Elizabeth Crafts - Right as Rain

Elizabeth Craft Designs Jungle Friendship

Hello! Step into the jungle with a friendship card featuring the Elizabeth Craft Designs Slow the Sloth hanging from a tree. The scene is set upon a jungle leaf background which reinforces the theme. A tropical flower adds a burst of color to the whimsical design.

- Cut the Leaves Background from Noble Fir cardstock. Add to a Sea Glass cardstock panel measuring 4″ x 5 1/4″. Add the assembly to a white, orange -peel textured, A-2 sized cardstock panel affixed to a card base. You can read about the use of cover plate dies to create card backgrounds HERE.
- With the Slow the Sloth set, cut the sloth and tree branch from a variety of cardstock colors. Assemble and add to the card background with foam adhesive. You can watch an introduction to the Jungle Party collection and assembly of the sloth HERE.
- Create sentiment and cut with an Everyday Sentiment Banner die. I created the sentiment “Let’s Hang Out” on my computer.
- Embellish card with a hibiscus bloom and tropical leaf cut with dies in the Jungle Leaves set.

The sloth’s laid-back charm will bring a smile to the recipient and serve as a reminder to take it easy amidst life’s hustle and bustle!

Elizabeth Craft Floral Encouragement Card

Hello! After putting together a roundup of encouragement cards, I was inspired to create a card to lift someone’s spirits. At the same time, I wanted to play with new products in the Elizabeth Craft Designs Paper Flowers collection.

- With black ink, stamp Stampin’ Up You’ve Got This sentiment (retired) on Chamomile cardstock and cut with largest die in the Lawn Fawn Stitched Rectangles set. Add to an A2-size card base.
- Color Soft Finish cardstock with Distress Inks and cut Wild Flower 4 and Greenery Fillers pieces. Shape floral elements, add additional ink as needed for shading, and assemble. To create small, white flowers, cut Soft Finish cardstock with die in the Florals Minis set, shape, and assemble. Glue prills to centers.
- Adhere cascade of flowers to card front.

Elizabeth Craft | Gnome Valentine

Hello! After the creating the Valentine’s Day card roundup, which you can see HERE, and rediscovering treasures in my crafting supplies, I was inspired to create a new card for the holiday. Picture a charming gnome on top of a cart brimming with hearts paired with a sentiment that reads “Loads of Love.”

- To begin, create sentiment on your computer and print. Trim to an A2-size panel and apply Distress Oxide inks in Hickory Smoke and Tumbled Glass to establish the ground and sky. Attach panel to a card base.
- Apply Distress Oxide inks to Soft Finish Cardstock and cut pieces for the Gnome (I used the Farmer set for the eyes), Hay Ride (trailer), and hearts (various die sets listed below). Assemble the gnome and the trailer. (Note: I used a 1/2″ circle die to cut part of the wheel assembly.)
- Add die-cut hearts to trailer. I added the hearts on the bottom row first, then I put the trailer on to the card base and filled the cart until I was happy with the amount.
- Add gnome to cart.

You can see a similar autumn-themed card with several of the same Elizabeth Craft Designs supplies HERE.

Arctic Love: Polar Bear Valentine

Inspired by my recent Valentine’s Day card roundup, I crafted a Valentine featuring a polar bear nestled inside a heart, surrounded by a backdrop of red, pink, and blue circles. With a die-cut “XO XO” sentiment, this card is created solely with die cuts.

- Cut Reverse Confetti Big Polkas Cover Panel from Snowdrift cardstock. (This cover plate is now retired, and I have been unable to locate a source for it.) Cut 1″ circles (using a die from the Everlasting Circles set) from Pomegranate, Dahlia, Pink Sand, and Sea Glass cardstock). Tape the circles to the back of cover panel (trimming circles as necessary where there is overlap). Add assembly to an A2-size card base.
- Cut heart from Pomegranate cardstock with second largest die in the Essential Hearts set. Add to card.
- Cut Elizabeth Craft Designs Polar Bear (retired but still available at Frantic Stamper) from Snowdrift, Onyx, and gray (Bazzill Taffy) cardstock. (I used the retired Paper Smooches Snowman 2 die for the mouth.) Assemble.
- Cut sentiment from white glitter foam with the Journal Letter die set. Add to card.

Penguin Valentine’s Day Card

Hello! After curating a roundup of Valentine’s Day cards, I was inspired to create a card using some of supplies I rediscovered. Picture a snowbank setting, a sky adorned with heart-shaped cutouts, and a charming penguin holding a heart—a whimsical way to say “Love You.”

- To begin, create a 4 1/4″ square card base from Lipstick Red cardstock.
- Cut frame using a My Favorite Things square frame die (now retired) from Snowdrift cardstock. The outside measurement is 4″.
- Cut Sea Glass cardstock with the Heart Sprinkle Trail die, trim to fit behind square frame, and set aside.
- Cut Elizabeth Craft Designs Penguin from Onyx, Snowdrift, and Persimmon cardstock. (Note: the Elizabeth Craft Designs Penguin die is retired, however, at the time of writing, it is available at Frantic Stamper.) Assemble.
- With the Drifting Stitches Border dies, cut snowbanks from Snowdrift cardstock. Layer and trim as required. Attach loosely at the bottom of the snowbanks so that the sentiment can be included in the assembly.
- With the Simon Says Stamp On Edge Love You die set (now retired), cut sentiment from Lipstick Red cardstock.
- Attach the snowbank assembly, with the sentiment in front of the back snowbank, to the frame. Add Heart Sprinkle Trail background to snowbanks. Add to card base. Slip penguin between the sentiment and back snowbank; adhere.

Supplies: Elizabeth Craft Designs Penguin, Simon Says Stamp On Edge Love You, My Favorite Things Square Frame