Party Time Happy Birthday by Angie Cimbalo

Hello and welcome, it's Angie here today with a fun birthday card using products from the new January release.  Here's a closer look at my card:

I used the new EF1048 Party Time 3D embossing folder and dies set (I didn't use the dies) along with the coordinating 88633 Party Time stencils to creat my background.  I used 3 inks, pink, yellow and teal.  Once embossed and stenciled, I cut it down slightly more than 1/2 inch on the top and the side, matted it on a black panel cut to 5" X 3.75."  The Happy Birthday Celebration Script die 94866 was cut from both black for the shadow, and cut the words from an inked panel (using the same 3 colors of ink.)

After gluing the sentiment together, I popped it up on foam dots for dimension.  Here's one last look at my card:

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies

 

EF1048 Party Time 3D Embossing Folder and Dies

88633 Party Time Stencil Set

94866 Happy Birthday Celebration Script

Smooth Embossing Folder Inking by Angie Cimbalo

Hello and welcome, it's Angie here today with a very easy yet beautiful card you can create using products from the newest 2025 Happy Birthday Release!  Today I am using the:

EF1024 Breezy Bouquet 3D embossing folder and die set and the coordinating

CL5277 Breezy Bouquet Clear Stamp and die set

The look you get with this technique reminds me of several Japanese vases my mom had from the 1950's when we came back from my father's being stationed in Okinawa, Japan.  She kept these beautiful vases on her dresser in her bedroom.  I believe they were called Wedgewood Blue Jasperware, you can Google that and see pictures of them.

Here's a close up look:

The technique I used to ink the debossed of the embossing folder is to use a medium soft brayer (I use the black Tim Holtz one) and your glass mat.  I've tried often to ink embossing folders in many different ways, but this is the only way I have found that make a soft smooth layer of color on your background.  Make sure you are putting the ink on the debossed side.

To make it smooth, take your ink pad (I used Distress Oxide Saltwater Taffy) and put lots of ink on your glass mat, directly with pad on the glass  mat.  Next take your brayer and bray over the ink over and over until your glass mat has a very smooth even color of ink BEFORE you take the brayer directly to the debossed side of the folder.  You will need to do this about 5 or 6 times - believe me, it takes several coats.  You will actually see the smooth ink forming on the folder with about the 3rd or 4th pass, but just keep going because you won't get a dark enough panel if you stop there.

Once inked lay the cardstock on the dry side of the inside of the embossing folder and close it.  Run it through your die cutting/embossing machine (I used my Platinum 6 machine) and take it out carefully to let it dry.  The floral pattern will be press upward and look stunning.  Be sure to clean your embossing folder while you wait for the ink to dry and also wipe up any excess ink on your glass mat.  I often use a clean piece of cardstock to pick up some of the left over ink, I'll spray it with water to get more of it up on the cardstock.  Now you have any extra pinkish panel you can use for a different card.  

The sentiment is from the Breezy Bouquet clear stamp set, heat embossed in white on black cardstock.

Here's one last look at my card:

Now let's take a look at another card I made earlier this month with a technique you can use to achieve almost the same results but with even more texture.  I posted this card on my blog on the release day Jan 3rd.  In case you missed it, here's another look:

For this card I used the brayer technique with Distress Oxide Salvaged Patina ink the same way that I did the pink one above.  

Next I took a piece of vellum and used the coordinating floral die from the stamp set to cut the flower out.  Once cut, place it inside the 3D embossing folder taking care to line it up exactly, then run it through your machine to emboss the vellum.  Once embossed, place it on top of the white embossed section of your orginal inked panel.  I used liquid glue under the sentiment to attach the vellum to the raised white embossed part of the blue panel.  To secure it in a few other places, I added just very tiny dots of a dot runner to various places under the vellum so you can't see the adhesive.

Lastly I added a few Fairy Jewels to the card front and the largest flower's center.

Here's one last look:

I hope you like my card for today, I have lots of fun making them!  Thanks for stopping by and be sure to check out the entire new release!  For more links and info, you can go to my blog here.

 

Supplies

 

CL5277 Breezy Bouquet clear stamp set

EF1024 Breezy Bouquet 3D Embossing Folder and Die

JWL005 Christmas Fairy Jewels

Happy Birthday Presents by Angie Cimbalo

Hello and welcome, it's Angie here with a fun quick winter birthday card!  Here's a closer look at the background:

To create the background I took a piece of "Pool Party" cardstock and used the "Falling Snowflakes Stencil" (88627) with clear embossing paste.  The paste when dried just looks slighly darker than the paper, but to accent that I added a little white ink on top of the panel.  Next I trimmed 1/2 inch off the panel so the plaid would show through.

I added the panel to a panel of "Nutmeg Plaid 6x6 pack" (PP1033) then added both of those to my card front.  I cut the "Pretty Presents craft die" (94761) from white and "Cranberry Paper Pack" (SH44014) and pieced them together.  I arranged them on the card front and added a "Happy Birthday Foil Greetings White Circle Tab" (ST010).

Here's one last look:

I hope you enjoyed this quick and easy birthday card and can use the ideas to create a card for someone you know with a winter birthday!  And here's wishing you a Happy New Year!

Supplies

 

PP1033 Nutmeg Plaid 6x6 pack

94761 Pretty Presents

SH44014 Cranberry Paper Pack

ST010 Happy Birthday Foil Greetings White Circle Tabs

88627 Falling Snowflakes Stencil

SH44009 Pool Party Paper Pack

Christmas Cheer by Angie Cimbalo

Hello and welcome, it's Angie here with a fun Christmas card for you.  Here's a closer look:

To make my card I embossed 2 white panels with the new Winter Knit 3D embossing folder EF1044 and then inked them both on the debossed side, one with red ink and one with gray ink.  I cut the gray panel with the new Fringed Scalloped Frame set (largest one) and then added red strips of card stock behind the tiny holes in the border.

I cut the Stitchable Stocking 94825 from white and from the red inked embosed panel and pieced them together.  I cut the accessories (flowers leaves, etc) from white card stock and colored them with alcohol markers and a white gel pen.  

The background behind the scalloped panel is red glitter paper from the Glitzy Glitter Paper GP1007.  The embossed frame panel is popped up on foam tape for dimension.  The sentiment was heat embossed and it's from the new stamp set called Holiday Wishes CL5286.  Here's one last look:

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Happy crafting my friends....

 

 

Supplies

 

EF1044 Winter Knit 3D Embossing Folder

GP1007 Glitzy Glitter Pad

94825 Stitchable Stocking

94842 Fringed Scalloped Frame Set

CL5286 Holiday Wishes clear stamp set

Merry Christmas with Holly Wreath by Angie Cimbalo

Hello and welcome, it's Angie here today with a foiled card using the wreath stencil from the latest release.

First, I got all my supplies ready:

1. Use the Duo transfer gel on the rectangle die cut and set the panel off to dry for at least one hour, then
2. Be careful, the dried gel is very sticky and you can get anything stuck to it!
3. Using a foiling machine (I use a mini Minc machine, you can also use a laminator.) run it through the machine shiny side up.  I used a emerald watercolor foil from Deco Foil.
4. Wait for it to cool off and then peel off foil to reveal your pretty foiled wreath
5. Glue wreath panel to plaid panel  
6. Glue plaid panel to card base
7. Glue sentiment circle to gold circle 
8. Glue or pop up circle sentiment to center

Here's one last look at my card:

I hope you like this version of the Holly Wreath stencil.  Stencils are so versatile, you can do so many things with them and they come a such a inexpensive price point.  Check out all my posts this month featuring ways to use stencils in your cardmaking journey!  Thanks for stopping by!

 

Supplies

 

88628 Holly Wreath Stencil

30009 Stitched Rectangle Layers

FP1003 Rainbow Reflections Mirror Pad

30087 Circle Basics Set

30036 Stitched Circle Layers

ST013 Merry Christmas Foil Greetings Black Circle Tabs

Merry Christmas & 3D Stenciling by Angie Cimbalo

Hello and welcome, it's Angie here today with a card featuring 2 of the newest stencils from the holiday releases.

First I gathered my supplies for the card, and then I took the 

1. Using the holly stencil on the light blue card stock panel with long part of stencil, in blend dark blue with a ink blending tool.  (Faded Jeans or Chipped Sapphire - Distress OR Distress Oxide)
2. Using a heat tool, dry the ink really good
3. Now move the stencil up and to the right every so slightly (like 1/8” or less) and ink with white pigment ink.  Make sure you don’t use too much white ink or it will pool up in edges of leaves.  If you want more white ink, you will need to dry it in between layers and just add more white.  Dry your panel good.
4. Using the starlight stencil add versamark ink with ink blender through the stencil
5. Add gold embossing powder and heat emboss
6. Add panels to the card - blue on the left and white with gold stars on the right
7. Glue the gold strip in between the two panels (on top of them or however you like)
8. Glue the circles together toward the left of each circle for a interesting look

It's a realy cool look when you move the stencil over and go over the dark ink with white - it actually looks like it's 3D embossed!  I hope you will give this stencil technique a try - it's so fun.  Thanks so much for stopping by!

 

Supplies

 

88628 Holly Wreath Stencil

88625 Starlight Snow Stencil

SH44011 Powder Blue Paper Pack

30087 Circle Basics Set

30036 Stitched Circle Layers

ST012 Merry Christmas Foil Greetings White Circle Tabs

FP1003 Rainbow Reflections Mirror Pad

Peace Love and Joy by Angie Cimbalo

Hello and welcome, it's Angie here with a wintery holiday card featuring products from the latest Yuletide and Winter Days releases.  Here's an up close look at my card:

As you can see it has a lot going on, first the background is a tan piece of card stock, lightly inked in Gathered Twigs Distress Ink using the new "Narrow Tree Trunks Stencil Set" (88630) and then I used the new rub-ons called "Snowflake" to create a snowy background.  I then stamped the sentiment with Versafine Clair Pine Cone ink.  Here's an even closer look:

I cut the Snowy Log (94821) from dark brown card stock and then also from white for the snow and from Memory Box Kraft Woodgrain paper to be able to create the layers.  I inked the kraft paper with more Distress ink and then glued the 3 pieces together.  Next I worked on the 2 birds, "Wistful Sparrow" (94798) and "Sunlight Sparrow" (94837), cutting the dies from white card stock and coloring them with alcohol markers and gluing the pieces together.  Next I cut "Pine Branches" (94817) from dark green cardstock from the "Leafy" paper pack (SP1011).

I added the pine needles to the left side, popped the log up on foam tape at the bottom and popped both birds on top of the log.   To create more interested I added lots of white paint pen for more snow and some highlights, plus I added sparkle paste to the snow and around the card in different places.  I wish you could see it in real life, it's so sparkly.  

Here's one last look:

I hope you like my card for today, I had a lot of fun creating it!  Be sure to come back each day to see more inspiration from the team.  Thanks for stopping by and happy crafting!

 

 

 

 

Supplies

 

Rub105 Snowflake Rub On

CL5287 Be Merry clear stamp and die set

94821 Snowy Log

94817 Pine Branches

94798 Wistful Sparrow

94837 Sunlight Sparrow

88630 Narrow Tree Trunks Stencil Set

SP1011 Leafy 6x6 pack

SH44003 Kraft Woodgrain Paper Pack

Sending Warmest Wishes by Angie Cimbalo

Hello and welcome, it's Angie here today with a fun watercolored, heat embossed card featuring the new Leaves and Berries stamp.  

To create my card I cut a piece of Festive Glitter paper for the background then heat embossed in gold, a stamped image from the new background stamp set.  This stamp has two parts and makes creating cards super fun!  I watercolored the image with a waterbrush, Zig clean color markers and Distress Inks.  Then I added white paint pen accents.

The  sentiment is from the Holiday Wishes stamp set heat embossing in white on black card stock.

Here's one last look:

I hope you enjoyed my card for today and be sure to come back each day for more inspiration from the design team.

Thanks for stopping by!

 

Supplies

 

CS2084 Leaves and Berries Cling Stamp set

CL5286 Holiday Wishes clear stamp set

GP1006 Festive Glitter Pad

Witch Upon a Creepy Cabin by Angie Cimbalo

 

Hello and welcome!  It's Angie here with a super fun Halloween card using products from last year's and this year's fall releases combined.  Here's a clos up look at my card:

I recently taught a card class at a local scrapbooking store and this was one of the cards we made.  Here's how to create this spooky card!

You will need: 

2 witch with capes 1 white, 1 black  (cut from "Flying Witch" 94624)

2 white die cut ghosts  (cut from "Haunting Ghosts" 94692)

2 Creepy Cabin die cuts, 1 black and 1 white (cut from "Creepy Cabin" 94634)

1 cover panel cut to 4 x 5.25" for inking

1 smaller panel cut to 3.5 x 4" for inking

Top folding card base (8.5 x 5.5" scored and folded in half at 4.25") 

First, using Distress Oxide Inks:  Dried Marigold, Wilted Violet and a blending tool/brush work the ink onto the panel.  

*Remember to blend really lightly where the two colors will meet for the first inking.  You will go over the meet line lightly many times to help it smooth out.  Remember to dab the center off on scrap paper before you bring it to the cardstock and start off the cardstock and work inward.  Use a light touch until you make sure you don’t have too much ink.  Too much ink makes edges and blotches.  Move in circular motion with less pressure than you think you should.  The area where they meet when finished blending will end up a sort of pink color.

Next, spray the panels with a fine mist of water and set aside - 

Go ahead and ink the smaller panel with same colors for the background of the Creepy Cabin. 

Glue the black cabin on top of the white one slightly offset and then glue the cabin combo to your smaller inked panel with purple background on top and and orange on the bottom.

Next use a circle die to cut the cabin panel out into a circle, you may have to run it through your machine several times to cut because you are cutting through 3 layers, the two cabins and the smaller inked panel.  I used the 2nd largest circle die from the Stitched Circle Layers dies 30036.

Glue the circle to the larger inked background panel with the orange on top and the purple on bottom

Stamp the sentiment and stars on it in black ink from "Magical Halloween" stamp set CL5284.

Add small piece of black cardstock behind ghosts eyes, so eyes appear black.  Or you can just make sure their eyes are over the black part of the circle.  I used extra black for eyes on the back because I wanted one of my ghosts closer to the inked background.

Glue the 2 witches on broomstick together and the 2 capes together, slighly offset, (black on top) then add capes to witch, then add to circle top.

Add the large panel to the card base, it’s slightly smaller so you will have a tiny white edge around the card front.

 

Supplies

 

cl5284 Magical Halloween

94624 Flying Witch

94634 Creepy Cabin

94692 Haunting Ghosts

A Frame House with Narrow Tree Trunks Stencils by Angie Cimbalo

Hello and welcome, it's Angie here today featuring beautiful new products from the latest "Winter Days" release!

 

I used the new "Narrow Tree Trunks" 3 stencil set with these Distress Inks with an ink blending tool on stencil: 

Tea Dye, Rusty Hinge, and then "Soft Brown" ink from my stash. 

 

After removing the stencil I inked background bottom with Iced Spruce Distress Ink and the top with Salty Ocean, very, very lightly on both top and bottom.  

 

Now to add dimension to the trees I added colored pencil and white paint pen details on the stenciled area and the background.  Here's a closer look: 

 

I cut the "A Frame House" die set from white card stock, and cut the "Little Bird Bunch" from red and white card stock.  I colored the A frame edge with the same brown inks, then added Iced Spruce to the house front, direct ink pad to paper method.  I colored all the other piece with inks and colored pencils, but cut the door front from red card stock.  I also added pencil and white gel pen to the red door too.



I assembled the birds and house and added colored pencils and white paint pen to everything.  I used Rustic Wilderness Distress Oxide on the wreath pieces before putting them together.  I popped up the birds and house.  Lastly I added snow details with a white paint pen, Cosmic Shimmer Fluffy Stuff (heated with heat gun) and then painted on Cosmic Shimmer Frosty Ultra Sparkle Paste with a small paint brush on the edges of the A frame. 

 

Once everything dried, I added the card to an A2 gray panel and then added that to a white card base.  Lastly I added the White Tab sentiment.

I hope you like my card for today!  The new release is big and there are so many beautiful products

 

 

Supplies

 

94811 Little Bird Bunch

94820 A Frame House

88630 Narrow Tree Trunks Stencil Set

SP1012 Blush 6x6 pack