Festival of Fall: New Starts

 

Fall is almost here, in the northern hemisphere. And for those in the southern hemisphere, spring is about to blossom! I love the transition seasons, and there are so many wonderful reason why.  Lots of New Starts, so that is our opening gambit for the Festival of Fall!

My Crafty Festival of Friends and I are doing another series of blog hops. This one is every 2 weeks on a Friday, and it spans a whole lot of stuff. Be sure to subscribe to us all to be sure to catch all of the projects. 

Want to see the creation process? Watch this video!
 

 This is  a super simple card. Stamped and Copic colored image with a white heat embossed sentiment popped on top of this 5x7 card.

The shoe image is from Picket Fence Studios: Walk, Crawl, Run

The sentiment is from Simon Says Stamp: Fall Frenchies- a favorite of mine. 

The sentiment inside is from My Favorite Things: Be an Original, which is full shoe references.

This is my first effort at creating a shaker pocket with upcycled stamp packaging and a bag sealing tool. Check out that video at the beginning of this post to see the process. 

I recently got several cardstock packs from Tonic Studios, including several mirror cardstocks. Seems the perfect time to use them with the layered sentiment dies from Honey Bee Stamps: Special Teacher!

This is Spring Silver mirror card, layered into white and vellum cardstocks. 

The sub-sentiment on the front and inside are from the Honey Bee Stamps: Special Teacher stamp set- gold heat embossed. 

This time, I had a play with the Spellbinders Glimmer of the Month kit: Have a Crafty Day glimmer plates. The kit has on large background and several sentiment plates in this kit. I used the background plate with the Prism foil to create this background on a light pink cardstock. 

The foiling resists ink, so I was  able to ink blend the panel with Wilted Violet, Picked Raspberry, and  Spun Sugar Distress  inks. Add some spritzing with Pearlized water, and you have a lovely background!

This mirror cardstock is Petal  Pink, which is another holographic paper that ranges from purple to pink- love it! So many colors it will work with!

That Honey Bee Stamps: Special Teacher set has loads of great sentiments, and I used a few more on this card, also heat embossed. 

I am so glad you stopped by! Be sure to check out the rest of the hop, the full list of stops is at the end of this post. 

Thank you to everyone that has used my affiliate links. I really appreciate it! Leave me a comment to let me know if you made a purchase with my links, and I will send you a card!

Some of the supplies listed below are affiliate links, some are not. If you use an affiliate link here to make a purchase, I may get a small compensation. I only use things that I love, and do not create paid posts.

 

 

 

Blog Roll:

• Tania Cordie            blog
  
• Marcia Caradinta     blog     Instagram
• Tanya Boser             blog     Instagram      video
• Jenny Hall                blog     Instagram     
  

Crafty Christmas Club: August

 

Good morning, crafters! Do you have your cuppa in hand? We are ready to help you wake up!

It is the 25th of August and that means it is time for another Crafty Christmas Club hop. I hope you are all enjoying this monthly Christmas encouragement.  I know that I need a little reminder to keep at the card pile I need to create for the holiday season, because it comes up much to quickly. 

This time, I decided to go a little quirky with my card. It helps that the stamp and die just arrived and I really wanted to play with it. I did create a video of this card, which will give you all the details of how it was created. 

This card started with an image, and just evolved as I went. There was no plan other than using this stamp and die. I did not even know I  was making a shaker  card. But, here we are!

I colored the reindeer with Copics, Wink of  Stella, Sakura Gelly Roll  pens,  and the Marvy Snow Marker. 

I used the Trinity Layered Coffe Beans on the kraft panel, and  Layered Birch stencils for the snow banks inside the shaker element. 

 

Spellbinders Essential Ovals dies and Glimmer Hot Foil plates created the shaker window and details. The dimension for the shaker element is achieved with 2 layers of coaster blanks cut to  fit. The shaker pieces are the Trinity Stamps S'mores Please clay embellishments. 

And, you guessed it, a little stenciling on the inside with this perfect sentiment stamped over the top.

So, can you relate to this reindeer? Have you finished your cuppa? Comments, quirky and irreverent welcome, below!

The rest of the blog roll is at the end of this post, so don't forget to check it out.

If you are interested in the supplies I used, I have provided links below.

Some of the supplies listed below are affiliate links, some are not. If you use an affiliate link here to make a purchase, I may get a small compensation. I only use things that I love, and do not create paid posts.

Blog Roll:

• Anne Mathison         blog     instagram 
• Justin Averill            blog     instagram
• Tanya Boser             blog     instagram     video
• Adam Karle                          instagram
• Marcia Caradinta      blog     instagram
• Brianne Firth             blog    instagram
• Tania Cordie             blog    
• Neha Tulsyan                        instagram
  

Crafty Friends: Gina K Designs

Are you ready for some glitz and glitter, because here it comes!

Welcome to the monthly Crafty Friends Blog Hop!  We feature a different brand each month, with a limited time COUPON CODE for our viewers. How awesome is that?!

 

We are featuring Gina K Designs this time, how exciting is that?! Be sure to get in on this coupon code, which is only good for 2 days. Click on this banner to get started shopping, and don't forget to use the CRAFTYFRIENDS20 code at checkout for 20% off (excluding gift certificates and clearance items).

I am trying really hard to do videos for every post. And I succeeded with this one! Check it out for all the details.

This card features a rainbow of Glitz Glitter Gel around a wreath of summer goodness created using the Gina K contribution to the Stamping Village stamp set: Thinking of You. 

I used a wreath building template to create the wreath of flowers, then colored them with Copic markers. 

The centers of the flowers are Lemon Twist Nuvo Dream Drops, so shimmery! 

 

And inside, some stenciling to finish it off.

This one is a little less in your face with the glitter. Ink blending over a yellow cardstock panel, then glitter gel scattered over the same stencil. This is a 5x7 card.

The center image is the same as the first card. Isn't it interesting how the same main image on a different background changes the whole feel!

The Honey Bee Stamps A7 Scallop and Double Stitched Rectangle die sets helped create the panels on this card. 

More stenciling on the inside of the card. Love this, probably not stopping anytime soon. 😁

The question I would like you to answer in the comments is: Which of these cards do you prefer, the in your face rainbow, or the more restrained garden glitter?

The rest of the blog roll is at the end of this post, so don't forget to check it out.

If you are interested in the supplies I used, I have provided links below.

Some of the supplies listed below are affiliate links, some are not. If you use an affiliate link here to make a purchase, I may get a small compensation. I only use things that I love, and do not create paid posts.

 

Blog Roll:

 

Jenny Hall

Tanya Boser

Ilina Crouse

Maria Willis

Becky Roberts

Sandi MacIver

Sue Plote

Sara Sherlock

Lydia Fiedler

Jill Hilliard

 

 

 

Paper Craft Crew 389

  

I got. up to some oceans of fun while camping in our new camper recently!

 

 

 

 

I used the Paper Craft Crew sketch challenge to make this Slimeline card.

 

This is almost entirely Hero Arts stuff from the July release, and I was itching to play with it all Some ink blending with Hero Hues Reactive inks in Pool Party and Grape Slush, then White Satin Pearl het embossing to create the background.

 

 

Jellyfish from the Hero Arts Need a Hand stamp and die set  colored with Copics. And those gorgeous Glass Beach embellishments from Trinity Stamps!

 

 

These sentiment pieces were pulled from three sources. I know, I am so very extra.

 

I added a fee extra colored and die cut elements to the inside, and that finishes this card up!

 

If you are interested in the supplies I used, I have provided links below.

Some of the supplies listed below are affiliate links, some are not. If you use an affiliate link here to make a purchase, I may get a small compensation. I only use things that I love, and do not create paid posts.

 Supplies:

Spellbinders Holiday Wood Blocks Pattterned Paper and Poinsettias

I don't know about you, but I have a large stash of patterned paper, and  I have a hard  time using it. Partly because I enjoy creating my own  backgrounds, but also because I tend to hoard the pretty paper. Well, let's use a little up and make this fun and easy card!

 

 

 

ETA: Spellbinders is having a bonus sale this week, and is available until Sunday August 23, 2020. Click on the graphic above to start saving now!

You can watch me create this card on this video. 

I started with that beautiful patterned paper, which is from a Spellbinders Card Kit of the Month from last fall, I link it below. There are gorgeous foil details on this paper.

Th Joy sentiment was simply die cut from some metallic cardstock and coaster blank, then adhered together.  And the poinsettias are from the Holiday Wood Block die set also. I just cut the dies from red and green  cardstock and adhere them together. The centers are Nuvo Crystal Drops in Copper Penny.

I used the same metallic cardstock with the square die from the Holiday Wood Blocks set to create a mat for the sentiment panel.

This was such a speedy card! Let me  know what you think of  this card  in the comment section below.

 

If you are interested in the supplies I used, I have provided links below.

Some of the supplies listed below are affiliate links, some are not. If you use an affiliate link here to make a purchase, I may get a small compensation. I only use things that I love, and do not create paid posts.

 

Supplies:

Spellbinders Holiday Wood Blocks Icy Green

 

This card combines ink blending, heat embossing, and layering regular colored cardstock with metallic cardstock for a vibrant card.

 

 

Watch how this card was created here.

The back panel was  ink bended with Cracked Pistachio, Iced Spruce, and Evergreen Bough Distress Oxides. Then stamped in Versmark ink with the Concord and 9th Sketched Stripes background stamp and heat embossed with Hero Arts Brass embossing powder.

The main sentiment was  cut from coaster blank, green cardstock, and metallic cardstock. The holly was trimmed off the metallic layer, and they were all glued  together. The white panel was White Satin Pearl heat embossed with the  greenery part  of the  Holly Berry Turnabout stamp, and die cut with the Hemstitch Rectangles die set. 

The sub-sentiment is GLimmer Hot Foiled in Gold with the Shimmering Christmas Sentiments and die cut with the die included with that hot foil plate set. 

The finishing touch on this card is the Red Berries Nuvo Crystal Drops. 

 

I love how vibrant and festive this card turned out! Tell me what you think in the comments below!

If you are interested in the supplies I used, I have provided links below.

Some of the supplies listed below are affiliate links, some are not. If you use an affiliate link here to make a purchase, I may get a small compensation. I only use things that I love, and do not create paid posts.

Supplies: