My Favorite Things - Right as Rain

Coffee-themed Winter Wishes

Hello! While visiting my blog archive for my post on cardmaking with the hot beverage theme, I decided to do a mash-up of two of the cards shown HERE and HERE. I eagerly delved into my supplies, reigniting my passion for crafting with these products.

To create the card, I used a number of now retired supplies. I’m calling this a “Shop Your Stash” post! I know there are a lot of shiny new products out there that I could easily buy. It is more of a challenge to use what I already own. The retired supplies are listed at the bottom. I have emboldened supplies that are currently available and included them in the LinkDeli list.

- Dry emboss a white cardstock square (4 1/2″) with a folder for subtle texture. (Note: I used the now-retired SU Subtle Dynamic Textured Impressions folder. The shim required is the base platform, the folder with the cardstock inside, and one cutting plate.) Add to card base.
- Stamp Lawn Fawn Kraft cardstock with the Hero Arts Candy Stripe Bold Prints background stamp in red pigment ink. Once dry, cut with the Lil’ Inker 4 1/4″ stitched square. Add to card base.
- Cut a 3″ circle from Waterfall cardstock and add white embossing paste through the Snowy Sky stencil. Set aside to dry.
- Stamp Hero Arts Winter Wishes sentiment in black on white cardstock. Cut with the 3″ circle die and again with a die in the MFT Snow Drifts set. (I bought this set of hills in November 2012; the set was one of my first ever die purchases.) Add sentiment hill to the stenciled circle and add assembly to the card.
- Cut mittens with dies in the My Favorite Things Warm & Fuzzy set from red cardstock and dry-emboss with the Taylored Expressions Cable Knit embossing folder. Cut to-go coffee cup with dies in the Mini Café All Day set. Assemble and accessorize with a snowflake cut with a Mini Snowflakes die from white glitter foam. Add cup and mittens to card.

Retired Supplies: My Favorite Things Warm & Fuzzy; My Favorite Things Snow Drifts; Lil’ Inker 4 1/4″ stitched square; Hero Arts Candy Stripe Bold Prints; Taylored Expressions Cable Knit embossing folder; Colorbox red pigment ink; Hero Arts Winter Wishes; SU Subtle Dynamic Textured Impressions embossing folder

Nautical-themed Die-cut Card

Hello (or should I say ahoy?)! I am always enthusiastic about crafting anything nautical-themed. I’ve been interested in all things nautical my entire life, even though I didn’t spend my childhood anywhere near the water.

Today’s card features the Memory Box Marina Sailboats. I chose a favorite color scheme of red, white, and blue for the boats.

I cut the sailboats from red (SU Real Red), white, and navy (SU Night of Navy) cardstock. I trimmed pieces in order to change the color of the hulls.
To create the background, I applied white embossing paste to SU Daffodil Delight cardstock through the MFT Radiating Rays stencil. I used Dreamweaver white embossing paste.
I created the sentiment by cutting the letters twice, once in white and once in red (SU Real Red), with the Cole’s ABCs dies. I offset the letters when I adhered them.
I used the Lawn Fawn Ocean Wave Borders to cut the ocean from Memory Box cardstock. The wave die set includes three wave patterns (three different sizes of the waves); I used all three.

Supplies: Memory Box MARINA SAILBOATS die set; My Favorite Things RADIATING RAYS stencil; Reverse Confetti Polar White cardstock

Die-Cut Easter Bunnies

Hello! Today I am sharing an Easter card created with a Freshly Made Sketches Challenge sketch from last year. I was particularly fond of the sketch. You can see my original card using the sketch here.

I die-cut the Poppystamps bunnies from yellow, pink, and blue cardstock.
I die-cut the now-retired MFT fence from white cardstock. I trimmed the fence to be the width of the three bunnies.
I cut the patterned paper pieces and adhered them to a card base on which I had printed Happy Easter on my computer printer.
I added yellow Taylored Expressions Enamel Dots in the upper-right corner.

Supplies: SU Strawberry Slush cardstock (retired), Poppystamps Fuzzy Bunnies (retired), Poppystamps Bunny Buddies (retired)

The Stockings Were Hung

Hello! Today I am sharing a CAS Christmas card (the last of 2019) featuring the Elizabeth Craft Designs Hang the Christmas Stockings die set.

Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house

Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse;

The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,

In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there.

I cut the stockings from silver, gold, and copper foil. The additional pieces (cuffs, toe, heel, overlay) were cut from white flock.
I assembled the stockings and added them to a patterned paper rectangle, on which I heat-embossed the Snow Globe Sentiments sentiment (most used Christmas sentiment set last year and this year!).
I added Kaiser Craft jewels to the stockings to simulate hangers/pegs. The card base was cut from gold brushed cardstock.

Merry Christmas!

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Dashing through the Snow

Hello! I have “Jingle Bells” running through my head, and I’m sharing a CAS Christmas card, depicting a one-horse open sleigh dashing through the woods, created with several older Memory Box dies.

I cut Night of Navy cardstock with a circle die and applied transfer gel through the Carta Bella snow stencil on to the circle. I set the circle aside to dry. I mentioned in this post that I wanted to try the flock with the snow stencil.
I cut a slightly larger circle from vellum.
I cut two white circles and then cut the circles with the Memory Box Horse Sleigh Landscape die and the Country Landscape border dies.
I heat-embossed the Snow Globe Sentiments sentiment on a dark red cardstock (Gina K) panel. I adhered the panel to a white linen-finish cardstock base.
I ran the stenciled panel through my Minc with white flock. I then assembled the circles, using foam adhesive for the sleigh portion.
I adhered the assembly to the card base.

For more inspiration using these same two Memory Box die sets, here’s a card from several years ago.

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