I Won! Here's the Card I Made

Hello there,  I've got a picture I want to share with you.

This wonderful set of crafty goodness arrived by mail from @cards.by.becca on Instagram.  She had a giveaway to celebrate her 2000 followers.  Check out that decorated envelope and zoom in on that fabulous card she made!  Truly packed with love!  I won (clapping and jumping) and here is the card I made:

I had so much fun playing with these new goodies and look forward to playing with all of them.  

The background stamp is from Neat and Tangled called Mail Background and is stamped on card stock, sprinkled with white embossing powder and heat set.  Next Peacock Feathers Oxide Ink is used to blend around the edges fading to a white center.  Using my Gemini Jr, I die cut 3 white and one paradise using the hello cutting template.  They are stacked and glued together.

HINT:  Since this is a pretty delicate die, I stacked and glued before I punched all the tiny bits out.  There were so many bits and having them more stabilized made poking them out easier.

The die cut element was then glued to my background piece and a shimmer pen was used on the word only for some sparkle.

If you have chance, check out @cards.by.becca on instagram!  Thanks again Becca!

Have a great day and keep on crafting!

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Starry Night Wedding Card Using My Monthly Hero Kits

Today's card is for a special wedding we went to last night - couldn't share until now.  The Bride chose a starry night theme so I mimicked her invitation.  Thanks to My Monthly Hero subscription, I did not have to buy anything new - just looked through previous kits.  Found what I needed in the August 2017 and January 2018 kits!

Starting with Neenah Solar White 110 lb Cardstock, I stamped swirling stars from the August 2017 My Monthly Hero Kit with Versa Mark Ink and sprinkled Ranger White Embossing Powder then used my Marvy Embossing Heat Tool.  Next, I applied Salty Ocean, Broken China and Faded Jeans Distress Ink, blending well.  To add shimmer I sprayed Sheer Shimmer Spritz.  Now for my favorite part - die cutting!  The Stamps of Life Stitched Rectangles die for the base, the & is from the January My Monthly Hero Kit and the mr and mrs is cut 3 times and stacked with Bold Alphabet from Altenew. Next I inked the edges of & with Tumbled Glass distress ink, the back ground with Black Soot distress oxide ink and outlined the mr and mrs with Gelly Roll Stardust Pen.

To pull it together, I mounted the background onto fun foam with Scor-Tape, adhered to card base, placed glued my elements in place and added star sequins that came in the August 2017 kit with Multi Matt Medium.  Inside I used a sentiment from Justrite Stamps - Elegant Celebrations.

Have a great day and keep crafting!
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July My Monthly Hero Card

Hero Arts July My Monthly Hero Club sets are Awesome!!  If you are like me and adore flowers, this one is for you.  I paired this set with the Avery Elle's Horizontal Stripes Die.  It just came Saturday and I couldn't wait to use it.

The Flowers and containers were stamped with Versafine Black ink  on Canson Multimedia paper.  Coloring with Tombow markers on this paper is fabulous!  It was very easy to blend.  Topped the flowers with Wink of Stella and added Glossy Accents on the butterfly.   The sentiment was stamped by curving the the stamp on a block and using Wilted Violet Distress Oxide ink then die cut with a Spellbinders banner die.

This card's sentiment was stamped and embossed, then cut with a punch.  Also both purple pieces were raised with pop dots.

Have a great day and keep on crafting.

Sympathy Cards with New Technique

First of all, I love watching new technique videos on Youtube.  Jennifer McGuire is my favorite and today I'm showing you my take on her technique.  The link to her video is here.  I highly recommend visiting her site, you could spend days watching all her crafty goodness!

So, I love making cards, but it's very sad when the reason is loss.  A family member passed and a very good friend lost her husband, both were very unexpected.  Instead of struggling to design a card, I poured my love for these people into making the cards.

Here's my card, I made two of these...

The stamps and dies are a flower building set from Altenew called Camillia.  The prayer sentiment is from Hero Arts called Prayers Stamp and Cut.  I chose to use the new Distress Oxide Ink Wilted Violets for the flower and three different colors of green from my stash.

Keep on crafting and have a great day.

Three Cards, Same Stamps

I purchased several new stamps and dies from Neat and Tangled and here are three cards made with the Succulent Journaling Card stamp and matching die set.  Love how the sentiment has the perfect spot on the image! 

The first two are similar, just different sentiments.  Stamped with Versafine ink and colored with Tombow Markers.  One of the sentiments is embossed with Zing clear embossing powder after using Versafine to stamp.  I also used a Wink of Stella clear pen to color the green, picked up some green tombow ink, that I scribbled on a clear block and pushed it around on Bristol Smooth card stock.  I assembled these with The Stamps of Life Stitched Rectangles as background, inked with Palette Raw Sienna around the edge.  I used just the outside portion of the Succulent Journaling Die to cover the edges.

The final card has a different technique on the background.  I purchased the Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Inks at the April CK Convention.  One of the vendors had a stash that he saved for convention attendees!  All of my online sources were backordered so I was thrilled to get all 12 of them.  Had fun using a blending tool to add the ink to Mixed Media Card Stock, then sprayed water to get the mottled look.  I used cracked pistachio, faded jeans and wilted violet.

This time I used the entire die to cover the stamped image lines and raised the whole image with pop dots.  

I had fun mixing up the colors and will be making several card with these stamps and dies.  

Have a great day!