Hey Pumpkin!

I'm back this week with a tall card using a set from our new Boho Fall release.  I used printed papers from a couple of pads to construct a barn-yard scene with weathered wood and a rusty tin roof as a background for some lovely pumpkins.  

Coloring these is so easy and fun!  Two or three Copic colors for high-and-low-lights and they look nice and plump and round!  You don't really even have to blend the colors very much if you don't want to.  

I used a Tim Holtz woodgrain stencil to give a little texture to the fishtail banner signs, and even stamped some wee ants on the garden dirt!

And here's the inside, a CAS spattered background with a stamped sentiment.  

I know you'll love these beautiful sets and the way they work so well together!  Be sure to visit the Stamp Simply blog to see more ideas for using them from my design team mates!  

Supplies:

• Stamp Simply Clear Stamps - Boho Pumpkins Bundle
• wee ants from Stamp Simply Clear Stamps - Vintage Peony
• Stamp Simply Steel Dies - Fishtail Sentiment Banners
• Craft Consortium Beach Hut 6x6
• Kaisercraft Under the Gum Leaves - 6.5x6.5
• Tim Holtz Layering Stencil - Woodgrain
• Twill ribbon
• Memento inks
• Copic markers
• distress inks/distress oxide inks (stencil and splatters)
• white acrylic paint (splatters)
• button from stash

Hello Dear Friend

Hello dear friends!  :)  I'm here with a very CAS card that was actually made while spending Zoom time with my dear spinning friends (from the Jenkins group on Ravelry)!  I usually spin too while we chat, but I really needed to stamp and so I made two cards while listening to the conversation.  This is a really quick and easy card anyway, but wow!  How time flies when you're having fun!  It felt like it only took 5 minutes!  

I used a Tim Holtz die to cut the black honeycomb, glued it directly to the card front, and then colored the openings with a gradient of yellow hues of Copic markers.  Even with heavier card stock for a base, the markers bled through so...

...this was a quick, cute, fun, and easy solution!  This paper just screams Summer and those tiny bees are so darling!  I love it!  Of course I have a thing for bees because my name, Deborah, means bee in Hebrew and Greek.   🐝   ❤️

A flat, no-frills card is perfect for mailing, but I thought it would be fun to have a dressed up version so I added a black twill bow, some "dripping honey" beads, and a layered button to mimic the black and yellow of those wee bee bodies.  So this is probably quite literally a 10 minute card!  

Supplies:

• Stamp Simply Clear Stamps - Vintage Peony Bundle
• Sizzix Thinlits Dies by Tim Holtz - Mixed Media #1
• Echo Park My Favorite Spring 6x6
• Memento Full Size Dye Ink Pad - Tuxedo Black
• Copic markers

Add-ons

• May Arts Vintage Sampler - On Fire with Orange & Yellow
• May Arts 5/8" Twill - 10 Yard Bundle - Black
• gold cord
• buttons from stash

New Release Stamp Sets!

Hello friends!  Have you seen the newest stamp sets released by Stamp Simply?  They are SO beautiful and so simply, absolutely elegant!  

My card is a traditional card with a transparent window that allows that lovely peony on the inside to show through against a background of dark green.  It would have been quite easy to make into a shaker card if I'd only had the right "sprinkles" for the job!  (I need to replenish my stash!).

The window opening is cut with the die that coordinates with the Vintage Seed Packet stamp, and the Vintage Peony set has a coordinating die as well.  That made this a really fast and easy project.  

When opened, the entire flower is revealed along with a label and greeting with still enough remaining white space for a note and signature.  

Supplies:

• Stamp Simply Clear Stamps - Vintage Peony Bundle
• Stamp Simply Clear Stamps - Vintage Seed Packet Bundle
• craft-consortium-ink-drops-organic-6x6
• Stamp Simply Steel Dies - Fishtail Sentiment Banners
• Memento Full Size Dye Ink Pad - Espresso Truffle (stamped off)
• May Arts 1/4" Variegated Silk - 54 yard spools - Pink/Champagne
• May Arts Baker's Twine - 110 Yard Spool - Kraft
• Tea dye distress ink
• Copic markers
• button from stash

Happy Independence Day!

 

Hello everyone, and Happy Independence Day to my American friends!  I hope you are enjoying a safe, happy holiday!  

I'm here with another project using a few stamps from the sets of our Patriotic series!  I had so much fun making this one and I think it really captures the spirit of the typical 4th of July celebration!  

It all started with our new patriotic background stamp, an older 4th of July stamp and a sheet of designer paper printed with pinwheels.  I stamped the 4th of July stamp in gold ink and then placed a "mask" over it to stamp the patriotic background over the top in black.  The background was then colored with Copic markers.   

Those cute little pinwheels (pictured below on the inside of the card) gave me the idea to make one to adorn the card front.  It's made from a die-cut square of paper, snipped from each corner to just shy of center.  The corners are folded toward the center point and held through all the layers with a star brad from "very deep stash!"  I tied some pretty ribbon and gold cord to a toothpick and then adhered the pinwheel to the top.  It is so cute and sparkly!  (However, because it is adhered with a glue dot in this instance, it no longer turns.)  The sheer ribbon and wispy streamers definitely give it a sparkler/fireworks kind of vibe.  (Do you remember having those sheer plastic pinwheels to play with when you were little?!)

Here's the inside, with the addition of a star and sentiment.  

Stay safe as you celebrate (be careful on the water or the road, or with those fireworks!) and remember as you celebrate that our freedom is not free!  God bless America!

Supplies:

• Stamp Simply Clear Stamps - Patriotic Background
• Stamp Simply Clear Stamps - Old Glory
• Stamp Simply Clear Stamps - Patriotic Sentiments
• Echo Park Let Freedom Ring 6x6
• Spellbinders Classic Square Dies-Small (for pinwheel)
• May Arts 1.5" Sheer Glitter Dots - 30 yard spool - Gold
• Copic markers
• gold distress oxide ink 
• thin gold metallic cord
• a very old tiny star brad! 
• a toothpick