Sweet Holiday Cookies by Angie Cimbalo

Hello and welcome, it's Angie here today with a sweet cookie holiday card!  It features the new "Dimpled Cookies" die set.

Here's a closer look:

This card uses lots of new and older goodies:

"Spiral Delight" 3D embossing folder, "Dimpled Cookies", "Fringed Scalloped Frame" die set, along with "Stitched Circle" layers die set, "Greenery" paper pad and "White Woodgrain" paper. 

I cut the two largest frame dies from white woodgrain paper to frame my green panel.  The green panel was dry embossed with the 3D folder and then I tapped white ink on top of it lightly to accent the design so you can see it better.  I trimmed the green panel so I would fit behind the frame.

Next I cut several of each of the cookies from white card stock and colored them with markers and ink blending tools, paint pens, sprinkle sequins from my stash and Fluffy Stuff which is just like a snow marker in a bottle.  When you heat it up, it puffs up and looks like snow or frosting!  

I heat embossed the sentiment in white on black cardstock.  That sentiment is from an earlier released stamp set called "Sweet Christmas."

I hope you enjoyed my cookie card for today!  I had so much fun decorating them - and the best part, they have zero calories!

Come back each day to see more and more inspiration from the whole team!  Thanks for stopping by!

 

Supplies

 

EF1033 Spiral Delight 3D Embossing Folder

94762 Dimpled Cookies

94842 Fringed Scalloped Frame Set

CL5283 Sweet Christmas clear stamp set

30036 Stitched Circle Layers

SP1011 Leafy 6x6 pack

SH44001 White Woodgrain Paper Pack

Heartfelt Garden Greetings by Jean Okimoto

Plant a row of hearts with the Cattail Border and Heart Ring Stack for a Valentine or friendship card.  Add delicate Pastel Jewels and a glittered heart for sparkle.  Happy weekend everyone,  Jean Okimoto here with a garden-themed slimline in soft shades of pink and gray.

Cut textured gray cardstock with the 2-¼" x 7-¼" Slim Basic Rectangle Layers die.  It creates a crisp extended bottom edge for the Cattail Border.  Tops of the border will be cut off, but they'll be covered with hearts anyway.  Cut the rectangle with Cattail Border.  Handcut the "ground" at the base - wonky, to resemble a garden surface.

Cut Heart Ring Stack from the gray cardstock to outline the hearts - it'll be easy to adhere later if you place two ¼" wide strips of lined doublestick tape horizontally behind the cardstock before diecutting.    Cut Heart Ring Stack again from a pink 6x6 in the Berry Red Collection.  Leave the hearts and little pieces in the die.  Trim the heart on the right from both pink and gray diecuts.  

Place the Heart Ring Stack die over the border to check if any of the cattails will still be visible and trim them if necessary.  Trim the second stem on the left so it'll be short enough to attach a jewel later.  Attach just the base of the border to a white slimline card (3-½" x 8-½").   Several of the stems will be adjusted next.

Attach the gray Heart Ring Stack outline - adjust the stems to align with the hearts when necessary.  Cut the 5th heart from a pink 6x6 in the Graceful Garden Glitter Pad.  Attach the hearts and pieces to the card.

Attach the yellow, peach and pink Pastel Fairy Jewels to most of the stems.

Attach two scraps of white cardstock with doublestick tape and cut a double layer of the For You Post Script background.  Pressure-emboss it with the detailed top layer of the greeting to create a debossed area to easily attach the pink layer.  Cut the top layer from the pink cardstock used for the hearts.  Assemble the greeting and attach it to the card.

Cut a slimline-sized piece of cardstock to protect jewels and card front for mailing.  

Create this design in red and brown if you need a few more Valentines.  Or red with black stems on a Kraft card.  Heart Ring Stack is another very versatile design that's perfect throughout the year.

Thanks for visiting - enjoy the weekend, see you next week!

  

 

 

 

Supplies

 

94709 94709 For You Posh Script

94625 Tall Cattails

94662 Heart Ring Stack

94556 Slim Basic Rectangle Layers

jwl002 Pastel Jewels

sp1001 Berry Red

gp1002 Graceful Garden Glitter Pad

Shaped Flower Birthday Card by Sara Cook

Hi everyone.  This is an exciting day.  A NEW MEMORY BOX RELEASE IS HERE!  There are so many beautiful flower and leaf dies in this release.  So many smaller stacked dies that are perfect for shaping. I used Layered Impatiens to create a birthday card.  

Flowers:

Die cut the flowers from a light and medium yellow/orange card from the Sunny Orange paper pad.  Take a slightly darker marker and flick from the center out along the cuts in the dies.  I used Copic YR02.  I used 2 techniques to shape the flowers. The first technique is to create the cupped center.   On the smallest die cut, see a small ball stylist, on a foam pad, and pull from the edge of the petal towards the center for each petal.  Then push the ball stylist in the center to form the cup.  The 2nd technique is to form the petals under.  Use a ball stylist the same size as the sections of the petals.  Turn the die cuts upside down and pull from the edge of the petal to the center.  Then turn the flower die cut over and take a small ball stylist and push in the center.  Glue same size flowers, one from each color, on top of each other.  Use the small ball stylist to push in the center as the glue is drying.   For the largest flower glue a small cupped flower.  For the smallest flower only glue 1 layer of open petals and glue a cupped flower in the center using the ball stylist to push in the center as the glue dries.  

Leaf Frame:

Die cut the Exquisite Leaf Frame out of green card from the Lush Green paper pad.  Cut small 1/8" strips to layer under the frame 2 times.  

Assembly:

Cut the bluish/green Vintage Pastel Mirror Pad to and A2 size panel and adhere to a cream color A2 card.  Adhere the the Exquisite Leaf Frame die to the card.  Glue the flowers around the leafs.  Die cut the new Happy Birthday Posh Script bottom from the same bluish/green Vintage Pastel Mirror paper and the top from the lightest yellow/orange paper from the Sunny Orange pad.  Adhere together then on the card in the center of the frame.  I just had an after thought to add some Fairy Drops around the sentiment.  

 

Supplies

 

94613 Layered Impatiens craft die

94665 Exquisite Leaf Frame craft die

94588 Happy Birthday Posh Script craft die

SP1003 Lush Green 6x6 pack

SP1002 Sunny Orange 6x6 pack

DRP101 Fairy Drops

FP1002 Vintage Pastel Mirror Pad 6x6 pack

Slimline Paper-Pieced Valentine by Jean Okimoto

Hi everyone,  Jean Okimoto here with a Valentine design that's a bit wonky and unusual - but I hope you like it!  Do you save offcuts and bits and pieces "for future projects" but forget to use them?  Here's a design using the gold foil Ring Stack and 2 sets of offcuts (red and white).

Cut white cardstock with the second-largest Wrapped Stitched Slim Rectangles die.  Cut the rectangle with the Ring Stack - we're using the white offcuts here too.

Cut gold Polished Foil 6x6 with Ring Stack - save the gold offcuts for that elusive "future project."

Here's an easy way to build a smooth inlaid background.  Place the rectangle face-down on a non-stick surface (used a plastic embossing plate here).  Attach ⅛"  (3mm) strips of lined doublestick tape to the reverse side of the diecut rectangle.  Skinny strips of tape instead of an entire adhesive-covered area provide a little wiggle-room for paper-piecing.

Flip it over and place the gold foil Ring Stack into the adhesive-backed cutouts.  Attach the white oval offcuts.

Cut a bright red 6x6 from the Berry Red Collection. Tape pairs of red ovals to form 3 hearts in graduated sizes.  Attach the hearts with foamtape.

Cut Love Airy Script from the bright red Festive Glitter 6x6  sheet.

Cut black cardstock with Mini Vintage Varsity Alphabet.  You can cut 4 sets of GROWS at once.  Use a stack of 3 or 4 Post-It notes as a straight edge guide to attach the letters.

Add the dark yellow/orange Treasure Chest Fairy Gemstones.

Attach everything to a white slimline card (3-½" x 8-⅜").  Cut a slimline-sized piece of cardstock to protect the card front for mailing.

Thanks for visiting...have a great weekend!

Supplies

 

94326 Love Airy Script

GEM101 Treasure Chest Fairy Gemstones

GP1006 Festive Glitter Pad

SP1001 Berry Red 6x6 pack

FP1001 Polished Foil Pad pack

94342 Mini Vintage Varsity Alphabet

94547 Ring Stack craft die

94554 Wrapped Stitched Slim Rectangles craft die

Backlit Under the Sea Birthday Card by Sara Cook

Hello.  I have a card using the Pinpoint Burst Plate die cut over a acetate card so it shows the light through the back to create rays of light showing in the water scene. Such a easy way to create this effect.   

  

Background:

Die cut the Pinpoint Burst Plate from 110 card stock. Ink blend from the center of the Burts with Distress Oxide Squeezed Lemonade and then Salty Ocean. Randomly add Peacock Feathers and Evergreen Bough with Salty Ocean and lightly blend together.  Then add Chipped Sapphire to the bottom and half way up the side of the panel.  Spray with water and let sit then damped off with a towel.  In the center add white Pan-pastel to mute out the yellow a little. Try to keep the backside of the card clean as it will show.

Plants:

For the coral ink bland Distress Oxide Abandon Coral than Squeezed Lemonade on white card stock.  Die cut the coral from the Coral and Kelp Ribbon and Bubble Coral Collage.  For the kelp ink bland Distress Oxide Forest Moss √. Die cut the kelp from the Coral and Kelp Ribbon and Kelp Collage. For other plants ink bland Distress Oxide Cracked Pistachio than Evergreen Bough on white card stock.  Die cut the plants from from the Deepwater Collage.  Glue them in plant round the bottom and halfway up the side with the plants pointing  towards the center point.

Mermaid:

Die cut the mermaid from Mermaid Wonder Frame from dark brown card stock and then just the tail from a aqua paper from Polished Foil pack.  Fussy cut the tail and glue over the body.  Color the hair with a red alcohol marker and color the cuts in the hair with a black alcohol marker. Glue a shell sequin for the top to the mermaid.  Glue the mermaid to the center of the card.

Sentiment

Ink bland Distress Oxide Forest Moss on white card stock and die cut the base die from the Birthday Mail Posh Script die.  Die cut the top die out of the same aqua Polished Foil paper.  Glue the top die cut on the bottom die cut. Add mounting tape to the back of the sentiment die cut.

Assembly:

Create an A2 size card out of heavy acetate.  Add a thin line of glue on the  around the edge on the backside of the card base and adhere to the front of the acetate card.  Hold firm in place until dry.  For the inside die cut the larger die from Stitched Rectangle Trimmings set from white card stock. Add glue and adhere on the inside of the card to cover up the glue from the front panel.  To create to write a personal message, cut 2 small pieces of white, light weight ,card stock.  Adhere 1 to the inside of the card and the other to the back side to cover the adhesive that shows.  Adhere the sentiment to the front panel, center top.

 

 

Supplies

 

94514 Pinpoint Burst Plate craft die

94531 Birthday Mail Posh Script craft die

94562 Bubble Coral Collage craft die

94569 Coral and Kelp Ribbon craft die

94561 Kelp Collage craft die

94563 Deepwater Collage craft die

94222 Mermaid Wonder Frame

30082 Stitched Rectangle Trimmings

FP1001 Polished Foil Pad pack

Pastel Crystal Border and Gerber Stems by Jean Okimoto

Lemon-yellow Gerber blossoms bloom along a bright pastel Crystal Border in mix of angles+curves, brights+white, glitter+foil...all on a short slimline card!  Hi, Jean Okimoto here with a design ready to welcome Spring.

Cut a 6-¼" x 7-½" sheet of white cardstock.   Score it (horizontally) at ¾" and 4-¼".  Cut Crystal Border about ¾" to the right of the ¾" scoreline.  We're using just the cutout here. Cut a 3-½" x 6-¼" piece of smooth white cardstock.  Attach it to the ¾" tab to create the back of the card.

Cut Crystal Border again from the gold sheet in the 6x6 Polished Foil pad - we're using the delicate cutout.

Cut Crystal Border again from smooth white cardstock covered with blended inks in shades of pink, peach, teal, yellow and green - remove the delicate outline but keep the diecut pieces in the die for easy re-assembly later.  My inked paper stash somehow included at sheet of blended inks with sections that matched the pattern of the Crystal Border - it was a lucky day.

Attach a wide strip of lined doublestick tape behind the Crystal Border cutout - the adhesive will be visible in the cutout on the card front.  Save the paper tape liner.

Press the delicate gold Crystal Border onto the exposed adhesive in the cutout. Press it with the paper tape liner. 

Attach the little pieces to the adhesive in each section - then press everything with the saved paper tape liner. 

Cut just the tops of the Gerber Stems from the yellow 6x6 sheet in the Frosted Glitter Pad.  Cut the whole Gerber stems and small leafy stem from a green sheet in the Lush Green Collection.  Attach the yellow flower tops to the green flowers, slightly offset.  Attach the flowers to the card, then add the small leafy stem.

Stamp the greeting - from the new Poppystamps Diamond Sentiments Clear Stamp and Die Set - on white cardstock with Shady Lane VersaFine Clair.  Dry the ink and punch or cut a 1-¼" circle.  Cut another 1-¼" circle from a scrap of the inked paper and attach it - slightly offset - behind the greeting circle to add dimension.

Add ¼" dots punched from the chartreuse sheet in the Frosted Glitter Pad.

Our latest Collection's floral dies can be used in so many ways...diecut your favorite flowers, add colors, and arrange them on Spring cards for quick greetings.

Thanks for visiting  - have a great weekend!

 

Supplies

 

94533 Gerber Stems craft die

94536 Crystal Border craft die

GP1004 Frosted Glitter Pad

SP1003 Lush Green 6x6 pack

FP1001 Polished Foil Pad pack

CB498 Diamond Sentiments clear stamp and die set

Vibrant Violet Ombre’d Crystal Border by Jean Okimoto

The 108 shades of our 9 new color collections are perfect for ombre designs. Five shades from the Vibrant Violet Collection are used here with the new Crystal Border and Wildflower Stems set. Coordinated colors eliminate the guesswork and searching for the right shades.  Hi, Jean Okimoto here with an example of how easy it is to create an ombre-ed background or border with our new 6x6 color sets.

Cut white cardstock with the 7-¼" x 2-¼" Slim Basic Rectangle Layers die.  Prep the Crystal Border by rubbing it briskly with scrunched waxed paper to help release the little pieces.  Cut the rectangle with the Crystal Border - we're using just the white offcut here.

Cut the silver sheet from the Polished Foil Pad with the Crystal Border.

Cut 1-⅛" x 6" strips of 5 colors from the Vibrant Violet Collection.  Tape them together to create a 5-⅝" strip.  Cut a 1-½" wide strip of the taped colors.  Attach it behind the white offcut. A few of the sections have two colors. You could re-cut those pieces with one color...but why?

Insert and attach the silver foil Crystal Border - I used a skewer to place tiny dots of Tacky Glue at the corners, intersections and at several spots along the long straight edge.

Cut a ¾" x 6" long strip matching the 4th color from the top of the ombre strip.  Attach the rectangle and strip to a white slimline card (3-½" x 8-½").  

Cut the top of the large Wildflower Stems blossom from the pale pink/lavender Graceful Garden Glitter Pad sheet.  Cut 3 of the smaller blossom - remove the 4th (right) section from one of them to create a smaller bud.  Cut the stem from the green sheet in the Lush Green Collection.

Attach the stem to the rectangle then layer the glittered blossom sections over the top of the stems.  Add ¼" dots punched from the green sheet in the Graceful Garden Glitter Pad.

Hope you like this 'inkless ombre' idea!  Thanks for visiting...see you again this weekend...

 Supplies

 

94537 Widlflower Stems craft die

94556 Slim Basic Rectangle Layers craft die

94536 Crystal Border craft die

SP1007 Vibrant Violet 6x6 pack

SP1003 Lush Green 6x6 pack

GP1002 Graceful Garden Glitter Pad

FP1001 Polished Foil Pad pack

Plaid Hearts Slimline Valentine Card by Angie Cimbalo

Hello and welcome, it's Angie here today with 2 versions of a plaid heart slimline card, plus an extra gift tag.

The first version of the card, pictured above is more clean and simple with less detail and embellishment.  Here's how I made my card:

1)  First die cut a slimline panel 3.25" by 8.25" of white card stock with the "Pinpoint Heart Plate" die

2) Cut about 20 plaid hearts from the "Christmas Plaid" paper pack with smallest die in the "Double Stitched Heart Cut Out"  or the "Scallop Pinpoint Loving Heart Cut Out" die set, or both at the same time if you have both sets.

3)  Glue the hearts inside the pinpoint dots of each heart on the die cut "Pinpoint Heart Plate" white die cut panel.  Below you can see mine after I had glued all the hearts down and started trimming off the overhanging edges.

4)  After trimming off any hearts hanging off the edges, adhere that panel to a black panel that is 1/8" bigger for a mat.

5)  Add the paper-pieced panel with black mat to the card base.  (Card is 8.5" by 3.5")

6)  Heat emboss in white on black card stock, the sentiment words which are from "Berry Wreath" Christmas stamp set and attach to card front at an angle.  I love that you can use this set for much more than just Christmas by combing the separate words into exactly what you need!

7)  Using the "Sprinkle Heart Collage" die, I cut several of the smaller white hearts from the "Frosted Glitter" paper pack to use on the card front

 That completes version one, the clean and simple one.  Below you can see the second version with extras on it.

If you prefer this second version, here's what I added:

9)  Cut thin strips of black and white glitter paper from the same paper pack to outline the top and bottom of the sentiment.  Also place more white hearts inside the some of the background plaid hearts.

There you have it!  Two versions of the same card!  Which do you like best?  Being the clean and simple gal that I am, I actually prefer the first one.

Now, while I had my supplies out, I went ahead and created this tag for a gift basket:

1)  Used the same heart die from "Scallop Pinpoint Loving Heart Cut Out" on a white A2 size panel, then backed the opening of each cut out heart with ombre shades of Distress Oxide inked card stock.  (Spun Sugar, Worn Lipstick, and Picked Raspberry) I put the ink direct to paper so this was really a quick way to get the colors behind the heart openings.

2)  Add the stamped words in black ink, from the same stamp set, "Berry Wreath," then cut the whole panel with a "Stitched Rectangle Layer" die.  I punched a small hole in the top left corner and ran some twine through to tie it on the basket.

This is a basket full of cards from a Facebook group that sends cards to show kindness to people who are in need.  I wanted to add something to the basket "with love" and these stamps and dies were perfect for making this tag!

I hope you enjoyed my projects for today!  I had so much fun creating these!  Be sure to come back tomorrow - you won't want to miss the blog posts this week - they will be amazing!   Thanks so much for stopping by!

 

 

 

Supplies

 

94364 Scallop Pinpoint Loving Heart Cut Out

94550 Slim Pinpoint Heart Plate craft die

94359 Double Stitch Loving Heart Cut Out

94548 Sprinkle Heart Collage craft die

30009 Stitched Rectangle Layers

PP1009 Christmas Plaid 6x6 pack

CL5260 Berry Wreath clear stamp set

GP1004 Frosted Glitter Pad

Polka Dot HUGS by Michelle Bala

Hello there! Michelle here, sharing a fun Valentine's Day card perfect for all those posh teens! 

I used the Bubble Border Die and Twiggy Hugs Die, Watercolor Paper and Twinkling Jewel Glitter Pad.

When I die cut the Bubble Border I taped the background so they would stay in place when I colored the circles. I used Copic Markers in shades 

RV52, RV55, and RV19 and used an ombre technique. I used the colorless blender, 0, to clean up any color outside the circles.

I die cut the word HUGS and used he same technique.

I realized the sentiment needed a bit more pizazz, so I die cut the words again using the twinkling jewel Glitter Pad. I adhered the colored letters to the glitter letters.

I adhered the Bubble Border panel tot he card base than adhered the sentiment. Last, I embellished with some sequins.

Thanks for taking a peek!

Enjoy your week!

 

 

 

Supplies

 

94518 Bubble Border craft die

94519 Twiggy Hugs craft die

WP101 Watercolor Paper

GP1003 Twinkling Jewel Glitter Pad

Because Kindness Means So Much by Jean Okimoto

Happy Saturday - here's a sharing-kindness card for weekend crafting. Combine the lacy new Clementine Border and bold Poppystamps Rounded Blooms Flowers for a fresh look.  Hello, Jean Okimoto here with a delayed post caused by a (senior moment) glitch today.

I've always loved tall, skinny cards - even before "slimline" became trendy. The tall/skinny idea is just wishful thinking!  They fit #9 or #10 business envelopes -   surprise someone with a boring business envelope that contains a special card you've created for them. 

Enjoy Michelle's pretty slimline card here.

Scrunch waxed paper and rub it briskly over the Clementine Border and Kindness Cursive Script dies to prep them for an easy release.  Cut 2 Clementines from white cardstock.  Cut kindness from Navaho cardstock.  (leave the little dot over the "i" in the die to attach later)

Cut Poppystamps Rounded Bloom Flowers from Patina and Coral Cream cardstock.  Cut 1" circles of the white glittered cardstock from the Delicate Pastels 6x6 glitter pack and color them with markers.  Attach them behind the flowers.

Stamp and trim the greeting - from the new Peony Garden Corner Clear Stamps and Die Set - with Melon Fresh Ink.  Heat emboss it with detail clear powder.  It's my first Fresh Ink card - I love their pretty colors!  It looks darker in the group photo above, but it's a soft summer-y coral that complements turquoise, gray, kraft, charcoal and lime.  And the container is pretty classy too!

Score and fold a 3 ½" x 8 ½" white card.  Make it easy on yourself...attach the flowers to the Clementine Border first, add adhesive behind the flowers and some of the ovals along the edges - then attach it to the card.  Attach the greetings - use foam dots for the stamped words.

Thanks for visiting - see you again next week!

Supplies

 

94426 Clementine Border

94391 Kindness Cursive Script

CL5255-D Peony Garden Corner clear stamp set

2337 Rounded Bloom Flowers

30087 Circle Basics Set

GP1001 Delicate Pastel Glitter Pad