Hey, everyone! It's Christmas All Year Long at Scrapping for Less and I have some fun inspiration for you using the My Favorite Things Beast Friend stamp set. This was one of my first stamp sets from My Favorite Things and it's still one of my favorites!
I stamped and colored the little yeti holding the string of lights with my Copics. My favorite way to color these guys is with light Neutral Gray Copic markers and skin tones for his face and ears. I grabbed some Distress Inks and started blending ink onto a background panel. I only used Crushed Olive, but because I didn't clean off my blender brush the inside blending is a different shade of green. I quite like it when I stumble upon happy accidents!
Once the ink blended background was completely dry I white heat embossed the three trees from the Beast Friends stamp set repeatedly across my card. I was going to leave it this way, but I decided to add a bit of shine with a gold ink from the Gansai Tambi Starry Colors watercolor palette. I'm so glad I did! To match the gold watercoloring I heat embossed a gold sentiment onto a strip, popped up my sentiment and yeti, and added some gold glittery enamel dots around the card.
I love how the gold and green play off each other, don't you?! Thanks for joining me! I hope you're inspired to break out your Christmas supplies and get crafty!
I just can't wait for the first snow to fall! Where I live it's not uncommon to have a dusting or two before Halloween!
This card is the result of a happy accident - but I love the look! I sprayed the back of the Echo Park Magical Snowfall Stencil a little too heavily with Pixie Spray and I didn't wait long enough for the spray to dry before adding it to my cardstock. I pressed Versamark ink over the stencil and when I removed it and added my Lilac Pearl embossing powder the powder actually stuck to the background. I LOVE it! I think it looks like the soft flurries of snow that picks up and blows around in the wind!
The little snowman is from the Avery Elle Christmas Magic stamp set. I wanted him to match my heat embossed background, so I used some BV Copic Markers to color his hat and scarf. The sentiment is from the Sunny Studio Stamps Bundled Up stamp set. I thought it fit this card perfectly!
I added all of my die cut elements onto my card and finished it off with some string tied in a bow. Head over to the Scrapping for Less store to find these products and more for your Holiday cards!
As always - you can purchase the Flavor of the Month card kit two different ways. The Double Dip Sundae has four collections, cardstock, and four envelopes. The Banana Split kit has everything that's included in the Double Dip Sundae plus an extra pack of goodies! This month there is a stamp set, a sentiment die, a wood slice ornament, and a bottle of Stickles! Yes - it's worth it!
Here are the ingredients and sketches for this month's card kit! You can find these and past sketches in the downloads section on the Scrapping for Less website!
I made a total of six cards using this month's kit! The papers and embellishments were super inspiring this month!
My first card uses the patterned paper as a focal point as well as the ribbon and enamel dots!
For collection two I let the papers shine once again and added the cute Santa image from the stamp set!
The ephemera in the third collection is gorgeous, don't you thing?! Especially that ornament! I added a few die cut frames and patterned papers and pulled together two cards in no time at all!
The fourth collection has foil from Gina K Designs and a piece of a Foil Mates transfer sheet! These are some of my favorite products in the crafty world! I used the Foil Mate - both the positive and the negative - to create two easy cards! Watch my video to find out how!
Those are my cards! Hop along and see more inspiration from the Christmas Around the World FOTM card kit!
How fabulous is this peek into the October 2019 kit?! I am so in love with the plaid patterned paper! And that Christmas tree is AMAZING!! And can we just talk about the font on the sentiment? Gah! I'm loving it! I used the patterned paper and the tree stamp from one of the collections and the sentimetn and glittery Stickles are from the bonus goodies in the Banana Split kit! You'll definitely NEED the upgrade this month!
That's it for my quick sneak! Come back on October 26th to see the full kit reveal!
Christmas is in full swing at Scrapping for Less! And it truly will be here before you know it!
I'm a lover of classic Christmas colors! - red, green, gold! Gorgeous! I ink blended some Candied Apple Distress Ink onto a piece of cardstock keeping the ink darker towards the center and lighter towards the outside. I used a slightly darker color of ink - Fired Brick - and stenciled the Echo Park Magical Snowfall Stencil over the ink blending and die cut the panel with a stitched circle die. I thought the background needed something more, so I flicked on some metallic gold watercolor.
I super love the Bundled Up stamp set from Sunny Studio Stamps because you can build your own penguin! I stamped the penguin and a bunch of accessories and colored them with classic Christmas colored Copic markers and trimmed them out with my scissors and added them to my die cut circle and stamped a sentiment under the penguin. I wanted to add a little more gold to my card, so I die cut a foiled piece of cardstock with a slightly larger die cut circle and added it to a circle card base. Check out the video above to see how I made that!
This card has so much shine! And I love the subtle snowflakes in the background! Thanks for stopping by!
Hi everyone! I'm a lover of classic Christmas colors - but every now and then I feel the urge to create with soft pastel colors!
This card is very easy to create and even to mass produce if you want! I started with a piece of light pink cardstock that I die cut with a stitched rectangle die. I sprayed the back of the Echo Park Magical Snowfall Stencil with some Pixie Spray and and pounced on some white pigment ink over the stencil. I love the look of the soft white on the pastel pink! If you wanted to have crisp white snowflakes you could use Versamark Ink and white embossing powder - but I like the look of the soft snowflakes.
I die cut a large snowflake from some gold foiled cardstock to use as my center piece and added some coiled silver thread for added interest. My sentiment is from the Avery Elle Christmas Magic stamp set and I heat embossed it with gold powder to match the snowflake die cut. And that's it! See what I mean! Super easy! Thanks for joining me!
Hi! Can you believe Christmas is a mere 3 months away!? Crazy, right! I used some mint and gold patterned papers from my stash and the Avery Elle Christmas Magic stamp set to create a super cute Christmas card!
This card is super easy to recreate! I started by stamping the lamp, holly, snowman, and unicorn from the Avery Elle Christmas Magic stamp set and colored them with my Copic markers. I trimmed them out with scissors leaving a small white border.
I needed a perfect background for my images, so I grabbed some mint patterned papers from my stash and cut them with Pink & Main Stitched Rectangle Dies. I stamped a sentiment and snowflakes with black ink onto the heart patterned paper.
I added my cute images with foam squares and that finishes my card! Thanks for stopping by!
Don't you just love the colors of Autumn?! I do! And I love coloring floral images with yellow and orange to make a fall bouquet!
I stamped out one of the bouquets from the Pinkfresh Studio Fancy Blooms stamp set and used Copic markers to color in the image. I used R08, YR09, and YR07 for the orange flower. The yellow flower I used YR04, Y17, and Y15. The leaves are BG78 and BG75 and the brown sprigs are E79 and E74.
I cut out a few of my favorite patterns from the Lawn Fawn Fall Knit Picky paper pad with stitched dies and adhered them to a card front. I trimmed out my colored bouquet and added it to the stitched oval with foam squares. I stamped the sentiment from the Sunny Studio Stamps Beautiful Autumn stamp set onto a strip of patterned paper with Walnut Stain Distress Oxide ink and added it on top of my bouquet.
I added a bit of shimmer to my bouquet with Liquid Pixie Dust to finish the card! Thanks for stopping by today!
Hi! Can I just say how EXCITED I am that's it's socially acceptable to create and send fall themed cards?! Haha! I feel like everyone swoons over summer and beaches and now it's my time! YAY! Sit back and relax as the Scrapping for Less design team shares all about fall projects this month!
I die cut the Foursquare Backdrop die from Lawn Fawn from four patterns of paper in the Lawn Fawn Fall Knit Picky paper pad as well as white cardstock for the frame. I glued the white frame to an A2 card and puzzle pieced in the patterned paper rectangles.
I wanted to use the Sticko Autumn Pumpkin stickers as my focal point images, but I'm just not fond of the look of stickers stuck onto a card. I love the ease of stickers! No coloring, shading and depth is already there ... but I always feel like there's something missing. And that something is a white border! So I added a bunch of the Autumn Pumpkin stickers onto white cardstock and trimmed around them just like I would with a stamped image and adhered them to my card.
Hi, everyone! It's time to reveal the August 2019 Flavor of the Month card kit from Scrapping for Less! This month's theme is exotic animals and this kit is packed full of the cutest exotic critters! I can't wait to see what everyone makes with this kit! I had so much fun creating my 5 cards! Would you like to be featured on the Scrapping for Less channels? Of course you would! Create with your kit, post your creations on Instagram and Facebook using the hashtag #SFLFOTMexoticanimals!
There's a really fun blog hop happening today to kick off the August 2019 FOTM kit! After you check out my projects you can hop over to Christine's blog and see what she made! If you get lost at any point on the hop you can head back to the Scrapping for Less blog for the full lineup!
There are two levels of kits you can purchase - the Double Dip and the Banana Split. Each of the kits include four collections of goodies, six pieces of colored cardstock, two pieces of white cardstock, and four envelopes. The Banana Split kit includes everything mentioned as well as a bonus pack of goodies!
Here's a quick peek at all 5 cards I made! Just like always - I made one card using each of the collections and one of the four sketches and then a bonus card using ingredients from the Banana Split level kit.
I used products from the first collection to create a card using the third sketch. Whenever I see sketches that have panels of cardstock going down each side I always think of a gate fold card! I altered the sketch slightly to make it fit into my fun fold design and added a die cut oval and the cute Lawn Fawn chameleon!
I created a sparkly shaker card with products from the second collection and first sketch! I backed the shaker with some of the gold glitter cardstock for extra sparkle!
I know the theme is exotic animals, but I fell in love with the flower twine and doily from the third collection! I used the second sketch to create this card and took the sentiment from the bonus stamp set in the Banana Split level kit. Don't worry! I'll use the cute critter from this collection later on!
Collection four has my favorite Scrapping for Less papers EVER! They're GORGEOUS! The metallic accents are faux - but they're so so so realistic! I used the fourth sketch and added my colored image, a foiled tag, and a fabric flower to my card.
Since I didn't use the cute meerkat image from the third collection I decided to use him and more of collection three's patterned papers. I used the "go wild" die cut from the Banana Split extra goody bag and the Chocolate cardstock. Here's my video showing how I made each of these five cards!
Remember that your next stop on the hop is Christine - but if you get lost at any point along the way you can head back to the Scrapping for Less blog for the complete line up! Thanks for joining me! I'll see you soon!
Hi, there! Get excited! Less than a week until the August 2019 Flavor of the Month Card Kit from Scrapping for Less is revealed! If you've been following the design team's daily posts I bet you can guess the theme! Once you get your August kit remember to create and share what you've made on social media! Be sure to tag Scrapping for Less and use the hashtag #SFLFOTMexoticanimals! You may be featured on the Scrapping for Less accounts!
Here's my sneak peek card! I am OBSESSED with these papers! These photos don't do the pattern justice! This is my FAVORITE paper pack that Scrapping for Less has created. EVER! Oh. My. Gosh. Wait until you see the whole collection!
All the detail of this card is thanks to the patterned paper! The watercolored stripes, the faux specks of gold, the florals - that's all from one sheet of paper! I matted it with some gold glitter cardstock to help bring out the faux gold accents and added my watercolored bird and a stamped sentiment.
That's it! This piece of paper is one of many favorites from this collection! Saturday the 31st at midnight the whole kit will be revealed! See you then!
I've never used a Doodlepop from Doodlebug Designs before - but seriously it made this card so easy! No coloring or fussy cutting required! And there's even dimension built in! How fabulous! I had an idea to pair the koala with a sunrise backdrop and sandy foreground.
I started by using a ray stencil to add some quick yellow sun rays to the bottom of my card. I looked through the Find it Trading Wild Animals paper pad and found a brown tone on tone paper and when I turned it on the side it looked like sand. Perfect for my simple scene! I cut a strip about an inch and a quarter wide and added it to the bottom of my card. Then I added my Koala Doodlepop right on top! So effortless!
I needed the perfect sentiment to finish my card, so I used some brown ink to stamp a sentiment from the Hero Arts Color Layering Red Panda stamp set. More of these Doodlepops are definitely on my wish list! They make cardmaking a breeze! Watch my video below to see just how easy this card is to make!
