Designer's Choice Cards with Catherine and Bobbi

Hello Friends! Catherine here, sharing a card featuring cute sloths “hanging out” in a kiddie pool for designer’s choice.

To start, I ink blended white card stock sized 4.4” x 5.5 “with Tumbled Glass Distress Ink. I set the background aside and stamped the sloths  and hibiscus flowers from Silly Sloths Stamps and die cut with the coordinating dies, Silly Sloths Dies.  I stamped the pool from Kiddie Pool Stamps and die cut the pool with Kiddie Pool Dies.

Next, I stamped the jungle border from Tropical Scenes, hat from Sealiously Sweet, coconut drinks from Tiki Time, and scuba goggles from Beach Buddies. I coloured everything with Copic Markers.

I adhered the jungle border onto the background and then adhered the sloths, pool, and hibiscus flowers with foam tape for added dimension.

I added a frame using the scalloped border in Frilly Frames Hexagon Die. I trimmed a piece of paper from Subtle Grey Tones 6x6 Paper to 4.4” x 5.5”. I placed the scalloped border in the center of the paper and then I die cut the frame out leaving the border with an inverted scalloped edge. I added foam tape on along the back of the frame and adhered it onto the background.

I finished off the card with a white heat embossed sentiment from Silly Sloth Stamps.

For more details and inspiration, please drop by my blog Craft-Cat! Have a wonderful day!

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Hello friends. It’s Bobbi Lemanski sharing a card using a really cute stamp set from Sunny Studio Stamps called, Cruisin’ Cuisine stamp set and coordinating dies. My card features a pop-up truck on the card front for a little fun. It puts the truck in an upright position, on a concrete patio, ready to sell some sweet cream treats!

To make this 5″ X 7″ card, I used Neenah 80lb cardstock for the card base, front panel, truck, cone and back support. I stamped the truck and cone using black ink and die cut the designs. I cut another set of the two cuts out of white cardstock to finish the back side with clean white cardstock. (The back side shows when the truck is upright.) This extra backing also helps to make the truck more sturdy, too. The ice cream cone was glued to the top of the truck.

I colored the images using the following Copic Marker colors:

Truck: YR69, FR01, RV55, RV02, E57, E55, E53, 100, C08, C05, C01, BV000, B00, W4
Ice Cream Cone: E57, E55, E53, YR31, YR30, RV55, YR68, E47, W4

To make the concrete patio, I completed steps 1 and 2 (above) then cut an oval shape from the hand-drawn block patio to place under the truck. This design is clean and simple and grounds the truck on the card. I kept it simple, in black and white, only. I like the contrast with the very colorful truck and cone.

I cut the top off the oval and attached it to the card front. I created a 1.5″ wide support strip and scored it down the middle and attached 1/2 of the support to the back of the truck and the other 1/2 to the concrete oval. The truck naturally wants to spring up on the hinge, but it still folds flat down to tuck inside an envelope for mailing.

On the bottom of the card front, I sponged on Distress Oxide Ink in Kitch Flamingo and Carved Pumpkin. I splattered water over the ink and blotted it dry with a paper towel. I stamped the cone images over the top in Kitch Flamingo and Carved Pumpkin once it was dry.  Next, I added dots using Copics in YR68, RV55 and a white gel pen. I stamped the phrase on the front in black. An Icing Border die design, cut from white cardstock, was added to the bottom. I attached the card front to the card base to complete the card.

Thanks for stopping by today. If you want to see more ideas and inspiration from me, subscribe to my blog, BobbiHartDesign.com. I’ll send you updates on new posts! You can also find me on Instagram as @BobbiHartDesign and on Facebook as BobbiHartDesign.

Sunny Studio Supplies Used: 

Beach Buddies Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Beach Buddies Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Tiki Time Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Tiki Time Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Silly Sloths Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Frilly Frames Hexagon Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Subtle Grey Tones Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Cruisin' Cuisine Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Cruisin' Cuisine Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Sealiously Sweet Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Sealiously Sweet Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Tropical Scenes Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Silly Sloths Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Tropical Scenes Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Kiddie Pool Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Kiddie Pool Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio

Gift Card Pocket Die Focused Cards with Isha and Kavya

Hello everyone! Isha here featuring the Gift Card Pocket dies today. I really had fun with these dies and the font works perfectly with our previously released Loopy Letters. I decided to create a Tea Bag Holder using the pocket die from the Gift Card Pocket dies.

Start by creating a 4.25" square card base using white cardstock. I then cut a mat layer from the Classic Sunburst paper pad. Die-cut the biggest of the Scalloped Circle Mat 3 dies using white cardstock. Sponge peacock feathers distress ink, flick water. Adhere to the card. Stamp the word "SWEET" and the candies from the Candy Shoppe stamp set, color and die-cut using the coordinating dies. Add glossy accents to the candies and let dry. Die-cut the word "For You" from the Gift Card Pocket die. Assemble everything together.

Tea Bag Holder / Measurements:
Cardstock for the cover (white) - 11 x 3.25". Score @ 3.5, 4.75, 8.25, 9.5 inches
Cardstock strip for the inner pocket base (white) - 4 x 3". Score @ .5, 1, 1.5, 2, 2.5, 3, 3.5 inches
Cardstock for pocket base (white) - 3 x 3.25"

Score and fold the outside cover. Adhere pattern paper to the upper flap. Cut a white piece for the lower flap, sponge peacock feathers distress ink, flick water. Die-cut the letters from the Loopy Letters Lower dies to create the word "Tea Time". Adhere to the flap.

Die-cut a white flower from the Window Quad Circle dies. Add pink color towards the center. Apply spectrum noir clear sparkle pen. Fix this flower using a brad to the lower panel in a way so the flower partially covers the upper flap.

For the inside strip fold the scored stripe and adhere using scor-tape as per the diagram OR you can watch the video HERE. Adhere the white flaps. Die-cut five gift card pockets using various colors from the Classic Sunburst paper pad. Score and adhere to the inside white flaps. Add tea bags of the recipient's choice. I folded the edges of the bags which were a bit more in width.

Thanks for dropping by! 

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Hi folks, Kavya here. I am back with another card that I had so much fun putting together! This card was inspired by some amazing tacos (if you are in WA, you should check out Tacos Chukis! And guess what it’s Taco Tuesday today!) I had last weekend plus the need to use all my extra stamped images that just seems to be growing! I love packing all my cards (what is CAS? Haven’t heard of it!) so I usually stamp a bunch of images! I got all of them out this weekend and I was determined to use at least 50% of them!

I decided to use make a fun Taco Truck themed card that can hold a gift card for a fun treat! I first started off by stamping and coloring images from Cruisin’ Cuisine (food truck), Balloon Ride (banners, cloud and sun), Looking Sharp (cacti), Fast Food Fun (tacos) and Tiki Time (drinks!). I created my background by using yellow cardstock and brown cardstock - both ink blended with matching colors and splattered ink to add some dimension! 

I then placed the Gift Card Pocket behind the brown land and also placed the food truck on top of it so that it covers the gift card holder. For the sentiment, I used Chloe’s Alphabet and heat embossed ‘BOUT and A from Fast Food Fun and TREAT from Crusin’ Cuisine! I just love it when I can create new sentiments from using multiple stamp sets.

That’s it. I hope this card inspired you to try out something new and maybe get some Tacos for dinner tonight!

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Candy Shoppe Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Candy Shoppe Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Looking Sharp Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Looking Sharp Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Tiki Time Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Tiki Time Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Chloe Alphabet Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Gift Card Pocket Shop at: Sunny Studio	Fast Food Fun Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Fast Food Fun Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Loopy Letters Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Cruisin' Cuisine Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Cruisin' Cuisine Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Window Quad Circle Die Shop at: Sunny Studio	Classic Sunburst Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Balloon Rides Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Balloon Rides Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Scalloped Circle Mat 3 Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio

Embossing Folder Focused Cards with Vanessa and Anja

Hello to you! Vanessa here with a sweet birthday card using the beautiful Cable Knit Embossing Folder. You maybe wouldn't think of choosing this one with summer images, but it creates such a wonderful texture, so I did use it for this:

I first trimmed stripes from scraps of colored cardstock and adhered these to a cardstock panel. After I had run this panel through my machine with the embossing folder, I adhered it to the card base.

Here comes a list of the products I used today:
Cable Knit Embossing Folder
Candy Shoppe stamps + dies (sweet + sentiment)
Summer Sweets stamps + dies (popsicle, purple cone)
Cruisin' Cuisine stamps + dies (orange cone)
Jewels

Now I stamped the images onto white cardstock, colored them with Copic markers, die-cut the pieces with the matching dies and adhered the elements to the card with foam tape. I stamped the "sweet" onto aqua cardstock, die-cut it with the matching die, added highlights with a white gel pen and adhered it with foam tape. Then I stamped and heat-embossed the sentiment onto a strip of black cardstock, trimmed the edges and adhered it. Finally, I added matching jewels.

Thank you for visiting today! Have a wonderful day :)

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Hi everyone, Anja here with you today sharing a floral card. I love to add texture using embossing folders. This time, I stepped it up by dry embossing a Gel Plate printed background.

I started off with a white A2 card base. For my background, I applied Salvaged Patina and Wilted Violet Distress Oxide Ink with a brayer to my Gelly Arts gel printing plate and put a piece of white heavyweight cardstock on top slightly rubbing across with my fingers. I really like the soft blending of these gorgeous colors. I ran it through my die-cutting machine with the Moroccan Circles embossing folder and added small white paint splatters.

Next, I stamped a couple of images from the Pink Peonies set in matching colors and cut them out with the coordinating dies. I adhered them with liquid glue as well as foam tape for a bit of dimension. The 'hello' sentiment (Beach Buddies) was stamped in VersaMark Ink onto a white cardstock strip and heat embossed in silver. Finally, I embellished my card with three Snow White Crystals around the floral cluster.

Thank you so much for stopping by! Have a beautiful day!

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Beach Buddies Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Candy Shoppe Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Candy Shoppe Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Cable Knit Embossing Shop at: Sunny Studio	Moroccan Circles Embossing Shop at: Sunny Studio
Pink Peonies Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Pink Peonies Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Cruisin' Cuisine Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Cruisin' Cuisine Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Summer Sweets Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Summer Sweets Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio