Hello Floral Shaker Card with Pinkfresh Studio Joyful Peonies

We're having some fun with crafty friends today! It's time for our next Card Hoppin' theme and YouTube hop. This month we're creating shaker cards with either vellum or tulle along with flowers. I decided to make my shaker card with vellum and created soft florals with some new products for me from Pinkfresh Studio. Before I started filming, I hot foiled my flowers onto white cardstock with Silver Glimmer Hot Foil. I thought the silver foil with the soft colors would be so pretty together and it really turned out so beautiful!

In my video today, you'll see how I used the coordinating stencils of the Pinkfresh Studio Joyful Peonies to color in my florals and I die cut the florals out with the coordinating die. I used soft colored cardstocks and vellum from my Your Paper Insider boxes that I thought completed the colors really well. The sequins are a retired Sparkle Blends mix and I love the subtle color that peeks through the vellum. I hope you'll join me over on YouTube and hop along to see this month's inspiration! 

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North Pole Christmas Shaker Card with Heffy Doodle

It's the 25th of the Month and I have some Christmas inspiration to share today! It's a shaker card with an adorable scene using Heffy Doodle products. The shaker blend is a retired Sparkle Blend, but I have some alternatives you could use in my supply list below. In my video today, I share how I added color and texture to my snowy hills, created the shaker and assembling the colored images to my card.

I hope you enjoy today's video and let me know in the comments if you also make Christmas cards throughout the year! You can find all my Christmas inspiration by clicking on the tag "christmas" above this blog post or over on the right side of my blog. 

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You're the Berry Best with Scrapbook.com

I have another sweet berry card using products from Scrapbook.com! I just love this collection of products and how well they coordinate with each other. I started with die cutting a background of pink gingham from the Berry Sweet A2 Patterned Paper Pad with my Nested A2 Rectangles. Using the Mini Hearts Stencil, I added some small hearts with Lumberjack Plaid Distress Oxide. I used a domed foam blender to add the soft Piggyback Simon Hurley Ink around the four edges, then shifted my stencil to add more hearts with Cloud Whip. I also splattered on some metallic watercolor to give it some subtle shine!

While my background was drying, I stamped my images from the Berry Sweet Stamp Set in an alcohol marker friendly brown ink and colored them in with my Ohuhu Art Markers. I fussy cut them out and then die cut the label and some leaves from the Berry Sweet Die Set. I used a few pink Ohuhu Art Markers to color the edge of my label and stamped my sentiment from the Berry Sweet Stamp Set. To get the ombre look of the "berry" part of the sentiment, I stamped it first in Piggyback, then using the same domed foam blender, I added Lumberjack Plaid just to the lower part of the stamp. Using a MISTI helps with making sure you get it lined up perfectly!

After my background was dry, I stayed the XOXO sentiment from Sweet Heart in both Piggyback and Lumberjack Plaid in different spots around the background. I glued it down to an A2 card base and started planning out my layout of the leaves, flowers and strawberries. Once I had a layout I liked I added the sentiment label to the card with foam adhesive. Then I added the leaves and flowers with wet glue. For the berries, I added them with foam adhesive and wet glue where they overlapped the label and each other.

For some final touches, I used a white gel pen to add highlights around my label and stamped images. I thought it gave them a nice, glossy look. I also added some Pops of Color in Chocolate Gloss to the upper left and lower right of the card. I think this would also be perfect to make chocolate dipped strawberries and I'm definitely going to try that next! I hope you enjoyed this berry-licious card!

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Cereally Tropical Toucan Mini Slimline Card with The Sassy Club

I am living for the cereal fandom stamp sets from The Sassy Club! If you missed my earlier post about a lucky cereal, you can find it here. But we're getting tropical with this blue toucan today! I started with stamping out my images in alcohol friendly black ink and cardstock, then colored them in with my Ohuhu Art Markers. I decided to fussy cut them out and used my Gyro-Cut on the spaces inbetween.

My card base is a mini slimline and I went with a 3x6" for this card as it layered well with the Small Mini Slimline dies from Lawn Fawn. I also die cut some tropical leaves from dark and light green cardstock. I added a bit of Mowed Lawn Distress Ink to the lighter green leaves and glued them on top of the dark green. This gave a nice border to the top and bottom of my red background. I tried to keep the colors similar to the cereal box and wanted the red to really pop in the background.

Once my leaves were glued down, I embossed the sentiment in the middle of the card with white embossing powder. I like to use an ultra fine embossing powder on sentiments to make sure you can read it and I like that it pops off the red just like my ceral name image! The images were popped up onto the card base with foam adhesive and I decided to add a few white Pops of Color to balance a bit more on the top to match the balance of images on the bottom.

I hope you like this fun, mini slimline card! My daughter begged for this cereal last time we were at the store because she saw the toucan so now I'm off to enjoy a bowl myself.

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Ambitious House Gang with Miss Ink Stamps

I'm going to need new grey alcohol markers after all the coloring of house robes I've been doing lately! I stamped this trio from the Mischief Makers stamp set from Miss Ink Stamps and colored them in with my Ohuhu Art Markers. I also used my Ranger Alcohol Inks and Alloys to create a unique background and you can see how it came together in today's process video.

Using the new Snakes Stencil, I created another background design with Fake Plant Lunar Paste onto a black piece of cardstock. To give my background layers some interest, I used a mini scallop A2 stackable dies. I thought it would be funny to include a floating cupcake as this is a birthday card and some final touches of black Pops of Color. Check out the video below and let me know in the comments which magical school house you belong to by telling me the color and/or house traits without saying the actual name!

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