Handmade Paper Hugs

  Hey everyone! Today I'm sharing 2 adorable Christmas cards using Avery Elle Polar Peek-a-boo pals on alcohol ink panels. The moose is peeking out through the My favorite things Happy holidays circle frame cut from MFT glitter cardstock, while the penguin and walrus are peeking out through holes cut with My favorite things Pierced Star Stax. The sentiments are from Clearly Besotted Laugh out loud Christmas, gold embossing powder from Hero Arts. Hope you like them. Thanks for stopping by. I wish you a joyful December. Tina

  Hi everyone! Here's a cheerful rainbow Christmas card using alcohol inks and Avery Elle Polar Peek-a-boo pals.  I thought it would be fun to mask off the hat and scarfs on these cuties, they are up to some serious fun! Sentiment from Clearly Besotted Laugh out loud Christmas. Thanks for stopping by! I hope you'll have a wonderful Cecember. Tina

  Hi friends! Another card long overdue. Well my Mom had it on time, but only sharing now. Alcohol ink on Yupo, gold glitter cardstock cut with Altenew Rose filament dies, as well as the word Mor (Mom) die from Three Scoops. I cut the shadow from vellum. I dared stamping on the vellum but I did have to carefully set it. I don't do many simple cards but I really love this. Thanks so much for stopping by1 Stay safe, and happy crafting! Tina

Hello everyone! Today marks the beginning of the March challenge over at AAA Birthday challenge blog , and the theme this month is Under the sea. So get out your favorite sea critters - otters, turtles, whales etc. - or how about mystical creatures like mermaids. Sadly this month's challenge also marks my last project for the AAA DT, as I need to focus on me for a while. Although not in relevance to this challenge at all, I ask that you keep the people of Ukraine in your thoughts 🙏 Please consider donating This gorgeous image is a Make it Crafty digital stamp colored with Copics. I don't remember the colors used, but I'm guessing : Hair: R85, R83, RV11, RV10 Tail: B99, B97, BG49, BG13, BG15, BG01, YG0000 The background panel is an old alcohol ink panel i had laying around.  For sentiment I chose 2 Sentiments from Taylored Expressions Be a mermaid. I didn't have a "Have a mermazing birthday", so these will have to do. Oh, and by the way, they were white heat e...

    Hello everyone! Today we're kicking off a new challenge over at AAA Birthday challenge blog, and the theme this final month of 2020 iiiis... Twinkle! This month we have a surprise giveaway with 2 gift cards from  Joy Clair  - hop on over to the blog to check out the details! This comparatively sparsely glittered card for my standards is custom made and actually came together quite fast with already made parts. The image is a digital image from Make it Crafty colored (with copics) during a The Daily Marker 30 day challenge this summer. The coral background is texture paste on yupo paper through Altenew Rose Bouquet stencil and then colored with alcohol ink, I think I used Dandelion and Flamingo. Copics used: Skin: E15, E13, E11, E00 + RV14, RV10 Hair: E97, E99, E37 Eyes: G05, G14, YG01 Dress / Jewelry: R22, R20, R00 + Y38, Y21, Y11, Y00 + W3, W1 Glasses: E49, E47 + W3 The base is glitter cardstock from Memory Box. It's really hard to see in the photo but it's a l...

Hello everyone! Today I'm so excited to be guesting on the Danish OSH blog -  Operation write home . It's a privately run blog that collects cards for all occasions and sends them to our troops deployed all over the world. I first donated cards a couple of years ago and I really like the idea of the cards bringing joy to both troops and their loved ones. In unintended pun My favorite things really are my favorite crafty things and so I've used lots of MFT on these cards. I already had quite a few images ready and colored. For this CAS card I masked up the bottom and blend on a bit of Salty ocean oxide ink, then used Blueprint sketch oxide ink to stamp a few trees from Friends in the forest as well as a sentiment from Beast friends. Now all I needed was a yeti and gift also from Beast friends. Last year while making cards for OSH I came up with this idea of creating a scene yet only coloring some of the images. It saved me a lot of time and allowed for more cards...

Hello everyone! Today marks the start of a new challenge over at  AAA Birthday challenge blog . The theme this month is - Use vellum. There are so many "fine details" you can do with vellum. But I've long wanted to make a card with vellum over alcohol ink. I typically make several backgrounds when I play with alcohol inks. I use different combos and on some, like this, I add a mixative. This is gold. They tend to not blend as well as the inks, so I really tried hard to spread them. Perhaps even too much. Oh, well.... I then stamped the gorgeous roses from Honey Bee Stamps Everything wonderful on vellum with embossing ink. covered with Hero Arts gold embossing powder and heat set it. I don't have the die so I fuzzy cut the image. I added the tiniest dots of glue all around the back of the vellum and adhered it to my alcohol ink base. I stamped a sentiment from the HB set using Stazon solvent ink and adhered a few gold sequins. I hope I've inspired yo...

Hello everyone! I'm up on the Poppystamps blog today with a challenge reminder. Since we recently lost our old boy I just had to use this Whittle dog with that sentiment. How true is that?! I've paired them with the Hearts trio die and some alcohol ink for a cas card - who knew I could do that? Lol! Have you joined in the challenge? It's an easy one - Anything goes! It can be any project and you just need to use one Poppystamps stamp or die to enter. You could win a $20 gift certificate, so get your creative hat on and add your project here ! Thank you for stopping by, and happy crafting!

Hello everyone! Today I'm up on the  Poppystamps blog with this Jungle party card using lots of summer release dies. I hope you'll stop by to check out the details and perhaps leave a little love.  All details are on the Poppystamps blog, except for Copics that I will share here. Copics used: Monkey: E50, E21, E34, E27, E25, E23, 100 Koala: W5, W3, W1, 100  Lion: YR27, YR24, YR23, YR21, E31, E23, E25, E29, 100 Tiger: YR09, YR16, Y38, R20, W3, W1, 100 Turtle: YG01, YG03, YG17, YG67, G29, G17, 100 Thanks for stopping by, and happy crafting!

Hi there, Confession, I don't always buy things when they're released. Other than the obvious financial reason, I find that if I wait I'll know if I REALLY need it in my life, lol 😄  So, for this card I wanted to use the new-to-me My favorite things Cool cup die. I have done alcohol ink backgrounds before, but never used my Copic refills. But to achieve the very light pink swirly background I wanted, I decided to use refills RV00 and RV02. I also have some RV06 on this, but I didn't use that part for this card. I wanted some glitter in my strawberry shake, so before the ink dried I simply added some Lawn Fawn chunky glitter. I didn't know if the glitter would stick, but it did! After it dried I cut the cup part. The whipped cream is cut from white cardstock and I decided to add sprinkles with my RV02 copic marker and I also added Spun sugar oxide ink along the edge. The straw was also cut from white cardstock and colored with Copics RV09 an...

Hi there, I'm back after a family vacation with 2 birthday cards for her,  since I decided to use both negative and positive die cuts. First I used the largest My favorite things wonky stitched rectangle to cut out an alcohol ink panel I had already made. Then I used MFT Cheers and Birthday Girl word dies on the panel - I removed all the letters and was really careful to not loose the inside "bubbles" of the letters.     I carefully glued a piece of acetate to the back and glued on the loose bits as well. I hand cut a hole in a frame of white cardstock and placed the alcohol ink panel on top. Then I build up the shaker with crafting foam, used my antistatic bag and filled the tub with sequins, tiny confetti and glitter in colors of  silver, pink and purple. I then cut the MFT layered champagne glass twice. The glass itself is colored with Spun sugar Distress oxide ink and I colored on a couple of details with my Copic ...