Flower love

 Hello! It's Monika here today with couple of flowery cards. I LOVE flower images!

First up is a delightful card with scrap pieces from my desk... yes, I had a whole lot of stuff on my desk... including some heat embossed and water colored daisies. The flowers came from Delightful Daisies clear stamp set.

The background was made with Tim Holtz alcohol inks... one of the many I have made and piled up for future cards... the vellum overlay was die cut with a background die I got during a Hobby Lobby clearance event... 

The sentiment is from Be Encouraged clear stamp set. 

I also had a sweet heat embossed vellum butterfly on my desk, so it had to go on it... it's from Made New clear stamp set. 

Next is another card filled with pretty flowers... I just love clustering these sweet petite images from Genuine Love clear stamp set. I arranged the flowers around the girl image from Girl Power 2 clear stamp set. 

The background was stamped with Typewriter Text Background clear stamp set. 

I hope I have inspired you to craft today!

Thank you for stopping by!

Monika

Patterned paper and stamps

I love patterned papers and I have a lot of paper pads in my stash. I hear a lot of people say that they don't know what to do with all these papers, but I think they're amazing to use with stamps. so I wanted to show you two examples where I used patterned papers in combination with the Girl Power 2 stamp set. It saves me a lot of coloring time and you can get really colorful cards in a quick way.

When I use patterned papers I like to match the colors I use for the stamped images with the papers that I use. So for this one I used pink colors for the image and colored the image with alcohol markers. I added a couple of flower stickers to the card, but the Itty Bitty Blossoms stamp set would be perfect for the flowers too.

For the second card I used the same paper pad and the same colors. There's not a lot of pink in the background but it still matches the image. I distressed the edges of the background with a turquoise ink pad to match the turquoise frame that's around the girl. 

I used the stamp set Girl Power 2.

I hope you're inspired to create and to combine your stamps with your paper stash :)
- Lucinde

Two cards to share.....

Hello friends, Stephanie here today.  I have 2 cards to share with you today.

This first card uses Girl Power 2 which is back in stock along with a few older sets, Be Encouraged,
Choose Faith and Truth Quotes.  I wanted a fun, cheerful card to give to our neighbor who is fighting Ewing's Sarcoma and I think these stamp sets all worked well together.  I colored her with copics and paper pieced her shirt, the papers come from Pink & Main.

I made a bridal shower card which could also be used as a wedding card or engagement card using the heart from Forever & Always and the word love from His Love.  This paper is from DCWV.  I stamped the heart with pink ink and heat embossed it and did some fussy cutting and added it to an embossed circle.  Wow, those two cards used a lot of stamp sets!  Don't forget that if you spend $75 you will receive the stamp of the month for free!

Friends in Faith

Hello everyone! Today I want to share this card I made with the Girl Power 2 stamp set. I love all the different girls and I just stamped an entire page with different images that I colored. After that I cut them out with my Silhouette. This gave me a lot of images to work with :).



I colored the images with alcohol markers and stamped the message with a black (Archival) ink and the Happy Alpha stamp set. I die cut a rectangle with a stitched border effect and distressed the border with Versamagic ink. I loved the background paper with the flowers and beautiful words so I really wanted to use that for this card. A kind of 'friends in faith' card.

- Have a nice day!
Lucinde

Made New and Girl Power2

 Hello! It's Monika here today with some miscellaneous craft projects using the February Stamp of the Month: Made New and Power Girls 2.

I've been having a blast in my craft room creating this and that... it's so nice to widen your horizon and use your craft supplies for something other than cards...

First up is a journaling display card:

The display holder was made out of card box (recycling is fun and very helpful!) then covered with fabric paper and designer paper (video tutorial). It's cool looking and pretty easy to make... it's perfect for displaying bible verses (photos or calendar pages).

The foam heart is a pocket that holds the bible verse from Made New clear stamp set.

Next up is a cute foam bracelet (I was trying to come up with an after school project):

The kids will be using stickers, but on my bracelet, the heat embossed vellum butterfly and vellum flower were the perfect embellishments. I used Velcro as the closer. 

My last project is a book mark... I love making them and while this one is bulkier than what's common, I love how it turned out! I used some printable images from the Creative Worship: Words of Wisdom packet along with another sweet Power Girl and pretty Made New vellum butterfly.

I hope I have inspired you to craft today!

Thank you for stopping by,

Monika

Friends Warm the Heart

Happy Friday, sweet friends!  I have a couple of cards to share today using some of the products from the Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps February release.

You loved the Girl Power stamp set...now, the new Girl Power 2 stamp set has even more hair and dress up options!  A background was created with Distress inks and the grid stamp from the Texture Tiles 1 stamp set.  The girls were colored with Copic Markers and cut out to add to the card.  The split sentiment and the tea cup are from a stamp set currently out of stock called Special Blend and the heart is from the Forever & Always stamp set.  I think you'll agree...nothing warms the heart like some special girl time!

My second card uses the butterflies and sentiment from the Made New stamp set which happens to be the Stamp of the Month for the month of February and is free with a $75 purchase.  The background for this card was made using the Tissue Paper Bokeh Technique which can be found HERE.  The butterflies were stamped on a Distress Ink background from my stash, fussy cut and popped up onto the card.  Some Nuvo Drops were added to finish the card.

Thanks so much for stopping by.  May your heart be warmed not only by spending time with some special friends, but by the love of the Lord and His promise of new life in Him!

Hugs,

Cathy

Friendship & Love

Happy Monday everyone!  Today I have a sweet little friendship card for you using a couple of sets from the new release.  First I made my background panels by doing some smooshing, is that even a word?  I put down some distress inks on to an acrylic block and misted with some water, next, I put a baggie on my hand and picked up the ink with it and smooshed it onto the mixed media paper.   After my paper dried I inked up the Hearts from Forever & Always and Filigree Hearts misted them with water and stamped.   I colored the girl from Girl Power 2 with copics and paper pieced her shirt with some of the background paper I made.

This next card is just a quick and easy note card using In Stitches.  For this card I decided to paper piece the letters instead of coloring them in.  The designer paper is from The Paper Studios.  I was not going to put the little heart on the "O" but after I had everything glued to the card I noticed a little blotch of ink so instead of tearing the card apart I added a heart!  Make sure you check out all the new stamps sets this month and remember if you spend $75 you get the stamp of the month-Made New absolutely free and as always free shipping with a $75 order.  Happy Crafting!
~Stephanie

Girl Power!

Hello everyone! Today I want to show you a card I made with the Girl Power 2 stamp set. I was so happy when I saw this second Girl Power set! You just can't have enough faces haha.

I stamped the image on marker paper and colored it with alcohol markers. After that I cut it out and started preparing my card. I used a stencil for the background that you can see at the top and bottom of the card. The other patterns are from scrap pieces of patterned paper that I had laying around. When I adhered everything I only had to add the enamel dots and this card was finished!

I made another card with the same stamp set and the process for this card is almost the same. I colored the image with alcohol markers and looked for a matching background. The heart is an enamel sticker and the other dots are just pearl drops.

I hope you're as enthusiastic as I am about this set! And that I could inspire you to make something with it :)

Have a nice day!
- Lucinde