Elegant Red and Gold Embossed Holiday Card

Happy Saturday!  Today I'm sharing this card featuring Picket Fence Studios' Winter Blooms stamp and the Merry Christmas Word Die Set.

I started with a 4" x 5-¼" piece of red cardstock.  After using my anti-static powder on the cardstock, I stamped the small image from the Winter Blooms stamp set with Versamark embossing ink and added gold embossing powder.  After I heat set the powder, I inked around the edges with two shades of dark red ink.  Be sure to use a clean towel to wipe the excess ink off of the embossing!

I die cut the "Christmas" from the Merry Christmas die three times in red cardstock and once from brushed gold cardstock.  Merry is die cut from white cardstock and inked with a dark red ink using a Paper Pouncer.

I added gold gems from the North Pole gem mix for a bit of sparkle!  

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you're having a good weekend!

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I Used One Set of Inks to Stencil A Card! Sisters Of The Heart

Hello crafty friends!  Sometimes when I am using a previously released product I feel a bit stumped on ideas so the project doesn't look just like any other.  I have Altenew's Mediterranean Glow Fresh Dye Ink set and I wondered if I could make a card with just those four ink colors.

These colors are so pretty, but also very unique, I think, and I am quite pleased with how this card turned out!

I used the Sisters of the Heart stamps and coordinating stencils for this card.  I colored the flowers using the stencils and blending brushes with the two lightest shades in the Mediterranean Glow set, Honeydew Glow and Antique Olive.  The leaves are colored with the two darkest shades, Olove (not a typo :) and Sugar Kelp.

I stamped the sentiment from the Sisters of the Heart stamp set in Sugar Kelp ink.

Then I trimmed the panel to 4" x 5-¼" and adhered it to an A2 sized piece of Moss cardstock.  These layers were then glued to an A2 card base.

This card was super quick to make, I love the sentiment, and the colors too!  Thanks so much for stopping by.

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I'm Batty For You! A Sweet Halloween Card

Hello crafty friends! Since it's almost October (I can't believe how time flies!) I've made a not too spooky card for Halloween featuring a few of the new sets in the Honey Bee Stamps' Falloween release! I love how so many of Honey Bee's sets work together such as the Owlloween stamps and coordinating dies with the Lovely Layers: Scaredy Cat dies.

Before I began, I die cut the moon in the Owlloween Honey Cuts from masking paper. Be sure to save the negative part to use later. Then I die cut a 4-¼" x 5-½" piece of masking paper with a hill die from the Horizon Slimline Borders dies. These will be used to mask the sky and the ground.

All of the inks I used for this background panel are Distress Oxide inks. I placed the mask for the moon onto an A2 sized piece of 80# white Neenah. I placed the mask for the ground at the bottom of the A2 white Neenah panel. Then I used ink blending brushes and the following colors to create the night sky around the moon: Prize Ribbon, Chipped Sapphire, Villainous Potion, and Black Soot.

Next I placed the negative moon mask around the moon. Using my MISTI, I inked up the moon stamp from the Owlloween stamp set with Lost Shadow. I used a blending brush to wipe away a lot of the ink in the center of the stamp so that the edges of the moon would be darker than the rest of it. I stamped the moon, then repeated this step as much as needed until I was happy with the look. Before I removed the mask, I inked on Antique Linen just around the edges of the moon.

I removed the negative moon mask and put the mask for the moon back over it. I blended on a bit more Antique Linen around the edges of the mask blending out into the sky. Then I covered the sky with the other mask and blended on Black Soot, Chipped Sapphire and Prized Ribbon for the hill. I left a portion of the ground lighter to look like the light of the moon.

I know that sounds like a lot a lot of steps, but it was actually very easy to do. If you are more visual, like me, I will have a reel posted on my Instagram soon that will demonstrate these steps.

Note: I did the following step the next day to allow lots of time for the Oxide inks to dry thoroughly. I added anti-static powder to the inked nighttime panel. Then I stamped the tree from the Owlloween stamp set with clear embossing ink and added black embossing powder. I used my heat tool to set the powder. I love the bit of dimension and shine this adds!

Then I stamped the small bat in the Owlloween set with black pigment ink onto the background piece, some hanging from the tree branches and a couple sitting on branches.

The large bat and the pumpkin are from the Lovely Layers: Scaredy Cat Honey Cuts. I die cut black cardstock with the bat die. The bat's nose/ears die and the pumpkins layers are die cut from white cardstock. After coloring the white layers with Carved Pumpkin and Crackling Campfire Oxides, I used glue to adhere the pieces together.

I used foam tape to adhere the bat and pumpkin to the card. Then I stamped a sentiment from the Sweet Halloween stamp set with clear embossing ink onto black cardstock. I added white embossing powder and heat set it. I cut it out with the coordinating Honey Cut and adhered it with a foam strip.

I added gems from the Sweet and Spooky Gem Stickers to the pumpkin's eyes. I used a white gel pen to add dots to the stamp bats' eyes.

I'm definitely on team "not too spooky" for Halloween! Are you like me, or are you more "give me all the creepiness"? Either way, you can create your preferred style with these sets!

Thank you so much for stopping by! Have a wonderful and crafty day!

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Autumn Grateful For Your Friendship Card

Happy Sunday!!  I'm over on the Brass & Bliss blog today to share all of the details to make this card featuring the new and so beautiful Fall Mushroom Bouquet Die Set and the Nested Woodgrain Sign Die.

I used several different colored cardstock scraps (most in the links below) to die cut the elements in the Fall Mushroom Bouquet Die set.

I really like the new Nested Woodgrain Sign Die and can think of many different ways to use it!  I added some brown ink to shade the brown cardstock after I die cut the sign.

I heat embossed the sentiment from the Kittie Says Friends stamp set in gold for some pretty shine!

Thanks for stopping by and if you'd like all of the details, please stop by the blog at Brass & Bliss!

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Joy To The World Shaker Card

Hi crafty friends!  I have a super quick post to share a bit more about my card in my Instagram reels featuring Picket Fence Studios gorgeous Winter Blooms.

I love the colors of the Jingle All The Way sequin mix and wanted to coordinate my card colors so I could use this in a shaker card!  After I stamped the large image from the Winters Blooms set in black ink, I used these Copic marker colors:

• Flowers: V09, V17, V15, V01; leaves: YG17, YG25, YG03, G19, G17, G09, G05, G03, G28; berries: B18, B05, B04.

I cut it out with the coordinating Winter Blooms die.  Next I added tape runner on the back around all of the images to adhere a piece of acetate and then thick foam tape all around.  Then I removed the backing paper of the foam tape.

I added probably over half of the beautiful Jingle All The Way sequin mix to the center of the acetate.  Then I added glue to the foam tape.  There's two reasons for this: 1) it gives you a bit of "wiggle room" to position the card base, and 2) the glue will hold the layers together over the long term.  I've found that just the adhesive of the foam tape alone, over time, looses its stickiness.

The sentiment is from the Deck the Halls stamp set.  I cut it out with the coordinating die and adhered it to the card with glue.

Thank you for stopping by today!  I hope it's a wonderful one!

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Paperwhites and Glass Vase Holiday Card

 Happy Friday!  Today I'm sharing this card full of glorious dimension that features the Paperwhites and Glass Vase die set by Susan Tierney-Cockburn for Spellbinders.

If you've been around a while, you most likely know that I love creating these dimensional flowers!  I created the Paperwhite flowers from 80# Neenah and watched the helpful video that is in the photos of the product.  I left the flowers totally without color and used some Copic markers for the leaves, bulbs, and roots.

I die cut the vase from velum.  As you may know, it can be tricky to adhere velum so the adhesive doesn't show.  I was able to add dots of glue to the back of the stems to adhere it to the vase opening.  But then the bottom of the vase was sticking up.  So I decided to try teeny tiny dots of glue on the roots and put something heavy on it to let it dry.  I was so happy to see that the glue doesn't show at all!

I embossed white cardstock with the gorgeous Norwegian Rosemaling 3D embossing folder and trimmed it to 4" x 5-¼".  After I adhered the embossed piece to an A2 card base I adhered the flower arrangement to the layer.  I used glue and a few foam squares that I placed behind the bulbs.

I added a simple hot foiled sentiment from the Glitter Wishes Hot Foil Plates and Die Set.

I totally love how this card turned out and hope you do too and are inspired to try making your own dimensional flowers!  There are four other sets in this Winter's Grace Garden Collection you can check out by clicking the link below.

Thank you so much for stopping by!  Have a wonderful and crafty weekend!

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Pumpkin Patch Autumn Card

Hello Honey Bee friends! Today I'm sharing my card I made with the beautiful Bold Background: Pumpkin Patch Honey Cuts! I love creating cards in all the colors of autumn!

First I die cut the Bold Background: Pumpkin Patch background die and leaves die from some rich olive green cardstock. I like how all of the leaves are on one die! If you look at the Layering Guide, you will see how many of each leaf you will need. This will give you extra die cut leaves to save for another project!

I spread the background die cut and the leaves onto my craft mat. Then I lightly sprayed them all with some Peeled Paint Distress Spritz. I love the shimmer of this spray!

Next I die cut all of the pumpkin dies from white cardstock. Be sure to refer to the Layering Guide to see how many of each pumpkin you will need. I pulled out several shades of orange and warm yellow inks from my stash and had fun using my blending brushes to add color to the layers.

When I was finished coloring the pumpkin layers, I used glue to adhere the layers together. Then I sprayed them with some Spiced Marmalade Distress Spritz. I die cut the pumpkin stems from brown cardstock and glued one to each pumpkin.

Next I embossed another piece of the olive green cardstock with the Woodgrain 3D embossing folder. I adhered the Pumpkin Patch background die cut to the embossed layer and then glued this to an A2 card base. I love the tone-on-tone textured look of this!

I used my fingers to slightly shape the leaves before gluing them in place. Next I glued the pumpkins to the piece.

I gold heat embossed the sentiment from the Blessing of Fall set onto olive cardstock. Then I cut it out with the coordinating Honey Cut.

I added a bit of sparkle to the card with some gems from the Fall Is In The Air gem stickers set.

I love the warm, rich colors of this card and hope you do too! Thank you so much for stopping by!

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Gilded Rose Thank You Card With A New Look

Hello crafty friends!  I have a short post today to share a few extra details about the card I’ve featured on my Instagram reel.

I’ve used the beautiful Gilded Rose hot foil plate again, but with a totally different look!  After I used my Glimmer System to add gold foil to white cardstock, I used a few shades of coral ink and a yellow ink to color the image with blending brushes.  The inks are in the list below.   

Then I cut the image out with my scissors and trimmed a portion off.  I put it onto a panel that I partially embossed with my favorite Angled Mosaic 3D embossing folder.  I added a few sprigs of greenery cut with a die from the Craft-A-Flower: Antique Rose set.  

I die cut the Fancy Thanks sentiment three times with a layer of double-sided adhesive on the top layer.  Then I added more gold foil to the adhesive, burnished the foil, then peeled off the clear sheet for a perfectly coordinating look.

I hope I’ve inspired you today with this new look for the Gilded Rose!  Thanks so much for stopping by!

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Giving Thanks For You -- New Lovely Layers: Pheasants

Hello friends! I made a card to share with you that features the new Lovely Layers: Pheasants along with the Fall Forest 3D embossing folder and patterned paper too!

To be honest, I really didn't know what a pheasant bird looked like! Haha! But I did discover that they are not in my state and that the male has beautiful markings! I die cut my Lovely Layers: Pheasants from white cardstock, except for the male's dark teal head and red eye markings. I used Detail Blending Brushes and a few reddish brown inks from my stash to color the layers.

I consulted the Layering Guide to assist in the assembly since this was my first time using these dies. I used glue to adhere the layers and set them aside to create the card base and layers.

I embossed white cardstock with the Fall Forest 3D embossing folder leaving about 1" hanging outside the embossing folder. Then I trimmed the sides and top so that the panel measures 5" x 3-¾". 

I chose a few patterned papers from the Fall Is In The Air paper pad and trimmed a piece 5" x 1" and adhered it to the bottom of the white embossed panel. Then I added a brown and orange strip with glue and trimmed the edges even with the panel. These are adhered to 5-¼" x 4" brown patterned paper and then to an A2 card base.

Did you notice that the Wax Stampers in the Falloween release are 3D?!!! I used the new 3D Sunflower Wax Stamper and some brown toned wax from the Autumn wax melts to create the wax seal for my card. There is also a new Fall Is In The Air wax melts that you can check out. I added some thin cord from my stash below the wax seal. Oh, the wax seal is adhered with a Wax Seal Sticker and some glue just to be sure it stays put!

I stamped a sentiment from the new Mini Messages: Fall Sentiments in brown ink. I used a Mini Messages Banners die to cut it out and then trimmed the ends just a bit more with my scissors. I adhered it with a thin foam strip.

I used a gold pen to color part of the flower's center on the wax seal and added a few Fall Is In The Air gem stickers for a little something extra!

I really love how this card turned out, and I learned about pheasants too!  I really appreciate you stopping by and hope your day is awesome!

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Joy To The World with Peaceful Christmas Flowers Stamps

Hi crafty friends!  Today I have this card as my featured reel on Instagram and thought I'd share a few details here!  I have featured the beautiful Peaceful Christmas Flowers stamps and coordinating dies on this holiday card.

I chose one of the three images from the Peaceful Christmas Flowers set and stamped it in black ink.  I stamped the berry sprig three times.  After I colored the stamped images with my Copic markers, I used the coordinating dies to cut them out.  I have the Copic marker colors listed at the end.

The images are popped up with foam tape onto a stenciled brick background.  This was made with the Brick and Mortar 6x8 Stencil and some Twinkle Lights Clear Paper Glaze.

I stamped the sentiment "Joy" that's in the Peaceful Christmas Flowers stamp set and cut it out with the coordinating die.  "To the world" is part of the Joy to the World stand-alone die set.  I adhered two layers of the die cut from black cardstock for more stability.

Of course, I thought this card needed lots of bling!  I added gems all around that are from the Starry Skies gem mix.

I love the wintery feel the texture paste background gives this card!  I hope you've been inspired a bit by my card.  Thank you for stopping by!

Copic markers used:  BG90, BG93, R59, R46, R17, G28, YG67, YG17, YG25, YG23, YG21, YG03

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Welcome Autumn Window Scene Card

I'm over on the blog at Brass & Bliss Craft Co. to share all of the fun details of my autumn card!  This features the Winter Window Die set but I omitted the snow die cut and use autumn themed patterned paper!

I die cut the Winter Window Die set from white cardstock, except the curtains, which are die cut from paper in the Harvest Time paper pad.  The "view" from the window is patterned paper from the Festival of Colors paper pad.

I added die cut pumpkins from the Pumpkins and Ivy Die set after I colored them with various Color Fuse inks.  The sentiment is from the Autumn Gnomes Set.  I used my scissors to trim around the top for a different look!

All of the details, ink colors, and step-by-step photos are over on the Brass & Bliss blog!  Thank you for stopping by!

Simon Says Stamp with An Exclusive from Honey Bee Stamps -- 2024 STAMPtember®

I'm here with a quick post to share my card I made with the collaboration of the day for STAMPtember@!  It's this gorgeous set called Sending Autumn Blessings and is ONLY available in the shop at Simon Says Stamp, while supplies last.

The Sending Autumn Blessings stamp set is filled with gorgeous autumn images and seven sentiments too.  There is also a combo stamp and die set available!

I chose one of the Sending Autumn Blessings beautiful images with pumpkins and heat embossed it in gold on watercolor cardstock.  I used various watercolors from sets in the list below.

After I watercolored the image I cut it out with a die in the Fancy Fall Layering Frames die set.  I added more layers die cut from patterned paper and watercolor cardstock.

Remember, when these sets are gone, they're gone, and will not be reordered!  Have a wonderful and crafty weekend!

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