Stamp Simply Fruit of the Spirit release

 Hi everyone! Long time no post. I took the summer off from crafting to do some much needed front yard redo/landscaping and to spend time with my boys.

Today I'm back to share a trio of note cards I made with the Stamp Simply Clear Stamps newest release, Fruit of the Spirit!

I colored each fruit image with my Arteza Watercolor brush pens. These were actually pretty quick and easy to color. I think I've finally got the hang of it!

The note cards measure 4"x4" and each have a strip of white cardstock embossed with the Spellbinders Elite EF bordered by a strip of patterned paper from Craft Consortium Watercolors 6x6 pad. The papers in this pad are seriously GORGEOUS, you have to check them out! My cards don't do them justice, you have to see the complete patterns!

I was in a matchy-matchy mood, so each card has a piece of coordinating 1/8" silk ribbon.

Here's a close up look at each note card:

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!!

Other supplies used:

Spellbinders Standard Circles LG and Circles SM
Memento Tuxedo Black ink
Arteza watercolor brush pens

Water coloring with Distress Inks

Hi everyone!  I have a quick and easy coffee card to share today.  Full confession, I bought a fancy water color palette, and I'm embarrassed to admit that I'm intimidated by it! Honestly, I open it up and unless the exact color in the palettes are exactly what I want, I'm a bit lost.

SO... I'm in the process of starting an online water color class to help me with mixing colors and learn the basics.

But in the meantime, using  distress inks is a super easy way to water color images.

OK, this is nothing new and I've even done this before, but I need to remember it more often! Just tap your ink pad on a solid surface and spritz with water. Dip your brush and start coloring.

For my card, I stamped the coffee word cloud sentiment on water color paper twice using my mini Misti, wet my piece of water color paper, then dropped (painted) in some of the ink.

After it dried, I die cut it into my cup shape, moving the die around until I got the perfect pattern of colors.

The stamp and die set is called A Cup of Java  and I used the smaller of the 2 java cup sizes on this card. I just LOVE that I found Prima flower in my stash that coordinates perfectly. I pulled off the center pearl that came with it and put in a yellow rhinestone instead. The black flourishes under the flower are actually made from the steam die in the Java die set!

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

Other supplies used:
Distress ink in Worn Lipstick, Peacock feathers, Spiced marmalade
Prima Bloom Freshly Picked flowers
Kaisercraft Paisley Days paper pad
May Arts White Twill ribbon
Spellbinders Circle dies
Versafine Onyx Black ink
Number 8 water brush
water color paper

Blue pansies with ink blending background

Hi everyone! I tried a little something different on today's card. I was inspired by all the monochromatic cards I've been seeing lately, so I pulled out my Floral Cluster Spring Pansies stamp set, stamped the flowers with blue ink and created a blue ink background.
I used my new Life Changing Brushes from Picket Fence Studios and did some ink blending with Blueprint Sketch Distress Oxide ink. I have to say, the blending went pretty well vs. the old sponge daubers I used to use. I'm no pro either way, but it was a bit easier.

At the top ink blended portion, I splattered a bit of water to see the cool reaction it makes with the distress oxide ink. Then I mixed a few drops of water with the ink and splattered it on the panel, and added a few dark blue rhinestones at the flower centers. This one was quick and easy to make.
I could see making many more in a rainbow of colors! What a perfect little gift for someone.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Other supplies used:
Floral Cluster and Sprigs die set Stamp Simply Steel Dies
Number 2 watercolor brush
Brilliant Blue ink by Stampin Up

Cheerful note with spring pansies

Hi everyone! I have another fun card to share using the Stamp Simply Clear Stamps new Floral Cluster release stamp/die sets. This card uses the Floral Cluster Spring Pansies set. I love this set because the main flower in the image is large enough to use on it's own.

I used my copics to color these and fussy cut the large pansy out of the cluster. I love the little branch images from the coordinating die set Floral Cluster and Sprigs and used it for the leaf clusters. I love combining white leaves with pretty flowers. Such a crisp look.

The paper is from the Kaisercraft pad called Paisley Days. I love this paper!! You can kinda see in the photo that the sheets I used have embossing on them. Swoon!! I used a piece from the die cut borders at the back of the pack to tuck under the ribbon piece.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Other supplies used:
Spellbinders Classic Ovals Large and Small
Yellow stickles
Corner rounder
Kaisercraft Lippy Red rhinestones
May Arts faux canvas ribbon in White

Floral cluster note card set

Hi everyone! Have you seen the new Floral Cluster release from Stamp Simply Clear Stamps?

It's fabulous! Pretty, fun to color and each set has lots of useful sentiments. AND the best part?  Only ONE die set to purchase - The Floral Cluster and Sprigs die set fits all 4 stamp sets!

Here are the sets:

As soon as I saw these sets, I immediately thought of making a seasonal set of note cards! I used a different color scheme for each but kept the layout the same. And it's flat for easy mailing!

I used my copics to color each image and kept the design pretty simple. I played around with a circle ring, used a few sequins, and added a few scored lines along the top and bottom.

Here's a closer look at each one by itself:

SPRING PANSIES

SUMMER ROSES

FALL FLOWERS

WINTER POINSETTIA

Stay tuned for a few more cards using these. I'm trying some no-line water coloring and some ink blending!!

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Spring | Summer Coffee Lover's Blog Hop

Hi everyone and welcome to the 2019 Spring|Summer Coffee Lover's Blog Hop!

I love all things coffee and excited to play along in this blog hop! This hop is HUGE with many sponsors and prizes up for grabs! To enter to win you need to make a new Spring or Summer themed coffee/tea/cocoa project and link it to the Coffee Lovers blog.

To make the pretty butterfly java mug, I used the amazing A Cup of Java die set!!!  First, I die cut the mug from water color paper then I stamped on the butterflies. The gorgeous butterflies are from the Altenew set, Painted Butterflies which is a 3 step stamping set, but you can easily water color the first stamp of each image.

To water color your images, you don't need to invest in water color paints or pans! I colored the butterflies with some distress inks. It's super easy just tap your ink pad on to a solid surface, spritz with some water and dip your brush in. Easy peasy!

I chose the inks in Peacock Feathers, Spiced Marmalade and Worn Lipstick for my colors. I chose these because when the blue and red tones mix, they make purple and when the yellow and red tones mix, they make orange! You need to be mindful when you place water colors by each other they don't bleed and make brown. Unless that's the color you're looking for!

To make things fun, I turned the inside into a surprise GIFT CARD HOLDER!
It was so easy to do with only 2 steps!
Step 1: Trim a piece of cardstock (mine is 1.5" x 4")
Step 2: Adhere 1/8" Scor-Tape along the sides and bottom

I decorated the gift card panel with some stamping and a die cut butterfly. Cute, without being too much. Clean and simple.

Note: this is smaller than an A2 size card. This measures 4.25" x 3.25".

Be sure to head on over to The Stamp Simply Ribbon Store who is one of the many SUPER SPONSORS for this hop. There is a fun video posted there I made sharing a water coloring technique!!

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Other supplies used:
Clear sequins

1/8" silk ribbon in pink -May Arts 

Stamp Simply Steel Dies - A Cup of Java

VersaFine Onyx Black ink pad

Black silk -Fun Stampers Journey

Number 1 round water color brush -Princeton
Soft Stone and Black cardstock -PaperTrey Ink
Bee water color paper
Echo Park 6 x 6 - Coffee paper pack

Thinking of you rose card

Hi everyone! Do you ever have a slump in your crafting mojo? I do from time to time and when I do what I find helpful is to make a CAS card using things I know and love. For me it's florals and pretty patterned paper!

For this card I pulled out the Thinking of You Rose stamp set by Stamp Simply Clear Stamps and some patterned paper from the Bo Bunny Only You 6x6 pad.

 I based the coloring of the rose on the colors of the patterned paper.  I find coloring relaxing and the card came together pretty quickly since I used one of my go-to card layouts.

I had some fun with the little details, like the 2 thin strips of patterned paper I added below the seam binding ribbon. And of course, I added lots of rhinestone accents. What do you do when you are in a crafting slump? I'd love to hear from you!

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day.

Other supplies used:
Copic Markers
Stamp Simply Clear Stamps - Farmhouse Pierced Nested Hearts
Stamp Simply Clear Stamps -Farmhouse All Occasion Greetings
Seam Binding Ribbon in Rose Petal 
Kaisercraft rhinestones in Split Pea
Memento Tuxedo Black Ink
Foam Adhesive Squares
Tombow Mono Glue
Scalloped border punch 

Brewed to perfection sunflower mug

Hi everyone! I have another card to share using the newly released Cup of Java stamp set and Java die set from Stamp Simply Clear Stamps.

I love the clean lines of this java mug and thought it lended itself nicely to this super CAS design!

For this card I stamped the sunflower image from the Sunflower Seasons stamp set off the side of my mug. I used the larger of the 2 size options so I could see more of the flower. I have a few sunflower patterned cups and plates in my house and just love these happy flowers!
The light aqua color of the cup and banner strip above it is actually white cardstock colored with a BG000 copic marker. It had it white at first, but blended too much into the background.
Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Other supplies used:
Ranger Super Fine White embossing powder
Diagonal striped embossing folder

Copic markers

Sequins
Kaisercraft rhinestones in Lippy Red
Piece of Baker's Twine black/white

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

Sunflower thank you card

Hi everyone! The quest to get all my colored images onto cards continues! Today I'm sharing the gorgeous sunflower image from the Sunflower Seasons stamp set by Stamp Simply Clear Stamps I colored with copic markers. I love that this image is big enough to really get some good blending and coloring but small enough to work on cards. I ended up trimming off the stem and leaves due to the layout.

I knew immediately I wanted to use papers from the Graphic 45 Garden Goddess paper pad as the colors flowed perfectly and several designs featured sunflowers! Another 1/4" silk double bow courtesy of the Bow Easy-I can't get enough of these. So so pretty. The sentiment is from the All Occasions Sentiment SET 2.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Other supplies used:
Spellbinders Lacey Circles
Spellbinders Standard Circles LG
Green button
Stickles
Kaisercraft rhinestones in Lippy Red
Piece of Baker's Twine black/white

Loving Memory sympathy card

Hi everyone! I have a sympathy card to share today using the new Sympathy Sentiments SET 1 from Stamp Simply Clear Stamps.

I've said many times, sympathy cards are hard to make and having a beautiful stamp set can help. I kept this one visually simple, but added subtle details in the background using the Fancy Lattice over a piece of patterned paper from the Cherry Tree Lane paper pad by Kaisercraft. I love that the paper has some embossing parts to it and they peak through the lattice openings.

I made the double bow using the bow easy with some 1/4" silk ribbon topped with a Mini Blooms flower in Coconut.  I also added a thin line of stickles around the rectangle opening for a bit of sparkle.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Other supplies used:
May Arts 1/4" silk ribbon in Blue-Grey
Spellbinders A2 Matting Basics B
Spellbinders Splendid Circle dies
Spellbinders Standard Circles dies
Kaisercraft White Pearls

Sympathy card for a beloved pet

Hi everyone! I have a pet sympathy card to share today.

Sympathy cards are difficult to make and the new Sympathy Sentiment SETS 1 and 2 stamps from Stamp Simply Clear Stamps helps to find the right words.

Sympathy Sentiment SET 2 includes a sentiment especially for pets which I used in combination with the Praying for you sentiment for my card.

The card measures 4.25" square. The small banner elements at the top of the sentiment panel are die cut pieces from both the Fishtail Sentiment Banners and the Farmhouse Pierced Nested Hearts. I like to precut pieces in a variety of cardstock colors and have them at the ready to add simple easy elements to any card.

I chose to use a wonderful piece of patterned paper from the Frontier pad by Authentique (which is on sale) as it had the right amount of delicateness (is that a word?) I was looking for.

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

Other supplies used:
Cardstock and Ink: Gina K designs in white, fresh asparagus and black onyx; Fresh asparagus ink
Embellishments: Kaisercraft Rhinestones – Red
Ribbon: May Arts 1/8″ Silk – Black
Dies: Spellbinders Classic Squares

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.

Stamp Simply Clear Stamps release day and a giveaway

Hi everyone! Welcome to release day for Stamp Simply Clear Stamps!
Sharon has released 3 brand new sentiment sets and they are available in the store for purchase TODAY! I love sentiment sets because they can be used with anything in your stamp collection.

The new sets are:
Birthday Sentiments
Sympathy Sentiments SET 1
Sympathy Sentiments SET 2
All 3 sets coordinate with existing sets in Sharon's collection to allow you to mix and match with ease. I mean just look at the stunning sympathy sentiments - these will help you make something special when words escape you.

I used the Birthday Sentiments stamp set and made a super simple belated birthday card. I used some paper from the Bo Bunny Only You pad die cut from a few classic square dies and added some ribbon and 3 Lippy Red rhinestones. I heat embossed the sentiment in white and that was about the hardest thing on here -lol! I love die cutting my pretty paper scraps and turning them into a cute card.

And here is the inside, I LOVE that there is a "beefy" sentiment for the inside of belated cards. You don't see these very often. I make cards for my sister and she is ALWAYS asking me to stamp the inside cause she never knows what to say! This takes the guesswork out of it.

Do you love these? Would you like a chance to win all 3 sets?
Head over to the Stamp Simply Ribbon Store blog and leave a comment on the Giveaway Post for a chance to win! Good luck!!

Coral roses and join me on FB live

Hi everyone! I have a fun card to share today. I pulled out the stamp and die set Thinking of You Rose by Stamp Simply Clear Stamps and the store's new Coral Ribbon Sampler! I love each and every one of the ribbons in this sampler, keep reading for more info about them.

Here's my card.

I colored the roses with my copic markers and added some stickles to the rosebuds for the perfect amount of bling. The patterned paper in the background is from the Kaisercraft Ooh La La pack and I trimmed it on a diagonal and added a piece of the ribbon for some texture. I used the Bow Easy to make the perfect little bow and because it's a wired ribbon, it keeps its lovely shape. I added some Glossy Accents over the sentiment for dimension.

I did a Facebook live video today over on the Stamp Simply Ribbon Store page. I showed all the gorgeous ribbons in the new Coral Ribbon Sampler as well as several projects using them. Including this card!

 Click HERE TO VIEW MY VIDEO.

Thanks for stopping by and see you soon!

Other supplies used:

Dies: Classic Ovals LG and Scalloped Ovals LG (Spellbinders)

Cardstock: Cantaloupe Crisp cardstock