Stamp Simply Seasonal Wreath release!

Hi everyone! Welcome to release week for Stamp Simply! Sharon is releasing 2 wreath sets that are interchangeable and perfect year round. Each set has a wreath, 2 images that fits into the opening and many all occasion seasonal sentiments.

Aren't they beautiful?!?

My card uses Seasonal Wreath Spring & Summer and I've colored the spring flower like a white daisy! This card is pretty simple, I colored the images, cut them out and popped them up over an embossed white piece. The little strip of wood grain is from the Craft Consortium Wood Textures paper pad which has a ton of great wood grain designs to chose from.

 

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Other Supplies:

May Arts burlap string in Natural

Stamp Simply Steel Dies -Fishtail Sentiment Banners

Copic markers

Scalloped border punch

Dotted Swiss EF

Stamp Simply Faith, Hope & Love release

Hi everyone! Today I am sharing 2 cards I made with the newest release from Stamp Simply Clear Stamps. Sharon released 4 new sets Faith, Hope & Love and Wedding & Anniversary Wishes. You can find the entire release here.

My card uses the Wedding & Anniversary Wishes set. I made 2 quick and easy cards.

For the Thank You card, I stamped the bouquet on the vase image and colored them with Zig markers.  I used a bit of patterned paper from Kaisercraft Paisley Days pad. I added a few die cuts (from the Fishtail Sentiment Banners and Floral Cluster and Sprig dies) at the top corner topped with a small silk bow.

For the Wedding card, I stamped the bouquet on the stems image and colored them with copic markers. I centered it inside a scalloped oval frame (made with Spellbinders oval dies), added some scoring to the background panel and was done. This card was so simple to make and with a quick change in sentiment, could be for many occasions.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Papercrafters Unite Against Racism blog hop

Hi everyone! Welcome to a very special blog hop -Papercrafters Unite Against Racism. The goal of this blog hop is for papercrafters to come together to stand behind our crafty brothers and sisters of color not just in the art industry, but to show our support in the never ending fight for equality all over the world.

This blog hop is organized by Justine Hovey and you can find more information about this hop, a complete list of participants and ways to help over on her blog. I want to thank Justine for her hard work on this blog hop (and there are also corresponding YouTube and Instagram hops), this issue is very important to me and my family and I am glad for the chance to show my support.

For my card, I printed out the words from PicMonkey in the font called Lovelo and then colored them in with 3 copic markers. The frames I used are made with the A2 Thin Frames die from Honey Bee Stamps. The colors of the frames were chosen to represent all the amazing Black and Brown people that we want to raise up.

The next stop on the hop is Haley Pettit

If you want to start from the beginning you can hop over to Justine's blog.

If you want to show your support for this blog hop, feel free to take this graphic and display it on any or all of your social media platforms!

The Ton Group Layering Stamps

Hi everyone! A few months back my crafty friend Katie introduced me to the *patent pending* group layering stamps by The Ton Stamps. And I fell in love! Like seriously, these layering stamps are brilliant and fool proof and I probably will never go back to traditional layering stamps again. And if that wasn't enough enabling, she also introduced me to Catherine Pooler inks! WOW, these inks are amazing and I'm well on my way to owning them all. They are a pigment, so they don't stain (too badly) clear stamps and they have excellent coverage with no pooling!

I haven't blogged in awhile, so I will post lots of cards below and list stamp sets and the color combinations I used for the flowers. Note you have to purchase the matching dies for all these stamp sets, it's part of the system. Not gonna lie, these are an investment, but so worth it!!

Peony Memories stamp set

Easy Expressions stamp set

Floral Bits 2 stamp set

Flower color combinations (all CP inks unless noted) listed light to dark:

Blue flowers (first card) - It's A Boy, Something Borrowed, Suede Shoes

Blue flowers (2nd card) - Powder Blue (GKD), Chambray (FSJ), Blue Denim (GKD)

Bright Pink - Bubblegum (GKD), Cosmic Grape (FSJ), Flirty Fuchsia

Pink/Red - It's A Girl, Party Dress, Rockin' Red

Yellow - Limoncello, Tiara, Haystack (FSJ)

Green leaves - Garden Party, Lime Rickey, Grass Skirt

Blue green leaves - Mint to Be, Aquatini, Mardi Gras

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!!

Stamp Simply Mother's Day celebration week

Hi everyone! Over at Stamp Simply we are celebrating MOMs for the entire week! To help honor the mom's of the world, Sharon is offering $1.00 shipping for all US orders through 4/19! And yes, yes...she is still shipping daily from her residence in Michigan!

I went old school and made a circle card! I haven't made a circle card in ages and I'm not sure why, I really do love circle cards!  This one is pretty flat and will fit in an A2 invitation envelope without needing extra postage.

My card uses the lovely floral image from the Floral Cluster Summer Roses set and the sentiment is from the All Occasion Sentiments SET 1. I die cut 2 thin black rings using my Spellbinders circle dies LG/SM. I think the black really makes the flower cluster POP! I used my Zig markers to color and I'm really enjoying how fast and easy they are to use.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!