Thank You with Sunshine Daisy Stems by Angie Cimbalo

Hello and welcome, it's Angie here today with this fun thank you card made with newly released dies and hot foil dies.  Here's a close up look at my card:

 

 

   To make my card I smooshed purple and pink Distress Inks and water onto watercolor card then trimmed the panel to A2 size.  I added a strip of washi tape to the left side and then more to a piece of vellum to use to cut the flowers from.  I added a thin black strip of card stock next to the washi tape and then cut the new "Sunshine Daisy Stems" from black card and from the washi tape /vellum combo.  I layered the black outline flower on top of the floral washi tape/vellum combo and then cut off the vellum stems and just left the black ones .  I added the flowers to the watercolor panel and then I used the new "Posh Thank You" hot foil plate with some Gemini "Aurora" foil on black card to made the sentiment.  After adhering the whole watercolor panel to the card base, I added a few pastel jewels to the front of the card and added the whole panel to an A2 card base.

 

Here's one last look at my card:

 

 

I hope you enjoyed my card for today!  I had so much fun creating it!  Be sure to check out the whole new release from Memory Box, it's got so many beautiful items in it!  

 

Thanks for stopping by!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Supplies

 

JWL002 Pastel Jewels

WT507 Cornelia Violet 1 inch Washi Tape

94656 Sunshine Daisy Stems craft die

WP101 Watercolor Paper

MBF012 Posh Thank You craft die

Ava Butterflies with Bouquet Blooms and Leaves by Anne Thompson

Here's a butterfly card for today that features the AVA BUTTERFLIES 94643 layered to make one lovely butterfly flitting over a field of BOUQUET BLOOMS AND LEAVES 94652.

materials used

• AVA BUTTERFLIES 94643
• BOUQUET BLOOMS AND LEAVES 94652
• HELLO STREAMLINED SCRIPT 94540
• FRESH AQUA COLLECTION SP1004
• LUSH GREEN COLLECTION SP1003
• MADRAS PLAID BLUE AND VIOLET PP1014
• CLEAR FAIRY DROPS DRP101

to make this card

• trim one of the light blue plaid papers to 5 1/4 X 4 and add it to the front of a white notecard
• die cut the Ava Butterflies twice from one of the dark teal cardstock papers; adhere the small ones on top of the larger ones
• die cut the Bouquet Blooms twice from a light blue cardstock and the leaves twice from an olive green cardstock
• orient the notecard to have a top fold
• glue a variety of the blooms scattered across the card front and tuck in some of the leaves near the blooms
• add various sizes of the Clear Fairy Drops to the flower centers and use three of the smallest Clear Fairy Drops to make a body on the butterfly

• die cut the Hello Streamlined Script from a scrap of dark teal cardstock; glue it to the upper left area on the card front
• use a large glue dot or foam dot to add the butterfly to the right, hovering above the flowers

I tucked the second butterfly inside the card where I will write a message. 

I'm not usually a butterfly person but I love this Ava Butterflies 94643 die set as well as the Stella Butterfly and Background 94635 that I used on yesterday's cards.  I know these are dies I am going to reach for again and again because of the lovely embossed details on the wings of both Ava and Stella.  

It's Memorial Day today in the United States, a day on which those who died in active military service are remembered.  Dad and I put red, white, and blue flowers and a flag on his brother's grave this weekend and I will put my Uncle John's Purple Heart on display in a place of honor. And I will thank my 99-year-old dad for his service on the European front lines in World War II.

Stella Butterflies with Plaids and Solids by Anne Thompson

I made two cards for today that feature the STELLA BUTTERFLY AND BACKGROUND 94635 using coordinating plaids and solids.  First up is one in shades of violet against a blue watercolor sky.

materials used

• white notecard and envelope
• watercolor paper and blue watercolor to create a background trimmed to 5 1/4 X 4
• STELLA BUTTERFLY AND BACKGROUND 94635
• VIBRANT VIOLET COLLECTION SP1007
• MADRAS PLAID BLUE AND VIOLET PP1014
• CLEAR FAIRY DROPS DRP101

to make this card

• paint a piece of watercolor paper with a light blue watercolor; trim to 5 1/4 X 4 when dry and adhere to the front of a white notecard
• die cut the Stella Butterfly and Background from a piece of  violet plaid paper and again from a piece of coordinating violet cardstock from the Vibrant Violet Collection
• put the butterflies together--I used a glue pen--one with the plaid background and the detailed plain violet one on top with the plaid body and the other with the violet background and the detailed plaid one on top with the plain violet body; add them to the notecard
• use the smallest Clear Fairy Drops for the butterfly heads and then add a few Clear Fairy Drops in the other sizes scattered on the blue background

The second card uses plaids in brown and coral.

materials used

• white notecard and envelope
• STELLA BUTTERFLY AND BACKGROUND 94635
• brown plaid from WOODSY PLAID PP1018
• two coral plaids from MADRAS PLAID CORAL AND GREEN PP1013
• CLEAR FAIRY DROPS DRP101

to make this card

• cover the front of the notecard with a piece of coral plaid paper
• die cut the Stella Butterfly and Background from a piece of  dark brown plaid paper and again from a piece of coral plaid
• put the butterflies together--I used a glue pen--one with the brown plaid background and the detailed coral one on top with the brown plaid body and the other with the coral background and the detailed brown plaid one on top with the coral plaid body; add them to the notecard
• use the smallest Clear Fairy Drops for the butterfly heads and then add a few Clear Fairy Drops in the other sizes scattered on the coral background

I'll be back tomorrow with more cards.  Butterflies?  Maybe...

Happy Crafting!

 

Embossed Stencil by Laura Fulcher

Greetings friends. Memory Box has a new butterfly stencil that I wanted to use for today's card. I started by laying down strips of leftover cardstock onto a white panel of cardstock. this is a great way of using up your scraps. I then placed the butterfly stencil on top of the stripes and adhered it to the card using washi tape.

To color the butterflies, I sponged white Unicorn ink onto the open spaces of the stencil and then embossed the piece using opaque white embossing powder. Here is a close up:

I thought the cardstock stripes and the spacing of the ink looked like shiplap you put on your walls. Of course, I may just be watching too many remodeling shows on tv.

To finish the card, I added some jewels as well as my diecut message.

Thanks so much for stopping by today!

 

 

Supplies

 

88617 Butterfly Coterie Collage Stencil

94653 Hugs Daily Script craft die

DRP101 Fairy Drops

Heartfelt Hot Foil Posh Hugs by Jean Okimoto

Send a floral heartfelt hugs card to someone who would appreciate a bit of encouragement and support.  Hi, happy weekend - Jean Okimoto here with another great new poppy die set from our May Collection.  It's Graceful Poppy Stems - a set of two dies that cut 6 designs.

Cut Graceful Poppy Stems from a dark red-pink sheet in the Berry Red Collection.  Color the stems with a black marker.  Cut the centers from the yellow glitter sheet in the Graceful Garden Glitter Pad.

Assemble the poppies - use foam tape between the layers of the smaller blossom.

Cut a pink Berry Red Collection sheet with the 2 largest Double Stitch Happy Heart Cut Out.  This creates a medium-sized heart surrounded by stitching inside the large heart.

Use the new Posh Hugs Hot Foil Plate to apply the greeting to black cardstock.  Diecut it with the coordinating die.

Attach the diecuts to a side-folded A2 card of Kraft Woodgrain Paper (it's cardstock).  The earthy brown color keeps the card from looking like a Valentine and lets it work throughout the year.

Add gold Autumn Fairy Crystals.  Cut an A2-sized rectangle of cardstock to protect the card front for mailing.

Thanks for visiting the blog...have a great weekend!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Supplies

 

94651 Graceful Poppy Stems craft die

SP1001 Berry Red 6x6 pack

GP1002 Graceful Garden Glitter Pad

SH44003 Woodgrain Paper Pack Kraft

94361 Double Stitch Happy Heart Cut Out

CRY101 Autumn Fairy Crystals

MBF008 Posh Hugs craft die

Hugs by Donna Sledzik

Hello everyone!  Today I have a fun background technique that I saw on Jennifer McGuire's YouTube channel.  It's not a quick technique, but I think the end result is very nice and worth the time.

I started by die cutting the flowers and leaves many times from colored cardstock.  I used a light and dark shade of the blue and green.  I used navy blue cardstock for my background.

Next, comes the fun part!  I glued the large flowers onto the navy cardstock panel first, then filled in the background with leaves and smaller flowers.  Once I was happy with the background I placed it flower side down onto the Pinpoint Leaf Cover Plate Die and ran it through my die cut machine.  This presses the flowers and leaf die cuts into the paper and leaves Pinpoint Leaf image on the card. 

I glued the card front to a white card base using foam tape.

Next, I die cut the word hugs from black cardstock and the shadow from white cardstock.   I die cut the shadow 3 times from white cardstock and glued them together to give the word more dimension.

The butterflies were die cut from vellum, and the sentiment was white heat embossed on a strip of black cardstock.  

To finish the card I added some fairy crystals to the flower centers. 

That's it for today!  Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

#94641 Intricate Mini Butterflies Die

#94653 Hugs Daily Script Die

94652 Bouquet Blooms and Leaves Die 

 

 

Supplies

 

CL5254 Big and Little Spring clear stamp set

SP1003 Lush Green 6x6 pack

SP1006 Stormy Blue 6x6 pack

SP1005 Ocean Blue 6x6 pack

DDP101 Christmas Fairy Dewdrops

94381 Pinpoint Leaf Plate

Hello Daisy Card by Sara Cook

Hi everyone.  I have a greeting card to brighten up anyone's day.  It has been cool and rainy in the northwest and needed to create a bright warm card.  It's a good design to send to someone to say Hello and brighten their day. 

Background:

Cur a white card base to 5 1/4"x  3 1/2.  Mask the left side 1/4" with Washi tape add a mask to create a 3/4" opening with wide Washi tape.  Tare the wide Washi to create a ragged edge.  Ink blend with VersaFine Clair Cheerful, Tulip Red, and Verdant.  Let dry and and wipe off the ink from the Washi  tape.  center the Butterfly Coterie Collage Stencil over the ink.  Spread Distress Crackle Texture Paste over the stencil to create glitter butterflies.

Daisies:

Die cut the Happy Daisy Stem and Sunshine Daisy Stem craft dies from light, medium and dark oranges from the Sunny Orange paper pad.  Die cut the stems from a medium green from the Lush Green paper pad.  Die cut the flower center from a mid-tone brown from the Earth Neutral paper pad.  Adhere the flower layers to the Shem and then add the flower center.  Adhere he flowers to the center of the background.  

Sentiment:

Hot foil the Posh Hello with gold foil on a dark orange from the Sunny Orange paper pad.  Then die cut with the matching cutting die.  

Assembly:

Create a white A2 card.  Adhere a 4'x5 1/2" card base from the same orange as the sentiment to the A2 card, leaving a 1/4" strip of white on the side.  Adhere a 1/4" strip of gold card stock from the Vintage Pastel Mirror paper pad over the white card.  Adhere the background to the left side of the card.  Adhere the sentiment with the foam tape over the bottom of the flower stems.  Adhere some Autumn Fairy Crystals and golden yellow Pastel Fairy Jewels around the flower and butterflies.

 

Supplies

 

94656 Sunshine Daisy Stems craft die

94650 Happy Daisy Stem craft die

MBF007 Posh Hello craft die

88617 Butterfly Coterie Collage Stencil

CRY101 Autumn Fairy Crystals

JWL002 Pastel Jewels

FP1002 Vintage Pastel Mirror Pad 6x6 pack

SP1002 Sunny Orange 6x6 pack

SP1003 Lush Green 6x6 pack

Sunshine Daisy Stems Over Back-Painted Vellum by Jean Okimoto

The new Sunshine Daisy Stems can create the look of patient paper-piecing or "coloring inside the lines."  This is a lot easier!   Hi, Jean Okimoto here with a vellum back-painting technique - instead of attaching many tiny petals or trying to stay inside the lines. 

Attach a large piece of doublestick tape to white cardstock - Couture Creations tape was used here.  The taped side is the backside and the cardstock is the front.  Cut the 'open' Sunshine Daisy Stems die (shown on the left) three times from the front.  Remove the offcuts and save just the delicate outlines.

Cut heavy white vellum with the 3-¾" x 2-½" Rectangle Basics die.  Attach the three cardstock Daisy Stems to the vellum - the double-stick tape makes it quick and easy. Press Distress Oxides onto an acrylic block and paint the petals from the backside of the vellum - don't add any water.   Ink colors used here are dried marigold, squeezed lemonade, abandoned coral and kitsch flamingo.

Blend abandoned coral, kitsch flamingo and squeezed lemonade Distress Oxides on the smoother side of Open Studio Watercolor Paper.  Spray it with a light spritz of water, then let it dry. Trim it with the 3-¼" x 2" Rectangle Basics die.

Attach narrow strips of double-stick tape to the backside of the several painted vellum petals  and attach the vellum to the watercolor paper.  The tape won't show through the painted petals.

Foil black cardstock with gold foil and the Posh Hello Hot Foil Plate.  Diecut it.

Attach the diecuts to a pink A-2 card.  Add the orange Autumn Fairy Jewels.  

Sunshine Daisy Stems is very versatile - diecut stencils or pressure-emboss with it too. Or simply diecut and layer the blossoms for spring or summer cards.

Thanks for visiting  - hope you're enjoying the May Collection ideas from our Design Team!

 

 

 

Supplies

 

94656 Sunshine Daisy Stems craft die

JWL004 Autumn Fairy Jewels

30086 Rectangle Basics Set

WP101 Watercolor Paper

MBF007 Posh Hello craft die

Charlotte Blooms and Leaves by Anne Thompson

Here's a card perfect for any occasion and it features Charlotte Blooms and Leaves.

to make this card

• die cut five sets of the leaves from CHARLOTTE BLOOMS AND LEAVES 94645 using one of the green cardstock papers from the LUSH GREEN COLLECTION SP1003
• die cut three sets of the 3-part flowers from CHARLOTTE BLOOMS AND LEAVES 94645 using one of the yellow cardstock papers from the SUNNY ORANGE COLLECTION SP1002

• use fingertip daubers to add inks to the diecuts--VersaFine Clair Rain Forest (green) to the leaves and VersaFine Clair Tulip Red to the flowers

• cut a piece of green plaid paper 4 X 5 1/4 from the WOODSY PLAID PP1018 paper pad and add it to the front of a white notecard

• assemble the 3-part flowers and add them to the front of the notecard
• tuck the leaves under the flower edges
• add the largest clear FAIRY DROPS DRP101 to the Charlotte Blooms centers and add a few of the medium-sized clear Fairy Drops on the plaid paper

That's it!

I made a second all-occasion card with a top-fold using the Charlotte Blooms and Leaves.  I used the same yellow and green cardstock papers, a green plaid from MADRAS PLAID BLUE AND VIOLET PP1014, and amber crystals from the AUTUMN FAIRY CRYSTALS CRY101.  I used the barrel of a stylus to curl some of the Charlotte Blooms petals under for added dimension.

Here's a list in one place of all the materials used.

• CHARLOTTE BLOOMS AND LEAVES 94645
• LUSH GREEN COLLECTION SP1003
• SUNNY ORANGE COLLECTION SP1002
• VersaFine Clair Rain Forest (green) ink
• VersaFine Clair Tulip Red ink
• WOODSY PLAID PP1018 paper pad
• FAIRY DROPS DRP101
• MADRAS PLAID BLUE AND VIOLET PP1014 paper pad
• AUTUMN FAIRY CRYSTALS CRY101

There's a center "rounded cone" die for the flowers that I didn't use...it looks similar to the center on a coneflower/Echinacea.  I hope the next flowers I make using the Charlotte Blooms and Leaves will look more like these:

Happy Crafting!

Many Hellos by Laura Fulcher

Greeting friends. I posted another card the other day using the same flower and hello dies. I wanted a chance to share a different design with you. One piece of advice I have for cardmakers is to cut several extra dies while you have your die cutting machine out. There is nothing better when making a card than to find out that you had already die cut the pieces. I store my extras in the same envelope as the the dies so that I don't lose them.

For today's card, I cut out the word hello many times from the same pack of green paper to get a gradient of colors. On my last card, I used the solid pieces of the word hello, and on this card, I used the outlines of the letters. It is great to get different looks from the same die.

I layered my words onto the card so that each row was a different color of green. I started at the bottom and then worked my way up to the top so that I wouldn't have a weird gap in the middle of the card to try and fit my letters.

Here is a close up:

To finish the card, I added some flowers that I cut the other day and added some leaves from an older die set.

I hope everyone is having a wonderful weekend!

 

 

Supplies

 

94658 Hello Daily Script craft die

94650 Happy Daisy Stem craft die

94616 Daisy Blossom Stem craft die

SP1003 Lush Green 6x6 pack