Spellbinders This is Life Collection, Part 2

Hi crafty friends! This is part 2 of inspiration with for the This Is Life collection from Spellbinders. Things in the US are really trying and pretty much a dumpster fire right now, so the timing for the collection is spot on!! We need to keep our joy and sense of humor when faced with scary and difficult times and this collection really does give me a chuckle.

UGH CLEAR STAMP AND DIE SET
 

My cards use the new Ugh stamp and die set and a tiny pop of fire from the Dumpster Fire stamp and die set. I kept things clean and simple with the same cardstock strips I used on my first 2 cards.

Just in case you missed my first post, here are the first 2 cards from the collection. 

I also played along in this week's Freshly Made Sketches 721. I thought the sketch lent itself perfectly for the cardstock strips design element I used for this collection! This is a fun sketch, play along if you can.

To add a bit of sparkle, I used my Sunshine Yellow Glimmer Brush marker to the fire peeking out from the "h". Quick, easy and no glitter fallout!! I love how this turned out!

 

Supplies used on this card:

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Thanks for stopping by and have a great day! 

 

Pretty Pink Posh Christmas Fringe Trees

 Hi crafty friends! It's been a minute since I played along with the Freshly Made Sketches. This week's sketch was just the inspiration I needed.

FRINGE TREE AND WINTER SCRIPT DIE SETS

My card uses a few goodies from the latest release by Pretty Pink Posh. I used the Fringe Tree and Winter Script die sets and the background uses the Cascading Snowflakes stencil.

I started my card with a piece of paper from the Snow Days A2 paper pad for the background. I wanted the white shimmer snowflakes to stand out, so I stenciled them on ivory cardstock. I love the shimmering contrast! 💖

I die cut the trees from white cardstock and ink blended them to give them color with a single gold bow at the top. The trunks are die cut from another piece in the Snow Days pad. I love how this turned out!

Supplies used on this cards:

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Here is the sketch

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Rustic Garden Barrel Planters card

 Hi everyone! Today I'm sharing another card using one of the die sets in the Country Road collection by Spellbinders. This card uses the fun Rustic Garden die set with all the flowers from the Garden Builder die set. The card layout is from this week's Freshly Made Sketches #587. It's a fun one!

I have 2 half barrels with flowers in my backyard, so the barrel dies in this set really spoke to me and I knew I had to them. I searched on Pinterest on ideas how to decorate my barrels and saw some bright fuchsia and blue pansies that jumped out at me. These flower dies are not pansies, but they still look wonderful in those bright colors!

Do you notice the soft subtle clouds in the background? I achieved that by die cutting some cloud dies and stenciling over them with Broken China Distress Oxide ink. This is the first time I've done this and I love how it looks!

Supplies used on this card:

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Thank you so much for stopping by and have a great day!

Quick and easy thank you card

 Hi everyone! Today I'm sharing a quick and easy card using strips of patterned paper and some die cuts and a foiled sentiment from my stash. I used the current sketch from Freshly Made Sketches. This sketch was a near spot on dupe for a card I made and had published in CardMaker magazine years ago, so you know I had to play along! Here is the card I made.

The flower cluster is from my forever favorite die set, Be Bold Blooms and the sentiment is from another forever fav of mine, Yana's Special Sentiment Glimmer. Both of these were already in my stash and was a happy accident. I picked the papers first and was excited when I saw a few blooms in a matching color! 

I have shared these pics before, but here is how I organize my Be Bold Blooms die cuts. I love having a huge stash all ready for me.

I like to foil in batches and here is how I store my foiled sentiments. It's a tackle box I got from Amazon.

If you're curious what my old card looked like here was a quick pic I took for my submission. This card is at least 10 years old, maybe older and I can't remember all the details, but I do know washi tape and mulberry flowers were from Prima Marketing.

Supplies used on Thank You card:

Be Bold Blooms die set

Yana's Special Sentiment Glimmer

Silver foil roll

Stampin Up! Sunshine and Rainbows 6x6 paper

Thank you for stopping by and have a great day!

Mug of Hugs

Hi everyone! I have a fun card to share playing in the current Freshly Made Sketches challenge. I loved this sketch, it lends itself nicely to a variety of card images.

I used the Mug of Hugs itty bitty stamp set from Unity Stamp Co. which is so cute! I colored the mug with ombre colors I pulled from the patterned paper which is from Echo Park Coffee 6x6 pad. I used the markers R32, R12 and R01 for the mug.

It's kinda hard to see in the photo, but I embossed the rectangle die into the image panel giving it an illusion of an additional layer.

Here is the sketch if you want to play along. I kept my card relatively clean as their challenge is to use their sketch AND to keep your card fresh with clean lines!

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Other supplies used:
A2 Matting Basics sets A and B by Spellbinders
Soft Stone cardstock by Papertrey Ink
Copic markers
May Arts Burlap String in natural
Wild Orchid Crafts open rose 10mm
Memento Luxe Rhubarb Stalk ink

Miss you sketch card

Hi everyone! Today's card uses the fun layout from this week's Freshly Made Sketches challenge. I love this one! I've made lots of cards in the past using a variation of this. 

My card uses some stamps and dies from Taylored Expressions that I pulled out of storage. I am loving rediscovering all my beloved stamps and dies! The flowers are from the set Sketched Blooms, the vase is from the Various Vases die set, the little tag is from the Designer Mini Tags dies and the sentiment is from Many Minis -Occasions. Whew, that's a lot packed into this simple card!! lol!

 The gorgeous paper is from Simple Stories Always & Forever 6x8 paper pack I loved the simple color scheme of the papers and added a pop of red with the flowers. I ran a strip of 1/8" black velvet ribbon along one of the panels and I tied the little tag around the vase with a small piece of 1/8" black silk. I love how pliable it is, super easy to thread through the tag and tie into a tiny little bow!

Here's sketch #373 just in case you want to play along.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Other supplies:

Bazzill Buttermints cardstock

Kaisercraft silver rhinestones

FSJ Corner rounder 

Copic markers

Coffee with a side of Freshly Made Sketches

Hi everyone! A few days ago I ventured into Craft Warehouse which I haven't visited for almost 4 years since I was exclusive to FSJ (too much temptation). Needless to say, I was in there for almost 2 hours. Not so much in the paper crafting section, but they have the most amazing section of FAUX SUCCULENTS! Be still my heart! After I complete a few of my arrangements, I'll share a few pics over on Instagram.

But back to my card. I DID find a cute paper pack from Echo Park that is called Coffee! So I was searching for some inspiration to use it and saw this week's sketch from the Freshly Made Sketches challenge. It was perfect! The sketch is simple which appealed to me and lended itself nicely to using my Coffee or Tea dies by Stamp Simply Clear Stamps.

I had so much fun making these coffee cups! All 3 have fun little details different from each other. One uses patterned paper punched into small branches, one has stickles accents to mimic gilding and the last one I fussy cut some florals from patterned paper.

Here is the sketch if you want to play along.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great evening.

Other supplies used:

1/8" silk ribbon in black

Kaisercraft mini paper blooms in Fairy Floss

Border punch from SU

Branch punch from Martha Stewart