Doodle Flowers: Creating Depth with Stamps and Dies

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Doodle Flowers: Creating Depth with Stamps and Dies

On occasion you see a stamp or die set and you instantly know the card you want to make. That’s what happened when I saw the Doodle Flower Dies from the recent LDRS November Collection. I immediately thought back to the Wild Flowers Slimline stamp set released last spring and knew that I want to combined the two sets together. The stamp floral and the die floral have a similar whimsical feel that work well together. With the Wild Flowers Slimline stamp set I created a subtle tone on tone background with softness and depth behind the Doodle Flower Dies. I had a hard time deciding how to handle the sentiment because I didn’t want to cover any of the vibrant flowers. Can you see where I snuck the sentiment in? Found the perfect small sentiment in the Spring Gift Tag Stack stamp set that fit perfectly on a die cut leaf and then tucked it behind a flower.

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Reindeer Mugs: Combining Old with New

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Reindeer Mugs: Combining Old with New

I always love taking older or non seasonal stamps and dies from my stash and combining them with Holiday stamps and dies to give everything a fresh look. For todays card I took several older elements Cozy Cuppa stamp and die, Modern Geometric A2 Coverplate III and Chloe Alpha Upper and Lower case Die Set and combined them with Reindeer Games and Christmas Stable stamps from the recent Holiday release.

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For the love of Colouring

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For the love of Colouring

Sometimes a release is overflowing with an abundance of fun cute critters that screams colour all of us!! Well at least, to me thats what the characters seem to be telling me to do. Perhaps because colouring was and still is my first love when it comes to card making. Don’t get me wrong, there are so many ways to enjoy this hobby and wonderful techniques to play around with (trust me I have spent many hours playing with a plethera of different techniques) but sometimes it is about getting back to the core of what made you fall in love with Cardmaking. For some that may be ink blending (which I also love) or die cutting or paper piercing or any number of fun things, but for me it is laying out some critters and grabbing the colouring medium of choice and simply relaxing and colouring.

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Your Next Stamp January Release and Stencils 3 Ways

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Your Next Stamp January Release and Stencils 3 Ways

January is the month I pull out all of my adorable stamps about “Love”. In my house usually the upcoming Valentines Day is about making a few cards for my boys and some fun cards for their friends (not so much now that they are older). However if the past couple of years has taught me anything, sending a card to let people know that you love and appreciate them is important at anytime, so all those Valentine’s stamps are great for love messages all year round : ) Your Next Stamps January release is a mini one, but it is full of love to share.

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LDRS: Have an Ice Day

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LDRS: Have an Ice Day

Todays card features the stamp set Have an Ice Day. The card is also one of those edge to edge shaker cards, which are very popular right now. In past I’ve avoided edge to edge shaker card because I was afraid of making a great big mess. One time I attempted something similar with a fuse tool and I ended up with glitter absolutely everywhere. But I’m telling ya they are surprisingly very, very easy to make. So I am thinking there are a lot of Holiday edge to edge shaker cards in my future : )

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Purple Onion Design: Train is Leaving the Station

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Purple Onion Design: Train is Leaving the Station

The train is slowly leaving the station, in more ways than one. Of course on this card but also the Purple Onion Designs Bundle Sale is ending very soon. I have all the details on the bundles at the end of the blog. For this card I am using the Train & Train Tracks along with the Train Station from the new Stacey Yacula stamp collection “I’ll Be Home For The Holidays”.

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