Lead Me In Thy Truth

Hi Sweet Friends!

Julie, here sharing a Mixed Media card created with my distress oxide inks along with the March stamp of the month, Texture Tiles I and previously released sets, Majestic Monarchs and Wait on the Lord.

FYI- I was experimenting with distress oxide ink and realized that I should have used watercolor paper versus white cardstock for the direct to paper technique- oops!  I used broken china, seedless preserves, picked raspberry and abandoned coral in swipes directly to the cardstock.  It dried too quickly for the ink to move so I added splashes of the same colors to soften the background.  

Once the background dried, I stamped the sentiment from Wait on the Lord with archival black ink, heat set the ink with a heat tool before die cutting with a stitched oval die and mounting onto an ornate oval die.

I also added splashes of distress oxide ink in coordinating colors to the designer paper and stamped the script image from Texture Tiles I with picked raspberry ink over the sentiment oval as well as the black and light blue background panels.

The butterflies from Majestic Monarchs were stamped in black archival ink, heat embossed with clear ep before watercoloring with the distress oxide inks.  I fussy-cut each butterfly out and added them along with a few sequins to the card front.

Shimmer was added to the butterflies as well as the oval sentiment and fram using a clear glitter pen to finish off the card. 

I absolutely love the different tiles in the Texture Tiles I Clear Stamp Set- perfect for adding texture for so many cards!!  And don’t forget, Texture Tiles I is the Stamp of the Month for March! This means that you will receive this stamp set free in March with your $75 order ($75 net after all discounts) and you will also receive free shipping and handling (on $75 US only)!!  

Thanks again for stopping by- I hope all of you have a wonderful Easter and Resurrection Sunday!!

Emboss Resist Technique on Scrapbook Page

 Hello crafty friends and welcome to today's project...a scrapbook page! This page features a resist emboss technique along with the Through the Trees stamp set (along a few others). Below are a few close up pictures of my layout along with a step-by-step video. Enjoy and happy crafting!

Supplies: -Through the Trees Stamp Set - http://bit.ly/2DU6hJB -Majestic Butterflies Stamp Set - http://bit.ly/2nhoXbL -Typewriter Text Stamp - http://bit.ly/2Eja94R -Wetland Grass Stamp Set - http://bit.ly/2CMYbCa

A Friend Loveth At All Times

Hi Sweet Friends!

Julie here, today I am sharing an easy mixed media card using Majestic Monarchs along with Peaceful Peonies.

To create the background, I pulled out three colors of distress oxide inks, tapped them onto a silicone craft mat, spritzed lightly with water and placed a piece of white cardstock into the ink. I used a heat tool to dry the ink before adding each color, then spritzed lightly with black soot distress ink before trimming and mounting onto black cardstock.

The Majestic Monarchs butterflies were stamped using versafine ink onto white cardstock and heat embossed with clear embossing powder. I used water-based markers to watercolor the butterflies before fussy-cutting each image and mounting them onto the card front.

 

I heat embossed the sentiment from Peaceful Peonies onto black cardstock with white embossing powder and added to the card front with dimensional foam.

The card was finished off by using a glitter pen for shimmer on the butterflies and a few crystal drops in the background.

 

Also, don't forget that the Scene Silhouettes: Wetlands is the January 2018 Stamp of the Month and is FREE with a $60 order through 1/31/18.

                              

I hope I have inspired you today and thanks for taking the time to visit us- hugs and God Bless, sweet friends!

it's your day.

Hello! It's Monika here today with a birthday card. I love using flower images on my cards... they are good for any occasions.
So here is a card with a pretty layered flower:

The image came from Pretty Potted Florals clear stamp set. I stamped the flower three times and cut the different layers out after coloring them with water color... I also stamped up three leaf images. I used foam adhesive between the layers (underneath the petals of the top layer) to add dimension to my card. The black oval frame is also popped up with foam adhesive.

 

I just had to add some sweet butterflies (from Majestic Monarchs clear stamp set) that were heat embossed with white embossing powder on vellum. They add such a nice and airy touch to any cards. The background was stamped with Typewriter Text Background clear stamp. I wiped off some of the gray ink from the edges to add a weathered look to it. The greeting was stamped from Keep in Touch, Too clear stamp set.

Here are couple of cards (from the past) using Pretty Potted Florals clear stamp set:

 

Thank you for stopping by,

Monika

 

 

Majestic Monarchs

Hello! It's Monika here today with a scrappy card. I love designer papers... I don't use them, but I sure do love collecting them! In the quest of using up some designer paper, I made a small project that needed a card... here is what I came up with:

 

 

It was very simple... the designer paper panel was die-cut with a border die, the butterfly (Majestic Monarchs clear stamp set) was stamped on a coordinating piece of designer paper then it was fussy cut. I stamped out extra butterflies, one of each, so I can use those as decoration on my project...

 

The greeting is from Be Encouraged clear stamp set.
Here is the full project... a Midori style notebook with inserts I made out of copy paper and writing paper:

Do you remember when we had to hand write letters? LOL! Back in the old days, I collected writing pads and the other day I happened to dig them out... and since I was looking for thin paper sheets, I decided to use some of that. I used Creative Worship: Name Above All clear stamps set to decorate the cover of each of the signatures that made up the journal. I also made a bookmark using Faith Quote Blocks clear stamp set.

 

Thanks for stopping by,

Monika

 

 

Love Is Like A Butterfly

Hello Sweet Friends!  Julie here to share a Mixed Media card created with several Sweet ‘n Sassy clear stamp sets- Butterfly Flourish, Majestic Monarchs, Music to My Ears and Grunge Elements (all designed by Korin Sutherland).

I had fun designing this card and thought I would add a bit of Spring to this winter day!

The images on this card were heat embossed with black embossing powder onto white cardstock and I used water-based markers to watercolor the wash behind the SNSS Majestic Monarchs sentiment and SNSS Butterfly Flourish image as well as applying a wash onto the white background panel.  

I added a bit of distressing with the SNSS Grunge Elements stamp set (hint- I cut a small section of the large splatter stamp for smaller splatters).

The yellow circle in the background was created from scrap designer paper by stamping the SNSS Music To My Ears background lightly with archival black ink and using a yellow ink to create a watercolor wash as well.

All were layered onto black cardstock and large circle and SNSS Butterfly Flourish panels were split to cover more of the card and allow you to see more of the images.

The large butterfly from SNSS Majestic Monarchs was heat embossed with black embossing powder on white cardstock and colored with markers using with a water brush to soften the ink.  I applied a clear shimmer pen to all of the butterfly wings to give them a bit of shimmer (hard to see in the photo).

Once everything was mounted I added a few rhinestones to finish off the card.

I hope I have inspired you today to create something fun this week! 

Plus don't forget our sale on discontinued items:

Hugs and I hope you have a blessed week, sweet friends!

Spread those wings

Good morning! This is my last post as Guest Designer and I want to thank Korin for having me these last two months. What a wonderful lady to design for and with such a talented group of ladies, thank you so much. 

My creation today is using the beautiful Majestic Monarchs stamp set. I stamped three of the different sized butterflies onto white card stock and colored with Copic markers. I delicately cut around each of the wings and only the biggest butterflies antennas. They curled as I cut them so closely which was perfect! if you want to die cut them instead, check out the Monarch Dies matched to the stamp set. Layered them onto the card base and added sparkles for some fun. A few scattered jewels and voila! Hope you have a wonderful day!

Be not afraid...

Hello! It's Monika here today, bringing you a butterfly card. I hadn't made one for a while now so I had to clench my thirst. 
The inspiration came from yesterday's CAS challenge (CAS284) at SplitCoast Stamper. I CASEd this card... 

The butterfly is from Majestic Monarchs clear stamp set, and it was die-cut with the coordinating Monarch Dies. The background was stamped with the wood grain image from Grunge Borders clear stamp set with White Luxe Memento ink... the words are from Be Encouraged clear stamp set. 

... but wait... while it was a beautiful CAS (Clean and Simple) card, I just had to make it more 'fancy'... so I added some flowers and this and that... 

I die-cut some flowers out of Vellum with the Kindness Flower Dies and stamped the coordinating images from Kindness clear stamp set with VersaMark, then I poured white embossing powder on the flowers and heat embossed them with my heat gun. These flowers gave my card a light and fluffy touch.

Thanks for stopping by,

Monika

birthday cookie

Hello friends!  Today I have a little treat box to share.  I made a Mini Pizza Box to hold a birthday cookie.  (Because who doesn't love a chocolate chip cookie??)

After cutting and scoring the box, I added the patterned paper (which is very sparkly) to the top.  Then I die cut a window and added a die cut frame.  The inside of the window was lined with a piece of clear acetate.  Then the box was adhered together.  A half circle was punched on the front of the lid to ease in opening the box.

Finally, I used some Sweet 'n Sassy stamps to decorate my box.  The flower and matching die is from Long Stem Silhouettes, the butterflies and coordinating dies are from Majestic Monarchs, and the sentiment is from Birthday Word Art.  Some clear Wink Of Stella was applied to the butterflies and flowers for some added sparkle which unfortunately doesn't show up in the photo.

Here's a photo of the box open.

What a cute little way to wish someone a happy day, don't you think?

♥ Diane

Birthday Bash Cupcake...

Hello! It's Monika here, continuing on my birthday card quest, and showing you another sweet birthday card. I find that I am always in need of birthday cards...
Have I convinced you yet, how much you need these 2 birthday sets: Birthday Word Art and the fabulous Birthday Bash clear stamp sets? If not, here is another card to inspire you to have these in your stash:

I love combining the images from the sets... The colors came from The Color Throwdown #302. The sketch was loosely based on Mojo Monday #355.

 The frosting was die-cut with a die from the coordinating Birthday Bash die set. To embellish my card, I made a butterfly, stamping the image from Majestic Monarchs clear stamp set on vellum, and heat embossing it with white embossing powder. The image then was die-cut with the coordinating die from Monarch die set. I also used Borders & Backgrounds die set...

...and here are some of my previous cards, using the same birthday stamp sets, but with different colors:

Thanks for stopping by,

Monika