Good morning crafters! I wanted to start my Halloween cards early this year so when I checked my emails and received a notification for another Lawnscaping Challenge, I just couldn’t resist.
For my card today, I am using the Lawn Fawn Spooktacular stamp set, Sweater Weather stampset and their coordinating dies, Grass Border and Stitched Rectangle dies. These stamp sets and dies are so much fun and so versatile; you can mix and match them for any occasion.
Happy Haunting
I first stamped all the images that I needed for the card on white card stock and colored them using my copic markers. Then I cut my card base, and black card stock as well as the vellum using the stitched rectangle die. I didn’t really have any design in mind at this point. I knew I wanted a round moon, so I cut it using my circle die, and dry-embossed it with my dots embossing folder. I then sponged the edges of my moon using my yellow inkpad to add a little bit of color. I proceeded to die-cut the trees with black card stock using the sweater weather dies, then went ahead to die-cut the rest of the stamped images and the grass border. I also used my bridge dies to create a cute little scene for my cat. Now that I had everything laid out in front of me, I started to create my card. The last thing that I did was to stamp the sentiment “happy haunting” using my white embossing powder on some dark purple card stock, then I adhered it to the front of my card. Oh, of course I had to use my wink of stella to give the moon some glittery effect, as well as the pumpkins, the witch’s hat and the leaves.
What do you guys think? I hope you like my card today. Happy Crafting and Happy Haunting!
One of the reasons why I love jet lag is the fact that when I am wide-awake at 3:00 a.m., I can make some really strong coffee, go to my craft room and work on my cards in peace. Everything is just so peaceful at dawn. It really helps my creativity. The only downside is I am already fading by 4:00 p.m.
The card below turned out to be so stinkin’ cute! To be honest, I didn’t picture this card to look like it does now because I changed my mind quite a few times while I was creating it. I wanted to fuzzy-cut the image but I was worried about the Antennae. I decided in the end to cut it out and replaced it with a die-cut piece using a butterfly die. I almost gave up at one point, but decided to keep going until I was happy with the results.
Gray card stock – cut at 8 ½ by 5 ½ scored at 4/14
Pink Card stock – cut at 5 ¼ by 4, also used some to diecut the flowers
Beige Card Stock (for the Deco Label in the front of the card)
Green Card Stock – to diecut the grass die
Honeycomb Die
Deco Labels Die
Spellbinders Banner Die
Magnolia Doohickey Grass and flower die and butterfly die from Le Jardin Collection Vol. 4
Copic Markers – W0, W1, W3, W7
Copic Markers – E77
Copic Marker – B00
Copic Marker – R11, toned down with Copic Blending Ink 00
Memento Tuxedo Black Ink Pad
Glossy Accents
Scotch Foam Adhesive
Ranger Multi-medium matte adhesive
I hope you like this card. Please note that Jessica was kind enough to offer a 10% discount for all of my YouTube subscribers, Instagram followers and Blog followers. If you are interested to purchase her amazing stamps, please go to http://www.jessicalynnoriginal.com and use code: save10. This code is valid until September 1, 2015.
It is launch day and I have made a few cards featuring the newly-released stamp set by Jasmine Becket-Griffith/Jessica Lynn Original called Sanura Egyptian Cat Princess. Whew! That’s a mouthful!
Let me just say, I am in-love with this stamp set. Simply because I’ve always been interested about Egypt and its past since I was a little girl. I remember watching the movie Cleopatra when I was a child and I thought that if I were given the chance, I would visit Egypt and see the Pyramids. Fast-forward to 2002, my family and I traveled to Cairo and Luxor. We rode the camels and saw the Pyramids, went to the museum and got to see the mummies, shopped at the Khan Al-Khalili Grand Bazaar and got some great Papyrus artwork and experienced Cairo’s traffic and crazy night-driving. We then traveled to Luxor and visited the Valley of the Kings. What a great experience! We had such a great time that we decided to go back in 2006, and headed to Sharm El-Sheikh. I can write a book about my travel experiences but this post is not about that; it’s about the beautiful Sanura Egyptian Cat Princess Stamp Set.
This is an amazing set to add to your collection if you love beautiful stamps. This set will be perfect to use for your cards, as well as scrapbook layouts. Please visit www.jessicalynnoriginal.com to check it out.
I am really excited to share today’s blog post. We are launching two wonderful new stamp sets at Jessica Lynn Original called “Toy and Working Breed”. I have always loved dogs! I grew up with them and I can’t imagine not having a dog in my life. They are amazing, loving, funny, faithful – truly a man’s best friend!
The toy breed stamp set is very special to me. The Chihuahua image that Jessica has for this set had a striking resemblance to my beloved pet, Chi-Chi. Chi-Chi was my constant companion and I took her everywhere with me. She was very stylish and had outfits for every occasion. She was super spoiled! I lost Chi-Chi in 2013 and I was really sad for a long time that I still couldn’t bring myself to getting another Chihuahua.
When I first received the stamp set, I really had a hard time trying to think about card designs. I’ve always loved stamping, but I’ve never had stamp images that are so life-like, it was honestly hard to get creative. I am a novice with Copic markers so it was really hard for me to color the images and make it look realistic.
I decided to stamp and color a couple of the images on white card stock. I then fuzzy-cut the images and gathered my card supplies but when it came to putting the card together I was just stumped! I made one mistake after another. I just couldn’t get creative! I left it alone for a few days and decided to look at Chi-Chi’s old photographs! For some reason, I had a light-bulb moment and got my crafty mojo back. I started with a simple card below, but then since I had all the other images already cut and colored, the ideas just kept coming. I guess it’s obvious since this is the very first time I actually have 4 card samples and one Doggie Treat bag for the launch. You can tell I had so much fun playing around with the stamp images, I used a lot of my dies to “dress-up” the dogs.
I am not going to list all of the dies that I used for the cards because I would like to eventually post a YouTube video showing you how I made some of the cards, as well as the doggie treat bag.
There is something about Lawn Fawn stamps that just makes me happy. It’s whimsical, fun and brings out the inner child in me. I found Lawn Fawn stamps two years ago, but it was only the recent 6 months that I started getting obsessed with it. I watch Lawn Fawn’s YouTube videos constantly, especially when I don’t feel crafty. I somehow get my mojo back just watching people create with Lawn Fawn stamps.
I am entering this card for the Lawnscaping Challenge called Sparkle and Shine. The card below is one of my all-time favorite stamps – the Critters Ever After! As a child, I was very sickly and most of the time I was stuck indoors looking at my sisters and other kids play in the yard. I wasn’t allowed to go out so I always pretended I was a princess stuck in a castle. A little cliché but true! So when I saw the stamp set, I was immediately hooked! They didn’t have the coordinating dies then so I bought the stamps first and when the dies came out, of course I had to get them too. Who likes fuzzy-cutting?! Definitely not me!
It took me a couple of hours to create the card below. I’ve put on some music and just let my imagination run wild. I wanted it to look girly, whimsical and glittery. This is the reason why I used a lot of glitter paper on this card, vellum and stickles. In my memory as a child, this is how the dragon looked like ~ cute, friendly, glittery and purple! I used my Wink of Stella clear glitter pen on the dragon but unfortunately, my camera and the lighting didn’t catch the glitz and shine.
The unicorn and the frog prince are also one of my favorites, so I decided to do a pop-up card to show them off. I didn’t want them left out!
I hope you guys like this card and please let me know what you think. Happy crafting!
Today’s card features this versatile stamp set called True Love. This stamp set is perfect for a Just-Because card, Wedding, Valentine’s Day or Anniversary. This stamp set is great alone, or used with the other cute Brentwood Owl stamps or just about any other stamps you can pair it with. The possibilities are endless!
If you came here from Jeanette’s blog, then you’re in the right place.
I used the digital version of this True Love stamp set. I didn’t receive my stamps in time before this blog hop, because I live overseas (at least 10 months out of the year!). I am a novice when it comes to digital stamps so I couldn’t get the size right! I had to call my friend in Canada to help me figure it out. Her advice was to just use what I have printed so far and make it work. Such a great advice! I decided to just use my imagination and have fun. I really did! In fact, I had so much fun I got carried away!
Supply List:
True Love Stamp Set (I used the Banner image and resized it so I can fit Ruby inside)
Ruby and a Martini Stamp Set (I cut-out the martini glass)
Memento Tuxedo Black Ink
Copic Markers to color the banner, Ruby and the ladybug
Sahara Sand Card Stock
Sahara Sand Stamp Pad
Wood Stamp for the background
Grass Die
Flower Punches
Bow Punch
Stylus to give the flowers some dimension
Glossy Accents to make Ruby’s eyes pop
Rhinestones and Pearl
Adhesive (also used foam adhesive to pop Ruby up)
This first card below is super detailed. I used my punches and other dies to create a scene for Ruby, the Owl. I stamped my sahara sand card base with the woodgrain stamp using sahara sand ink for a tone-on-tone look. I stamped Ruby using my Memento Tuxedo Black Ink and colored her using my Copics. I also used glossy accents to make her eyes pop. The photo didn’t do justice on how beautiful the colors really are. I then colored the banner image also using my Copics, but the ink smudged a little on the pink flower images. It must have been because of my inkjet printer or because I didn’t have any Copic-friendly card stock. This was challenging! To fix this problem, I decided to add punched flowers to create more dimension. I think it turned out so beautiful!
The second card is very simple, but creates a huge impact in my opinion. I just love the sentiments that Jessica has included in this stamp set. I wanted to highlight it in a way that it stands out! Sometimes less is more!
I gathered all of my card stock and cut the pieces using the dies to create my scene for the sentiment. Once I had everything laid out, I dry-embossed my card base using the Brick wall TIEF. I positioned the sentiment on the die-cut window piece and purposely covered the word “love” in the beginning of the sentiment, so I can use the LOVE die-cut piece that I highlighted with Diamond Stickles to make it pop.
I adhered the picket fence, and then proceeded to adhere the window, followed by the planter and the flowers. I thought it needed some sort of greenery so I decided to die-cut the leaf flourish and adhered it to the card. What do guys think? Do you like the first or the second card?
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Today’s card features my all-time favorite stamp so far, from Stampin’ Up! called Sheltering Tree. This stamp set is so versatile and you can use it for any occasion. I wanted to create a simple, yet elegant card for Father’s Day. The card that I designed today is really beautiful but it is also very easy to make. Please watch the video below and see for yourself. I have listed the supplies I used here on my Blog but for instructions to make the card, please refer to my YouTube video.
Supplies I used:
Sheltering Tree Stamp Set from Stampin’ Up! & Fahter’s Day Paper Pumpkin Stamp
Look Up to Father Stamp Set from Stampin Up
Whisper White card stock 1 piece of 8 1/2 x 11 card stock – cut at 5 1/2 (to get two pieces of 8 1/2 x 5 1/2)
Pistachio Pudding Designer Series Paper – 5 1/4 x 4
Whisper White card stock – 5 x 3 3/4
Labels Framelits
Wood grain embossing folder
Early Espresso Stampin Pad
Pistachio Pudding and Wild Wasabi Stampin Pads
Memento Tuxedo Black Stampin Pad
Created by Maria RussellCreated by Maria Russell
I hope you found the video helpful and hope to see what you create. Happy Father’s Day to all the amazing Dads out there, and happy crafting!
Today I am featuring two cards that I created using the new Stamp Set by http://www.jessicalynnoriginal.com called the “UFO Brentwood Owl”. I am super excited to share these cards with you today because I absolutely love the images that Jessica created for this set. If you would like to win this stamp set, please head on over and leave a comment on Jessica’s Blog post (http://jessicalynnoriginalstamps.blogspot.com). Jessica will choose a random winner and she will announce it on her Blog, so please stay tuned for that.
To start, this stamp set reminds me of my love for the 90’s TV show, “Roswell”. My children and I were addicted to Roswell, and Buffy The Vampire Slayer – two famous TV shows at the time when my children were still young. Since we live overseas, I always pre-recorded the shows so that after homework and dinner, the kids and I will have some quality time together watching the show. We even listened to the Roswell soundtrack in my car while I drove them to school.
The first card below is a side-step card. I always love creating interactive cards, and I thought that Brentwood needed to have more space so that I can highlight each of the stamp images in their own way, without it getting “lost”. I think I was able to capture this sense by making a farm-scene at night with the moon shining in the background.
I first colored Brentwood and the UFO images with my Copics. Then I put glossy accents on Brentwood’s helmet to achieve the look of glass, and make it look more realistic. While waiting for the glossy accents to dry, I then stamped the other images using some of the stamps I already have in my stash and preceded to die-cut the pieces. Once I had everything laid out, it was really easy to put the card together. I added stickles to the moon and the UFO beam to make it stand out a little.
The second card below is very patriotic. With the 4th of July coming up, I think this is a perfect project to make in time for our Independence Day. My original idea was to create a scene where Brentwood was holding the USA flag landing on the moon, but one of our design team members already made a card using a similar design. I was in Germany and Lithuania for a week and only came back yesterday, so I was a bit late creating these cards. However, I still wanted to create a scene in space, so I decided to create a shaker card. Brentwood is holding the USA flag, but with the UFO, stars confetti, blue and red seed beads as the shaker material. I also added glossy accents to Brentwood’s helmet but unfortunately it didn’t show through the photo. I had so much fun creating this card. What do you guys think? I will post a tutorial on my YouTube channel for these two cards.
Maria Russell Designs 