Clean and simple cards are so hard for me but this sentiment helps take up the bottom part of this card and I only had to add three leaves to it and some subtle bling. It looks so pretty and I love that white space.
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Happy World Cardmaking Day! I’m so excited that Scrapbook.com sent over some products from the newest Tim Hotlz release and I’m super excited to share my cards with you!
When I took a look at the Twig & Stump die set, I was really confused because there were so many pieces — so much so that I thought I got a manufacturer error with extra projects but nope! The cool thing about this die set is that it contains enough dies for you to create FIVE different snowmen!
I set out to do a bunch of die cutting and I started to put my pieces together to form my snowmen. Once I glued down the pieces that I could put together, I set out to create my three cards.
PROJECT #1
Features Sizzix/Tim Holtz’s Twig & Stump along with Scrapbookcom’s Peppermint Paper Pad
For my first card, I really used as many of the dies I put together as I could. For the background, I ink blended the pink cardstock from the Scrapbookcom’s Peppermint paper pad, with Dusty Concord Distress ink and splattered it with Perfect Pearls. For an added touch, I added Diamond Stickles on all the ornaments that went on the tree.
PROJECT #2
Features Sizzix/Tim Holtz’s Twig & Stump along with Scrapbookcom’s Peppermint Paper Pad, Peppermint Winter Stencil
This second card features a third snowman (Stump from the Twig and Stump die set) and he’ll be holding the Winter Wishes sentiment, while standing on a bunch of gifts in the snow. I think it’s super cute and I love how you can use the twig arms for so many different positions. For the background, I used another piece of cardstock from the Peppermint Paper Pad and ink blended around the edges (with Chipped Sapphire & Black Soot) as well as adding white pigment ink at the bottom for a “snow” effect. I decided to trim it down to a square and pop it up on pink cardstock, which I ink blended the Peppermint Winter Stencil to do some tone on tone ink blending.
PROJECT #3
Features Sizzix/Tim Holtz’s Twig & Stump and Pine Branches embossing folder along with Scrapbookcom’s Peppermint Paper Pad
My last card features the last two snowmen from the Twig & Stump die set, which works perfectly because they are looking at each other! First, I went ahead and pulled a piece of cardstock from the Scrapbookcom’s Peppermint Paper pad and used it with Pine Branches embossing folder. I added white pigment ink with my fingers right on top of the raised edges so it gives a snowy look to the branches – funny enough, it almost looks like a dark green (to me)! I set up the snowmen and added little sentiments to them from the Scrapbookcom’s Wordfetti Fa La La stamp set, which is super versatile for so many holiday sentiments. I thought it would be funny to create a fun conversation between the two snowmen.
I hope you enjoyed seeing all the cards I created using the die set — Once you die cut everything out, you’ll have five snowmen ready to go and you can use it for a variety of cards! Remember to stop by Scrapbook.com to check out the newest items from Tim Hotlz.
Using metallic watercolors on black watercolor paper is super fun! Add a stencil into the mix and you have endless ideas — but it is finicky. The consistency of the watercolor has to be right, not too wet but not too dry. Once you get the hang of it, it works really well and gives you a cool effect on black!
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Happy Wednesday — I’m sharing this magical birthday card today and I’m so happy with how it turned out. I love a background stamp that can help set a scene for you and this is one of them. Although it will stamp out a 6×6 background, I really wanted to showcase the Stars stencil as well, so my solution was to cut a partial part of it! What do you think?
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Every year when spooky season rolls around, I pull out this little trick of creating ghosts using vellum. It’s one of my favorite things to do and it looks so cool too!
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Some images just are meant to be swapped out for a letter — especially with this giant Yay. It was so perfect. Originally, I planned for a very simple card but alas, I’m terrible at keeping things simple. Are you a clean and simple cardmaker or are you like me?
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I LOVE FALL — it’s my favorite and the changing of the leaves is one of my favorite parts about it. I used the Mica Distress Spray Stains for a bit of added shine (it’s hard to tell in photographs but it’s there and it’s so gorgeous).
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One of my favorite kind of cards to make! Scene Cards! They are so fun because you can interpret scene cards in so many different ways and use stamps that are standalone in a new way. It’s great for really stretching your stamps and giving your own view on them! That’s what I did here:
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I have a mental “crafty company bucket list”, which is a list of crafty companies that I love that I’d be so happy to guest design for – and Hero Arts is definitely one of them! And proximity wise, they are the closest to me (sometimes they have warehouse sales and it’s so fun to actually go into their store!)
Anyway, I did a guest design blog post for them featuring two cards so please go check it out here.
But surprise! I also have a full length YouTube video featuring one of them!
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This is one of the two cards I shared but keep your eyes peeled, I’ll have a quick reel sharing how I put together my second card features in the blog post soon too!
Ever use the positive piece of a die cut positive to get the mirrored version of it? I did it here for a simple reflection. It’s such an easy trick for a cool look!
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Ever have an idea in your head and then when you start working on it, it already looks off? It always happens for me but I power through because I want to see how it turns out. Spoiler alert – most of the time, it turns out ok but you wouldn’t know unless you tried it!
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Got medical tape in your stash? I pull this out every Halloween for at least one of my cards — and it’s an easy way to create a fun background for a spooky card. See how I did it below.
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