Category Archives: My Favorite Things

12:00 am - June 30, 2020 -

MFT Wednesday Sketch #495 Challenge

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Hey there crafty friends. Today I am on the blog sharing with you the card I made for the My Favorite Things Wednesday Sketch Challenge #495.

This week’s card sketch below is showcased below.

To create my card, I first die cut my rainbow and cloud from pastel colored card stock scraps using the MFT Straight-up Rainbow dienamics. Next, I used my MFT Mini Cloud Edges stencil and Tumbled Glass Distress Oxide Ink to create my cloud background. For the sentiment, I used the MFT Color My Rainbow stamp and die set. Where I stamped and heat embossed in white embossing powder the words “you” and “my world” onto a strip of black card stock. Then die cut the word “color” from the sentiment die in 3 layers of black card stock.

To assemble my card, I adhered the rainbow and cloud onto my inked background with foam dimensional tape. Next I placed the black sentiment strips just to the left of the rainbow following the pattern in the sketch.

I had a blast playing along with this week’s challenge. I hope you’ve enjoyed my card share and found inspiration. Leave a comment below to let me know your thoughts on today’s card. For more paper crafting inspiration be sure to follow me on Instagram at paper_crafting_elegance.

Until next time, happy crafting.

Categories: MFT Sketch Challenge, My Favorite Things
2:25 pm - June 23, 2020 -

MFT- Wednesday Sketch Challenge #494

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Hi there crafty friends.

I am stopping by to share with you the card I created for the My Favorite Things Wednesday Sketch Challenge #494. This week’s challenge was to create a card using the sketch below.

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Here is my card entry.

This week’s sketch challenge uses the MFT “No Place Like Home” stamp and coordinating die set. I die cut the house, tree and shrub images using colored card stock scraps from my stash. I popped up the house image with some foam tape for added dimension.

I stamped the sentiment in two parts, by stamping “Congratulations” first onto the white oval card stock panel and the “on your New Home” onto a white banner sentiment strip. The banner strip is popped-up on foam tape. The pattern paper is the Ditzy Blue Floral and Wood Planks 12×12 papers from Michaels.

I really enjoyed playing along with the MFT Wednesday Sketch Challenge. Tune in next week to see how I interpret the next challenge.

Happy Crafting!

Categories: MFT Sketch Challenge, My Favorite Things
9:19 pm - June 22, 2020 -

Make A Card Monday

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Hi there crafty friends, hope you all are having a good Monday.

This past weekend I took a trip to Michaels to pickup some Recollections colored card stock and stumbled across a few sheets of 12×12 patterned paper that I couldn’t resist. The first paper is called Ditsy Blue Floral, which is a bold floral print in hues of blue, pink and yellow. I paired the floral paper with the Wood Planks pattern paper and a sheet of navy chevron embossed card stock and instantly fell in love. Right away I knew I would create a sheet load of cards using this combination of papers.

My first card features the Grand Watering Can and Floral Clusters die from Poppystamps. The sentiment comes from the Poppystamps Greeting Basics stamp set which is stamped in Versafine onyx black ink onto a piece of white card stock and die cut with the Poppystamps Colwell labels die.

The second card uses a SVG file called “Pocket Full of Posies” by Yankee Doodle, which I purchased from the Silhouette design store. I die cut the pocket image from the Chevron embossed card stock with my Cameo 3 and added white stitching using my sewing machine. I then die cut an array of flowers from my MFT Stitched Blooms die set and popped each of the flowers and leaves up with foam tape for dimension. The sentiment is die cut three times from the MFT Hello die set.

The third card features the Poppystamps Country Wheel Barrow and Floral Clusters die sets. The Happy Birthday sentiment comes from the Greeting Basics stamp set also by Poppystamps. I paired the Ditzy Floral paper with some red gingham paper from my stash and added some enamel dots for added embellishments.

After creating the first three cards, my crafty mojo continued with this stunning Father’s Day card. I used the Recollections Wood Planks patterned paper along with the MFT tools die set and my new Ink to Paper “Happy Father’s Day” sentiment die. Each one of these cards are super cute and were so much fun to make.

I hope you have enjoyed this weeks Make A Card Monday session and found some crafty inspiration. If you would like to see more of my card creations, be sure to subscribe to my blog and follow me on Instagram @paper_crafting_elegance.

Thank you all for joining me today. Until next time, happy crafting!

Categories: Ink to Paper, Make A Card Monday, My Favorite Things, Poppystamps
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
8:27 pm - April 12, 2019 -

Welcome to My Blog

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Hello and welcome to my blog and first blog post.

My name is Candice, and I am the creator behind Papercrafting Elegance. For a little over ten years, I have been paper crafting and rubber stamping as a hobby. I am taking the plunge with starting this blog to share all of my craft projects with you.

At least once a week you can expect to find creative inspiration, crafting tutorials, new product hauls and the occasional craft organization tip. I invite you to come along this journey and explore the wonderful world paper crafting has to offer.

Feel free to leave a comment, question or feedback at the end of each blog post, and don’t forget to follow me on Instagram, Pinterest and Youtube.

Thanks for stopping by, and I hope you enjoy the ride!

Category: My Favorite Things