Summer Chill Birthday Card -- Two-stencil Technique!

Hello, crafty friends!  Today I'm sharing a few details of this card I made that features a few of the Alex Syberia Designs August 2026 release products along with the Postage Stamp die and stencil.

First I die cut white cardstock with the Postage Stamp die.  I used two sandy-colored inks and blending brushes to add my beach to each rectangle.  Use removable tape to mask off where needed.

I placed it onto my grip mat and positioned the Postage Stamp stencil over it.  (Note: I just found that this is currently sold out.  Click the "notify me" button to be notified when it's back.  Masking tape could easily be used here.)  That's the first stencil.  I placed the second stencil, Clouds & Waves Builder, over the top rectangles with the waves portion of the stencil.

Then I used teal and blue inks with the cloud and waves edges of the Clouds & Waves Builder stencil.  I glued this panel to an A2 card base.

Next I stamped the cute images from the Summer Chill stamp set with Copic safe ink.  I colored the images with my Copic markers and then cut them out with the coordinating Summer Chill dies.

I trimmed the edges of the image with the palm tress to match the width of the stenciled rectangle.  Then I used foam adhesive to adhere it and the other images to my card.

The Summer Chill stamp set has seven sentiments to choose from.  I decided on a birthday sentiment and stamped it with black pigment ink.  I cut it out with the coordinating die and adhered it with foam strips.

Thanks so much for stopping by!  If you'd like to see some of how I made this, please watch my reel over on my Instagram!

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Country Fruit Basket Birthday Card -- Honey Bee Stamps

Hello crafty friends!  Today I'm here to share all of the fun details of this card I made with Honey Bee Stamps Lovely Layers: Berry Basket Honey Cuts.  Our team has made some awesome cards using this set, so I wanted to think of a way to make my card a bit different.  I had this great idea to use the Lovely Layers: Wrap It Up bow and some gingham paper and I love how this turned out!

I had a very busy day yesterday with every-day-life stuff and let me tell you, this card came together so easily!  I die cut red, blue, green, and Kraft cardstock with the dies in the Lovely Layers: Berry Basket set.

The lemon is from the Lovely Layers: Citrus set and one I had saved from a previous project!  I love having these random pieces ready to use!  After I added darker inks to the fruits and basket with blending brushes for dimension, I used Bee Creative glue to adhere the layers together.

Next I die cut the Lovely Layers: Wrap It Up bow from a piece of gingham paper in the Perfect Picnic paper pad.  So that the reverse pattern of the paper wouldn't show on the inside of the bow loops, I just flipped that paper over to die cut another layer of the bow loops.  Then I glued the two pieces together with the gingham pattern facing out.  I assemble the bow with glue and use my reverse tweezers to hold the bow in the center until the glue was dry.

I glued the ribbon portion of the Bow to the Berry Basket and used my scissors to trim off the excess on each side of the basket.  Then I glued the bow to the basket.

I just love this patterned paper I used from the Perfect Picnic paper pad.  It has just enough of the blurry look to appear as if it's in the background behind the Berry Basket!  I trimmed just 1/8" of an inch from the top and one side to create just a slim white border on the A2 card.

I stamped two of the sentiments from the Berry Sweet Summer stamp set with black pigment ink.  I cut them out with the coordinating Berry Sweet Summer Honey Cuts and use foam strips and glue to adhere them to my card.

I think this gingham bow makes this into the cutest little fruit basket that might be found on a roadside stand!  What do you think?

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Let's Eat Candy -- Big Mouth Jack-O-Lantern Interactive Halloween Card

Hello friends!  Today I am sharing this fun card I made that features Hero Arts Big Mouth Jack-O-Lantern die set!

The Big Mouth Jack-O-Lantern dies, when used with the Big Mouth Slider dies, creates such a fun and interactive slider card!  And, if you don't have these slider dies, the Big Mouth Jack-O-Lantern dies make a wonderful card without them!

Check out this next photo!

By pulling the slider tab it reveals your sentiment inside the big mouth!

I started with the Big Mouth Slider dies and cut white cardstock with the dies.  You can search YouTube and find several videos that show you how to easily assemble this.  The one I watched is by Mindy Egan, on Spellbinders channel.

I die cut several different colors of cardstock with the Big Mouth Jack-O-Lantern dies.  Before I glued the pieces together, I added shading with coordinating ink and a blending brush.  (All of my supplies are linked in the list below.)

The sentiment is another one in the August Clear Stamp+Die Club Kit.  (Yes, I have used this one a lot--it's a keeper!)  I added the Jack-O-Lantern to some dark indigo cardstock that I inked with Black Soot Distress ink and then added white splatters.

If you like this one, be sure to check out all of the other available Big Mouth die sets!

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Hello, Sweet Friend -- Honey Bee Stamps

Hello, crafty friends!   Today I'm sharing my card that features the Picked With Love stamps, Honey Cuts, and coordinating stencils.  I love strawberry lemonade drinks with crushed ice and that was my inspiration for my card.  It is incredibly hot here in Texas (106º today) and I wish I had a nice delicious and cold one right now!

First I started with the Picked With Love stencil set.  I chose a few red ink shades, and some greens and yellow inks.  This set is a seven-stencil set and is filled with awesome details to add to your images!

I used ink blending brushes to add my colors through each of the stencils.  I decided to also make a few of the small blueberry clusters.  I was very happy at how I achieved the bluish/purple color for the berries.  First I blended a fairly dark blue for the berries.  Before I removed that stencil, I also blended a dark reddish purple over it.  Perfect color!  I used the dark purple ink to finish the two other layers of the berries.

Before I die cut any of the images, I needed to stamp the Picked With Love stamp for each one.  Using my MISTI, I put the stamps over each stenciled image, carefully lining it up.  I almost always stencil first, then stamp the images.  You can double check your stamp alignment by placing acetate over the stenciled piece.  I inked up my stamps with Intense Black ink and stamped them onto the acetate.  If you are satisfied with the alignment, remove the acetate and stamp again onto the stenciled panel.

I cut the images out with the coordinating Picked With Love Honey Cuts.  I set these aside to create my card base and layers.

I started with a white cardstock A2 card base.  Then I chose paper from the Summer Picnic paper pad, trimmed it to 4" x 5-¼".  Before I used glue to adhere it to the card, I wrapped a piece of yellow gingham ribbon around the panel and tied it into a bow.

Next I die cut white cardstock with the largest Stacking Art Deco Labels die, and embossed it with the Wood Planks embossing folder.

The white-cardstock die-cut heart is from the Lace Heart Layering Frames.  I used Bee Creative Foam Tape to adhere it and the remaining images to the card.

I stamped a sentiment from the Picked With Love stamp set in black pigment ink. After I cut it out with the coordinating Picked With Love die, I glued it to the heart.

I love this fun summery and so very cheerful card!  Now I need to go get me some strawberry lemonade!!  LOL!

Thank you so much for stopping by today!  If you are also in this awful heat wave, I hope you stay cool, stay inside, and craft your heart out!

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Buzzy Pup-Bee Halloween Card

Happy Saturday, friends!  Today I'm sharing this adorable Halloween card that features Spellbinders new Buzzy Pup-Bee die set!

This adorable little Buzzy Pup-Bee is so cute dressed up in his bee costume!  I die cut the dies from white, black, and yellow cardstock.  The wings are die cut from vellum.

I used Copic markers for the eyes and ears of the pup.  For his candy bucket, I colored green and pink Copic colors onto a scrap piece of white cardstock.  I trimmed it to fit behind the top layer of the bucket and used glue to adhere the two layers together.

The Buzzy Pup-Bee is easy to assemble, and if you need a bit of help, there's a guide you can see in the photos on the product page.

For the layers of the A2 card base, I first die cut black cardstock with the second largest die from the Playful Stitched Panels die set.  Then I placed the die cut panel into the Spooky Web 3D embossing folder.  This is from the August 3D embossing folder club kit, and is still available!  This folder has two different embossing patterns perfectly sized for your A2 card layers.

I glued the die cut and embossed piece to some yellow cardstock that I trimmed to 4" x 5-¼".

The sentiment is from the Birthday Bear die set.  After I die cut it from white cardstock, I glued a piece of black cardstock to the back and popped it up with foam squares.

Next I popped up the Buzzy Pup-Bee with foam squares for more fun dimension.

I think this turned out super cute!  I hope you do too!  Thanks for stopping by.  I hope you are having a great weekend with lots of crafty time!

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Hope Your Day Is Stacked With Joy -- Honey Bee Stamps

Hello, crafty friends!  Do you make clean and simple cards?  If you are here regularly, you most likely know that I do not!  Haha!  But I think I've succeeded today with this card that features Honey Bee Stamps awesome Lovely Layers: Sub Sandwich Honey Cuts!  Check it out!

I started out with the Lovely Layers: Sub Sandwich dies.  First I chose the items I wanted to layer in my sub sandwiches.  Next I chose various colored cardstocks for the pieces.  I die cut the meat and onion layers from white cardstock.

Once you have the dies and cardstocks planned out, it's super easy to have a die cutting session and cut out enough pieces for three sub sandwiches!  To add some dimension and depth of color to the pieces I used either inks with blending brushes or my Copic markers.

If you'd like to see some of this process, check out my Instagram later this morning to watch my reel!  I particularly like how the bread for the Subs turned out after I added shading to the pieces!

With all of the goodies shaded or colored, I used Bee Creative glue to adhere layers together and then layered them into the sandwiches.

To keep the card background simple and give a place to "ground" the three sandwiches, I ink blended a rectangle onto the A2 card front.  This was super easy!  I used my paper trimmer to cut four ½" strips of masking paper.  I placed the strips around the edges of the card base, then used a neutral blue ink and a large blending brush to color in the space.

I removed the masking paper to reveal this pretty inked rectangle!  I used glue and foam strips to adhere each Sub Sandwich into the rectangle.

The sentiments are from the Stacked With Joy stamp set.  After I stamped each sentiment with black pigment ink, I cut them out with the coordinating Stacked With Joy die.  To match the height of the Sub Sandwiches, I used a double layer of foam strips to adhere each sentiment to the card.

I really like my version of this clean and simple card with the Lovely Layers: Sub Sandwich!  I hope you like it too!  Thank you so much for stopping by today.  I hope your day is a good one!

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The Spirits Made Me Do It! -- Spellbinders August Club Kits

 Hey, friends!  Today I'm sharing this card I made that features three of Spellbinders August Club Kits.  This is also a fun and interactive card with the ghost on a new Card Spinner!  That potion made the ghost a little wacky!  LOL!  These spinners are so easy to add to a card and spin so smoothly!

These are the August Card Kits featured on this card:

• Spooky Web, 3D Embossing Folder of The Month

• Boo Crew, Small Die

• Trick Or Snark, Clear Stamp + Die

First I created my spooky background panel.  I used some Distress Spray Stains in these colors: Carved Pumpkin, Twisted Citron, and Villainous Potion.  I sprayed these onto Bristol smooth cardstock.  I just repeated a few colors, drying in between spraying until I was happy.  Then I used a blending brush to add Black Soot Distress ink around the edges.

My thought was to make it look as if the potion had a bright glow around it!  Next I used the Spooky Web embossing folder (August's 3D embossing folder) to emboss the inked panel.  This folder is great in that it has two A2 panels in two different patterns!

I trimmed the panel to 4" x 5-¼" and adhered it to black cardstock.  I glued these to an A2 card base.

Next I die cut white cardstock with the dies in the Boo Crew Lab, the Small Die of The Month.  There are several more dies in this set that I didn't use.

After coloring the die cut pieces with my Copic markers, I used glue to adhere the layers together.  Then I added foam adhesive to the books and potion to adhere them to the card.

Before I adhered the ghost, I placed a small Card Spinner to the back of it.  A glue dot will hold it securely to the ghost and the card base.

If you'd like to see the ghost in action, please check out my Instagram post!

Next I stamped one of the sentiments from the Trick Or Snark stamp set onto black cardstock with clear embossing ink.  I poured white embossing powder over it and used my heat tool to set it.  This set not only has eight sentiments with coordinating dies, there's also a cute not spooky Halloween image to stamp and color!

I used some black foam squares to pop the die cut sentiment up on the card.

I hope you've enjoyed my not-too-spooky and interactive Halloween card!  Get all of the details of Spellbinders Club Kits here!  Thank you for stopping by!

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