Category: Everyday

#UseYourCraftStash – Review of all the cards and winners!

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Hello guys! I hope you all had fun playing along and / or checking out the tips and card ideas we shared for #UseYourCraftyStash challenge. I am so grateful for all your support of my little blog and business. Let’s do a quick review of the cards I shared and then check out the winners. Shall we? Background dies Something different Multiple cards with heat embossing on patterned paper Digital stamps and foiling with laminator Hot foiling and mistakes Multiple tips and lots of ideas for using patterned papers Using background stamps as the highlight Using stencils for color and …

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#UseYourCraftStash – Background stamps – make them the star of the show!

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Hi friends, we have done a lot of different fun things during this challenge. Today we are playing with background stamps. :) I often like to just go with just tone-on-tone or emboss resist or something more of a “background” thing. Today though I made two cards where the background is actually the start of the show. Key Ingredients: Simon Says Stamp Leaves and Berries background stamp Simon Says Stamp Ultra fine gold embossing powder Simon Says Stamp Ultra fine steel navy embossing powder Coloring pencils (I used the one from Simon Says Stamp’s March 2020 card kit) Martha Stewart …

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#UseYourCraftStash – Patterned Papers

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Hello friends, hope you all are doing fine and enjoying our #UseYourCraftStash challenge. Today we are going to talk about the most important things we crafters want to care about – the money we spend on crafting – and some tips on how to make it count. Because whether you are just starting out or an established crafter business person, you will always care of making sure your money is put to good use, won’t you? Let’s get to today’s tip(s) first and after that check out some cards using one thing that we have a stash of – Patterned …

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#UseYourCraftStash – Make Multiple – Cards with only stamps & heat embossing

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Hi guys, are you ready for the next idea and tip? Today’s tip:   When you are working on one type of card – heat embossing / foiling / fun fold – give yourself time to play a little. Give yourself time to understand the technique, grasp it, find out what works for you to make those kind of projects and get comfortable. Making one project today with a technique and then using that technique after days or weeks, will not build the same comfort level. So, I always recommend making multiple. Today’s idea is pretty simple – Heat Embossing. …

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Home decor shadow box using Spellbinders Amazing Paper Grace Die of the month for May 2020

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Hi friends, here’s wishing all the moms and mother-figures A Very Happy Mother’s Day! You are what makes this world beautiful!! And I hope you stay beautiful always :) Yup, that’s the message on today’s project too :) It’s been a while since I made a home decor project, so I decided to use this month’s Spellbinders Amazing Paper Grace Die of the month to create a pretty shadow box project. It’s full of feminine pink/peach colors, hint of blue-green and lots of delicate gold details.   Key Ingredients: Spellbinders APG Dies of the month for May 2020 Spellbinders Elegant …

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Flip cards without using any special flip-card dies | MFT Stamps

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Hi guys, after I posted on Instagram my flip card using Whimsical and Wild collection by Jane Davenport from Spellbinders, I promised to show a quick how-to, so this post is about that. And in the process I have 2 more cards :)   Card 1:   Card 2: Key Ingredients: Old My Favorite Things Stitched Hearts die set My Favorite Things Sending Sweet Celebration Wishes Clear Stamps Derwent Inktense Pencils Various colors of Gina K inks Steps: Flip mechanism: Cut two card bases A2 sized. First card: Line up the die and tape it in place. Draw a very …

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My Free Digis April 2020 Review

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Hello fellow crafters, I am hoping you all are doing good, staying safe and staying creative. I can’t believe it is May already! One third of 2020 gone. Where has the time gone? Anyways…. Today I wanted to share with you a quick review of cards that my friends and I made using my free digital stamps (click here for details). I am so very grateful that so many of my friends agreed to craft with them and so many of you joined my virtual-family after hearing about them. A big THANK YOU to each and ever one of you. …

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Table top wood sign using Spellbinders APG Dies April 2020

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Hi everyone, there are some projects that you just can’t wait to share, right? Today’s project was just one of those projects for me. We are still trying to celebrate my husband’s birthday and making things to cheer him up every day. Unlike other years, where we would have a gala time with our friends for a day and be done, we are trying to make him feel special in different ways. So on his actual birthday, my girls and I baked him cupcakes and we all made pani-poori aka golgappe (a popular street food in India which he loves) …

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You Are Loved – stamped and colored card

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Hi guys, I am hoping you all are staying safe. Not panicking. Acting with hope, strength and grace. Yes, there is a lot of chaos and uncertainty right now in the world, but we crafters have a way to find and spread sunshine wherever we go. We have a way of making people feel that they belong, that they are not alone and that they are loved. Let’s use that superpower because this is the time when the world needs it most. For today’s card, I used a panel that was the same size as an A7 card front (5×7). …

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Spellbinders March 2020 Clubs Inspiration Blog Hop

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Hi friends, welcome to the Spellbinders March 2020 Clubs Inspiration Blog Hop. I am so grateful to be able to participate in a blog hop with so many of my favorite crafters from around the world and to be able to showcase my favorite products. I picked up the Amazing Paper Grace March 2020 club dies and made this card: You should have landed here from the super talented Linda’s blog. If not, read on and I will leave you a link to the beginning of the blog hop towards the end of this post, so you can make the …

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Quick and easy hot foiled cards using Modern Essentials collection from Spellbinders

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Hi guys, I hope you are having a fantastic Monday! Today’s card is such an inspired-by card. Recently, Debby from Lime Doodle Design shared a few cards with Kraft-Black and hints of white+gold. I am so completely smitten by those that I had to use that color combo and make it mine. And when I started playing with these delicate little dot ovals from the Modern Essentials collection from Spellbinders, that is what I had on my mind. Here is the result: Card 1: A clean, modern look. I started by trimming down a rectangle of Neenah Desert Storm cardstock …

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Two cards using Foiled Basics by Yana Smakula

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You guys, this collection by one of my favorite artists of all times – Yana Smakula – it is just so beautiful and dreamy! I am in love. That’s why I created, not one but two love cards using the beautiful foil plates in this collection. Card 1: I just wanted to combine the loose sketched look of the flowers from this collection with something really intricate and dainty. So I used the circular dies from two sets – Brilliante Rondelle and Vintage Treasures dies sets by Becca Feeken. I made a base with patterned paper circle which I ink …

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3 more watercolored cards using Simon Says Stamp Stronger Together card kit

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Namaste! Watercoloring is going strong in my neck of the woods. And lucky for me, the current Simon Says Stamp Stronger Together card kit has 3 pre-printed watercolor cards by the amazingly talented Suzy Plantamura. I used those to create these 3 cards. For all these, I used the watercolor pencils that came with the kit. Let’s look at each of them, shall we? Card 1: I used the gray, two yellows and two greens to color these daisies. Then I fussy cut them out using my Tim Holtz mini snips and Fiskars Fingertip Precision Knife. For the background, I …

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Cute floral hair accessories – using Large Die of the Month Feb 2020 from Spellbinders

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If you have a friend / colleague who adores his little granddaughters – what do you do as a crafter? You make pretty hair accessories for those little princesses, of course! :D And that’s exactly what I did!! In my book: Rule number 1: any excuse to craft and spread some cheer, is a great excuse to craft and spread some cheer! Rule number 2: Never forget rule number 1! I used the latest Large Die of the Month from Spellbinders (of course!) to make these: I started by planning sets of 3 colors each from my felt stash (most …

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Mini Accordion Album using journaling cards – from Spellbinders Card kit of the Month Feb 2020

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Hi friends, I have one more quick and easy crafty project to share today. And just like my last post, this one also uses the super fun and colorful journaling cards from this month’s Spellbinders Card kit. Yes, it is a mini accordion album. I used the white cardstock from this month’s card kit and cut it into half on the longer side. I scored it every 3.5 inches, which left 0.5 inch at the end on both pieces. I scored these in accordion style and used the 0.5 inch part on one of the pieces to attach the two …

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