Scrap 'N Stamp August Inspiration Hop - "Sunflowers"

Hello my crafty friends and welcome to Scrap 'N Stamp Canada's August Inspiration HOP with a theme of Sunflowers! 

The sunflower collection from Crafters Companion is so lovely - I am looking forward to seeing what the other Designers came up with too!  You can see the whole blog hop list on the SNS Blog HERE:  I chose the 6 x 6" paper pad and the Sunflower Wishes stamps to work with and was so inspired I made three cards in three different sizes. I have all the details in my YouTube video:   

First up is the Sunflower Shutter Card, using dies by Lawn Fawn. Remember most of the supplies are available at Scrap 'N Stamp and they are also linked below for you.

The solid foiled butterfly was created using the negative foiling technique and I saved the blue outline butterflies for another card.

After you slide off the belly band, you open the panel and the shutters slide open to reveal the sentiment. I have so much fun with this die set!

Here are the butterflies again, this time foiled using a mini rainbow foil and these ones are the outline butterflies. I saved the reverse foiled ones for another project.

The sentiment and signing block was added to the back side - I love the size of the sentiments in the stamp set, and the great mix of fonts.

The next card is 4.25" square and fits in a standard A2 envelope for mailing. I stamped another sentiment from the stamp set onto vellum, but when the ink was fully dry I thought it was dried back too light. So I traced the letters with a brown fine point marker and liked it much better.

Here is a peek at the inside ...

Finally, a Mini Slimline card - the papers are perfect for quick and easy cards. I added lots of shimmer to the panel with Wink of Stella, gold confetti and outlined the panel with a gold gel pen.

I tried to capture the shimmer, but it is hard on screen. It shows up in real life though!

Here is the inside of the Mini Slimline ...

For the full Hop list, check out the Scrap 'N Stamp blog - HERE!!

Your next stop is Allison!

You can find most of the supplies I used on the Scrap 'N Stamp online shop, including the Crafters Companion Sunflower collection!

This blog uses affiliate links whenever possible. This means, that at no cost to you, if you make a purchase through one of my affiliate links that I may receive a small commission from your purchase. I only link products that I own, love and use for my card making and not every link below is an affiliate one! 😊

Any supplies I'm unable to link are listed at the very bottom of my post.

Additional Supplies:

White cardstock
Rust cardstock
Brown fine point marker
Stitched Circle dies - MFT Stamps (retired)

Pop Up Grandparent's Day Card

Hello my crafty friends.  I always send my Mother In Law a Grandparents Day card ... but sometimes I cut it close time-wise. This year I wanted to be ready ahead of time so made my card early. Now I can have it ready to send out in time next month!  I used several different dies by Karen Burniston as well as cute papers and ephemera from Doodlebug Designs.

Inside is the Cupcake Pop Up! I get a lot of use out of this die set, simply by covering up the cupcake shape it becomes a generic pop up with an additional 'step' or platform. I wrote the message with a fine point marker and went over the letters with light shades of alcohol markers for a bit of colour.

... one more look ...

This card is sized at 5 x 5.5" and fits in a 5 x 7" envelope for mailing.

This blog uses affiliate links whenever possible. This means, that at no cost to you, if you make a purchase through one of my affiliate links that I may receive a small commission from your purchase. I only link products that I own, love and use for my card making and not every link below is an affiliate one! 😊

Any supplies I'm unable to link are listed at the very bottom of my post.

Additional Supplies:
White card stock - Accent Opaque Digital Super Smooth (Amazon .ca)
Black fine point marker
Alcohol markers
Scraps of black and pink cardstocks
Patterned paper - Doodlebug, simply spring (double sided)
Odds & ends - Simply Spring - Doodlebug

Strawberry Tag

Hello my crafty friends. I've been having fun making tags these days, so here is another one using supplies from Pigment Craft Co.  I love the large size of this strawberry set and this was my first play with it. While I had everything out, I stamped and die cut 4 strawberries so I have more to create with.

The top photo shows the glitter from the Wink of Stella, but of course it's better in real life. The gift is for a friend, and I'm giving her a set of hand-made cards. 

This blog uses affiliate links whenever possible. This means, that at no cost to you, if you make a purchase through one of my affiliate links that I may receive a small commission from your purchase. I only link products that I own, love and use for my card making and not every link below is an affiliate one! 😊

Any supplies I'm unable to link are listed at the very bottom of my post.

Additional Supplies:

Lt Pink cardstock - Michaels

Ribbon - Stampin' Up (retired)

White card stock - Accent Opaque Digital Super Smooth (Amazon .ca)

Silver thread - stash

Mini Slimline with Scotties

Hello my crafty friends. When the new Stampin' Up holiday catalogue came out, I was immediately smitten by the Christmas Scottie stamp set with the coordinating punch. This was my first play with it - of course, I purchased it because I can use it all year round!

Unfortunately there is a flaw in the stamp that I had to work really hard to disguise on these ones but Stampin' Up has great customer service and a replacement is on it's way to me. I cut the scalloped frame with a Mini Slimline die by Kat Scrappiness using retired plaid paper. The three scotties are popped up with foam tape, but I think that the centre one would be super cute on an Action Wobble too.

Here is a peek at the inside where I can write a note when I go to send the card. Since the plaid paper I used is long retired, I found some other 6 x 6" pads to link for you - with lots of colour choices!

This blog uses affiliate links whenever possible. This means, that at no cost to you, if you make a purchase through one of my affiliate links that I may receive a small commission from your purchase. I only link products that I own, love and use for my card making and not every link below is an affiliate one! 😊

Any supplies I'm unable to link are listed at the very bottom of my post.

Additional Supplies:
Christmas Scottie - stamps & punch, Stampin' Up
White card stock - Accent Opaque Digital Super Smooth (Amazon .ca)
Grey Copic markers
Plaid patterned paper - Plaid Tidings, Stampin' Up (retired)

Black fine point marker

Pop Up Baby Card

Hello my crafty friends! Today I'm sharing the baby card I made for our niece & her hubby, who had a baby girl recently 🥰.   The patterned paper is one I've had in my stash for YEARS as well as that sweet ribbon. The paper has some sparkle to it and I used a pink pearl glimmer foil for the other elements.

Since it's Fun Fold Friday on my blog, this card has a little surprise inside ... it's an explosion card! I have been making this type of explosion card for over 30 years (gasp). I would go into our kids classroom with a suitcase full of stamps & ink pads and teach these to the kids.  This card started with a 9" square of patterned paper. I think I will have to do a YouTube tutorial on this fun fold for those who haven't seen them before. Adding it to the list!

Since I also did some reverse foiling, there were areas of pink pearl foiling left on the cardstock after die cutting the circle and Congrats inside. So I pulled out an old heart punch and punched out the hearts from the leftover area. No waste and they coordinate perfectly!

I spelled out the baby's name using an alpha die set and rainbow holographic cardstock. Everything that is available is linked below. 😊 

This blog uses affiliate links whenever possible. This means, that at no cost to you, if you make a purchase through one of my affiliate links that I may receive a small commission from your purchase. I only link products that I own, love and use for my card making and not every link below is an affiliate one! 😊

Any supplies I'm unable to link are listed at the very bottom of my post.

Additional Supplies:
Card (6.5 x 5")  and envelope - Michaels
Patterned paper - Nana's Nursery Baby Girl, DCWV (old, from my stash)
Pink patterned paper inside - Provocraft? (old, from my stash)
Pink cardstock - stash
White card stock - Accent Opaque Digital Super Smooth (Amazon .ca)
Sequins - leftover from an older Paper Pumpkin kit
Hearts - retired punch from Stampin' Up
Rainbow Holographic cardstock - Hunkydory

Roses & Butterflies - Birthday Card Trio

Hello my crafty friends. Today's card trio finishes up the August 2021 Paper Pumpkin kit called Hope Box. As usual when I create with card kits, I pull in lots of other items from my craft room and these lovely outline roses are from Paper Rose. I've had that die for well over a year and I love it - such a nice size and it cuts really well. The little butterfly, the patterned pieces and the card base/envelops were all in the kit. Since I make more Birthday cards than any other kind, I'm always looking for Birthday sentiments - I've had this set from Honey Bee for months - and it's getting a good work out!

Here is a peek at the inside ... Both the butterfly and patterned banner were in the kit. All three cards were finished off the same.  Into my stash with these ones!

This blog uses affiliate links whenever possible. This means, that at no cost to you, if you make a purchase through one of my affiliate links that I may receive a small commission from your purchase. I only link products that I own, love and use for my card making and not every link below is an affiliate one! 😊

Any supplies I'm unable to link are listed at the very bottom of my post.

Additional Supplies:
Paper Pumpkin, August 2021 - Stampin' Up (discontinued)
White card stock - Accent Opaque Digital Super Smooth (Amazon .ca)

August 2022 Sheetload of Cards

Hello my crafty friends. I'm back with my second post today ... usually Sheetload day (the 2nd of each month) and Karen Burniston's Designer Challenge Day don't fall on the same day - but this month they did. So ... two posts, lots of cards to share and two different YouTube video's!

Since I'm on the Sheetload of Cards YouTube Collaboration Team, I have all the details in my video HERE:   

This month the Sheetload of Cards yields twelve cards and uses three different 12 x 12" patterned papers. I chose to make Christmas cards and did three sets of four cards. Four 'flat' cards, four with Karen Burniston's Evergreen Pivot Panel die set and four with her Katherine Label Pop Up set.

First up are the ones with the Evergreen Pivot Panel - which works great for Christmas cards although I use this one year round.

The next set show the Katherine Label Pop Up although instead of the label shape I used large red die cut snowflakes and a Merry Christmas sentiment to pop up.

The details on how you can download your own (free) Sheetload of cards can be found in the description below my video on YouTube. 

This blog uses affiliate links whenever possible. This means, that at no cost to you, if you make a purchase through one of my affiliate links that I may receive a small commission from your purchase. I only link products that I own, love and use for my card making and not every link below is an affiliate one! 😊

Any supplies I'm unable to link are listed at the very bottom of my post.

Additional Supplies:
White card stock - Accent Opaque Digital Super Smooth (Amazon .ca)
Circle stickers - Stampendous
Snowflake Trio dies - Impress (discontinued)
Sentiments - Hero Arts, Old set from my stash and no longer available

Pop Up Anniversary Card

Hello my crafty friends! This is my first post today and I'll be back in a few hours with my Sheetload of Cards post & video. 😊 It's time for Karen Burniston's Designer Challenge, where she challenged her Design Team to create a pop up card using 'Labels". Since I've been having fun with the Paper Frames Pop Up lately, that is what I went with. I also have a walkthrough of my card on YouTube here: 

I used some older patterned paper from my stash, and decorated the front with the Labels Crosshatch and the Happy Anniversary. The hearts are from the Heart Collage Pop Up and the latter two were cut from a rainbow holographic card stock.

Inside is the Paper Frames Pop Up, as well as the largest Label Crosshatch with more holographic hearts.

It needed something else on the left side, so I added the Cheers and liked it a lot better.

I also added a matted square for a signing block using decorator dies from the Spinner Square Pop Up.

Finally, here is a view from the bottom of the card looking towards the top. I love all the dimension you get with this die set. It's one that the recipient of these cards goes Oh Wow. 

This blog uses affiliate links whenever possible. This means, that at no cost to you, if you make a purchase through one of my affiliate links that I may receive a small commission from your purchase. I only link products that I own, love and use for my card making and not every link below is an affiliate one! 😊

Any supplies I'm unable to link are listed at the very bottom of my post.

Additional Supplies:
Patterned paper - Cute Cute Cactus, DCWV (old, from my stash)
White card stock - Accent Opaque Digital Super Smooth (Amazon .ca)
Rainbow holographic cardstock - Hunkydory
Sequins - leftover from an older Paper Pumpkin kit

Tag Duo

Hello my crafty friends.  I have two long posts coming tomorrow (Karen Burniston's Designer Challenge AND the August Sheetload of Cards). Thus today's share is a quick one. I don't share a lot of my tags here but since I had nothing else for today I thought it would be better than nothing. 😊

I used dies from Pigment Craft Co, but the pony stamp is from Honey Bee. The plaid patterned paper was a partial 6x6" sheet in the package, and I was able to use that piece up on these two tags, which will be for my stash. Since I can't link that retired paper for you I found a few others that would also work.    

I did some outlining with a gold gel pen and also added some gold leafing along the torn plaid paper edge. You know I love a little sparkle & shine!   

This blog uses affiliate links whenever possible. This means, that at no cost to you, if you make a purchase through one of my affiliate links that I may receive a small commission from your purchase. I only link products that I own, love and use for my card making and not every link below is an affiliate one! 😊

Any supplies I'm unable to link are listed at the very bottom of my post.

Additional Supplies:
Plaid patterned paper - Plaid Tidings, Stampin' Up (retired)
Crinkled Seam Binding - stash
Bling - Queen & Company (stash)