New Halloween from Tim Holtz & Sizzix!

As we wrap up July, it's time for some Halloween inspiration on the last day of the month! I was gifted some of the new die sets from Tim Holtz + Sizzix, and I combined all four of these new products onto a Halloween card. In today's video, I share how I used the Reptile 3-D Embossing folder for my background as well as how layered each of the die sets together to create my images.

My video is a longer one today, but I wanted to show how each of the Colorize Die Sets layer together as well as how my card came together. All of the cardstock pieces (except the background) are from Scrapbook.com Paper Pads and I even brought in some of the Ranger Ink Halloween products - Distress Micas and Distress Grit! I hope you enjoy today's project and process video... I'm so excited to transition into Halloween and Autumn projects in August!

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Spellbinders July Kits - Die Cut Christmas Card

While I was on vacation, the rest of my July Kits from Spellbinders arrived. While I know the window to order these kits have passed, I'm hoping this will still bring you some inspiration if you are already a subscriber. I have the Glimmer Hot Foil, Die and Large Dies from July 2023 and combined them to make my last Christmas in July card!

I started with die cutting a bunch of floral pieces from both the Die and Large Die kits in two shades of green and two shades of red. I assembled the flowers and berries onto the greenery and then cut a piece of blue cardstock to be slightly smaller than A2: 4-1/8 x 5-3/8". I glued all of the pieces to create my own patterned background to the blue cardstock and trimmed off any excess around the edges.

Using my tape runner, I attached my background to my card base. I used the Glimmer Hot Foil kit for my sentiment - the kit came with Polished Brass Foil and I used the coordinating dies to cut them out. Once I knew where I wanted to place the sentiment, I popped them up with foam adhesive. For a final touch, I used a yellow Pops of Color to add the poinsettia flowers and filled in some of the gaps on the blue cardstock.

You can definitely step up this card by adding ink to give the die cuts more dimension, but I wanted to keep it simple for a quick idea. Well, quick after you sit and die cut a bunch of pieces. I hope you enjoyed my Christmas in July inspiration and will definitely have more when the holiday approaches, but I'm ready for Halloween and Autumn themed crafts!

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Poinsettia Wagon Christmas Card with Pretty Pink Posh

I am continuing Christmas in July with Pretty Pink Posh and wanted to show how you can mix and match floral stamp sets to put in the wagon image from the Flower Garden Stamp Set! For this card, I am using the Poinsettia Corners Stamp Set so we can make a Christmas card. To make sure it has enough time to dry, we’re going to start with the stenciled background. I cut a piece of olive green cardstock with the second largest square from the Wonky Stitched Squares Dies. Using the Swiss Dots Stencil, I added in Game Over Lunar Paste which is a cranberry red stencil paste.I stamped my images next with alcohol marker friendly black ink and white cardstock so I could color them in with my Ohuhu Art Honolulu Markers. If you would like to know which colors, I have the marker caps showing in the video and read the colors as well.

After coloring in the wagon from the Flower Garden Stamp Set and poinsettias from the Poinsettia Corners Stamp Set, I used the Flower Garden Coordinating Dies and Poinsettia Corners Coordinating Dies to cut them out. When coloring the wagon, I did not color any of the floral images and trimmed the image down so there was just a small area for me to use foam adhesive to add my poinsettias. I also layered in the smaller poinsettias around the wagon with liquid adhesive and attached the images to my stenciled wonky square.

For the background of the card, I cut a piece of cranberry red cardstock to 4x5-1/4" and added Walnut Stain Distress Ink around the edges as well as splattering to create some interest on the background cardstock and would not look too plain. While it was drying, I embossed my sentiment from the Holiday Scripts Stamp Set in white on black cardstock and used the Holiday Scripts Coordinating Dies to cut them out.

To assemble the card, I glued the red cardstock to the center of an A2 card base and then the stenciled background with images to the top of the card so there is an even border around the top and sides of the wonky square. I glued my Merry Christmas sentiment beneath the square and added a few 4mm Clear Droplets for some added shine but keeping my color scheme. I hope you have some fun “altering” your wagon garden with different floral sets from Pretty Pink Posh!

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Quick & Easy Holiday Cards with the Trinity Stamps Ray Bow Die

The holiday I make the most cards for is Christmas and I need some quick and easy card ideas. I love using striped dies for these types of cards and Trinity Stamps has a Ray Bow die set that is just perfect for this! You can check out my quick video down below, but I'll walk you through how this card came together. I started with hot foiling red foil rectangles to white cardstock that is A2 in size. Then I die cut seven different cardstock colors with the Ray Bow die - I only show one version of the rainbow today, but I have the rest of the strips to make six more cards!

I popped up each stripe with foam adhesive to the cards with the center stripe in the middle of the card. Next I stamped my Holidays sentiment and embossed it with white ink on red glossy cardstock. Using the coordinating die, I cut it out and added foam adhesive to the back. I stamped the Happy sentiment in red ink using the die cut to know where to stamp and then added the holidays to the card. I glued the card front to an A2 card base and then added some enamel dots and glitter Pops of Color for some sparkle on the card. Let me know how you make quick and easy cards in the comments!

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Perfect Catch Game Themed Card with Kindred Stamps

I was so excited to get my Perfect Catch Kit from Kindred Stamps, but it came just in time for my vacation... So of course the first project I made when I got back in the craft room was my project for Craft Roulette with the limited edition kit! Since I needed to include bird(s), I stamped this little yellow psychic and colored them in with alcohol markers. Using the coordinating die, I cut it out as well as an extra on a plain piece of cardstock so I could sandwich them around a tiny paperclip with thin foam adhesive.

My background a piece of patterned paper from the kit and I cut it down to A2 and put it on a card base. Next I die cut my video game with different colors of cardstock and stamped my sentiment towards the left in blue ink just like the actual handheld device's printed on name. My character needed to be by the pond so I made my own masking to create a small scene that would be glued to the card base and my video game device will be popped up with foam adhesive to create a window as the screen.

The little critter is attached to the bottom edge of the window opening and I added some final touches of red and white clay circles from the kit with liquid adhesive around the card. To make them look a little shiny, I topped them all with Clear Gloss Pops of Colors. I just loved how this card turned out and the kit is just so perfect! I was trying to meet the requirements of Craft Roulette with this project, but I cannot wait to make more and with other video game stamps.

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Christmas in July Hop with Trinity Stamps - Merry & Bright Light Up Card

While it is the 25th day of the the month where I share Christmas inspiration... I've really been giving you lots of ideas all month for Christmas in July. But today is special because I am hopping along with my fellow Trinity Stamps Design Team Members! There are two giveaways on Instagram and YouTube, so make sure to check out my Instagram post today and watch my video on YouTube so you can get all of the details.

For my card today, I created my own peppermint striped background and added some Twinkle Lights behind my Merry and Bright stamped image so the rhinestones I added light up and twinkle! I love these new lights from Pear Blossom Press and really step up this Christmas card. I hope you have lots of fun hopping along today and I wish you luck to winning a gift card!

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New Kindred Stamps Release: Kindred Town Fast Food Stamp Set and Paper Pad

I am so excited for the new Kindred Stamps release! I have been collecting the different Kindred Town stamp sets so I can make my own little town, and I have a street of buildings ready for this release. I also used the new Kindred Town: Fast Food stamp set and Fast Food paper pad for two cards to feature what you can make with these new products.

Using my stitched dies from Kindred Stamps, I made a taco background for the card and added a piece of blue cardstock that was cut with the dies, too. My sentiment is embossed in white and also die cut from blue and white cardstock to make a taco pun. I stamped and colored my images in with alcohol markers and used my Scan N Cut to cut my images. My background, blue cardstock and fast food building are glued to my card base, then popped up my taco, worker and die cut sentiment with foam adhesive.

I stamped the building and worker again, but this time with a hamburger. After coloring my images and cutting them out with my Scan N Cut, I die cut another background with my stitched dies and created a shaker panel with a retired fast food sparkle blends mix. I glued my panel down to my card base, then the shaker panel and all of my images. My sentiment was die cut from a sentiment strip and I stamped my sentiment in red ink to match the theme of my card.

My final card is a slimline so I could fit in lots of mini buildings from my Kindred Town sets! I cut my own clouds out of white cardstock and glued it to a blue panel that will fit a slimline card base. Before gluing it to my base, I added some Glitter Dust for some subtle shine to the background. Using green cardstock, I die cut a grassy background, but I'm going to pretend it's a forest or tall grass for behind my buildings. The final layer is the grey cardstock to create a street for my buildings. I stamped my images from different Kindred Town sets, colored them in with alcohol markers and cut them out with my Scan N Cut. 

The buildings in the back are glued down to the card base and the buildings in the front are popped up with foam adhesive. I also popped up a "HI" sentiment as I think the would be a cute welcome to the neighborhood card! I hope you like my inspiration with this new set and the release will be this Friday. I'll make sure you update my Supply List below once the links are live!

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Not Normal Fandom Card with Miss Ink Stamps

I just love the Stay Weird stamp set as it features one of my favorite characters from this magical fandom. The Magical Collection from Miss Ink Stamps just makes me so happy! Today's video shows how I created my background scene and assembled my card. You can watch the video down below, but here is a quick overview of how I assembled my card. 

The background is stamped with the Magical Newspaper background stamp and the edges are distressed. My scene is is ink blended with Distress Oxides and I used stencils to create my cobblestone ground and grassy border. When the ink blended background was done, I added gold splatter and stenciled on gold stars to create a night scene.

My images were stamped with alcohol marker friendly ink and I colored them in with my Ohuhu Art Markers. These two stamp sets have coordinating dies, so I used them to cut out my images and added some white gel pen highlights. The sentiment was stamped and I fussy cut around the stamped words and attached all of my stamped images and sentiment with foam adhesive.

You can see all my steps in my video today and make sure to leave a comment with your favorite character from this fandom, or let me know what your favorite magical creature is! I am so excited to have so many critters from the different Miss Ink Stamps and this set has a great one.

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Christmas Release from Simon Hurley with Ranger Ink and Spellbinders!

I am happy to share some Christmas cards from today's release from Simon Hurley and Ranger Ink with dies from Spellbinders! I was gifted three photopolymer stamp sets and three background rubber stamps to create with and I love the vintage feel of some of the new sets. For my first card, I tried hard to lean into the vintage Christmas feel as the Silly Santas set have wonderful vintage Santa images. I stamped one of the Santa in red and use the coordinating die to cut it out.

The next layer is some pink cardstock with a foiled frame and stamped a sentiment and smaller images in teal and green inks from the Winter Things. The background is a piece of patterned polka dot paper with the largest Winter Things stamp with a soft brown ink and I distressed the edges and splattered it before adding some Snowfall Grit Paste with some Lunar Paste. I layered the cards with foam adhesive and glued this to an A2 card. I wanted to add a little more, so I stamped holly in the corners and used some red Pops of Color for the berries.

My second card is a light up card! I used a Pear Blossom Press One Light for my star on the tree to light up. I hid this mechanism behind the background stamped with Nordic Knit and I distressed the edges and splattered for more interest. I stamped all of my images and used the coordinating dies to cut them out from the Retro Holiday set. I love that the gifts are two stamps - one that stamps the outline and shaded areas and the second can be used to add color.

The final card is a shaker card using the new Winter Wonderland stamp set that I stamped with blue ink as well as the sentiment on white cardstock. I used the half circle die to create my window opening and layered acetate behind the window. The background of the shaker is the Stippled stamp that was embossed with white embossing powder on dark blue cardstock. These were layered together with foam adhesive and used a retired Sparkle Blends to be my shaker bits! 

Finally, my shaker panel was attached to some Christmas patterned paper, then on some sparkly cardstock and onto a card base. I hope these cards bring you some fun inspiration using the new products and you have fun shopping!

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