July 2024 Spotlight: Celebrating 20 Years of Distress!
Hi friends! Can you believe it’s already July?! My goodness! We’re super excited to share this month’s spotlight is Distress Paint! It’s SO fun and can be used on a variety of mediums– at 20% off (with code DSTR20) now is the perfect time to pick up a refill, new to you color, or try it for the first time! Check out these pretty palettes pre-selected for you! They make a great starter set (or gift!)
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We’re celebrating 20 years of Distress ALL YEAR LONG!
One Stamp, Five Ways: Once Upon a Dream
Hi friends! Happy Sunday (and… I can barely believe it as I type it, but Happy last day of June!) My goodness! The year is flying! Please join me in welcoming back special guest Suzy Plantamura to our blog to showcase the latest in our monthly One Stamp, Five Ways series! Read on and enjoy!
Hello friends! I decided to celebrate summer finally being here by NOT using a flower stamp for my “one stamp, five ways” guest post today. I picked a very cute set called Once Upon A Dream to shake things up a bit! And I thoroughly enjoyed making these five cards, so I hope you will enjoy them too!
I embossed the new Soundwaves Embossing Folder with white cardstock. I use an older Tim Holtz die-cut machine and I know you must be careful with the sandwich sizes. I tried a little something different and this embossing folder got stuck in my machine for a few days. With lots of help from my daughter-in-law looking like she was birthing a baby as she pulled it out, we saved the machine. But not the embossing folder sadly. Luckily, I did emboss it about 5 times before ruining it though as I love this design. I used a foam applicator to rub some Seafoam ink over the top of it. I then applied some Surf Ink to the edges. I attached it to a white card base.
I die-cut the Good Vibes die from white cardstock and Gold Matte cardstock and attached the gold letters over the white set. I attached it to the center of the card with foam tape behind it I stamped the Jasmine princess, the teapot, and a sentiment from the Once Upon A Dream stamp set and colored her in with colored pencils. I used a Gold Uniball gel pen on the tea pot. I attached Jasmine over the sentiment attaching the pot to her hand. I used the sentiment under the Good Vibes. I added some sequins from the Mermaid Tail Embellishment Mix around the background.
I die-cut a circle from the top center of a piece of A2 white cardstock using the SSS Thin Circle Dies. I then die-cut the outside of this piece with the SSS Basic Rectangle Die. I used a piece of teal patterned paper for the inside of the shaker that I sprayed with Tim Holtz Peacock Feathers Distress Spritz spray. It made it shimmery and look like water. I attached foam tape to the back of the white piece and attached the teal paper to the top center of a piece of the new Bold Brights Color Blend Cardstock. I filled the opening of the shaker with Gina K. Disco Ball Sequins. I attached the white cover over it.
I stamped Ariel and several of the shell stamps from the Once Upon A Dream stamp set with black ink and colored them in with colored pencils. I die-cut the three small shells on the Beachcombing Foiling Sheets with the Beachcombing Dies. I didn’t foil them as I wanted them to have a black outline to match the other stamped elements. I colored them in with Copic markers. I attached Ariel and all the shells to the bottom of the shaker window. I used a sentiment from the new Just Breathe stamp set and die-cut it out with the matching dies (twice) so I could layer them. I attached those to the top of the shaker window. I added some Pink Fresh Glitter Drops around the top of the shaker window.
I wanted to make a slimline card so I could fit the entire princess head stamp! I stamped it with black ink and colored it with colored pencils. I die-cut a rectangle using the SSS Nested Slimline Rectangle Dies out of white cardstock. I used the Clouds for Days stencil and Marine and Seafoam PSInks for the sky and Fairway PSInk for the ground. I attached that to a white cardstock card base. I attached the princess strip to the right side hanging the hands over the edge.
I stamped some the three fairies, some flowers and stars, and three of the sentiments from the stamp set with black ink and die-cut them all out. I colored the fairies with colored pencils also. I colored the stars with a Silver Uniball gel pen. I added the Happy Birthday to the top of the card, with the other two sentiments over the grass at the bottom. I arranged the flowers, stars and fairies between the sentiments.
I embossed a piece of Color Blend cardstock with the Star Lattice embossing folder (that was in the July card kit). I then discovered a lucky secret. I tried rubbing white ink over the raised images, but the white ink got all over it. So, I wiped the ink off with an alcohol wipe. That also removed the color from the Color Blend cardstock which has a white center. Presto – perfect white raised images! I attached this to a white card base.
I sprayed a piece of white cardstock with a light covering of Tim Holtz Worn Lipstick Distress Spritz. I then added a little misting of Picked Raspberry. It dries so fast! I die-cut a set of the Nested Domed Arches dies from that piece and from a piece of white cardstock. NOTE: If you don’t cut your nested dies apart, you can die-cut them all at one time and get all the inside pieces as well which gives you twice as many sizes and lets you nest them all together!
I attached four of the pink frames over six of the white frames which kind of stay together. I blued a piece of blue patterned paper behind them that matched the embossing folder piece. I attached this “window” over the background. I do wish I had used foam tape behind the frames, so it looked more like a window. I stamped the three fairies, Sleeping Beauty, and lots of the stars and colored them all with colored pencils. I used Crystal Stickles over the stars and the fairy wings. I attached them with foam tape behind them over the window and the stars inside the window. I stamped a sentiment from the first Disney Princess stamp set called Once Upon A Time and attached that to the bottom of the window.
I die-cut an oval using the Nested Oval Dies from a piece of A2 white cardstock. I then stamped the tree from the Once Upon A Time stamp set (these two sets coordinate together perfectly) with black ink on the center of a piece of A2 white cardstock. I colored the three, the ground, and the sky with Copic markers and attached the white oval frame over it. I die-cut a black frame using the A2 Nested Frame Dies and Glossy Black Cardstock and attached that over the white background.
I stamped Pocahontas and a bunch of the leaves in the Once Upon A Dream stamp set with black ink. I colored them in with Copic markers. I added her over the oval and all of the leaves around the background with foam tape behind them. I stamped a sentiment using the Just Breathe stamp set again as I thought it was perfect for her image. I die-cut out three so I could layer them and attached them to the top left side of the card.
Whew – that was a lot of typing! I loved making these cards and thinking of different ways to use each princess in a scene (except for my slimline that basically uses ALL of them together). I know my grand-daughter will love these cards, but I also think they work for women in general with the sentiments I used from other stamps/dies. It’s always fun doing these guest posts and thinking of lots of ways to use one stamp set. I hope it motivates you to do the same! Happy stamping and happy summer friends! Suzy
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ENDS TONIGHT!!!
Sweet Treat Froyo Thanks Card featuring NEW Lawn Fawn Summer collection!
Hi friends! Happy Saturday! Please join me in welcoming back special guest Audrey Tokach today representing Lawn Fawn! You might recognize the main Froyo (Frozen Yogurt) image from Lawn Fawn’s NEW (and oh-so cute) Summer 2024 collection! Be sure to read on to learn all about how Audrey made this cute card and enjoy!
To create my card, I started off by diecutting a piece of white cardstock using the largest die from the Lawn Fawn Outside In Stitched Rectangles dies. Using the new Draped Ribbons stencil and some Shaded Lilac Distress Ink, I added a pretty pattern to all but the bottom of the panel, which I masked off with Post it Tape. For added interest, I splattered on some watered down white acrylic paint. I diecut the new Lawn Fawn Froyo Friend die from white cardstock, and used my Copic markers to add color.
To ground my adorable little Froyo Friend, I diecut the new Giant Outlined Thanks die in both black and white cardstock. I used the white outline and added black inset into the letters for a fun, bold sentiment. I glued that at the bottom of the panel using Lawn Fawn Glue Tube, popping up my Froyo Friend with foam tape. For an additional greeting, I used the previously released All The Speech Bubbles stamp set and coordinating dies and popped the speech bubble up with foam tape on the left side of the Froyo Friend to balance out the strawberry detail on the right. Of course, I had to add some googly eyes, and Diamond Stickles for some fun sparkle. To finish off my card, I added some white and black gel pen accents, and a tiny scattering of clay hearts before popping the panel up on an A2 card base.
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