Hi, everyone! I struggle making masculine cards, but I LOVE how some green and blue inks and amazing products from Erin Lee Creative make it easy to make cards for the guys in my life!
I started by masking off an inch and a quarter from the bottom of a standard card and blended on some Hickory Smoke Distress Ink over the Hex Stencil from Erin Lee Creative. I was careful to use a light hand. I just wanted a bit of color, but not too much. Without removing the masking tape from the bottom of my card I lined up the Mountain Scene stencil and blended on a heavy layer of Chipped Sapphire Distress Ink.
I wanted to keep in the masculine theme, so I moved the masking tape from the bottom to the top of my card and blended on Pine Needles and Evergreen Bough Distress Ink. I used the Can't Sentiment stamp set and stamped the large "can't" and embossed with black powder. I stamped the coordinating sentiment with black ink onto white cardstock and trimmed it to a skinny strip and glued it flat onto the card. That makes this card not only masculine, but "almost" one layer! Haha!
I have a video showing just how I made this card! You can watch it below!
Don't forget about the free shipping offer from The Rabbit Hole Designs! Orders of $25 or more before taxes and shipping (US Orders Only - No code necessary, exclusions apply) will ship for free through May 30, 2019. Also to celebrate day 3 of the release The Rabbit Hole Designs is giving away the stamp set Pretty in Peony to one lucky winner. Winner will be chosen at random from the comments left on participating blogs, so make sure to visit each stop and leave a comment. Leave comments by 11:59 pm PST May 30, 2019 on all participating blogs. Winner will be announced on The Rabbit Hole Designs blog May 31, 2019!
I made two cards using the Pretty in Peony stamp set - and I have videos for both! How exciting, right!
My first card may look a little familiar to you! I made a similar card with squishy watercolor circles for the last release from TRHD and so many of you asked me for a video tutorial that I decided to recreate the background on camera!
Since the background is so colorful I decided to color the peonies white. And besides - I just LOVE white flowers! Here's my process video!
For my second card I decided to share a quick faux watercolor technique. It's certainly not new, but it's one of my favorites! I stamped and white heat embossed my images from the Pretty in Peony stamp set and added Distress Inks and then spritzed them with some water mixed with Perfect Pearls. A super easy way to create the look of watercoloring!
I cut out the images and added them to a die cut background! I have a video for this one, too!
Hi! Welcome back for day two of the three day blog hop to celebrate the June 2019 release from The Rabbit Hole Designs! Today myself and the rest of the design team are showing our inspirations for By the Shore and Mermaid Hair!
To celebrate the new release from The Rabbit Hole Designs there will be free shipping on orders of $25 or more before taxes and shipping (US Orders Only - No code necessary, exclusions apply). Free Shipping ends May 30, 2019. In addition, The Rabbit Hole Designs is giving away winners choice of either Mermaid Hair or By the Shore to one lucky winner. Winner will be chosen at random from the comments left on participating blogs, so make sure to visit each stop and leave a comment. Leave comments by 11:59 pm PST May 30, 2019 on all participating blogs. Winner will be announced on The Rabbit Hole Designs blog May 31, 2019.
Let's start with my cards featuring the By the Shore stamp set! I decided to create two cards and keep one simple and add some flair to the other! I came up with five ways to "step up" a stenciled card.
My first card is fairly simple - but I love the way the girl's coral dress pops against the gray! I used a beach scene stencil and blended some gray ink onto my card. Then I stamped and colored the image from By the Shore and cut them out against the edge and glued them straight onto the card. I added a black stamped sentiment.
And now I have five easy ways to fancy up a stenciled background! My first tip is to use multiple colors of ink on a stencil. For this card I masked off the different areas and added blue for the water, brown for the sand, etc. After I ink blended the stencil I added some extra stamping to the background using the small cloud stamp from the By the Shore stamp. I added a bit of sparkle with some gold foil cardstock. Another tip is to heat emboss the sentiment for some extra shine! And lastly - I added my images with foam squares for dimension!
I just love the Mermaid Hair stamp set! I decided to make a video for both of these cards! How exciting, right!
I used a mix of green and blue Tim Holtz Alcohol Inks to create a background and I used my heat gun to dry the background creating harsh lines. I added some heat embossed fish to the background and stamped my sentiment from the Mermaid Hair stamp set onto strips of cardstock. I added the sentiment strips and the mermaid with foam squares and finished off the card with some clear droplets. Check out the video for this card below!
I absolutely LOVE when companies add small coordinating images in their stamp sets! And I love using those smaller images to build up a background! I stamped all three fish repeatedly across my card base and colored them with my Spectrum Noir Triblend markers and added some black ink spatters on top.
I die cut a script sentiment and added it to the front of my card! I have a quick process video for you below!
I hope you were inspired by my cards and videos today! Make sure you come back tomorrow for more inspiration!
Hey, everyone! I have a super simple watercolored card to share with you using the Sophia Borders stamp set in the May 2019 box from The Hedgehog Hollow!
This card is truly simple and can be made in just a few minutes! A perfect design for when you need a card quick and now! I started by positioning both of the border stamps from the Sophia Borders stamp set onto a card base and stamped with the black Nuvo Hybrid ink from the April box.
I smooshed down some Hickory Smoke Distress Ink onto my work surface and mixed in a bit of water and colored over the images creating a small halo of color. I stamped and white heat embossed a sentiment onto a strip of the coral cardstock from the box and trimmed it down to about 1/2 an inch and foam mounted it onto the center of my card.
I love how simple this card is but the pop of coral really packs a punch! Thanks for joining me! See you soon!
Hey, all! I'm using the new Flower Cover Dies from the May release from Pink & Main today! I love that this die set comes with the large cardfront sized die as well as a few extra flower dies that make layering super easy!
I die cut a piece of white cardstock with the large die from the Flower Cover Dies. You could definitely ink blend first and then die cut, but I wanted to give dimension to the flowers by adding dark pink to the center and light to the outer parts.
I die cut some gold foil cardstock using the extra flower dies in the Flower Cover Dies set and adhered them in a line across the bottom of my card. I LOVE that they fit PERFECTLY over the flowers in the background. It's a great addition and a fabulous way to add a special touch! I added the die cut background onto a white card base.
I decided to add a sentiment from the Happily Ever After stamp set. How fitting since yesterday was my 7 year wedding anniversary! I stamped it in black ink and trimmed around the sentiment with my scissors to mimic a die cut sentiment. That's it! I love how this background die can be stepped up and changed around with the extra dies that are included! See you next time!
Hi, everyone! Welcome to day one of a three day blog hop to celebrate the June 2019 release from The Rabbit Hole Designs! The whole release is available for purchase now and you'll be seeing lots of inspiration from this release over the next three days! How exciting!
Since this is a celebration there must be giveaways and other fun things! Each day of the hop there will be free shipping on orders of $25 or more before taxes and shipping (US Orders Only - No code necessary, exclusions apply) Free Shipping ends May 30, 2019. To celebrate day 1 of the release The Rabbit Hole Designs is giving away the Beach Day stamp set to one lucky winner. Winner will be chosen at random from the comments left on participating blogs, so make sure to visit each stop and leave a comment. Leave comments by 11:59 pm PST May 30, 2019 on all participating blogs. Winner will be announced on The Rabbit Hole Designs blog on May 31, 2019!
Let's jump into the two cards I made with the new Beach Day stamp set! There's so many cute images in this set!
I love the little girl image with her cute pigtails and freckles! I stamped her and some coordinating images and colored them with my Spectrum Noir Triblend markers.
Rainbows and stripes are my favorite things in the world, so I used a striped stencil from My Favorite Things and some of my favorite colors of Distress Inks and blended a background and added my images on top with a stamped sentiment.
I love the lighthouse image and wanted to make it a focal point of my card. I decided to do an off the edge shaker card, which is actually really easy to do! I started with a piece of white cardstock and cut a "V" shape out of it with my scissors. On a second piece of cardstock I blended some orange and yellow distress inks to represent the light coming from the lighthouse. I made a shaker pouch out of some acetate and filled it with sequins. I added it to my ink blended background and wrapped the shaker pouch around the edge of my cardstock so that the shaker would go all the way to the edge. Then I added my "V" cut out cardstock on top.
I stamped the lighthouse from the Beach Day stamp set and colored it with alcohol markers and added it to my card. Be sure to check out the rest of the blogs in the hop and leave comments for a chance to win the Beach Day stamp set!
Hey, everyone! I'm so in love with the Holy Cow stamp set from Erin Lee Creative! The sunflowers are so gorgeous and the sentiments are super funny! I have a video at the end of my post so once you're done looking at the pretty pictures be sure to check it out!
I created some backgrounds with gray ink and the Buffalo Plaid Background stamp from Erin Lee Creative and used some Peacock Feathers Distress Oxide ink through the Wreath Stencil on the bottom right of each background.
I stamped and colored the cow image from the Holy Cow stamp set and adhered it to my card. I stamped the cute sentiment underneath my image! I decided to trim off the edge of my background and inked up a small strip of my card with Peacock Feathers Distress Oxide ink. I love how the yellow sunflowers and the Peacock Feathers ink play off each other!
I just love the tall sunflower image in the Holy Cow stamp set! I colored it with my alcohol markers and added it to my stamped and stenciled card base. I built up my sentiment using the Love You Forever word die. I wanted it to have some shine and dimension, so I die cut it three times and added some clear embossing powder to the top layer die cut. You can see just how I did that in my video!
Hi, everyone!! I can't even start to tell you how excited I am that I am part of the Save the Crafty YouTuber Video Hop! Ahh! The Save the Crafty YouTuber Video Hop was created by the amazing Justine Hovey as a way to celebrate cardmakers and their videos. The purpose of this hop is for you to find some amazing inspiration (and maybe some new cardmakers) and for us to reach our monetization goals!
There are a bunch of us who have created videos just for this hop and there are TONS of AMAZING prizes! Want to win some? Of course you do! Haha! All you have to do is like the videos in the hop, leave a comment (the more you comment the more chances you'll have to win), and consider subscribing to my channel! (Please indicate if you are located in the USA or International when commenting so that prizes can be awarded appropriately as some prizes (not all!) have restrictions on them) Easy peasy, right!? You have until June 5th to leave comments and winners will be announced on June 10th on Justine Hovey's blog and YouTube channel. After you've watched my video you can head over to the amazing INSERT NAME HERE video to continue on in the hop! Now let's jump into my card!
I decided to watercolor my images and used my Hero Arts Liquid Watercolors. Check out my video below if you want to see exactly how I colored them! I used a basic technique of wetting the area with clean water first and then dropping in color. I used a rainbow of liquid watercolors - Strawberry, Orange, Dandelion, Leaf, Deep Ocean, and Purple.
I finished off my card by using some Ebony Black Nuvo Crystal Drops. I have a trick for using this product that I recently learned! Watch my video below to see how to get perfect Nuvo drops every time!
I hope you all loved this video! Remember to like and comment on the videos in the hop by June 5th for your chance to win prizes! And head over to INSERT NAME HERE's video for your next stop in the video hop! I'll see you next time!
Hey, everyone! I have a simple card today using patterned paper and the Critters Ever After stamp set from Lawn Fawn!
I stamped and colored some images from the Critters Ever After stamp set with my alcohol markers. One thing I'm trying to do lately is leave more neutral colored areas. I struggle with coloring because I use too many colors. I've been loving white lately, so I kept lots of white in my colored images. I thought the Pretty Little Rainbows papers from the May 2019 Flavor of the Month kit were so gorgeous that I bought extras! I used one of my favorites for my background.
I added some cloud die cuts and added my images to my card front. Simple - but I love how the rainbow background shines with the white colored images! Watch my process video below!
