We think flowers go with any occasion, wouldn’t you agree? Seriously, do you know anyone who hates flowers?? We wanted to send a card to congratulate a fabulous couple on their recent engagement, and decided that flowers were best. We selected a floral stamp set that had a more playful feel and went with a gray monochromatic color scheme to take some of the femininity out of them.…
Welcome friends! What is your favorite season? For us, it is definitely Summer and we think our card today captures it’s essence perfectly. We used the Small Butterflies product bundle (stamps, stencils, dies and hot foil plates) for the first time and we love all the options it provides! Floral Wreath: We started by using all stencil layers to create the wreath using a pair of blue inks…
Hello friends! We are back as guest designers for the Dare 2B Artzy blog to share the second card we created using their “Friends” stamp set. To create our project, we used the smaller of the two leaf cluster stamps and the individual flower stamp from the set. We started with a piece of smooth white 80 lb. cardstock measuring 4.25” x 5.5” and stamped the leaf cluster…
Hello friends! We are thrilled and honored to be guest designing for Dare 2B Artzy this month! Today we are featuring our first of two cards using the “Friends” stamp set. This set includes two large leafy floral lemon tree branches, as well as a single blossom and five versatile friendship sentiments. We started by stamping out both large leafy branch images as well as four single blossoms…
Happy New Year, friends! It has been a while since our last post, but we hope that your holidays were safe, happy and relaxing. Today we are sharing a card that features several new products we have recently added to our stash and have been very excited to use. When My Favorite Things released their Winter Songbirds stamp set, we fell madly in love with it and just…
Hello and welcome! We are so happy that you dropped by today. Today we are sharing another project that features the stunning “Christmas Wishes” digital stamp set from Graciellie Design. We were feeling inspired to create something a bit different and decided that the beautiful poinsettia image would look wonderful as the backdrop in a shaker tag. Here’s the steps we followed to create our striking and elegant Holiday…
Hello and welcome! We are happy you stopped by. Today’s card was created with the new Gratitude digital stamp set that is part of Rachel Vass Designs‘ November release. We think it is a beautiful image with the versatility to work with any card theme. Focal Point: The floral image was printed on watercolor paper with a laser printer The sentiment was printed onto vellum with a laser…
Welcome! We are grateful that you stopped by and hope you are well and staying safe. It was another beautiful autumn day here in Western New York so we thought it would be fun to play with the Pumpkin Patch stamp and die set from Honey Bee Stamps. Our post today is all about having fun with die cuts and while this was not a fast card to…
Hello crafty friends! We are happy that you stopped by. We used a variety of products to make today’s card – some old and some new. We paired the Cosmos Flower Frame die from Simon Says Stamp with their brand-new Outline Leaves background stamp and we are pretty happy with the results. Focal Point: The Cosmos flowers were cut using Strathmore Bristol Smooth cardstock. After running the die…
Welcome! We are happy you stopped by. Today we are sharing another ice cream card using an image from Graciellie Design’s latest “Coffee & Ice Cream” digital set. We really had fun coloring this cone of deliciousness and practiced adding shading and texture with our colored pencils. Focal Point: The triple-scoop ice cream cone image was resized and printed onto Accent Opaque 80lb white cardstock. The image was…