Hello Crafty Friends! Catherine here, and today I am
sharing a friendship shaker card created with the pretty Spring
Bouquet Stamps and Stitched
Arch Dies.
To start, I embossed A2 white cardstock with Quilted
Hearts Embossing Folder. To make the
opening, I die cut the embossed panel
with the largest arch in Stitched
Arch Dies. I then die cut a small arch using the leftover large arch. I then die cut a medium size arch with paper
from Gingham
Pastels Paper. I adhered the small white arch onto the medium arch and set
it aside.
To make the shaker, I flipped my embossed panel over and
adhered A2 acetate onto the back. Next,
I die cut the large arch using a double-sided foam sheet. I then die cut the
medium sized arch with double sided foam sheet. I removed the backing on the
foam sheet and adhered the foam arches onto the back of the panel. I nested the
medium arch inside the large arch and taped it together with craft tape. I
placed the arches onto A2 white
cardstock, and added some Iridescent
Clear Jewels inside the space between the two arches. I removed the arches and placed the embossed
panel onto the background. I adhered the medium and small arches onto the
center.
Using white cardstock, I die cut the flowers from Spring
Bouquet and the butterflies from Watering
Can with the coordinating dies. I
placed the negative die cut cardstock onto my Misti stamping tool, placed the
images back inside the negative space, and inked the images with the following
Altenew Inks:
Pinks: Frosty Pink,
Cotton Candy, Coral Berry
Yellows: Citrus Burst, Fresh Lemon, Sunkissed
Blues: Iceberg, Ultramarine, Sapphire
Green: Firefly, Grass Field
I adhered the images onto the card front. I added a “Thank
You” sentiment from Big
Bold Greetings inked with Altenew Persian Blue Dye Ink. I added a White
Heat Embossed sentiment from Words
of Gratitude and a few sequins from Majestic
Fusion Sequins. I wanted to balance the blue arch in the center of the card
so I added a border using Gingham
Pastels Paper.
Thank you so much for joining me today! Have a wonderful
week!
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Hello Crafty friends, Marie here! Today I’m back on the blog and excited to
share my latest card creation featuring the beautiful hyacinth flower from the
lovely layering Spring Bouquet Stamps alongside the adorable Feeling Froggy Stamp. I love hyacinths and I love frogs and the two combined just makes me
smile!
This springtime birthday box
card was crafted using Lawn Fawn’s Scalloped Box Card Pop-Up die. I die cut all
the box card components from Bristol smooth cardstock paper for the smoothest
ink blending experience. I ink blended the outside of the box in Seedless Preserves
distress Ink, and used a cloud stencil to ink blend the back panel with
Salvaged Patina Distress Oxide ink. For the grass panels, I used a combination
of Twisted Citron and Mowed Lawn Distress Ink and for the water panel, I used
Salvaged Patina with Mermaid Lagoon Distress Oxide.
After assembling my box card
and cutting off the front and side flaps, I stamped out the hyacinth flowers
onto 110 lb. Neenah Solar White Cardstock. When stamping each layer of the
flower, I used a sponge dabber to lightly add ink to my stamp instead of
directly applying the stamp into the ink pad. I do this technique so that each
stamped layer is even and not too saturated. I also give each layer time to dry
before stamping the next layer. For my blue hyacinth, I used a combination of
Tumbled Glass Distress Oxide, followed by Salty Ocean Distress Oxide, and
Mermaid Lagoon Distress Oxide. For the purple hyacinths, I used Spun Sugar
Distress ink, Cotton Candy Dye Ink from MftStamps, and finally Seedless
Preserves Distress Oxide. I stamped out all the leaves and stems with Twisted
Citron Distress ink, and shaded them used Copics In Forest Green (G17), Emerald
Green (G05) and Yellow Green (YG03).
Next, I stamped the adorable frog onto Bristol Smooth Cardstock
with InkOn3 Fadeout ink, and colored him with PolyChromos Color Pencils, and
copics for the lilly pad ( G17, G05, and BG09). For the tiny dragonfly images,
I stamped them onto watercolor paper using Antique Linen Distress Ink and
colored them with watercolor pencils. To make their dainty little wings pop, I
added some Stickles Glitter Glue in the shade Diamond. I then cut out all my
flowers and stems with the corresponding Spring Bouquet Dies. I used the Feeling Froggy Dies to cut all the little dragon flies and froggy. I then adhered all my images to
my scene with a combination of double sided tape adhesive and Bearly Art
Precision Craft Glue. To make all the little dragonflies look like
they're flying, I cut super thin strips of thick acetate and attached them
to the tip.
Finally, I stamped out a
Happy Birthday sentiment with my favorite Big Bold Greetings Stamps. I used the color Salvaged Patina Distress Oxide to stamp my sentiment and cut
it out using the corresponding Big Bold Greetings Dies.
I absolutely love how this box card came together!! It's absolutely perfect for
a spring or summer Birthday, and luckily for me, I have many Summer birthdays
ahead! Thank you for joining me today, friends !!! Until next time, stay crafty
and happy cardmaking!!!
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