OWL always be thankful for you
Hi friends! Happy Wednesday! Please join me in welcoming special guest Kara Pogreba to share this gorgeous Lawn Fawn feature! Read on and enjoy!
These two owls found a cozy place to share a story! Lawn Fawn’s Lift the Flap Tree Backdrop is a great place for the Special Delivery owls to kick back and relax together.
The Puffy Cloud Backdrop was turned upside down and cut from Cilantro cardstock to create the canopy of leaves overhead.
A little message was heat embossed and tucked into one of the tree holes. The owls and books were colored with Copic markers and white gel pen.
The wings in the Special Delivery set that are typically used for flapping were reversed and folded behind the owl so he can hold the book. The book (from Den Sweet Den) was folded slightly at the binding to add extra dimension.
The flowers, hammock, and background were cut from the Hello Sunshine Remix petite paper pack. The sentiment, pieced together from several stamp sets, was heat embossed on a strip of Paper Bag cardstock.
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Thanks so much for stopping by, and thanks to Kara for being our guest!
Snarky Cats Mini Slimline Valentine
Hi friends! Happy Tuesday! Please join me in welcoming back special guest Cheiron Brandon to our blog today sharing these sweet and sassy Snarky Cat Valentines! Read on and enjoy!
Hi there crafty friends, it’s Cheiron here with an idea for some quick Valentine cards using the Tim Holtz Snarky Cat stamps. I combined these favorite stamps with some older favorite stamps sets – Crazy Talk and Crazy Things. These sets work perfectly together and I thought they would be great for some Mini Slimline Valentines. These Snarky Cats each have their own personalities and I think they all have different feelings about sharing their candy!
To begin, I stamped out all my images (hearts, cat, sentiment) onto 3 – 3 1/4 x 5 3/4 Distress Watercolor panels using Archival Black Soot Ink. You will want to use a waterproof ink for this, since we will be watercoloring in these images . I also stamped the Heart Gift Box from the Crazy Things stamps onto a separate piece of watercolor cardstock and cut them out. I colored in the images using a Detailer Water Brush and Distress Ink Reinkers in Kitsch Flamingo, Candied Apple, Rusty Hinge, Brushed Corduroy, Pumice Stone, Hickory Smoke. I put the tiniest dot of each Distress Ink reinker onto my glass mat and used the water brush to pick up the color and loosely color the images in.
I mounted each panel to a 3 1/2 x 6 card cut from Simon Says Lipstick Red Cardstock. To finish my cards, I added the Heart Gift Box with a piece of foam tape to give it some dimension and added a bit of Stardust stickles to the “lace” part of the box to give it some sparkle and shine. Hope you enjoyed this idea for creating quick and easy Valentine cards, I will use any holiday as an excuse to use the Snarky Cat stamps.
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Studio Monday with Nina-Marie: Craft Room Organization!
Hello crafty friends, it’s Nina-Marie Trapani here today with a few organizational ideas to share! I am always looking for ways to better organize my craft supplies and these products have been a helpful addition to my studio – so much so, that I want to share them with you!
Scor-Pal Stacker
I have really enjoyed the addition of my Scor-Pal Stacker to my craft space as a way to corral all my Scor Tapes! This tool can hold many rolls of tape and allows the tape to be easily used right off the stack!
Round Organizer
I’m a visual person and I like to be able to see all the colors of my different mediums. So I’ve been looking for a pretty but compact way to organize my Karin markers. When I discovered this acrylic Round Organizer, I was thrilled! It holds my entire set of 60 Karin markers, with room to add. I can also separate the colors out by groups, which makes finding the right color that much easier for me. If you don’t have Karin markers, you could also fill this with markers, pencils, brushes, pens, tools and so much more!
Magnet Sheets
Dies can be tricky to organize, but a couple of my favorite ways to store dies are to stick them to magnet sheets! You can cut magnet sheets to fit in storage sleeves to contain either store stand alone or coordinating dies! If I am putting a coordinating die set onto a magnet sheet, I like to slip it into the storage sleeve with the stamp set it goes with.
I’ve also recently installed a magnetic wall system inside my closet! This DIY project was inspired by my good friends and Simon teammates, Susan R. and Beth Opel’s craft room. Susan posted a photo of a repurposed door she and Beth have covered with dies. I don’t have the space for something that large, but I had been trying to come up with a way that I could keep my most used dies close at hand. All it took were these magnet sheets, a few black screws and some careful measuring to install this handy, magnetic wall storage in my closet! This has been up for a couple weeks now and I’ve been so happy to have these dies so easily accessible!
Divided Organizer & Storage Sleeves
I like to keep pre-cut card fronts, card bases and other most used cardstocks handy so that I don’t have to stop and cut something down while I’m in the middle of creating. I discovered that these organizers are perfect for not only holding all my different pre-cut papers, but they keep them sorted by type because of the handy dividers! Each container has three sections, which means I can store three different types of cardstocks in a single bin. You’ll also notice that some of the cardstocks are in storage sleeves – I find that stamp storage pockets are a great protector for keeping my cardstock clean and safe from inky messes!
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