Hello Rose Card

As part of my crafty haul last December, I purchased several Craft a Flower die sets from Altenew.  They had so many to choose from, it was hard to decide which ones to get.  However, this is one of the no-brainers -- I knew I just had to get was the Rose Layering Die Set.

I used the dies to make a yellow rose for this clean and simple card.

I know I've said this before, but yellow just makes things feel so cheery.  I love a reason to use it on my card.  I'm glad CAS Colours & Sketches decided to use these colors for the challenge:  Daffodil Delight, Mango Melody, and Candy Apple Green.

I die cut the pieces of the rose and adhered them with wet adhesive.  I like wet adhesive for layering delicate layers like this because it has a little more "give" -- I can fiddle with the pieces around a bit before  "committing" to the placement. 

I used the Ellen Hutson's Essential Squares for Stitching to frame my rose and put yellow cardstock behind the dots.  I heat embossed the "Hello" sentiment from Altenew's Feathered Lilies stamp set using green embossing powder.  I used the same wet adhesive for the leaves on the card.  I popped the layered die cut rose on foam tape to give it some dimension.

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Silver and White Congratulations Card

This one is really a challenge for me.  This week, Color Hues The Color Challenge posted a challenge on their blog to create a card using only silver and white (and maybe some neutrals).  My “challenge” was how to create contrast between these two colors, so that each one is represented in my card.

Enter this color block die from Spellbinders:

It’s part of their new release.  When I saw these, I thought:  I am so dead.  Because I can’t resist large bold letters.  Large bold letters in a cover plate?  I’m sold.  So now I’m a proud owner of this die (along with a few others).  Heh.

This is the result:

I used the cover plate die twice on my die cut machine:  once on silver cardstock, once with white cardstock.  I used 80lb white cardstock here for the die cutting.  I used every other letter and adhered them on black and silver cardstock.

The black card is perfect for graduation.  The silver card is perfect for a wedding (or an engagement)!

I used the following supplies (these are affiliate links -- if you make a purchase through them, I get a small commission at no cost to you.  Thank you for supporting my crafting blog!):

Color Block Sentiment Card

Today I wanted to share with you a card I made using (almost) all the sentiments from the Concord and 9th All the Hellos stamp set.

The sentiments in this set are big and bold and perfect for using in this color block A2 card.  I chose a white cardstock on white card base to make the sentiments pop.  I die cut it with the largest rectangle die from this set for a fun little detail and red and purple ink from Catherine Pooler to stamp these images using a stamp positioner.  You can create this card without a stamp positioner, but having one will definitely help you with the layout of the card.  And if you need to re-stamp something for some reason (heh -- guilty!).    

Here are some of the supplies I used in this project (affiliate links -- thank you for supporting my blog).  Thanks for looking, and have a great day!

If you prefer to order from Amazon because you have Amazon Prime shipping, here are two excellent dye inks that will give you crisp and beautiful stamped images (or sentiments).  I've had great experience with them (my earlier cards where from this brand of inks).  I'm linking the red and purple below, but they have a whole line of inks as well:

Cute Lawn Fawn Birthday Card

I'm back again, this time with another mini slimline card for the Lawn Fawnatics Challenge Blog. The theme for the challenge is "Let's Celebrate!"

I decided on a birthday card because I always need a lot of birthday cards, and I think this card is a cute addition to my stash:

I created the background by die cutting the cardstock with the stitched mini slimline die from Crafty Meraki, lightly blending Tim Holtz blue distress ink, and using the Lawn Fawn confetti stencils on the background with two other shades of blue Tim Holtz distress ink.  On white cardstock, I stamped the images using Copic-safe ink, and colored them with Copic markers.  I'm still working my coloring/blending skills, but I'm sure I'll get there. :D  The smaller images from these Lawn Fawn stamp sets and coordinating dies are perfect for beginners to Copic coloring.  Also, these images are from 2 separate stamp sets -- I'll link the specific ones below.

I heat embossed the sentiment "Have a Wild Birthday" using embossing ink and black embossing powder.

I used the coordinating dies to cut out the images on my die cut machine.  I think it's really fun that the jungle animals are wearing party hats and the elephant looks like he's holding the frosting back for the cupcake.

I popped them images up with foam tape, and stuck them on the background, and then I have my "Let's Celebrate" card!

Supplies are below (affiliate links - thank you for supporting my blog at no cost to you), and thanks for looking!  Have a great day!

CAS Floral Card

Happy new year!

I'm starting the new year with this clean and simple card that I made using pink, light violet, and red:

I diet cut the flowers and leaves from pink, light violet, and red cardstock.  I die cut a circle in my card front made of kraft card stock and used a black cardstock to mat that thin space between the 2 to create an outline.  I used liquid adhesive to adhere the small die cuts on the paper because it is more forgiving. I can move it around a little bit before it sets, which gives me a little bit more time to arrange the die cuts just the way I want. :)

I used my dry adhesive (tape runner) to adhere the larger pieces to the kraft card base.

I love the how card turned out!  Here's a close-up view: 

This was supposed to be entered into the CAS Colours and Sketches Challenge Blog.  Challenge #451 is to create a card using colors similar to Highland Heather, Petal Pink, and Poppy Parade, but I didn't get to create this post and link it in time.  I figured I'd share it with all of you anyway.

I used the following supplies to create my card:

Die set (flowers and leaves) - the one I used is discontinued, but this is a link to something that is similar

Circle die - you can also use this die if you want to take advantage of your Amazon Prime or use your Amazon account.  Just cut a smaller and a bigger circle and use the smaller circle to mat the flowers and leaves die cuts

Stitched die for card mat - you can also use this die if you want to take advantage of your Amazon Prime or use your Amazon account.

Thinking of You sentiment

Black ink

Die cut machine

Liquid adhesive 

Dry adhesive (tape runner)

Thanks for looking, and have a great day!