May Flowers -Gina K Designs June release

Hi everyone! Tonight is the June release for Gina K Designs and I am SO EXCITED to share 2 cards using the new May Flowers stamp set!! There are many other fabulous stamp and die sets in this release, so be sure to check them all out!!

First up is a card featuring the large Anemones cluster. I embossed the image on vellum with white EP and then took some bright inks and blended the ink to the BACK side. This gives the coloring a soft muted effect and keeps the ink from smearing on hands or envelopes.

Since Anemones have black centers, I added some tiny black gems to the top and added some thin dotted organdy ribbon from my stash. I love to have a few pops of black!

 

I inks I used were: Cherry Red, Passionate Pink, Wild Lilac and Grass Green.

Here's a peek at the back side of the image. You can see I used some bright colors and how soft they appear when behind the vellum, so don't be afraid to go bold!!

Next is another simple card using the May Flowers stamp set, this one uses the Lily of the Valley image. I colored this with copics and added a few black splatters and a tiny strip of black/white paper under the sentiment. Again, I went with a simple design with pops of black.

 I want to send a BIG thank Gina and her team for letting me be a small part of this release!

Thanks for stopping by and have a great evening!

White and vellum poinsettia card

Hi everyone! I have a Christmas card to share -this card uses the amazing and lovely Poinsettia Steel Rule die!  Be still my heart.

**This is no longer available you can find all available Poinsettia die sets at Spellbinders here.

 To make my flower, I die cut both whip cream cardstock and vellum and alternated them, 1 for each size.  Before gluing together, I took the Journey Gold Marker and outlined one side of each petal on the white flowers.  I think that just gives it a more elegant feel.

The bottom part of the card was made by heat embossing the Knitted Houndstooth background stamp with white powder.  And I embossed vellum with the Striped Love BG stamp for one of the strips below the flower.  Pretty huh?!?  I love embossing on vellum!

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!!

All supplies are Fun Stampers Journey and are no longer available

You can find all currently available poinsettia die sets by Spellbinders HERE. 

 

Stamps, punches and dies:      
Knitted Houndstooth Background Stamp
Striped Love Background Stamp
Poinsettia Steel Rule Die 
 

Cardstock and Inks:
Whip Cream Cardstock 

Oatmeal Cookie Cardstock 

Buttercream Cardstock 

 Designer Vellum Prints
Clear Pigment Ink 

Accessories:  

Journey Gold Marker
Oatmeal Cookie Satin Ribbon

Reach for the Stars

Hi everyone!  Happy Friday!  Well, summer is coming to a close and my little dudes go back to school next Tuesday (yes, we are on a late schedule).  I'm actually looking forward to having a quiet house for a few hours each day and getting back to a regular work schedule!

Today I have a fun card to share that uses one of my favorite shapes -stars!The background stripes is from vellum designer prints, the silver striped piece.  I love the soft subtle look of the vellum.  I, of course, used the Star-dom die set and the label shape is from Thxgiving die set which is a cool set with 5 labels and 3 leaves!  I just love this sentiment with it's cool fonts and it's part of the Greeting Trends stamp set.

That's it for today, I am off to buy some back to school supplies -nothing like waiting until the last minute.  Wish me luck.  Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!All supplies are Fun Stampers Journey

Stamps and dies:
Greeting Trends Stamp Set SS-0166

Star-Dom Die Set DI-0052

Thxgiving Die Set DI-0024

Cardstock and ink:

Designer Vellum Prints PP-0008

Black Licorice Cardstock CS-0003

Whip Cream Cardstock CS-0040

Beach Ball Cardstock CS-0088

Beach Breeze Cardstock CS-0001

Pool Play Cardstock CS-0092

Beach Ball Ink IP-0047

Accessories:

Journey Sequins Celebrations AC-0115

Beach Breeze Thread AC-0131

Black Licorice Thread AC-0129

Discovering vellum prints

Hi everyone!  I have another card to share for the Discovery Month over on the FSJ Blog!  This card "discovers" the new Vellum prints.  Fun Stamper’s Journey vellum includes plain and printed sheets.  The printed sheets have super cute metallic prints in stars, strips, and polka-dot designs and come in gold, silver and black.My card uses the vellum prints in gold in a couple of ways.  I used them as a background behind my square openings, I punched a vellum gold dot into a butterfly shape and I hand cut out a little star.For the butterfly at the lower left, I stamped the vellum in Beach Breeze with Butterfly Prints and used its coordinating die  then layered it with some gold cardstock die cut with one of the larger butterflies from the same die set.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!!  Here's a close up picture.All supplies Fun Stampers Journey:

Dies and punches:

Butterfly Prints Stamp Set SS-0017

Rock Notes Stamp Set SS-0211

Butterfly Prints Die Set DI-0015

Journey Squares Die Set DI-0038

Flutter By Punch TO-0008

Cardstock and ink:

Specialty Paper Pearled Celebrations Cardstock CS-0120

Designer Vellum Prints PP-0008

Whisper White Cardstock CS-0040

Black Licorice Ink IP-0041

Beach Breeze Ink IP-0044

Accessories:

Journey Sequins Blue Skies AC-0113

Breast cancer awareness -I'm here for you

Hi everyone!  Today is the 2nd day of the week full of cards that the The Stamp Simply Ribbon Store is devoting to the issue of Breast Cancer Awareness. We’ve been inspired to create these cards in coordination with the Hope You Can Cling To event over at Splitcoaststampers. It’s an annual event SCS sponsors to raise awareness and to provide a variety of cards to MD Anderson Cancer Center, for their patients and families. The SCS event involves lots of challenges posted during the month of October with lots of prizes being offered. Be sure to check it out!

Here is my card:

 I love feathers, to me they're hopeful.  There is a lot of symbolism associated with feathers for many cultures, especially the Native Americans.  Feathers from different birds have different meanings from the Dove symbolizing love, Eagle feathers bringing strength, to the Raven bringing knowledge.

My youngest son and I love to collect them and whenever we go anywhere or take a walk, we are always on the lookout for feathers.  Finding a feather on the ground means you are on the right path.

So I thought my feather die cut was perfect for this card.  I used the negative outline of my die cut and let the strips of paper and sequins peek through.

Aren't these Feathers dies beautiful?

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

Card Deets:  
Spellbinders Dies: S4-428 Feathers Shapeabilities®; S5-172 A2 Curved Matting Basics B Nestabilities®  

Stamp Set: JustRite Papercrafts, Oak Leaves cling stamp set

Other Supplies:   Vellum cardstock; MME Market Street "Necessities Reds" 6x6 paper pad; 1/4" silk ribbon in Pink; sequins, Yellow Rhinestones

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.

Summery Just Because card

Hi everyone!!  Long time no blog.  I have been super busy with end of the school year stuff and getting my garden in order.  Not too mention allergies have been kicking my behind and wiped out my energy!  Anyway, I have a fun card to share today.  This was inspired by a card I found on Pinterest.  Seriously, what did we do before Pinterest?  I love that site, not only for endless crafty inspiration, but for recipes and so much more!  But I digress...

My card uses some of my favorite cheery summer pattern paper from My Mind's Eye and matching enamel dots (I just love matchy-matchy).  I used the Blooms 3 D-Lite die for my flowers and the leaves are vellum cut from the Sprigs set (which I had left over from this card). For the chevron pattern, I used the Classic Ric Rac edger die and made 2 die cuts into my cardstock, separated them a tiny bit and adhered them over some pattern paper with foam squares.  Pretty cool, huh?!

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!  Here is a close up picture of the flower details, I just love the emboss and DEbossing details with the Blooms 3 dies.

Card Deets: 
Spellbinder dies: S2-046 Blooms 3 and S4-430 Sprigs Shapeabilities®, E8-004 Classic Ric Rac Edgeabilities® 
Paper: Bazzill Paper Basics, Butter Mints, Sour Lemon and Robin's Egg Card Shoppe cardstock; Vellum cardstock

Ink: Tsukineko, Versafine Onyx Black
Embellishments - Stamp Simply Ribbon Store: My Mind's Eye Record It "Here is Happy" 6s6 paper pad and enamel dots
Adhesive - Tombow USA Mono Multi liquid glue; Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L Foam Squares 

NOTE: You can also find Spellbinders Die Templates and vellum cardstock at the The Stamp Simply Ribbon Store.

Vellum leaves

Hi everyone!  My son's baseball game was cancelled for rain, so I had a chance to make a fun card die cutting vellum.  First, using the Labels Eighteen and and nesting Oval dies, I made a frame that I placed slightly off center.

I love this technique because by layering your dies, you can make custom frames using any pattern papers or cardstock you have on hand.  In this case, I used some pattern paper scraps I had laying around.

For the vellum branch, I die cut vellum using the branch die from the Sprigs set.  Before I took the vellum out of the die, I stenciled in the leaves with some Versamark ink.  Then I carefully removed it, sprinkled it with some white embossing powder and viola!  A cool side effect is when you heat emboss vellum it gives it a slight curling, so the leaves are slightly raised and curled!  I adhered them down using a glue dot which I hid behind the white embossed parts of the leaves.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great weekend!  Here is a close up picture of the embossed detail.

Card Deets: 
Spellbinder dies: S4-430 Sprigs Shapeabilities®, S4-310 Labels Eighteen, S4-110 Classic Ovals LG and S4-112 Classic Ovals SM Nestabilities® 
Paper: Bazzill Paper Basics, Marshmallow Card Shoppe cardstock; Vellum cardstock; American Crafts, Dear Lizzy 6x6 pattern paper

Ink: Tsukineko, Versamark and Versafine Onyx Black
Embellishments - Stamp Simply Ribbon Store: May Arts silver cord, white embossing powder, sequinshttp://stampsimply.com/shop/catalog/advanced_search_result.php?keywords=sequins&search_in_description=1&x=3&y=8
Adhesive - Tombow USA Mono Multi liquid glue; Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L Foam Squares 

NOTE: You can also find Spellbinders Die Templates and vellum cardstock at the The Stamp Simply Ribbon Store.

Asters and Poppies

Hi everyone!  I have a fun birthday card to share which uses one of the Die D-Lite flowers sets called Asters and Poppies.  I'll admit, I didn't know what Asters looked like so I Googled them and found out they are a gorgeous purple color with yellow centers! 

To make the flowers, I first die cut it in green for the base and trimmed down the bloom to a small circle.  Then I die cut just the bloom part in the purple.  Lastly I glued the purple bloom on top of the green part which gives it some stability.  Here is the view from the back.

 I used the A2 Curved Matting Basics A and B sets to die cut the card base and to make the frame.  The frame is made by Basics A die #7 and Basics B #4 (with die #1 being the smallest) and I popped it up on foam squares.  Note: You could have easily made this frame using only 1 of the Matting sets, I had them mixed up and accidentally grabbed 1 from each set.
I popped up the Aster blooms on foam squares as well and glued the stems down to the paper to give it a cool illusion.  A little stickles in the flower centers and around the frame gives it that extra sparkle.

The sentiment was embossed in white on vellum cardstock.  This is a fun technique which is really popular right now!

Here are the Asters and Poppies dies

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!!

Card Deets: 
Spellbinder dies: S3-206 Asters and Poppies Shapeabilities®,S5-171  A2 Curved Matting Basics A and S5-172 A2 Curved Matting Basics B Nestabilities®

Stamps - Gina K Designs, Vogue Vases 2
Paper: Gina K Designs, White cardstock; My Mind's Eye On The Bright Side Two 6x6 pad
Embellishments - Stamp Simply Ribbon Store: Bazzill Vellum cardstock; Black and white baker's twine; White embossing powder
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.