In My Thoughts

Hello everyone! I'm here with a thinking of you card for Poppystamps. This card can easily be made into a Valentine's Day card by switching out the sentiment.

I used alcohol ink on yupo paper to create a colourful panel from which I die cut the pretty Leaf Flourish Heart. Love how the heart pops against all the white!

For more pics and details about this card please stop by the blog here.

Enjoy your week!

Sending Rainbow Love

Hello everyone! I have a sparkly rainbow card today using @heroarts and @memoryboxco products from scrapenmasse.com!

I used the Hero Arts Rainbow Heroscape Stamp Set and Rainbow Infinity Dies. Such a versatile duo of products for making rainbow cards for any occasion. I love that there are sentiments in this set that are curved and fit perfectly in the rainbow arch.

I die cut 4 rainbow pieces from glitter card stock. I stamped and heat embossed the sentiment on vellum and inserted it into my rainbow. For the clouds I covered some paper with double sided adhesive, die cut it, exposed the sticky side of the adhesive and covered it with flock. It adds a nice fuzzy texture to the clouds.

I mounted all my elements on a panel that was embossed with the Geometric Crystals Embossing Folder. This geometric pattern is a good for many card designs and adds some great texture.

Thanks for stopping by!

Crystal Lingo

Hi everyone. I have a couple of cards I made for Poppystamps using the Crystal Lingo slimline stamp.

I clear heat embossed the image onto watercolour paper, smooshed Distress Inks ontop, sprayed it heavily with water and let it dry.

I'ts a fun design that is great for a lot of different occasions. For more info on how I made the card please stop by the Poppystamps blog here.

Have a great week!

All the Happiness

Happy Monday everyone! I have a pretty floral card for you today using Poppystamps All the Happiness stamp set.

I heat embossed the image and used inks to add colour to the flower and added a little shine with some Perfect Pearls spray.

For more info please visit the blog here. I'm also entering this for Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge, Sparkle and Shine, here.

Have a great week!

Cherry Blossom Wreath

Check out this big beautiful Cherry Blossom Wreath!

I have a post up at Poppystamps on how I made this card. Stop by the blog here for all the details!

Have a crafty day!

My Favorite Things Card Design Superstar

I made a card for MFT 2019 Card Design Superstar Challenge in the Clean and Simple Category.

I started by embossing the MFT Marble Background with Wow Clear Matt Dull Embossing Powder on Silver Matt Mirror Board. The marble design looks like it's etched into the mirror board.  Very elegant in person. I cut various strips of the embossed panel and adhered them at an angle onto Neenah Linen card stock.

The celebrate die cut (from MFT Celebratory Greetings) was inked to fade out from dark to light blue and is stacked 4 layers high. The leaf from the MFT Stitched Blooms set was inked in pink and I added one gem.

Thanks for visiting with me today!

A Few Crafty Projects

Hello everyone! I managed to get in some crafty time this weekend and made a couple of very quick and easy cards.



First up was my use of Faber-Castell's Glass Bead Glitter Gel. I've been wanting to try it for such a long time after seeing some pretty sparkly cards out in blogland with this product.



I used the same butterfly stencil on two cards, inking them both up with Distress Oxides and then applying the Bead Glitter Gel.



I so love how they turned out! It really is beautiful and glittery and has lots of dimension. Makes me happy! I'm definitely going to be using this product a lot more!



Next is a quickie card with some Distress Oxide Ink Blending and a black heat embossed silhouette image.



I added Nuvo Drops in clear and like the way they pick up the ink colour underneath.



That's it for me. Thanks for stopping by today!

More Hydrangeas

I'm back with a couple more cards featuring the Essentials by Ellen Mondo Hydrangea.

For the first card I white embossed the image on watercolour paper and coloured it with Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers. I'm still in the experimental stages with these markers.

The Simon Says Stamp mom die cut was layered four times with red card stock with the final layer being watercolour paper. I just love the pretty script of this die.

I put liquid adhesive around the edges of the panel and sprinkled with Distress Rock Candy Glitter and added a few Nuvo Crystal Drops.

For the second card I gold embossed the image on watercolour paper and used Gansai Tambi Watercolors. I had wanted to make a pastel card but my watercolouring had some issues so I went back with darker layers and sort of made a mess of it and had to add more watercolouring and ended up with this bloom. I was going to pitch it but I thought someone out there might like it.

I ran my panel with the Essentials by Ellen Stitches Cover Plate on the top corner for some added interest and finished off with a gold die cut sentiment.

I'm entering this card for Ellen Hutson's March Pin-Sights Challenge here. Loving the jewel tones in this colour  palette!



Thanks for visiting with me today!

Simon Says Stamp Mood Board

I'm stopping by today with a card for the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge Blog and this week there's a fall mood board.

I couldn't resist making a leafy card for the challenge.

The Poppystamps Maple Leaf is covered with gilding flakes.

The panel the leaf is adhered to is embossed with a Taylored Expressions Weathered Embossing Folder. I then tapped Versamark along the edges, sprinkled on gold embossing powder and heat set.

The sentiment is from the Neat and Tangled Oak Leaf stamp set and is black heat embossed on vellum and wrapped around the panel.

I finished off by rounding two of the corners on the card base.

Thanks for visiting with me today!

World Card Making Day

Hello everyone, it's been a while since I posted but life sometimes gets a little crazy, right?

I have a card today I made for World Card Making Day.

I finally got a chance to play with the beautiful Emma Stamp from Simon Says Stamp. This is such a pretty and elegant design! I embossed the image in Brass Embossing Powder from Hero Arts onto water colour paper. I spritzed the paper with water and then added Ken Oliver Color Burst in Merlot and let it do its magic. I love all the separation of the different pigments in this colour!

The colours are a little darker than I would like for a wedding card but I didn't want to mess around with after it was dry so I left it as is.

I added a die cut sentiment and one black gem to finish the card.

I'm submitting this card for the Simon Says Stamp World Card Making Day Challenge found here.

Thanks for visiting with me today!

Go For Gold

Hello everyone! There's a new challenge up at Poppystamps and the theme for this month is Go For Gold!

For my card I decided to use gold embossing powder for the gold theme. I started by die cutting the sentiment from white card stock, smooshing Versamark over it, sprinkling it with gold embossing powder and heat setting it. By doing this I know that all the gold on my card matches perfectly.

For the background, I took a piece of white card stock and used the Memory Box Raymelle stencil with Distress Ink in Mermaid Lagoon.

I used Distress Ink in Wilted Violet, Shaded Lilac and Picked Raspberry to colour some white card stock. I die cut the butterflies from this, stamped the delicate body images in Versamark and gold embossed.

I took the Versamark ink pad and dabbed it around the edge of the stenciled piece, sprinkled with gold embossing powder and heat set. This adds a visual definition between the panel and the black card base without needing another layer of paper.

To finish off the card I added some black gems.

The Go For Gold challenge lasts all month so you have lots of time to submit your projects and at the end one person will be randomly chosen to win some Poppystamps products.

I can't wait to see your creative projects!

CL429 Ornamental Butterflies 1541 Ornamental Butterflies Die Set 1735 Spectacular Happy Birthday Memory Box Raymelle Stencil

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25 Days of Christmas Tags

Welcome to Day 2 of Tracey McNeely's 25 Days of Christmas Tags. Tracey has been doing this event for 6 years. Wow, great job Tracey! Every day there is a new sponsor with inspirational projects and some prizes. Tracey has all the general info about the event here.

Today it's Poppystamps turn to sponsor and there are some fabulous tags created by the design team.

For my tag I started off by die cutting a Main Street Tag from water colour paper and heat embossing the poinsettia and leaves from the Poinsettia Peace stamp set in brass embossing powder. Then I did some loose water colouring with my Gansai Tambi Paints.

I die cut the Merry Christmas Tag from black card stock and adhered that on top of the stamped tag. I added a few black stamped dots and some sequins and to finish off I added ribbon and a couple of bells.

To see what the rest of the Poppystamps design team created stop by Tracey's blog here.

Thanks for visiting today and happy crafting!

1645 Merry Christmas Tag

Main Street Tags

CL440 Poinsettia Peace Clear Stamp Set

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Hero Arts Hostess Blog Hop

Welcome everyone to the Hero Arts Hostess Alumni Blog Hop! I'm so excited you're joining us for this two day event. You should be arriving for Emily's blog.

The Hosti's have gotten together to feature projects using products from the new 2016 release and winter catalog.

My first card uses the Happy Holly Days Stamp and Die Set. I love all the greenery in this set, perfect for so many different styles of cards. 



I heat embossed all my stamped images with Hero Arts Brass Embossing Powder. It's my first time trying it and is now a favourite. I'll be using it on a lot of my holiday cards this year. After embossing and die cutting I coloured in my pieces with Zig Markers. 



For the red piece I stamped the Holiday Florals Bold Prints Stamp with red ink on red card stock and used a Sakura glitter pen to add red dots on the background. Then it was just a matter of assembling the card and adding a sentiment.

On my second card I used the Color Layering Cardinal as my focal image. Half the fun is experimenting with different colour combos for the bird. The colours on my bird are Ranger Pink Gumball, Ranger Classic Cherry and Memento Love Letter.



I die cut a circle from white card stock and white heat embossed the Woodgrain Bold Prints image on it. I also heat embossed branches from the Happy Holly Days set with green glitter embossing powder and used them to frame the bird. 



For the strip of green I used Versamark to ink the edge of the cardstock, sprinkled it with the same green glitter embossing powder and heat set. I finished off the card by adding my sentiment.

Are you ready for some prizes? Hero Arts will be awarding 4 prizes ($25 shopping spree to Hero Arts online shop) from randomly drawn comments. For a chance to win, simply comment on ANY of the stops along the hop on Oct. 24th and 25th, including each day’s ending post at the Hero Club Blog. The more comments you leave, the better your chance of winning! Comment by Sunday Oct 30th at 11:59pm PT for a chance to win. If you find a broken link, you'll find a master list of the hop links at the Hero Arts Blog.

I'm including a list of all the participants today in case there's a glitch.

Virginia Lu
Emily Leiphart
Sue McRae - You Are Here
Sarah Moerman
Nancy Krueger
Tiffany Ervin
Arlene McClung
Joy Taylor
Suzanne Czosek
Heather Doran
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Now your next stop is Sarah.

Thanks for visiting today and have fun hopping!