CAS - Right as Rain

Fun Stampers Journey – You Are Loved

Hello! I am sharing a CAS winter-themed Valentine (or friendship card) featuring the Fun Stampers Journey It’s Cold Outside and Sending My Love stamp sets. Both stamp sets have coordinating dies.

I used rectangle dies to create the card frame. I stamped the cute critters from It’s Cold Outside and colored them with Copic markers and colored pencils and cut them with their coordinating dies. I stamped the sentiment from Sending My Love on Pool Play cardstock, which I placed behind the frame. I stamped hearts from the same set with Candy Apple ink, which I cut with their coordinating die and added to the background with foam adhesive.

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CAS Die-Cut Winter Thank You

Hello! I am sharing a winter-themed, CAS (and quick and easy) Thank You card. I needed to get this card made quickly as a thank you for holiday gifts.

I cut the letters with Lawn Cuts alphabet dies and placed them onto the colored squares, cut with one of the smaller square dies in a Spellbinders Nestabilities set. I used Echo Park patterned paper for the background. My first take used two patterned papers, one for the background and for the frame (larger than the design I ended up using) around the letters. While the patterned papers looked good together, the pattern around the letters made the card too busy and took the emphasis away from the sentiment. I pulled the card apart and found a background paper that carried the winter theme on its own and cut the frame from white cardstock.

I created an almost identical card previously on which I popped the letters up with foam adhesive. It is a good route to take for some dimension, but it takes a little more time.

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Spellbinders January 2019 Small Die of the Month

Hello! Wow, it is hard to believe that it is 2019! Happy New Year! Today, I am delighted to be sharing two friendship/Valentine-themed projects created with the January Small Die of the Month “First Crush” from Spellbinders. This die set is just precious! Let’s take a look!

On my first card, I created a boy and a girl with the dies in the January Small Die of the Month set.

I added the assembled children to a card base on to which I had adhered a heart cut with one of the Nestabilities Heart Dies from the Follow Your Heart paper. (I used the same patterned paper for the boy’s shirt and the girl’s dress.) The children are popped up with foam adhesive. I added the balloon after I had the children attached.

On the second card, I created a girl in the same manner as on my first card. To fill out the space, I cut three balloons, over which I added the LOVE letters, cut with a die in the Miss You Swirl set.

Both cards are 5″ x 7″. I wanted to give plenty of room for the assembled children.

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CAS Valentine’s Day Die-Cut Birds

Hello! Today, I am sharing a CAS Valentine’s Day card created with a combination of die cuts. I have officially moved on from Christmas crafting.

The card spotlights the Elizabeth Craft Designs Birds die set; I dressed the birds for cold weather (one of the things I like about crafting Valentine’s Day cards is an opportunity to extend winter-themed supplies). I used Simon Says Stamps dies for the heart background and the sentiment and framed the scene with a now-retired My Favorite Things die. The base is dry-embossed with a We R Memory Keepers embossing folder.

Happy New Year!

Supplies: Simon Says Stamp On Edge Love You die set, We R Memory Keepers Wood Grain embossing folder

A Cool Yule – Die-cut Penguin

Hello and Merry Christmas! This is my final Christmas card for the season. I have so many more ideas, but between shopping, baking, and so forth, I just don’t have the time to turn those ideas into cards.

For this last card, I am showcasing the recently released Cool Yule die set designed by Tim Holtz, using a design similar to this tag. I am combining some of my favorite cardmaking things: stamped graphic background, die-cutting, stenciling, and heat-embossing.

I stamped the Buffalo Plaid Background for the card background.
I die-cut the Cool Yule penguin and assembled it with glue. I cut a circle of Woodgrain Vellum (gifted to me by a friend) to which I attached the penguin.
I heat-embossed the sentiment and cut it with one of the tag dies in this set and trimmed the bottom a bit, so that the tag would fit better on the card base.
I placed another vellum circle (of the same size) on the tag before I applied embossing paste through the Snowed In stencil. The circle worked as a mask. I masked the sentiment area with washi.
I finished the tag off with Peppermint twine before attaching it to the card base.

Thanks so much for visiting!

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