I had been holding out investing in the BetterPress system from Spellbinders, but it is included in the current Spring Cleaning sale ending tonight at midnight, and that tipped me over! So today I'm sharing my first attempt using this system.
Thursday, April 25, 2024
BetterPress!!
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
Woodblock Wednesday: Dots & Flowers
Here's my card for this month's Woodblock Wednesday over at Amy's blog! I chose a background stamp dated 2009 from Hero Arts called Dots & Flowers.
Sunday, April 21, 2024
Folkart Flower Turnabout Cards
Here's the latest Turnabout design from Concord and 9th - I can't seem to resist any of them! I made 2 cards with it today.
For my first card, I stamped the design, then die-cut the word happy from it, added the script sentiment, and popped the panel above a solid A2 coral panel.
Thursday, April 18, 2024
Birthday Wishes
You can never have too many birthday cards, so I pulled out some older dies and made a feminine pastel one. The flowers and leaves were all cut from paint chips!
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
Blackout Embossing Technique
I have been wanting to try the Blackout Embossing technique where you emboss a design with your folder, turn it around so that the design is debossed, color in the details, then swipe a black ink pad over the whole thing. It's a scary scenario, but the results I've seen have been pretty amazing.
I chose a 3D folder called Floral Harmony. Here are my results.
Sunday, April 14, 2024
Lilacs From Me to You
I have loved lilacs forever - they bring back so many memories of growing up, probably enhanced by their magical scent. Here's another play with my new goodies from The Greetery.
Friday, April 12, 2024
Stampendous All the Sentiments Release
A few days ago Stampendous had a new release called All the Sentiments. There are sentiment sets for sympathy cards, birthday cards, and 1 for all occasion. Today I have 3 cards that use sentiments from 3 of these new stamp sets.
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
Spellbinders Glimmering Flowers Release
Spellbinders is releasing a new collection called Glimmering Flowers! I was excited to get a little suite of products from it: a glimmer plate and stencil bundle called Glimmering Peonies and a set of glimmer sentiments and a die to cut them out called Curved Everyday Sentiments. Here's what I did with them.
Monday, April 8, 2024
A Birthday Card
I need a birthday card soon, and remembered this Simon stamp set from a card kit - I liked the sentiment stamp that could be colored in, so that's where I started. Since this is for a man, I kept my colors on the cool side, and liked the idea of adding a leafy embossed background.
Saturday, April 6, 2024
Spellbinders Club Kits for April
The Spellbinders Club Kits are available now through April 27. The theme this month is stitching!
My first card uses both the Glimmer of the month: Sew Amazing and the Stitching dies of the month: Stitched Wall Hanging. I was sent some Moondust glimmer foil, so that's what dictated my colors for this card.
Thursday, April 4, 2024
Yana's Floral Celebration - 3 ways!
I really liked Yana's latest release, in particular her Floral Celebration bundle, a Press Plate and a set of stencils to color it.
I don't yet own a BetterPress system, so I thought I'd get this plate and use it with glimmer hot foils just to try it, and I was thrilled with the results! Here are 3 samples using it with its matching stencils, each with a different color of glimmer foil.
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
Lilacs in a Jar
One of the new dies released at the Greetery recently were the Botanicuts Lilacs, and because we were travelling back from Florida at the time, I wasn't able to get these until later in March, but they were SO worth the wait!
Here's my first card using these dies, mixed with some older goodies from The Greetery. I made a mini slim-line card.
Sunday, March 31, 2024
Happy Easter!
I recently "discovered" this lovely cling stamp from Penny Black in my supplies, and decided to give it some love!
Thursday, March 28, 2024
Some Garden Path Cards
Concord and 9th recently brought out a stencil pack with stamped sentiments to coordinate, called Garden Path. I had a fun time playing with them, and have 3 cards to share today!
The unusual thing about the stencils is that there's one that inks in a background. For this first card I used twisted citron for that.