Clean and Simple Rainbow Ornaments

Hello! I can't believe it's Christmas Eve all ready! I always find myself needing one last Christmas card, and if you're like me, you are always looking for quick and simple cards to make in a hot second! Well here's an idea for you!

I adore the WPlus9 Holiday Trimmings stamp set and I'm so excited it was brought back this year! The images are awesome...but I especially love the scripty sentiments! I stamped the ornament images with their extra doodads along with the sentiment in Versafine Onyx Black ink in the center of the card. I wanted to create a rainbow of ornaments, so I used a variety of inks from Simon Says Stamp - Teeny Bikini, Duckling, Jellybean, High Dive, and Wisteria. It's really that simple!

Last Minute Shiny Christmas Cards

Hello, everyone! Merry Christmas to you on this day before the day before Christmas! This is truly a magical time for me and my family and I hope it is for yours, too! I have two cards on the Butterfly Reflections, Inc blog today! I've made a few Christmas cards the past couple days and I can't wait to share them! I'll leave the photos here, but be sure to head over to the Butterfly Reflections, Inc blog to see more photos and all of the details!

I wish all of you a Merry Christmas!

Classic Christmas Card

Hello! I have a clean and simple Christmas card to share with you! I made a whole set of these as a special order for someone and I thought I would share them! I just love the way this card turned out and I love how classic the design is! 

I started by stamping the main image from the Concord & 9th Ornamental stamp set and heat embossing it with Hero Arts Gold embossing powder. I chose to fill the ornament with the large sentiment, but this card would look stunning using the floral images to fill in the ornament as well! I think I might try that!

I used my Gansai Tambi watercolors to mix up a blue - I used mostly cornflower blue with a bit of cobalt blue. Then I used a large round brush and simply watercolored in a circular shape around the ornament. Once it was dry I used a mixture of white acrylic paint with a bit of water and added some spatters to mimic the look of snow.

This set of cards is so classic and elegant! I love it!

Hero Arts Winter Silhouettes

Hello! I'm sorry I've been away from my blog for so long! All of the Christmas hustle and bustle has kept me...hustling! I've been working on some handmade gifts that I can't wait to show you!!...But of course it has to wait until after Christmas! And I also have some other crafty things in the works! Stay tuned the next couple of months to find out what I've been up to!

Today I have two cards to share using the Hero Arts Winter Silhouettes stamps and dies!

I started with a 4 bar sized notecard and used my MISTI and Versafine Onyx Black ink to stamp most of the images all at once! I had to go back in and stamp the second hill and tree separately, but really this card was so quick to make! I'm thinking about making it my Christmas card design for next year!

I love the first card, but I wanted to see how the design would look if I stamped with Versafine Onyx Black ink onto white cardstock and heat embossed with clear powder. I love it! The pop of white almost reminds me of snow! I can't decide which design I like better!

Craftin Desert Divas Yeti Fur Coffee!

Hi! I have a third project using the Yeti Fun stamp set from Craftin Desert Divas! This set is so adorable! I'm in love with the cute images!

You all know that I love to create my own backgrounds...and I also love polka dots! I used round ink blender tools from Ranger and started with white pigment ink all over a piece of kraft cardstock. Then I grabbed some Distress Inks - Picked Raspberry, Peacock Feathers, Mustard Seed, and Twisted Citron - and pushed the ink over top of the white ink. So easy to make your own dotted background!

I stamped the sentiment and embossed it with black powder and added the two smallest rectangles from the Inside Out Stitched Scalloped Rectangle die set. I added the Copic colored image with foam squares and boom! All done! I just love this one!

Concord & 9th #FeatureFriday - Dahlia Turnabout

Hello! I can't believe it's already my last guest design post for Concord & 9th! This month has FLOWN by! Today I'm using the Dahlia Turnabout. This is my absolute FAVORITE from the November release. I've always been a fan of the turnabout stamps and I love that this one is smaller! I made a bunch of projects again, so let's get started!

Let's start with one of my favorites, shall we? This card is such a happy accident! This is the first time that a turnabout stamp has come with a matching die and I love it! I was messing around with the die trying different techniques - what it looked like cutting once or all four times, etc. I was stacking up all of my scrap pieces in a pile and my husband walked by and commented how cool my new card was! Little did he know he was looking at my garbage pile! But lo and behold...he was right! So I stacked up all of my pieces and added a happy die cut from the Bits & Pieces stamp set!

I love how it looks like one of those layering dies that are all the rage right now!

For this card I stamped the dahlia image four times and white heat embossed the image. Then I watercolored over the top with Gansai Tambi colors. I added about 5 layers of color because I wanted the image to really pop. I heat embossed the greeting and added some Nuvo drops!

This was actually the first time I stamped this image and again it was just me messing around and practicing! I loved the color combo so much that I made it into a card! The sentiment is from Bits & Pieces stamp set and added some Sparkling Clear sequins from Pretty Pink Posh.

I loved my other watercolored card so much that I did another version! I love the little pops of black!

Tis the season for stretching stamps to be Christmas stamps!! My original plan was to do a trio of dahlias, but I thought the card wouldn't be balanced if I did a third dahlia image. Instead, I pulled out the large merry and bright sentiment from the Ornamental stamps and added it where I had planned to stamp another dahlia!

This one is a little different - instead of stamping the image I used the coordinating die cut all four times and used the piece as a stencil! I added some of my favorite Distress Inks to create a gradient of color. I love how it turned out! I stamped the sentiment in a coordinating color and added some clear shimmer Nuvo drops.

I made a shaker card with the Bits & Pieces bundle last week and I loved how the red beads looked with gold glitter paper! I wanted to try it again - but with a twist! Instead of creating a shaker card I spread a puddle of glue onto a piece of cardstock and added enough beads to cover the glue. I LOVE the texture! It's like a peek-a-boo card with an insane amount of texture!

I just love love LOVE it!!

While I was glueing things down I thought I would make a non holiday version! And of course I had to include a rainbow - so why not a rainbow of sequins!!?!? I put down lines of glue and added colorful sequins to fit behind the turnabout die cut.

If you look close you can see that some of those red beads got stuck in my card! Ah! They are so tiny I didn't even realize! Oh well...they kind of look like they were added on purpose! :)


Thank you for joining me these past 4 weeks! I can't believe it's over! But believe that I will be using these products again!