Wednesday, February 5, 2025

Houseplants

 


Hello my card making friends, today I am on the ScrapbookPal Blog and I have the most beautiful card featuring Altenew's Houseplants Die. This is such a great set because you can either make a hanging plant or potted plant.  I decided to do both.  This is the perfect project to combine the use of ink and markers.  Lets get started!   

In the die set, there are three different types of foliage.  I did each of them using white cardstock blended with Distress Oxide Ink and complimentary colored Copic markers.  


The first color combination is:   Peeled Paint Distress Oxide Ink and Copic Markers YG63 and YG67.


The second combination is:  Bundled Sage Distress Oxide Ink and Copic Markers BG93 and G85.


The third combination is:  Shabby Shutters Distress Oxide Ink and Copic Markers YG23 and YG17.

The lavender flowers are cut from white cardstock that had Milled Lavender Distress Oxide Ink blended on it.  I used a Copic Marker BV11 to add some detail to the petals and the center piece was colored with BV13.  

The orange flowers are cut from white cardstock blended with Dried Marigold, Ripe Persimmon and Carved Pumpkin Distress Oxide Ink.  I just placed the die randomly on the inked areas so that I had a nice variation in color.  I used a Copic Marker RV04 to add detail to the petals.  

The markers were used to just "flick" a little color on the petals and leaves, which helps give them some dimension. 

The centers on all the flowers are from white cardstock blended with Mustard Seed Distress Oxide Ink.



For the pots, I used two different colors of gray cardstock with a brown cardstock backing.  To add a little shading on the pot, I used Hickory Smoke Distress Oxide Ink.  The rim of the pot, is white cardstock Speckled Egg Distress Oxide Ink.   

For the background, I used an off-white cardstock spritzed with Speckled Egg Distress Oxide Spray.  Once the ink was dry, I used Altenew's Masonry Wall 3D embossing folder to give it some nice texture.   

For the sentiment, I used Tranquil Greetings stamps and dies with Memento Black Ink.  

Everything on this card was adhered with Bearly Art Precision Craft Glue.  I love everything about this glue from the drying time to the micro tip for fussy gluing. 

I hope you think this card is beautiful as I do and have been inspired to make one of your own.  Until next month.....

Sandy


Monday, February 3, 2025

Howdy Little Buckaroo!




Hello and happy Monday.   As a mom of two boys, I always found it a little more difficult to find them Valentine's Day cards.  Even though they are now grown up, I still reflect on those childhood days.  I haven't had a chance to play with the Gnome On The Range stamp and die set from Trinity Stamps.  Since Valentine's Day is just around the corner, I decided to make a fun little Valentines.

The background of this card I used Black Soot Distress Oxide Ink on white cardstock using their Cow Print Background Stencil.  I did speckle it a little bit with some watered down ink.  

For the star opening, I used Lawn Fawn's Outside In Stitched Star and Stitched Star Frames respectively.  



The Gnome is colored with Copic markers in the following colors:

  • RV10, RV13, RV21 - Pinks
  • YR30, E31, E50 - Hat
  • R14, R27 - Reds
  • R00, R30 – Gnome Face
  • E42, E43 – Horse’s Mane
  • E15, E17, E39, E29 – Rocking Horse
  • N1 - Beard
  • Y06, Y08, Y19 - Yellows
Most of the sentiment is from the stamp set, however, the "Happy Valentine's Day" sentiment is from the Simply Sentimental: Happy stamp collection.  I heat embossed the sentiments with gold embossing powder.  

This would be a really cute Birthday card just using the sentiments included with the card.  

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have a great day!

Sandy


Sunday, February 2, 2025

Sorry You're Not Feeling Gouda


 Hello!  I have just one more cheesy card to share.  This one includes the new Trinity Stamps Tiny Mouse Die.  I wasn't quite sure how I was going to use it, but I think it kind of makes a really cute outer border.

For the background on this card, I cut Mermaid Cardstock (LawnFawn) to 4.0" x 5.25".  I used Uncharted Mariner Distress Oxide Ink on the outside edges.  I spritzed it with Uncharted Mariner Distress Spritz to give it a little texture and shimmer.



I cut the mice bodies from a light gray cardstock, the ears from a medium gray and the eye and nose from a dark gray.  I touched up the edges with Black Soot Distress Oxide Ink and blended just a tiny bit of Worn Lipstick Distress Oxide Ink  inside their little ears.



The cheese pieces are from the Extra Cheese stamp set.  They were cut out with the coordinating dies and colored with Copic markers in the following colors:

  • Y02, Y08, Y15
  • R14, R24, R27
  • YR30, YR31
The sentiment is from the Brie-lliant stamp set.  I did have to trim the one sentiment that says, "Sorry Your Feeling Blue", so that it would work with the "Not Feeling Too Gouda".  I do this pretty often with sentiment stamps and haven't found it to ruin them or make them unusable.  I heat embossed it using black embossing powder.  

Once I had the everything assembled, I adhered the inner card to a medium gray piece of cardstock cut to 4.25" x 5.5".

I am really pleased the way this card turned out.  I hope you find it as cute as I do.

Thanks for stopping by today and I hope you have an amazing day!!!

Sandy


Saturday, February 1, 2025

We Go Together Like Mac and Cheese!

 

Hello friends!  Today I have a card I created with the new Trinity Stamps Extra Cheese and Brie-lliant Sayings stamp and die sets.  The cheesy puns are just so darn cute!

For the background on this card, I inked a piece of white cardstock with Mustard Seed Distress Oxide Ink. Using the Cheesy Background Stencil, I inked the openings with Dried Marigold Distress Oxide Ink.  Right now, I am all about the Tim Holtz Distress Spritzes - I love them!  I spritzed the background with just a little Fossilized Amber Distress Spritz to give my background a little dimension and shimmer.  Once my cardstock was nice and dry, I used the little macaroni to randomly stamp with a light brown ink.  

To finish my card's background, I cut a circle using the Clean Cut Layers: Circle Set A die set.  

I colored my little images using Copic Markers in the following colors:

  • YR30, E50
  • YR31, Y17
  • RV13, RV21
  • R21, R22
I know that the yellow cheese is probably supposed to a Swiss, but I liked the size of it the best, so that what I used.  Maybe it's a block of cheddar that a mouse got into!

For the sentiment, I used one from the Brie-lliant stamp set.  I heat embossed it with white embossing powder and then trimmed it.

I found that I needed to put something between my little images and the background because they were blending in just a little bit too much.  The fix was to place a vellum heart between the two and that was just perfect.  I used the Lacy Heart Stackables from Lawn Fawn for that piece, but you could use any appropriately sized die.  

I glued my images on the vellum and then used foam squares to pop it up.  Remember that vellum does not play well with most things, so try to hide your foam pieces behind the mac and cheese.  

To make my card, I cut a piece of cardstock, 5.5" x 11".  I scored the paper at 4.25" and folded it.  Using the same die that I used to cut out my background, I placed it just slightly off the creased edge (left side), still making sure that it would still cover the right side of my folded card, and ran it through the die cutter.  


For the inside sentiment, I stamped it using the Simply Sentimental: Happy stamp set with black ink.

This made such a cute Valentine's Day card but you could definitely use it for other occasions depending what you put on the inside.

Thanks so much for stopping by!  I hope you have a great day!

Sandy