Author: Laurel Seabrook

  • You’re Pretty Wonderful

    You’re Pretty Wonderful

    I am showing my age here. Do you know the story Ferdinand the Bull? The bull who just loved to sit out in the field and smell the flowers?

    When I saw this adorable new Uniquely Unity stamp – Just Pig Cause I thought of this pig sitting in a field of flowers and made 2 versions. I think it would be a great Wilbur too.

    Both cards used paper from the You Are My Sunshine Collection by Echo Park. And both have the pig mounted on foam squares

    This first one I paper pieced

    This next card I colored with my copics. I love this background daisy paper. Reminds me of some overalls I made for my oldest when she was a baby only they were blue and baby pink rather than yellow.

    You can grab this cute stamp and paper here (just click on images)

  • Birthday Bear

    Birthday Bear

    Another cute image from Unity – Teddy With Love. (He’s on sale as part of a bundle or on it’s own).

    I dug out some old CTMH papers to pair him with.

    The sticker hat was the perfect size, so I adhered it to scrap paper and cut it out. I do this often because I prefer ephemera as I can play around until I like the look and I can add foam squares to them so they pop up, which is what I did here and with the bear.

    Now, be sure to grab this cutie while it’s on sale!

  • A Little Reminder

    A Little Reminder

    Unity has been hitting it out of the park with cuteness lately! This is another adorable stamp set – The Softest Thoughts.

    I pulled out some old CTMH papers for this one because I just thought soft pastel would work for this image.

    This set is of course on sale right now so it is a good time to grab it 😏

  • Cozy Vibes

    Cozy Vibes

    I played along with the Inspired By Challenge once again, this time with a very different look. I was inspired by the mittens. I thought the knit paper in the White Winter papers by Unity would make great mittens so I dug out an old mitten die and created them.

    I stitched around them for some interest and added a snowflake and twine. Before mounting them, I stencilled the background with a snowflake stencil. The sentiment is from the Cozy Vibes stamp set (which is on sale right now)

    I mounted the mittens on foam squares because I like the dimension it adds.

  • Extra Love

    Extra Love

    I have another, what could be Valentine’s Day card but works for anytime someone could use a little pick me up. I used the Wee Little Love Courier from Unity, I just love those cute big eyes!

    I paired it with some paper from Stampin Up! The heart dies are some old CTMH ones and once again, happy to use another button from my stash.

    Now be sure to grab this cutie while it is on sale!

  • Warm Winter Wishes

    Warm Winter Wishes

    Happy Thursday, you know what that means… another Inspired By Challenge and I am combining it with my guest designing card for JUGS as this week is stencil week. I have used the Simon Says Stencils and Die Warm Mug and Everything Nice set. I was inspired by the mittens, colors and loosely the sketch in the Inspired By challenge. Once again too, I embossed the background with a snowflake embossing folder so I am playing along with the SSSIG challenge – Use an Embossing Folder. Also the Simon Says Wednesday challenge – use Stencils.

    Can’t wait to see how you are inspired and of course be sure to play along at the JUGS challenge too!

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  • Be Mine

    Be Mine

    Slowly easing out of winter cards… so that means you’ll start seeing more Valentine and Spring ones around here. Today I have a Valentine one featuring one of Unity’s newest stamp sets Hop to My Heart – isn’t this bunny cute?

    I have paired it with some paper from Stampin Up! the background that the image is on is actually an old Journaling card from Elle’s Studio – feels good when I use something from my old stash. How often do you try to do that? I am on a mission to use more of my old stamps, dies and papers at least once a week, but we shall see! I fussy cut the image out and mounted on foam squares.

    Be sure to grab the stamp set while it is on sale!

    Playing along with

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  • Warm Hello

    Warm Hello

    I am up on the Coffee Loving Papercrafters blog again with my second card for this month’s Lattes & Layers theme which is Sweater. For this card I have used the White Winter 6 X 6 pad from Unity. I love the designs and colors in this – very hygge 😊. The Sweater knit paper made a perfect wrap for the cup don’t you think?

    I paired it with the Simon Says Stamp Warm Mug And Everything Nice. It is hard to tell from the photo but I embossed the white cardstock with snowflakes, thus entering this in the SSSIG challenge – Use and Embossing Folder – mine is from CTMH

    Now if you haven’t played along in the Lattes & Layers challenge I would love to see what you create!

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  • Get Well Soon

    Get Well Soon

    When I saw the challenge over at Simon Says Monday Challenge – something with wings, I knew exactly which stamp I wanted to use because aren’t these birds the cutest? Wouldn’t you feel better receiving a card with one of these cuties from Wing and a Prayer by Unity?

    For both cards I wanted the feeling of being all stitched up so lots of sewing happening LOL!

    I created this Get Well Soon one first using a sketch from my sketches (see link at the top for the ones I have uploaded thus far). I dug out some very old MFT dies – the bandaids and the get well soon. I thought the dotted paper in the A Little Tenderness Paper pack would work well as a bandaid.

    I mounted the bird on foam squares for some dimension.

    Here’s the sketch I used, see the others HERE

    Now while I had the stamps and paper out I wanted to see what I could do with the scraps from this first card and this is what I came up with. I just played around with them, trimming a couple to fit better. Once again the bird is mounted on foam squares. I have such a button stash and don’t use them hardly at all, but I knew that I would have one that was a good color for this card so yay for using some stash LOL!

    Now head on over to Unity and grab the stamp set and papers as they are on sale right now!

    Linking up to the Simon Says Challenge

  • Hot Chocolate Kind of Day

    Hot Chocolate Kind of Day

    I am back with another card inspired by the Inspired By challenge. For this card I was inspired by the colors, sketch and the theme and pulled out an old CTMH stamp set and background die and started colouring. I don’t have any purple paper in these colors so I am going to have to change that because this light shade of purple (lilac, one of my favorite plants) is one of my favorite colors!

    I did emboss the main panel with a snowflake embossing folder before topping it with the circle die. The sentiment is from a Newton’s Nook stamp set Cup of Cocoa.

    Now since I don’t have the right cardstock colors, I colored a bit of white cardstock then punched out the snowflakes so that they coordinated with the stamped images.

    Have you played along with us over at Inspired By yet? I am also playing along at the Paper Players challenge – Signs of Winter