Monthly Archives: June 2019

1:26 pm - June 30, 2019 -

Jen Shurkus: Get Cracking On Christmas Challenge

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Hey there crafty friends, thanks for joining me today!

While scrolling through Instagram the other day, I came across a card making challenge to help me get a jump start on my Christmas cards for the holiday season. The challenge I came across is called “Get Cracking On Christmas,” hosted by the talented Jenn Shurkus, creativity teacher for Lawn Fawn stamps and author of the blog Creative Chick.

After watching Jenn’s Instagram story, I learned she and her pals Cherion Brandon, and Chari Moss each year make a Christmas card or project a month to prepare for their holiday card gifting. By crafting Christmas all year long, once December arrives, the ladies have at least 12 complete holiday cards a piece to send to family and friends. Every third Thursday of the month you can catch Jenn and friends showcasing their Christmas cards and projects they make on their blogs and under the Instagram hashtag #getcrackinonchristmas.

I have decided to join the challenge and too “Get Crackin’ On Christmas.” From now and until December, I too will create at least one Christmas card a month and showcase the project on my blog, Instagram and Pinterest page. This challenge will help me to also build my stash of cards for the coming holiday season.

My first project, is a set of four cards featuring the popular stamp and die set, “Thanks A Latte,” from Lawn Fawn. I stamped the mugs, candy canes, heart, snowflake, marshmallows and whip topping with my Memento Tuxedo black ink and colored each mage in with my Copic markers. I used various shades of red, pink, blue green and cool gray markers to color the images.

After coloring, I cut each image with their coordinating die and adhered the image to my card with 3M dimensional foam tape. I used my Sakura white gel pen to add a few accent details to the images to make them pop. Then I stamped the word Merry form the Hero Arts Merry Stamp and Cut set in Lady Bug Memento Ink and the word Christmas in Verafine Onyx black ink.

I really enjoyed making these cards. I am no expert with Copic coloring, but I thinkI did a pretty good job for not being taught any Copic coloring techniques. I hope you enjoyed today’s cards and will tune in next time for my next card share. If you would like to join the fun, simply create a Christmas card or project and post it to the Instagram hashtag #getcrackinonchristmas. Until next time.

Categories: Hero Arts, Lawn Fawn
9:08 pm - June 26, 2019 -

Spellbinders: Enjoy the Ride Small Die of the Month Club

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Hello Everyone,

Recently I joined Spellbinders Small Die of the Month club and purchased the Enjoy the Ride die set that debuted May 2019. This 20 piece die template features a fun little scooter, balloons and the sentiments Ciao and Enjoy the Ride.

With this May kit, I created two adorable clean and simply cards using the scooter, balloons and few stamps from my stash.

For my first card, I die cut the scooter and balloons from some light pink and fuchsia card stock. The wheels were die cut from black, white and silver mirrored cardstock that I purchased from my local scrapbook store.

The flowers are cut with the a Simon Says Stamp Blooming Wave die. The background was dry embossed with my Swiss Dots Cuttlebug embossing folder, and layered on top of an A2 top folding card base. The banner sentiment “You Deserve It” comes from the Right At Home stamp set, Scripty Greetings that was stamped with Versa Mark ink and heat embossed with Hero Arts white fine detail embossing powder. I used some gold thread to make the balloon strings. Coming soon, you will see this same card featured on Amy Rysavy’s Happy Mail haul video for June 2019.

For my second card, I die cut the scooter from navy blue and aqua colored cardstock I picked up from Michaels. The balloons were cut with shades of blue and mint green cardstock. The congrats sentiment comes form the MFT Congrats dienamics set, which was gut from a piece of gold matte cardstock purchased from my local scrapbook store. The banner sentiment comes from the Your Next Samp set, What Not Sentiments. I dry embossed the background with a diagonal striped embossing folder from Darice and some silver confetti stars were sprinkled across the card for some added embellishments.

If you were considering joining the Spellbinders Small Die of the Month club, I strongly suggest your take the plunge. For only $12.50 plus shipping, each month you will receive a fresh new set of dies to create all sorts of paper craft projects. This is an incredible value for such a low price. Spellbinders Small Die of the Month Club is a subscription program, you can join or cancel anytime. There’s no yearly commitment and you can also skip a month if you don’t like specific designs. 

Thank you very much for joining me today. I hope you have been inspired. If you like my creations, be sure to subscribe to my blog and connect with me on Pinterest, Instagram and Youtube. Until next time.

Categories: My Favorite Things, Spellbinders
9:58 am - June 22, 2019 -

Spellbinders: Truckin’ Through The Seasons & So Many Sentiments Dies

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Hello crafty friends!

Today I am sharing with you a few cards using Spellbinders NEW So Many Sentiments dies and the popular Trucking’ Through the Seasons Large Die of the Month set. The Trucking’ Through The Seasons die first debuted in October 2018 as part of the Spellbinders Large Die of the Month Club.

By popular request, Spellbinders has re-released the set along with their release of the new So Many Sentiments die set. If you missed out last October, here is your chance to pick up both sets of dies while supplies last.

The So Many Sentiments die set is a sixteen piece set of different greetings that can be placed onto the tailgate of the truck. Together, these two die sets provide an endless variety of all occasion cards you can create.

For my cards today, I filled each of the trucks with the coordinating gift box dies from the Truck set. Then used the For You, Mr & Mrs, and I love you sentiment dies from the So Many Sentiment sets.

The body of the truck for the wedding card was die cut from white shimmer cardstock and the bumper and mirrors were cut from silver mirrored cardstock I purchased from my local scrapbook store.

The Best Wishes layered sentiment comes from the Queen & Co Sentiment Stackers 2 die set which I cut with black and white cardstock from Michaels. I added some red heart die cuts from my stash along with a few gemstone embellishments. The background was embossed with the Fun Stampers Journey Beach Towel embossing folder.

The love card was die cut from pink, red and white cardstock from my stash. The bumper and mirrors were cut from matte gold cardstock from my local scrapbook store.

The background was embossed with the Tailored Expressions Swiss Heart embossing folder. The sentiment comes from the MFT stamp set Sweet Nothings which was heat embossed with Hero Arts fine detailed white embossing powder and die cut with the MFT Fishtail Flag dienamics.

My last card is masculine themed, where I used cardstock from Michaels and die cut the background with my Queen & Co Foundations 2 diagonal dies. I placed the truck on top of a piece of vellum cardstock that was die cut with the large circle die from the Queen &Co Foundations 1 die set.

I think all of these cards turned out so cute, and I hope you do to! Thanks for stopping by, until next time.

Categories: My Favorite Things, Queen & Co, Spellbinders, Tailored Expressions
9:21 pm - June 11, 2019 -

Doodlebug: Simply Spring Collection

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Hello Everyone!

Today I am sharing with you a few cards I recently made using the 2019 Doodlebug Simply Spring collection. Doodlebug collections are great for quick and easy cards and scrapbook pages. What I love most about Doodlebug is that everything in the collection coordinates.

For today’s cards, I used papers from the 6×6 patterned paper pad and several doodle pop cardstock stickers to create four clean and simple cards. The sentiments on the cards came from my Clearly Besotted Fancy Sayings stamp set and my Big Birthday Wishes stamp set from MFT.

A little ink blending with my Distress Oxide inks in Tumbled Glass and Twisted Citron were used on the background cardstock pieces of the doodle pop stickers.

Here is my card share video if your interested.

I had so much fun creating these cards. Thanks for joining me today, until next time.

Category: Doodlebug