A Fairy Happy Birthday!

Happy Friday!  It's Jeanne and today I'm featuring a card made with the new Magical Garden dies.  These adorable dies are 25% off on the website for a limited time.

I'm trying to make more birthday cards this year and these cute fairies went perfectly with the sentiment I had.  One more done!  For the layout I used the sketch challenge this week at Splitcoaststampers and for the colors I chose some designer paper and used the colors from it.  I thought the clouds and sprinkles went well with the fairies.

I started by cutting the pieces in white and vanilla card stock, using ink and sponge daubers to color the pieces.  I used the vanilla for the fairies skin and the under part of the mushroom cap.

I assembled and glued my pieces together on a silicone mat.  This allows the assembled element to dry and prevents it from sticking to my paper or table.

I decided to make an A6 card - 4 1/2 x 6 inches.  I cut one panel this size, a strip 1 1/2 x 6, a rectangle using the largest of the Scalloped Stitched Rectangle dies, and a white square using the third largest of the Stitched Squares dies.

I then heat embossed my sentiment in white on the scalloped panel.

I glued the white square on top and added my fairies and floral pieces.  The fairies and mushroom caps are covered in several coats of Wink of Stella.  I used gold Wink of Stella to add a few "drips" from the watering can.

I adhered the panel and the strip to the card base along with a piece of ribbon.  Then I used foam tape to pop the panel up from the front of the card.

Since fairies are magical creatures that seem to beg for sparkle, I added a few sequins to the scene.  In this photo you can really see the Wink of Stella.

I hope you enjoyed my card today.  Don't forget to stop by the store and check out all the new dies!

Dies used:

Thanks for visiting - I hope you have a fun and creative weekend!

By the Sea!

Good Morning Everyone!

It is Pam creating with you today on the blog

I live near the beach and in the summer that is the place to be here in South Carolina!  I was already to move cross country as some of you may have read in my earlier post a couple of months ago.  But our house sale fell through so we are still in SC.  It really is a nice place to live!  But the summers are pretty steamy!!  Anyway the beach is what inspired my card today. (This card was also inspired by the wonderful card maker Michelle Zindorf)

Design Steps:

 1.  You will need a white A2 card base, a slightly smaller piece of navy, then a slightly smaller piece then the navy of blue, then a piece of sand card stock 3 3/4 x 5. You will also need a 3 1/4 x 3 1/4 blue square, 3 1/8 x 3 1/8 navy square and a 3 x 3 white square.

 2.  Stamp the sand color card stock with a bunch of splashes using Versa Mark ink

 3.  Glue the blue to the navy then add the sand card stock on top of the blue.  Add the strip of striped navy ribbon using double sided tape

4.  Attach the panel to the front of the card and set aside

 5.  Round the corners of all of the squares.  And on the white square use blue ink spray to create a watery look

6.  Stamp the sentiment with black ink.  I used a positioning took to stamp it twice to get a nice dark black

 7.  Cut out the shells on tan card stock using the Sand Dollar and Trumpet Shell die.  Cut the sea grass using the Spring Meadow die and green card stock.  Use TH vintage ink for the shells and grass then add a little coral ink to the Trumpet Shell

 8.  I then sprayed the shells with some Walnut ink

9.  Glue the layers of square together and add the sea grass first then the shells

 10.  Pop the shell panel to the front of the card

11.  For the inside I added a Scallop Shell which I inked in the corner.  Next layered the sentiment on blue and glued it to the card.  Glue the panel to the inside of the card

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Thanks for stopping by and make sure to check out our new release called Magical Garden you won't be disappointed and happy summer!!

Blessings

Pam

Hello Card

Hello!  This is Sukie and today I'm sharing this CAS card for my design team day.  This card came together very quickly with a few die cuts.

The patterned paper inspired the colors and rustic tones of my standard A2 sized card.  The scraps left over from other projects worked perfectly with the patterned design.

The Telephone is absolutely adorable with the coordinating speech bubble.  I used the Hello die cut for a larger sentiment.  The sweet tag is from the Love Tags Set, I added a strip of brown behind the heart cut outs.

Once I created the base of my card, the tag was offset to one side of my card.  I adhered the tag directly on top of the patterned paper.  I love the striking contrast of the colors.

The next step was to add the speech bubble with the sentiment onto my card base.  The rustic telephone was adhered in the center of the tag creating a "happy hello card."

As a finishing accent on my card, I added a small bow created with some Totally Natural Trendy Twine.

Here are the dies used on my card, available in the shop:

Spring Frog

Hi!

It's Anja here. I have another simple card for you today. I combined tho die sets to make the scene with this cute frog.

For this card I used:
- Cottage Cutz dies (Spring Frog w/lily Pad, Clouds & Sun),
- Distress Inks (Mustard Seen, Tumbled Glass, Wild Honey, Shabby Shutters, Twisted Citron, Mowed Lawn, Peeled Paint, Spun Sugar, Stormy Sky, Vintage Photo, Black Soot) and Oxides (Broken China, Faded Jeans),
- white card base (15x15 cm),
- white card stock for die cuts,
- water color paper for background (14,5x14,5 cm),
- plastic stencil (clouds),
- white pen,
- water spritzer,
- heat gun,
- adhesive foam pads,
- paper glue.

First I cut and colored the frog.

Then I did the same with the sun and clouds.

Next I made the background. I used Distress Oxides to color it and then I added a few water drops to add a bit of dimension. I dried it with the heat gun.

On the upper side I used plastic stencil to make the clouds.

When I had everything cut and colored I put the card together. I used adhesive foam pads to glue the frog. And my card was done.

That's everything from me for today. See you again next week.

Have a great Sunday.
Anja Z.


Cottage Cutz dies I used for this card: