Stretching Your Stamps And Dies With Taheerah!

Hey everybody! Happy Thursday! It's Taheerah here with a loved-up card!

I really feel like small dies and stamps get neglected a lot when we create. Actually these stamps and dies can end up being some of the most versatile of the bunch! Today I pulled out the two heart dies from the My Plate Is Full die collection and put them to good use!

Here's what I came up with:

I love how this turned out!

I started with a panel of white cardstock and die cut the hearts from it - many times! It actually didn't take that long because I put them both through at the same time, and I was going for a random 'falling' pattern so I didn't need to worry too much about positioning.

When that was all done I watercoloured my card panel, splattered on some mists and dried it with my heat tool. I then pulled out one of my all-time favourite Neat & Tangled sets - Gifts For You - and stamped my sentiments. I built up the 'A Lot' part by selectively inking some of the letters from the other sentiments - clever huh? :-) I love stretching my supplies like this! I added the full stops by hand with a marker, adhered my panel on top of some patterned paper and onto my card base and I was all done!

Do you enjoy stretching your stamps? Which other Neat & Tangled stamps or dies are you now looking at in a new light? :-)

I hope this card brought some fun to your day! Thanks for stopping by!

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Happy Turkey Day!

Hey everybody! Happy Friday! It's Taheerah here with a card to kick off your weekend!

I hope our US friends have been enjoying the Thanksgiving weekend! And hopefully you aren't sick of the sight of turkey as I have a fun turkey card for you today!!

Here's what I came up with:

Fun right?!

I wanted to create a card with a slightly unconventional colour scheme for this holiday, so I stamped the turkey from Turkey Talk and lightly watercoloured him! That journalling card-style panel he's on? That's the A Lot To Say die, die cut once, then rotated and passed through my Big Shot a second time to remove the 'tail' of the speech bubble!

I wanted a fun background for him so I masked him off and stamped the sentiments from My Plate Is Full to reinforce the message of Thanksgiving. Not forgetting the final sentiment from Turkey Talk itself! Some patterned paper, gold cord, and vellum helped giving the card a quirky finished look. :)

Just before I go, I wanted to mention/remind that we are having a special Black Friday/weekend sale! 30% off selected stamps and sequins - hurry over before they're all gone!


I hope this card brought some fun to your Thanksgiving weekend! Thanks for stopping by!

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Release After Party Day 3!

Hey everyone! Happy Wednesday!

Sometimes circumstances are such that we have to change something in our schedule. Three of our designers living outside of the United States received their September release sets too late to join in with the normal Release fun. But fear not! We didn't want you to miss out on what they would have created, so we have decided to arrange a Release After Party!

Today is the last 'After Party', and taking you into the night and partying with you in style is Taheerah! I've five cards to share with you, each created using the *awesome* stamps from the September release!


My first card features the fantastic Be Full set. With that fantastic font and layout I just had to go with a chalkboard look and create a card full of Autumnal colours!

 I stamped the sentiment with white pigment ink first then overstamped with orange dye ink to create an orange chalk effect!

My second card uses the Turkey Talk set. I used a scrap piece of paper that I'd used to mop up ink and spills before as it had the most awesome blend of colours and shimmer!

I stamped my turkey right over the top, and mounted him over a panel of patterned paper stamped repeatedly with the 'Gobble Gobble' sentiment - and of course I had to use the speech bubble, stamped on cork to say that sentiment 'straight from the turkey's beak'!

Moving on, my third card features the wonderful My Plate Is Full set!

I stamped the heart repeatedly to create my own patterned paper, overstamping some of the hearts with various mists to add some shimmer and a secondary colour! I combined several of the sentiments in this set to create a custom greeting!

Next up - a combo of Creepy Cute and Creepy Cute Shadows And Sentiments! I loved stamping those adorable bats onto patterned paper and pairing them up with other patterned papers for the sentiment strips and background!

I love the extra little detail of the washi tape underneath each of the sentiments!

And finally, to wrap things up, my final card features the beyond-awesome Origami Map set.

I swiped inkpads and sprayed with mists for my panel, and loved stretching my stamps by using one of the arrow stamps to create a banner for the aeroplane to fly my sentiment!

Well, that officially wraps up the Release After Party! I hope you've had a great time seeing all the amazing cards the DT girls have come up with, and we'll be back before you know it with another release! *wink* Thanks so much for stopping by!

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Release After Party Day 2

Hello crafty friends,

Christine here!
It's my pleasure to  bring you more inspiration using the October release stamps. Just like Anna told you  yesterday the international girls celebrate a fabulous release-after-party with you.

I have five cards to share with you today:

I instantly fell in love with Origami Map! It screams for watercolor, but I wanted to challenge my self not to use a emboss-resist technique! So this map ist mostly grey and twi countries/sport are colored in aqua. One got a pin-needle, the other one a heart. Mapping can be so much fun!

 Living in Germany we don't really celebrate thanksgiving or Halloween, so I don't have a lot of  pumpkins in my stamp collection. This one is pretty cool with it's super bold lines. It's from the Be Full set.

The next card is VERY graphic. I used the plate from My plate is full to draw attention to the sentiment and used forks, knifes and spoons in light colors to have a nice background.

As I said - thanksgiving isn't popular over here ;) So I used the turkey for a Good luck/Hello card using some washi with sentiments and just let the turkey from Turkey Talk gobble ;) Isn't he cute?

 Next up maybe my favorite card. I used the skull from Creepy Cute (a set beyond cuteness!!!) with some spiders and Creepy Cute Shadows and Sentiments. There is a bow in that set, but I created another bow made of bones. (Maybe that's hard to see). I just puffy heart love the bad to the bone sentiment!

Another card that's more cute than creepy is this one: a CAS one layer card using the bat from Creepy Cute.

Hope you enjoyed this little inspiration-parade. If you haven't ordered your stamps so far - you should - they're adorable!

Thanks for stopping by and taking the time to check this post!

Used supplies:

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Release After Party Day 1

Hello, dear friends! Sometimes circumstances are such that we have to change something in our schedule, but we tried to make it so that you get even more satisfaction of meetings with our stamps! Three of our designer living outside of the United States received their October releases sets too late. And in honor of this we have decided to arrange for you Release After Party!

Today with you Anna, and I'll show you five of my cards made ​​using the brand new stamps. And the first of them - this is a cute card with clouds, which I did, using sets of Creepy cute and Creepy cute shadows and sentiments. I stamped clouds with blue watercolor and than added a clouds silhouettes with black inks, and one cloud has eyes and a smile. So cute! And color splashes and clear sequins and accents.

The second card is made of Be Full set. I love, how stamps lay in the package, so I decided to use this "sketch" (phrase as a center element, pumpkin on the bottom and leaves on the sides). I stamped, colored and cut elements, made white embossing on an orange cardstock. Simple and elegant!

And next card is my favorite of all! I'm absolutely in love with this Origami Map set! Absolutely fabulous idea! I made white embossing of map and colored it with the watercolors, so relax!

It's a long time I have an idea to make something crazy with stamps, for example.. to curve a stamp! I cut a strip of black cardstock with two circle dies, than curved a sentiment stamp as with the same radius as a cardstock has and made an embossing. Looks great!

Turkey Talk is small but too cute set :) But I decided to create something different. I stamped a strip of sentiments with different colors and added some accents.

And the last card for today is this one with using of My plate is full set. I made this one layered card:

I hope, you had a great time today! We will wait you next two days too! Don't miss a lot of inspiration from our designers.

Using supplies:

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So Thankful

Hello Everyone...I hope you really enjoyed the recent released. For today I want to share with you a So Thankful card using the My Plate Is Full (sentiment), Creepy Cute Shadows and Sentiments (moon), and So Very Blessed (flowers) to create a bowl full of flowers.

To begin my card I first stamped the images on a piece of white cardstock then fussy cut. I adhered a strip of wood grain patterned paper from October Afternoon then adhere all the images together (for the bowl I added some white dots using Uni Ball white gel pen), and stamped the sentiment. To finish off the card I simply added the splatter of ink after smooshing it on the acrylic block, added some water, and splatter it with a watercolor brush.

Here's the full image of the card.

I hope you guys enjoyed!


Thank you for stopping by!
Have a Wonderful Week :)

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