Category: Echo Park

  • Mom’s Kitchen

    Mom’s Kitchen

    I am up on the Coffee Loving Papercrafters blog today. I am sharing a coffee card, but it should be an iced coffee as it is so hot here this week – which does give me a good excuse to hide out in my craft room where it is cooler LOL

    For my card this week I have once again used the Spill the Coffee, Darlin’ stamp set from Unity – which, if you don’t have it yet, be sure to grab it while it is on sale! I created a project for my daughter using the Mom’s Kitchen collection by Echo Park for my daughter and while the paper was out I thought it worked well with this image.

    After layering the papers and stickers I finished it off with some stitching. I then coloured her and mounted with foam squares for dimension.

    That’s it for today, I am off to find some coolness… now be sure to grab the stamp set while it is on sale!

  • Recipe Binder

    Recipe Binder

    About 18 years ago or so (pre Pinterest) my husband started cooking, thus printing off recipes. I made him this simple binder as a stocking stuffer to hold them.

    He still digs it out once in awhile too.

    Little did I know, little eyes were watching and remembering…

    A few months ago my daughter Danica (now 28, married and living in Germany), said she prints off recipes (I thought I was the only one still doing this 😆) and would love to keep them in a binder and that it would be more special if it was one I made.

    The Mom’s Kitchen collection was perfect for the challenge (I mean project 😏)

    Because the front has to go inside the plastic on the front, I could have too much dimension. Thus stickers were key here.

    I added tabs to the inside pages, but left them blank so she could add her own since she is going vegan. Of course stickers added.

    Echo Park has these cute recipe cards so I tucked some in just in case she wants to write out some. Ideally I would write out some of her favourites but her favourites from childhood include meat (meatloaf being one of them 😆)

    My oldest daughter is heading to Germany, taking my granddaughter there, so she can tuck this in her suitcase.

    Hope this is what my daughter envisioned.

    Do you still print out recipes?

  • Purr-mission

    Purr-mission

    I played with the Pam-purr Yourself stamp once again. It’s basically the same sketch/layout as the other day but different papers.

    Once again paired with Echo Park Paper – this time the French Girl collection.

    Of course, the speech bubble is from the Thinking Out Loud stamp set… it’s such a fun addition to cards!

    Now, be sure to grab the stamps while they’re on sale!

  • Pam-purred

    Pam-purred

    I had fun making this card. Everything just kind of worked and fell into place easily.

    I had created some DT cards for Echo Park Paper using the Cat Lover collection and since the paper was out, I thought it worked well for this new Unity Pam-purr Yourself Stamp

    I used some of the scraps leftover from my other cards and just layered them onto the card front. I colored the image with copics, fussy cut it out and mounted on foam squares.

    I stamped one of the sentiments in the Thinkin Out Loud stamp set and mounted on foam squares as well.

    I then finished off with some stickers.

    BOTH of these stamps are on sale right now! Go grab them!

  • 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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  • 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