenciled the image starting with the background. I used five pastel colors to color the background : Lemon Drop, Cali Blue, Peach Blossom, Bubblegum and Soft Garden. Next, I stenciled the leaves and stems in Soft Garden. I added a darker shade to them using Everglade Moss. The shadow between the petals was colored in Soft Ash. The center of the daisies was colored in Amber Citrine first and then in Warm Hazelnut for some dimension. 

I stamped the postage elements from the Not a Bill set in Noir on the stenciled panel , colored the snail using colored pencils, and cut the panel using the Postage Party die. 

I adhered the frame from the stenciled panel on a white cardbase and foam mounted the center part onto it. 

I ink blended a small white panel in Soft Garden, Lemon Drop and Peach Blossom and cut the shadow layer of the Script Word “hugs” from the panel. 

The word “hugs”was cut four times from white cardstock, layered together and added to the shadow layer. 

To finish off the card, I scattered some Gold Rainbow opaque rhinestones. 

That’s it from me for today!   I hope you enjoyed reading the making process!

Thank you so much!

TaeEun

Sending Love & Hugs – Postage Sunflowers

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Happy Monday, crafty friends!! I hope you had a great weekend!! Brenda here with a card featuring the Postage: Sunflowers Layering Stencil Set and the Postage Party Die!! I previously used the products the way they were intended but I wanted to use them again in a different way!!

I began by die-cutting the Postage Party Die from white cardstock and stenciling it with the Postage: Sunflowers Layering Set. I used the following ink colors: Vanilla Frosted Cupcake, Beach Blondie, Amber Citrine and Aspen Cocoa on the sunflowers; Raw Sea Glass on the background; Vineyard on the leaves and stems; and Noir for the bees. I trimmed the individual stamps along the die-cut perforations.

For the background, I die-cut the Single Plaid Coverplate Die from white cardstock and adhered it to an A2 white card base. I figured out how I wanted the postage stamps laid out, then stamped the sentiments from the Postage: Sentiments Stamp Set with Noir ink. I needed to add some black to the lower left stamp, so I stamped the heart from the Not A Bill Stamp Set with Noir ink. The stamps were adhered to the background with liquid glue.

Gold Rainbow Opaque Rhinestones add a bit of sparkle to finish off the card.

That does it for me today!! Thanks for stopping by!! Have a great week!!

Brenda

Birthday Peruvian Lilies

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Hi friends. Vera here. As this post goes up, cross fingers, I have arrived safely in Tokyo, Japan. Hubby & I been planning this trip for a while and we’re so looking forward to this. And, of course, being in Tokyo, I’ll be dragging hubby to the craft store than Japan is famous for. Anyway, I’ve prepared today’s card in advance.

For this post, I am showcasing Coming Up Peruvian Lilies set. To start, I created the background using gel press technique. I used Soft Garden, Spring Salad, & Caribbean Turquoise and with a brayer smooth the colors and then press Blooming Peony Garden Background stamp to the gel pad. Carefully lift up the stamp and press a cardstock panel to the gel pad to get the above background.

Next, stamped the Peruvian Lilies and colored with Copic markers. Die cut with Coming Up Peruvian Lilies Coordinating Die set. Adhere the flower at an angle to the green panel. Trim the excess part and then adhere the panel to the card base. Finish by adding sentiment from Layered Floral Alpha Stamps (by the way, if you need a sentiment set that covers a lot of occasions, this is a good set to have) and some mix size Emerald Green Opaque rhinestones.

That’s all I have for today. Hope you enjoy today’s inspiration and may today brings something that brighten your day.

Birthday card with the Jumbo Cosmos flower

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Hello, everyone! Anna here today with a birthday card I made using beautiful Jumbo Cosmos layering Stencils.

I started by stenciling Cosmos flower image with Beach Blondie, Amber Citrine, Peach Blossom, Bubblegum, Cherry and Valentine Red inks. Next, I fussy cut the image. For the background, I ink blended Meadow on a white cardstock card base. I then cut out a white cardstock panel using Lone Dahlia Coverplate Die and adhered it on the card base.

I stamped the sentiment using Easy Expressions Birthday stamp set with Noir (but “Yay” was gold heat embossed) and cut out with Easy Expressions Birthday Coordinating Die. To embellish the card, I added a few rhinestones from Rhinestones Mixed – Pale Yellow Opaque and Rhinestones Mixed – Deep Pink Gem.

Thank you for stopping by today!

Anna