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Hey everybody, has ‘Spring sprung’ where you are yet? We honestly thought Spring had arrived here until Mother Nature threw us a little more snow a couple weeks ago. We’ve had a few slightly chilly days since then and we’re hoping that was our last snowfall for the year, but who knows?! I’m up on the Scrapbook Pal blog today sharing a tutorial for making a pretty friendship card featuring dies and stamps in the Hero Arts Blossoms & Birdsong Collection. I used the Branches & Blossoms Fancy Dies along with the Here For You Clear Stamps & Dies. I am a huge Hero Arts fan and these products carry the same upscale quality we all know and love!

Using the Hero Arts Branches & Blossoms Fancy Dies, I cut the background along with the birds, florals and leaf sprig from white cardstock and colored them with a variety of Copic Ciao alcohol markers. I love using a MISTI Sticky Mat affixed to my Ranger-Wendy Vecchi Make Art Stay-tion 7” with magnets. Keeping the die cuts in the negative spaces on the Sticky Mat allows easy coloring without them scooting all over the place.

I cut the card base from Neenah Classic Crest 110# Solar White along with a layering panel from CutCardStock Stardream Metallic Eris cardstock. I adhered the background to the card front along with the birds and flowers, popping up the birds with foam strips. I added a sentiment from the Here For You Clear Stamps & Dies which I stamped in Versafine Onyx Black ink and cut with the coordinating die. The finishing touch was adding a Brutus Monroe Emerald Green Flat Back Crystal to the center of each flower.

I cut the inside panel from Neenah Classic Crest 80# Solar White and embellished it with the leaf sprig and a couple leftover flowers. I added another sentiment stamped from the Here For You Clear Stamps & Dies which was also stamped in Versafine Onyx Black ink and cut with the coordinating die. I added a Brutus Monroe Emerald Green Flat Back Crystal to the center of these two flowers as well. For more in-depth details, be sure to see my tutorial on the Scrapbook Pal blog.

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Scrapbook Pal products used:
Hero Arts Branches & Blossoms Fancy Dies
Hero Arts Here For You Clear Stamps & Dies
MISTI Sticky Mat
Ranger-Wendy Vecchi Make Art Stay-tion 7”
Copic Ciao G21 Lime Green
Copic Ciao G82 Spring Dim Green
Copic Ciao B00 Frost Blue
Copic Ciao B45 Smoky Blue
Copic Ciao E29 Burnt Umber
Copic Ciao Y000 Pale Lemon
Copic Ciao Y02 Canary Yellow
Copic Ciao Y21 Buttercup Yellow
Scrapbook Adhesives E-Z Runner Permanent Strips
My Sweet Petunia Glue Press
Bearly Art precision craft glue
Scrapbook Adhesives Crafty Foam Tape
MISTI
Versafine Onyx Black ink

Other products used:
CARDSTOCK/PAPER: Neenah Classic Crest 110# and 80# Solar White cardstock, CutCardStock Stardream Metallic Eris and Green Curry Canvas Pearl Textured cardstock
INK: Sakura black Micron 08 pen (to color the bird eyes)
ACCESSORIES: Fiskars 12″ ProCision Rotary Bypass Paper Trimmer, Big Shot, Brutus Monroe Emerald Green Flat Back Crystals

I hope you’ve enjoyed this project and you’re inspired to get your craft on! Be sure to check out the awesome array of craft supplies in the Scrapbook Pal store… the selection is amazing! And head over to the Scrapbook Pal Facebook, Pinterest and Instagram pages for more design team inspiration! And if you haven’t yet subscribed to our YouTube Channel, be sure to do that, too, for tons of hands-on crafty inspiration! Thanks so much for stopping by today – we’ll see you next time!

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Hey everybody! Another Friday has rolled around which means we’re a little closer to the end of March… daaaaang! I’m delighted to share a Brutus Monroe DT inspiration project today featuring our amazingly beautiful Wisteria Stamps and Dies along with a print in the Plaid Petals 6×6 Paper Pack. I also used our Aubergine cardstock and Violet Shift Crystals (among a few other BM products) to make this card come to life. I’ve made a few lattice cards over the past few years, getting my inspiration originally from Brandy Cox over at Brandy’s Cards. But this is the first one I’ve ‘enclosed’ by adhering a panel behind the front flap which was just a random idea I had. It’s a little different than the regular ‘open’ lattice version and I like it!

I have to admit, I cheated a little… I had the lattice card base already made for another design team product and decided not to use it. So, you know, it was laying on my craft desk just begging for some Brutus Monroe products to be added to it, lol! I had crafted the card base from Neenah Classic Crest 110# Solar White cardstock, cutting the lattice strips narrower on this card than those on any of the previous ones I’ve made. I cut a panel from a pre-scored card base and adhered it to the back of the front flap to enclose the lattice. And I don’t know why that random thought came into my head, but I went with it.

I added a panel of patterned paper from the Plaid Petals 6×6 Paper Pack to the top and then a panel of CutCardStock Glama Clear Natural Translucent Vellum over top of it to tone it down just a bit. Using the Wisteria stamp, I stamped the sentiment and focal image in Raven ink on Solar White, colored the image with alcohol markers, and cut it with the coordinating Wisteria die. The finishing touch was adding several Violet Shift Flat Back Crystals.

I adhered a panel of our Aubergine cardstock to the inside along with a slightly smaller panel cut from the other half of the pre-scored card base. I stamped another sentiment from the Wisteria stamp set in Raven ink, which completed this super easy card!

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Brutus Monroe products used:
BRU 2047 Wisteria Stamp Set
BRU 2221 Wisteria Die Set
BRU 1322 Plaid Petals 6×6 Paper Pack
BRU 5536 Aubergine Cardstock
BRU 4247 Violet Shift Flat Back Crystals
BRU 2543 Raven Detail 2×2 Ink
BRU 2828-2 Pre-Scored A2 Card Bases

Other products used:
CARDSTOCK/PAPER: Neenah Classic Crest 110# Solar White cardstock, CutCardStock Glama Clear Natural Translucent Vellum
INK: Spectrum Noir Tri-Blends- YG1 and LV1/2
ACCESSORIES: Fiskars 12″ ProCision Rotary Bypass Paper Trimmer, Bearly Art precision craft glue, My Sweet Petunia Precision Glue Press, MISTI stamp tool, Big Shot, Scrapbook Adhesives Thin 3D Foam Squares, Trinity Pick Up Stick

I hope you’ve enjoyed seeing this project and you’re inspired to get your craft on! Be sure to check out all the amazing stamps and dies, pigments and mists, cardstock and tools (just to name a few) at Brutus Monroe! And if you happen to have a sweet tooth and like to munch while you craft (like I do, lol), check out Scoozie’s Confections & Curiosities! OMG, I’m hooked! ;) Follow us on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube for tons of crafty inspiration! And come on over and join our Fan Club Facebook Group to share your crafty makes using our products! Thanks so much for stopping by today – we’ll see you next time!

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Hey everybody! Happy Hump Day – I hope you’re having a great week! Our new challenge is live over at Mix It Up Challenge Blog this morning and I’m delighted to share my clean and simple DT inspiration project for MIUCB #71 – Anything Goes + optional Inlaid Die Cut! Remember that all of our challenges are ‘anything goes’ and the technique twist is only suggested to inspire our participants and not required to play. Should you choose to add the inlaid die cut to your project, it can be raised or flat. I used the Spellbinders Diamond & Arch Motif stamps and dies for my card with a raised inlaid die cut. I love how this turned out – such a pretty color combo!

I cut the card base and layering panel from Neenah Classic Crest 80# Solar White cardstock. Using the Spellbinders Diamond & Arch Motif stamps, I stamped the focal image on the layering panel in Memento Tuxedo Black ink, cut it with the coordinating Spellbinders Diamond & Arch Motif die, and adhered the panel to the card base. I cut two additional plain die cuts from Solar White cardstock and adhered them beneath the stamped one. I colored it with alcohol markers and adhered it into the negative space on the layering panel. I stamped the sentiment in black ink and cut it with the coordinating die (both from the same stamp and die set). The finishing touch was adding three iridescent gemstones colored with an alcohol marker.

I cut the inside panel from Solar White and embellished it with strips of Solar White cardstock colored with the alcohol markers used on the front. I stamped the inside sentiment in black ink and cut it with the coordinating die (also from the same stamp and die set).

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Products used:
CARDSTOCK/PAPER: Neenah Classic Crest 80# Solar White cardstock
STAMPS: Spellbinders Diamond & Arch Motif stamps
INK: Memento Tuxedo Black ink; Arteza alcohol markers- YG02/06, BG19/23; American Crafts Gold Metallic marker
DIES/PUNCHES: Spellbinders Diamond & Arch Motif dies
ACCESSORIES: Tonic Studios 12″ Guillotine Paper Trimmer, Tombow Mono Dots adhesive, Bearly Art precision craft glue, MISTI stamp tool, Big Shot, iridescent gemstones colored with BG23

I hope you’ve enjoyed seeing this project and will link up with us this time! Thanks so much for stopping by today – we’ll see you next time! ;)

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10/15/23 Rising Star at A Place To Start!

Hey everybody! Happy Tuesday – I hope your week has started off nicely! Our new challenge is live this morning over at Ally’s Angels and I’m thrilled to share my DT inspiration project for Challenge #75! I created a pinwheel twist card using my Scan N Cut, a cut file and some really pretty patterned paper from Hot Off The Press. I’ve made several 4-sided pinwheel twist cards using a cut file but have also learned to make them by hand-cutting the card base and panels (even a 6-sided one), and either way, they are fun and easy to make!

Using my Scan N Cut and the Haunted House Pinwheel Twist Card cut file (just the base pieces) from My Scrap Chick, I cut the card base and panels from CutCardStock Curious Metallic Violette cardstock and coordinating patterned papers from Hot Off The Press Lilacs In Bloom 6×6 papers. I assembled the card, adding ephemera from the paper pack to three sides and an 80# Solar White panel to the fourth side for a handwritten message and/or signature.

Sharing in the following challenges:
1. A Perfect Time To Craft Open Challenge: October #10 – Anything Goes
2. A Place To Start: October 2023 – Anything Goes
3. Alphabet Challenge Blog: N is for Nature
4. Jan’s Digi Stamps Challenge: October Anything Goes
5. Lil Red Wagon: #726 – Who Wants To Live Forever (Birthday)
6. My Time To Craft: #518 – In The Garden

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Products used:
CARDSTOCK/PAPER: CutCardStock Curious Metallic Violette cardstock, Neenah Classic Crest 80# Solar White cardstock, Hot Off The Press Lilacs In Bloom 6×6 papers
DIES/PUNCHES: My Scrap Chick Haunted House Pinwheel Twist Card cut file
ACCESSORIES: Brother Scan N Cut, Art Glitter Dries Clear adhesive, We R Memory Keepers Crop-A-Dile, purple eyelet, Doodlebug Design Lily White Doodle Twine, 1″ double-sided foam strip

I hope you’ve enjoyed seeing this project and will link up with us this month! Thanks so much for stopping by today – we’ll see you next time! ;)

Scrappy hugs,

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Hi everyone! Hope you’re having a great weekend! Our new challenge is live over at Love To Craft Challenge Blog and I’m excited to share my DT inspiration project for LTCCB #44 March Anything Goes! I actually CASE’d one of my own cards that I made for another DT a couple months ago – a pretty mixed media friendship card featuring the emboss resist technique with white heat embossing and inked background on the front and stamping on the inside.

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I cut the card base with the largest die in the set. Then I stamped the background in Versamark and heat embossed it in white. Then the emboss resist fun began. I inked the background in graduating colors of distress inks, starting with the darkest at the top, and overlapping each color slightly as I went down the panel. I cut the panel with the second largest die in the set and traced around the outside of it on the back of a piece of coordinating cardstock (which I fussy cut) to get a slightly larger layer. I did the same technique for the sentiment layer and turned it sideways on the front of the panel. I cut the sentiment from shimmer cardstock and added a Tim Holtz metallic sentiment sticker. The final touch was a few drops of Crystal Drops.

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After cutting the inside panel, I used the same technique of tracing around the second largest die in the set on the back of a piece of coordinating cardstock (which I fussy cut) to get a slightly larger layer. Then I stamped the sentiment from Clarity Stamp.

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One more peek… I really love how this card turned out! Emboss resist is such a cool technique!

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I’d love to enter this card into the following challenges:
613 Avenue Create: #231 – Anything Goes with optional colored pencils
A Bit More Time To Craft: #111 – Anything Goes
A Bit More Time To Craft Extra Challenge: March Anything Goes
A Perfect Time To Craft Open Challenge: 3-2020 – Anything Goes
Classic Design Challenge: #3 – March Anything Goes
Dare 2B Artzy: March Anything Goes
Scrapping4fun Challenges: #161 – Anything Goes
Sweet Stampers Challenge: #41 – Hearts and/or Flowers
The Crafter’s Cafe: #237 – Anything Goes
Word Art Wednesday: Weeks #428/429 – Anything Goes

Products used:
Cardstock/Paper: Strathmore Bristol Smooth cardstock, DCWV Shimmer cardstock stack, The Paper Studio White cardstock, Stampin’ Up Lemon Twist cardstock
Stamps: Hero Arts Spice Market Deco background stamp, Clarity Stamp Line Writing Sentiments stamp set
Ink: Versamark; Ranger mermaid lagoon, peacock feathers, cracked pistachio, twisted citron distress inks; Stampin’ Up Island Indigo ink
Dies/Punches: Crafter’s Companion Die’sire Ruth Create-A-Card die set, Crafter’s Companion Gemini Opulent Swirls die, Tim Holtz Quotations Metallic Stickers
Accessories: Gemini Junior die cutting machine, Hero Arts White Embossing Powder, MISTI stamping tool, Nuvo Gloss White Crystal Drops

I hope you’ve enjoyed this card and will link up an ‘anything goes’ project with us this month! Whatever you’re working on, we want to see it! Thanks so much for stopping by today – we’ll see you again soon! ;)

Scrappy hugs,
lesliesig

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Hi everyone! Happy Friday! It’s November 1st and this month’s challenge is live over at Mix It Up Challenge Blog! I’m super stoked to share my DT inspiration project for MIUCB #31 – Anything Goes + Watercoloring. All of our challenges are ‘anything goes’ and we offer a technique twist each month to inspire you, and the twist is not required to play. This month the twist is watercoloring and it can be the background, the focal image or some other part of your project. I created a gorgeous and very vivid background using turquoise, blue and green Brushos spritzed with water. This is my first project with a raised inlaid die cut sentiment that I’m calling ‘phantom die cutting.’ This is actually a pretty fun technique where you die cut into your background and then again on foam, adhere the foam die cut into the negative space, and then adhere the flat background die cut on top of the foam. This yields a very cool raised effect!

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After creating the background with Brushos and drying it with my heat tool, I spattered white ink with a fan brush. I then die cut the sentiment at an angle and adhered a white foam die cut in the negative space, then adhered the flat die cut on the foam. I adhered the ‘friend’ sentiment under the die cut and then a few sequins. My hubby came into my studio while I was deciding on the color of sequins and suggested going with silver, so that’s what I did. ;)

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I embellished the inside panel with leftover strips from the watercolor background and the turquoise card base. The inside sentiment (as well as the one on the front) is a Tim Holtz Quotations sticker which I layered on white cardstock.

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And one more look… I’m in love with this watercolor background! And I need to do this ‘phantom die cutting’ technique more often – I love how it looks!

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I’d love to enter this card into the following challenges:
A Perfect Time To Craft Open Challenge: #11 – November Anything Goes
Brown Sugar Challenge Blog: #295 – Anything Goes
Classic Design Team Challenge Blog: #11 – Anything Goes
Crafts Galore Encore Challenge Blog: #69 – November Anything Goes
Your Scrapbook Place: November Anything Goes

Products used:
Cardstock/Paper: Arches Cold Press watercolor paper, GKD Pure Luxury White and Turquoise Sea cardstock
Ink: Turquoise, Ultra Marine and Leaf Green Brushos powders; Copic Opaque White ink
Dies/Punches: Mama Elephant hello script die
Accessories: Distress Sprayer, Gemini Junior die cutting machine, Tim Holtz Quotations Silver Metallic stickers, Darice white Foamies foam, Darice silver sequins

I hope you’ve enjoyed today’s project and will link up an ‘anything goes’ project with us! Remember, the technique twist this month is watercoloring and is not required to play in our challenge. We’d love to see what you create! Thanks so much for stopping by – we’ll see you again soon! ;)

Scrappy hugs,
lesliesig