Share Handmade Kindness

Jennifer McGuire Ink has a great campaign over on her blog, it's all about making something handmade to brighten someones else's day. If you haven't checked it out, you should. It's a great way to think about others and to remember that we are all only human. It was also a great excuse to get the new Hero Arts Acts of Kindness stamp set, and a couple other stamp sets too.

I work 7 on/7off, so on my off weeks I try to get in as much paper crafting as I can. I went a little overboard this week. But it was a lot of fun. I played with my new WRMK Fuse tool, SSS inks, and Altenew stamps and inks. I will update with links later.

Saturate Canary No-Line Color

Hello,

I recently signed up to take the Kit and Clowder skin and hair class. It's been a lot of fun learning the techniques that Alyce teaches. Below is an image I did last night, using a Saturated Canary image. The nice thing about Saturated Canary, is that you get two images, usually, with each digital image. Once with the regular lines and the other with really faint gray lines, perfect for no line coloring.

Ice Cream Cone Shaker Birthday Card

I have another birthday card to share.

For this card, I used the SSS Ice Cream Parade Die, and Distress Inks.

I started by cutting the front panel using the SSS Stitched Shapes frame and the Ice Cream Cone parade on white Recollections 110lb cardstock.

I also cut the parade die a 4 more times, so I could build up the dies and create the shaker pockets for the seed beads to go. I used the inside portions of one of the dies and colored the ice cream parts using Distress inks and sponge daubers. I used, Picked Raspberry, Spiced Marmalade, Mustard Seed, Cracked Pistachio and Salty Ocean.

For the cones I used a scrap of brown polka-dot paper. I started by gluing one of the ice cream borders to the card base and then glued the inside pieces in. I layered the rest of the 4 outlines portions on top after that. I added some clear seed beads I picked up from Michael's, and put about 5 in each area. I then glued a piece of acetate to the front panel, added some foam tape and adhered that to the rest of the card.

I then stamped the sentiment using the SSS Handwritten Sentiments and the new Lawn Fawn Fish Tank ink.

If I were to make this card again, I would have forgone cutting the die 5 times and just put the outline on the top of the acetate, so there would be one larger pocket and not 10 small ones.


Supply Links
SSS Handwritten Sentiments
SSS Ice Cream Cone Parade
Lawn Fawn Fish Tank Ink

View card on Instagram: Ice Cream Cone Parade

Happy Birthday ROCK ON

I have another cool birthday card today. I used the My Favorite things Journal It Playlist and the matching Cassette die. The stamp set is a little bit older, so it is hard to find.

I made a  custom background paper using the "Rock On" Sentiment from the kit. To achieve the diagonal lines, I used a ruler and pencil and drew the lines; I then stamped the sentiments on the lines. The cassette is cut from Recollections black card stock and white card stock for the label.



Supplies Used:

Journal It Playlist Not in Stock
SSS Stitched Shapes
Versafine Onyx Black 

Wishing You Happy Birthday Card

The other day I went through my stash of cards that I've made and found out, I only had 1 birthday card. I just don't make a whole lot of birthday cards it seems, so I'm going to start making more so I can send out birthday cards to people.

I made this card for the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge. The challenge is to make a card using the color swatch and any SSS products.

The paper comes from American Crafts Shimelle 6x6 paper pad. I was really excited when I found this in my stash, because it has almost all the colors that the challenge was for. Plus, I also love it when a patterned paper can do a lot of the work for you.
I die cut the Wishing sentiment using the wishing die from SSS, I cut it out 5 times and glued one on top of the other for dimension. I also added some clear Wink of Stella shimmer on the sentiment, you can kind of see it in the picture. The rest of the sentiment is also from SSS, it comes in the Wishing stamp set, I stamped it in Versa mark and then white heat embossed it so it could stand out. I then added some sequins for some sparkle.

Supplies:
American Crafts Shimelle 6x6
Wishing

One Layered Thank You

I decided  to make a simple one layered card, just to show that you don't always need a lot of dimension an sparkle. 

This card is really simple it's a standard A2 card base, that I rounded the corners on. I used the Lawn Fawn Belinda's Borders swirly stamp for the lines, I stamped in a rainbow pattern, because it's always pleasing to the eye. I sentiment comes from a Fiskars stamp set, bu I don't remember the name.

The nice thing about a card like this, is it's really easy to mass produce, so you could make a bunch of these and give them to someone as a gift. You could even stamp the lines on each card in a different color family.

Supplies:
Lawn Fawn Belinda's Border

Thanks so much

Hope everyone is doing great out there.

The inspiration for this card comes from a women I saw at the grocery store the other day. She was wearing a striped shirt with these colors. I like the colors of the shirt and thought a card using those colors, but blending into each other would be interesting. 

I used Tim Holtz Distress inks in Cracked Pistachio, Peacock Feathers, Chipped Sapphire and Black Soot. I used the SSS Winter Wishes stamp set for the sentiment and Recollections white embossing powder. The sequins are also from SSS, it's the assorted Moonshine. 

I like that this card is a little masculine with the darker blue and black. 

Supplies:
Winter Wishes
Stitched Shapes
Assorted Moonshine