Yay, we were announced today… the new design team for Simply Crafty SVGs! SO looking forward to crafting with this awesome team! Be sure to check out all the fun cut files in the Simply Crafty SVGs store – if you own a die cutting machine that can cut SVG files, you’ll be in heaven! Fun files at amazing prices!
Check out our new team HERE!
Thanks for stopping by today – we’ll see you next time! ;)
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Hi everyone! Happy Happy Thursday! And it’s a new month! I’m posting the new “It’s A Love Thing” challenge for February today on the a2z Scrapbooking blog and I’m happy to share my DT inspiration project using the Words of Love Digital Kit! I created a CAS Valentine, and what an awesome bunch of digis!
Super easy and very effective card. I resized each of the letters, making some taller and some wider than others, and layered them two thick for a little dimension. I colored them with alcohol markers to match the pink cardstock and then clear sparkle overlay marker. I adhered the letters to the layered oval die cuts which I adhered to the card base. I stamped the word ‘YOU’ in Crimson ink and layered about six small pieces of cardstock under it for lots of dimension and adhered that to the front along with three large antique pearls.
The sentiment on the inside is also printed from the digital kit and cut with an oval die. I layered the panel on the pink cardstock and embellished it with a leftover strip of the pink cardstock.
One more look…
a2z products used:
Hero Arts Words of Love Digital Kit
Hero Arts Blessings Stamp & Cut
Hero Arts Large Antique Pearls
Hero Arts Crimson Ink
Other products used:
Cardstock/Paper: Stampin’ Up Thick and regular Whisper White, and Melon Mambo cardstock
Ink: Spectrum Noir- PP2, PP4, Crystal Clear Sparkle Overlay Marker
Dies/Punches: Memory Box Stitched Oval Layers dies
I hope you’ve enjoyed this card and will link up a project with us! Our challenge is It’s a Love Thing this month and we’d love to see what you create! Remember that we’ve changed our rules a bit and participants are no longer required to use Hero Arts products to enter our challenges. Each month we feature a ‘Digi of the Month’ which will be the prize offered to our randomly-chosen challenge winner, and this month it is Words of Love. And to sweeten the pot, if you are the randomly-chosen winner and you have used Hero Arts products on your project, you’ll ALSO win a $20 gift certificate to the store! Be sure to check out all the amazing crafty goodies in the a2z Scrapbooking store! AND if you use the code Leslie15 you’ll get 15% off your order of $25 or more! Thanks so much for stopping by today – we’ll see you soon!
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Hello, crafty peeps! Happy Thursday and happy first day of February, the month of love! A new challenge over at Love To Scrap Challenge Blog is underway this morning and I’m thrilled to share my DT inspiration project for LTSCB #106 – I Love You! We’re being sponsored this month by STAMPlorations so be sure to link up with us for a chance to win a $15 gift certificate! AND all challenge participants have the opportunity to save 15% on their STAMPlorations order by using the discount code LOVETOSCRAP15 — how awesome is that?!
I chose the Funny Kinda Love – Big Grins stamp set and CUTplorations Clustered Hearts die to create a valentine for my hubby. I absolutely LOVE this stamp set – the sentiments are funny and really hit ‘close to home’ as I find myself dealing with early stages of senility.
Ed has a great sense of humor and will love this! I created an inlaid die cut on the panel above the stamped and colored image and layered the panel on foam. I wanted some valentine-y love kind of stuff on the card but not overdone, so I used red dotted paper and added a few white flat-back pearls and a doily.
I decorated the inside panel with a leftover strip of the dotted paper used on the front. I stamped a simple sentiment and a heart on the panel and layered it on red cardstock.
One final look… I love how this turned out!
Products used:
Cardstock/Paper: Spectrum Noir Ultra Smooth Premium White cardstock, Stampin’ Up Real Red cardstock, Stampin’ Up Sending Love DSP
Stamps: STAMPlorations Funny Kinda Love – Big Grins stamp set
Ink: DR2, FS2, FS3, FS8, TB1, TB2, TN5, TN6, GB1, GB4; Memento Tuxedo Black ink, Ranger Festive Berries distress ink
Dies/Punches: CUTplorations Clustered Hearts die
Accessories: Darice Foamies white foam, Bo Bunny Doily
I hope you’ve enjoyed this project and will link up with us this month – we can’t wait to see your LOVE-themed projects! Remember, all of our challenge participants have the opportunity to receive a 15% discount on their STAMPlorations order by using the discount code LOVETOSCRAP15 — you’ll absolutely love ALL the fun stamps and dies at STAMPlorations! I can honestly vouch for the superior quality and deeply etched stamps! I LOVE them! Thanks so much for stopping by today – we’ll see you again soon! ;)
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Hello, my crafty friends! A new challenge is live over at Mix It Up Challenge Blog and I’m happy to share my DT inspiration project for MIUCB #10 – Anything Goes + Clean and Simple! Remember, our challenges are always ‘anything goes’ and the technique twist is optional and not required to play!
I created a pretty birthday card stamped on chalkboard cardstock. I’ve had this chalkboard cardstock in my stash for a while and decided it was time to break it out and use it. And I ask you this – have you ever TRIED to leave a ‘dusting’ of white embossing powder over your background?! Bwahahaha, this was not an easy task! If I didn’t actually WANT any extra embossing powder on the background, there would be plenty of it there and I’d have to use my little brush to sweep it away!
I embossed the stamped image and sentiment in white and colored the flowers with a purple chalkboard marker. It took several tries of huffing on the cardstock, lightly scattering embossing powder and then using the heat tool, but I finally achieved the look I was after.
I used a punch on the corners of the focal image and layer on the front as well as the stamped inside panel for a little interest.
Here’s one final shot.
Supplies used:
Cardstock/Paper: Darice Chalkboard cardstock, GKD Black Onyx and White cardstock
Stamps: Stampin’ Up Avant Garden and Awesomely Artistic stamp sets
Ink: Marvy Uchida Purple Bistro Chalk Marker, Spectrum Noir LG5, Memento Tuxedo Black ink, Versamark
Dies/Punches: Stampin’ Up Curvy Corner Trio Punch
Accessories: Hero Arts White Embossing Powder, Nuvo Bottle Green Crystal Drops
I hope you’ve enjoyed this project and will link up an anything goes project this month! We’d love to see you play the optional CAS twist but it’s not necessary to play! Thanks so much for stopping by and we’ll see you again soon! ;)
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Hi everyone! It’s the first day of the month so that means a few posts this morning! A new challenge has launched over at the Love To Craft Challenge Blog and I’m happy to share my DT inspiration project for LTCCB #19 – February Anything Goes! I created a Valentine in a pink and black color combo, and it’s a Double Z Fold! You know how I love my fancy folds, lol!
This was fun, and despite the complex look, it was pretty simple. Half the fun was picking out the coordinating papers! The stamps, dies and papers are all from Stampin’ Up.
I stamped the valentine sentiment on the large center panel, and embellished it with Carnation Pink Crystal Drops and a die cut arrow.
The hearts on the front are die cuts attached with tiny staples.
And here’s an overhead view so you can see the cool construction. I’m loving how this turned out!
Products used:
Cardstock/Paper: Stampin’ Up Basic Black and Whisper White cardstock, Stampin’ Up Pop of Pink DSP
Stamps: Stampin’ Up Sealed with Love stamp set
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black ink, Versamark
Dies/Punches: Stampin’ Up Love Notes Framelits
Accessories: Ranger Clear Embossing Powder, Carnation Pink Crystal Drops
I hope you’ve enjoyed this fancy fold Valentine and will link up a project with us this month! We can’t wait to see what you’re working on! Thanks so much for stopping by and we’ll see you soon! ;)
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Hi everyone! You’re going to see a few posts from me this fine Thursday morning, lol! I’m still guesting for Your Scrapbook Place and I’m excited to share my GD project for the February Challenge with Scribbles Designs! I created a fun friendship step card. It’s been a little while since I created this fancy fold which I thought would compliment the adorable Carrie Summer Diva image fairly well! How sassy is she?!
I colored the image with Spectrum Noir markers, cut her with a stitched rectangle die and layered her on black and green which are colors in the patterned paper. I broke out a new package of American Crafts die cut shapes and zeroed in on some sunglasses and the ‘living my dream’ sentiment which were perfect for this image! ;) I added a few clear rhinestones to finish the front.
I used a new Neat & Tangled stamp set for the sentiment on the inside of the card.
Products used:
Cardstock/Paper: Stampin’ Up Thick and regular Whisper White, Wild Wasabi and Basic Black cardstock; KaiserCraft Kaleidoscope paper pad
Stamps: Neat & Tangled Out of the Box stamp set
Ink: Spectrum Noir- FS6, FS8, OR1, GT2, LG4, LG5, IG3, IG5, EB2, EB7Memento Tuxedo Black ink
Dies/Punches: Memory Box Stitched Rectangle Layers dies
Accessories: American Crafts amy tangerine die cut shapes, Darice brown Foamies scrap, Stampin’ Up Rhinestones, Zva Creative Rhinestone Strip
I hope you’ve enjoyed today’s project and will link up with us this month! Our challenges are always ‘anything goes’ so come on over and play! And be sure to check out all the adorable digis over at Scribbles Designs! Thanks so much for stopping by – we’ll see you soon! ;)
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Hi everyone! I’m posting on the Blank Page Muse blog today and I’m stoked to share an inspiration project using the Flower & Bird Sketches Stamp Set and Rosette Hearts Stamp Set. I created a note card that I left blank inside to write a custom message. Really happy with how this turned out!
This is considered a teaser post and I’m sharing only one photo of my finished project here on my blog, so jump on over to the Blank Page Muse blog to see more photos and details on how I created it! ;)
Blank Page Muse (formerly Sin City Stamps) products used:
Flower & Bird Sketches Stamp Set
Rosette Hearts Stamp Set
Other products used:
Cardstock/Paper: Stampin’ Up Very Vanilla and Chocolate Chip cardstock, patterned paper and ephemera from Polly’s Paper Studio Vintage Easter Creativity Kit
Ink: Ranger Walnut Stain Distress Ink; Spectrum Noir- TB2, TB3, CT2; Memento Rich Cocoa marker
Dies/Punches: My Favorite Things Die-namics Essential Fishtail Sentiment Strips die
Accessories: Tim Holtz Stamp Platform, Tim Holtz Idea-ology Tiny Attacher, Prairie Bird Boutique Blue Wrinkled Ribbon, Hemptique Bamboo Cord
I hope you’ve enjoyed today’s project! Be sure to check out all the fun stamp sets at the Blank Page Muse store! Thanks so much for stopping by today – we’ll see you next time! ;)
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** 1/19/18 Featured Creation at Scrapping4fun Challenges! **
Hello, my crafty friends! I’m so stoked to share my first project for the Blank Page Muse Inspiration Team! Our January challenge going live tomorrow is Color Play: Use Turquoise, Silver and Sparkle. I had THE best time creating this art journal spread in one of my favorite color combos of blue/turquoise and silver, and of course, the added sparkle made it even more fun! But I have a confession to make… I have no photos of this project while it was in progress and am absolutely sick. I’m the proud owner of a ‘bad’ disk which doesn’t make me very happy. So I’m going to take you through detailed steps and I know you won’t have any problems whatsoever following along! ;)
1. Starting with two blank pages in your art journal, cover both sides with white gesso and let dry.
2. Using your finger, smear a tiny bit of distress glaze in a vertical fashion on both sides, let dry a bit and then buff with a clean dry tissue.
3. Using a brayer, apply acrylic paint in a vertical fashion over both sides, let dry and lightly buff (with a baby wipe – I used one for each side) over the areas where you put the distress glaze. This will resist the paint somewhat and give you a very cool ‘streaky’ effect – and leave paint residue on the baby wipe that you can use to smear upward and downward out to the edges to cover the pages.
4. Brayer some white gesso on a craft mat and use it as ‘ink’ to randomly stamp the chain link and the crackle on both sides. Let dry.
5. Splatter turquoise ink with a fan brush over both sides and let dry.
6. Dribble silver embellisher in a vertical fashion down both sides and spritz with just enough water to make it thin enough to run. Let dry.
7. Randomly stamp some text in black permanent/solvent ink on both sides and let dry.
Your background is finished and now start embellishing the pages! ;)
1. Stamp the mannequin form and sentiments in black ink on white cardstock. Fussy cut mannequin, and cut the sentiments in strips and line the edges with a black marker.
2. Stamp the wings in black ink using a stamp positioner, then again in watermark ink over top the black, and apply sparkly embossing powder. Fussy cut the wings.
3. Adhere the mannequin form to the page with 3-D foam tape and add flat-back pearl embellishment. Tuck the wings on each side of the mannequin form and adhere, and tuck a ruffled cheesecloth skirt under the bottom of the mannequin form.
4. Adhere sentiment with matte medium gel.
4. Moving to the opposite page, adhere crocheted lace scrap and a cluster of flowers.
5. Dab white gesso around the edges of the flowers and let dry.
6. Brush some matte medium gel to the centers and edges of the flowers and apply clear glitter. Let dry.
7. Adhere sentiment strips with matte medium gel.
8. Splatter black gesso mixed with a tiny bit of water onto both sides with a fan brush (shielding whatever elements you don’t want to splatter) and let dry.
9. TA-DA! Love the finished spread! ;)
Proud to enter this art journal spread into the following challenges:
Classic Design Team Open Challenge Blog: #21 – Anything Goes
Country View Challenges: January Anything Goes
Crafty Gals Corner: #156 – Anything Goes
Creative Artiste Mixed Media Challenge Blog: #34 – Anything Mixed Media Goes
Creative Craft Cottage: #103 – January Blues
Creative Inspirations: January Challenge – Something New (all stamp sets and Prima flowers)
Daisy Chain Challenges: #15 – Something New (all stamp sets and Prima flowers)
Deep Ocean Challenge Blog: #172 – Something New (all stamp sets and Prima flowers)
Dragonfly Dreams: Anything Goes
Emerald City Crafts Challenges: #7 – Anything Goes
Hiding In My Craft Room: #334 – Your Favorite Colors (blue/turquoise and silver is one of my fav combos)
Inspiration Destination: #141 – Anything Goes
Let’s Craft and Create: #133 – Anything Goes + optional Love Is In theAir (no twist)
More Mixed Media Challenge: Anything Goes with optional Blue
Pammie’s Inky Pinkies: #1801 – Anything Goes
Pearly Sparkles: #24 – Anything Goes
Penny Black: January – Something New (all stamp sets and Prima flowers)
Scrapping4fun: #106 – Anything Goes
Simon Says Stamp: Monday Challenge – Winter Blues
Stamping Sensations: January – Cold and Frosty Colors
The Crafty Addicts: #44 – Anything Goes with optional Winter Blues
Try It On Tuesday: My Favorite Things (I’ve been bitten by the art journal bug!)
Unicorn Challenge Blog: #28 – Anything Goes
Use Your Stuff: #294 – Something New (all stamp sets and Prima flowers)
Word Art Wednesday: Weeks #316/317 – Anything Goes
Blank Page Muse (formerly Sin City Stamps) products used:
Barbed Wire Chain Link Rope Background Texture Stamps
Mannequin Dress Form Fan & Bow Tags Stamp Set
Sin City Wings Stamp Set
Words by Jane Man & Woman Figures Sentiments Stamp Set
Other products used:
Cardstock/Paper: Spectrum Noir Ultra Smooth Premium White cardstock
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black ink pad and marker, Black StazOn ink
Accessories: Liquitex White Gesso, Ranger Distress Glaze, Rubber Brayer, Liquitex Cobalt Blue, Phthalocyanine Green and Silver acrylic paint, Judi-Kins Iridescent Sparkle embossing powder, Silver irRESISTible Pico Embellisher, Prima flowers, Wild Orchid Crafts Crocheted Lace scrap and Flat-Back White Pearl String, Liquitex Matte Medium Gel, Stampin’ Up Dazzling Diamonds glitter
I hope you’ve enjoyed my debut Blank Page Muse project, even without any tutorial photos! Going forward, I’ll certainly be checking photos as I go and not wait until I’m finished! Be sure to check out all the fun goodies in the Blank Page Muse store! I know you’re going to fall in love! Thanks so much for stopping by today – we’ll see you soon! ;)
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Hi everyone! Happy New Year! Here’s to wishing you an absolutely wonderful 2018! I’m thrilled to share that I’m the new challenge coordinator over at the a2z Scrapbooking blog — very proud and honored I am indeed! I’m posting on the blog today and am happy to share a DT inspiration project for our “New To You” challenge this month using the Hero Arts Blessings Stamp & Cut! For our challenge this month, we’d love to see you use something new you got over holidays, use an unused stamp from an old stamp set, try a new technique, etc.
I tried a new technique for my CAS birthday card… alcohol inks on Yupo paper. Yep, I bought a package of Yupo paper a couple months ago which I hadn’t used yet so I broke it out for this challenge! I layered a strip of the pretty alcohol ink background I created on silver mirror cardstock and affixed a multi-layer ‘blessings’ sentiment along with a heat embossed ‘birthday’ portion. I attached this strip to a stitched rectangle die cut layered on a piece of purple Foamies foam.
You can use any colors of alcohol ink on this Yupo paper to create an absolutely gorgeous background! I see more of these in my future, lol!
Here are a couple flat angled shots showing that pretty background.
And for the inside, I layered a strip of the alcohol ink background on silver mirror cardstock and adhered it to the left side, and then stamped the sentiment on an oval window die cut butted up against the silver cardstock.
Happy to enter this card into the following challenges:
A Bit More Time To Craft: #59 – Anything Goes
A Bit More Time To Craft Extra Challenge: January Anything Goes
A Perfect Time To Craft Open Challenge: #1 – Anything Goes
Always Fun Challenges: #39 – Something New (new technique)
Crafts Galore Encore Challenge Blog: January Anything Goes
Simon Says Stamp: Monday Challenge: Something New (new technique)
Simon Says Stamp: Wednesday Challenge: Anything Goes
Word Art Wednesday: Weeks #314/315 – Anything Goes
a2z products used:
Hero Arts Blessings Stamp & Cut
Hero Arts White Embossing Powder
Versamark
Other products used:
Cardstock/Paper: GKD White and Cranberry cardstock, Marco’s Silver Mirror cardstock, Ranger Yupo Paper
Ink: Ranger Eggplant, Purple Twilight and Cranberry alcohol inks
Dies/Punches: Memory Box Stitched Rectangle Layers die
Accessories: Isopropyl alcohol, Darice Foamies foam
I hope you’ve enjoyed this card and will link up a project with us! Our challenge is New To Me this month and we’d love to see what you create! Remember that we’ve changed our rules a bit and participants are no longer required to use Hero Arts products to enter our challenges. Each month we feature a ‘Digi of the Month’ which will be the prize offered to our randomly-chosen challenge winner, and this month it is Winter Papers. And to sweeten the pot, if you are the randomly-chosen winner and you have used Hero Arts products on your project, you’ll ALSO win a $20 gift certificate to the store! Be sure to check out all the amazing crafty goodies in the a2z Scrapbooking store! AND if you use the code Leslie15 you’ll get 15% off your order of $25 or more! Thanks so much for stopping by today – we’ll see you soon!
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Hi everyone! I’m baaaack! Yep, it’s been a busy few days preparing all these posts for this morning, lol! Our new challenge is going live this morning over at Mix It Up Challenge Blog and I’m stoked to share my DT inspiration project for MIUCB #9 – Anything Goes + Masking! I created a thank you card using a very cool stamp set from Stampin’ Up that looks like watercoloring with a very basic masking technique.
I layered a strip of masking paper horizontally across the bottom of my cardstock background and commenced to randomly stamping the three-step sunflower images. When I finished stamping and peeled up the masking strip, I had a wonderful ‘channel’ that contained no stamping – and that’s where I stamped my sentiment. I layered the background piece on Early Espresso cardstock and a piece of brown Foamies foam, and adhered it to the card base, and then adhered a large button with a thread bow. To finish the front, I added several dots of Crystal Drops in the center of each flower and took the large beaded end of a fancy straight pin and dipped it into the Crystal Drops, which left divots of texture.
I kept the inside super simple with just a sentiment stamped on a panel layered on the Early Espresso cardstock. I did stamp a few clusters of dots in Antique Linen distress ink.
Proud to enter this card into the following challenges:
A Bit More Time To Craft: #59 – Anything Goes
A Bit More Time To Craft Extra Challenge: January Anything Goes
A Perfect Time To Craft Open Challenge: #1 – Anything Goes
Always Fun Challenges: #39 – Something New (new stamp set)
Simon Says Stamp: Monday Challenge: Something New (new stamp set)
Simon Says Stamp: Wednesday Challenge: Anything Goes
Word Art Wednesday: Weeks #314/315 – Anything Goes
Products used:
Cardstock/Paper: Stampin’ Up Thick and regular Whisper White, and Early Espresso cardstock
Stamps: Stampin’ Up Painted Harvest stamp set
Ink: Ranger Distress Ink- Scattered Straw, Fossilized Amber, Bundled Sage, Mowed Lawn, Antique Linen, Gathered Twigs, Walnut Stain
Accessories: Tim Holtz Stamp Platform and Fiskars Stamp Positioner, Masking paper, white quilting thread, Button from stash, Nuvo Dark Walnut Crystal Drops
I hope you’ve enjoyed this card and will link up a project with us this month! Remember, our challenges are always ‘Anything Goes’ and the technique twist is optional and NOT required to play! Thanks so much for stopping by today and we’ll see you next time! ;)
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