Hi there!

Hello everyone!

I have a new card for you today.  This card is still all about summer with sunglasses and beach balls.

To start this card I smooshed a blue ink onto my craft mat and add some embossing paste to the ink to color it.  I mix the ink into the paste.  I taped the card stock to the craft mat and the stencil over the card stock.  I added the embossing paste to the stencil spreading it to cover with a pallet knife.  Then go wash the stencil immediately.  This stuff will dry very quickly and won’t come off if you don’t wash it right away.  I set the embossing paste piece aside to dry.  I stamped my ball, bird and sentiment and colored them and fussy cut them out. I adhered them to the embossed piece with foam squares and then the embossed piece to the standard size card base with a top fold.  After I had everything together I put glossy accents on the sun glasses and spot on the beach ball.

Here is a closer look at the card:

Cool dude right?  LoL

Here are the goodies used to make this card:

Stampin’ Trimmer Martha Stewart SCORING BOARD Score Craft Tool 42-05002 Neenah Classic Crest 80 LB SMOOTH SOLAR WHITE Paper Pack 25 Sheets Inkadinkado® Small & Medium Stamp Block Set Tsukineko MEMENTO Full Size Ink Pad TUXEDO BLACK Simon Says Stamp Premium Dye Ink MALIBLUE Ink030 Ranger Inkssentials GLOSSY ACCENTS Glue Dimensional Adhesive GAC17042 *Scrapbook Adhesives 1/4″” 3D 308 WHITE FOAM Squares Adhesive Wendy Vecchi Embossing Paste TRANSLUCENT Studio 490 WVPASTETRN Color Factory PALETTE KNIFE Set PA214 Simon Says Stamp Stencil LARGE DOTS SSST121338 Poly Clear Stamps: Let’s Chill Lawn Fawn CHIT CHAT Clear Stamps Lawn Fawn CHIT CHAT Lawn Cuts Dies Copic Sketch Marker R81 ROSE PINK Pastel Copic Sketch Marker R83 ROSE MIST Violet Pink Copic Sketch Marker R85 ROSE RED Medium Pink Copic Sketch Marker B00 FROST BLUE Copic Sketch Marker BG01 AQUA BLUE Copic Sketch Marker BG45 NILE BLUE Copic Sketch MARKER Y15 CADMIUM YELLOW

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I hope that this card gave you some inspiration to go and make something beautiful.

Thank you for joining me today and I will see you soon.

Bye,

Holly~

Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays

Hello everyone!

The holidays are fast approaching.  Are you ready?  I hope this week cards help you in some way get ready for all of your card making frenzy that is about to happen if it hasn’t already.  I know for me that I have been making cards for the holiday for some time now and you have seen a lot of them right here.  Well just like you I am not quit done with them yet but am working towards that light at the end of the tunnel.

I purchased the limited edition card kit from Simon Says Stamp for 2014 and am totally in love with it.  It’s theme is candy and peppermint.  So very cute.  Well here is the first card that I made with this kit.

It is a cute see through candy inspired card.

Card base was cut into a standard A2 top folding card

I started with the inside of the card because I used embossing paste with the cute candy stencil that came in the kit.  To color the embossing paste I smooshed the red ink pad onto a nonstick mat and added the embossing paste to it.  I mixed and added more color until the color was right.  I then set the stencil on the card base and carefully spread the embossing paste onto the stencil in an even coat.  Then went right away to wash the tool and stencil because the paste drys fast and is very hard to remove after it drys.

When the paste was dry I cut the circle into the front of the card, being sure to line the circle up with the circle on the inside.  I also die cut two circle frames.  One for the outside and one for the inside of the card.  I die cut two pieces of acetate for my windows.  I then adhered the acetate to the circle frames with tape runner.

To make the shaker I cut several pieces of foam tape and added them all the way around both of the circle frames making sure not to leave any gaps in the foam that my shaker pieces would fall through.  I took the backing papers off of one of the circle frames and adhered it the card base around to circle hole that I cut out. I turned the card over and added my shaker pieces onto the acetate and adhered the other circle frame on top on the shaker pieces lining up with the circle hole. And the shaker it finished.

To finish the card I stamped the sentiment on the front and on the inside of the card and added the enamel dots to the front of the card.

This card was a lot of fun to make and I think will be enjoyed by the recipient.

Here are the goodies that were used to make this card and they are clickable links:

Limited Edition Simon Says Stamp Holiday Card Kit SWEET HOLIDAYS 2014 LEKITSWEET14 3M Scotch DOUBLE-SIDED FOAM TAPE Permanent Simon Says Stamp Premium Dye Ink Pad BEANSTALK GREEN Ink028 Wendy Vecchi Embossing Paste WHITE Studio 490 WVPASTEWHT Color Factory PALETTE KNIFE Set PA214 MD1-007 Media Mixage Spellbinders CIRCLES ONE Die Judikins EMBOSSABLE WINDOW PLASTIC POSTCARD SHEETS AP405 Inkadinkado® Small & Medium Stamp Block Set Sizzix BIG SHOT MACHINE Powder Blue & Teal 657900 Neenah Classic Crest 80 LB SMOOTH SOLAR WHITE Paper Pack 25 Sheets

I will be back on Wednesday this week due to the Thanksgiving holiday

See ya soon!

Holly~

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Winter Wishes!

I’m back with my last World Card Making Day card.  I have been a busy little bee all day.  I hope you like it?

This card was very simple to make.  All I did was make an A2 card base from craft card stock, and with a stencil all the shiny snow flakes.  When that was dry I added the wood veneer snow flake and the flair. I also added wink of stella to the wood snow flakes for sparkle.

And here are the goodies used to make this card:

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Well have a great rest of your weekend and I will see you on Tuesday.

If you have any questions leave me a comment and I will get right back to you with an answer

Bye!

Holly~

Hello You

Happy Thursday!

For today’s card I am featuring some of Simon Say Stamps spring release.

This card has a lot of dimension to it.  It is a standard A2 size with a top fold.  First I used the stencil and embossing paste with re-inker mixed into the paste to make it yellow.  I spread the colored paste across the stencil evenly and immediately washed the stencil.  After the paste was dry I then choose my DSP from two different 6 x 6 paper pads.  I cut one piece into a long and narrow strip and rounded the corners.  I then die cut another piece with a journaling die.  I then decided where I wanted the “YOU” to be placed and die cut the out of the same paper and the journaling card so that the pattern matched.  I attached the three pieces with foam squared.  Finally I cut a strip of contrasting paper and stamped the curly line and attached the flair button.

    

Goodies that were used for this card:

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Additional Goodies:

Stampin Up – Daffodil re-inker

Recollections – Simply Pastel 6 x 6 paper pad

Thank you for joining me today.  I hope that you enjoyed this card and if you have any questions please feel free to leave a comment or you can Email me.

See ya next week!

Holly-

Happy Valentine’s Day

Happy Thursday!

Today’s card is a very soft colored Valentine’s card.

 

I cut the card base into a A2 size and rounded the corners.  I then die cut a piece of white card stock and a piece of DSP into a journaling card.  Next I embossed the chevron with embossing paste and covered the wet embossing paste with glittery embossing powder and let it dry (about thirty minutes).  When the embossing paste was dry I stamped the Happy Valentine’s Day in Versa Mark ink and added embossing powder to it.  I heated the embossing paste and sentiment until the embossing powder melted.  I then added washi tape and pearls.  I adhered the journaling cards to the card base and finally the sequins.

    

Supplies:

Paper:  Neenah – Solar White,  Stampin Up – Strawberry Slush, Bo Bunny – Head of Heels

Stamps:  Simon Says Stamp – Valentine Spoons

Ink:  Versa Mark

Die:  Lawn Fawn – Stitched Journaling Card

Stencil:  Hero Arts – Tweed Pattern

Embossing Paste:  Dreamweaver – Wendy Vecchi White

Embossing Powder:  Stampin Up – Iridescent Ice

Thanks for visiting and if you have any questions please feel free to leave a comment or send me an Email.

Holly-

Happy Birthday

Happy Tuesday!

I am very excited today because I have been feature on the Simon Says Stamp Spotted Feature.  You can click here Simon Says Stamp Spotted  to view my card and the other four amazing designers featured,  I hope you go and check it out.

Today’s card was inspired by the cards that I have seen from the Online Card Class Stenciled.

 

I really enjoyed making this card.  It is a lot of fun playing with embossing paste. I started this card with a standard A2 size and cut another piece of card stock 1/4″ small for my feature panel.  I scooped out some embossing paste and added purple reinker to it and mixed well.  I taped my stencil to the top of my layering piece of card stock and spread the colored embossing paste over the stencil. When I was happy with the coverage I lifted the stencil off and set it aside to dry.  While the embossing paste was drying I cut my swirls from vellum and punched out the butterfly and stamped the Happy Birthday. The embossing paste took approx. an hour to dry at which time  I adhered the pieces that I cut to the card and was finished.

    

Supplies:

Paper:  Neenah – Solar White card stock

Stencil:  Simon Says Stamp – Moroccan

Die:  Stamps of Life – Swirls

Ink: Stampin Up – Wisteria Wonder

Embossing Paste:  Dreamweaver – Wendy Vecchi White

Thanks for visiting today and I hope that you head over to Simon Says Stamp and see all of the wonderful cards that were spotted.

If you have any questions please feel free to leave a comment or send me an Email.

Holly-

Hugs

Happy Thursday!

Todays card is a Valentines card that I made with some of the fun Christmas gifts that I received.

 

I finally got some Embossing Paste and couldn’t wait to try it. So on this card I used the Falling Hearts Stencil and the embossing paste on the card base. I set the card aside to dry.  I then die cut the Hugs and hearts.  When the card was dry I adhered everything down and I was done.

 

I really enjoy using the embossing paste  It is fun to pull that stencil off and see the beautiful pattern that is left.

Supplies:

Paper:  Stampin Up- Very Vanilla, Melon Mambo, Strawberry Slush and Pretty Pink

Dies:  Simon Says Stamp- Big Hugs, Small Heart Doily, Large Heart Doily

Stencil: Simon Says Stamp- Falling Hearts

Embellisments:  Dreamweaver- embossing paste white

I hope you get inspired to try this card.

If you have any questions you can email me or leave a comment.

Holly-