I got my hands on the new Distress Oxide Sprays - and wanted to try them out!!
I created 2 different backgrounds using several of the sprays. I did the green color one (using Fossilized Amber, Cracked Pistachio and Peeled Paint Oxide Sprays) and then due cut it with Simon Says Stamp's Leafy Frame background. The "water" background was made with Wilted Violet, Faded Jeans and Mermaid Lagoon Oxide Sprays.
I used several of the SSS Picture Book wafer dies to complete my scene. I die cut them all from various color card stocks, then blended on Distress Inks and used Copics to add the texture and detail to them.
To finish off the inside of the card I sprayed the blue and purple Oxide sprays again, then added a heat embossed sentiment and that was it!
To see how this card came together check out my video below:
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!
Ok I am back!! Feels like it's been a while but I've been posting like mad all week lol!! I posted an unboxing video of Simon Says Stamp's March card kit along with a card and video using the big set - if you missed those they're linked below:
I of course needed to ink up the little set in the kit - it's so cute how could anyone resist?
Isn't he the cutest critter ever? I coloured him in with Copic markers and added highlights with my white gel pen, and added my Black Glaze pen to his eyes and nose.
I used the patterned paper from the kit, as well as some of the embellishments. I reigned myself in to keep this card more simple and other than the Stitched Rectangle and Nested Talk Bubble dies used only elements from the kit to make this card.
I finished off the inside of the card by stamping the llama again this time with Sunshine ink, and added another heat embossed sentiment from the set and that was it!
To see how this card came together check out my video below:
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!
OK this post and video took most of last week. SO. MANY. ISSUES lol. When you get to the point where you've already invested a ton of time and effort (at least to my thinking) then one just has to stay determined but 3 days of editing and fiddling and re-starting when things crash etc etc make for a frustrating time!
However - the editing was finally accomplished - probably doesn't help that in spite of my efforts the video is still 20 mins long lol!! But these cards were a LOT of fun to create - from the backgrounds to the images:
I created sparkly sky backgrounds with Distress Oxide inks over Simon Says Stamp's white card stock. After sponging on the ink I added white splatter then coated the backgrounds with Shimmer Sheer Sparkle Spray - I show in the video just how sparkly they are!
I used the new City Bock Die-namics for the city scape - they totally finished off the scenes for these cards!
All the critters and images are from 2 of My Favorite Things newest sets - Super Cat and Super Dog. I couldn't decide on which set to use so I used both and created 2 cards. I stamped all the images onto Neenah Classic Crest Solar White 80lb card stock with MFT's Extreme Black ink and coloured them in with Copic markers. I added a bunch of sparkle to the images using Tonic's Nuvo Aqua Shimmer Shimmer pen. After that was dry I added highlights with a white gel pen and used my Black Glaze pen for all the critters noses and eyes.
I finished off the insides of the cards with more critters and more sentiments and that was it!
To see how these cards came together check out the video below:
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!
Well we're in the middle of a deep freeze (for those that have been asking I'm in Saskatchewan) - and Saskatoon was the coldest city in the world yesterday. -53C (-60ishF) - just COLD. It was close to the same today. Really nothing much changes here when it gets really cold. Business as usual, other than I end up having to chauffeur the kids around to/from school and wherever else as it's too cold to be outside for more than a few minutes.
I was very much liking these WARM colors - and this is what I made:
I used the colors of Distress Ink to blend over a heart I'd masked off on my card base. Once the inks were on there I applied Moonstone Glimmer paste with a palette knife and let it dry.
I used Simon Says Stamp's Big Picture Book Elephant and added him with foam squares, then built the sentiment with alphabet dies and a heat embossed sentiment.
I finished off the inside of the card with another heat embossed sentiment and that was it!
To see how my card came together check out the video below:
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!
Hello everyone!! It's time for Waffle Flowers February Release! You can check out the release HERE <------click! and I've got links to all the stamps and dies individually as well as the stamp and die bundles below:
To celebrate the new release there's a fun blog hop with a bunch of inspiration and giveaways! If you didn't get here from the Waffle Flower blog I'll have links to all the stops below as well!
Here's what I made with a couple of the new sets:
I created 4 cards using the Be Her stamp set and the Label Greetings set. I clear heat embossed the critters after stamping them with Versafine Onyx Black ink onto water-colour paper, then watercolored them with Prima and Gansai Tambi water-colours.
I did all the backgrounds with the same watercolors, and white heat embossed the sentiments on black card stock then die cut them with coordinating dies.
All the critters and sentiments were adhered with foam tape, and I added some of Waffle Flowers enamel dots to the backgrounds.
I finished off the insides of the cards by stamping each of the critters with Distress Oxide inks, and also stamped them onto matching envelopes for each card. I then adhered the thanks sentiments to the insides and that was it!
To see how my cards came together check out my video below:
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!
To celebrate the blog hop, Waffle Flower is giving away $25 gift certificates to THREE lucky winners. You can leave comment on my blog and along the hop by 11:59pm ET on 2/7/19 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 2/11/19.
Hello everyone! Welcome to Day 2 of blog hops celebrating Honey Bee's Brie Mine release! If you missed Day 1 you can check that out HERE <--------click! There's also GIVEAWAY info at the end of this post!
Isn't this little mouse the cutest thing ever? The Mae the Mouse stamp set has a ton of different images in the set so you can create something for just about any occasion. I decided to use the honey jar image and go with a yellow theme to make a non-traditional Valentine's Day card that could be used as a thank you card or any occasion if you skipped the sentiment on the inside (or changed it up to a different sentiment using the Brie Mine set).
I stamped the mouse and the honey jar onto Bristol Smooth card stock with Versafine Onyx Black ink and then clear heat embossed them before colouring them in with my Arteza Real Brush markers and a water brush. Once dry I added highlights with a white gel pen and then die cut them with their coordinating wafer dies.
The backgrounds were created with one of the Hexi Patterns Background stencils and 2 shades of Distress Oxide Ink. Once the color was stencilled on I used Black Soot Distress Paint to splatter onto the backgrounds.
I finished off the insides of the cards with a little bit more stencilling and sentiments from the Brie Mine set and that was it!
To see how my cards came together check out my video below:
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!!
Honey Bee is offering TWO $30 Gift Certificates to the Honey Bee Stamps Store, one from Day One and one from the Day Two comments. In order to be entered to win, all you need to do is hop along with us and comment on each blog. Winners will be announced on the Honey Bee Stamps Blog on February 1st.
Hello everyone!! This week's Color Throwdown Challenge is a good one (they are every week - even when it's a struggle for me sometimes to use the colors I always love doing these challenges):
I used Lawn Fawn's mini set I Love You(calyptus) along with several other Lawn Fawn stamp and die sets to make my card.
I stamped the images onto Neenah 80lb Solar White Classic Crest card stock with Ink on 3's Blackout ink, then coloured them in with Copic markers and added white highlights with a gel pen.
The patterned paper is from Lawn Fawn's Perfectly Plaid Chill 6x6 paper pack - loooooovvveee this shade of blue (and funny thing is how I love this shade of blue and yet I rarely use it).
I finished off the inside of the card by combining sentiments from the Happy Happy Happy and Happy Happy Happy Add-on stamp sets and that was it!
To see how my card came together check out my video below:
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!
So like I said - I was a bit stumped. I've been very much living for the more "spring/valentine/etc" combos I've been using lately and this one took me a bit longer to figure out what I wanted to created. Funny enough once I came up with this card I have so many ideas for more cards using just black, brown and white lol!
Here's what I created:
I decided to use these colors and still make a Valentine's Day card using Simon Says Stamp's Picture Book Labrador wafer die and Windows to My Heart wafer die. I paired them with CZ Designs Dude wafer die and the CZ Design Simple Sentiments 2 stamp set along with a stamp from the Punny Animals sets (one of my go-to sets now to use with the Picture Book wafer dies).
I added my Gelly Roll Black Glaze pen to the puppy's eyes and nose - it gives it the perfect raised glossy black - subtle but just the right touch IMO!
I finished off the inside of the card with a sentiment from the Love Messages stamp set, and added a heat embossed one from the CZ Simple Sentiments 2 set and that was it!
To see how this card came together check out my video below:
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!
Hello everyone!! Waffle Flower has a FABULOUS new release this month - a bunch of awesome stamps and dies and even enamel dots!!
There's a blog hop today with a bunch of inspiration plus there's a GIVEAWAY (more info on that at the end of the post!!).
I couldn't resist using the new Group Hugs stamp set to make a card for my Valentine's Day series:
Isn't it the cutest image ever? I clear heat embossed it onto Bee watercolor paper after stamping it with Versafine Onyx Black ink. I then used my Prima watercolors to color it all in. Once it was dry I added some dots and highlights with my white gel pen and then die cut it with the coordinating wafer die.
I painted a background with the same watercolor paper and more Prima watercolors, and adhered the Group Hugs image to it along with white heat embossed sentiments from the set.
The enamel dots are NEW from Waffle Flower - and they're so pretty! I used the Up and Running pack as the colors were PERFECT for this card.
I finished off the inside of the card by stamping the Group Hug image with Fog ink then stamped the little outline heart from the set with Worn Lipstick Distress Oxide ink and that was it!
To see how this card came together check out my video below:
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!!!
To celebrate the blog hop, Waffle Flower is giving away $25 gift certificates to THREE lucky winners. You can leave comment on my blog and along the hop by 11:59pm ET on 1/7/19 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 1/9/19.
Hello everyone!! I had a ton of fun making these cards - and since I'm in the "Valentine mood" I'm including them in the series. Honestly I like making all sorts of cards that *can be considered Valentines but that would work for anyone/anytime of the year.
Before I get to the cards if you missed any of the previous posts thus far you can find them all here:
I love Simon's Picture Book Characters - seriously they're all just the cutest things ever.
I paired them with some heart die cuts and used CZ Design Love You wafer dies and the Punny Animals stamp set to make my sentiments.
I also created a SUPER sparkly and shimmery background using Sparkle Sheer Shimmer spray - and I mean SPARKLY. I show it better in the video. I kind of want to spray everything with it lol. I've had little bottles of this for years and used them in videos - then realized a couple of months ago that I'd almost used up the Sparkle spray. So I ordered the large bottle and it's just fabulous having it on hand again!
I finished the insides of the cards with silly, sarcastic sentiments from the Playful Messages stamp set and that was it!
To see how these cards came together check out my video below:
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!
Happy (almost) New Year!! I have yet another card and video for y'all (when I said I was back and catching up I meant it LOL!) - also stay tuned as I'm part of a HUGE blog hop tomorrow morning to ring in the New Year. There will be TONS of inspiration and TONS of giveaways!!
Anywho - if you missed any of the previous Valentine series thus far you can find them all here:
I pulled out the new-to-me Stinkin' Cute stamp set from Simon Says Stamp - this set came out years ago and I just recently added it to my collection - the name says it all LOL!
To frame my little critter I used the new All My Heart stencil and masked off the inner heart potion then inked Simon's Rosie Cheeks over the small hearts with a Picket Fence Studios blending brush.
The skunk and hearts were stamped onto Neenah Classic Crest 80lb card stock with Simon's Intense Black Ink then coloured in with Copic Markers. I used Crystal Glaze on the hearts, and added Black Glaze to the skunks eyes and nose.
I finished off the inside of the card with sentiments from Simon's Uplifting Sentiments set and stamped the hearts from the Stinkin Cute set and that was it!
To see how this card came together check out my video below:
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 have had Simon Says Stamp's So Pun Friends stamp set sitting beside my desk for MONTHS now - and so many requests to make cards with it. I thought for the Valentine series so many of the stamps were beyond perfect - and I couldn't resist starting with the sloth!
I used Copics to color him in and my white Gelly Roll pen to add the highlights. The sentiments, speech bubble and banner images are all from the So Pun Friends set too.
For my background I combined the Windows to My Heart wafer die with DoodleBug's Dot Stripe patterned paper and used the lily white Floral Graph paper to back it.
I finished off the inside of the card by stamping the sloth in Stone ink and adding a few of the die cut hearts that were left over and that was it!
To see how this card came together check out my video below:
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!
Yay!! As promised - now that I've completed all my haul and unboxing etc etc videos and feel (a little more) caught up - time to make some cards!
And since Valentine's Day is coming up lets get those started shall we?
I combined some brand new Simon Says Stamp and CZ Design products with my oldie-but-goodie Picture Book Love Bear wafer die to make this cute card!
I blended some Rose Apple ink over one of the new Heart Layers stencils, then over that used a smaller stencil from the pack with Tonic's Novo Moonstone Glimmer Paste. I combined the CZ Design Peace & Love dies with SSS Glitter paper - so sparkly/shimmery in real life. I also used a bit of the glitter paper for the heart on the bear - just a cute little extra.
I finished off the inside of the card by blending the Rose Apple ink a bit lighter over the stencil then added a heat embossed sentiment (from the CZ Design Simple Sentiments 2 stamp set) and that was it!
To see how my card came together check out my video below:
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!
And I couldn't resist getting a card made with it:
I created this fun winter scene using the Snow Much stamp set from the kit. I white heat embossed the igloo and one of the sentiments from the set. I then masked off the igloo and a centre rectangle and blended 3 different colors of Distress Oxide inks, then used those same inks to watercolor the igloo.
I stamped the penguin with Simon's Intense Black ink and coloured him in with Copic markers before fussy cutting him out. I stamped and silver heat embossed the snowflakes from the set onto the background to finish off my scene.
On the inside of the card I white heat embossed another sentiment from the set, and stamped the snowflakes with the same Oxide inks and that was it!
To see how this card came together check out my video below:
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!
Hello everyone! It's the 5th of the month - which means a new release from Waffle Flower!
This is a smaller release (it always looks like more as you can get the stamps and coordinating dies separately or in a bundle) with the CUTEST little mini sets and a couple of amazing larger sets:
And to celebrate the release and provide inspiration there's a hop AND a giveaway too!!
If you didn't get here from the Waffle Flower blog I'll have links to all the stops on this hop further down in my post!
I was so excited to see this new Thinking of You stamp set. I have the Always set with the same girl image (in that one she's holding a bird) that I made a card with HERE. This time she's holding a cat and the stamp is much bigger.
I ended up making three cards because I couldn't settle on one - plus they all started with a simple card design and then I step it up a bit for each card following:
I heat embossed the image onto white card stock using Ranger's Liquid Platinum embossing powder. For the first card that was it. The detail and size of the image lends itself nicely to just stamping or heat embossing the image, adding a sentiment and you're done!
For the second card I did the same thing, but offset the image on the white card stock. I then stamped the new Halftone Background onto the card base with Simon Says Stamp Stone ink. I added the sentiment and some glitter paper that I tinted with the same Stone ink. It's still a simple card - but more detail and more involved than the first clean and simple card.
For my third card I used the same embossing powder but this time I heat embossed it onto watercolor card stock. I then did some simple watercoloring with a couple of my Prima palettes. Once dry I die cut the image with a large stitched rectangle die. I don't have any card stock that matched the Stone ink color - so I blended that onto my white card base.
On all three cards I finished the insides by stamping the main image with the Stone ink and that was it!
To see how this card came together check out my video below:
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!!!
To celebrate the blog hop, Waffle Flower is giving away $25 gift certificates to THREE lucky winners. You can leave comment on my blog and along the hop by 11:59pm ET on 12/10/18 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 12/12/2018.
