Grateful For You!

Hello friends!!  Today I'm sharing my card that features Altenew's wonderful Zero-Waste: Autumn Leaves Die!  I also have a reel over on Instagram showing some of the process to make this card.

I have seen many beautiful projects that feature the Zero-Waste: Autumn Leaves die and wanted to think of a different way to use it.  So I had the idea to use the Exquisite Marble Hot Foil Plate with an ink blended background!

First I blended the four inks in the Warm & Cozy set of inks.  Then I die cut it with the Zero-Waste: Autumn Leaves die.  I adhered the outside die cut to a white A2 card base.  I shaped the leaves a bit with my fingers then glued them into the openings.  Some of the circles fell out and I didn't try to place those back into the die cut.

The sentiment is from the Timeless Sentiments 3.  I added more copper foil by adhering double-sided adhesive to cardstock and sticking the foil to it.

Check out my reel over on Instagram to see more!  Thanks so much for stopping by!

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You Are So Loved -- 3D Embossing & Hot Foil Fun

Hello crafty friends! Do you send Valentine cards? Whether you do or not, my card that I'm sharing today could be a Valentine, birthday, or even an anniversary card! It all just depends on the message you add inside the card! I've featured some of my favorite sets from Honey Bee including the Spring Medley 3D embossing folder and the Lovely Layers: Heart Vine Honey Cuts!

First I die some peach colored cardstock with a Stacking Hearts die. Then I embossed the piece with the beautiful Spring Medley 3D embossing folder. Next I trimmed it to 4" x 5-¼". I used a blending brush to add coordinating ink just around the edges.

I glued a piece of acetate to the back to cover the heart opening. When it was dry, I added thick foam tape (if you don't have thick foam tape, add a double layer) around the heart, being careful to leave no gaps between the ends of the foam tape. I also added foam tape around the edges of the embossed panel.

I sprinkled some pretty bling from my stash onto the acetate and then removed the foam tape backing. I added another piece of acetate to cover the opening. Then I removed the backing of the rest of the foam tape, added glue to it, and then adhered it to an A2 card base. (I sometimes add glue to foam tape for two reasons: you can be sure it is firmly adhered and it allows you to slightly move the panel for correct placement.) I set this aside to dry.

Next I die cut a Scallop Heart from 80# Neenah. Then I die cut a darker shade of peach cardstock with a Stacking Hearts die. I placed this heart into the Spring Medley 3D embossing folder and ran it through my die cutting machine. I used glueto adhere them together.

I used my Glimmer Hot Foil System and Blush Glimmer Foil to foil the sentiment from the Foil Script: Love Hot Foil Plates. I cut it out with the included coordinating die.  NOTE: I just noticed this set is "retiring" and is now at a reduced price!

Before I die cut the outline of the Lovely Layers: Heart Vine, I added a piece of Tear Tape Sheet to the back of brushed gold cardstock. I die cut the outline from the brushed gold cardstock and also the solid layer from peach cardstock. I used glue to adhere the layers together and also to adhere it to the card. After I glued the heart layers onto the card, I adhered the sentiment with narrow foam tape strips.

For a bit more shine, I added some gold pearls from the Metallic Mix Pearl Stickers set.

Thank you so very much for stopping by today!  I hope you have lots of crafty fun this week!

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A Quick and Easy Card with Coneflowers Layering Stencils

I'm interrupting my Christmas card making to bring you a touch of bright spring colors on this card I'm sharing today.  I features the fun and so easy-to-use Coneflowers Layering Stencils by Spellbinders!

 I used ink blending brushes and several different inks (from my stash and linked below) to color through each of the five Coneflower layering stencils.

When I was finished with each stencil, I used the stencil layer with the detail dots and lines for the petals and flower centers to add some sparkly iridescent glitter gel.  This adds just a touch of sparkle and is so pretty!

I trimmed the panel to 4" x 5-¼", added foam tape to the back, and adhered it to my A2 card base.

I chose a sentiment from the Be Bold Glimmer Sentiments hot foil plates.  Then I hot foiled it onto Glimmer Specialty Cardstock with Black Glimmer Foil using my Glimmer Hot Foil Machine.  I cut it out with the included coordinating die.  I added a few foam squares to pop it up on the card.

I really love the crisp sharp black of the foil on this sentiment!   And the Specialty Cardstock takes foiling to perfection!

I hope you've enjoyed this bright and cheerful card full of color!  Thanks so very much for stopping by!

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Blooming Flowers Stencils Makes A Beautiful Christmas Card!

 Happy Monday, crafty friends!  Today I'm sharing my card featuring the beautiful Blooming Flowers stencil set from Spellbinders new Flower Market Collection!  Now, I think any stamp or stencil with flowers is just perfect for spring and summer cards, but I'm totally in Christmas card making mode!  So I wondered if I could make this set work as a Christmas card.

By changing the colors I use to a more seasonal palette I think this works!  I used blending brushes and some Distress Inks to add color through three of the Blooming Flowers stencil layers.  I used Candied Apple, Festive Berries, Mowed Lawn, and Rustic Wilderness.

For the final stencil I added some pretty sparkle by spreading gold texture paste through it!  Once the piece was dry, I trimmed it to 3-¾" x 5" and adhered it to a panel of gold glitter cardstock, and then to an A2 card base.

The sentiment is found in the Wonderful Winter Sentiments Hot Foil Plate and Die Set.  I love that there are six sentiments on one hot foil plate!  I used my Glimmer Hot Foil System to add Speckled Aura Glimmer Foil to some 80# cardstock.  The coordinating die cuts out all of the sentiments all in one pass through my Platinum die cutting machine!

I added some foam tape to the back of the sentiment to pop it up.

I think this is just so pretty with all of the sparkle and the colors make it perfect for my holiday card!  What do you think?  The Blooming Flowers stencils make a very fun and super easy card to make!

Thank you for stopping by today.  I hope you have a wonderful week filled with lots of crafty time!

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One Swirling Foliage Tree Hot Foil Plate = Three Beautiful Christmas Cards

There's a gorgeous new Spellbinders hot foil plate available today called Swirling Foliage Tree and I had so much fun making these three cards!  This is part of the Glimmer for the Holidays Collection release that's filled with many selections of dies, coloring stencils, hot foil plates, sentiments and so much more!

It was lots of fun thinking of three different looks for this beautiful Swirling Foliage Tree hot foil plate!  The sentiments on all of the cards are from the Glitter Wishes hot foil plates set.  It has 31 sentiments!!  Plus a long narrow rectangle die to use to die cut each one!

I used my Glimmer Hot Foil System to add Aura Glimmer Foil to red cardstock.  After foiling the Swirling Foliage Tree I trimmed the piece to 3-¾" x 5".  Then I used ink blending brushes to add dark red ink around the edges, followed by black ink.

It was super easy to make a perfectly coordinating layer for the image and sentiment by adding a sheet of double sided adhesive to white cardstock.  Then just remove the adhesive backer and carefully place a sheet of the Aura Glimmer Foil onto the adhesive.  It was easy--just go slow and smooth the foil with you other hand as you place it down.  Be sure to peel off the clear film of the Glimmer Foil after you adhere the foil!

I added some pretty gold gem stickers to the tree to up the bling factor!

The next version of the Swirling Foliage Tree is done in a dark teal cardstock with Opaque White Glimmer Foil.

The white foil is added to Spellbinder's Blue Spruce cardstock.  Now...this is my honest opinion:  After hot foiling on several different brands of colored cardstock, I have to say that I get perfect results when I use Spellbinder's colored cardstock!  I do not know what the difference is, but it's there!

If you look closely at the previous card, and the next card, there are small imperfections in the foiling, which was on a different brand of cardstock.  I didn't like it, but decided to stop being totally picky!  LOL!

I inked the edges of this cardstock with Pine Needles Distress Ink and also Black Soot.  I used Opaque White Glimmer Foil for the sentiment on this card.

I added silver gem stickers from my stash to the tree this time.

And finally, here is my third rendition of this card!

I used Red Glimmer Foil on 80# Neenah for this card.  Then I used my scissors to trim around the tree.  I added thin foam tape to the back of the tree.

I inked a 4" x 5-¼" panel of the red cardstock with dark red and black inks and adhered it to an A2 card base.  Of course, it was after this step that I decided I wanted white splatters, but not on the tree and sentiment!  Haha!  I just covered the tree with scrap paper as I added the splatters.

This sentiment is also done in silver foil and added to a white layer.  I popped it up onto the card and added red gem stickers.

These cards really were easy to make and I enjoyed the process of finding different versions for each card.  Be sure to check out the Swirling Foliage Tree hot foil plate and lots more fun elements in the Glimmer for the Holidays Collection!

Thank you so much for stopping by!  I hope you have a wonderful, and crafty day!

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Just A Note: I Care Hot Foiling and Stencils

Today I'm sharing a sweet card featuring a few new products from Spellbinders' Sealed For Summer release.  The pretty Glimmer Bouquet along with the Glimmer Alphabet make it easy to create a customized card!  Check out the details!

First I used my Glimmer Hot Foil System and silver foil with the Glimmer Bouquet hot foil plate.  Then I used these Copic markers to color the image:  Y11, Y04, Y00, Y32, Y35, V12, V01, V000, YG63, YG61, YG11, YG06.  I cut it out with the coordinating die.

After I embossing white cardstock with the Leafy 3D embossing folder, I trimmed it to 4" x 5-¼" and adhered it to an A2 card base.

Next I hot foiled the Glimmer Alphabet hot foil plates (there are two that have the entire lower case alphabet) with silver foil.  There's a coordinating stencil that I used to ink on some Milled Lavender Distress Oxide ink.  I cut the letters out with the coordinating dies.

I die cut two more sets of letters from white cardstock.  After I decided on my sentiment I glued the foiled letter to two of the white cardstock letters.

TIP:  I used my MISTI sticky mat to align the letters perfectly straight!  I stuck them along the top edge with part of the letter hanging off.  I found that if I used removable tape to pick them up like I usually would, the tape removes some of the foiling!  So by leaving part of the letters off of the sticky mat, I could add my glue there to adhere to the card.  Here's a visual for you:

When the glue on the letters dried, I was able to use glue with a fine tip applicator to put some glue on the back of the bottom half of the letters.

I made the white wax seal with one of the wax stampers from the All-Occasion 1 Wax Seal Stamp Set.  Then I used a silver pigment pen to color the details of the stamp.

To adhere the wax seal to the card I added glue to a few foam tape squares and then put them onto the back of the seal.  When that dried, I was able to remove the foam backing and adhere it to the card.

Thanks so much for stopping by today!  I hope you have a wonderful, and crafty, day!

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Four Easy & Beautiful Cards with Spellbinders Floral Friendship Collection

Hello crafty friends!  Today I'm sharing four cards I made with elements from the new Spellbinders Floral Friendship Paper Suite.   I was able to make these four beautiful cards using just three of the seven products available in this collection.  And the awesome thing is, I could have made so many more cards with all of the products I have leftover.  I just ran out of time!  LOL!

I used different elements of the Floral Friendship paper pad, Printed Die Cuts, and the Chipboard Frames on each of the following cards.  I have a complete supply list at the end.

I used just a few basic supplies to make these cards such as the Matting Basics A and Matting Basics B die sets.  These make creating the perfect layers so easy!  Another basic shape die I used is the Essential Arches, which you will see on this first card.

Before I began to assemble these cards, I chose two different hot foil plates sets and used my Glimmer Hot Foil System to foil all of the sentiments in each set with Matte Gold Glimmer Foil.  This way, as I created the cards, I would have several different sentiments to choose from!  For this card I added a sentiment from the Hello, Friend Sentiments hot foil plates.  (Note: if you've not tried Spellbinders Glimmer Specialty Cardstock for your foiling, I highly recommend it.  I has a super smooth surface that gives flawless foiling!)

Of course, if you don't have the supplies for hot foiling, just use those wonderful stamps you have for your sentiments!!

I used a piece of the Floral Friendship paper pad and coordinating green cardstock to create the layers with the Essential Arches dies.

I also saved time by using the beautiful Flower Frenzy 3D embossing folder on two of the cards.  The card above and this next one!

I added matte gold foil layers to coordinate with the gold on the Printed Die cuts I used.  The Chipboard Frame looks so pretty with the butterfly die cut.  I love how the pack of Printed Die Cuts includes small embellishments like the flower and heart near the sentiment that can be used for a bit of bling!

The next two cards have sentiments from the Be Bold Glimmer Sentiments in Matte Gold Glimmer Foil.

The papers in the Floral Friendship paper pad are absolutely gorgeous!!  I used one piece of paper to create this card.  The flowers are actually printed on the left side of the paper so I was able to trim a rectangle to adhere behind the frame and then use what was left as the background layer!

More matte gold cardstock for the layer coordinates with the gold on the flowers, sentiment and butterfly!

There are several beautiful birds in the Printed Die Cuts set and this sweet bird coordinates very nicely with the patterned paper and floral elements I chose!  The matted blue layer and patterned paper were die cut with the Matting Basics A and B die sets.  I also used these dies to die cut the layers on the previous card.

I absolutely love how these cards turned out and hope you do too!  I think the Floral Friendship collection would be so fun to create cards with a church group or even a non-card making group of friends.  Who knows, you might just convert some friends into card makers!

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

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Spellbinders Four Petal Collection - For You!

 Hello friends!  Today I have a quick post to share this beautiful card I made using Spellbinders Four Petal Scroll Petal Hot Foil Plates & Die set!

First I used my Glimmer Hot Foil System (the one I linked below is on sale!) and the Four Petal Scroll Label Hot Foil Plate to add Rose Gold foil to the Pink Sand cardstock.  Then I used the included sentiment with more Rose Gold foil with Glimmer Specialty cardstock.  If you haven't tried this ultra smooth cardstock, I highly recommend it!  I get perfect foiling every time!

Next I trimmed the panel to 3-¾" x 5" and adhered it to an A2 card base.

Then I die cut a few flowers, leaves and stems using dies in the Be Bold Blooms die set.  (Another sale alert--the Platinum I linked below is on sale too!)  I used 80# Neenah, Pink Sand, and Rainforest cardstock for these.  A bit of shaping with my fingers adds a touch of dimension to those pretty elements.  I used glue with an extra fine tip to adhere the blooms and leaves.

For a bit more dimension, I used foam tape to pop up the sentiment!

I hope my card has given you inspiration today!  Thank you so much for stopping by!

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Simon Says Stamp Damask Hot Foil Plate from the new "Kisses" Release

Today's the day for Simon Says Stamps' newest release called "Kisses" and I'm so happy to share this card with you today!  There are so many awesome new crafty products in this release, including this Damask Hot Foil Plate I've used on my card today!

I've used the new Damask Hot Foil Plate with foil, as expected, but I also used the plate to dry emboss additional details on the card layer!  Check out the details

For the dry embossing, I positioned the Damask Hot Foil Plate at one corner of a 4" x 5-¼" piece of cardstock.  I used the tan rubber embossing mat with the sandwich for embossing on my die cutting machine.  I repeated the steps for the other three corners.  Before I adhered the panel to an A2 card base I used an ink blending brush to add some coordinating ink around the edges of the piece.

Next I used my Glimmer Hot Foil System to foil the Damask Hot Foil Plate onto white cardstock with Prism Glimmer hot foil.  Then I just used my scissors to fussy cut it out.  I added some foam tape to the back to pop it up on the card front.

The sentiment is from the Beautiful Flowers stamp set.  I stamped it with Lucky Clover Distress Oxide ink, trimmed it into a strip, and popped it up on the card.  I decided to add a bit more bling by placing some Crystal Clear gem stickers on the base layer--I do love my bling!  Haha!

This was certainly the easiest and fastest card I've made in a while, yet is so beautiful with the gorgeous Damask Hot Foil Plate!  Be sure to check out all of the other products and inspiration for the Kisses release over at Simon Says Stamp!

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