Prairie Paper & Ink

Honey Bee Stamps Spring Blossoms Wedding Card | Distress Ink Watercolor

Hello everyone! I made a couple of cards using Honey Bee Stamps Spring Blossoms stamp set along with their Mr and Mrs stamps and dies:

I stamped the flowers and leaves from the Honey Bee Spring Blossoms set onto Distress Watercolor cardstock with Versafine Onyx Black ink and heat embossed them with clear embossing powder. I then used Distress Inks and my water brush to color them all in before die cutting them with their coordinating dies.

I stamped the images onto my card bases with a light grey ink, then adhered everything to it with foam tape. The sentiments are from Honey Bee's Mr and Mrs stamp set and coordinating dies set.

On the inside of the cards I stamped the flowers and leaves using the same Distress Inks that I'd used to watercolor the ones on the outside. I then stamped sentiments from the Mr and Mrs set with the Versafine Onyx black ink and that was it!

To see how this card came together check out my video below: 

Or watch in HD over on YouTube HERE <-------click!

I get asked a lot about where to purchase the supplies I use in my videos and blog posts. I list all the supplies I use at the end of my posts (below) or in the description box directly below my video on YouTube. 

Compensated affiliate links used when possible at no extra cost to you. Affiliate linking is what keeps my blog and YouTube channel up and running and enables me to work from home and provide for my children! I appreciate your support more than words can say! I occasionally receive product for free from stores/manufacturer with no obligation on my part to use/review - I only use and share what I personally love. Everything else I purchase myself!   

Quick & Easy Watercolor Cards | SSS One Cool Pineapple Set

ETA: Oops! I forgot to let y'all know that this weekend use the code SMILE when shopping at Simon Says Stamp and get a FREE gift with purchase!

Click HERE to shop SSS <-------click!

Hello everyone! It's Friday!!!

Apologies for the lack of posts and videos lately. I had a horrible chest cold last week that developed into a case of walking pneumonia (so nowhere near as serious as full-blown pneumonia - but still not fun). I got in to see my doctor and got loaded up with antibiotics and am already starting to feel a bit better. I'm resting as much as I can (with 4 kids to take care of LOL - irony....) but I still need to get posts and videos up as this is my full time+ job and I can't pay the rent or buy groceries otherwise!

I'd filmed this video a week ago and it's taken me 'till now to get it edited and uploaded. Like I mention in the video the Simon Says Stamp July Card Kit is still available but won't be for much longer - I've linked to the kit at the end of my post but you can also get the stamp set and everything individually. If you missed my unboxing video you can watch that here:

 SSS July 2018 Card Kit Unboxing! | Cool Summer Card Kit

OK on to the cards:

I made 6 cards using the One Cool Pineapple stamp set in the kit - I LOVE this set! Love the big sentiments and the quirky/cute images that go along with them. I couldn't decide on which one to use so I made cards with all of them lol!

I stamped the sentiments and images onto Arteza watercolor paper with SSS Intense Black ink, then used my Arteza Real Brush pens and a water brush to color them all in.

I die cut all the panels with Simon's largest Stitched Rectangle wafer die, and added highlights and whatnot with a bold white Gelly Roll pen.

I also stepped them up with a bunch of Tonic Nuvo Glitter and Gloss drops - kind of obsessed with those still and love adding them to everything lol.

To finish off the insides of all the cards I stamped the main images multiple times using various Distress Oxide inks - and that was it!

To see how these cards came together check out my video below:

Or watch in HD over on YouTube HERE <-------click!

I get asked a lot about where to purchase the supplies I use in my videos and blog posts. I list all the supplies I use at the end of my posts (below) or in the description box directly below my video on YouTube. 

Compensated affiliate links used when possible at no extra cost to you. Affiliate linking is what keeps my blog and YouTube channel up and running and enables me to work from home and provide for my children! I appreciate your support more than words can say! I occasionally receive product for free from stores/manufacturer with no obligation on my part to use/review - I only use and share what I personally love. Everything else I purchase myself!   

Anniversary Card with Lawn Fawn Screen Time Set | Copic Markers

Oh Monday - it's been frustrating already BUT I have a card and video using some of the new Lawn Fawn that I showed in my last post!!

This is a 4.25" square card.

I used Lawn Fawns new Screen Time stamp set to make this card, and drew the little couch for them to sit on as I didn't have anything that would work. 

I used a whole bunch of Copic markers to color in all the images - I have the colors listed in the video as I use them but also included a pic here for reference. 

I used some mini scalloped stitched dies from my stash to cut some of the Lawn Fawn Really Rainbow patterned papers (that I've been hoarding along with everything else) - using an oval die for the purple paper (it's the "rug") and square dies for the white card stock and rainbow paper.

I finished off the inside of the card with a sentiment from the Screen Time stamp set, and then used Lawn Fawn's Happy Happy Happy stamp set and the coordinating dies to create the "Happy" and stamp the anniversary and that was it!

To see how this card came together just check out my video below:

Or watch in HD over on YouTube HERE <------click!

I get asked a lot about where to purchase the supplies I use in my videos and blog posts. I list all the supplies I use at the end of my posts (below) or in the description box directly below my video on YouTube. 

Compensated affiliate links used when possible at no extra cost to you. Affiliate linking is what keeps my blog and YouTube channel up and running and enables me to work from home and provide for my children! I appreciate your support more than words can say! I occasionally receive product for free from stores/manufacturer with no obligation on my part to use/review - I only use and share what I personally love. Everything else I purchase myself!   

Lawn Fawn Summer 2018 Haul!

Hey everyone!

So Lawn Fawn's Summer release <-------click! to check it out! was adorable as usual. I ordered a bunch of it when it was made available last month, and Canada Post took over a MONTH to get it here to me.

BUT it's here (and I actually USED some of it already lol - those that know me know I tend to hoard LF goodies - it's something I like to collect and pet....but a card and video will be coming ASAP!) and it was requested that I still do a haul video on what I got even though it's "old" news now:

You can watch in HD over on YouTube HERE <------click!

I get asked a lot about where to purchase the supplies I use in my videos and blog posts. I list all the supplies I use at the end of my posts (below) or in the description box directly below my video on YouTube. 

Compensated affiliate links used when possible at no extra cost to you. Affiliate linking is what keeps my blog and YouTube channel up and running and enables me to work from home and provide for my children! I appreciate your support more than words can say! I occasionally receive product for free from stores/manufacturer with no obligation on my part to use/review - I only use and share what I personally love. Everything else I purchase myself!   

Glazed Distress Oxide Backgrounds + SSS Good Vibes Blog Hop + Giveaway!

Hey everyone! It's time for Day 2 of the Simon Says Stamp Good Vibes release blog hop!

First off - if you haven't checked out this release you can do that HERE <------click! Also if you use the code PUFFY you get a free gift with purchase!

I did a Release & Review video on all these goodies - if you missed that you can check out my post below:

 Simon Says Stamp Good Vibes Release & Review! | June 2018

There is also a GIVEAWAY happening with this hop - more on that at the end of this post!

Today is Day 2 of the hop - if you missed Day 1 and all their inspiration you can check that out HERE.

If you didn't get here from Yoonsun's blog you can start at the Simon Says Stamp blog (and I'll have links to the hop posts near the end of this post as well).

OK on to my cards:

I created a couple of really fun backgrounds using Distress Oxide inks on Ranger Glossy paper using Distress Micro Glaze to bring out all the detail!

I wanted watery looking backgrounds so that I could have these new Summer Cuddly Critters "floating" in the water for the cards. Are these images not adorable?

I stamped the critters and the companion images onto Neenah Classic Crest 80lb card stock with Simon's Intense Black ink then coloured them all in with Copics. I added highlights with a white gel pen, and shimmer with a Nuvo Aqua Shimmer Pen. I coated the sunglasses and hearts and beach ball with Crystal Glaze, and added several Nuvo Crystal Drops to my background.

I used a TON of Copics to color in all the images LOL!

I finished off the insides of the cards by stamping the main images and bubbles with Distress Oxide Inks and then stamped sentiments with the Intense Black ink and that was it!

To see how these cards came together check out my video below:

Or watch in HD over on YouTube HERE <-------click!

Next stop on the hop is Jean's blog! <------click!

And if you missed any of the stops you can find them all here:

Simon Says Stamp Blog 

Debby Hughes

Laura Bassen

Yana Smakula

Yoonsun Hur

Amy Rysavy

Jean Manis

Vicky Papaioannou

Jenn Shurkus

Barb Engler

Lisa Addesa

Lea Lawson

Stephanie Low

Olga Direktorenko

Heather Ruwe

 

I get asked a lot about where to purchase the supplies I use in my videos and blog posts. I list all the supplies I use at the end of my posts (below) or in the description box directly below my video on YouTube. 

Compensated affiliate links used when possible at no extra cost to you. Affiliate linking is what keeps my blog and YouTube channel up and running and enables me to work from home and provide for my children! I appreciate your support more than words can say! I occasionally receive product for free from stores/manufacturer with no obligation on my part to use/review - I only use and share what I personally love. Everything else I purchase myself!  

Now for the GIVEAWAY!!

Simon is giving away a $25 coupon to every stop on the hop from each blog's comment section. Simon will choose the winners over the weekend and post on their Simon Says Stamp store blog on Wednesday. The winner can email Simon Says Stamp to claim his/her prize :)

Thanks for stopping by today and good luck!

SSS July 2018 Card Kit Unboxing! | Cool Summer Card Kit

It's here!!! The July Simon Says Stamp Card Kit showed up and I lost NO time getting it open and filming the unboxing video!

You can watch in HD over on YouTube HERE <-------click!

And here are the links!: 

I get asked a lot about where to purchase the supplies I use in my videos and blog posts. I list all the supplies I use at the end of my posts (below) or in the description box directly below my video on YouTube. 

Compensated affiliate links used when possible at no extra cost to you. Affiliate linking is what keeps my blog and YouTube channel up and running and enables me to work from home and provide for my children! I appreciate your support more than words can say! I occasionally receive product for free from stores/manufacturer with no obligation on my part to use/review - I only use and share what I personally love. Everything else I purchase myself!  

Simon Says Stamp Good Vibes Release & Review! | June 2018

Here's my Release & Review video for the Simon Says Stamp Good Vibes Release!

If you missed my post and video yesterday with cards using a few of these new products you can check that out below:

Distress Oxide Ink Backgrounds, Color Throwdown Challenge & SSS Good Vibes Release!

You can watch in HD over on YouTube HERE <------click!

And you can shop the whole release HERE <-------click!

I'll have more projects and videos coming soon (one for sure on Friday for Day 2 of the SSS Good Vibes blog hop!) using these products!

And here are links to everything I showed in order as well as things I mentioned:

I get asked a lot about where to purchase the supplies I use in my videos and blog posts. I list all the supplies I use at the end of my posts (below) or in the description box directly below my video on YouTube. 

Compensated affiliate links used when possible at no extra cost to you. Affiliate linking is what keeps my blog and YouTube channel up and running and enables me to work from home and provide for my children! I appreciate your support more than words can say! I occasionally receive product for free from stores/manufacturer with no obligation on my part to use/review - I only use and share what I personally love. Everything else I purchase myself!   

Distress Oxide Ink Backgrounds, Color Throwdown Challenge & SSS Good Vibes Release!

So much going on in one post LOL!

First off - NEW goodies:

The Simon Says Stamp Good Vibes Release is now available!!

Click HERE <--------click! to check it all out! I'll film a Release & Review video for it first thing tomorrow morning (as I have the majority of it here shockingly! The July Kit is still a no-show, as are several other packages I'm waiting on. I really wish the USPS and Canada Post would figure out the issues of the last few months...).

Second - this week's Color Throwdown Challenge just went live:

You can check out what the rest of the team created HERE <------click! and play along with us if you'd like!

Here's what I created:

I had some fun creating multiple backgrounds using some Distress Oxide Inks on Distress Watercolor Cardstock.

 

I used Simon's new Debra wafer die (this one is huge - covers almost an entire A2 card front!) - on the first card I embossed it directly onto the Distress Watercolor Cardstock before painting on the Distress Oxide Inks. On the second I painted the background with the inks, and adhered the die cut over it.

For the last 2 cards I used the new Hibiscus Frame wafer die and adhered the first one directly to the background and the second one I popped up with foam tape.

The new Big Friend wafer die was used for the sentiments on all the cards, and I blinged them all out with jewels in similar colors.

I finished off all the insides of the cards with sentiments from Simon's Loving Heart stamp set that I stamped with the same colors of Distress Oxide ink and that was it!

To see how these cards came together check out my video below:

Or watch in HD over on YouTube HERE <------click!

I get asked a lot about where to purchase the supplies I use in my videos and blog posts. I list all the supplies I use at the end of my posts (below) or in the description box directly below my video on YouTube. 

Compensated affiliate links used when possible at no extra cost to you. Affiliate linking is what keeps my blog and YouTube channel up and running and enables me to work from home and provide for my children! I appreciate your support more than words can say! I occasionally receive product for free from stores/manufacturer with no obligation on my part to use/review - I only use and share what I personally love. Everything else I purchase myself!   

SSS Watercolor Sheet Cards | Daniel Smith Watercolor

So I FINALLY got around to making cards from some of the Simon Says Stamp Daniel Smith watercolor pages that I'd coloured in some time ago!

I show them as they come and how I coloured in one of them in the video. I REALLY like these for "on the go colouring" - I can pop em in a bag with a water brush and a paper towel or cloth (to wipe my brush off on) and then color in front of the TV or when waiting for appointments or when I'm sitting in the car waiting to pick up my kids!

So for all three panels I used just the watercolor dots that come on these sheets and my little water brush to color in everything. Once they were dry (which they were as it was some time later lol) I die cut all of them with the largest stitched rectangle wafer die from SSS.

To make them into cards I used my Xyron Creative Station Lite and coated a bunch of card stock with adhesive then die cut multiple layers of white, slate and black card stock using three different Simon sentiment wafer dies. I stacked them all up before adhering them to my cards. I also blinged them up just a bit with some jewel's from Lucy's Cards.

I finished off the insides of the cards with sentiments from the Handlettered Encouragement and Loving Hearts stamp sets and that was it!

To see how these cards came together check out my video below: 

Or watch in HD over on YouTube HERE <-------click!

I get asked a lot about where to purchase the supplies I use in my videos and blog posts. I list all the supplies I use at the end of my posts (below) or in the description box directly below my video on YouTube. 

Compensated affiliate links used when possible at no extra cost to you. Affiliate linking is what keeps my blog and YouTube channel up and running and enables me to work from home and provide for my children! I appreciate your support more than words can say! I occasionally receive product for free from stores/manufacturer with no obligation on my part to use/review - I only use and share what I personally love. Everything else I purchase myself!   

Honey Bee Stamps Donut Shaped Cards

Just a quick post and quick video to share these fun Donut shaped cards using Honey Bee Stamps and dies!

Also just an FYI - I uploaded this video to the Honey Bee channel and blog, and then upload to my own. We have different audiences hence the dual uploads (and it's part of my job). I just wanted to clarify that as there have been a few questions and complaints about it from some who don't understand the reason behind it!

Anywho - these cards were FUN to make. I die cut a bunch of fun colors of card stock (I used some older textured card stock I had in my stash. It isn't available anymore so I linked to a bunch of similar card stocks in colors and brands that I personally use frequently and love) and made these 4 donut-shaped cards using Honey Bee's Donut Card wafer die set.

I finished off the inside of the cards with more die cut and heat-embossed sentiments and that was it!

To see how these cards came together check out my video below:

Or watch in HD over on YouTube HERE <-------click!

I get asked a lot about where to purchase the supplies I use in my videos and blog posts. I list all the supplies I use at the end of my posts (below) or in the description box directly below my video on YouTube. 

Compensated affiliate links used when possible at no extra cost to you. Affiliate linking is what keeps my blog and YouTube channel up and running and enables me to work from home and provide for my children! I appreciate your support more than words can say! I occasionally receive product for free from stores/manufacturer with no obligation on my part to use/review - I only use and share what I personally love. Everything else I purchase myself!   

Simon Says Stamp SITEWIDE Sale!!

Woot woot! You can shop Simon Says Stamp HERE <--------click! and save 15% site wide with the code SUM675 

The Simon Says Stamp July Card kit is now available <------click! (not part of any sales as it's already discounted) however if you just want any of the individual items you can get those and use the coupon code! 

Whimsy Stamps Watercolor Scene Card | Mission Gold Watercolor

I made a NON-A2 sized card! Crazy (for me) right? This is actually a 4x8.25" card - a rather odd size but I explain why in the video and this will fit in a business size envelope.

I had fun creating this little scene using 2 different Whimsy Stamps sets - Bunny Balloons and Fly By. I didn't have a hot air balloon image but if I'd had I'd have stamped it on the inside as that's how these bunnies get rescued (does anyone else come up with stories in their heads when making cards? I don't always but ones like this totally create their own stories...).

I stamped the images onto Arches Cold Press watercolor paper (trying to force myself to use it more as it really IS beautiful to watercolor on) with Ink on 3's Blackout ink then watercoloring it all with my Mijello Mission Gold watercolors.

I finished off the inside of the card with a sentiment from the Bunny Balloons stamp set and the clouds from the Fly By set and that was it!

To see how these cards came together check out my video below:

 

Or watch in HD over on YouTube HERE <--------click!

I get asked a lot about where to purchase the supplies I use in my videos and blog posts. I list all the supplies I use at the end of my posts (below) or in the description box directly below my video on YouTube. 

Compensated affiliate links used when possible at no extra cost to you. Affiliate linking is what keeps my blog and YouTube channel up and running and enables me to work from home and provide for my children! I appreciate your support more than words can say! I occasionally receive product for free from stores/manufacturer with no obligation on my part to use/review - I only use and share what I personally love. Everything else I purchase myself!   

Heffy Doodle First Birthday Blog Hop!

Hey everyone! I'm hopping along with a bunch of other fabulous designers to celebrate Heffy Doodle Stamps turning 1!!! Stay tuned to the end of this post as there's GIVEAWAY info as well!

I'll have links to everyone at the end of the post - if you didn't get here from Francesca's blog <----click! you can start at the beginning HERE <------click!

Heffy Doodle had a big release in June with a bunch of fabulous stamps, dies and stencils - you can check those out HERE <------click!

I used the new Wingman stamp set and coordinating dies, along with the Unbe-leaf-able Stencil and Thanks Heffy Cuts die to create this set of 4 cards.

I stamped all the birds and images onto Neenah Classic Crest Solar White 80lb card stock with Ink on 3's Blackout ink then coloured them all in with my Copic Markers. 

The backgrounds were done with the Unbe-leaf-able stencil and Distress Oxide inks - I sponged the inks and kept rotating the card stock each time I used a different color.

I finished off the inside of the card by sponging one of the leaves with Twisted Citron Distress Oxide ink and stamped a sentiment from the Wingman stamp set with the Blackout ink and that was it!

To see how these cards came together check out my video below: 

Or watch in HD over on YouTube HERE <------click!

Next stop on the hop is Lesley's blog! <------click!

And here are all the hop links in case you missed any:

Heffy Doodle

Heather Hoffman

Laura Sterckx

Crystal Thompson

Nina-Marie Trapani

Cassie Tezak

Jessica Frost-Ballas

Angelica Conrad

Dennice Watts

Sandy Allnock

Nichol Spohr

Jessica McAfee Mercer

Mona Toth

Tallie Clewley

Julie Ebersole

Laura Volpes

Sindhu Prajay

Isha Gupta

Kelly Martin

Rubeena Ianigro

Ali Farmer

Laura Bassen

Francesca Vignoli

Amy Rysavy

Lesley Oman

 

I get asked a lot about where to purchase the supplies I use in my videos and blog posts. I list all the supplies I use at the end of my posts (below) or in the description box directly below my video on YouTube. 

Compensated affiliate links used when possible at no extra cost to you. Affiliate linking is what keeps my blog and YouTube channel up and running and enables me to work from home and provide for my children! I appreciate your support more than words can say! I occasionally receive product for free from stores/manufacturer with no obligation on my part to use/review - I only use and share what I personally love. Everything else I purchase myself!   

Now for the GIVEAWAY!!

Two lucky winners will receive a £50 voucher to the Heffy Doodle store. Leave a comment on each stop to qualify. Comment eligibility will close on 6/23/2018 at 12pm PDT

Winners will be announced on June 24th on the Heffy Doodle Blog

Thanks for stopping by and good luck!

SSS Beautiful Flowers Take 4 | Distress Oxide Watercolor

Hey everyone!

This week's Color Throwdown Challenge just went up:

You can check out what the rest of the team created HERE <------click! and play along if you'd like!

Here's what I came up with:

I pulled out (surprise surprise) the Simon Says Stamp Beautiful Flowers stamp set to make my card. I honestly had other stamps and dies pulled out to create with using these colors - but this wet was just BEGGING to be inked up again LOL!

I stamped the large floral image onto Bristol Smooth card stock with Versafine Onyx Black ink then watercolored it in with Distress Oxide inks. I show in the video how I fixed the mess I made after I smeared the splatters I'd created. I'm actually glad in the end that I did that as it made me go through my border dies and pulled out a couple that I hadn't used in some time. I used Simon's Sunrise Border die with SSS Lemon Chiffon card stock, and the Painted Friend die with the Surf Blue Cardstock.

I also added some bling with Studio Katia's Iridescent Hearts and Iridescent Crystals.

I finished off the inside of the card by stamping the large floral with Simon's Surf Blue ink then stamping a sentiment from the set and that was it!

To see how these cards came together check out my video below: 

Or watch in HD over on YouTube HERE <------click!

I get asked a lot about where to purchase the supplies I use in my videos and blog posts. I list all the supplies I use at the end of my posts (below) or in the description box directly below my video on YouTube. 

Compensated affiliate links used when possible at no extra cost to you. Affiliate linking is what keeps my blog and YouTube channel up and running and enables me to work from home and provide for my children! I appreciate your support more than words can say! I occasionally receive product for free from stores/manufacturer with no obligation on my part to use/review - I only use and share what I personally love. Everything else I purchase myself!     

Simon Says Stamp Spring Haul! | SSS 2018

Hey everyone! I've amassed quite a bit of new(er) Simon Says Stamp stamps, dies and stencils so I thought I'd do a collective "haul" video of these bits and pieces from the most recent 2 releases!

 

You can watch in HD over on YouTube HERE <-------click!

HERE's a link to the SSS Sending Sunshine release <-------click!

And here are all the links to the Fluttering By release:

And here are links to everything I showed in the video!

I get asked a lot about where to purchase the supplies I use in my videos and blog posts. I list all the supplies I use at the end of my posts (below) or in the description box directly below my video on YouTube. 

Compensated affiliate links used when possible at no extra cost to you. Affiliate linking is what keeps my blog and YouTube channel up and running and enables me to work from home and provide for my children! I appreciate your support more than words can say! I occasionally receive product for free from stores/manufacturer with no obligation on my part to use/review - I only use and share what I personally love. Everything else I purchase myself!