Prairie Paper & Ink

Coffee Spider Cards?!? | AmyR Halloween 2020 Series #10

Hey everyone! As always - if you've missed any of my Halloween posts this year here's links to all the previous ones:

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

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

Today's cards were inspired by last week's Color Throwdown Challenge:

I didn't get this up in time so this challenge is over but there will be a new one posted tomorrow!

Here's what I made:

These are 4 Bar (3.5 x 4 7/8") sized cards.

I've included these into my Halloween series - tho they don't actually say Halloween anything. However the spider and the colors make it rather fitting for Halloween IMO!!

I stamped the Honey Bee Stamps Coffee Bean Background stamp onto the card base with Simon's Khaki ink. I then mixed up embossing paste with Black Soot Distress Paint and applied it over a Tim Holtz Mini Spiderweb stencil. I also added some splatter using Crackling Campfire Distress Paint.

The spider is from The Rabbit Hole Designs Caffeinated Spider - I stamped it onto Distress watercolor paper with Versafine Clair Nocturne ink. I heat embossed it with Wow's Clear Matt Dull embossing powder, then coloured it in with Distress inks and a water brush.

I used Honey Bee's Coffee wafer die, and sentiments from the Honey Bee Coffee stamp set.

I stamped the spider onto the inside of the card with Crackling Campfire Distress Oxide ink. Another sentiment from the Honey Bee Coffee set was added to the inside to finish it off.

To see how these cards 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! 

SSS October 2020 Card Kit Unboxing + 2 Cards | Copic Marker Coloring

Hey everyone! So amongst all the business and craziness of STAMPtember coupled with the USPS and Canada Post taking longer to get the October Card Kit to me I just got it this past week! To top it off - the kit is still available HERE <------click! AND there's a few of us doing a mini hop to share more inspiration using the kit!

I made a couple of cards using the Happy Fall Y'all set from the kit as well as the GORGEOUS patterned papers:

I stamped the images from the Happy Fall Y'all stamp set onto Neenah card stock with Simon's Intense Black ink and coloured them in with Copic Markers. I added highlights with a white gel pen and cut out all the images.

I used some of the Cozy Days patterned papers that come in the October Kit as the background for both of my cards, then adhered all the stamped images into little scenes.

On the inside of the cards I added another circle of patterned paper and the remaining pumpkin and sentiment from the Happy Fall Y'all set and that was it!

To see my unboxing video and how I made these cards check it all out below:

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

In case you missed any of the other stops on this hop you can find them all here:

Simon Says Stamp blog

Nina-Marie Trapani

Laura Bassen

Yana Smakula

Debby Hughes

Caly Person

Nichol Spohr

Amy Rysavy

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! 

Snowy Mice Slimline Cards | AmyR Christmas 2020 Series #2 | Waffle Flower Holiday Cheese

Hello everyone! Waffle Flower's October release just went live and I'm part of a blog hop today to celebrate it! You can start at the beginning of the hop HERE on the Waffle Flower blog and I'll have links to all the stops lower down in my post as well as GIVEAWAY info!

I have the new Holiday Cheese stamp and die combo so I made a couple of Christmas cards with it for my 2020 Christmas Card series. If you missed the first video for this year you can find that post here:

CZ Design Chunky Christmas | AmyR Christmas 2020 Series #1

OK here's my card:

These are 3.5 x 8.5" slimline cards.

I stamped the images from the Holiday Cheese set onto watercolor paper with Ranger Jet Black Archival ink and then coloured them in with my Prima Odyssey and Prima Classics watercolor palettes. I die cut all the images with the coordinating wafer die set.

I used Neenah Desert Storm card stock for the background and blended Speckled Egg, Faded Jeans and Chipped Sapphire Distress Oxide inks over it. I then HEAVILY splattered the background and the images with my Amsterdam white liquid ink.

I added the mug image to the inside of the cards and white heat embossed sentiments from the set onto red cardtsock. On the Grocery Bag Slimline envelopes I stamped the mouse with the "merry Xmas" sentiment just to give the envelope a little something 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 Cathy Zielske's blog! <------click!

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

Waffle Flower Blog

Alix Davis

Arjita Sepha Singh

Channin Pelletier

Elyse Robinson

Galina Filippenko

Jeanne Jachna

JJ Bolton

Maria Peters

Natalia Zubkova

Rebecca Keppel

Amy R

Cathy Zielske

Nichol Spohr

Laura Bassen

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! 

NOW FOR THE GIVEAWAY INFO!!

For today’s hop, Waffle Flower is giving away a $25 gift certificate to THREE lucky winners. You can leave a comment on this blog and along the hop by 11:59pm EDT on October 11th, 2020 for your chances to win. Winners will be chosen at random from the comments left on any of the posts in this blog hop and will be announced on the Waffle Flower Blog on 9/14/2020.

Thanks for stopping by and good luck!! ❤️❤️❤️

Tim Holtz STAMPtember 2020 | STAMPtember Exclusive Limited Edition

That's right!! The Tim Holtz STAMPtember Limited Edition exclusive set <------click! just went live!! This is one of the most in-demand sets for STAMPtember and his set ALWAYS sells out super quickly!! You can check it out HERE!

Before I get to my cards using this set don't forget to check out the Limited Edition STAMPtember 2020 card kit that was released yesterday (and there's still some in stock!):

You can check out the kit HERE <-------click! while supplies last! This is a Limited Edition (bigger) kit that isn't part of the monthly subscription - and it's going to sell out quickly IMO!

ALSO - if you weren't aware - Tim will be doing a LIVE video on his Facebook page a little later today:

You can get to his Facebook page HERE <------click! and tune in at 1pm ET for his video! He'll be showing the set along with a bunch of inspiration made using it (I sent my cards in for this so they should be featured in there too!) from several talented designers. ALWAYS worth tuning in to Tim's videos - the amount of inspiration alone is fabulous.

OK on to my cards:

These are 3.5 x 8.5" slimline cards.

I made 4 slimline cards using Tim's STAMPtember 2020 set - the crazy cats and sentiments cracked me up so much I needed to use ALL of them.

I stamped the cats from the STAMPtember 2020 set onto Distress Watercolor paper with Ranger's Archival Jet Black ink. I watercolored all of them with Distress Inks (all the colors used are listed and linked in the supplies below) and the card with the cat tangled in the Christmas lights I coloured the lights in with Copic Markers.

I used one of the stencil's from Tim's Mini Stencil 18 set for this card. I mixed Wendy Vecchi embossing paste with Tumbled Glass Distress ink to tint it blue before applying it to the background.

The scallop frames on 2 of the cards were die cut from Tim's Idea-ology Metallic Jewels Kraft card stock using Simon's Slimline Scallop Frame wafer dies.

On all the cards I added some sparkle using my Tonic Aqua Shimmer Clear Glitter Gloss pen. I also added Glossy Accents to all the cat's eyes and to the light bulbs on the first card.

I finished off the insides of all the cards by stamping the cats used for each card with the Archival Jet Black ink. All the sentiments from the STAMPtember 2020 set were white heat embossed onto black card stock using Ranger's Super Fine Detail White embossing powder and trimmed out with scissors. I adhered the "Meowy Christmas" to the insides 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!

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!  

Whimsy Stamps Happy Pugmas | STAMPtember Exclusive Limited Edition

Hello everyone! Today's STAMPtember collab is with Whimsy Stamps!

You can check out the Limited Edition Happy Pugmas stamp set HERE or the Limited Edition Happy Pugmas stamp set with coordinating wafer dies HERE. As with all the Limited Edition exclusive collabs these are only while supplies last and once they sell out they're gone!

Here's what I made with the set:

This is a 3.5 x 8.5" slimline card.

I stamped the images from the Happy Pugmas set onto Neenah Classic Crest 80lb card stock with Simon's Intense Black ink and coloured them all in with Copic Markers.

I used the Mama Elephant Slim Card Basics wafer die set for all my die cutting on this card. I die cut the windows and blended several colors of Distress inks into them. I then added the derpy pugs into the openings and a sentiment from the Happy Pugmas set.

I finished off the inside of the card with another pug and sentiment from the Happy Pugmas set. I made an envelope from some Doodlebug patterned paper using the Trinity Stamps Slimline Envelope Builder wafer die set to tie it all together 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!

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! 

Newton's Nook Pocket Full of Happy | STAMPtember Exclusive Limited Edition

Hello everyone! Today's STAMPtember exclusive is with Newton's Nook!

You can check out the Limited Edition Pocket Full of Happy stamp set HERE and the Limited Edition Pocket Full of Happy stamp set and coordinating dies HERE. As with all the Limited Edition exclusive sets these are only available while supplies last and when they sell out they're gone!

Here's what I made with this set:

These are 3 x 6" cards.

I created "mini slimline" cards - I thought this smaller size would be fun to feature a couple of the images from the Pocket Full of Happiness set on.

I did an ooolllldddd technique on the pockets of these critters. After stamping them with Simon's Intense Black ink onto Neenah 110lb Classic Crest Solar White card stock I coloured in the pockets with Copic Markers. I then took my Colorless Blender Refill and put some onto a scrap of denim fabric, and pressed that onto the images - resulting in the pattern you see here! It's a fun and super easy technique to play with - and different types of fabric give totally different results.

Anywho, I then coloured in the rest of the images, and also coloured in the outline pocket word as well.

I finished off the insides of the cards with a sentiment and the paw print from the Pocket Full of Happiness set. The envelopes and other wafer dies I used on these cards were all from the Trinity Stamps Narrow Card and Envelope wafer die set. I show how to assemble the envelope in the video!

To see how these cards and envelopes 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! 

Riley and Company True Friends | STAMPtember Exclusive Limited Edition

Hello friends! After a long day and tech problems (crashed my finicky laptop yet again - that's the 3rd or 4th time this month? 😬 Doing this many videos really puts a strain on it) I have a card and video using the latest STAMPtember collab! 

First off - if you missed it this is actually my second post and video today:

Easy Distress Oxide Ink Blending | SSS Laugh in Flowers

OK onto the collab:

Today's collab is with Riley and Company!

You can check out their Limited Edition True Friends stamp set HERE or the Limited Edition True Friends stamp set with coordinating wafer die HERE. As with all the limited edition collabs this is while supplies last and once they sell out they're gone! I also HIGHLY recommend checking out all their snarky sentiment stamps HERE - there are so many hilarious ones!

Here's what I made:

I stamped the characters from the True Friends set onto Simon's 120lb smooth white card stock with Intense Black ink and coloured them in with Copic makers. I then masked the images and blended on some Distress Speckled Egg ink with a blending brush.

I stamped the card base with the Wood Planks background using Gathered Twigs Distress Oxide ink. I also stamped the Surf Blue envelope with the characters from the True Friends set using Broken China Distress Oxide ink.

I finished off the inside of the card by stamping the characters with the same Gathered Twigs Distress Oxide ink and stamping another sentiment from the True Friends set with Versafine Clair Nocturne 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!

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! 

Clearly Besotted Skating Around | STAMPtember Exclusive Limited Edition

Hello hello everyone!! I didn't have a video yesterday (I'm working on another Halloween one tho so stay tuned 😉) as it was the release of Simon's October card kit:

LOVE this kit - can't wait for it to get here! You can check out the Happy Fall Y'all October 2020 kit HERE <-----click!

OK now on to the STAMPtember goodness:

Today's STAMPtember exclusive collab is with Clearly Besotted!!

You can check out the Limited Edition Skating Around stamp set HERE and the Limited Edition Skating Around stamp and coordinating wafer dies set HERE. As with all the limited edition exclusive sets these are while supplies last and when they sell out (which they've been doing WAY faster than in previous years) they're gone!

Here's what I made:

I stamped the images from the Skating Around set onto Neenah Solar White Classic Crest 80lb card stock with Simon's Intense Black ink and coloured them all in with Copic Markers.

I used my Tonic Aqua Shimmer Glitter Gloss pen to add shimmer to the ice and ornaments and whatnot. I then used my White Gelly Roll pen as well as the white pens from the Snow Queen Storytime Paint Pens pack to create snow and highlights.

I finished off the inside of the card by adding a couple more critters from the Skating Around set and white heat embossed sentiments that I added to the outside and inside 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!

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! 

My Favorite Things Purrfect Friends | STAMPtember Exclusive Limited Edition

It's the 10th of the month already - and time for another STAMPtember exclusive - this time with My Favorite Things!

You can check out the Limited Edition Purrfect Friends stamp set HERE or the Limited Edition Purrfect Friends stamp set and coordinating dies HERE. As with all the Limited Edition exclusive these are while supplies last and once they sell out (which has been REALLY crazy fast this year) they're gone.

Here's what I made with the set:

This is a 3.5 x 8.5" slimline card.

I stamped all the cats from the Purrfect Friends set with Versafine Clair Fallen Leaves ink onto Distress watercolor paper and heat embossed them with Wow's Clear Matt Dull embossing powder. Once heat set I watercolored them all in with my Prima Complexions watercolor palette.

For the card front I die cut Neenah Desert Storm card stock with the stitched wafer die from MFT's Slimline Starter wafer die set. I blended Gathered Twigs Distress Oxide ink over the MFT English Brick Wall stencil onto the panel, and added some Coffee Bean Heart Sprinkles.

On the inside of the card and on the Grocery Bag Slimline envelope I stamped the solid paw image from the Purrfect Friends set with the Gathered Twigs Distress Oxide ink and that was it!

To see how this card and envelope 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 Winter Fox | STAMPtember Exclusive Limited Edition

Ahhhhh!!! Today's STAMPtember Limited Edition collab is with Mama Elephant!! I'm a collector of Mama Elephant and have been for YEARS. I absolutely adore the brand and own a ridiculous amount of it lol!

You can check out the Limited Edition stamp and die combo HERE and the stamp set alone HERE. EVERY STAMPtember the Mama Elephant collab sells out REALLY fast (and I know they keep upping the quantities they get in for it b/c it's always popular) so grab it while you can!

I made a fun slimline holiday card using the Winter Fox set:

This is a 3.5 x 8.5" slimline card.

After I made my card base I applied GinaK Iridescent Glitz Glitter Gel over the new Large Snowfall stencil. I set that aside to dry and then stamped one of the images from the Winter Fox stamp set onto Neenah Classic Crest Solar White 110lb card stock using Simon's Intense Black ink. I coloured in the image with Copic markers and added some white gel pen highlights.

It's subtle but I added a bit of Tonic's Fresh Snowfall Glitter Accents just to the "ground" area around the fox and snowmen. The sentiment was white heat embossed onto grey card stock before adhering it to the card front.

On the inside of the card I added another white heat embossed sentiment and I stamped and coloured another of the images from the Winter Fox set. To complete everything I stencilled white pigment ink using the Large Snowfall stencil again over a Slate slimline envelope 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!

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! 

Slimline Watermelon Card | SSS August 2020 Card Kit Take 3

Hey everyone!! I have another card and video to share with y'all using elements from Simon's Picnic Parade (Aug 2020) card kit. If you missed my previous posts using the kit you can find them here:

Summertime BBQ Card | SSS August 2020 Card Kit 

SSS August 2020 Card Kit Unboxing + 2 Slimline Cards!

For today's card I made another slimline card:

This is a 3.5 x 8.5" slimline card.

I used the patterned paper from the Picnic Parade kit and die cut some of them using Simon's Watermelon wafer die set. I pieced the watermelons together and then added Crystal Glaze to the "seeds" and then added Simon's Unicorn Glitter with a Glitter Duster.

I added the little Picnic Parade shape sprinkles from the kit to the watermelon to make it look like they were taking off with all the slices lol. I used more patterned paper to make the "picnic blanket" and then cut up and used the polka dot paper to cover the card base.

I used sentiments from the Hello Sunshine stamp set that comes in the kit and white heat embossed them onto Green Leaf card stock and used them on the outside and inside of the card. I finished off the inside with some of the stickers that come in the kit and paired the card with a Schoolhouse Red Slimline Envelope 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!

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! 

Summertime BBQ Card | SSS August 2020 Card Kit

Hey everyone! I made another card and video using Simon's August Card Kit. If you missed my unboxing video with slimline cards you can find that here:

SSS August 2020 Card Kit Unboxing + 2 Slimline Cards!

For today we're part of a mini hop to share more inspiration using the kit. I'll have links to all the stops on this hop lower down in the post!

I stamped the Summertime BBQ images onto Neenah Classic Crest Solar White 80lb card stock with Simon's Intense Black ink and then coloured in all the images with Copics and fussy cut them all out.

I pulled out Simon's Grassy Edges wafer die set and used it on the green patterned paper from the kit. The sentiment is from the big Hello Sunshine set that comes in the kit. I added some of the ant and heart Doodlebug Shape Sprinkles as well - they're SO cute.

I finished off the inside of the card with more paper and stickers from the kit, and another sentiment from the Hello Sunshine set. I pulled out a Schoolhouse Red envelope from my stash and stamped the little ant from the Summertime BBQ set in little trails using Versafine Clair Nocturne ink and that was it!

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

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

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

Simon Says Stamp blog

Nina-Marie Trapani

Laura Bassen

Debby Hughes

Nichol Spohr

Suzy Plantamura

Caly Person

Amy Rysavy

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! 

MFT Baby Shark Slimline Birthday Card

I made it! I told y'all when I posted my MFT June 2020 Releawse & Review video that I HAD to make a card using the new Baby Shark Die-namics - and that's what I did:

This is a 3.5 x 8.5" slimline card.

I had SO much fun making this - and even tho my kiddo's birthday was actually a couple of months ago it was still fun to show it to him and he loved it.

I die cut the Baby Shark Die-namics from yellow, white and black card stock. Then I used Worn Lipstick Distress Ink to blend onto the inside of the mouth piece before adhering all the pieces together. I used a white Gelly Roll pen to add details and highlights as well.

The letters and number were die cut from the new Summertime Polka Dots 6x6 patterned paper (and backed with white card stock) using the Pumped-Up Alphabet Die-namics and Pumped-Up Numbers Die-namics. I used some of my long-hoarded Doodle Twine (I go on and on about that in the video lol - seriously though I would LOVE to be able to get a ton more of it. I have used and own a ton of different colors, brands, styles of bakers twine and Doodlebug's Doodle Twine is my hands down favorite) on all the balloons and adhered them so that the shark was "holding" them.

The new Ocean Motion Stencil was used to create the background with Faded Jeans Distress Oxide ink (which was of course splattered on as well). The Ocean Motion Die-namics cut the top of it perfectly and then was adhered to the card base. I pulled out the Cute Cloud Outlines and used those die cuts for the sky before adhering all the letters and number with Darice Foam Strips.

I added some Studio Katia Iridescent Bubbles and Clear Round Drops to the water just to finish it all off.

On the inside I used the Baby Shark Die-namics again - this time to create Mommy Shark 😉 and added a couple more sentiments that I'd white heat embossed from the Sharky Sentiments set 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!

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! 

Bee Yourself Slimline Card | Karin Brushmarker Pros

Hello everyone!! I am zipping through all the footage and getting the voiceovers done finally! And of course MORE slimline cards - the obsession (and fun) is real:

This was my first portrait slimline card - all the other ones I've made so far have been landscape orientation. The only big different being they're a little harder (for me anyway) to photograph. Still super fun to make though.

I pulled out an older set again for this one: Simon Says Stamp's Bee Yourself stamp set. I had bought the coordinating wafer dies for it MONTHS ago and it's just been sitting and waiting to be used again.

I stamped the bees and hearts from the Bee Yourself set onto Bristol Smooth card stock with Nocturne ink and heat embossed them with Simon's Clear embossing powder. I used my Karin Brushmarker Pro's and a water brush to color them in and then die cut them with the coordinating wafer dies.

For the background I stamped the "honeycomb" images from the set onto more Bristol Smooth card stock and heat embossed them with Wendy Vecchi's Sunflower embossing powder. I used the Canary yellow Karin marker and a big paintbrush to color over them, added some splatter, and added white splatter (it's subtle but it's there).

I recently got the Mama Elephant Slim Card Basics wafer die set so I used the stitched wafer die on the background, and then used the scalloped wafer die on some of Simon's Sea Glass card stock.

On the inside of the card I stamped the honeycomb with Wild Honey Distress Oxide ink, and the hearts with Candied Apple Distress Oxide ink. I added the last bee images I'd coloured plus another white heat embossed sentiment from the Bee Yourself set. I made a coordinating envelope from some Doodlebug patterned paper in my stash and the Trinity Stamps Slimline Envelope Builder wafer die set and that was it!

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Slimline Card | Picture Book Panda Thank You Card

Hey everyone!! After my last post about the new SSS release (HERE), I was able to get the voiceover for this video done early this morning. There's been a lot of construction going on around here plus wind (plus 5 kids lol) so it's been a struggle finding times and ways to do voiceovers lol!

Anywho - this card is for this week's Color Throwdown Challenge:

You can check out the current challenge HERE <-------click! to see what the rest of the team created with this combo and play along if you'd like!

Here's what I created:

This is a 3.5 x 8.5" slimline card.

I pulled out the CZ Design All the Thanks stamp set and coordinating die set (it's also a combo here). I white heat embossed a bunch of the sentiments onto Audrey Blue card stock and then die cut them with the coordinating wafer dies. Some of the smaller sentiments in the set were white heat embossed onto black card stock then die cut with the Nested Banners wafer die set.

I pulled out Simon Says Stamp's Picture Book Panda wafer die, and die cut him from Black Velvet and White Latte Flock transfer sheets. Remember those containers of flocking powder we used to use waaaaayyy back in the day? The ones that I still have in a drawer in my studio "just in case" lol? These flock transfer sheets are SO much easier to use. I've done a couple of videos using them in the past and when it comes to this panda it's just MEANT TO BE FLOCKED lol! He's all fuzzy! So I used those and then for the eyes I used a white gel pen and on the nose I used a black glaze pen for that little bit of shine.

On the outside and inside of the card I used MFT's Black & White Stripes patterned paper - I show in the video how I pieced it together to make it work on a larger card like this. I finished off the inside of the card with a couple more sentiments from the All the Thanks set. I made a coordinating envelope with the Trinity Stamps Slimline Envelope Builder wafer die set and some Doodlebug patterned paper from my stash 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!

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