card making

Sweet Sentiment Surf’s Up Retreat

This weekend I participated in the Sweet Sentiment Surf’s Up Retreat. I cannot say enough good things about Sweet Sentiment, and this virtual retreat was fantastic. Some digital images were provided, but the majority of the supplies were things I already had in my craft stash. The pacing was great. There were well-timed breaks throughout […]

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Follow the Yellow Brick Road

I love this card. Love. I made it for a friend who is a collector of all things related to the Wizard of Oz. This cute stamp set is from CC Designs Rubber Stamps. Their tagline is “cleverly cute stamps and dies.” It is colored with Copic markers. The floral dies are from Sizzix. I’m […]

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Unicorn Wishes

Sometimes the occasion calls for unicorns, rainbows, and fairies. These cards are crafted with Lawn Fawn products: Winter Unicorn stamps & dies, A Little Sparkle stamps & dies, and the Sunrise Backdrop die. The “birthday wishes” was heat embossed. Color was added with atyou Spica water based pigment markers.

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Vengeful Voodoo Vibes

Unity Stamps has a great selection of snarky stamps, like this one from the Voodoo Vibes set. It includes the sayings, “Happy Birthday… may all your vengeful wishes come true,” “thinking of you,” “Are you pulling my leg?” and “I haven’t forgotten you.” This card is colored with Copic markers. It was quick and easy.

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Big Birthday Wishes

Today’s card uses a new Lawn Fawn die, Giant Happy Birthday, and the Tiny Birthday Friends stamps. I cut the tiny birthday friends with my Brother Scan ‘n Cut. The images were colored with Copic markers. I used paper from my stash. I don’t know the brand; it’s at least 10 years old (!). A […]

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Aye, There Be Treasure

Today’s card is made with a sweet set from SugarPea Designs called Captain of my Heart, and the background is done with their Pirate Treasure Map stencil. It’s colored with Copic markers, and I used Distress Inks on the background. It was so quick and easy to use the stencil! The pirate and the parrot […]

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Fun Futuristic Cards

These cards were so much fun to create. Another Kindred Stamps offering, the Futuristic Family set included funky papers, a cityscape die, and more. All the characters were colored with Copic markers and cut out on my Brother Scan n Cut. Some of the sentiments were included with the set, others (the ones with a […]

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Happy Burstday!

I watched the classic 1979 movie, Alien, while I created this card. The retired stamp set is called Bursting Love by Kindred Stamps. I colored the characters with Copic inks. The background was made using a stencil and Shimmering Bliss spray from Technique Junkies. The characters were cut using my Brother Scan n Cut SDX225. […]

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Your Own Hero

This adorable card was created using the retired Kindred Stamps Justice is Served set and Impression Obsession City Landscape Layers dies. I cut the cityscape from sheets of grays and black and layered them on top of each other, making sure to offset them to disrupt symmetry. The super hero was colored with Copic markers. […]

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Secret Agent

Another birthday card creation today, using the Secret Agent stamp set from Kindred Stamps. The background is Technique Junkies‘ Shimmering Bliss sprays and a swirl stencil. I punched a circle in the middle of the swirl, and inked the edges of the circle. The James Bond look-alike is colored with Copic markers. It’s all assembled […]

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