Walking in a Winter Wonderland by Trina Pham

Hello everyone.  I have a Christmas {in September} card to share today. 😉  I played with the Wintertime Bear dies and Frosted Trees 3D embossing folder (EF) from the 2024 Yuletide collection to create a snowy winter scene.  Normally inspiration comes from the images, but this time the sentiment was the starting point.  Took some creative licence with the Wintertime Bear and created a bear couple who traded in their skates and skis for some warm winter walking boots. 😂

The bears were die cut from alcohol marker friendly paper and shaded and colored with cool grey Copic Sketch markers C00/0/1/2/3/7.  Their accessories were die cut from two patterns of the Yuletide Cheer 6x6 paper.  The pom-pom and brim of the hat were also die cut from alcohol marker friendly paper.  Dark grey dye ink was ink blended on the bottom layers of the hat and scarves to give dimension. 

The background is a twist on the Blackout EF technique.  The technique involves dragging a black ink pad direct-to-paper on the debossed side of the embossed panel.  That would work great for a night scene, but since I was going for daytime, Tumbled Glass and Shaded Lilac distress oxide inks were used instead.  To avoid contaminating them with the direct-to-paper method, the inks were pressed onto an acetate sheet first then the inks were picked up with a rubber brayer and applied to the panel.  This also gives a more blended effect, as seen in the photo below.

The sentiment was white heat embossed on black cardstock next.  Trimmed down the background panel and adhered to the top of a white card base.  Fussy cut the ground area from white glitter paper and adhered at the bottom.  To complete the scene and make it cohesive, added falling snow over/on top of the bears and ground with a white Posca pen.  Why you ask?  Because snow falls everywhere.  Oops… looks like I made the snow so round that the accessories look polka dotted. 😂

Happy Labor Day to those who are enjoying this holiday.  That does it for my card.  Thank you for joining me today.  Have a wonderful week.

Supplies

 

94819 Wintertime Bear

PP1032 Yuletide Cheer 6x6 pack

EF1045 Frosted Trees 3D Embossing Folder

CL5286 Holiday Wishes clear stamp set

GP1008 Majestic Hues Glitter Pad

Happy Birthday Bees by Angie Cimbalo

Hello and welcome, it's Angie here today with a cute card featuring the new Buzzing Bumblebees die set.

Here's a super close up of the bee dies:

I cut the bee pieces from both white and some watercolor panels I have left over.  I also cut the Bachyard Floral Sems 94638 from the same papaers plus from black for a shadow.  I re-cut just the top flowers from some more of the lighter yellow/orange colors and paper pieced them up top on the stems to match the bees better.  

The backgrounds are 2 pieces of woodgrain paper from Memory Box, cut with 2 sizes of the Curved Cap Pinpoint Layers die set 94646.  The white one was inked with Chipped Sapphire Distress Ink and the kraft one was inked with Brushed Cordouroy Distress Ink and an ink blending tool.

After adding all the die cuts to the blue inked panel, I added it to the brown one and then popped both of those panels together on to the white card base with foam tape.

I really love using the woodgrain papers from Memory Box because with just so little inking, all that texture comes through and provides a lovely texture to your backgrounds!  Here's one last look:

I hope you like my card for today!  I had a lot of fun putting it together for today's post!  Be sure to come back every day for more inspiration from the design team.  If you are interested in the product I used, you can find more information on my blog HERE.  

Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies

 

94794 Buzzing Bumblebees

94646 Curved Cap Pinpoint Layers

94638 Backyard Floral Stems

SH44001 White Woodgrain Paper Pack

SH44003 Kraft Woodgrain Paper Pack

ST010 Happy Birthday Foil Greetings White Circle Tabs

Let it Snow - 2024 Yuletide Release by Angie Cimbalo

Hello and welcome, it's Angie here today with a cute winter card featuring products from our newest release - 2024 Yuletide!

Here's a closer look at the skiing bear called Wintertime Bear 94819:

This bear can be cut to be skiing or ice skating so there are lots of possibilities!  

I cut all the bear cuts from white card stock and then colored them with alcohol markers and a white gel pen.  I added him to a piece of trimmed red card stock from the Blush paper pack SP1012, added a black piece slightly large to make a frame.  I popped the whole panel up on foam tape to the background panel.

The background was made with the new Winter Knit 3D embossing folder EF1044 and then inked with red ink on the embossed side.  Once it was all put together, I added the embossed panel to the front of a heavy weight card base.

I heat embossed the sentiment from the newest stamp set called Holiday Wishes CL5286 in white on black card stock, then trimmed it and added it to the bear panel.

Here's one last look:

I hope you like my fun snow skiing bear card!  Be sure to check out all the new goodies in the newest release - 2024 Yultide!

Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies

 

94819 Wintertime Bear

EF1044 Winter Knit 3D Embossing Folder

CL5286 Holiday Wishes clear stamp set

SP1012 Blush 6x6 pack

Spring Bloomers and a Bunny by Jean Okimoto

Stenciled blossoms and a popular new bunny from Poppystamps are great for all-occasion cards.  The bold flowers and sweet poufy bunny are more than ready for spring...are you?  

Hi, Jean here finally after many hours of home security, modem and electrical issues.  Imagine loud warning chirps at exactly 25 minutes past the hour, every hour, 24/7!

Stenciling is quick, precise and forgiving when necessary.  Stenciling on the reverse side of a stamped image is even better.  Here's another design featuring Spring 2024's Cheerful Floral Clear Stamps and Cheerful Floral 6x6 Art Stencils.

Prep white vellum with the embossing powder tool to eliminate stray flecks of powder.  Stamp the floral image with VersaMark.  Heat-emboss it with detail white powder.  Flip both the stencils and the stamped, cooled image over to the backside and stencil the reverse side with Brilliance Inks - Pearlescent Lime, Lavender, Purple and Sunflower Yellow.  The stencils are numbered for sequential coloring and can create the look of layered colors. Cut it with the die included in the stamp set.

Reverse-stenciling keeps the white embossing clean + white and eliminates scratched, scraped embossing. 

Cut two pieces of white cardstock with the second-largest Nested Globes die.  Layer them for dimension, then attach the floral diecut with narrow strips of doublestick tape - it won't be visible under the opaque inks.

Sweet, poufy Poppystamps Cuddle Bunny will make you smile!   Cut him from the horizontal textured side of Open Studio Watercolor Paper.  The light horizontal lines add more character to this already-sweet bunny.  Color the ears and the nose area of the solid head piece with pink ink - Brilliance Pearlescent Orchid was used here. Color the eye areas with a black marker.  Attach it behind the other head diecut.  Assemble the bunny.

Attach a 1-½" x 4-½" piece of ScorTape to white cardstock. Cut it with the Thank You Daily Script background die.  Cut the detailed top layer of the greeting from a pale blue/lavender Ocean Blue Collection 6x6.  Before removing the diecut - carefully remove and save the  teardrop shapes for the "a" and "y" and the open oval for the "o."  Attach the top layer - and the tiny saved pieces.  Use the tape liner like a presscloth to press all of the pieces firmly onto the adhesive-covered background.  Cover the exposed adhesive with Imagine's Iridescent Embossing Powder, tap the excess off and heat-emboss.  Attach it inside the card.

Thanks for visiting our blog...Happy Easter to everyone celebrating on Sunday.  See you in April!

Supplies

 

cl5278

88619 Cheerful Floral Stencil Set

94655 Thank You Daily Script

sp1005 Ocean Blue

jwl003

94532 Nested Globes

wp101 Watercolor Paper

 

 

Supplies

 

2566 Cuddle Bunny

Layered Easter Greetings by Jean Okimoto

A trio of chicks, a little lamb and a sweet bunny pose with a giant floral egg on a spring greeting.  These cute spring icons are lightly layered for dimension - no foam tape required!  Hi, Jean here with new layered designs from our latest release and a bit of inspiration for March's Spring Challenge.

Cut the Anemone Grove floral 6x6 with the approximately 3" tall Half a Dozen Eggs die.  Cut a dark yellow-green 6x6 from the new Greenery Collection with the 4-¼" x 5-½" A2 Rectangle Frames die.  Attach the rectangle to a side-folded white A2 card.

The Memory Box Color Collections create custom A2 cards in a wide range of colors.  Lagoon, Greenery, Sunrise and Blush are our latest assortments.  They're sturdy 110# solid core cardstock 6x6's in great colors for cardmaking throughout the year.  Each set contains 3 each of 10 shades.  Cut them with our A2-sized dies from the Rectangle Basics, Wrapped Stitched Rectangles or A2 Rectangle Frames sets.

Cut Layered Lamb from textured white cardstock.  Color the legs with a black marker.  Color the ear and muzzle areas of the base piece with Angel Pink Memento Luxe.  Add dots of black marker to the eye areas.  Lightly shade the edges of the bottom layers with iced spruce Distress Oxide. Heat-set the inks.

Cut the Layered Chicks from pale yellow and orange Sunrise Collection 6x6's.  Dot the eye areas of the base layers with a black marker.

Cut Cute Layered Bunny from two shades of beige cardstock.  Dot the eye area of the base layer with a marker.

Happy Easter Dover Script is a casual, freestyle greeting that looks great even when it's wonky.  Cut it from the same green 6x6 as the card front.  Attach it inside the card.

Thanks for visiting...hope you'll have time to create spring cards this weekend!

Supplies

 

94730 Layered Lamb

94726 Layered Chicks

94727 Cute Layered Bunny

94729 Happy Easter Dover Script

94672

30072 Half a Dozen Eggs

sp1013 Sunrise 6x6 pack

sp1011 Leafy 6x6 pack

pp1026 Anemone Grove 6x6 pack

Easter Wreath Card by Sara Cook

Hi everyone.  I have an Easter wreath card featuring the Hippity Hoppity Bunny. 

Wreath:

Die cut the Berry Branches and Leaves die and the largest Stylish Frame Trio die from Desert Sand card stock 4 to 5 times.  Die cut the eggs from the Woven Basket of Eggs from 3 different colors of Solid Core Cardstock.  die cut the Happy Easter Dover Script sentiment from white card stock.  Die cut the lease from the Clara Blooms from 2 colors of green from the Lagoon Solid Core Cardstock several times. Cut yellow paper from Sunrise Solid Core Cardstock to 5 /14" 5 1'4".  Die cut a circle in the center using the Circle Basics Set that is slightly smaller than the largest die from the Stylish Frame Trio.   Stencil the back ground using the Snow Flurries stencil and Oxide Mustard Seed ink.  Glue all the die cuts around the circle cutout.  Adhere foam tape to back of foreground wreath.

Bunny;

Die cut the Hippity Hoppity Bunny from white card stock.  Ink blend the body with Oxide Saltwater Taffy for the ears and body.  Ink bland the other die cuts with Oxide Antique Linen.  Die cut the basket from the die set from white card stock and ink blend with Oxide Vintage Photo.  Die cut the eggs from various colors from the Solid Core Cardstock.  Adhere the eggs in the basket and then the bunny together.  Add black gel pen for the eggs of the bunny.

Background:

Cut white Woodgrain card stock to 5" x 5".  Use your finger to lightly add Oxide Antique Linen to the top of the woodgrain to bring it out.  

Assembly:

Adhere the background to a 5 1/4" x 5 1/4" card.  Adhere the wreath panel to the top of the background and card.  Adhere the bunny in the center of the background.  Adhere the basket to the right hand of the bunny.

 

 

Supplies

 

94728 Hippity Hoppity Bunny

94732 Woven Basket of Eggs

94688 Clara Blooms

94704 Berry Branches and Leaves

94729 Happy Easter Dover Script

sp1010 Lagoon 6x6 pack

sp1012 Blush 6x6 pack

sp1013 Sunrise 6x6 pack

sh44003 Kraft Woodgrain Paper Pack

94308 Stylish Frame Trio

88626 Snow Flurries Stencil

Easter Hello by Trina Pham

Hello everyone.  I’m sharing a circle shaped Easter card today featuring products from the current 2024 Spring Cheer release.

All pieces, including the sentiments, were die cut from white cardstock.  The lamb and flower centers were coloured/shaded with Copic Sketch markers and the rest were ink blended with distress inks (DI).

Copic markers used:

pinks - RV10/21/23 

yellows - Y15, V01 

whites/shading - T0/1/2/3 

 

DI used:

sky - Tumbled Glass 

grass - Twisted Citron, Mowed Lawn 

basket - see my last card 

eggs & Easter sentiment - Shaded Lilac, Faded Jeans 

hello sentiment - Black Soot

The second largest circle die in the Circle Basics set was used to die cut from white cardstock.  Ink blended the grass/sky on it, then glued the elements onto it.  Trimmed off the overhangs before matting it to an Anemone Plaid pattern paper circle.  Mounted the circle to a white circle card base to finish.

That’s it for my card.  Thank you for joining me today.  Have a wonderful day.

Supplies

 

94730 Layered Lamb

94732 Woven Basket of Eggs

94613 Layered Impatiens

94729 Happy Easter Dover Script

94710 Just a Hello Posh Script

PP1025 Anemone Plaid 6x6 pack

30087 Circle Basics Set

Hippity Hoppity Bunny Wishes by Jean Okimoto

Re-posting and hoping the pictures aren't compressed and distorted this time...

Here's another new design from our Spring Cheer Collection...it's the happy Hippity Hoppity Bunny and his basket of eggs.  Hi, Jean here with another Easter idea today.

Cut the base sections of Hippity Hoppity Bunny from textured white cardstock.  Color areas of the ears, paws and muzzle with Distress Oxide spun sugar.  Color the eye areas with a black marker.  Attach adhesive label paper or a sticker sheet to tan wool-blend felt and cut the remaining pieces.  The paper backing stabilizes the felt and prevents glues from saturating it.

Highlight the texture of Cream Woodgrain Paper (cardstock) with Vintage Sepia VersaFine using the direct-to-paper process.  Cut the basket.

Color white cardstock for thge eggs - scribble marker inks to cut 6 eggs of each color.  Blue, Violet, Blue Green and Fuchsia Zebra Mildliners were used here.  Diecut the eggs and attach the behind the basket.

Diecut Wild Grass Border from 2 shades of green in the new Greenery 6x6 Collection.  Trim the sides with the bottom of the 3" wide Nested Globes die.  Layer the darker border behind the lighter border.

Cut a lavender/blue 6x6 from the Magonolia Plaid set with the 3-½" wide Nested Globes die.  Cut a pale lavender 6x6 from the Twilight Purple Collection with the 3" wide die.

Cut the same plaid sheet with the Happy Spring Debut Script background.  Cut the top layer from the purple Glitzy Glitter Pad sheet.  Assemble the greeting and attach it inside the card.

Attach the diecuts - angled - to a top-folded, corner-rounded white A2 card.  Add purple Autumn Fairy Crystals,  Cut an A2-sized piece of cardstock to protect the card front for mailing.

Thanks for visiting our blog...see you again this weekend!

 

 

Supplies

 

94779 Happy Spring Debut Script

94415 Wild Grass Border

94532 Nested Globes

gp1007 Glitzy Glitter Pad

sp1011 Leafy 6x6 pack

sp1008 Twilight Purple

sh44002 Cream Woodgrain Paper Pack

CRY101 Autumn Fairy Crystals

 

 

Supplies

 

pp1025 Anemone Plaid 6x6 pack

94728 Hippity Hoppity Bunny

Hippity Hoppity Bunny Happy Easter by Anne Thompson

Here's another cute bunny from the 2024 February Spring Cheer Collection--Hippity Hoppity Bunny.

to make this card

• Die cut the HIPPITY HOPPITY BUNNY 94728 from watercolor paper.
• Color the bunny overlay pieces --I used a fingertip dauber and Hero Arts Wet Cement Ink.
• Add the white head piece to the background bunny and then adhere the colored overlay pieces--I used a glue pen.
• Color the tiny basket and eggs--Again I used fingertip daubers  and Ranger Distress Rusty Hinge for the basket, and Hero Arts Inks in Raspberry Jam, Fresh Peach and Butter Bar for the eggs.
• Add the eggs by attaching them to the back of the basket and each other.

• Choose one of the plaid papers from ANEMONE PLAID PP1025, trim it to 4 X 5 1/4, and add it to the front of an A2 note card--I used a top-fold card.
• Select a coordinating green from the GREENERY SOLID CORE CARDSTOCK PACK SP1011, trim it to  2 X 3 1/4, and add it to the note card in the upper left corner.

• Glue the bunny to the green panel.
• Add the basket of eggs using a piece of dimensional foam behind the basket and a dot of glue on the handle to secure it to the bunny's hand.

• Die cut the HAPPY EASTER DOVER SCRIPT 94729 from watercolor paper and a scrap of the green that matches the bunny panel.

• Stack the letters and then adhere them at an angle at the bottom of the note card.
• Bunnies have pink eyes so I used a colored pencil to color his eyes, but I'm going to keep looking for the right tiny gem instead.

Once I get this guy's eyes fixed, he'll go into the stack of Easter cards I'll have ready to mail out in early March.

Hop on over to the Idea Book and Catalog here for more Spring Cheer inspiration.  And keep checking the blog every day for even more from the Design Team.

Hippity Hoppity bunny      Happy Easter Dover Script 

94728                                       94729

Anemone Plaid           Greenery Cardstock SP1011

PP1025

  

Cute Animal Easter Card by Sara Cook

Hi everyone! I have another Easter card using the latest spring release featuring the Layered Lamb and Chicks dies.

Animals:

Die cut the Layered Lamb from white card stock.  Use the top face die cut as a stencil and ink blend with Oxide Saltwater Taffy and a black gel pen for the  eyes and nose.  Ink blend the lower 2 layers of wool with Wendy Vecki Sky Blue ink.  Making the body darker then the 2nd layer.  Ink blend the legs with Clair VersaFine Nocturne ink.  Adhere together with glue using the envelope as a guide.  Die cut the Layered Chicks from the lightest yellow from the Sunrise Solid Core Card Stock.  Use the top face die cut as a stencil and ink blend with Oxide Carved Pumpkin along with the feet.  Adhere the body to the feet.  

Frame:

Die cut the Celeste Plate from white card stock.  Cut the center with a middle size Rectangle Basic die and a A2 size white panel.  Use that die and the next large die to die cut a frame from white card stock.  Adhere on top of the die cut Celeste Plate.  Adhere the frame to the die cut A2 size frame.  Add foam tape to back of frame:  Die cut Happy Easter Curled Script from the lightest yellow paper from the Sunrise Solid Core Cardstock 2x. Adhere together and then adhere to the center top and bottom of the frame.

Background:

Cut a light blue paper from Lagoon Solid Core Cardstock to just larger then the frame cut out.  Cut a mid-tone green from the Greenery Solid Core Cardstock to the same size.  Use the Wild Grass Border to create a 1" tall grass and a 1/4' tall grass.  Adhere the shorter grass to behind the frame die cut and then the taller grass to the back ground.

Assembly:

Adhere the background to a white A2 size card.  Adhere the lamp to the center and the chicks to either side in the air.  Adhere the frame on top. Adhere eggs from the Woven Basket of eggs in various colors from the Solid Core Cardstock in between the grasses.  

 

Supplies

 

94726 Layered Chicks

94730 Layered Lamb

94731 Happy Easter Curled Script

94732 Woven Basket of Eggs

94415 Wild Grass Border

sp1013 Sunrise 6x6 pack

sp1011 Leafy 6x6 pack

94699 Celeste Plate

30086 Rectangle Basics Set