TWO Birthday Cards (BOGO Sale)!

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Today card is a two-fer. These two die sets are super intricate and require little effort to assemble. If you love an intricate design and are lack of ideas, this is definitely a great go-to dies!  

 

 

 For this set of dies, I inked up all the solid pieces with Distress Oxide.

I  left the large flower die as white to show off the color contrast.

The flourish pieces are so beautiful that I diecut two of them to keep the design in good balance.

 

As you can see, I added a piece of glitter paper under the birthday sentiment.

 I also cut the small flower in half and used it as one of the layering element. Hope you like it!

 My next card is using similar design except I used gold for the outline element.

  All colors are inked from Distress Oxide.

 The sentiment are from Spellbinders past Card Kit and Clear Stamp.

I was pleasantly surprised how quickly that the designs came together.

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Create With Scraps

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It's time to clean my the craft table and make something out of the scraps.  Let's start with the Decorative Floral 3D Embossing Folder.

Here I highlighted the surface of the embossing folder.

 

 

 Since I trimmed it to odd size, I added the layer with the green card stock. To keep the edges interesting, I added Faux Stitching. 

 

You might wonder why I used such a large sentiment....well, behind the lavender card stock, there was a tear mark from the strong Washi Tape! 

 

And that is how this design came about!! I think the received would not know all the boos that I made and that is a success! 

 

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Christmas In July -Take 2!

 Hello friends!

I am back with another take of the new July release from Spellbinders.

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This iconic Christmas image is easy to achieve. The set consisted of the car and presents with a large bow. Once you know what the little parts are for, it takes little time to assemble. 

My original plan was to die cut the car in green....but I fell in love with the silver car once it's die cut. The metallic sheen and details are absolutely amazing! 

I kept the color scheme simple and thought the white, blue and red are festive and eye-catching. I also created the white snowy hills with Color Blocked Scenic Scape Etched Die. 

  

The white snowflakes are part of the "Home Decorations" Die Set. You can check out the entire release HERE. Thanks for stopping by!

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Add Depth to One Layer Wonder

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It's my turn to share a project over Altenew Card Blog today. This time, I made a one layer card and had a blast creating it! 

I have a love of creating one layer cards. The reasons? First, it is mail-friendly and no extra postage required. Secondly, one layer card is clean and concise and conveys the sentiment perfectly. Last but certainly not the least, it is just plain fun to create! To me, stamping  one layer cards makes me to be a better stamper. I have to go that extra "mile" (inch in this case) to make the card shine!

I am using Watercolor Extravaganza for my card. This solid stamp set is perfect for beginners and expert stampers. The lining up is very forgiving. Even when you are not perfectly lined up with the stamps, it makes an unique and artistic design!

I started out stamping the top left corner. The fun part of this process is also mixing up the colors and shades. I highly encourage you to go beyond your regular sets and mix other colors into your floral designs.

 *All inks are listed at the end of this post. For example,  I used many colors for the flower petals ( Pastel Sunrise, Canyon Clay), Center(Vanilla Cream, Honey Drizzle, Antique Gold Pigment Ink, Sicilian Amber) and leaves (Butternut, Marshland and Bamboo).

After stamping the flowers, it looked pretty good already. Now what? I decided to add a subtle framed corner at the bottom. Unfortunately, I left a fine brownish line on the right. This was a "mistake"! However, I didn't want to start a new card and proceeded to stamp more leaves. This makes the lines look intentional! Problem solved.

With this process, you will learn to about placement, balance and composition. I would love it if you can leave me your comment over Altenew Card Blog! Your comments are always appreciated there.

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Stamped Birthday Cards By The Decade!

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I am popping in to share one of the cards that I made with Cool Decades Stamp Set.  Today's card was my first take with this stamp set. However, I didn't like the color placement, so I did my 2nd take. So, this card below was my 2nd take/a re-do, so to speak. 

However, I think my first take still has some good merits and therefore, I think might serve a learning purpose. So, for the sake of sharing and learning, here it is! 

What I love about this card is that I stamped the sentiment onto the the "Speech Bubble" image. I then cut it out and popped it up. This gives the card some fun and cute element. 

What I didn't love are the color distribution of the image. The browns are on the right side and the orange on the other. Aesthetically, it didn't look symmetrical and pleasing to the eyes. When it comes to CAS card, these must be taken into account

This is a card analysis post and I hope you enjoy the share! I'd love to know if you enjoy seeing this type of posts. I will keep them in mind and hopefully, I will share more!

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Christmas in July

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I am joining the Christmas in July inspiration.  When it's hot outside, I feel cool to create indoors and see the winter magic through my ink and dies!  The latest one here is from Spellbinders July new release called Holiday Decorations.

Holiday Decorations Etched Dies is part of the Tis the Season Collection with a set of six thin metal dies that create sweet holiday ornaments. Also included are three different designs each of snowflakes and stars.Tis the Season to truly sparkle! This collection is full of wonderful traditional holiday icons that is a perfect addition to your holiday paper crafting projects. Mix and match within this ensemble or with other Spellbinders’ holiday offerings.

This set may have many small pieces, but once you die cut them, it doesn't take long to assemble.  

 There are two sets of ornaments and I used silver paper for the bauble topper. This proves to be easy and effective.

For the panel, I die cut the Color Block Scenic Scape Die.

This die can be used all year round. I love how this die help grounded the baubles. I will definitely share more use of Color Block Scenic Scape Die.

 

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