Pretty Pink Posh 3x3 Mini Birthday Cards

Hi crafty friends! Today I'm sharing a set of mini 3x3 birthday cards using some of the new Pretty Pink Posh Birthday release. These are some of my favorite cards to make. I keep them on hand to slip into birthday gift bags!

 Aren't these adorable!?! The banners are from the Streamers die set, the cute party hats from the Birthday Cake Pop die set and the sentiments are from the Sentiment Strips: Birthday stamp set.

I love how these turned out and my sister has already claimed them to keep on hand for co-worker birthdays! 

Products used on these cards:

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Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

 

Poppystamps February challenge - Something Sweet

 Today I'm sharing a trio of 3x3 mini birthday cards. I'm playing in the Poppystamps February challenge and the theme is Something Sweet. Check out my 3x3 cards and scroll down for the supply list.

Have you played in the Poppystamps monthly challenges before? On the first of each month, they launch a new challenge and to play along you create something following the theme and at least 1 Poppystamps stamp or die. A random winner will win a $20 GC to the Poppystamps store! The theme for February is Something Sweet, so this could be a sweet treat or even a card for a sweet friend!

Here are each mini card close up.

I mostly give birthday gifts in gift bags, so I love to tuck a 3x3 mini card into the bag!

Each one uses the same basic layout. White Woodgrain paper on the background, pattern paper along the bottom, the Brilliant Birthday Cake die, some flower accents and a birthday greeting. These are simple, fun and easy to decorate!

Supplies used on this card:
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Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

 

Home Sweet Quilt: Mini slimline and 3x3 cards

 Hi everyone! I'm back today to share a couple more cards from the new Home Sweet Quilt collection by Spellbinders. I made a couple 3x3 cards and a mini slimline card. I LOVE both of these sizes, so when I saw the collection had die sets in these sizes, it made me very happy!

My 3x3 cards use the Log Cabin and Flower Mini Quilts die set. This set comes with 2 3x3 quilted patterns for quick and easy 3x3 note cards, my cards use the Log Cabin design. I love cards this size because it's easy to slip into a gift bag and while I love to wrap Christmas presents, for other gifts throughout the year I almost always use a gift bag.

Products used on these cards:

Log Cabin and Flower Mini Quilts die set

Be Bold Blooms die set (accent flowers)

 Crystal Mix Essential Gems

This thank you card uses the French Braid and Hexagon Panels, this die set comes with 2 quilt patterns that make a mini slimline sized card -my card uses the French Braid design. They are a bit smaller, but this allows you to mat them and then put on your 6x3 card base.

Products used on these cards:

French Braid and Hexagon Panels die set

Yana's Sentiments Glimmer

Silver foil roll

White and lavender cardstock

Patterned paper from stash

Lavender satin ribbon from stash

All of these cards were relatively easy to put together. First I die cut them in white to get the "frame outline" and then die cut again in solid cardstock and patterned papers. After that, it was a matter of adhering the pieces in the openings. 

Tip for adhering all the little pieces:

1. Take your tape runner and pretty much run adhesive over the entire card base

2. Adhere the outline

3. Then there will be adhesive run in each of the openings, making it super easy to adhere all the pieces. 

This ended up being MUCH faster than adhering each little piece with dots of liquid glue like I did for the first set of cards!

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

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Some gnomes and some Peace love and joy

 Hi everyone! When I say life is getting in the way of crafting and blogging, I'm not kidding! LOL! With my boys being back at school in person full time I thought things would slow down, but nope. I'm busy as ever! So this post will be sort of a catch up on a trio of projects I made months ago and will give me the chance to share 2 cards I made yesterday!

First up are a few cards I made a few months ago using the Gina K Designs/Thermoweb collaboration Gnome for the Holidays AND the add on kit called Gnome for the Holidays: Festive Fall.  

This Halloween gnome is rocking a sparkly hat and pants!

This little gnome with a sparkling pumpkin spiced latte!

Lastly is are 2 Christmas gnomes on a set of 3x3 cards. Perfect to tuck into a Christmas gift bag or box!

Next are 2 Christmas cards using the new Perfect Poinsettia stamp set by Gina K Designs. This set was part of the September kit and is now available to purchase on its own. I love it because it's a multi-step flower and it has great dimension without adding bulk making it perfect to mail! And this adds a few more poinsettia cards to my stash

Ink Colors: Bubblegum Pink, Pink Passion, Kraft and Christmas Pine (GKD) and Glam and Seafoam (Catherine Pooler)

This card is a mini slimline using the dies in the Gina K Master Layouts 7 die set. Not gonna lie, I am really loving the mini slimline card size!

That's it for today! Thank you for stopping by and have a great day!

Other supplies used on Shristmas cards:

Cover die used on Peace poinsettia card: Quilted card front die -Concord and 9th

Sentiments on the poinsettia cards: Sentiment sheets, Holiday Greetings -Gina K Designs

Peace and shadow die -Gina K Designs

Gina K Designs November release

Hi everyone! Tonight is the November release for Gina K Designs and I am SO EXCITED to share a few projects using the 2 new sets - Kitchen Tags and Mix and Match Holiday stamp set. There are many other fabulous stamp and die sets in this release, so be sure to check them all out!!

First up I have a couple projects using the Mix and Match Holiday set. This is designed by Beth Silaika and has 4 small snowflake images and 29 sentiments designed to be used together in many combinations. This is a set of 3x3 notecards. These are perfect to include with those last minute Christmas gifts.

Here's a cute circle card using non-traditional Christmas colors. I have a friend who has a pink Christmas tree all to herself (the kiddos have their own) and every year I make her a pink Christmas card to match!

Next is a set of tags that I made using the Kitchen Tags set which is illustrated by Debrah Warner. I love how this set has a stamp for just about anything you can make and give away -so so versatile! For my tags, I die cut a basic star shape and used the Sassy Stripes stencil with Powder Blue ink for the background. I added the stamped images and sentiment from the set and tied it to a premade box from my stash. Before I folded the box together, I stamped "cookies" along the bottom for a more personalized touch.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Watercolor butterfly note cards

Hi everyone! I'm still really enjoying playing with my Arteza Real Brush pens. I'm relatively new to water coloring but finding it fun and relaxing. I'm already looking at student grade 1/2 pan palettes on Amazon to expand my water coloring arsenal.

The images are from the Altenew Painted Butterflies stamp and die sets. I heat embossed several of butterfly outline images and water colored the inside with blue and yellow and blended the colors into each other. The set is actually a 3 step stamping set, but there's no rule that you have to stamp all 3 layers, why not stamp the outline and color the inside as you want?

I made enough butterflies to make a larger set of note cards, but I got sick and was down for the count for 8 days! Man I just don't bounce back from colds like I did when I was younger. Both kids got sick and well during those 8 days, so great fun was had at the Woerner house! lol! Long story short, I only made 2 note cards and moved on! Here's a closer look at them both.

I like the way I placed the sentiment into the flourish die cut, so fun! 

I didn't even get around to putting on a sentiment on this one. But sometimes you just want the flexibility of using it for any occasion. Right?

These will end up in my "maybe use someday" box!

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Other supplies used:
Blue Sequins
Ranger Super Fine Black embossing powder
Ranger Super Fine White embossing powder
Spellbinders Jewel Flowers and Fourishes
Spellbinders Standard Circles dies

Trio of cake themed note cards

Hi everyone! I have some fun note cards to share. Throughout February I've been coloring images as part of the The Daily Marker 30 day color challenge. I had these cute cakes colored and ready to go! I saw the Freshly Made Sketches challenge today and figured this layout was perfect for them.

My sister gives her gifts in gift bags. She's a busy career woman and loves the convenience of gift bags (I mean who doesn't?). I made this trio of 3x3 note cards for her to include in her gift bag. She also loves this size because the inside is small and she doesn't have to write much!

The cakes are from the Stampin' Up stamp set called Piece of Cake. I just love it! Lots of cake options and cute sentiments. I actually won this as one of the monthly prizes my lovely demo, Janna Williams gives away! Free pretty stamps? I was so excited to win!

If your thinking of playing along in this week's Freshly Made Sketch here it is:

Thanks for stopping by and I wanted to leave you with  close ups of each note card. All the patterned paper and ribbons are from The Stamp Simply Ribbon Store. The patterned papers are a variety, 2 are Kaisercraft and the striped piece below is from the new MME Gingham Farm pad.

The ribbons I used on this one are all the May Arts Faux Canvas and the colors matched perfectly with the ombre coloring of the cake. This was a happy accident! I used Royal Blue, Light Blue and Gray.

And look how amazing this little bow is? May Arts Silk ribbon ties like none other! This is the 1/4" in Charcoal, which is of the new 2016 release colors.

Butterfly note card trio

Hi everyone!  I have a fun set of note cards to share today.  Each of these uses a butterfly wood veneer and the negative piece from a die cut.  Quick, easy and uses up those die cut scraps that we toss most of the time.

The patterned paper is from the Confectionary Prints pack and will be available from the new catalog on July 1st!  The butterfly wood pieces are a Bloom Benefit from the Spring into Summer catalog, called Summer Wings.  In case you aren't familiar, Bloom Benefits are free when you place an order of $50! 

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!  Here's a close up picture.

All supplies are Fun Stampers Journey       
Stamps, punches and dies: 

Howdy Notes Stamp Set, for sentiment 
Cardstock and Inks: 
Whip Cream Cardstock
Black Licorice Ink
Star-Dom dies
Treat Label dies
Butterfly Prints dies
Spring Bloom dies 
Journey Circle dies

Accessories:  
Candy Dots
Spring Accent Dots
Twinkle Trim

Urban Blooms with Flower brads -guest designer spot

Hi everyone!  I am the guest designer for Eyelet Outlet and Brads this month and have several fun projects to share over the next few days.  Brads have come a loooong way over the years and now they have cute designs with just about anything you can think of, I mean bacon and eggs? Yes please!  Head on over to their blog to see my first guest post and check out the wide range of products their store carries.  Lots of really fun stuff!

Today I made a trio of 4x4 note cards using Spellbinders new Urban Blooms dies, scalloped squares and some ADORABLE flower brads for the centers.  How cute, right?!?

I started out die cutting and layering the 2 smallest sizes from my Urban Bloom flowers in white cardstock, then I chose patterned paper to coordinate with the flower brad.  I used a small circle die cut under the brad to make it to stand out.  I also used a couple of mini butterfly brads as accents (you can see them above the "friend" and "smile" sentiments).

Here are the Urban Blooms dies:

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day! Here's a close up picture showing the dimension of these gorgeous flowers.

Spellbinders Dies: GLD-013 Urban Blooms Shapeabilities®; S4-128 Classic Squares SM, S4-129 Classic Scalloped Squares SM, S4-116 Standard Circles SM Nestabilities®  

Eyelet Outlet and Brads: Fresh Flower Pastel brads, Mini Butterfly brads

Other Supplies: Lawn Fawn 6x6 Lets Polka, Mon Amie pad; SCT-001 Celebra'tions Linen Thread; Variety of alpha stickers for sentiments

Adhesive: Tombow USA Mono Multi liquid glue; Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L Foam Squares and 3D foam frames    

Doily fun mini cards

Hi everyone!  I have a pair of mini cards to share today.  These use the oldie but goodie, Labels One shape and I matted them to the Scalloped Labels One. 

The stamps and flower dies are from the Celebra'tions line as are the inks and turquoise string.  The flowers are sold with the coordinating dies as a set!  Pretty cool huh?!?  I used some enamel dots as the flower centers and added some thread tied into a bow as an accent.
Here is the Just Because set:

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Card Deets:   
Spellbinders Dies: S4-161 Labels One and S4-375 Scalloped Labels One Nestabilities®; IN-037 Celebration Two Shapeabilities®
Celebra'tions Supplies: Just Because Stamp and die set (SCSD-008), Doily Fun Stamp set; Ink in Cool Caribbean (SCI-012), Delightful Daisy (SCI-001); Cardstock in Cool Caribbean (SCI-012), Delightful Daisy (SCI-001); Linen Thread (SCT-001)
Other Supplies: My Mind's Eye Enamel Dots; Faux Canvas ribbon in black
Adhesive: Tombow USA Mono Multi liquid glue; Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L Foam Squares  
NOTE: You can also find Spellbinders dies at the The Stamp Simply Ribbon Store.

Medallion note cards

Hi everyone! I have a fun set of note cards to share today.  My sister loves to give away my cards as little thank you gifts and I made this set for her neighbor who fed and walked her dog when she was on vacation.

These all use the same Medallion One die as a focal point and paper pack from Bo Bunny.  I just changed up the color of the Prima flower and sentiment.

Here is the Die D-Lite Medallion set of 2 dies.  It's so pretty!!

Here's my card with a white medallion and purple flower

Gray medallion, yellow flower

Peach medallion, tangerine flower

 

Last but not least - Light aqua medallion, aqua flower

These were pretty easy to make.  The card bases are 3 3/4" square which I chose to get the right amount of pattern paper showing around the label shape.  I used my Wink of Stella glitter pen to to each flower for that extra shimmer.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Card Deets:  
Spellbinder dies: S2-014 Medallion One, S2-082 Sentiment One, IN-012 Celebration, IN-037 Celebration Two Shapeabilities®, S4-375 Scalloped Labels One Nestabilities® 
Paper: Misc cardstock; Bo Bunny Baby Bump 6x6 paper pad
Embellishments - Stamp Simply Ribbon Store: Prima flowers Lil Missy in Rose Colors
Adhesive - Tombow USA Mono Multi liquid glue; Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L foam squares
NOTE: You can also find Spellbinders Die Templates at the The Stamp Simply Ribbon Store.

Gina K February release inspiration blog hop: Day 3

Hi everyone!  Welcome to the final day of the Gina K Designs DT Inspiration Blog Hop where we hope to inspire you with many beautiful ideas for the sets released in February! As you hop through the blogs, make sure to leave a comment on each because we will choose a few random commenters and they will win a grab bag of Gina's products!! To see the full list of winners check the Big News forum at Stamp TV a couple of days after the hops.

Today we are spotlighting the new stamp set Just a Note, Illustrated by Rupa

First up is a fun note card using like most of my cards this release, this one measures 4 1/4" x 3 1/2".  I stamped the instrument with In the Navy GKD Color Companions ink and hightlighted it lightly with a mint colored copic marker.  I added a few enamel dots and 1 tiny yellow rhinestone for accents.

Next up is a coordinating 3x3 mini card using the same papers and ink.  I added 2 tiny yellow rhinestones to the musical notes.  So cute!

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!