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Quick Card Backgrounds

Such a quick and easy way to make card backgrounds in under one minute! Add a sentiment and embellishments. Super simple! 

Look Who's Turning

Number of Years stamp set

Playing around with a little vellum and the Number of Years stamp set and matching Large Number Framelits dies. I stamped the Chevron background stamp in Dapper Denim on one card, and Merry Merlot on the other. Stamped the "look who's turning" with the vine and numbers on vellum in Versamark Ink. Heat embossed in white and gold stampin'emboss powder. 

 Added the die cut numbers to the main card panel for a shadow. Embellished with brads and paper clips.

Pretty simple overall, and I love the result. The white embossing stands out much more than it appears in the photo.

 

That Was Awesome

It seems like an odd time of year to pull out an old set, especially flamingos! The snow is flying outside, but I had an itch to make a tropical card lol! I haven't used this Fabulous Flamingo set in a while, and it is so fun and versatile. 

I coordinated it with the Stitched Nested Label dies and popped it out with pop up dots. The fronds were stamped in Cucumber Crush and the water in Lost Lagoon, followed by an aqua painter with some Lost Lagoon over the water. The grasses were stamped using Pear Pizzazz. The flamingo combo of inks: Flirty Flamingo for the main body, Smoky Slate for the outline accents, and Petal Pink for the light body color. 

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Flirty Flamingo set

 

Snowflake Sparkle

Playing around with So Many Snowflakes Dies and Snowflake Wishes stamp set. I used WINTER SNOW ef on the background, and then sponge brayered it with Mint Macaron. Also sponge brayered the Mint Macaron on Whisper White and then die cut snowflakes. For the front of the card I die cut the window, then embossed with WINTER SNOW ef and followed by sponging the edges in Mint Macaron. the sentiment May your season sparkle is embossed with Silver EP. I painted the fantastix frost white on the card and snowflakes with a wet paintbrush. 

SCS challenge FF20luvtostampstampstamp

I'm always a fan of white, blue and silver, and it is snowing outside right now, so this card seems even more fitting! This is part of the fall fest 2020 challenge for SCS.

Mostly Stampin' Up! products, with the exception of the silver glitter paper. 

SUPPLIES:

• WINTER SNOW EF
• PINE WOODS DIES
• WONDERLAND (sentiment)
• SILVER EP
• STITCHED SHAPES FRAMELITS
• RHINESTONES
• WINK OF STELLA

Created for the SCS FF20luvtostampstampstamp challenge. The challenge was for anything similar to this site: https://www.familyholiday.net/unleash-your-imagination-fairytale-winter-wonderland-decorations-ideas/

 

Silent Night Brayer

Brayered background: started with Whisper White cs and brayered Dapper Denim from right top corner. Added another layer from top corner of Bermuda Bay and Bashful Blue. Then from bottom left corner brayered first Mint Macaroon, and then Lemon Lime Twist. Die cut white trees and snow hills are from Pine Woods Dies and the tree stamped in Cucumber Crush is from Mountain Air and cut with Majestic Mountain dies. Silent night was embossed in gold and is from Wonderland stamp set. Card base is Balmy Blue.

 

CAS Black Glitter Moose

Another CAS card using the moose punch and the Christmas Greetings thinlits dies. The background cs behind the moose and merry dies is black glitter paper. Added the scarf from the Merry Moose stamp set. The ef is softly falling and I embossed after die cutting.

 

A monochromatic christmas card using Pine Woods dies and In the Pines Stamp set with the Winter Snow EF. The white glimmer paper is retired SU. Simple, yet elegant. 
 

To purchase the In the Pines bundle item 155182: 

Can you say CAS! This is about as simple a card there is! I love the look of the silver behind the tree. I used a glitter cardstock as the face of the card, and die cut the three trees using the die from Pine Woods dies on Whisper White. Added some green ribbon, and stamped the sentiment in Cucumber Crush ink. And voila! 
 

Masculine Moose birthday card. Using Evergreen Forest 3D EF and Pine Forest Dies. After embossing the whisper white cardstock, I sponged some varying colors of green atop the embossed tree images. I still love the Merry Moose Stamps and coordinating punch.

 

                       

                            

                            In the Pines and Pine Woods dies bundle. It's a monochromatic kind of day. Unfortunately I couldn't capture a photo showing the wink of Stella on the trees, adding a slight beautiful glimmer. The Winter Snow EF is so elegant looking. The sentiment and trees were stamped in Smoky Slate.

GATHER TOGETHER and COLORFUL SEASONS sets. Perfect for the fall season.  

I used the leaf, pumpkin and wheat images from the GATHER TOGETHER set. The pumpkin and leaf were stamped in Delightful Dijon and cut with matching GATHERED LEAVES dies. The wheat was stamped in Soft Suede. Also stamped the leaf image from COLORFUL SEASONS in versamark and used Gold Stampin' Up! emboss powder, then cut leaf in white from coodinating SEASONAL LAYERS  dies and adhered on top. The oval was cut using STITCHED SHAPES framelits. 

 

The thankful sentiment was die cut on foil paper using a die from RECOLLECTIONS sentiment dies. The netting image was from a retired SU set TIMELESS TEXTURES. 

Purchase the GATHER TOGETHER bundle 153036

Bird Crazy and Gelli Plates

 More Gelli plate fun and the bird crazy stamps from Tim Holtz Stamper's Anonymous. I love, love, love these funny little birds. Their facial expressions are darling.

I used the Gelli plate, lightweight watercolor paper, acrylics, distress inks, stencils, brayer, sponges, distress paste and washi tape to create the backgrounds. I love the funky bold colors, great patterns and textures, and of course the crazy birds! The sentiments are from Tim Holtz Stamper's Anonymous Tiny Text set. 

SHINE LIKE THE STARS / light the way

BE YOUR BEAUTIFUL SELF / use your wings

DON'T FORGET TO FLY / choose to shine

the world needs who you were made to be / JUST ONE LIFE

Rabbit jumps over the moon

Rabbit jumps over the moon

This is my first time playing around with Lavinia stamps and I love them! I've also been trying different techniques with the Distress Oxide inks. 

Here are the steps for these Distress Oxide inks with a giant Moon background. 

I began with watercolor paper and swishes a circle of the squeezed lemonade , laying it on pretty thick.

Then I dabbed on salty ocean, lucky clover, and added some peacock feather over those color in a few different spots.

I heat set the ink and then spritzed with water and heat set again. 

Next I squished the shaded lilac ink directly onto an acrylic block and smooshed that over the moon, and over scattered areas on the rest of the card as well.

I followed the same technique, smashing the broken china and wild honey in different places. Heat set again, and spritzed with water. 

I used a circle template and a gold jelly pen to draw a line outlining the moon.

The beauty of the distress inks is if you don't like it, you can always add more ink, or more water. 

Z Fold Snowflakes

I received a Christmas card from my friend Diane Doumitt in Florida that was a beautiful ZFold card. It inspired me to check out this simple technique! The ZFold itself is simple, but all of the miscellaneous details that go into each panel take some time when you do it as a batch of cards!

For the card base, take a 4 1/4" x 11" piece of cardstock - I used NIGHT OF NAVY. Score at 2 3/4" and 5 1/2". For the NIGHT OF NAVY pop out bottom strip, cut a 1 1/2" x 11" strip and score at 2 3/4" and 5 1/2".

The white panels for the main card are two in size 2 5/8" x 4 1/8", TOP NOTE bigZ die. For the pope out strip one size 1 1/4" x 5 1/8", and two size 2 5/8" x 1 1/4". For assembly, only adhere the left half of the long size of the strip to the left side of the background, and adhere only the right side of the scored strip to the side of the card with the TOP NOTE background.

I stamped WHISPER WHITE CS with BLUSHING BRIDE ink using the DIAGONAL STRIPE background stamp and then cut out with the oval from STITCHED SHAPES framelits. I stamped the tree from PEACEFUL PINES stamp set in SILVER metallic ENCORE ink and cut out with PERFECT PINES framelits. All background snowflakes were stamped in SMOKY SLATE using images from CHRISTMAS PINES, SNOWFLAKE SOIREE, AND FLURRY OF WISHES. Both sentiments are from the FLURRY OF WISHES stamp set and were stamped using Memento Tuxedo Black Ink.

The bow and pine branches were cut with PRETTY PINES thinlits using SILVER GLIMMER paper. The pinescones were cut out of BLUSHING BRIDE CS.

Only adhere the bottom part of the oval tree popout to the popout strip!

CHRISTMAS MOUSE

I love the MERRY MICE stamp set - so cute! The background is embossed with CABLE KNIT dynamed EF,and the stars are from the LUCKY STARS EF. The pines branches and bow are cut with the PRETTY PINES thinlits. The pines branch background and sentiment are from CHRISTMAS PINES stamp set. The background stripes were stamped using DIAGONAL STRIPE background stamp, and cut using TOP NOTE bigZ die. I used BLUSHING BRIDE, SMOKY SLATE and VERSAMARK INK embossed with black detail powder. Cardstock is WHISPER WHITE, SMOKY SLATE and BLUSHING BRIDE.

CAS Christmas Pines

A CAS card using CHRISTMAS PINES stamp set and PRETTY PINES framelits. I love the pop of color that the glitter paper adds! Pines were stamped in BROWN SUGAR, and branches were stamped in PEAR PIZZAZZ and ALWAYS ARTICHOKE. 

Sepia Tones

I thought it would be fun to try the train from the CHRISTMAS MAGIC set in Sepia Tones. The background tree is from WONDERLAND, and the sentiment is from CHRISTMAS PINES. THe train is stamped in BROWN SUGAR, and colored with BLUSHING BRIDE. 

Welcome Baby Boy

SUPPLIES:

• Cardstock: Whisper White, Bashful Blue
• Ink: Basic Gray, Smoky Slate, Bashful Blue
• Stamps: Made With Love, Something For Baby
• Accessories: Lucky Stars and Square Lattice EF, Baby's First Framelits, 1" Circle Punch, Stampin' Write Markers. Nestabilities framelits, clothespin, and foil not SU.

Note: Glued aluminum foil to cardstock before diecutting the clothes hanger