Stenciling on Colored Cardstock

 To really make a bold card on colored cardstock, it is all about the ink.  My favorite way to do this is to use white pigment ink, then follow it with the colored dye ink of your choice.  If you offset this combo, then it gets this cool dimensional look with no bulk.  This is one of the reasons you should keep white pigment ink in your stash.  It just makes stenciled images look amazing when using this technique.  If you have never tried this, please do.  I think you’ll find this easy to do and so much fun.

To see the video of this card beingcreated please head here.

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Simple Pop Up Feature Anyone Can Do

 

If you are a beginner cardmaker, this is a simple feature you can add to your card just to make it a bit more special. It’s super simple. I will be replicating this one as there are a few other ideas I want to add like maybe a cake popping up. I don’t know but I know this is easy, fun, and give a surprise to the recipient when they open the card. I hope you will give this one a try.

To see the video of this card beingcreated please head here.

Thank you for stopping by my blog. I hope you find things that inspire you. I love this hobby so much, so I enjoy sharing my cards with all of you. Hope to see you all soon. If you wish to support this channel even more, please see the buy me a coffee link over on the right banner. Have a great day! Happy Crafting!

Star Dies Used as Stencils

 I wanted to incorporate my large selection of dies in a new way. I decided to trace them as you would stencils. Then I added a few dots of color in acrylic paints using none other than a q tip. The q-tip has become one of my favorite painting devices lately. Then it just to a fine liner pen to add in a few more details. The sentiment came from a pack I bought from Alliexpress that is great for the everyday kind of cards. Hope you get a chance to get creative today.

To watch a short video on the process for this card head here.

Handmade Postcard

 

I was excited to make a homemade postcard for a special education High School class in North Carolina. I had a TikTok bestie reach out as this class was trying to see how many postcards they could get from across the country. I mean I had to do it you know? So this had to be all one layer so I stuck to my favorite thing Heat Embossing. I even got brave and used black embossing powder which is notoriously known to give finicky results. My results were finicky too but to offset the imperfections I added a layered stencil. This only took about 20 minutes from start to finish to execute so if you want to give postcards a try, I say do it!

See the video here.

Keep it Simple with a Single Layer Card✨

 

A stencil, some ink, stamps, and a few embellishments can give you a quick card. It won't be ordinary either.✨ You can watch the video below for more information. I am entering this card into Happy Little Stampers Stencil Challenge Anything goes and Creative Fingers Challenge #224 Anything goes.

A Struggle

The two challenges I decided to combine, I thought...this should be pretty simple. But as I made my first attempt, I realized for me it was just not working.  I think my first mistake was to try to ink blend the three inks I chose.  I don't know why but when I try to ink blend more than two colors I just really don't like the result.  To make the matters worse the sentiment I chose which was already a pre-made sentiment when I laid it on the card was a different shade of white than the die cuts I had added.  That card got scrapped....

Finally, today after a couple of misses with some coloring on the die cuts I wanted to use things started to come together.  I decided to use distress oxide inks in Fired Brick, Fossilized Amber, and Salty Ocean to color my stacked die cuts.  Salty Ocean was used also to color the sentiment that is stacked on two other white layers of the die-cut. 

To ground the die cuts I used the Fossilized Amber in the corners applying over a stencil.  I also added a sub-sentiment in Salty Ocean.  I feel like this has a Moroccan feel to it.  💕

I am entering this card in two challenges:

Color Throwdown Challenge: #656 found here.

&

Freshly Made Sketches Challenge: #499 found here.

Decorating Gift Bags for Christmas: Option 2

Ready to wrap those presents?🎁 Why not add a little pizazz to them? This time I used some simple stamping, a bit of texture paste, and a few embellishments to step up this plain red bag from Dollar Tree. I don't think I would do this for every gift bag, but adding to these gift bags for those special folks I am giving to has been a lot of fun. This one is pretty simple. Just a bit of stamping along with using a stencil and texture paste...voila', you have a winter wonderland. These are the bags I usually gift some of my A2 cards to friends. It holds 10 cards/envelopes nicely. Stamping on these bags and using some of my embellishments also helps me to use the cute stuff in my stash. For the easiest way to step up a gift bag stay tuned and later this weekend, you'll see the easiest way to bling out a bag. 😁

The video for this bag can be found HERE.  Hope you will take the time to check it out.

Happy Accidents

Don't you just love it when something falls together easily?  As if, it was meant to be.  This is one of those easy, effortless cards. I had all the elements. It came together quickly.  All the elements were out on my desk.

It started out with Recollections cardstock which I used for the card base that measures 5.5x 4.25.  The patterned paper was out on my desk. It is from a pad made by Colorbox in bright cheery colors.  The blue had already been cut using my stitched landscape die by Poppystamps, Inc.

I cut the paper to fit the note card. I then used a piece of cardstock I had played on using two of the stencils I cut using my Cricut. If you missed my post showing you these you can find it here. (I was super excited to make my own stencils.)

I took that piece and cut out a stitched heart.  The pink cardstock was also on my workstation.  I cut out a pink heart using the next smallest stitched heart.  

The butterfly I had bought on one of my Dollar Tree shopping sprees.

The sentiment is from that same sticker sheet of sentiments I created myself.  Finally, I added some bling. 

Done! 

I think this took me less than 5 minutes to put this together. Since pretty much everything was out on my desk it came together very quickly. 

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

Creative Inspirations Challenge #279: Anything Goes found here.

Creative Fingers Challenge #135: Anything Goes found here. 

What's Crafting this Weekend

Wanted to share with you some projects I made this weekend.  Also a future project in the beginning stages.  Happy Crafting!