Pinkfresh Studio Daydream Edit collection

Hi crafty friends! Things have been crazy busy here these last few weeks. Mother's day, my birthday, both my boys college graduations and then Father's day! I finally had a moment to craft just for myself to ink up some goodies from Pinkfresh Studio's collection called Daydream Edit.

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I just love all the gorgeous floral collections from Pinkfresh Studio. They always release complete collections with stamp sets, matching dies, coloring stencil set, sometimes with standalone dies and/or coordinating washi tape. Always beautiful and so thought out!

To start my cards I stamped the image from the Floral Daydream stamp set on Bristol Smooth cardstock and used the Floral Daydream stencil set to color it. Then I die cut the pieces with the Floral Daydream die set. I then used the lightest purple and green in the ink quads to lightly ink the edges of the card front (kind of hard to see in the photos) and then organized the flowers and stems around the white circles from the Stitched Scalloped Circle die set. I used the sentiment from the stamp set as I don't have a large stash of sympathy cards. I love how these turned out!

 

  Supplies used on these cards: 

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Thank you for stopping by and have a great day! 

 

 

Heartfelt Sympathy BetterPress card

 Hi crafty friends! I have a beautiful sympathy card to share today using one of the BetterPress Copperplates from the Happy Everything Sentiments collection. This collection is designed by Paul Antonio for Spellbinders and features 3 BetterPress sets with Paul's signature script font.

My card uses the Heartfelt Sympathy press plate and I have inked it with a rich royal blue ink. What I love about press plates is they can be inked or foiled with a Glimmer machine. You can find my last example of foiling one of Paul's wonderful press plates here.

I think the elegant font from this collection looks so pretty framed with flowers from my beloved Be Bold Blooms die set. I chose to use the color blue with pops of purple. I love how this turned out. 

  

Products used on this card:

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Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

 

 

Gina K Designs June release

Hi everyone! Tonight is the June release for Gina K Designs and I am SO EXCITED to share a few projects using 2 new sets. There are many other fabulous stamp and die sets in this release (including A NEW KIT called Feathers and Flora), so be sure to check them all out!!

 

The 2 sets I will be working with are:

Sympathy and Love Stamp set

Sympathy and Love dies

Let's Camp Stamp set

Let's Camp dies  

 

First up I have a trio of sympathy cards using the Sympathy and Love Stamps and dies. I made 3 so I would have them ready in my stash because these can be challenging to make in the moment. Each card uses a different sentiment, embossing folder and color for the butterflies. I used a piece of organdy ribbon from my stash on each and coordinated the colors to match.

I used the oval dies from the Master Layouts 01 die set for the sentiments.

The colors and folders I used are:

 Embossed Gold and White with the Lovely Lattice folder

Christmas Pine with the Swiss Dot folder

Lovely Lavender and embossed Silver with the Tapestry folder

 

 

Last is a simple and easy retirement card using the Let's Camp stamp set, Master Layouts 2 dies and my Zig markers. I'm discovering that coloring with Zigs is way faster than with Copics. Last week I was crazy busy with my son's graduation and award ceremonies, so I barely had time to craft. Coloring this cute camper image with Zigs was quick and easy and turned out pretty cute.

Thank you for stopping by and have a great evening!!

Water colored poppies -Stamp Simply Summer Florals release

 Hi everyone! Today Stamp Simply released their Summer Florals stamps and dies and I'm excited to share a water color card using the stamp set, Pretty Poppies! Take a look!

My card is pretty simple. I used my MeiLiang watercolor palette to color the poppies, added a couple jewels, piece of 1/8" black silk ribbon and a strip of black/white striped paper.

I haven't water colored in awhile, and it does not come to me naturally. So after pulling up an image search as my reference, I colored these beauties over the course of a few evenings and I love how they turned out.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Other supplies used:

Stamp Simply Steel Dies Fishtail Sentiment Banners

Bee Watercolor paper

MeiLiang watercolor paint set

1/8" black silk ribbon

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

Clean, simple and elegant sympathy card

Hi everyone! I have a simple sympathy card to share with you today. I used one of the new sympathy sets that Stamp Simply Clear Stamps just released!
My card uses the Sympathy Sentiments SET 2 and is a 4 1/4" square. I really love square cards, I should make them more often!

The rose image is from the set Thinking of You Rose and the paper is from the brand new Bellarose pad from Kaisercraft. I really love this paper! I colored the rose with copics to match the little flowers on the black strip of patterned paper. I kept things very simple and tied a small piece of 1/8" black silk ribbon around the stem and added some rhinestone accents.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Other supplies used:
Kaisercraft Lippy Red Rhinestones
Memento Full Size Dye Ink Pad - Tuxedo Black
Copic markers

Thinking of you

Hi everyone!  I have a sympathy/thinking of you card to share.  These are always so hard to make.  I like to keep mine simple and without a lot of flashy colors.  

I used the Classic Ric Rac diamond insert die to create that open pattern at the bottom.  I made one cut, then alternated where the diamonds were and made my second and then the third.  Below you can see how I did it.  I trimmed it up and before I adhered it to my card base, I put a piece of glitter tape on the card base where the second row would be.  p.s. this was hard to do and it involved lots of work with my ruler.  I think next time I will figure out a way to glue the tape to the top piece and not the bottom!  lol!

The beautiful poppy bloom was die cut and embossed from gold cardstock and then I added some red pearl accents.  Very understated.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!  Here is a close up picture of the die cut details.

Card Deets: 
Spellbinder dies: S3-206 Asters and Poppies Shapeabilities®, E8-004 Classic Ric Rac Edgeabilities® 

Stamps: JustRite Papercrafts, Large Elegant Sentiments
Paper: Bazzill Paper Basics, Butter Mints and Marshmallow Card Shoppe cardstock; Gold cardstock

Ink: Tsukineko, Versafine Onyx Black
Embellishments - Stamp Simply Ribbon Store: Kaisercraft Red pearls; American Crafts glitter tape in Gold Brown Sugar; May Arts 1/4" mini chevron ribbon
Adhesive - Tombow USA Mono Multi liquid glue; Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L Foam Squares 
NOTE: You can also find Spellbinders Die Templates and gold cardstock at the The Stamp Simply Ribbon Store. 

Ippity Stamps Sneak Peeks: Day 2

Hi everyone! Did you enjoy the first day of peeks yesterday? Lots of {ippity} goodness over the blogasphere, huh?!?

Today we are peeking the sets Regal Greetings and Music of My Heart!!

I have 2 cards to share and they both use Regal Greetings! I didn't plan it that way, it just happened. This first card was very difficult for me to make. My friend, Shannan lost her husband over the weekend. She and her 2 little boys are dealing with unimaginable grief right now. I absolutely could not get this card started. It took me 3 days.

Sometimes when I have a difficult card to make, I go to another stamper for inspiration. This card was inspired by Amy Rohl's amazing card here. I used one of the sentiments from Regal Greetings. The pattern paper is from KaiserCraft, their Cafe Culture line and of course the gorgeous May Arts ribbon is from Sharon's Stamp Simply Ribbon store as are the Chocolate pearl accents.

My next card uses a different sentiment and an accent stamp from the set. Using my Stamp-a-ma-jig I stamped the accent flourish on top and bottom in chocolate chip ink. Making sure to leave room for the sentiment in the middle. I embossed the sentiment in white. I added some Snow Kaiser Pearls as accents. The ribbon is Martha Stewart Seam Binding and the beautiful white flower is from Zva Creative, Sweet Blossoms. This card is pretty simple allowing the sentiment to stand alone.

Don't forget to stop by the Design Team's blogs to see more peeks. Someone is bound to show you something from the Music of the Heart set -LOL!

The FABULOUS Ippity Design Team:
Eryn Hagen
Eva Dobilas
Heather Rolin (Guest)
Kelly Landers
Lisa Henke
Maria Gurnsey

The AMAZING Unity Girls:
Christi Snow
Jessica Diedrich
Natalie Dever

Thanks for stopping by! Come back tomorrow for another 2 GREAT peeks!

Card Deets:
Stamps - Regal Greetings
Ink - versamark, chocolate chip
Paper - White, Kraft, KaiserCraft PP, Chocolate Chip
Accessories - White EP, pearls in chocolate and snow, martha stewart seam binding ribbon, swiss dots EF, button from the Chocolate Collection, large oval punch, corner rounder and scalloped border punch (SU!),