Hello friends! Today I'm popping in here quick with my December 2020 Making the Cut card featuring inlay love birds for this lovely card! The brand new Love Birds Wafer Dies, Love On A Line Wafer Dies, Mini Hearts Party Wafer Dies, and Love Greetings Mix Stamp Set from the Love You Release are featured. Patterned papers give these birds and branch so much character and texture without the need for additional inking or coloring for shading. Love that. Let's get started!
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Watch the creation of this love birds inlay card from start to finish below or click HERE to watch in HD:
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The patterned paper background of the card is a gray linen-looking design from the Honey Bee Stamps Farm Fresh Holiday paper pad. A greeting from the Love Greetings Mix Stamp Set was stamped with clear embossing ink and heat embossed with white embossing powder.
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Happy Monday and welcome to the January 2020 My Monthly Hero Blog Hop!
It's a brand new year and Hero Arts has totally rocked the January My Monthly Hero Release! I am creating three cards with eight of the brand new products today. Everything from Bold Prints backgrounds, to stamps with coordinating dies, and a new Peek-a-boo die panel. There's a little something for everyone with this release. Let's get started!
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Watch the creation of these bee-themed cards from start to finish below or click HERE to watch in HD:
The flowers were tucked into the vase. Twine was wrapped around the base and the whole thing was adhered to the card front as shown. The bees were adhered with foam adhesive.
The honey dipper from the Honey Pot Fancy Dies was die cut from Lawn Fawn Paper Bag and No 2 Pencil cardstock, pieced together, and shaded with Copic Markers in E55, E57, YR23, and YR24.
The 4" x 5 1/4" panel was adhered to a white top fold card base.
When dry, greetings from the Bee the Queen Stamp Set was stamped using Embossing & Watermark Ink and heat embossed with white embossing powder. A Lawn Fawn No 2 Pencil cardstock background was trimmed to 4 1/4" x 5 1/2". Another greeting from the stamp set was stamped and embossed to be visible when one of the "windows" opens. The honeycomb panel was adhered over the background and any windows not to be opened were glued in place to secure.
The queen bee, bees, and honey dipper were stamped on smooth white cardstock with Lawn Fawn Crunchy Leaf Ink (a light brown ink for Copic coloring) and colored with the following Copic Marker color combinations:
Queen: W6, W8, YR23, YR31, BG72, BG70, R11
Bees: W6, W8, YR23, YR31, BG72, BG70, R11
Honey Dipper: E55, E57, YR23, YR31
The images were die cut with the coordinating Bee the Queen Dies and adhered to the front and inside the windows as shown.
The rest of the images were stamped with Lawn Fawn Crunchy Leaf Ink and colored with the following Copic Markers:
Bee: YR23, YR31, BG70, BG72, W6, W8
Leaves: YG93, YG95, YG99
The flower from the Bees and Flowers Fancy Die was die cut from smooth white cardstock and colored with Copic Markers in YR30, YR31, YR23, YR24, and E57.
The images were adhered to the design as shown. Heart accents were added to the card for embellishment.
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We will give away one $50 gift card, drawn from the comments left across the hop. Enter by Sunday, January 10th at 11:59pm pacific, and the winner will be announced on the Hero Arts blog the following week.
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Snowflake stamps and dies aren't just for the holidays. I love using them all winter long. The Snowflake Season Stamp Set from Simon Says Stamp is perfect for creating all kinds of amazing cards. Today I am sharing this set of four layered embossed snowflakes cards. I used components from the sold out Simon Says Stamp January Card Kit however all the components I used are available for individual purchase. If any of the products are out of stock, make sure to sign up to be notified when the products are back in stock. I use this fantastic feature all the time!
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Watch the creation of these four friend themed cards from start to finish below or click HERE to watch in HD:
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A few months ago, my friend, Kim Kesti, sent me the My Happy Place Dies and today I am sharing this set of four cards I created with this amazing versatile die set!I love that these dies can be used to create not only fun buildings, castles, houses, etc. but also candles! The possibilities are endless with a die set like this. These cards also utilize one of my most favorite techniques: mixing and matching from multiple companies! I used Simon Says Stamp, Spellbinders, and MFT Stamps for these cards today.
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Watch the creation of these four friend themed cards from start to finish below or click HERE to watch in HD:
I love creating multiple cards while I have all the supplies out. These birthday cards are bright and fun and all use the same supplies, just different layouts of the blocks dies and different stamped phrases. The subtle stamped and embossed backgrounds add to the overall look and feel of the design(s).
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I can't get enough of the Simon Says Stamp January 2021 Card Kit, Snowflake Season. I thought it would be fun to showcase how to use snowflake patterned papers, dies, and stamps for everyday style cards. These beauties will be perfect to send out to friends and family over the Winter Season!
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Watch the creation of these four friend themed cards from start to finish below or click HERE to watch in HD:
I used all the same supplies for all four cards, just mixed up the background papers used and the sentiment strips.
The Simon Says Stamp Sentiment Strips Everything Winter were foiled with silver foil before being adhered to each design. It's a small thing, but one that makes a big difference. I love that the text now matches the rest of the card(s)!
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Happy snowy Wednesday from the midwest! This snowy, cold morning is the perfect time to share this trio of snowflake-themed cards featuring the January 2021 Simon Says Stamp Card Kit, Snowflake Season! This is probably my all-time favorite Simon Says Stamp Card Kit. Ever. The patterned papers from Whimsy Stamps, Blurry Flurries, are my newest favorite. In fact, I just picked up the entire paper pad from SSS so I have lots and lots and lots of these beauties to make pretty cards.
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Watch the creation of these sparkly snowflakes cards from start to finish below or click HERE to watch in HD:
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Welcome to the December 2020 Colorado Craft Company Anita Jeram Release!
Colorado Craft Company has released five new Anita Jeram stamp sets and one set of coordinating dies! I absolutely adore the Anita Jeram illustrations! The new stamps and dies are great for winter, New Year's, and eve holiday cards! I love that these designs can be used beyond the holiday season. I am sharing three cards created with three of the five stamp sets today (the other two will be featured in another video next week!). No line coloring with Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers and heavy use of lots of sentiments makes these one layer (or almost one layer) designs shine! Let's get started!
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Watch the creation of these three Anita Jeram cards from start to finish below or click HERE to watch in HD:
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Happy Friday, friends! Welcome to the Pinkfresh Studio December 2020 Essentials Die Release Blog Hop! I am so glad you're here. Today I have a trio of stenciled floral design cards with the new stencils and dies from the December Release! These products work together seamlessly with the Pinkfresh Studio Inks for create incredible designs!
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Watch the creation of these floral stenciled cards from start to finish below or click HERE to watch in HD:
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Pinkfresh Studio is giving away the full release on the Pinkfresh blog, IG feed & YouTube channel.
Each stop along the hop is giving away a $25 gift card. Leave a comment for a chance to win. Winners will be picked from the comments left and posted on December 18, 2020 on the Pinkfresh Studio GIVEAWAY PAGE. You must check that page & claim their prize within 2 weeks.
Welcome to the November Edition of Making the Cut, my monthly video series at Simon Says Stamp! This month I am sharing a trio of seasonal patterned paper inlay cards featuring some of my favorite Simon Says Stamp seasonal image dies: Stylized Angel, Geometric Christmas Tree, and Poinsettia Ornament. These dies are perfect for inlay die cutting and showcasing patterned papers! Large die cut sentiments Alleluia, Joy Script, and Joyful make the perfect die cut sentiments! I hope these cards inspire you to try some patterned paper die cutting.
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Watch the creation of these seasonal patterned paper inlay cards from start to finish below or click HERE to watch in HD:
All three backgrounds were created exactly the same just on different colors of cardstock. The Prismatic Snowflakes were stamped around the edges of the background panel and embossed with gold, silver, clear, and white embossing powders. A text stamp was stamped over the background to add some interest and the edges of the designs inked to soften the effect.
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Welcome to Day 2 of my last minute Handmade Holiday 2020 Series!
I'm back with my seventh year of last minute handmade ideas! (Last year was rough emotionally and I actually only got one video up but I'm still going to count it.)
Thank you so much for your support of this series. I appreciate each and every one of you and y'all make this possible. Much love to everyone.
The goal of this series is adding handmade touches to gifts for our friends and family. Even with the craziness of the season I like to be able to personalize the gifts under our tree. Over the next few days I'll be sharing ideas for cards, tags and gift wrapping sure to add that handmade touch we all love. Most ideas will include multiples (today I created 3 snow globe shaped feline spinner gift tags)!
Each Handmade Holiday project blog post will feature a brand new, never before seen project(s) plus an incredible giveaway from.... me!
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Watch the creation of these three snow globe shaped feline spinner gift tags from start to finish below or click HERE to watch in HD:
Spinner tags have been one of my most liked Handmade Holiday projects over the years. Check out the Reindeer Spinner Tags HERE and the Sheep Spinner Tags HERE. This year's spinner tags feature the darling Simon Says Stamp Feline Like Christmas Stamp Set and the Lawn Fawn Magic Iris Snow Globe Add On Dies to make spinner tags. Because these are a bit more labor intensive, I only created 3 tags. You could easily make more by cutting out a few of the extra steps as I mention in the video above. Let's get started!
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