Simple and Sensational Stenciling Anyone Can Do! EZ with CZ
Hi friends! Happy Friday! Please join me in welcoming special guest Cathy Zielske for this absolutely adorably HAPPY card design! Be sure to watch the video for all the details and enjoy!
Hello crafty friends! Today I’m sharing a sweet and graphic floral stencil that is so easy to use. The Groovy Blooms Stencils are a layering set that help you create a fun, floral panel for any card project.
I picked a variety of Pawsitively Saturated Inks to create a happy spring vibe for my card. For my greeting, I used the CZ Design Happy Combos stamps & dies to build “Sending All the Happy Your Way” sentiment.
A black note card really brings this design together, along with a bit of black dye ink spattered onto the panel.
Here is my video showing you how the card came together.
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Veggie HAPPY Encouragement Card Idea featuring Lawn Fawn!
Hi friends! Happy Thursday! I’m delighted to welcome back special guest Chari Moss to our blog today! She’s sharing this ADORABLE card featuring some new stamps and dies from Lawn Fawn! Read on to learn more and enjoy!
Hello Crafty Friends! Today I am sharing a fun card featuring some new Spring products from
Lawn Fawn. First up I created the background panel using the Sunburst Backdrop to die-cut a
piece of the new colored cardstock, Tide Pool. Then I added hading with uncharted mariner
Distress Ink to create a vignette effect and splatters of liquid stardust and gold watercolor for
shimmer!
I cut all of my Stitched Root Veggies from white cardstock and then added distress inks to color
each one. For the carrot I used wild honey, rusty hinge, and mowed lawn. The radish was
created with worn lipstick, abandoned coral, and twisted citron. And finally the cutest onion ever
uses antique linen, tea dye, and lucky clover. After all the ink blending fun I added little faces
provided in the die set and backed them with Storm Cloud cardstock.
I wanted these veggies to sparkle, but no one wants to eat glitter on their veggies! However,
adding some green glittery grass behind them seemed like the perfect solution. After adding
grass, cut with the Garden Snail die set, I layered the veggies with foam adhesive in the center
of the card. I love how the sunburst backdrop and the grass really frame the veggies as the
focal point.
Finally a veggietastic card like this obviously needs a punny sentiment! I added a sentiment
from Veggie Happy to a white sentiment banner below theses happy veggies and a small
speech bubble from All The Speech Bubbles above. Check out the other fun stitched veggies
from the Lawn Fawn Spring release and have fun playing with your vegetables! Thanks so
much for joining me today!
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Absolutely DREAMY Card Design to Send to a Friend + Unique Copic Coloring Tips: Yippee for Yana
Hi friends! Please join me in welcoming back the oh-so-talented and amazing Yana Smakula! (Please note: our dear friend Yana is Ukrainian. To show support to our brothers and sisters in Ukraine, please see Yana’s post HERE.)
Hello, crafters, this is Yana Smakula for Simon Says Stamp! Welcome back for another Yippee For Yana video!
Today I invite you to join me as I do some unexpected coloring featuring the Dreamy Leaves stamp set. As I was planning my card, I went to Pinterest in search of inspiration and came across this stunning image. I loved the way the leaf was colored – it wasn’t solid green, yet it had sections of green and sections of white. It looked so clever! So I applied this coloring method to the leaves on the cards I’m sharing today.
Instead of using just green and white, I also introduced pink. I used G94 as my lighter green and G99 as my darker green. The pinks were colored using RV00 and RV11. You can also experiment with a lot more vibrant and saturated pinks and many other shades of green. Purples would complement green well, too, and even teal + purple or teal + pink would make fore a fabulous tropical leaf color combo. I encourage you to try and color your leaves like this – leave some white space, add some green and bring in a pink or a purple to spice it up.
I also used a C1 marker to create visual shadow, I outlined each leaf to fake dimension on my background (as I always like to have a lot of dimension on my cards).
The sentiment was created using a Happy Combos stamp set – I stamped sentiments in VersaFine Onyx Black ink and heat set it with clear embossing powder.
The Spellbinders Aura sequins are serving a dual purpose on this card – they are embellishing it and also hiding some coloring imperfections where I went outside the lines when adding color to the leaves.
I hope I’ve inspired you to try some unexpected coloring the next time you try to color leaves! Have fun stamping! -Yana
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