Hydrangea card

Here's a super quick card using Stampin Up!s Bloomin beautiful set. It is made with watercolor paper and watercolored using Watercolor wonder crayons.

A close up....
Have a great day!

Happy Easter

Here's a card I made using a retired Stampin up set called 'Gifts of spring'

I absolutely love this image with the 3 bunnies!

The image is watercolored on watercolor paper using Stampin up!s watercolor wonder crayons. I've had them for a couple of years now and haven't really played with them much until now. now I love them and couldn't live without them! Okay that might be a little dramatic....but they're AWESOME!

A close up view....

Here's the inside....also done on watercolor paper.

Here's hoping for spring to come soon!

Have a great day!

Another christmas Cardinal

Another card using the christmas cardinal set. This one was also colored with copics. Sponged with red ink and then with black ink around the edges for more depth.

To you and yours

Here are a bunch of card I made with Stampin up!s to you & yours set. I kept most of them super simple, just ink and stickles.

If I remember correctly, this one was blue Bayou on whisper shite cardstock.

Chocolate chip ink on Kraft cardstock

Always Artichoke on whisper white cardstock

Using the leftovers from the Homemade Holiday card elements kit

Blue Bayou ink on whisper white. The printed paper was from the scrap bin. Sentiment was embossed with White EP on Night of Navy cardstock.

Season of Simple Grace

Here's a super simple card using Stampin up!s Season of Simple Grace set. I had bee playing around with a brayer and a piece of cardstock and the background is what happened! After waiting for it to dry I stamped the images with versamark and embossed them with Gold EP. Matted with gold cardstock and the card base is Blue Bayou cardstock. Enjoy!

Serene Spring

I made this card months ago, but never uploaded it because it wasn't the right season. Now that spring is just around the corner I thought it was just right. Can't wait for this weather to warm up a touch! I stamped and embossed the image 3 times and colored them with copics. Cut each layer out and popped it up paper tolle style. The terra cotta pot is covered with diamond glaze and looks awesome IRL! I still have a tonne of christmas card pics that I didn't get aroud to posting over the christmas holidays, so I try posting most of them in the next couple of weeks as I'm trying to get a few samples done for classes.

Have a great day....

Think Spring!

Heart tags

I made these heart tags to attach to my heart and lip pillowboxes and wanted to share how I made them with Stampin Up!s small and large oval punches

First I folded a scrap of Pirouette Pink cardstock in half and punched it with the small oval punch like this:
I used my bonefolder to flatten out the crease.

Next, I folded a scrap of ridinghood red cardstock and used the punched piece of Pirouette pink to trace a guidline for my large oval punch.

With my guideline, I can see exactly where to punch to make a perfect matte for my heart tag.

I erase my guideline and glue the 2 pieces together.

I used the Hugs & Kisses stamp from my all holidays set to stamp the tag and added a circle fire rhinestone brad.

The last step is to attach it to my pillowboxes. Who needs a heart punch?!

Pillow box hearts and lips

So when I saw Lindsay's tutorial on how to make a longer pillowbox, I wondered what would happen if you angled the paper, would it make a heart shape? So I decided to try it and found out it WORKS! And then just by accident, I discovered that the same shape also looks like lips!

I love how they turned out, and at the moment I think I'm quite smart (and I'm not biased at all!)

Here's the first 'heart' one that I did....
Here's how I did it. I used:
1 piece of 9 x 5 cardstock - folded in half to make a 4 1/2 x 5" piece
1 piece of 1 x 2 1/2 cardstock

I put a mark on my bigshot pillowbox die 1 1/8 inches from the end, so I would have control over how big the dip in the top of the heart would be. I lined up the folded corner with the centre fold on the die and the edge of the paper with my little mark on the die and ran it through the big shot with the crease pad to come up with this:

This is what it looks like as it comes out of the machine. As you can see at the top of the picture, I cut off the corner of my folded cardstock so it wouldn't catch as it was being run through the bigshot.

This is what the piece looks like when it's opened up.

I folded the 1 x 2 1/2 piece of cardstock lengthwise and put adhesive on both sides. I also put adheive on the 2 tabs.

Glue one side of the scored 1 x 2 1/2 piece as shown in the picture.

Glue the other piece to create the back of the pillowbox like this.

Glue the 2 tabs to complete the box.

Stuff with goodies and close the flaps of the pillow box and here's what you have! This is the point where I noticed that the shape also looks like lips and decided to run with it and and make the red one into lips.

Here's the pink one with some ribbon, a bow and a heart shaped gem.

I sponged some Bravo Burgundy inp onto the red oneand the pink one to make it look even more like lips. I added tags make from Stampin Up!s All Holidays set. The Hugs and Kisses sentiment was perfect!

The 'From the Heart' sentiment is from the Holidays & Wishes set

To make a flat bottom and more of a lip shape, I used the cutter kit to add a score line on the bottom of the lips.
I folded it so the tip would be inside the pillowbox.

This is how it looks like finished.

To see how I made the tags, check out this post.

Have a great day!

Winter Post

I loved this set the second Stampin Up! Came out with it and thought it would be perfect for a Zindorf Style card with the reflection technique.

I'm so happy with how it turned out and really want to play with it some more. I've seen some beautiful cards using the skaters and the Lovely as a tree set which is what I'll do next, I think!

The top one if my favorite. This one I put the ribbon on because I tried stamping a sentiment and embossing is but it turned out aweful and I just couldn't toss it! The snowflake flourishes is from an Inkadinkadoo set. I think it's called winter trails. Have a great day! The frost is on the ground here, but the sun is SHINING! It's going to be a great day!

A Cardinal Christmas

Another card from the scrap bin! The cardinal was stamped with Brilliance ink and Embossed with clear EP. It is colored with copics and the background was sponged.

Here's a closer look at the image....

Just makes you feel like christmas doesn't it!
Have a great day!

Snow swirled

These super simple cards are made with Stampin Up!s Snow swirled set.

The base has been run through the cuttlebug using the snowflake folder. The first 3 are done with gold EP and the next one is done using Holographic EP. Is that stuff ever COOL!
Here's a pic that shows a bit of the Holographic 'shine'. I love the color to it.

As you can tell I ran a versamark over the embossed part and added the Holographic EP to it as well. The edge of the image piece is done using a versamarker with the samd Holographioc EP.

Have a great day!

Poppy card

This card is made from SU!s blooomin' beautiful set. It's colored with copics and the flower is popped out to add dimension. A super quick card but I like how it turned out!