Handmade Paper Hugs

Hey everyone! Are you ready for Halloween? Here's a cute witch from Krista Leigh Smith and I felt she should be the star so I just backed with some patterned paper and a My favorite things sentiment. I have a video of my coloring process on my YouTube channel - click to watch .  Thanks so much for stopping by! Tina

  Hello everyone! AAA Birthday challenge blog is celebrating 2 years and we are having a month-long party with LOTS of chances to win some amazing prizes sponsored by wonderful brands in our community. Yes, these 👆 are the sponsors. Check out how to get your crafty hands on them below, but first, my card for this challenge which is Anything Birthday Goes!  If you know me, you know I LOVE a card challenge, so I had to come up with a design that would fit products from as many sponsors as possible. Products used, all from sponsoring brands: Graciellie Design  Love puppies digital stamp set Altenew Painted Flowers stamps and coordinating dies Altenew Cherry Blossom inks + Golden sunset inks My favorite things Paw prints die-namics My favorite things Celebratory banner die-namics My favorite things Little Letters (for "YAPPY") My favorite things Big balloons stencil Lawn Fawn Happy happy happy stamps and coordinating dies Disclaimer: No products were giftet to me, they were...

Hello everyone! Today we're kicking off the August challenge over at AAA Birthday challenge blog and the theme is Tic Tac Toe. As you can probably tell I went with rainbow, window, patterned paper. I used Lawn Fawn paper and cut out using My favorite things Birthday Boy & Girl die. For the glittery background behind the window I used a left over piece of black cardstock that I smeared a layer of Ranger glossy embossing paste over and then sprinkled over with WOW! Sparkles in Your carriage awaits. I adhered this to the base and popped up the patterned paper for dimension. The images are from My favorite things Unicorns & glitter. I colored with Copics and stuck to primaries red, yellow and blue. I stamped a sentiment as well as a few stars. I popped up the images for dimension and it's all done for my daughter's birthday in a couple of weeks. She loves everything rainbow and unicorn. Thanks for stopping by, and don't forget to hop on over the AAA Birthday blog ...

Hello everyone! I totally need me some rainbow to brighten my days. I've got more coming... I used Newton's Nook Puppy pals and Copic colored: E43, E42, E41, E40 + C3, C1, C00 + 100, C7, C5 E37, E35, E34, E31 + 100, C7, C5 E59, E29, E25 RV25, RV23, RV21 B24, B02, B00 I fuzzy cut the image and adhered it to a panel of rainbow patterned paper from Lawn Fawn cut with a Simple and Basic double pierced rectangle die. I chose 2 sentiments from the set and that's it. Thanks for stopping by, and happy crafting! The card is entered into: http://colormyheartcolordare.blogspot.com/  - I threw in brown, hope that's ok crafty cardmakers - spring https://www.simonsaysstampblog.com/mondaychallenge/?p=19428 creative knockouts - outside fun aud sentiments - anything goes always fun - rainbow

Hi everyone! Well, maybe it's this stay-home situation that got to my head, but I needed a little fun. So today I played with Simon says stamp Birthday farm animals. And if you're anything like me, you buy lots of patterned paper that you hold on to for that one special project, but never use. Today I rectified that. For a little extra fun the balloon was given a layer of stickles AND Nuvo glaze on top. Copics for piggy: E07, E04, E11, R11, E000 Paper from Lawn Fawn and Reverse Confetti and My favorite things Cross stitch square dies. Paper from Lawn Fawn cut with MFT Stitched star dies and I added more O's to the Moo sentiment. A cow goes Moooo... Right? More stickles and Nuvo glaze to the stars. Although stickles don't usually shed I covered with Nuvo glaze because I'm donating these to the Danish operation write home. And there must not be any loose glitter. It can kill. For this I used Avery Elle bookmark to cut paper from Memory Box and Do...

Hello everyone! Here's another Simon syas stamp bunny cutie. I kept this really simple, because I feel the image should be the star of the card. It's sooo adorable! Copics used: Bunnies: E79, E77, E74, E71, E70 / C3, C1, C00 Pink (ears, egg): RV02, RV00, RV0000 Pink (flowers): RV23, RV11 violet: BV13, BV01, BV000 blue: B26, B23, B21, B0000 green: YG06, YG01 yellow: Y08, Y06, Y00 orange: YR27, YR23, YR21 I cut 2 panels - scallopped frame from Create a smile stamps and pierced rectangle from Simple and Basic - and stamped 2 sentiments from the same stamp set as the bunnies. Green paper from Lawn Fawn. Both panel and image are popped up for dimension. I hope you like it, please leave me some love below. Thanks for stopping by, and happy crafting! The card is entered into: simon says stamp flickr - do it with dies simon says stamp wednesday - anything goes simon says challenge instagram - spring here is a place to start - household ite...

Hi there! Today we are starting our summer holiday and I wanted to make a card for my daughter. I just had to color up this new Digi Doodles Serina mermaid!    The background was created by ink blending Milled lavendar, Tumbled glass and Mermaid lagoon Distress inks over the Taylored Expressions Sweet scallop stencil. I printed the mermaid and a sentiment from Digi Doodles Mermaid sentiments. I colored the mermaid with my copics in my favorite colors, pink and teal, and fuzzycut it out.  I decided the card needed a shaker element and I used the TE Be a mermaid tail die. I die cut the tail from the background and popped up the background with 2 layers of craft foam. I placed the cut out tail in the negative space. I made sure to prep with my antistatic powder bag and added clear sequins and violet glitter before placing the background on top. I popped up the mermaid and the sentiment. The sentiment is cut with a frame from Lawn Faw...

Hello! Eeeeeek! The Taylored Expressions Be a mermaid stamps and dies just arrived! I was so excited to play with these! I also got a couple of new stencils, because i LOVE! stencils! So versatile and adds so much to a card. There are so many possibilities with these new godies, but I started out with these simple yet impactful cards. For the first card I used the TE Sweet scallop stencil. I placed the stencil over watercolor cardstock, flipped them over and taped them together on the back. I wanted to use Nuvo glimmer paste in Blue topaz, but I thought I'd try ink blending the background. I used Cracked pistacio, Mermaid lagoon and Wilted violet  Distess oxide inks and I wasn't too careful blending the colors, because I honestly didn't think it would show this much. But I'm so glad it does! I smeared over the glimmer paste and set it aside to dry.  On a piece of regular cardstock I ink blended 2 areas large enough to fit the mermaid...