I Love You; Anniversary Card

For this card I used papers from a Prima paper pad. It has the prettiest patterns ever. I took a piece and cut it down to 5 1/2 by 4. I die cut an opening on the side from a Spellbinders Die Set. I then die cut another one from a piece of Tim Holtz kraft resist paper. I clear embossed the two little people on it. I also clear embossed the sentiment on more Tim Holtz Kraft Resist paper. 

 I then took a piece of real birch bark and adhered it down. Everything is popped up with pop dots except the two little people. I love this 'in lay' look.  The real birch bark adds a lot of interest and dimension.

Links to Some Supplies Used:

Spellbinders Rounded Squares Nestabilities

Prima Fairy Rhymes 6x6 Paper Pad

Tim Holtz Kraft Resist Paper

Zing Clear Embossing Powder

American Crafts Double Sided Tape

American Crafts Pop Dots

Celebrate Everyday!

I'm not very good at posting regularly, that might be a good new years resolution. haha. But today I have a non Christmas card to show. It was surprisingly difficult not to reach for my Christmas stamps. It seems that once you get into the groove, its hard to get out! I still ended up reaching for my go to 'Critters in the Snow' stamp set though. I 'scraplifted' the idea from CardMaker magazine, not exactly the same but the same layout. 

 I cut the flags from a My Minds Eye paper pad and inked the background with tumbled glass distress ink. The sentiment is from a Hero Arts set. Everything is popped up on dimensionals. I stamped the polar bear onto water colour paper because I very faintly added a little shading with tumbled glass distress ink and my water brush.

Links to Some Supplies Used:

Lawn Fawn Critters in the Snow

American Crafts Pop Dots

Hero Arts Celebrate Everyday

Ranger Jet Black Archival Ink

Tumbled Glass Distress Ink

Ranger Ink Blending Tool

Tombow Stamp Runner

Mini Glue Dots

Pentel Aquash Brush

Lawn Fawn Catalogue Challenge!

So, I have already posted this card in a previous post, but I am reposting it in order to enter the Lawn Fawn Catalogue Challenge! Go check out their blog for amazing inspiration, and crazily addictive stamp line! :)

Stunning Snowflakes!

This card has such a elegant look to it, but it was actually really simple! 

The snowflakes are die cut from ranger's foil sheets and the sentiment is embossed in silver embossing powder.

 To finish it off I added a few gems here and there and rounded the outside corners! 

 I love how you can get such a 'this card took me a long time' look and it actually took me now time at all! 

Links to Some Supplies Used:

SSS Kate Snowflake Die

Ranger Foil Sheets

Technique Tuesday Jingle All The Way stamp set

Fiskars Corner Rounder

Versamark Ink

Silver Embossing Powder

The Winter Wonderland Has Started!

The snow if falling like crazy, the weather has dropped and Christmas lights are starting to appear on the houses! It's definitely starting to feel like Christmas! Yay! So since it feels like I haven't posted in forever, I have quite a few cards to share today, and since I have so many I'm not going to go into detail in all of them, but I'll still have links to everything down below! 

Here, I stamped the background in versamark ink to get a tone on tone look. I am kind of obsessed with gold embossing powder right now! haha. I used it on this card on the tree and to matte the main panel. 

 This card has a such a different look to it, then my usual Christmas cards, I love it! I also used gold embossing powder on the bench! haha.

 I am absolutely in love with these two cards! The Tim holtz Winter Blueprints stamp set is just amazing!  

 This card has such a light an airy feel to it! Since everything is basically white, the penguin really stands out! It's adorable! The igloo is sprayed with perfect pearls mist! 

 This card is almost too cute for words. If you're a dog lover like I am, you will fall in love with it! The cute little puppy is adorable, I just coloured him in with distress inks!

 This card has some shimmer to it! With silver embossing and glitter and the snowflakes (The blue glitter is the new Distress Glitter from Tim Holtz) it just has a nice winter wonderland feel to it!

 Here is a peek at the inside of that one above! 

 This one is made from the same stamp set has the penguin one. This team I added a blue background. The igloo is covered in stickles this time! 

Links To Supplies Used:

Hero Arts Merry Background Stamp

Hero Arts Stunning Snowflakes Background Stamp

Lawn Fawn Critters in the Snow

Lawn Fawn Winter in the Park

Tim Holtz Distress Ink

Technique Tuesday Jingle All the Way

Simon Says Stamp Large Merry Tree

Tim Holtz Christmas Blueprints

Stardust Stickles

Ranger Jet Black Archival Ink

Ranger Vermillion Ink

Gold Embossing Powder

Versamark Ink

American Crafts Kringle and co 6x6 paper pad

Brilliance Galaxy Gold Pigment Ink

Martha Stewart Bakers Twine

Simon Says Stamp Premium Adhesive Paper

Tumbled Glass Distress Glitter

Martha Stewart Arctic SnowflakePunch

Hero Arts Christmas Reindeer

Merry & Bright!

For this card I made a really simple, easy to mass produce, one layer Christmas card. Like this card literally took me like 3 minutes tops. I stamped the ornaments in a three different colours of distress inks (evergreen bough, peacock feather and fired brick) then drew a black line to create the string. I stamped the 'Merry & Bright' sentiment in red vermilion ink from Ranger, added two little rinestones and rounded the corners and I was done! This is probably the most simple card I have ever made! 

 A closer look at the stamping!

Links To Some Supplies Used:

(Unfortunately, I couldn't find a link to the stamp set I used. It was a My Minds Eyes stamp set, that I think was called '12 Days of Christmas')

Evergreen Bough Distress Ink

Peacock Feathers Distress Ink

Fired Brick Distress Ink

Ranger Archival Vermillion Ink

Fiskars Corner Rounder

Alcohol Resist!

I'm back! I haven't posted anything in what seems like fooooooorever. hahaa. I tried something new today. Didn't quite work out perfectly, but I know what to change next time! So, I attempted an alcohol ink resist technique. It worked, but you need to work in smaller sections, so the ink will come off the embossing cleaner. The other thing, is I think working with blues, and greens would work better because the pinks and yellows left a weird creamy colour on the embossing and it doesn't look very good. Although it didn't turn out really well, I though I would share the basic idea anyway. To finish off the card I created a dimensional banner to go over top. Everything is popped up with foam dots. This is a standard A2 card.

 A peek at the inside!

Links to Some Supplies Used:

Alcohol Ink Lemonade

Alcohol Ink Shell Pink

Alcohol Ink Pink Sherbet

Memento Angel Pink Ink

Ranger Glossy Cardstock

Alcohol Ink Applicator

Versamark Ink

White embossing Powder