Colorful butterflies flutter through a trio of collaged windows on a slimline thank you card.  The new collages - Distant Sun, Cloudy Moon and Cloudy Sun - create a layered, dimensional backdrop for the Intricate Mini Butterflies.  Hi, Jean here with more great dies from our Spring '23 Collection.

Score white cardstock horizontally at 3-⅝" and 7-¼".  Cut Cloudy Sun Collage from the front of the 3-⅝" panel. Cut Cloudy Moon Collage from the backside of the second panel.  Cut Distant Sun Collage from the front of the third panel.

Cut blue cardstock with the 3-⅝" x 8-⅝" Slim Basic Rectangle Layers die.  Attach the rectangle behind the Distant Sun Collage panel - align the left edges.  Trim the right edge.  Trim the top and bottom edges of the tri-folded card.

Prep the Intricate Mini Butterflies die by rubbing it briskly with scrunched waxed paper to help release the detailed diecuts.  Blend yellow, chartreuse, green, teal and blue inks on smooth white cardstock.  Dry the inks, then cut it with the Intricate Mini Butterflies die.  I cut two sets of the butterflies so I could select the sizes and colors  I wanted for the card.

The butterflies are just glued at the center, allowing the wings to lift at the edges.  Attach the 3 smallest butterflies to the blue area within the Distant Sun Collage.  Attach the 4th butterfly partially over the bottom edge of the Cloudy Moon Collage.  Attach the remaining 3 butterflies to the card front.

Cut Tilted Thanks from the turquoise sheet in the Rainbow Reflections Mirror Pad.  Attach the greeting to the card and add turquoise Pastel Jewels

Tri-fold collage cards are fun to create - and receive!  Substitute birds or dragonflies instead of butterflies for a totally different look.  Or maybe a plush brown felt Layered Polar Bear holding a bunch of balloons just barely floating over the window collages?

 

Thanks for visiting - see you again this weekend...

 

Supplies

 

94626 Cloudy Sun Collage

94627 Cloudy Moon Collage

94628 Distant Sun Collage

94641 Intricate Mini Butterflies

94470 Tilited Thanks

jwl002 Pastel Jewels

94556 Slim Basic Rectangle Layers

fp1003 Rainbow Reflections Mirror Pad

Hi everyone! I have a side folding card featuring the Gentle Rose Watercolor Floral die set.

Flower:

Die cut the Gentle Rose Watercolor Floral from light and dark peach paper from Vintage Pastel Mirror pad.  Adhere the smaller pieces on the full piece on top of the embossed sections.  Die but the Wayfarer Leaves from green Vintage Patel Mirror paper.  Adhere the leaves behind the flower.

Sentiment and background:

Die cut Hugs Tender Script top from white Vintage Pastel Mirror paper and the bottom from silver Majestic He's Glitter paper.  Adhere together.  Die cut the 5th and 4th largest die from the Curved Cap Pinpoint Layers die set.  Adhere together.

Assembly:

Adhere the flower and leaves to the center of the Curved Cap Pinpoint Layers. Adhere the sentiment to the bottom center of the flower.  Adhere the background to a side folding A2 white card base.  

Supplies

 

94713 Gentle Rose Watercolor Floral

94712 Wayfarer Leaves

94669 Hugs Tender Script

94646 Curved Cap Pinpoint Layers

fp1002 Vintage Pastel Mirror Pad

gp1008 Majestic Hues Glitter Pad

It is time for a brand new card challenge, and we hope you will join us with the latest theme.  Thank you to everyone who participated in the drinks challenge last month. We loved seeing all of your fun designs

The winner of the blog badge was Becca Yahrling, who posted on her Flickr account. We loved her sweet bunny card:

The random winner selected from all the entries to win the prizes was Di from the Pixie's Crafty Workshop blog. Congratulations!

Please contact me at stampjournal@gmail.com with your full name and US address to claim your prize.

Want to play along in this month's challenge?  The rules are simple - just create a project following the theme, use at least one Memory Box stamp or die on your project and link your entry to this blog post.  You can make a card, a scrapbook page, a home decor item, etc..  To encourage participants with various levels of stamping experience, one entry will be selected at random to win a prize. Enter as many times as you want, but your name will only be entered once into the random prize drawing.   In addition, the design team will select their favorite entry to  be highlighted on the Outside the Box blog and that designer will receive our winner badge to proudly display on their blog. 

You don't have to have a blog in order to participate.   You can upload your project to any online gallery and link it to this post.   In fairness to other players, we reserve the right to remove entries that do not use at least one Memory Box product.  You are also welcome to link your design to other challenges.  Feel free to grab our badge to post on your blog post or side bar.

Please note, because of issues with shipping internationally, only domestic entries will be eligible to be shipped prizes. We are so very sorry that we had to add this stipulation.

Once a year, we offer a floral themed challenge. It makes sense to anyone who is familiar with Memory Box dies and stamps. We love our florals! We would absolutely love to see your take on the theme. Do you use floral papers? Stamps? Dies? All of the above? Your take on the theme is completely up to you. We just ask that you use red as a featured element on your card and that you use at least one Memory Box product.

Here are some samples to help inspire you. They all use the latest Memory Box release of dies:

There are several ways for you to enter the contest:

1.)  Link your finished work below

2.)  Enter on Instagram by tagging your sketch project with the #mbchallenge93 hashtag

You have until the end of the day (EST) on Thursday, March 30th.   Don't forget, you have to use at least one Memory Box item on your entry and only domestic entries are eligible to be shipped prizes. 

Here is what you could win:

 

Supplies

 

94638 Backyard Floral Stems

94647 Floral Bud and Stems

jwl003 Bright Jewels

Hello everyone.  Using dies from the current 2023 February release, I created this thank you card.  To be honest I set out to do something else, but this resulted instead. 😂

Once again, I saw several watercoloring/painting reels on Instagram (IG) and wanted to give it a try.  Started by adding blobs of gouache paints on the smooth side of Memory Box’s watercolor paper in the order of the desired colors.

Using flat watercolor brushes and as little water as possible, created a background wash.

Took a small round brush and black gouache paint and painted in the land mass.  Lightly splattered with diluted white gouache paint for the stars.  Also used white gouache paint to paint the moo and reflection in the water.

The artists in the IG reels painted in their own silhouettes.  I didn’t want to take the chance of ruining my progress, so I die cut my silhouettes from black cardstock using the Backyard Floral Stems die.

The Plumed Gypsy Feather background die was then used to die cut the feather aperture from an A2 size Bristol panel.  The detailed top layer was also die cut from Bristol and mounted onto the back cutout layer.  Die cut the Tilted Thanks sentiment 3x to stack for dimension, then assembled the card onto a white card base to finish.  

That does it for my card.  Thank you for joining me today.  Have a lovely day.

Supplies

 

94711 Plumed Gypsy Feather

94638 Backyard Floral Stems

94470 Tilited Thanks

WP101 Watercolor Paper

Hello and welcome!  It's Angie here today with a pretty spring hello card featuring new dies from the February release.

 

I used both the Hello Rush Script die 94468, the Scribble Daisy die 94617, along with the new A2 Rectangle Frames dies 94672.  The background was made with the Geometric Crystals 3D Embossing Folder EF 1016.  

 

I embossed some cream colored thick watercolor paper with the folder and then inked the edges with light pink.  I also used that same watercolor paper smooshed with green and pink inks, and both white and black card stock to cut the sentiment and the daisy from.  Next I stacked them offset from each other for dimension.  I matted the embossed panel on a slightly larger black panel then added it all to the card base.  I finished my card with some Memory Box Pastel Jewels and Wink of Stella on the flower petals and the hello die.

 

The inks I used to smoosh with were Distress Inks in Saltwater Taffy, Twisted Citron.  I added a little  Walnut Stain to the bottom of the hello smooshed die with a domed ink blender.

 

Here's a closer look:

 

I hope you like my card for today.  I really love the soft colors and the puffy dimension look from the 3D embossing folder.  Please come back every day to see more inspiration from the design team.  

 

Thanks for stopping by!

 

 

 

Supplies

 

94468 Hello Rush Script

94617 Scribble Daisy

94672 A2 Rectangle Frames Die Set

EF1016 Geometric Crystals 3D Embossing Folder

JWL002 Pastel Jewels

WP101 Watercolor Paper

Greetings friends. Today I wanted to feature the new Curlicue Plate. It makes a really beautiful background. To make the card, I first started with some of the white Memory Box woodgrain paper and spritzed it with blue and green sprays:

I let the colors meld together and then dry completely before adding my curlicue background that was cut from white cardstock. To finish the card, I added my sentiment as well as a new butterfly die. I wanted everything to coordinate, so I used the same color cardstock as the notecard to cut out the shadow for the sentiment and the details of the butterfly:

Thanks so much for stopping by today!

 

Supplies

 

94698 Curlicue Plate

94670 Best Wishes Tender Script

94708 Plumed Gypsy Butterfly

sh44001 White Woodgrain Paper Pack

Greetings friends. I hope everyone is having a wonderful weekend. Today I wanted to share a background made out of Distress Inks. It is a good way to really highlight any dies that you might have.

To make the background, I sponged Distress Inks onto white cardstock in the following order: Peacock Feathers, Twisted Citron Squeezed Lemon, Carved Pumpkin and Picked Raspberry. I was in the mood for really bright and happy colors.  I then cut out by sponged background using one of the new nesting dies that has an arch at the top.

Next, I spritzed the piece with water to give it a speckled look. Here is a closeup:

To finish the card, I added my dies as well as some rhinestones to include a little extra bling. I really like the detail you get from the Curved Cap Pinpoint Layer die. The little pinpoints really add a lot of interest to the edges.

Thanks for stopping by today!

 

Supplies

 

94646 Curved Cap Pinpoint Layers

94617 Scribble Daisy

94669 Hugs Tender Script

jwl002 Pastel Jewels

The new swirly, curly, spiraled Curlicue Plate is quickly becoming a Design Team favorite.  It's great alone as a bold background - or highlight it with the new Plumed Gypsy Butterfly or Plumed Gypsy Feather.  Hi, Jean here with another butterfly card that just couldn't wait for warm and sunny butterfly-weather.

Trim an ink-blended (or watercolored) background to 4" x 5-¼".  Attach it to a top-folded white notecard.  

Prep the new Curlicue Plate by rubbing it briskly with waxed paper to make it quick and easy to remove the offcuts.  Cut Curlicue Plate from white cardstock.  

Cut the Plumed Gypsy Butterfly background from a shimmery purple 6x6 in the Rainbow Reflections Mirror Pad.  Prep the detailed butterfly die with scrunched waxed paper, then cut it from the Rainbow Reflections sheet too.

Stamp the greeting - from the Sweet Christmas Clear Stamp Set - on white cardstock with Brilliance Pearlescent Purple.

Attach the greeting and diecuts to the card - use foam tape for the butterfly, and leave the outer edges unglued.  Add pale pink Pastel Fairy Jewels.

The Curlicue Plate is great for pressure-embossing and paper-piecing too!  Save a few of the offcuts if you're cutting it from colored or metallic cardstock. They create great design elements - especially the 3 main circular pieces.  We save everything, don't we?

Thanks for visiting our blog,  Keep warm and make some cards this weekend - and please stop by to enjpy Laura's great design on Saturday!

 

 

Supplies

 

94698 Curlicue Plate

94708 Plumed Gypsy Butterfly

CL5283 Sweet Christmas clear stamp set

fp1003 Rainbow Reflections Mirror Pad

jwl002 Pastel Jewels

Hi everyone!  I have another card using new products from the 2023 Memory Box Spring Release.  I love the pattern on the new Curlicue Die Plate and thought I would try it using Simon Hurley's Stamping Foam.

I heated the circle stamping foam with a heat tool and quickly pressed it into the die.  Next, I inked the foam with dye inks and misted it lightly with water to stamp it onto watercolor paper.

The stamped image looks like a watercolor painting.  I dry embossed the circle frame around the stamped image using the largest circle from the circle die set and followed the directions on my die cutting machine for embossing with a die.

The leaves were die cut from green cardstock and inked with Rustic Wilderness Distress ink, then glued in place on the card.

I die cut the word hugs from white cardstock and the shadow from black cardstock.  I used foam tape to glue the word to the card.

Next I glued the card front to a black cardstock mat and adhered it to a white card base.

To finish the card, I added some fairy crystals to add a little shine.

That's it for today!  Thanks for stopping by.

 

Supplies

 

94669 Hugs Tender Script

94712 Wayfarer Leaves

94698 Curlicue Plate

DDP101 Christmas Fairy Dewdrops

WP101 Watercolor Paper

Hi everyone!  I have a thanks card featuring the new Floral Bud and Stems and Thistle Stems die sets.  

Flowers:

Die cut the flower petal from the Floral Bud set from a light and medium purple red paper from the Vibrant Violet pad then the stems from a medium green paper from the Lush Green pad.  Adhere the flowers die cuts together.  Die cut the Thistle Stems from a light and medium paper from the Vibrant Violet pad and the stems from a dark green paper Lush Green pad.  Adhere the die cuts together.

Fence and Grass:

Die cut the Woodgrain Fence Pickets die from heavy weight Kraft card stock 2 times.  Trim the piece of the Kraft card stock into 2 strips of  4" x 1/4".  Lightly ink blend with Distress Ink Brushed Corduroy over the fence post.  Adhere the fence post to the strip of paper evenly across and add the last strip to the bottom.  Die cut Wild Grass Border die from a medium green paper from Lush Green pad.  Trim down to a 4" wide strip.  Ink blend with Distress Ink Rustic Wilderness. Adhere to the bottom of the fence.  Cut a strip of the green of the same green paper to 4" x 1 1/2".

Assembly:

Trim a light purple paper from the Ocean Blue pad to 4"x x 5 1/4".  Add strip os fun foam or double sided foam tape to the back and adhere to a A2 size white card stock.  Adhere the flowers to the green strip of paper.  Adhere the strop to the front of the card.  Die cut the Tilted Thanks from white card stock and adhere to the top center of the card.

 

 

 

Supplies

 

94647 Floral Bud and Stems

94689 Thistle Stems

94703 Woodgrain Fence Pickets

94415 Wild Grass Border

94470 Tilited Thanks

sp1005 Ocean Blue

sp1003 Lush Green

sp1007 Vibrant Violet