Prairie Paper & Ink

Super Saturday! 2 STAMPtember® Collab Sets: Mama Elephant & Picket Fence Studios

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Hello hello friends! Welcome to STAMPtember®'s second SUPER SATURDAY - where there are TWO collab sets released! I have projects and videos for each so be sure to scroll down this long post to see it all!

Today's STAMPtember® collabs are with Mama Elephant and Picket Fence Studios!

First off we have the Limited Edition Mama Elephant Merry Greeters Stamp and Die Set

OR the Limited Edition Mama Elephant Merry Greeters Stamp Set

Next is the Limited Edition Picket Fence Studios Trimming the Tree Stamp and Die Set 

OR

the Limited Edition Picket Fence Studios Trimming the Tree Stamp Set

With all the collab sets released this month they are one and done. Meaning when they sell out they are not restocked and are gone for good. There will be PLENTY of amazing sets released this month and I hope to have video inspiration for all of them so stay tuned.

As of posting this there are still these Limited Edition sets available:

Limited Edition AlteNew Beautiful Lily Stamp and Die Set HERE

Limited Edition AlteNew Beautiful Lily Stamp Set HERE

Limited Edition PinkFresh Studio Just Start Stamp and Die Set HERE

Limited Edition PinkFresh Studio Just Start Stamp Set HERE

Limited Edition Whimsy Stamps Pawsitively Awesome Stamp Set HERE

Limited Edition Home Sweet Haunted Home Halloween Card Kit HERE

OK here's what I made with the newest collabs:

I made fun little shaker tags with the Mama Elephant Merry Greeters set and Mama Elephants Hexatag wafer die set.

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

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

Follow me on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube! You can also consider supporting me on my Patreon!

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! 

I then went clean and simple for my card using the Trimming the Tree set from Picket Fence Studios:

I used an action wobble behind the deer image so it's popped up and moves. I kept the card clean and simple as I wanted the image and sentiment from the Trimming the Tree set to stand out - tho I still added some glitter and bling 😉.

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

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

Follow me on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube! You can also consider supporting me on my Patreon!

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! 

Valentine Mixed Media Tags | AmyR 2022 Valentine's Card Series #11

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Hello friends! I have one last video to share with y'all for my 2022 Valentine's Series (and this one is as full-on-Valentine-themed as it can get lol). If you've missed any of the previous ones you can find them all here:

Easy Rainbow Watercolor Backgrounds | AmyR 2022 Valentine's Card Series #1

One Stamp, Two Cards, NO Coloring | AmyR 2022 Valentine's Card Series #2

First Attempt with Pigment Deco Brush Markers | AmyR 2022 Valentine's Card Series #3

Foiled and Textured Cards | AmyR 2022 Valentine's Card Series #4

EASY Stencilled Hearts Cards | AmyR 2022 Valentine's Card Series #5

Miss You Friend Mixed Media Style Cards | AmyR 2022 Valentine's Card Series #6

Hugs Card Using Transfer Gel Duo | AmyR 2022 Valentine's Card Series #7

Faux Foiled Galaxy Background | AmyR 2022 Valentine's Card Series #8

HB Lovely Layers: Roses Mixed Media Card | AmyR 2022 Valentine's Card Series #9

Layered Birdie Sending Love Card | AmyR 2022 Valentine's Card Series #10

I created a bunch of tags to attach to bags of candy I plan to give to my kids for Valentine's Day. For the tags themselves I used these #8 Dina Wakley White Media tags - they're heavyweight and stand up well to a ton of inks, sprays, layers, etc etc. I used several Distress Spray Stains to color them, and then mixed up some Transparent Gloss Texture Paste with Icicle Crackle Paste and Simon's Unicorn Dust Glitter. I used that mix over Simon's Large Falling Hearts Stencil.

I used Simon's Love Day stamp and die set for the characters and sentiment, and the Big XOXO wafer dies on the tag itself.

I stamped blank tags with this large sentiment from the XL Love Greetings stamp set with Picked Raspberry Distress Oxide ink then adhered them to the backs of all the tags. I added a bunch of ribbon and twine from my stash and all that's left is to attach them to bags of candy!

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

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

Follow me on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube! You can also consider supporting me on my Patreon!

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! 

Easy Boo Boxes for Halloween Treats | MFT Boo Box Dies | AmyR Halloween 2020 Series #9

Hey everyone!! I am back with another Halloween video! In case you missed any of the previous ones thus far here are link to all of them:

Multiple Glimmer Hot Foil Halloween Cards | AmyR Halloween 2020 Series #8

CZ Design Batty For You Easy Halloween Card | AmyR Halloween 2020 Series #7

SSS Happy Haunting Slimline Card | AmyR Halloween 2020 Series #6

Mama Elephant Little Ghosts & Mummies | AmyR Halloween 2020 Series #5

The Boo Crew Slimline Cards | AmyR Halloween 2020 Series #4

Easy Die-Cut Spooky Cards | AmyR Halloween 2020 Series #3

Halloween Card Using NON-Halloween Background | AmyR Halloween 2020 Series #2

Glow in the Dark Wobble Cards | AmyR Halloween 2020 Series #1

So for today's video I didn't make cards - I made several ADORABLE little treat boxes using my MFT Boo Box Die-namics set:

Aren't they CUTE?!?! I bought this die set a month or so ago and finally got the chance to sit down and create with it. It's meant to make the cute bat box you see in the centre, but while I was making it I started thinking of other ways I could create with it and ended up with a variety of different treat boxes by just mixing up the colors and the ways I used the dies in the original Boo Box Die-namics set.

First up is the original batty Boo Box.

Then a Vampire Boo Box with grey card stock and no wings.

I made Frankensteins Monster by making the box in green and adding "hair" with black card stock die cut with the top portion of the base die. I added neck bolts to the sides to finish it off.

A Jack-O-Lantern Boo Box in orange card stock.

Last but not least a Mummy Boo Box wrapped in cheesecloth strips.

These were SO fun to make, and I made several of each design for my kids. Our plan is to do a scavenger hunt for them instead of Trick or Treating this year (thanks Covid - tho also there's a good chance it's going to be really cold on top of it - we got snow last night and it's COLD this weekend!), so we'll have them all filled with candy and their names on them and they can hunt around the house. I think it will be a lot of fun!

Anywho - if you want to see how these came together check out my video below:

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

Follow me on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube! You can also consider supporting me on my Patreon!

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! 

Mama Elephant Little Ghosts & Mummies | AmyR Halloween 2020 Series #5

Hello friends!! I'm back with another Halloween video!! In case you missed any of the previous ones (I've been posting a LOT for STAMPtember) you can find them all here:

The Boo Crew Slimline Cards | AmyR Halloween 2020 Series #4

Easy Die-Cut Spooky Cards | AmyR Halloween 2020 Series #3

Halloween Card Using NON-Halloween Background | AmyR Halloween 2020 Series #2

Glow in the Dark Wobble Cards | AmyR Halloween 2020 Series #1

So now on to today's cards (and bookmark!):

I created 2 slimline cards and a bookmark with an assortment of Mama Elephant stamps and dies and some stencils from My Favorite Things.

These are 3.5 x 8.5" slimline cards.

I used both the Little Mummy Agenda set and Little Boo Agenda set for these cards and bookmark. I stamped all the images onto Neenah Classic Crest Solar White 80lb card stock with Simon's Intense Black ink and coloured them in with Copic Markers.

Mama Elephant's Slim Film City wafer die set was used for both cards, and on the backgrounds I used MFT's Cloud stencil and Ray of Light Stencil with Distress inks. On the cloud layer die cut I used MFT's Card Sized Star Confetti Stencil.

For the sentiments on the card I used Mama Elephant's Happy wafer die and spelled out Halloween with the Lots of Letters stamp set. I added a BUNCH of bling using Bat-tastic Sprinkles, and Studio Katia Iridescent Stars and Studio Katia Neon Tangerine Crystals.

Since I had SO MANY images I made a bookmark too. I die cut the base with Mama Elephant's Bookmark It dies and sentiments from the Good Reads stamp set.

I finished off the insides of the cards with the leftover images from the Little Mummy Agenda and Little Boo Agenda sets and that was it!

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

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

Follow me on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube! You can also consider supporting me on my Patreon!

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! 

Aviation Gin Tag & Shaker Card | AmyR 2019 Christmas Series #17

Hi everyone!!

It has been crazy - so much random drama. As usual my plans to post a ton of videos for y'all were thwarted HOWEVER stay tuned - I have this one up now and plenty more coming over the holidays!

SO - I needed a gift for a friend and booze is always a good idea. Instead of getting a bottle of wine I went a little fancy and got her a bottle of Aviation Gin (AKA the gin company owned by Ryan Reynolds - the ads he does for it alone are worth it IMO LOL!). I wasn't going to give her JUST the gin tho - I needed to personalize it a bit:

I used My Favorite Things Wine Tag Die-namics and Sip Sip Hooray Die-namics to create a shaker tag for the bottle. I made the tag from black card stock and used gold glitter card stock on the "inside" of the shaker tag, which I then filled with gold confetti and gold and clear microbeads. I also used Studio Katia black foam tape for the shaker which is SO perfect to have on hand (and it's a HUGE roll!).

I needed to add a card as well - so I pulled out MFT's Martini Shaker Window & Frame Die-namics and the Martini Shaker pouches.

I used MFT's Card-Sized Star Confetti Stencil on the black card stock with Delicata Golden Glitz ink and Gold Perfect Pearl Powder. I sprayed that with Gold Sheer Shimmer Craft Spray so the entire background is sparkly.

The window was die cut with the Martini Shaker Window & Frame Die-namics, I inserted the matching shaker pouch and filled it with the same confetti and beads as the shaker tag.

The "martini glass" was die cut from Tonic's Holo Waves card - it is SO perfect for glass die cuts! 

The sentiment is from MFT's Sassy Pants Holiday set - it's one of my favorite sets. I gold heat embossed it on white card stock and popped it onto the card with more foam tape.

I finished off the inside of the card with more stencilled stars and another sentiment from the Sassy Pants Holiday set and that was it!

To see how this all 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! 

If you missed any of my previous Christmas projects this year you can find them all below!!

Honey Bee Gift Card Present Box & Stocking Gift Card Holder Assembly

Hello everyone! Welcome to #15 of my Christmas series - today's post has TWO videos. I'll have both of them here in the post and then links to all the other Christmas posts below!

I used Honey Bee's Gift Card Present Box Honey Cuts dies to make these 2 festive gift card holders. They come together REALLY easily and you can jazz them up however you'd like with patterned papers and embellishments or other Honey Bee stamps and Honey Cuts dies.

I used Honey Bee's Holiday Traditions patterned papers to decorate my present boxes, and added some sentiments using the One-of-a-Kind stamp set and coordinating Honey Cuts dies. The "ribbon" was die cut from Tonic's Ruby Gemstone Cotton card. 

For the assembly of these Gift Card Present Boxes check out my video below:

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

Next I assembled Honey Bee's Stocking Gift Card Holders using more patterned papers from the Holiday Traditions 6x6 patterned papers. For the tops and heels/toes of the stockings I used Tonic's Snowdrop Meadow card.

I used the One-of-a-Kind stamps and coordinating Honey Cuts dies to embellish these gift card holders as well.

For the assembly video of these Stocking Gift Card Holders check out the 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! 

For all my previous Christmas posts you can find them all at the links below!

Making a Christmas Cabinet Card | Spellbinders Becca Feeken Holiday 2019 Release

Hello everyone!! 

I'm hopping along again with Spellbinders as part of the Becca Feeken Holiday Release blog hop! I'll have links to the other stops below as well as giveaway info!

I made my very first cabinet card with the new Holiday Cabinet wafer dies as well as the Reindeer Prancing Wafer Dies that coordinate:

I also went through my envelope stash and had an envelope sized for 5x7 cards that fits a cabinet card like this perfectly. The cabinet card goes flat REALLY easily so it's simple to mail - and it measures about 5x6" when flat.

I used an ivory card stock, and Tonic's Gold Pearl Satin card stock and Turquoise Lake Glitter Card Stocks to make up all the layers of the card.

My only other form of embellishment on the card were some Jade and Gold Crystals from Studio Katia that I adhered to the front panel along with some die cut snowflakes.

To finish off the envelope I used my Glimmer Hot Foil System and the new Hollyday Stationary & Envelope Corner Glimmer Hot Foil Plates. I used those with Gold Glimmer Foil on the envelope - it turned out SO pretty!!

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

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

If you missed any stops on the hop you can find them all here:

Spellbinders

Becca Feeken

Hussena Calcuttawala

Bibi Cameron

Amy Rysavy

Jean Manis

Varada Sharma

Pam Sparks

Melody Rupple

Karin Åkesdotter

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!!!

To celebrate this release, Spellbinders is giving away a $50 gift certificate to one lucky blog reader – selected from the comments across all of the blogs in the hop. Giveaway closes on Sunday, September 1st, 11:59 pm EDT. The winner will be announced in the blog hop post the following Tuesday. The winner is responsible for shipping cost, duties and taxes.

Thank you for stopping by and good luck! ❤️

Spellbinders Jane Davenport NEW Artomology + Making Faces Blog Hop

Happy Friday!!! I am SO excited to tell y'all that Spellbinders invited me to join in today's blog hop to showcase their new release with Jane Davenport! To celebrate this release Jane has a FREE Making Faces Workshop: Join Jane as she celebrates the global release of her groundbreaking ‘Making Faces’ collection. Each of these beauty inspired art supplies offer myriad creative tricks! The ‘Making Faces’ workshop is an online art class. This means you can tune in when convenient, enjoy the lessons at your own pace, rewind as needed and learn in your pajamas if that’s what suits you!

You can check out all the new Jane Davenport products HERE <-----click! - there are a TON of neat things to see!

As this is a blog hop I'll have links to all the other stops further down in my post and there's GIVEAWAY info as well!

Spellbinders was super generous and sent me a bunch of the new products, and I decided to film a "Release & Review" video for y'all so that you could SEE what everything looks like. I'd been checking it out online when it was all first released but like all things it makes more sense when you actually see some of it!

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

Here are links to everything I showed in the "Release & Review" portion of the video:

I made a couple of projects with the new products. The first one I was literally just playing around and ended up colouring in the swatch piece that comes with the Silky Skin Color Stick Collection:

I used the Color Sticks with the Blending Sponges, as well as some of the pens and the Silver Screen Pen. The "Queen" and the purple crown are from the new Queen for a Day die set and I adhered those on top and added some details and highlights with a white gel pen.

I also made a couple of clean and simple cards with the Tin of Friends stamps:

I stamped all the images from the set onto scraps of different coloured card stock that I'd trimmed to one inch squares. After they were all stamped I adhered them to white card bases with foam squares.

On the inside of the cards I stamped a sentiment from the Mindful Pause stamp set with Worn Lipstick Distress Ink and that was it!

Here are all the stops on the hop:

Spellbinders

Jane Davenport

Mayline Jung

Kate Palmer

Claudia White

Kathy Racoosin

Kathleen Graumüller

Bibi Cameron

Nina-Marie Trapani

Laura Volpes

Amy Rysavy

Svitlana Shayevich

Lynn Kramer-Put

Marie Heiderscheit

Yana Smakula

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!!!

To celebrate this release, Spellbinders is giving away a $50 gift certificate to 3 lucky blog readers – selected from the comments across all of the blogs in the hop. Giveaway closes on Sunday, July 7th 11:59 pm EDT. Winners will be announced in the Spellbinders blog hop post the following Monday. The winner is responsible for shipping cost, duties, and taxes.

Thank you for stopping by and good luck! ❤️

Waffle Flower Go Girl Cards and Bookmarks

Hello everyone!!

Waffle Flower's May Release just went live - you can check it out HERE or at the individual links below:

I'm part of a blog hop today to celebrate the release - if you didn't get here from Anna's blog you can start at the beginning HERE. I'll also have links to the other stops as well as giveaway info lower down in the post!

I couldn't resist the new Go Girl stamps and dies - there is SO many ways you can personalize and customize them!! Since I'm still getting over a horrible chest cold I kept things simpler today:

I used up a bunch of scraps of card stock and die cut everything with the new Go Girl dies. I stamped their faces onto card stock with Tea Dye Distress Oxide ink and fussy cut them with scissors. I stamped the different lip options with Festive Berries Oxide ink, then assembled them directly onto the cards and bookmarks.

The sunglass frames were die cut from Tonic Holo Waves foil card stock - they're literally holo in real life and just a fun bit of "bling". The bookmarks were made with the largest Dotted Tags wafer dies, and for the backgrounds of the card fronts I used the Diamond Texture wafer die.

I finished off the insides of the cards with more sentiments from the Go Girl stamp set and that was it!

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

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

OK next stop on the hop is Jessica's blog <------click!

And here are all the stops in case you missed any:

Waffle Flower

Anna Szczepanska

Amy Rysavy

Jessica Frost Ballas

Emily Midgett

Alix Davis

Kelli Cool

JJ Bolton

Channin Pelletier

Rebecca Keppel

Keeway Tsao

Nichol Spohr

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!

To celebrate the blog hop, Waffle Flower is giving away a $25 gift certificate to THREE lucky winners!! 

You can leave comment on my blog and along the hop by 11:59pm ET on 5/8/19 for your chances to win. Winners will be chosen at random from the comments left on any of the posts on this blog hop and will be announced on the Waffle Flower blog on 5/9/2019.

Thank you for stopping by and good luck!! ❤️❤️❤️

Easy MFT Nugget Treat Tags | AmyR Valentine 2019 Series #10

Hello everyone! I'm back with another video for my 2019 Valentine series - if you missed any of the previous ones so far you can find them all here:

Hey Dude | AmyR Valentine 2019 Series #9

Always & Forever | AmyR Valentine 2019 Series #8

Flat Shaker Cards | AmyR Valentine 2019 Series #7

Waffle Flower Group Hug | AmyR Valentine 2019 Series #6

Big Picture Book Animal Cards | AmyR Valentine 2019 Series #5

You're So Stinkin' Cute Card | AmyR Valentine 2019 Series #4

So Pun Friends Sloth Card | AmyR Valentine 2019 Series #3

Thinking of You | AmyR Valentine 2019 Series #2

Peace & Love Card | AmyR Valentine 2019 Series #1

SO, over the weekend I pulled out all the cute Die-namics and patterned paper and Hershey's nuggets to make some fun little Valentine tags:

These came together so quick and easy! I used My Favorite Things Treat Tags Die-namics for the bases and toppers, and the Nugget Label Window & Frame Die-namics to cut the windows for the nugget pouches and frames.

The Nugget Trio Shaker Pouches are perfect - sized for three Hershey's nuggets and there's grooves in the pouch to keep them in place. I wrapped the nuggets with MFT's Sweet Stack patterned papers - there's a little rectangle die in the Nugget Label Window & Frame Die-namics that cuts the perfect sized label for the nuggets.

I mention it in the video but I'll post it here too. MFT sent me the Hershey's nuggets (along with the Die-namics etc) as they're REALLY hard to find in Canada! Some of the "flavour" (caramel etc) ones can be found here but the regular milk chocolate Hershey's nuggets are almost impossible to find it seems. I've heard people say they've found them at WalMart and Shoppers Drug Mart in the Valentine candy sections - and if I see them I'll let y'all know! And if any of my Canadian peeps find 'em be sure to share where! I looked on Amazon and the price (and the shipping charges! 😱😳) to Canada for them is insane. LOL I'm hoarding my pack of them - I used them for this project and the extras I literally hid as Chris was eyeing them up and I love them too but I want to keep some for future projects!! So funny I'm at war with my chocolate sweet tooth and doing things like this for work lolol!

Anywho - I sandwiched the nuggets and pouches between 2 of the Treat Tags - the back one I die cut with the perforated die from the Nugget Label W & F Die-namics. I stamped the backs of all of them with sentiments and a heart from the Sweet Celebrations stamp set and that was it!

To see how these 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! 

Cheers Shaker Card & Wine Tag

Hello everyone!! OK first off - My Favorite Things January release went live this morning and IT. IS. FABULOUS. All of it is so right up my alley - I literally don't know what to use first! You can check out the entire release HERE <---------click! and I have links to it all below:

 

OK - now on to today's card and video. It's using LAST month's release (plus some oldie-but-goodies too) since I am playing catch up plus I literally had a bottle of wine picked out to coordinate with all of it LOL!

See what I mean? Loooovvveee. I literally went through my stash to find a color that went with the wine - which turned out to be more difficult (even with the amount of stuff *I* own lol!) than I originally thought. I settled on Lawn Fawn Guava ink which was unexpected but was the right color to "go" with the wine.

I was so excited to see MFT release the Wine Glass Shaker Window & Frame Die-namics and all the coordinating stamps and Mondo Cheers Die-namics. I had the Wine Tag and smaller Cheers Die-namics already as those were released last year (or the year before I think? I can't remember now - they're still available tho) and of course they all pair up perfectly.

I used MFT's Snowfall Background stamp and stamped it upside down on the card front and clear heat embossed it. I then used the LF Guava ink and my Picket Fence Life Changing Blender Brush to apply the ink and the clear embossing resisted it (I was going for "bubbles" - even tho it's regular wine my favorite is sparkling - plus I thought it looked cute!).

I did the same technique on the wine tag, and on the inside of the card I clear heat embossed a sentiment from the Good Time to Wine stamp set. I then applied the Guava ink and that was it!

To see how this card and tag 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! 

Neat & Tangled Floral Frame Cards & Gift Card Boxes

Hello everyone! I'm part of a week-long series of little blog hops to celebrate Neat & Tangled's 6th Birthday!

They had a fabulous new release for August - you can check out all the new products at my links here:

 If you didn't get here from the Neat & Tangled Blog <-----click! I'll have links to the stops near the end of the post as well as the GIVEAWAY info!!

Here's what I created for today:

I made a couple of birthday cards using the new Floral Frame stamp set and coordinating dies, and made a couple of little gift card boxes with the new Gift Card Box Die and Thanks So Much stamp set.

All the images were stamped onto Bristol Smooth card stock with VersaFine Onyx Black ink and clear heat embossed. I then used my Arteza Real Brush Pens and a water brush to color everything in.

I white heat embossed the Floral Frame onto matching envelopes - it is the PERFECT size to use on an envelope to be able to fill in the recipients address in the centre, and still have space for postage and a return address! LOVE!!

The new Gift Card Box is adorable and came together so quick and easy. I used stamps from the new Thanks So Much stamp set and then embellished it with the flowers and leaves from the Floral Frame set and that was it!

To see how everything came together check out my video below:

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

Next stop on the hop is Tiffany's Blog! <------click!

If you missed any of the stops today you can check them out here:

Neat and Tangled Blog

Amy Rysavy

Tiffany Solorio

Carissa Wiley

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 info!!

Neat & Tangled is giving away one $100 gift certificate to the Neat and Tangled shop and two $50 gift certificates to the Neat and Tangled shop. Winners will be chosen from comments all along the hop posts all week long - so make sure to keep checking back on the Neat & Tangled blog all week!. Winners announced Friday, August 10th on the Neat & Tangled Blog.

Thanks so much for stopping by today and good luck!

Lawn Fawn Woodland Critter Huggers | AmyR Valentine 2018 Series #4 + Giveaway!!

Hey everyone! While this is technically supposed to be "Blue Monday" AKA the saddest day of the year (who comes up with these things?) I am in a GREAT mood as I'm back on track with the Valentine series AND I have a big giveaway for my Canadian peeps at the end! (Those not in Canada don't worry - I still have more giveaways coming that will be open to everyone).

I've had this Lawn Fawn Woodland Critter Huggers die set sitting on my desk ever since it arrived, and this weekend finally got a chance to make all these critters with it and OMG is it ever fun to play with!

I also finally cut into my Lawn Fawn card stocks that I may have been hoarding for some time (I've been rather open about my "collecting" of Lawn Fawn rather than actually "using" it......what can I say I just love owning it LOL). The Lawn Fawn card stock is REALLY nice - a great weight and so many fun colors. They released several more "neutral" colors which made me really happy as there weren't any previously. And of course the colors were perfect for creating these critters. 

I ended up adding some Ghirardelli chocolate squares to my characters and held them in place with a glue dot and added a little stitched heart die cut to finish them off.

The chocolates slip out easily, and I used mini glue dots to adhere the arms and the hearts so that if the kids want to play with these later or add other things it's easy to pry the arms apart (whereas liquid adhesive would be permanent and the only way to take the arms apart would be to tear them).

On the back of the fox critter hugger I made a pocket with the new Stitched Gift Card Pocket Lawn Cuts die. It fits the critters perfectly, and will be great on cards and tags too!

To see how these all 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. If the products  have little icons below the image it means there's more than one place it can be purchased. You can hover over the icons and it will tell you what store that link will take you to. 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 with my kids! 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!!

To celebrate me passing 60,000 subscribers on my YouTube channel, ScrapNStamp Canada is giving away not one, not two but THREE $60 gift certificates to their store! One of the giveaways will be right here, the other two will be on my Facebook Page and my Instagram page (and yes you can enter all three to increase your chances to win ;)). This giveaway is open to Canadian residents as ScrapNStamp only ships within Canada. Those not in Canada stay tuned as I have more giveaways coming!

To enter follow the steps in the Rafflecopter widget below:

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Good luck!

PPP Joy Shaker Ornaments | AmyR 2017 Christmas Card Series #22b

I'm back! I mentioned in my previous video that it was part 1 of 2 - so here's part 2.

After I'd made the Winter Woodland card I wanted to create something with Pretty Pink Posh's Joy Shaker wafer die - and decided to make some ornaments with it:

I pulled out my WeR Memory Keepers Fuse Tool to create several "flat" circular shaker pouches that I filled with several different Pretty Pink Posh sequins and Confettis.

Before I did any die cutting on the card stock I ran the pieces through my Xyron 3" Sticker Maker so that the card stock had adhesive on one side. I then ran the pieces through with half the die cuts card stock face up and the other half with the adhesive face up.

After sandwiching the shaker pouches between the card stock die cuts, I punches holes in the tops with my Crop a Dile. I still have some eyelets in my stash so I set those in the holes and strung through some cord (also hanging out in my stash lol) and my ornaments were done!

For a great idea on how to incorporate these into a card to give to someone check out Amy Yang's post HERE <------click! I love hers!!

To see how these ornaments were made 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. If the products  have little icons below the image it means there's more than one place it can be purchased. You can hover over the icons and it will tell you what store that link will take you to. 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 with my kids! 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 Christmas Squad Tag Set | Prismacolor Pencils | AmyR 2017 Christmas Card Series #4

And I'm back! If you missed my Unboxing Video of the SSS December Card Kit you can check it out here:

Simon Says Stamp December 2017 Card Kit Unboxing! | Milk & Cookies Card Kit

Now on to what I've made with it!

I decided to create several tags - this way I could use all the characters from the set LOL!

I die cut the Neenah Desert Storm card stock with SSS's Large Tags dies, then did some stamping and masking to add each character and tree from the Christmas Squad stamp set.

I coloured in all the images with Prismacolor pencils, then added highlights with a white gel pen, darkened the eyes with a black glaze pen and added a bit of shimmer with a Wink of Stella clear glitter pen.

I finished off all the tags with patterned paper and confetti from the kit, and added some bakers twine from my stash and that was it!

To see how these 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. If the product images have sets of letters below the image it means there's more than one place it can be purchased. SSS = Simon Says Stamp, AZ = Amazon, MFT = My Favourite Things, SnS = Scrap N Stamp (Canada) etc. 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 with my kids! 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!