Category: cards

  • 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

  • Un-Bee-lievably Amazing

    Un-Bee-lievably Amazing

    We have had some pretty gorgeous winter days, sunny and cool, and it got me in a Spring mood. I couldn’t wait to ink up this cute Bee stamp called Peek-A-Bee from Unity.

    I paired it with some old CTMH papers that I thought were perfect for it. I fussy cut the honey jar from some of the pattern paper and added it to some white cardstock then made it into a tag. I also added some liquid glass to the eyes for some interest. The stitched frame is from Stamplorations.

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

  • Aging Like Fine Wine

    Aging Like Fine Wine

    Unity has some fun new releases in celebration of Angie’s birthday. Of course when I saw this image from the Hot Flash and Happy Hour set (it is on sale right now!), I knew it would pair perfectly with the Wine Collection from Echo Park. Can you relate to either of them? Although I am not a drinker, I love the full bodied and fabulous LOL

    I then had to create another card bectause I loved the sentiment on the Ephemera (even though I don’t swear either – man I am boing LOLOL), ‘Lets try it out’ haha. I cut apart the stamped sentiment to add into the 3 blocks I put down. I often cut apart stamped sentiments to make them work for what I am doing, do you?


    Now go grab this stamp set while it is on sale!

    of course if you are looking for the paper, you can get it here:

  • Hello

    Hello

    This is my third week being guest designer over at JUGS and this week it is a mood board. I was inspired by the green, wood (I embossed the white cardstock with a wood grain) and the fashion diva 😉 I used a fun clip art image as I thought she was perfect for this inspiration.

    Here’s this week’s challenge, the Mood board

  • Sweet Wishes

    Sweet Wishes

    The new Inspired By Challenge is up and I was pretty literal with my take on it… gave me a good excuse to use my Cake Pop stamp set from PTI again. And I will admit it took me longer to make this than it should have LOL

    I combined it with a die and sentiment stamp from The Stamps of Life.. With everything being mounted on foam squares for dimension.

    Now we would love to see how you are inspired

  • Bundle Up!

    Bundle Up!

    Are you tired of seeing winter cards from me yet?! I think they’re my favourite to make. Well I have another one that was inspired by the theme and toque at Inspired By and for the Sweater theme over on the Coffee Loving Papercrafters Blog Lattes & Layers

    I used some older papers and ephemera from Simple Stories. The toque and sweater are from a Concord & 9th die. I also added one of my most used winter dies – the snowflake border from Poppy Stamps (I think)

    I mounted the main images on foam squares

  • Wintry Hello

    Wintry Hello

    Playing along with the Inspired By challenge and the theme challenge over at Coffee Lovers Papercrafters which is Sweater. I used the Perfect Girl Angiegirl paired with Talking Out Loud (on sale so grab it, such a fun and versatile stamp set) and the It’s a Mug Hug. I paper pieced her sweater with a scrap piece. I used to paper piece all of the time and haven’t done it for a while – you just may see more…. 😉 The Snowflake paper is also from Unity it is the Snowy Winter Greetings.

    Here are the links to the stamp sets I used: