Category: cards

  • Hive Got Your Back

    Hive Got Your Back

    Well… this card got a little away from me. My idea was CAS for the Krafty Chicks challenge and to use the sketch from Freshly Made Sketches

    The sketch, inspired 3 hexagons which, because I got carried away aren’t very visible ha. Splattering isn’t my go to. And it went… everywhere.

    So I stencilled my background and tried again… better, but definitely too much splatter

    Hence, the ribbon and the hello 😆

    It still works for the Simon Says Challenge – things with wings 😁. I used the Hive Got Your Back Stamp Set from Unity and just cut the bees apart. This cute set is on sale right now so be sure to grab it.

  • Thanks for being so sweet

    Thanks for being so sweet

    Hey everyone, the new Inspired By challenge is up and it is a sweet one 😉.

    I was inspired by the theme, colors and sketch this week. I was excited to use my Pink & Main Box of Donuts dies along with an old MFT frame die. The sentiment is from The Stamps of Life and the enamel dots are from Echo Park.

    I mounted the donuts on foam squares and finished them off with some fun sprinkles. Now which donut would you choose?

    Come play along with us over at Inspired by! I am also entering this into the Simon Says challenge

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  • Ice Cream

    Ice Cream

    Having just gotten over pneumonia and basically living off it… I quite agree with this statement. Though truth be told I would eat it anytime 😆

    When I saw the new Simon Says Challenge I knew I had to play… Food or Drink – always fun cards to create. All of my supplies are from Unity except the sprinkles (I purchased from Simon Says Store)

    I wanted some interest so I used the postage stamp dies for subtle texture. The ice cream is mounted on foam squares.

    Might want to go grab this stamp set as it’s on sale right now!

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  • Rise & Shine

    Rise & Shine

    I’m up on the Coffee Loving Papercrafters Blog today with my second card for this month’s theme – which is sunshine

    I took a little different view of it for this card. I was thinking of having coffee and watching the sun rise.

    I love these Unity Papers Chickens & Chintz – all the elements of morning the roosters, the newsprint and then I added the coffee using die cut mugs using a Honey Bee Stamps die. The Stamped sentiment and image on the one mug are from Echo Park.

    I added a button for some interest and them mounted the mugs using foam squares. Thankfully this card went together quite easily because I didn’t have the energy or brainpower to struggle this time LOL

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  • Groovy Summer Card Trio

    Groovy Summer Card Trio

    My cards using the Groovy Summer collection was up on the Echo Park page the other day.

    This was such a fun collection to work with – brought back memories of Friday night roller skating. The colors and the elements are so groovy 😉 The collection is on sale right now too.

    There are FREE instructions on how to create all three of these up on the Echo Park Website

  • Happy Birthday Exploding Box

    Happy Birthday Exploding Box

    I was up on the Echo Park page the other day with this fun Exploding Box birthday card.

    I used the They Say It’s Your Birthday collection – the fun stickers made this easy!

    What is really fun is that this will fit in a regular A2 envelope for easy mailing. There are FREE instructions on how to make this up on the Echo Park Website and you can find them HERE

    It was fun creating it and I hope you give it a try!

  • Something Old, Something New

    Something Old, Something New

    The new Inspired By challenge is up. I was immediately drawn to the colors and I love a haphazard sketch so I was loosely inspired by it too. The new Save the Date collection from Echo Park is absolutely gorgeous and it worked perfectly for the color palette. The background woodgrain paper is from Stampin Up!

    I started by fussy cutting the flowers from one of the pattern papers. I then layered the background papers until I was happy with the loo. Once the flowers were down (the middle on is on foam squares. I tucked the sentiments here and there simulating the sketch. The white hearts were the negative image from a heart border that I have had just waiting for the right project and this was it. The XOXO is from Lawn Fawn and then to finish it off I added some Enamel Dots.

    Here’s this week’s inspiration photo

  • A Little Sunshine

    A Little Sunshine

    I am up on the Coffee Loving Papercrafters blog today. It is a new month so there’s a new theme up and this month it is Sunshine!

    For my card I reached for the You Are My Sunshine collection from Echo Park which is fitting don’t you think?

    The mug is a die from Honey Bee Stamps. I stencilled the sun on it using a stencil from Echo Park. I then added the shine sticker and a heart sticker and of course some staples. I mounted the mug on foam squares and added a little white heart for steam.

    I would love to see your sunshine themed coffee cards. Remember… iced coffee/ iced tea counts…

  • Baking Up Some Thanks

    Baking Up Some Thanks

    The new Inspired By Challenge is up.I really love the colors in this week’s inspiration and had planned on doing something with them but then I remembered I had the Mom’s Kitchen collection from Echo Park just waiting to be used so I dug it out and went along with the theme.

    I embossed the mint cardstock with an embossing folder from Unity. The recipe card, is just that, a recipe card – Echo Park has some fun ones! I just cut it down and used a notebook punch to add some detail.

    I adhered the stickers to some scrap paper then fussy cut them out and mounted them on foam squares. The thanks die is from CTMH and I love the gingham washi tape in the Mom’s Kitchen collection so I added a bit of it too.

    check out this week’s inspiration and be sure to play along

  • Thank You Teacher

    Thank You Teacher

    There’s just something about school/teacher themed things that speak to me 😁 IYKYK

    So when this new Unity KOMpanion kit was released (and the cute paper pack to coordinate) you know I had to have it. I kept the card pretty simple as I wanted the image to be the focus. I believe the alphabet background die is from Reverse Confetti (retired now) but I can’t remember. I stamped the Teacher’s Like You image, coloured then fussy cut out and mounted on foam squares. I stamped one of the sentiments from the kit but cut off the teacher part so I could use this old (again retired) teacher die (from PTI?).

    For the tab at the top (a PTI die) and the pencil (I fussy cut from the paper) I used the Apple Seeds & ABCs paper pack.

    Now this cute stamp set is part of this month’s KOM or you can get it individually but do so soon as it is on SALE right now!