Howdy, friends, and happy Friday! I’ve been anticipating this long weekend all week and it feels like we’ve lived 2 weeks in the last 5 days. It’s funny how that happens sometimes!
This week is all about the holidays and we’re working our way through the new crafty goodies that dropped in the store this week to make our projects. Fall happens to be my favorite season of the year, so I’m bringing you another fall card today using the new Painted Patch paper and Harvest Hues ephemera. And I’m borrowing the layout from the Coastal Crafter over on the Instas for this one.
We get started with a nice neutral base of Crumb Cake cardstock. Our background panel is a sheet of oak leaves and acorns from the Painted Patch paper pack. The backdrop for our focal panel begins with a strip of the reverse side of our background panel to reveal the small pumpkin design, which is then matted with a combination of gold Timeless Metallic paper and Autumn Woodland glimmer paper. Our focal section gets started with a square of Cajun Craze cut with the Tile Garden dies and then we layer our gold striped sheer ribbon, the patch of pumpkins from the Harvest Hues ephemera, and then the sentiment from the Sincerely Noted ephemera pack. We finish things off with some pearlized faceted circles.
I’m really loving this layout and definitely plan to add it to my sketch book. There are so many directions to take this particular layout that it should adapt easily to a whole host of seasons and occasions! I’ve got a cute Halloween project rolling around in the ol’ idea bin that I hope to bring to life. I hope you’ll drop by and see how that one comes together.
Happy hump day! We are already halfway through this week. Hey, have you guys checked out all the beautiful new crafty goodies that dropped in the store yesterday? Man oh man, the new stuff is amazing! And I’m not just saying that.
This week we’re touring all the holidays and today we’re dreaming of the cooler days of autumn! With a little inspiration from Stampin Dolce over on the Instas, we’re pairing up the August Product of the Month with some fall-inspired ephemera.
We get started with a base of Crushed Curry cardstock. A sheet of leaf pattern paper from the Painted Patch serves as the backdrop for our focal panel of Glow of Harvest pearlized paper. I love the look of the curled corners. It’s very reminiscent of fall leaves, don’t you think? We wrap our panels with some linen thread before placing the sentiment section. Our sentiment panel starts with a base of Sunset Shimmer vellum cut with the Stylish Shapes circle die. Next we make quick work of the sentiment by cutting the words from Early Espresso glimmer paper using the Words for the Season dies. We finish off with some leaves from the Harvest Hues ephemera pack and gold dots.
I hope you’ll drop by tomorrow to see what holiday products are featured next!
Welcome to a bright, new shiny week! The weekend went by in a whiz-bang around here. I don’t know about you, but I needed another day or two. But alas, we’re off and running on this week.
Exciting things are here in crafty land! EIGHT new releases have hit the online store today — the new holiday catalog, the new Online Exclusives, the new Hot Foil Magic catalog, new kits, a new craft class, a new Product of the Month, and a couple of other things I can’t remember right at the moment. Whew.
So this week’s theme is all about the holidays, which will span a whole host of holiday goodness from September to December. And we’re getting started with a super simple and gorgeously stunning holiday card using one of the new hot foil bundles — Magical Christmas.
I used a neutral base of white cardstock. A sheet of the textured foil sheets from the Neutral Noel paper pack covers the entire card front. I hot foiled the Magical Christmas plate in gold foil on a sheet of Garden Green cardstock and then cut it down so there were narrow borders all the way around and matted this panel with a sheet of the red Timeless Metallic specialty paper cut with the largest Perennial Postage die. We adhere our focal panel to the card front with dimensionals and add some of the Christmas epoxy shapes willy nilly on the card front for little pops of color and interest amongst our Christmas sentiments and finish things off with a bow of holiday baker’s twine in the corner.
This is super shiny and eye-catching in person. And it comes together in no time flat. You can easily make a whole set in one crafting session! We’re going to be making all sorts of holiday cards this week. We’ll be dreaming of sweater weather with tomorrow’s design. I hope you’ll drop by and check it out.
Products used in today’s card: Basic White, Garden Green CS Neutral Noel, Timeless Metallic DSP (coming tomorrow!) Magical Christmas hot foil plate (coming tomorrow!) Gold foil (coming tomorrow!) Perennial Postage dies Christmas epoxy shapes (coming tomorrow!) Holiday baker’s twine (coming tomorrow!) Dimensionals Adhesives
We made it to the weekend — whew! Yesterday turned out to be a bit busier than anticipated. The kiddo participated in the first round of basketball tryouts, and let’s just say it got off to a bumpy start. Quite literally. He’s got quite the nasty bump & bruise on his knee that we spent the evening nursing. Hoping it looks better after a good night’s rest!
As promised though, we’re strolling through Sleepy Hollow today. And look who we rustled up — Casper and friends! The new Frightfully Fun suite is so fun and we’re dazzling it up with some shimmery touches for the perfect pops of fun!
We get started with a base of black cardstock. A sheet of the swirling stars paper from the new Frightfully Fun paper pack gives us our spooky backdrop. And we wrap it with some black shiny ribbon before adhering to the card front. The Everyday Arches dies help us create our matted focal panel with a combo of orange Autumn Woodland glimmer paper and Frightfully Fun scary woods paper. Our cute little ghosties are diecut with the Oh My Fright dies and I added some detailing to each with a white chalk pen. Our dies also help us create the rest of our scene. The moon is a sheet of the pale yellow pastel shimmer paper with the clouds from a sheet of the blue Sunset shimmer vellum. Our bats are cut from Secret Sea glimmer paper and I added some detailing around the eyes with the chalk pen. Our sentiment from the Oh My Fright stamps is heat embossed in white on black paper and then cut into a banner shape before being adhered to the bottom corner of our card front. We finish things off with some dots and ghosts and bats from the Ghosts and Dots embellishments pack.
It’s a busy one today but I’m hoping to get some crafty playtime this afternoon to work on some 3D projects for an upcoming craft show.
Products used in today’s card: Basic Black CS Frightfully Fun, Autumn Woodland glimmer (coming in Sept), Peaceful Garden glimmer, pastels shimmer, Sunset shimmer vellum DSP Everyday Archie’s dies Oh My Fright bundle (coming in Sept) Versamark Black & clear EP Ghosts & dots (coming in Sept) Black shiny ribbon (coming in Sept) Dimensionals Adhesives
Howdy, friends! Welcome back. It’s hard to believe it’s already Thursday, although Monday & Tuesday definitely felt like Thursday & Friday. *chuckle*
I had some grand plans for a 3D project for today but ultimately figured out that I needed to devote more time to it in order to get it just right. So I hope to bring that to you over the weekend. Today, we’re getting another look at the Neutral Noel suite of products to include the awesome dies and embossing folder. And to add that touch of razzle dazzle in line with our design theme this week, we’re also using some of the new holiday hot foil products. So let’s dive in and see how this beauty comes together.
To start, I have to give props to the inspiration behind this card design. I’m CASEing a catalog CASE by Stamping Beauty NZ (follow her over on Insta!). Honestly, the catalog sample did not stand out to me like her card did. I love the neutral color palette and the overall feel of the card. But as I usually do when (theoretically) CASEing a card, it’s never truly a copy and stamp exactly situation. I always take liberties from the inspiration.
So we stick to the (mostly) neutral color palette here with a base of white cardstock. And our background panel of white is machine embossed with the new Soft Linen embossing folder. I punched things up a bit with the backdrop panel for the focal section by using a sheet of the All Wrapped Up foiled paper and cut it with the oval die from the Welcome Noel set. And the focal elements is where things get creative.
I paper pieced several houses diecut with the Welcome Noel dies from a combination of Crumb Cake, Early Espresso, and Golden Glow pearlized paper. I just love the soft glow in the windows provided by that pearlized paper! We dress up our houses with some holiday greenery cut from Peaceful Pine paper using the evergreen deco pieces in the Welcome Noel die set and add some peppermints and rhinestones. Next up, we prepare our large spruce tree by stamping tone-on-tone on Peaceful Pine cardstock and diecutting using the Welcome Noel bundle. Our little deer comes from the new Graceful Evergreen Deer hot foil bundle. The deer is foiled in copper and then diecut with the coordinating die. Using all of these elements, we build our scene on our focal panel with dimensionals to create depth of scene.
We finish off our card design with our holiday sentiment panel. It combines two ephemera banners from the Season of Celebration pack and the hot foil sentiment from the new Twinkling Tidings bundle foiled in red. Adhere them at the top of our scene with a bow of the new holiday baker’s twine, add a few sequins, and voila!
Today’s card is a part of the Luv 2 Stamp Group Instagram Hop, which goes live at 9 AM Pacific Time (PST). Click here to head over to my Instagram feed at 9 AM Pacific/11 AM Central and check out what the other demos in our L2S Group have created for you today!
Tomorrow things will be getting spooky as we continue our tour of the new products launching next week! I hope you’ll drop by!
Products used in today’s card: Basic White, Early Espresso, Crumb Cake, Peaceful Pine CS In Color pearlized SP, All Wrapped Up (coming in Sept) DSP Season of Celebration ephemera (coming in Sept) Noel Tidings, Graceful Evergreen Deer, Welcome Noel, Twinkling Tidings dies (coming in Sept) Twinkling Tidings, Graceful Evergreen Deer hot foil bundle (coming in Sept) Copper & red foil (coming in Sept) Softly Woven EF (coming in Sept) Rhinestone basic jewels, Real Red peppermints, sparkle sequins Seasonal baker’s twine (coming in Sept) Dimensionals Adhesives
Howdy, folks! Welcome back. Have you melted into a puddle yet? Man, the heat this summer is something else. I know, I know. We Texans are used to summers being extra when it comes to heat. But this particular summer is EXTRA extra. Maybe it feels particularly bad because the last couple of summers have been mild by comparison. Not sure, but I’m placing my vote for an early fall! Anybody else?
On the upside, I guess you could say that the heat is forcing us all to find productive things to do inside, which is magic words in the ears of any paper crafter! So as we’re dreaming of cooler weather, I’m pulling out the Christmas sparkles. There are SO many good things hitting the store next week. And today’s razzle dazzle card has a little bit of it all — Neutral Noel foiled paper, Season of Celebration ephemera, and the Twinkling Tidings hot foil bundle.
We keep things pretty simple so that our focal panel takes center stage here and get started with a base of white cardstock. The background panel is a sheet of the beautiful Neutral Noel foiled paper. Our focal panel starts with the Twinkling Tidings image hot foiled in green. We add the tree image by stamping over the tree with Peaceful Pine ink and then cut out our panel with the arched die from the coordinating Twinkling Tidings dies. A larger arch is cut from textured gold specialty paper using the Everyday Arches dies. A beautiful sprig of evergreen and poinsettia is added to the bottom corner of the panel with dimensionals. And then we finish things off with a few rhinestone jewels.
This one is sooo beautiful in person. It’s difficult to capture all of the glints of light you see from the foiled elements. Tomorrow I’ll be taking a little crafty break to get ready for the team blog hop on Thursday where I have grand plans for a bigger 3D project to share. We have a busy day slated for the office tomorrow also, so we shall see if my grand plans come to light. I hope you’ll drop by because I’ll have something to share either way.
Products used in today’s card: Basic White CS Textured Gold & Neutral Noel (coming in Sept) DSP Season of Celebration ephemera (coming in Sept) Everyday Arches dies Twinkling Tidings hot foil bundle (coming in Sept) Green foil (coming in Sept) Peaceful Pine ink Rhinestone basic jewels Dimensionals Adhesives
Welcome to Monday, where here in North Texas we’re starting to look like the Thanksgiving dinner rolls when no one remembers to set the timer. Needless to say, we’re extra crispy with a side of char over here. Send rain and cool temps stat!
This week, we’re continuing our razzle dazzle design theme because there is still so much good sparkly stuff from my new stash of goodies that I want to show you. And in keeping with thoughts of cooler weather ahead, we’re getting another look at the August Product of the Month. The Glow of Harvest paper is absolutely stunning and pairs beautifully with the new Buffalo Plaid hot foil plate and several of the new papers.
We get started with a neutral base of Pecan Pie cardstock for this easy fun fold card. I used the leftover piece of Cherry Cobbler paper with Buffalo Plaid foil for the left-side panel and then a small strip of a sheet of the POTM Glow of Harvest paper for the smaller panel on the right. The small focal image is from the diecut sheet from the Autumn Opulence paper pack and then our sparkly leaves are diecut from a sheet of the new Woodland Glimmer paper using the Sweet Words & Labels leaf dies. Our sentiment is from the Sincerely Noted ephemera pack. And we put all of our image and sentiment elements together on a backdrop of white shimmer vellum from the sunset shimmer pack that is cut with the Sweet Words & Labels die and adhere it just to our right panel with some dimensionals. A few pearlized faceted circles are carefully placed around our focal panel and really help our sentiment pop.
I can’t wait to show you one of the new Christmas foil bundles tomorrow. It is simply stunning. I hope you’ll drop in and check it out!
Products used in today’s card: Pecan Pie, Cherry Cobbler CS Glow of Harvest, Autumn Opulence (coming soon), Sunset shimmer vellum, Autumn Woodland glimmer (coming soon) DSP Sincerely Noted ephemera Sweet Words & Labels dies Buffalo Plaid hot foil plate (coming soon) Red foil (coming soon) Pearlized faceted circles Dimensionals Adhesives
Welcome to the weekend! It’s a busy one around here as I play catchup in all the ways. From music planning to house chores to crafting, I’m working to squeeze in time for all of it.
I’ve taken a couple of hours to get all the new crafty goodies unpackaged and have played around with a few things. I just don’t even know where to start, you guys! The new hot foil products that will drop in a few weeks are just fab and I’m in love with this month’s Product of the Month. Have you checked out the Glow of Harvest paper? It’s pearlized so it’s got this perfect pearly glow. So I’m combining several of the new lovelies for today’s card — the Buffalo Plaid hot foil die, the Glow of Harvest paper, and the Framed & Fabulous stamp set.
Since the card base will not show on the card front, you can choose any complimentary color you wish. I went very neutral with Very Vanilla. The foiled buffalo plaid panel is a sheet of Cherry Cobbler that is hot foiled with the new Buffalo Plaid die and new red foil. And next to it we put a sheet of the gorgeous Glow of Harvest paper. The focal image is a diecut included with the new Autumn Opulence paper pack. Underneath our image we’ve tucked in the sentiment panel. Our sentiment is from the new Framed & Fabulous stamp set and is heat embossed in gold and then diecut with the Stylish Shapes large banner die. A few red sequins give us a pop of sparkle to draw the eye across the card front.
We’re going to be continuing our razzle dazzle card series next week because….well, I have lots of sparkly things to show you! I hope you’ll drop in and check out what’s going to be coming your way SOON!
Products used in today’s card: Very Vanilla, Early Espresso, Cherry Cobbler CS Glow of Harvest, Autumn Opulence (coming soon) DSP Framed & Fabulous stamps (coming soon) Buffalo Plaid hot foil plate (coming soon) Red foil (coming soon) Stylish Shapes dies Versamark Gold EP Sparkle sequins (coming soon) Dimensionals Adhesives
Howdy, friends! Thanks for dropping by. I’ve been a little under the weather this week and haven’t felt like doing much the last couple of days.
To be honest, I just wanted to drop into bed when I got home from work today, but it’s my co-worker’s last day tomorrow and I needed to whip up a special card for him to wish him luck on his next grand adventure. And in the spirit of this razzle dazzle week, we’re making a masculine card that has some pizzazz with a combination of the new Tile Garden dies, the retired Dream Team stamp set, and the Shimmering Stripes specialty paper.
To keep things on the masculine side, we’re starting with a base of Pool Party cardstock and then a sheet of the narrow striped paper from the Everyday Essentials paper. I used the new Tile Garden dies to cut two squares of the Shimmering Stripes paper to serve as the backdrop for our focal elements. They’re mounted askew on our card front for some visual interest and movement. We use the Dream Team stamp set to stamp our images — the coffee cup, computer, and desk plant — and then fussy cut them. Stampin’ Blends help give us some additional color on our plant. The sentiment from the set is stamped and then diecut with one of the smaller Branching Out banner dies. They’re all adhered with dimensionals in varying layers to give us some depth of scene. A few riverside irregular pearls finish things off with a glimmery sheen across our card front.
I really love how this turned out. The playful sentiment and arrangement of images is very fitting for the recipient of this card who is full of zest and character. And I think that’s one of my favorite things about being a paper crafter — having the ability to make something that is perfect in every way for the intended recipient!
I’m sooooo excited to play with the new hot foil goodies that arrived this week. I hope I’m feeling up to making a few previews tomorrow evening!
Products used in today’s card: Pool Party, Basic White CS Everyday Essentials, Shimmering Stripes DSP Tile Garden (coming soon), Branching Out dies Dream Team stamps (retired) Pool Party, Gray Granite, Cajun Craze, Secret Sea, Peaceful Pine ink Shaded Spruce Stampin’ Blends Riverside irregular pearls (retired) Dimensionals Adhesives
Happy Monday, friends! Glad you’ve stopped by. We had a busy weekend. What about you? And with it being so hot (welcome to August in Texas!), it meant some creative changes in plans too. But we had no shortage of things to do inside so it kinda worked out.
We’re still working through the new stash of holiday products that will be releasing in a few weeks and this week is all about the razzle dazzle. If there’s something sparkly, shiny, or otherwise blingy, it usually comes to join my stash. But this catalog has some particular nice razzle dazzle things! And today we’re pulling out some of the Neutral Noel products to build this scene.
We get started with a base of Peaceful Pine cardstock. A sheet of the foiled filagree paper from the Neutral Noel paper pack serves as our backdrop. And it’s wrapped in a nice bow of festive baker’s twine before getting adhered to our card front. Special note: I really should adhered the background panel with dimensionals to provide some relief from the wrapping of twine. It works okay directly adhered to the card front, but I think I would have liked a flatter look.
Our focal panel begins with a sheet of foiled plaid from the All Wrapped Up paper pack that’s cut with the new Scalloped Christmas Cheer dies. We cut a piece of white velveteen paper with the Branching Out dies to create our snowy scene that’s built with the Welcome Noel stamp & die bundle. The trees are stamped tone-on-tone on Peaceful Pine and cut with the coordinating dies, while the houses are paper pieced with a combination of Crumb Cake, Early Espresso, and Golden Glow pearlized paper to create a warm glow in the windows. The deer is cut from Pecan Pie cardstock and placed in our scene with dimensionals for depth of scene. We finish things off with a sentiment from the Greetings for You ephemera pack and a few red sequins from the new sparkle pack.
We continue rolling through the dazzle dazzle tomorrow. I hope you’ll drop in!
Products used in today’s card: Peaceful Pine, Pecan Pie, Early Espresso, Crumb Cake CS Velveteen SP, Pearlized SP, *Neutral Noel, *All Wrapped Up DSP *Welcome Noel bundle Branching Out, *Scalloped Christmas Cheer dies Greetings for You ephemera (retired) *Festive twine *Sparkle sequins Dimensionals Adhesives *coming in Sept
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