I got this lilac embossing folder maybe a year ago, but then was a bit intimidated by it. But I was encouraged to give it a try after seeing Caly's beautiful results. Here's my first play with it.
Wednesday, May 8, 2024
Lilac Clusters
Monday, May 6, 2024
May Spellbinders Club Kits!
The Spellbinders Club Kits are available now through May 27! You are going to love this tropical theme that runs throughout all the kits!
For my first card I mixed the Small Dies of the Month: Tropical Friends, with the 3D embossing folder: Scattered Tropical, and used bright colors of cardstock.
Saturday, May 4, 2024
Bluebirds of Happiness?
I have been watching Aaron Leventhal's Hanging with Hero series, and I highly recommend it if you haven't already seen it. The first episode was with Jennifer McGuire, and the second with Tim Holtz, and they have been so interesting, and really makes you proud to be part of this industry! I highly recommend that you watch them. There are more to come, also!!
Recently Simon Says Stamp had a stamp/die set on sale that has been on my wishlist, so I jumped and got it home. Here's a card I made after watching Aaron's videos, and also being inspired by Yana Smakula's use of these same supplies. She made her sentiments vertical, which reminded me of one of my all-time favorite Hero Arts sentiment stamps, from 2011. So I dug it out and here's my first card with my new (to me) goodies!
Thursday, May 2, 2024
Washi Butterflies!
It's May!
Here are a couple of cards that I made after receiving the Pink Fresh Studio Fluttering Butterflies washi and matching dies. I have a lovely collection of their floral washi designs, and thought that these butterflies would be a nice accompaniment to them.
First I used just the elements in this set, which are lots of butterflies, along with some leafy stems. I simply arranged them on a pierced leafy background and popped up a sentiment.
Tuesday, April 30, 2024
Spellbinders Glitter Cardstock
Spellbinders generously sent me a selection of their gorgeous glitter cardstock. It comes in metallic colors: gold, silver, and champagne, plus deep jewel tones and sweet spring tones. I made 2 cards.
Sunday, April 28, 2024
Altenew April Inspiration Challenge
I need to be doing more challenges, so I found this one from Altenew, their monthly inspiration challenge.
Saturday, April 27, 2024
Stencil Masking
My Favorite Things has some "Smart Masks", which can be used with stencils or stamps to give a border all around and a natural area to stamp a sentiment. I ordered a High Low Strip masking stencil and a fun set of sentiment stamps that will fit with it, and made 3 cards today.
supplies: white and bright pink cardstock, The Greetery Petal Pushers stencils, teeny bikini, melon, sunshine, firefly, and volcano lake inks, MFT High Low Strip masking stencil, Essential Messages, enamel dots
And 1 more, just cause it's fun to play with colors!
Thursday, April 25, 2024
BetterPress!!
I had been holding out investing in the BetterPress system from Spellbinders, but it is included in the current Spring Cleaning sale ending tonight at midnight, and that tipped me over! So today I'm sharing my first attempt using this system.
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
Woodblock Wednesday: Dots & Flowers
Here's my card for this month's Woodblock Wednesday over at Amy's blog! I chose a background stamp dated 2009 from Hero Arts called Dots & Flowers.
Sunday, April 21, 2024
Folkart Flower Turnabout Cards
Here's the latest Turnabout design from Concord and 9th - I can't seem to resist any of them! I made 2 cards with it today.
For my first card, I stamped the design, then die-cut the word happy from it, added the script sentiment, and popped the panel above a solid A2 coral panel.
Thursday, April 18, 2024
Birthday Wishes
You can never have too many birthday cards, so I pulled out some older dies and made a feminine pastel one. The flowers and leaves were all cut from paint chips!
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
Blackout Embossing Technique
I have been wanting to try the Blackout Embossing technique where you emboss a design with your folder, turn it around so that the design is debossed, color in the details, then swipe a black ink pad over the whole thing. It's a scary scenario, but the results I've seen have been pretty amazing.
I chose a 3D folder called Floral Harmony. Here are my results.
Sunday, April 14, 2024
Lilacs From Me to You
I have loved lilacs forever - they bring back so many memories of growing up, probably enhanced by their magical scent. Here's another play with my new goodies from The Greetery.
Friday, April 12, 2024
Stampendous All the Sentiments Release
A few days ago Stampendous had a new release called All the Sentiments. There are sentiment sets for sympathy cards, birthday cards, and 1 for all occasion. Today I have 3 cards that use sentiments from 3 of these new stamp sets.