Category: Spring

Avery Elle – Oh Happy Day!

Hello! I’m sharing a spring-themed card created with Avery Elle stamps and dies. It’s been cold and wintry here in the Pacific Northwest, so a little spring color appealed to me!

Avery Elle Happy Day

I stamped the various critters from Woodland Wonders and colored them with Copic markers. I used components from the Tree die set to create the tree, which I dry-embossed with a Stampin’ Up embossing folder. I curved the sentiment to fit one of the banner dies in the Pierced Banner Layers set. When I was finished assembling the scene, I felt there was too much blank sky, so I tucked in clouds cut with the Lawn Fawn Simple Puffy Cloud Frames set.

Avery Elle Happy Day

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Penny Black Woodland Friends

Today, I’m sharing a CAS spring-themed card combining an image from Penny Black’s #30-278 Woodland Friends stamp set with a die-cut fox, created with #51-193 Woodland Friends II.

Penny Black Simplicity Woodland Creatures

I positioned the Woodland Friends stamp on my MISTI and masked off the fox. I colored the stamped image with watercolor pencils. (On my first try I colored the background blue, but I decided I preferred a more CAS look.) I separately cut the fox with the Woodland Friends II set from cardstock, which I had colored with Distress Inks. I added enamel dots for the nose and eye. I attached the fox to the scene with foam adhesive.

I masked a sentiment from #30-160 Friendship and cut it with one of the word balloons in the #51-003 Chat Bubbles set. To finish off the card, I added a dry-embossed strip along the bottom.

Paper Smooches Floral Thank You

Today, I’m sharing a spring-themed “thank you” card created with Paper Smooches dies and stamps.

Paper Smooches Floral Thanks

I cut the Dainty Flowers outlines twice from white cardstock and adhered the layers with liquid adhesive. I then adhered the outlines to the card panel and inserted the leaves and petals, (I added a little glue inside the outline areas beforehand), which I’d cut from colored cardstock. I used several other floral die sets to cut additional scattered flowers. I heat-embossed the sentiment from Lovely Thoughts and cut the sentiment out with a circle die. I adhered the sentiment circle to cardstock dry-embossed with the Taylored Expressions Weathered embossing folder.

Celebrating Sunny Days

Today I’m sharing a spring/summer-themed card featuring the Hero Arts Color Layering Graphic Flowers stamp set.

Hero Arts Sunshine

I created a one-layer card (with the exception of the dry-embossed strip on the left) using the stamp set and a MISTI. I’m completely sold on the MISTI at this point. (Note: the sentiment is designed with that distress on some of the letters; I realized that after stamping it something like five times!)

Taylored Expressions Burlap embossing folder; Stampin’ Up cardstock; Stampin’ Up inks

Mother’s Day Felt Blooms

Today, I’m sharing a Mother’s Day card crafted with die-cuts cut from the wool felt at Taylored Expressions.

Taylored Expressions Felt Project

This felt cuts like butter in my Big Shot! The colors are so rich and vibrant. I cut a variety of floral elements (stems, blossoms and centers) from Lip Gloss, Butter, Persimmon, Split Pea, and Carrot and the terra cotta planter from Latte.

Taylored Expressions Felt Project

I debossed the background with the Weathered embossing folder after stamping it with a sentiment in the Simply Succulents Stamp & Die Combo set.

I used a liquid glue that was designed for foam and felt to glue the pieces together. Because the felt sticks to itself, a lot of glue is not required.

I’ve got a long list of felt colors on my “to buy” list!

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