stencils - Right as Rain

It’s Strawberry Season! – Die-cut Berry Truck

Hello! I’m back online with a “just because” card. I’m still getting things rearranged in my new workspace. It’s strawberry season and the ones we’re getting in the PNW are fantastic. I crafted this Pacific Northwest scene with Impression Obsession dies, a My Favorite Things stencil, Memory Box dies, and a Hero Arts sentiment.

As I created this card, I was using a Valentine’s Day card that my brother and I sent my grandmother sometime in the 1960s as a straight edge and a Cross pencil of my father’s to draw lines for trimming. That’s a good indication of how much crazy is in my life – that I could lay my hands on those tools faster than a ruler and pencil from this century!

The sentiment is from the Hero Arts Stamp Your Own Fruit set (now retired). The clouds are from two different sets – Memory Box Puffy Clouds and Marshmallow Clouds.

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My Favorite Things – Birthday Cake Take Two

Hello! Today I am sharing a second card featuring the My Favorite Things Birthday Cake die set. On this card, I incorporated the My Favorite Things Confetti stencil set. You can see the first card I created with this die set here.

I cut the cake layers, cake plate, and decorations from white, yellow, and pink cardstock. The decorative pieces were glued. I assembled the cake stack by taping the layers together on the back.
I stenciled the confetti in Spun Sugar and Tumbled Glass inks. The set contains two stencils.
I stamped the sentiment (from the You Wow Me stamp set) with Picked Raspberry ink on the stenciled panel.
To help the cake stand out from the stenciled background, I die-cut a circle.
The assembled cake was added to the circle with foam adhesive. The circle was added to the card base with foam adhesive.

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Simon Says Stamp – Time for a Break

Hello! Today, I am sharing a CAS friendship card featuring Simon Says Stamp products – the Abstract Triangle stencil and a sentiment from the Vacation Time set.

I applied Distress Oxide inks through the Abstract Triangle stencil.
I cut the stenciled panel with a 4″ square die at an angle to the pattern.
I heat-embossed the sentiment and cut it with a skinny die in the A-2 Matting Basics set.
I added the panel to a square card base and popped the sentiment up with foam adhesive.

Thanks for visiting!

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Buffalo-Plaid Coffee-Themed Friendship Card

Hello! Today I am sharing a card created with Spellbinders and Fun Stampers Journey supplies, including the Fun Stampers Journey Buffalo Check stencil, generously provided to me by Spellbinders. I’ve crafted a coffee-themed friendship card using the stencil to make the background paper.

To begin, I inked red cardstock with Walnut Stain Distress Ink through the stencil.
I cut the Coffee Brewing coffee pot using the Coffee Brewing die from silver cardstock and backed the openings with white cardstock.
I cut the coffee cups, cup handles, and coffee beans with the Cup and Beans die set.
I adhered a patterned paper strip to the base of the Buffalo Check background and added the coffee pot, assembled coffee cups, and coffee beans to the scene.
The sentiment (from “Coffee Break” MFT Stamps set) was stamped with Walnut Stain ink and cut using a long, skinny rectangle die in the Matting Basics B set.

I’ll definitely be pulling out this stencil again!

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Only A Shower – CAS Die-cut Encouragement Card

Hello! Today I am sharing a CAS encouragement card combining die-cuts and a Distress Oxide ink background. Appropriately, it began to rain just as I finished this card!

I created the background with Distress Oxide Pumice Stone and Tumbled Glass inks. I added a little Broken China at the top of the blue and a little Hickory Smoke at the bottom of the gray. I cut the panel with a square die.
With a now-retired Memory Box Umbrella die (one of the very first dies I ever purchased), I cut the umbrellas from cardstock colored with Hickory Smoke (umbrella shafts), Peacock Feathers and Squeezed Lemonade (umbrella canopies), and Black Soot (handles and end). I pieced the umbrellas together by performing some fussy cutting (the die is one-piece).
I cut the Happy Clouds from white cardstock and backed them with cardstock colored with Black Soot.
I applied Moonstone Glimmer paste through the MFT Raindrops stencil (retired) in select places. The SSS Raindrops stencil has similarly-sized raindrops.
I heat-embossed the You Got This sentiment on black cardstock and cut it with one of the Lawn Fawn banner dies.
I dry-embossed the card base with the Subtle Dynamic Textured Impressions Embossing Folder from Stampin Up’ (retired).

Thanks for visiting!

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