Focus on a Sentiment with Daria

Hello-hello Awesome People!

Daria here. Today, I have two cards for you with a focus on sentiment. I wanted to give a sentiment a central role, while keeping integral to the whole carddesign. So, I've decided to place it on a separate shape. 

I took sentiments from Moon Magic stamp set and Thanks So Much Stamp set.

I also used the Circular die set. The biggest circle from the set became a perfect placement for the sentiment. Plus, I die cut a few of the circles from glitter cardstock and used them as embellishments for my projects.

As a supporting image for my cards, I, of course, choose some flowers. Big flower cluster from Grateful Heart stamp set is perfect to surround the panel with a sentiment. 

For both of the cards, I used embossing folders: Stripes by Heidi Swapp (discontinued) and Confetti by Mimicut. I like to keep my cards white, and embossing makes them look dimension and interesting while feeling very "clean". 

Hope you like these simple ideas and will give them a try. 

See you back soon,

D.

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Thanks so very much!

Hello there!

Mayuri here to share a card using a stencil, a die and a stamp set!

I began by creating a colourful background using the Cubic stencil and some ZIG Clean Color Real Brush Pens. I simple laid the stencil down onto a piece of white cardstock, coloured through the stencil and onto the card with the brush pens, and then liberally spritzed with water!

Too much water can result in a muddy mess, but not enough water means the colours don't blend - either way, add the amount of water you feel most comfortable with! I removed the stencil and the heat set the panel quickly before trimming it down to the size of my card base.

I adhered the panel straight down to my card based and moved onto the sentiment. I die-cut the diamond shape using the diamond shaped die from Gift Card Box Die Additions and then stamped a sentiment from the Thanks So Much set. I brushed some gold ink all the way around the edges of the die-cut piece before foam mounting to the card front.

To finish, I embellished with a mixture of sequins.

Thanks for stopping by!

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Hello!

Hello there!

Mayuri here to share a card using the Thanks So Much and Floral Frame stamp sets!

This card was so simple to create, and used one stamp from each set. I took the outline diamond shape from Thanks So Much and stamped it repeatedly with Versamark ink onto a panel of white cardstock. I sprinkled with white embossing powder and heat set.

I then took one of the smaller images from the set and stamped in the corners of the diamond shapes, again with Versamark ink and heat set in white.

I grabbed my Zig Clean Color Real Brush Pens and scribbled roughly with rainbow colours inside each of the embossed areas. I then spritzed the panel with water and watched the colours beautifully bleed into one another, and again heat set.

I trimmed the panel down to slightly smaller than my card base and foam mounted to the card front. I stamped a sentiment from the Floral Frame set onto a strip of black card stock, heat embossed in white, trimmed down and foam mounted to the card front.

To finish, I adhered some gold sequins.

Thanks for stopping by!

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Thanks So Very Much with Keeway

Hey there! It's Keeway and today I wanted to bring you a more classic thank you card using the Thanks So Much and Art Deco sets. The style of both these sets interact beautifully together, especially with all the fun geometric shapes and lines.

I started this project by embossing the small rectangular frame with stripes onto a soft grey cardstock. Then, I heat embossed the sentiment that perfectly fits within that diamond shape right after. I wanted to give this piece a frayed edge, so I decided to cut the edges with my paper trimmer rather than the die cut to make sure I had enough edge to work with.

Next, on a piece of watercolor paper, I heat embossed the large art deco design in white. I used my distress oxide colors to watercolor this piece as the chalky tones to these colors compliment the soft grey very well. I varied to intensity of the colors throughout the design.

Once the panel was dried, I adhered my grey rectangle to the center with foam tape. Then, adhered the whole thing onto a white A2 landscape base.

Thanks for joining me today!

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Thanks So Very Much Tag with Kay

Hi there! I'm excited to share with you a tag that I created with some of the fun new products from the August release!

I used the new Thanks So Much stamp set, Floral Frame Stamp set, Floral Frame Dies, Build a Tag Dies and the Gift Card Box Addition Dies.

I cut the tag base out of some patterned paper that  I had on hand. I then blended some distress inks onto card stock and cut the piece from the Gift Card Box Addition dies. I added the white background layer to the back and adhered this to my tag front. 

I heat embossed the Thanks so very much sentiment on blue card stock with white embossing powder, and cut it out with the circle die included in the Build A Tag die set. I cut the white circle out to mat it with, and adhered this to my tag with foam tape.  The flowers and leaves are from the Floral Frame stamp set. I colored the images with Copic markers, cut them out with the coordinating dies, and adhered them to the tag with foam tape. To finish it off, I added some ribbon through the hole at the top and tied some sliver thread around it.

Products used for this project:

Gift Card Box Additions - Nice and Neat Dies
Thanks So Much Stamp Set
Floral Frame Stamp set
Floral Frame - Nice and Neat Dies
Build A Tag - Nice and Neat Dies

 I hope you have enjoyed my card today! Thanks so much for stopping by!

Kay :)

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Floral Frames Two Ways with Daria [Video]

Hello and welcome dear Friends!

Daria here, and I have two cards to share with you today. I was playing with some goodies from our latest release: Floral Frame stamp and die set, Gift Card Box Additions dies and Thanks so Much stamp set.

There is a video to show how they all came together.

Here is a closer look at the cards I've made.  All the elements on both cards are foam mounted.

I used the new Gift Card Box Additions dies to die cut a little panel with cut lines and stamped my sentiment on it. Sentiments are from Thanks so Much stamp set and Floral Frame stamp set.

To make a blue card, I placed the central piece into the frame and cut off the part that was not seen behind the panel. Then, I adhered this little piece back to the panel side, so the frame looked bigger than it actually is. I finish both cards with Nuvo Drops in White.

Thanks so much for stopping by, hope you liked that simple ideas and will give them a try.
Have a wonderful week,
D. 

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Stash Busting with the Build A Tag Dies

Hey everyone!  Miriam here sharing a whole slew of tags to share today using the new Build A Tag dies.

I got to thinking after I created this tag I shared last week, that this is a perfect set of dies for stash busting, so I set out to prove it.

I used one of my older paper collections (Amy Tangerine's Stitched collection for AC), cutting a 6" x 12" piece from eight different sheets.  Then I ran all the pieces from the Build A Tag set as well as the diamond die from the Gift Card Box Additions set through the die cut machine.

Full disclosure I have extended cutting plates, so I could do this in one pass.  If you have standard sized plates you'll have to cut a piece off and run it through separately, but that is easy enough to do.

Here's a look at one of my cardstock sheets with all the pieces cut out.

Once I had all my pieces cut out, I basically lined up all the main tag pieces and then distributed the rest of them to each tag, mixing and matching the different patterns.

I tried very hard to make this a quick set, not to over complicate things.  Normally if I was making just one tag, I'd probably add some stitching or embellishments, but here I limited myself to just adding a bit of foam tape for dimension.

All the sentiments are from the Thanks So Much stamp set.

There are so many different combinations and possibilities.  I'm planning to do this again, but with some old Christmas papers so I can knock out all the Christmas tags I need.

I hope this gives you some ideas and that you're able to make a dent in your pile of patterned papers too!

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Good stuff inside!

Hi there!

Elena here, with a trio of Christmas treat boxes:



I used our new Gift Card Box to create these fun packages. I don't know about you, but between teachers and my sisters, I give a lot of gift cards over the holidays. I love being able to make a gorgeous packaging for them! This box is a snap to put together, and doesn't require a lot of glue. I like that it's just one piece, fold on the score lines, adhere and done. No need to cut a second piece and fiddle to put it together.



To decorate the top of the boxes, I heat-embossed both the frame and the sentiment from Thanks So Much. I feel like this set, which coordinates with the box die really makes both must-haves. I love how Miriam designed these products!

I also added a few images to the tops of the boxes: the snowman from Get Yeti and the little trees from Bunny Slopes.

A few wooden stars adds an accent to balance out the other side.

When the box opens, I shredded some white computer paper to make the gift card presentation feel more special.

I hope you like it! Thanks for stopping by!

♥.

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