Tuesday Tip - Layered Designs

 Tuesday Tip - Layered Designs

Diane has another stencil tip for us:
"Make multiple layers with your stencils or background stamps and cut or tear to layer them."

Diane shares: "First, I brushed ink on three pieces of white cardstock using three colors of ink, varying the combination of colors. Note: I traced the edge of the cardstock with pencil onto my scrap paper and taped the top of the stencil down so that all three pieces were stenciled exactly the same. If you have a sticky mat for this purpose, that might help."

"Next, I tore the edges of two pieces as shown below and layered them together. You will have two pieces leftover for another project."

Here’s the finished background.

Supplies used:
Diamond Floral Stencils and Simple Sentiments Bundle

Tuesday Tutorial - Treat Bag/Pocket Card

 Tuesday Tutorial - Treat Bag/Pocket Card

Esther has a picture tutorial to share with you today for creating a mini pocket card or treat bag. 

1.  Decide how tall you want you treat bag and add about 1/4 of an inch to accommodate the fancy trimmed top you'll add later.  Decide how wide you want your treat bag to be, double that measurement and add 1/4 inch

2. Fold your the two sides of your paper to the center, overlapping 1/4 of an inch

3. Fold the bottom up approximately 1/4 of an inch 

4. Open your paper back up and trim off the bottom two corners

5. Decide what kind of decorative top you'd like and use pinking sheers or a circle punch to create it

6. Fold your bag back up and adhere together

NOTE: You can use typing paper, card stock, patterned paper, or wax paper (to create faux glassine bags)

 Supplies used:

Springtime, Springtime Babies, Diagonal Plaid Background, Texture Tiles 4, Stitched Circles Dies Set, and Stitched Circles 2 Die Set

Esther also created treat bags using this method

Supplies used:

Love in is the Air stamps & dies, Delicate Doily Die, Skinny Lowercase Alpha, Sentimental Wordfetti, Texture Tiles 4, and Bold Caps Alpha

Faux Glassine Bags

Supplies used:

Love in is the Air stamps & dies, Delicate Doily Die, Flourish Background, Your Story, and Scallop Border Dies

Tuesday Tip - Stencil Fun

 Tuesday Tip - Stencil Fun

Diane shares a fun tip for changing up the tree from our Seasonal Trees Layering Stencils:
"Use a tiny heart stencil or stamp with the tree stencil to create a valentine tree. Try other shapes or images also such as stars, flowers, etc."

Supplies used:
Seasonal Trees Layering Stencils, Bitty Hearts Stencil, Love is in the Air, Script Sentiments, and Arched Window Bundle

Tuesday Tip - Gelli Prints

Tuesday Tips - Gelli Prints

Are you looking for a fun way to create stained glass windows? 

Karen shares "Use your stash of gelli prints to create colorful windows for the Cathedral Window Die."

She turned one of her windows into a fun shape card with a sentiment from the Church Family Stamp Set. 

Her second project is a Bible journaling page that uses:

Cathedral Window Die and stencil, Vintage Type Alpha, Vintage Doily stencil, Sew Many Stitches, His Name, Fall in Love With Jesus

Tuesday Tip - Dryer Sheet

Tuesday Tip - Dryer Sheet

Esther shares a tip for using dies with lots of tiny pieces: "Place a dryer sheet under your paper when die cutting intricate designs."

Not only does the dryer sheet help the design to fully cut out, but it also catches quite a few of the tiny pieces so you don't have to punch them out manually.

Esther's faithdex card uses:

Flourish Background Stamp, Delicate Doily Die, Be Still & Know, Gratitude Matters, and Stitched Circles 2 Die set

Tuesday Tip - Make Multiples

Tuesday Tip - Make Multiples 

Diane has a stamping tip for us today:
"When you use your big background stamps, stamp extras in various colors to have ready for future projects."

Check out some of the fun ways she used her Diagonal Plaid backgrounds.

This card also features: Seasonal Birds

This card also features: Read More and Stitched Circles 2

 

This card also features: Seasonal Birds

 

This card also features: Read More, Stitched Circles 1, Stitched Circles 2, and Simple Sentiments

Tuesday Tutorial - Rainbow Stripes

 Tuesday Tutorial:

Esther shares a fun tutorial for creating a rainbow stripe background using paper strips.

Directions:

1. Cut a bunch of paper strips in rainbow colors

2. Adhere them at an angle on across your card front

3. Trim strips and use the trimmed strips to finish your card front

4. Trim all edges 

Products used:

Cocoa's Birthday Wish, Scallop Border Dies, Circle Die Set, and Versafine Clair Nocturne Ink  

Tuesday Technique - Adding Dimension

 Tuesday Technique - Adding Dimension

In today's blog post, Esther shows us how to add a bit of dimension to our images.

For the butterfly, she stamped the image twice, fussy cut the wings of the butterfly, and glued them over the original image.

For the flower, she stamped the image twice, fussy cut a second flower, snipped between each petal, and popped it up with dimensional tape over the first one.

Supplies and Tools: Botanical Collages, Floral Doily Stencil, and Versafine Clair Nocturne Ink 

Tuesday Tutorial - Let's Make a Wreath

 Tuesday Tutorial - Let's Make a Wreath

Esther used our NEW Village Die Set to create a farmhouse wreath card and shares her process photos in case you'd like to try your hand at it. 

Step 1 - Cut a bunch of sprigs using your favorite  Foliage Die

Step 2 - Using two Circle Dies, cut a ring from matching green card stock.

Step 3 - Adhere your sprigs around your ring, tucking each one about 1/2 way under the previous one.

Step 4 - Decorate as desired.

Products used: Village Die Set, Texture Tiles 4, Foliage Dies, Circle Die Set, Blessings Die, and Stars Dies Set

Tuesday Technique - Non-traditional Colors

Tuesday Technique - Non-traditional Colors

It's always fun to think outside the box and use unexpected colors for your holiday cards.

Check out these lovely cards from our team using the October Release.

Nina's lovely card in pink and yellow (above) features: Large Snowflake Background, Knit Background, Vintage Holly stamps and die, and Village Die Set

Karen's pretty purple card features: Large Snowflake Background, Poinsettia Wishes stamps/dies, Large Snowflakes die set, Sparkle Snowflake die set, and Snowstorm stencil

Sheri's card is all decked out in blue and red and uses: Holly Jolly Stamp & Die, Christmas Sentiments, Holly Layering Stencil Set, Scalloped Border Dies

Traci's gray and purple card features: Christmas Gnomes Stamp Set and Dies and Holly Layering Stencil Set

Michelle went with black for her scene and featured: Village Die Set, Large Snowflake Background, and Christmas Sentiments

What non-traditional color scheme is your favorite for holiday cards? 

Tuesday Technique - Partial Stamping

Tuesday Technique - Partial Stamping

Diane created this sweet anniversary card by stamping only the top portion of our new Snow Family stamp and omitting the bottom section that includes a baby snowman. 

She also shares a second tip for framing her image:

To create the black shadow behind her image, she die cut the frame again two more times with black cardstock. One was cut in half vertically and the other horizontally. 

Then the pieces were moved sightly apart to layer underneath and create a black shadow behind her original frame. 

Products used: Snow Family, Knit Background, Script Sentiments, Decorative Frames Dies

Tuesday Technique - Using Felt

 Tuesday Technique - Die Cutting Felt

Have you ever tried die cutting something other than paper? Felt is fairly inexpensive and adds a wonderful texture to your creation. Check out the fun way Diane used it to create a sweet little village on her card front. 

Products used: Village Die Set, Sparkle Snowflake Die Set, Christmas Gnomes (sentiment)

Tuesday Tip - Silhouette Cutting

Tuesday Tip - Silhouette Cutting

Jami's tip is to use the Silhouette to cut out the flowers from our NEW Watercolor Florals Printable set.

Supplies used on this page: Watercolor Florals Printable, Word Mapping, Word Mapping 2, Lines & Crosses Mini Stencil, Greek Alpha, Books of the Bible, Bitty Minnie Alpha, and Chunky Alpha

Look how nice they look! 

Tuesday Technique - Monochromatic Cards

Tuesday Technique - Monochromatic Cards

Esther has created quite a few cards over the years that use only one color (besides neutrals). This fun technique works well with all types of cards for every season and occasion! 

(Supplies for the card above: Shiplap Background, Landscape Silhouettes, Forest Silhouettes Dies, Bare Tree Die, Script Sentiments, and Versafine Clair Nocturne Ink

Which one of these lovely cards is your favorite? 

Supplies: Blooming Anemones, Encouraging Thoughts, Texture Tiles 6, Script Stencil, and Friend Die

Supplies: I Like Big Cups, Texture Tiles 9, Coffee Word Die, Texture Tiles 1, Heart Die Set, and Circles Die Set

Supplies: Folk Art Snowflakes, Texture Tiles 4, Christmas Wordfetti, Large Snowflake Die Set, and Hearts Die Set

Supplies: We Three Kings, Endless Love, Texture Tiles 4, and Scene Silhouettes: Jesus is Born 

Supplies: Shiplap Background and Peace Be Still

Supplies: Forever Loved stamps and dies

Supplies: Blooming Anemones, Background Builders: Stripes, Faith Phrases and Circles Die Set