In The Quiet Hum Of The Hummingbird's Wings -- A Beautiful Dimensional Floral Card

Hi friends!  My card today features three sets from the absolutely gorgeous Summer Solstice Collection by Susan Tierney-Cockburn for Spellbinders.  I absolutely love creating these beautiful dimensional flowers!

I die cut all of the dies in the Petunia and Hummingbird set from Susan's Garden Specialty Cardstock.  This is a slightly textured cardstock that is so easy to use to make gorgeous shaped florals.

I used various inks with ink blending brushes to color all of the pieces of the petunias.  I have the ink colors I used in the list below.  I used mainly blue green and blue Copic markers to color the hummingbird.

To make shaping and forming the flowers super easy, Spellbinders has a YouTube video where Susan shows how to do it.  You will find it by scrolling through the photos in the product description.

I used a few flower shaping tools (a stylus, loop tool, foam pad, and reverse tweezers) to shape the flowers and other pieces.  I glued them together and set them aside to dry.

I embossed more of the Specialty Cardstock with the coordinating Petunia Cascade 3D embossing folder.  It is such a beautiful embossed image!!  I trimmed the piece to 4-¼" x 5-½" and glued it to an A2 card base.

When I had decided on an arrangement, I used glue to adhere the elements to my card.

The sentiment is from the Summer Solstice Garden Sentiments Press Plate & Die set.  I can't even say how much I love that the press plate, and the die, are both just one piece!  When you use the Porcelain Cotton cardstock to press it with your BettterPress system, the pressed sentiments are SO crisp!  I adhered the sentiment with thick foam tape.

I wish you could see this card in real life!  Because of the extreme dimension, I will most likely tuck this card into a gift bag to hand deliver.  However, I would not have a problem putting it into a small box to mail.

Thank you, always, for stopping by.  I hope you have a wonderful and crafty weekend!

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Vivid Blooms Floral Card with Letterpress Background

Today I'm sharing details about this card I made featuring Spellbinders gorgeous February BetterPress Of The Month Club Kit!   This beautiful press plate, Luxe Damask, made an awesome background for the die cuts from the Vivid Blooms die set!

The February BetterPress press plate actually presses two rows of the Luxe Damask pattern.  There is a preprinted "registration template" with guide lines for placement of the press plate to get a perfect pattern for a full card front.

I used three shades of yellow ink for the Luxe Damask press plate and the flowers from the Vivid Blooms die set.  The inks are linked in the list below.  After you tape the registration template to your magnetic insert on the BetterPress Letterpress System's chase, you line up the press plate according to the template.  Ink up the press plate and run the chase through your die cutting machine.  I use a Platinum 6.

Then I moved the Luxe Damask press plate to the next set of lines on the template and repeated the above steps until I had the entire piece of Porcelain cotton card covered with the pattern.

I used several of the dies from the Vivid Blooms die set and cut them from white, light green, and dark green cardstocks.

I used blending brushes to add yellow inks to the flowers and a black Copic marker for the flower centers.

The sentiment is one of three sentiment press plates (and coordinating dies) included with the February BetterPress of the month.  I pressed it with black ink onto Porcelain cotton card.  I used foam tape to pop it up on the card.

 I wish you could see the beautiful impressed, textured background this Luxe Damask press plate creates!  You can check out all of the Spellbinders Club Kits and the information for subscribing by clicking HERE.

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Have a wonderful, crafty weekend!

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Altenew November 2024 Release Blog Hop + Huge Giveaways

 Hello friends!  I'm thrilled to be part of the blog hop to celebrate Altenew's fabulous November 2024 Release!

The link for the blog hop stops is below.  If you would like to start at the beginning, please head over to the Altenew blog.

Be sure to check out the information below for the awesome prizes!!  

My card today features several new products from  the November Release!  Check it out!

I die cut the Coreopsis Layering Dies from several different colors of Crafty Necessities Cardstock.  The colors I used are in the list below.  Before I glued the flower layers, I used some of the yellow alcohol markers from the new Cottage Card Set of Artist Markers to color the yellow cardstock of the flower centers.

Assembling the flowers is so very easy with the Key Hole System.  The idea of this is genius!!  The packaging also includes a diagramed layering guide.

After glueing the flower layers together, I embossed white cardstock with the new Petal Palooza 3D embossing folder.  I glued the panel to an A2 card base.

After deciding on an arrangement for the flowers and stems, I used glue and a few pieces of foam tape to adhere it to the card.  Then I trimmed the pieces that were hanging off the edge of the card.

The sentiment is one from the Essential Sentiments Hot Foil Plate.  After foiling the gold foil, I cut them out with the coordinating Essential Sentiments die.

I love the options of how many different ways and colors to use this Coreopsis Layering Die Set.  Thanks for stopping by and be sure to click the link below to see more beautiful inspiration.

Giveaway info: 

• • $300 in total prizes! To celebrate this release, Altenew is giving away a $100 gift certificate to 1 lucky winner and a $50 gift certificate to 4 winners! Please leave a comment on the Altenew Card Blog and/or each designer’s blog post on the blog hop list below by November 13th for a chance to win. Altenew will draw 5 random winners from the comments left on each stop of this blog hop and announce the winners on the Altenew Winners Page on November 15th, 2024.

  • The winner of the $100 gift certificate will be chosen from comments left on the Altenew blog.

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

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Die Cut Spring Flowers Card

Happy spring crafty friends! I love springtime and we have beautiful tulips in bloom and bright green leaves showing now!  I was inspired to use some of my favorite floral Honey Bee Stamps Lovely Layers sets and make a springtime card! My card features three Lovely Layers sets:  Lovely Layers: Tulips, Lovely Layers: Roses, and Lovely Layers: Spring Greenery.

My tip for today is to die cut your flowers and greenery from colored cardstock, then use a few inks to add a bit of shading. This saves so much time! I used yellow, pink, and three shades of green cardstock to cut out the layers of the Roses, Tulips, Spring Greenery, and Grass Border. (Note: I only used the closed tulip and tulip bud and one die from the Spring Greenery for this card.)

Then I used blending brushes to blend on coordinating pink, yellow, and green inks to the layers. This detail adds so much depth and dimension! Then I used glue to adhere the layers together. Don't forget that the Lovely Layers sets have downloadable Layering Guides to help you layer the flowers.

Before I adhered the flowers to my card base, I added Tumbled Glass Distress Oxide ink to the card with a blending brush. I added the ink from the center out, but not all the way to the edges. Then I added water drops and used a paper towel to dry it.

I played around with various arrangements of the flowers and greenery. When I was happy, I used a piece of Press N Seal to pick up the arrangement and flip it over. I added glue to the back of the elements, then picked up the arrangement and adhered it to the card. I added a foam dot to the back of the tulip and rose buds. Then I used scissors to trim off the Spring Greenery that was hanging over the edges. I used foam dots to adhere the Grass Border at the bottom of the card.

Next I diluted a few drops of Bee Shimmery liquid shimmer watercolor with water. I used a paint brush to add splatters to the flowers and background.

The sentiment from the Squeeze The Day stamp set is stamped in black pigment ink and cut out with the coordinating die.

I just had to add some adorable little bees from one of my very early Honey Bee sets I bought:  Busy Bees stamp set. These were previously colored and cut out with coordinating dies. (I saved a bunch of these finished bees to have on hand to use when needed.)

I sure hope you are seeing signs of spring where you are! If not, I hope my card reminds you that it's not far away! I always appreciate your visit to see my cards! Thank you, and have a wonderful, crafty day!

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Beautiful Amaryllis with 3D Embossing Folder Holiday Card

Hello, and happy December!  Today I'm sharing my card featuring Honey Bee Stamps gorgeous Holiday Blooms stamp set and coordinating dies! 

First I stamped the Holiday Blooms images with Copic safe black ink onto 80# Neenah.  I used these Copic markers to do my simple coloring:  B63, R29, R27, R35, Y13, C3, C2, C1, C00, green in flowers: YG13, YG11, G20; leaves: G07, YG17, YG25, YG23.

I have a little tip for the blending of the red colors of the pot.  I use B63 along the edges first.  Then go over that layer with my darkest red marker, R29.  Then I finish up, darker to lighter shades, with R27 and R35.  Using a B marker under the red is an easy way to add a deeper shadow without having to choose one of the super dark red Copic colors.

Next I cut the images out with the coordinating Holiday Blooms dies and added foam dots to the back.

For the background layers, first I found some pretty red cardstock from my stash and cut it to 4-¼" x 5-½".  Then I used ink blending brushes to add Aged Mahogany Distress Ink around the edges.  Then I used a lighter red ink from my stash to add more shading.  I finished up by adding just a bit of Black Soot Distress Ink just around the edges to deepen the shading even more!

Next I embossed the panel with the Kaleidoscope 3D embossing folder.  This is such a beautiful embossing folder!  Then I added white splatters with diluted white paint.  When the splatters were dry, I adhered it to an A2 card base.  

The sentiment is one of several included in the Holiday Blooms stamp set.  After I stamped it with black ink, I cut it out with the coordinating die.

I hope you've enjoyed my card making for today and have been inspired as well.  Thanks so much for stopping by!

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Holiday Card with Layered Amaryllis

Hello crafty friends, and happy November 1! Today I'm sharing my holiday card that features the beautiful Lovely Layers: Amaryllis from the recent Holiday Wishes release. Did you know amaryllis come in all shades of reds, pinks and also white? I love the white flowers and decided to use that as inspiration for my card.

I made the card base by using an ink blender brush to add Chipped Sapphire Distress Ink around the edges of an A2 panel of dark blue cardstock. Then I die cut the piece with the new Scattered Stars Cover Plate die. I glued it to an A2 top-folding card base.

Next I die cut all of the pieces in the Lovely Layers: Amaryllis from 80# Neenah. ( I will save the other flower pot for another project.) I die cut the amaryllis layers twice more.

I used Copic markers to color all of the pieces. Here's a list of the colors I used.

• flower pot: R89, R39, R29, R27
• amaryllis leaves: G28, G43, G24
• amaryllis petals: G43, G24, YG61, C3, C1, C00
• amaryllis stamens: G20, Y02
• amaryllis bulbs: E18, E17, E15

When I finished coloring, I used glue to adhere the layers. Since this was my first time to use the Lovely Layers: Amaryllis, I used the very helpful layering guide found via a link in the product description. Then I arranged the flowers in the pot and adhered them with glue.

Before I adhered the amaryllis and pot to the card, I used a blender brush and Bee Creative Brilliant White pigment ink to add a "glow" on the blue cardstock that would be behind the flowers.

I stamped the sentiment from the Seasonal Sentiments with Clear Embossing ink onto blue cardstock. I added white embossing powder and set it with my heat tool. I cut it out with the coordinating die.

I added some thin and regular foam dots to the back of the pot of amaryllis to adhere it to the card. The sentiment is adhere with a narrow strip of foam tape on the right half and glue on the left.

At this point I really wanted to add some bling to the card! However, I decided to leave it be. I think my previous card had enough sparkles to last a bit! Haha!

Thanks so very much for stopping by today! I hope your day is filled with crafty fun!

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So Happy For You - A Spring Card with Dimensional Flowers

 Today I'm using Rubbernecker Stamps newest Welcome Spring paper pad along with a Cheery Blossoms Die to make a....cheery card!!!  Haha!

I chose a patterned paper and two solid color papers from the new Welcome Spring paper pad.  (The floral papers in this paper pad are gorgeous!!)  I die cut the pink paper with the largest Nested Rectangle Small Stitch die and adhered it to my A2 card base.  The floral paper was trimmed to 2-¼" x 4-¾" and adhered to the 2-½" x 5" green paper.  I added foam tape to the back and adhered it to the card.

I die cut the Cheery Blossoms die from pink and green cardstock.  I shaped the flowers with a stylus and used the packaging image as a guide to assemble the flowers.  Next I die cut the Branch Dies from white cardstock.  Then I colored them with copic markers: BG99, BG96, and G85.

I stamped the sentiment from the Silhouette Wildflower #1 set with black ink.  After I trimmed it into a strip, I added foam tape to the back to pop it up.

I got the sparkles I love by adding coordinating pink gem stickers around the flowery branch.  I also added some sparkle to the flowers with a clear glitter pen.

I think my card turned out quite cheery! Haha!  The Cheery Blossoms die can be used for so many occasions too!  Thanks so much for stopping by today!

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Thank You For All You Do - Featuring Simon Says Stamp Beautiful Days Release

It's a beautiful day for the Beautiful Days release by Simon Says Stamp!  I'm so happy to be sharing my card using one of the awesome new products in this release!  This set is called Mother's Day Dogwood and it's great for Mother's Day cards and so many more!  There are sentiments for several other occasions too!

First I created my card base and layers.  I used the Layered Vines embossing folder with 80# Neenah for the first layer of my A2 card.  Then I stamped the sentiment from the Mother's Day Dogwood set in black in and trimmed it to 4-¼" x 1-¼".  I used glue to adhere it.  I added a thin strip of black cardstock just above the sentiment for extra detail.

Next I stamped the sentiment with Copic safe ink.  I colored it with some pink, green and yellow Copic markers.  Then I added a shadow around the image with light grey markers.  After I fussy cut it out, I added thin foam tape to the back and adhered it to the card.

Be sure to head on over to Simon Says Stamp to see all of the other fabulous new products in this release! Thank you so much for stopping by!

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Spellbinders' The Right Words Collection Release

 Hello crafty friends!  Today I'm sharing two cards I've made with some of the new products from Spellbinders Paper Art's Right Words Collection by Becca Feeken!

My first card is a somewhat non-traditional anniversary card featuring the new Happy Occasion Words die set.

I made this sweet anniversary in some less-than-traditional colors, but I like it!  I used the new Happy Occasion Words to die cut the tag from some brushed silver cardstock.  I added foam tape to the back and adhered it to my mini-slimline card that I layered with patterned paper from my stash.  I added a pearl brad to the end of the tag.

Next I die cut the sentiment from the Happy Occasion Words three times from white cardstock.  I used some purple ink and a blender brush to color one layer.  I adhered the layers with glue, then to the tag.

The sweet little flowers are from the Forget-Me-Not and Ladybugs die set.  I die cut the pieces from Susan's Specialty Cardstock, colored them with purple, yellow and green inks using a blender brush.  Then I used a few tools from Susan's Garden Ultimate Tool Kit to shape the flowers.  I arranged and adhered the stems, leaves, and flowers, then glued them in place.  I added a drop of Nuvo Dandelion Yellow Chrystal Drops to each flower center for a bit of additional interest.

My next card features the new, and so beautiful My Sweet Friend die set.  I love the size of the font on this one!

I created my card base by die cutting some gingham paper with a die from the Hemstitch Rectangles and adhering to my A2 card base.  Next I die cut the pieces from the My Sweet Friend from white and colored cardstock.  There are several sentiment add-ons and I chose "friend".  I die cut the Sweet and Friend three times and layered them up for extra dimension.

For the other pieces I used a few Copic markers to add more color to the stem and pink flowers.  I assembled the flowers with glue then adhered them all to my card.

For some bling, I added some gem stickers to the stem and Dandelion Yellow Crystal Drops to the flower centers.

Thanks so much for stopping by!!  Have a wonderful, crafty day!

Products I've used for creating these cards:

Altenew Craft-A-Flower: Butterfly Bush Release Blog Hop + Giveaway (total of $200 prizes)

Hello, and welcome to my stop of the blog hop to celebrate the release of Altenew's gorgeous Craft-A-Flower: Butterfly Bush!  You should have arrived here from the blog of Virginia Lu.  If you'd like to start at the beginning of the hop, head over to the Altenew Card Blog.

Don't forget that the Craft-A-Flower line is available as a monthly subscription.  When you sign up for the subscription, you are guaranteed a spot in the monthly Craft-A-Flower releases and will receive a set each month--at a specially discounted price! ($35.99 reduced to $29.99)

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To begin, I created my card base by inking the edges of an A2 top-folding card with Hydrangea Crisp Dye ink.  Then I embossing white cardstock with the Cloudy Day 3D embossing folder.  I trimmed it to 4" x 5-¼" and then used the large ink blending tool to add some light blue ink to the embossed clouds.  The flat surface of this brush makes it very easy to add the ink just to the embossing!

Next I die cut the Craft-A-Flower: Butterfly Bush flower dies from white cardstock.  I used the inks in the Enchanted Garden Ink Cube set and blending brushes to color the pieces.  I decided I wanted the center layer of the Butterfly Bush to be sparkly, so I added a layer of some glitter paste over the colored image.  I did need to use my craft pick to remove the paste from the die cut openings.  When it was dry, I adhered the layers together with glue.  (I wish all the sparkle showed up in photos!)

I used papers from the Green Meadows, Coffee Break, and New Purple Gradient Cardstock sets for the leaves, stem and butterfly.  One layer of the leaves uses Titanite from the Forest Canopy Glitter Gradient Cardstock set.  I adhered the layers together and added them to the card with glue.  I used a sentiment from the Build-A-Flower: Coneflower set, stamped it in black ink, and popped it up with foam tape.

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Be sure to leave a comment for your chance to win an awesome prize before hopping on to the next stop!

Your next stop on the hop is Nathalie DeSousa.

Giveaway Prizes
$200 in total prizes! To celebrate this release, Altenew is giving away a $50 gift certificate to 2 lucky winners and a $20 gift certificate to 5 winners! Please leave a comment on the Altenew Card Blog and/or each designer’s blog post on the blog hop list below by 05/13/2022 for a chance to win. Altenew will draw 7 random winners from the comments left on each stop of this blog hop and announce the winners on the Altenew Winners Page on 05/15/2022.

Blog Hop Order:

Altenew Card Blog

Jenny Colacicco

Cheryl Espie

Jaycee Gaspar

LauraJane

Terri Koszler

Nenette S. Madero

Virginia Lu

Carol Hintermeier ---> that's me!

Nathalie DeSousa

Angela Brennan

Reiko Tsuchida

Rosie Neustaedter

Ann Taylor

Laurie Patterson

Sande Woodson

Amy Hill

Linda Westfall

Natasha Davies

Susan Stagno

Daniel Diaz

Eva Bussom

Hussena Calcuttawala

Nandini Karmarkar

Nichol Spohr

Preeti Chandran

SathyaKala Sankaran

Susan Busada

Altenew Build-A-Garden: Magnificent Branch Release Blog Hop + Giveaway ($200 total prizes)

Hello, and welcome to the blog hop to celebrate Altenew's release of the absolutely gorgeous Build-A-Garden: Magnificent Branch!  You should have arrived here from the blog of Jaycee Gaspar.  If you need to start at the beginning, head on over to the Altenew Card Blog.

From Altenew:

Enjoy our Build-A-Garden project set, an exciting monthly package that is sure to get the creative juices flowing! Each month includes a stamp set along with a coordinating stencil set and/or die set PLUS a customer-favorite Mini Blending Brush! Build your collection of brushes from month to month so you will never be left looking for the perfect tool while crafting.

This set contains the following products:

- one 6" x 8" stamp set containing 10 stamps made in the USA from high-quality photopolymer

- one layering stencil set containing 4 stencils that coordinate with the stamp set

- one Mini Blending Brush for ink blending

Note: These products are NOT sold separately. 

Click here to check out all of the details of the monthly Build-A-Garden subscription!

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I thought about stamping the Build-A-Garden: Magnificent Branch image onto two A2 cards.  However, I just think it's so beautiful as one large image on a slimline card, and that's what I went with!  First I stamped it with black ink and then used the coordinating Build-A-Garden: Magnificent Branch Layering Stencils to color it with ink blending brushes and various Altenew Crisp Dye Inks.  The colors I used are Coral Bliss, Heart Beat, Vineyard Berry, Maple Yellow, Firefly, Grass Field, and Mountain Pine.  For the branch I used Gathered Twigs Distress Ink.

After I finished the stenciling, I smooshed the ink pads onto my glass mat and used a watercolor brush to pick up the colors and added more more depth and details to the leaves and flowers.  When it was dry, I trimmed the card to 8" x 3-½".

For the coordinating mat layer I inked the edges of a 8-¼" x 3-¾" piece of white cardstock with Coral Bliss Crisp Dye ink.  Just drag the ink pad along the edges for a quick and easy coordinating layer!  

I adhered the mat layer to my slimline card base with glue.  Then I stamped the sentiment, including in the stamp set, onto a strip of vellum with clear embossing ink.  I added black embossing powder and heat set it.  Next I trimmed it into a strip and adhered the edges on the back of my stamped and colored panel.  

I adhered the piece to the card and added a few clear acrylic drops for some shine.  

Thank you very much for stopping by!  Be sure to leave a comment here, before heading to the next stop,  for your chance to win an awesome prize.

The next stop is the blog of Jenny Colacicco!

Giveaway Prizes

$200 in total prizes! To celebrate this release, Altenew is giving away a $50 gift certificate to 2 lucky winners and a $20 gift certificate to 5 winners! Please leave a comment on the Altenew Card Blog and/or each designer’s blog post on the blog hop list below by 05/07/2022 for a chance to win. Altenew will draw 7 random winners from the comments left on each stop of this blog hop and announce the winners on the Altenew Winners Page on 05/09/2022.

Blog Hop Order:

Altenew Card Blog

Vicky Papaioannou

Emily Midgett

Cheryl Espie

Jaycee Gaspar

Carol Hintermeier <<< that's me

Jenny Colacicco

Natasha Davies

Laurie Willison

Nathalie DeSousa

Rosie Neustaedter

Terri Koszler

Bridget Casey

Virginia Lu

Sande Woodson

Michelle Short

Nenette S. Madero

Colleen Balija

Tenia Nelson

LauraJane

Maryam Perez

Amy Hill

Mindy Eggen

Hussena Calcuttawala

Laurie Patterson

Nandini Karmarkar

Susan Busada

Katrina Howe

Ann Taylor

Eva Bussom

Linda Westfall

Susan Stagno

Preeti Chandran

SathyaKala Sankaran