Easy Birthday Card

Lets face it, This is an expensive hobby so stetching supplies is a biggie for me.

For this card I used Trinity stamps "Blooming Bunch" stamp set and made the smaller stamps the focal point along with the "Scripty Birthday " die.

1st I stamped the floral stamp onto dome gray cardstock snd then die cut the double stitching in with Lawn Fawns double stitch die. Then I stamped my butterflies onto 80lb Neenah and colored them with copics. Die cut them and added foam tape. Die cut my sentiment 3x and 1x with black glitter cardstock snd glued them together. 

Added to panel. Added panel to 110lb Neenah from cutcardstock. 

I then added a bunch of shimmer with a spectrum noir pen. Then I added glossy accents snd some Fairy rocks from Trinity stamps too. Added some Stardust glitter pen along with Black glaze pen and thats it. Paired it with a black envelope (also from cutcardstock) "Epic Black"

I hope you like it. Stay crafty my friends 🎨🖍✏✂️🖌

Rainbow Cheer

Who doesnt love a Rainbow? So what friend wouldnt love receiving one on a card? 

To create this card I used several different companies products.

The cardbase is 110lb Neenah Cardstock from @cutcardstock.

The gray stitched panel was cut from Pink & Main rectangles.  Then I used Pink Fresh Studios Color Block Rainbow die and die cut it using Bristol. I used Distress Inks in colors, Picked Raspberry,  Spiced Marmalade,Mustard Seed, Twisted Citron,Mowed Lawn, Chipped Sapphire, Wilted Violet,Shaded Lilac,Victorian Velvet & Spun Sugar. I added thin foam tape behind each ray. KEY: I added the rainbow frame 1st with TEMPORARY adhesive on panel. 

That was my guide to place the rays

Then once all rays were in place I removed the temporary rainbow frame.

I die cut the "friend" word from black cardstock and the shadow from white. This set is from Photoplay. 

Then I added some Studio Katia iridescent gems, some clear sparkle from a Sakura gelly roll pen and white dots too on the background. 

Thats it. I hope you like it.

Stay Crafty my friends!✂️🎨🖌🖍

SPREAD JOY NOT GERMS HOP

Hello! Thank you so much for stopping by. You should be hopping over from Erin's blog
https://scraps-of-reflections.blogspot.com/2020/04/fun-fold-card-spreadjoynotgerms-blog-hop.html

 So This will be short n sweet as I know the hop is a long one!
 I use glossy Accents in almost ALL of my cards, do you use Glossy Accents? As glue? As an embellishment? Please comment below. Commenting is a way to enter and each comment increases your chances of winning one of the many prizes offered by our sponsors! DEETS BELOW:
Ok....onto the card

For this card I started of using items from Trinity Stamps  (new release) Dust bunnies. This is such an ADORABLE set! Its just too cute and fun. 😍

For my bunny and chicks I stamped them onto Neenah 80lb cardstock from Cutcardstock.  

I used copics to do simple coloring (warm grays for the bunny) and medium tone yellows for the chicks.

I drew my floor and my window in manually onto my panel (110lb Neenah). I die cut my images. I used Trinity Stamps stripe stencil with Unicorn pigment ink on the bed. And Trinity polka dot stencil for the wall in light yellow.

I added glossy accents to the window for a realistic look with some clouds (white gel pen). 

I adhered my images with glue and foam. 

I added some Glossy Accents to the word "Dust" in the sentiment.  The Happy Easter is from Trinity Stamps "springtime sentiments " set from their newest release.

For a finishing touch I used a white gel pen for highlights and a Black glaze pen on the eyes and bedding for shine. 

Do you use Glossy Accents on your cards? I use it on 90% of my projects 😉

Thanks So much for stopping by. 🙏🌞

Stay home, Stay healthy, Be safe and I hope you all had a wonderful EASTER!🐰🐇🐥🐤🐣

SPONSORS AND PRIZES!

THIRTY ONE companies are offering more than FIFTY prizes on this hop! Comment on the blogs on the hop to be entered. No minimum number of comments required, but the more blogs you comment on, the greater the chances of winning.
Deadline to enter is April 24 and winners will be announced on Monday, April 27 on the Catherine Pooler Designs and Hedgehog Hollow blogs.
 Prizes are:

• Catherine Pooler Designs - $20 Gift Certificate on the CP blog and each of the Brand Ambassadors' blogs
• Hedgehog Hollow - one month free sub to the box with free us shipping
• CAS-ual Fridays - Win the new release - over $80 value
• Heffy Doodle - £35 voucher for the store
• Whimsy Stamps - $15 GC on each of their Creative Team team blogs
• Sassy and Crafty Stamps - $35 Gift Certificate
• The Ton - $20 Gift Certificate (stamps, dies, ink or sequins)
• Ellen Hutson - $35 Gift Certificate
• Polka Dot Orchard- $20 Gift Certificate
• Ink on 3 - $35 Gift Certificate
• Brutus Monroe - $50 GC
• STAMPlorations - $25 gift code on the STAMPlorations blog + $10 gift code on each designer blogs.
• Trinity Stamps- $25 Gift Certificate
• WOW! Embossing Powder - two gift vouchers 1 x £30 and 1 x $30 that covers the USA, UK and Europe 
• Greeting Farm -$25 Gift Certificate
• Miss Ink Stamps -$25 Gift Certificate
• Pear Blossom Press -$25 gift certificate
• Trinity Stamps -$25 Gift Certificate
• Paper Sweeties - $50 Gift Certificate
• Xyron - Mega Runner, Refill & 1.5 inch sticker maker, refill
• Beacon - Product gift bag
• Artesprix - Getting Started Kit
• iCrafter - $20 Gift Certificate
• Joy Clair - $25 Gift Certificate
• Dina Kowal - Two $10 gift codes to Dina Kowal Creative
• Rabbit Hole Designs - $10.00 gift code on each DT members blogs
• You're Next Stamp - $25 Gift Certificate
• Taylored Expressions - $50 Gift Certificate
• Pink and Main - $25 Gift Certificate
• Unity - two $25 Gift Certificates
• Dress My Craft - $35 gift certificate

Please stop on by to the next person in the hop which is Laurie

https://itsallcutanddie.blogspot.com/2020/04/spread-joy-not-germs-blog-hop.html

and if you get lost you can always get the FULL list hop at: 

Catherine Pooler-https://www.catherinepooler.com/2020/04/17/spreadjoynotgerms-blog-hop/    or at

Hedgehog Hollow-https://thehedgehoghollow.com/#spreadjoynotgerms-inspiration-&-giveaways/

Thank you so much and good luck and if you watch you tube and you want to check out my you tube channel please do https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuvYHYoTOQHNPvMWoMBj-sw

AND if you COMMENT ON MY VIDEOS you are AUTOMATICALLY ENTERED to WIN A LITTLE THANK YOU GIVEAWAY from me! To express my gratitude. 

Big hugs and stay safe, stay inspired, stay crafty!

Crafty Palette 🎨with Alcohol inks

I totally love making Alcohol ink pieces but I tend to collect them and then I think "now what?". So with these cards I used my Alcohol ink "strip" pieces I made in my recent video. 

Making Alcohol ink strips is a great way to stretch Yupo paper and have fun without wasting full sheets and collecting them. And a good way to see what colors you like too!😍

So heres what I did to make these cards....

I love alcohol inks, love love love!

I made some other colors too (seen in video) but I tend to gravitate to 🌈's. 

I also made a strip of Teal with gold and a black/gray with gold. 

I die cut them using MFT Artist Palette die set 🎨🖌 and I used their watercolor stripes for the background panel with Gina K Barely there ink on Neenah 80lb cardstockfrom Cutcardstock. The Hello friend Sentiment is from MFT and Eat, sleep,craft repeat sentiment is from Echo Park. 

The cardbase is 110lb Neenah from Cutcardstock as well.  

I used a Gina K Obsidian for my sentiment and Wow gold embossing powder for the Gold version. 

More details are up on my YouTube channel 🎨💕🖌✂️🖍 stay crafty my friends!🌞

New Blog-Changed from Wix

Howdy my fellow craftinians! This is my 1st blog post since switching over from Wix. 

Ok so to start:

I used Taylored Expressions Masked rectangles stencil 

and the following Distress Oxides:

Spun Sugar

Victorian Velvet

Peeled Paint

Crushed Olive

I blended them onto Bristol Cardstock, removed the stencil

then I stamped my image (MFT Fresh Cut Flowers)

I then stamped my sentiment from the MFT Beautiful Bloom set.

added foam tape to the back.

For accents I used a white POSCA pen, Aqua shimmer pen to the inside flower petals within the ink blended areas and black Nuvo drops.

Thank you SO MUCH and I appreciate you stopping by!

Stay crafty my friends 🖌🖍✂️🤗