A Tropical Hello with Elizabeth Craft Designs

Hi Everyone, Kristina here getting my tropical on! I love these huge leaves and hibiscus flower dies from Elizabeth Craft, I have so many plans with them, but today I kept it simple. I used the leaves and flower to embellish the front of an infinity shaker. The whole thing was actually quick & simple to put together! 

The Process

• I started by creating a background from some light green card stock, a background stamp, and a slightly darker green ink. 
• I inserted the panel into the bottom of a stamp storage pocket to start my shaker. Once you panel is inside, trim off all but about an inch of the excess plastic, and cut off the corners to create a flap. Add your sequins, and fold over and adhere the flap with strong adhesive. I used scor-tape. 
• Next I die cut the leaves and hibiscus, adding a little ink blending around the edges of the hibiscus to give it a more realistic two toned look.
• To finish I stamped a sentiment on a matching piece of card stock, and glued everything down to the front of the shaker with a strong liquid adhesive. 

And there ya have it! Thanks for stopping by today.

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Pinwheel Party with Elizabeth Craft Designs

Hi Friends, Kristina here playing with a super fun die from Elizabeth Craft. You probably don't know this about me, but I am ob-sessed with pinwheels. They're my favorite party decor and garden ornament. And now, my favorite embellishment!

The Process

• Using double sided paper, die cut 2 paper pinwheels using the Elizabeth Craft die. 
• Assemble the the pinwheels by lining up the pre-punched holes and securing with a brad or strong adhesive. I used Zots & a decorative button.
• Trim or die cut a front card panel to the desired size and stamp your sentiment
• Add you pinwheels to your front card panel and adhere down to an a2 sized card base

I used some fun summer card stock from an old 6x6 doodlebug pad I had, but you could get so many different looked by changing up the card stock. 

If you want your card to be more mailer friendly, you can use a bone folder to fold and flatten down the edges and still have a super cute pinwheel. 

Thanks for stopping by today! Have a great weekend. 

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A Sparkly Hug w/ Pinkfresh & Concord and 9th

Hi Everyone, Kristina here - Thanks for stopping by, I hope you're having a great day.
Grab your sunglasses for this one! So-Much-Glitter! My original plan for this card was glitter peeking through the fun geometric background from Pinkfresh Studios - The rest fell into place from there. 

The Process

• Start by glittering a 4.25 x 5.5 piece of white card stock. I did this by running the cardstock through my Xyron sticker maker to cover one side with adhesive and added two tones of glitter for an ombre effect. You could also use glitter card stock. 
• Die cut your background die 2 times and adhere them down to your glitter background, one of top of the other. 
• Die cut and add your sentiment. The background is so busy you'll need a chunky word like this. I love that this die comes with the word, the shadow, AND a frame. The shadow piece was cut once from white card stock, followed by the word in glitter card stock, and lastly the frame was cut 3x from black card card stock and glue on one one top of the other. 
• Use the negative space pieces from the black card stock to fill in the font's holes. I only used a single layer here. 
• Cut out the hearts from the 'Hugs' die set. Adhere down to the card panel and coat with a dimensional adhesive such as Nuvo Crystal Glaze. 
• Lastly, add a sentiment strip and adhere the whole thing down to an a2 sized card base.

Notes

The glitter I used was Elizabeth Craft Silk Microfine glitter. I had tried another glitter on my first go and didn't like the way it looked. You definitely want a full coverage opaque glitter, or just use a glitter card stock. 

If all you have is translucent glitter, you could also ink blend an ombre background then cover it with your glitterable (yes its a word) adhesive and cover the panel with your translucent glitter. 

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Masculine Cards with Elizabeth Craft Circle Background

Hi Everyone, Happy Thursday, Kristina here today with some masculine cards using a background die from Elizabeth Craft.

I've wanted to do a paper piecing type technique with this die every since I got it, but was intimidated by the need to keep track of all the pieces. But I found a simple method to easily produce the effect, and get multiple cards in the process. I went with three different colors for my background, which produces three different cards. In hindsight I would've rather done 4 or more so there was less options for colors to be next to each other.

Onto the process:

I ran the die and paper through my die cut machine. I kept it sandwiched between my cutting plates and flipped the whole sandwich over so that the cut side was up. With all of the piece still in the die, I stuck down a piece of Avery removable label paper (masking paper) to cover the back.

I used my tool n one to carefully remove the die, leaving the positive and negative space die cuts adhered to my label paper.

Once I was done, I had a panel for each of my colors, with all of the pieces where they go. 

To begin assembly, I first ran the circle frame through my Xyron machine and stuck it down to an a2 sized card base. From there, I simply transferred the circle from the label paper over into their "frame"

From there I embellished the card with a sentiment, some nuvo drops and ranger liquid pearls. 

Thanks for stopping by today! 

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Have a Wild Birthday | Lawn Fawn Stamps & Dies

Hi Everyone and Happy Thursday! I'm here today with a cherry and playful birthday card using the Lawn Fawn Wild For You stamps and dies. I've always had a hard time doing scene type cards. If you're like me, my favorite hack is just a simple ink blended ground and sky instead. 

For this background I simple blended some green oxide ink towards the bottom and some blue above it, then wet the whole thing by misting the panel with water and letting it dry, as if I had watercolored it. I wasn't quite satisfied with it yet, it wasn't "party" enough, so I used assorted other oxide colors on my desk to create a splattering of confetti everywhere. I simply smooshed them onto my craft media mat, got them wet with water, and splattered them around until I was happy with the background. 

When my background was fully dry, I heat embossed my sentiment along the bottom, and adhered my images that I had stamped, colored, and cut from the stamp set. 

To finished I mounted the whole panel onto an a2 sized card base with foam adhesive, and there you have it!

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Summer Shaker Card w/ Elizabeth Craft

Hi Everyone, Kristina here with a bright and summery shaker card. I made my shaker window using the Elizabeth Craft Summer Drink die set. I die cut the drink glass 3 times out of some teal card stock, and cut the center of it out using an exacto knife. This was easy to do using the score line that is already imprinted from the die for texture. I glued the 3 layers aside and then cut the actual window from some white cardstock, and backed it with acetate. 

To create the well for the skaker bits I cut the die out 2 more times from some fun foam, which I glued together, and then down to the acetate window using some strong liquid adhesive. After filling the well with sequins and other bits, I covered the panel with foam tape.

From there I filled my well with shaker bits and carefully adhered the back panel down. I used the lines on my media mat as well as a stamp-a-majig to keep it aligned and straight. 

For my sentiment I stamped and die cut it with a banner die from my stash onto some pink paper that I thought matched nicely.  

I embellished the front further with the straw and pineapple die from the die set, and adhered everything down to a 110lb a2 card base for extra stability.

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Handmade Easter Card with Tutti Designs

Hi Friends, Kristina here getting started on Easter cards. I thought this Tutti Designs Easter Lily die would be perfect for Easter Cards, and the rest of the year for Sympathy Cards, Happy Spring, any occasion really. There is a lot you could do with it, I chose to do some copic coloring.

To put it all together, I die cut the card out of white card stock, but kept all the pieces together and in the die. I added some liquid adhesive all over the back, and adhered the whole die to my card front. 

Once the glue had time to dry I slowly and carefully peeled the die off, leaving behind the positive and negative space of the die. 

I cut the die out a 2nd time out of black card stock and used it as a guide while I was coloring, to keep track of what is what. Once I was finished coloring, that black die cut became my actual window. 

To finish I added some white specs on the lilies with my gel pen, and stamped my Happy Easter sentiment at the bottom. 

Thanks for stopping by!

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Sweet and Simple Easter Card

Hi Everyone and HAPPY SPRING! I live in Michigan so it's not over till its over, but hopefully, winter is over! So let's get ready for it! I'm kicking off Easter cards here today with a basic spring card that you could stamp any sentiment under.

I started with some ink blending. I used a piece of post it tape to mark off the "ground" to do a very light wash of green color with with distress ink. After that I removed the tape and used a cloud stencil and more distress ink to create my cloud background. 

I die cut the white fence from the Elizabeth Craft Designs Nantucket Arbor die set. To add a little interested I used pattern paper to cut the Lawn Fawn Grassy Border out. And lastly some bright spring card stock for my tulips. I adhered all those down and trimmed the excess off to create a 4x5.25 panel which I adhered down onto some glitter card stock. 

My sentiment comes from a Lawn Fawn easter card, and was stamped down on top of everything in a crisp black ink. And there you have it, enjoy your first week of Spring!

Until next time... 

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St. Patricks Day Fun Folds with Lawn Fawn

Hi Everyone, Kristina here with a fun fold / flip card for St. Patricks Day next month. I used an older discontinued flip card die, but you can get a similar effect with something like this from frantic stamper. 

I decorated my card base with some Doodlebug paper and Lawn Fawn stamps and dies. Here's the inside. 

Here's how it all came together

I die cut my main card panel from the die using glitter cardstock, and used the coordinating side panel dies to cut out the accent pieces from patterned paper. For the flip center, I used the Lawn Fawn Scallop Circle die to make a front and back piece for the flip circle. 

To decorate my circle, I stamped, colored, and cut out several images from the Lawn Fawn Lucky Charm and Party Animal stamp sets. 

I used foam squares to make a staggered wreath of four leaf clovers, and added my party animal to the middle.

To finish the card I used some stamps from the set to stamp and heat emboss my inside sentiment. 

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