Vellum frames...

It's Tuesday, and that means I'm up again over at Scrapbook Expo's Weekly Scrapper blog! I have a couple of cards created with vellum frames that I made from a 12" x 12" preprinted vellum paper. Please stop by to read more about these HERE!

I've used a couple of Papertrey Ink dies to trim out the centers of the vellum, one is the Fabulous Frames die and one circle die. This creates a pretty focal point for a sentiment or a flower, anything you want to highlight on your card as a focal point!

If you like these cards and would like to learn more about the techniques I typically use to achieve layering and embellishing, you can access my online Craftsy course for half-price right now!

Cards With Dimension: Lovely Layers, Textures and Embellishments

Craftsy courses are online, self-paced, and you can rewind and watch again, ask questions, post pics of your projects, get feedback from instructors and so much more. In the class, I share over 70 cards with you and SO many ideas. Hope you will check it out, and stop over to the SBE blog to read more about these two cards.

Have a great day!

Danielle

Layered die cuts...

Recently, I was sent this gorgeous new line by Elle's Studio called Little Moments! Elle's Studio is holding a new class in May, which will be a sketch class, and I was asked to make 2 cards with it. When I was finished, I couldn't put the line away! So colorful and fun, as ALL of Elle's products are! So I had to make one more thing, and used it as my post on the Scrapbook Expo blog yesterday on "layering die cuts".

The fun thing about Elle's products is that they are so easy to layer: they're very colorful, and the packages include lots of shapes and patterns in the Bits and Pieces, labels, journaling cards and even papers that you can trim labels from!

The card you see behind the "Hello Happiness" is one of the cards I made for the upcoming Elle's Studio sketch class, along with another one that isn't shown. Be on the look out for that class! Swing over to the Scrapbook Expo blog to see the tutorial on this, and for a few tips on layering die cuts! Have a great day!

Vellum shakers...

Happy Friday! I'm so looking forward to the weekend, how about you? I wanted to share a quick card that I made for Scrapbook Expo this week that I forgot to post. It started with the butterfly background that I had leftover from cutting out the butterflies in my last post, and I thought I should put it to good use! I layered some leaves over the top, then a piece of vellum and a pretty chipboard floral bouquet. Love how the layers turned out!

To add even a bit more layering, I stamped a "hello" and some leaves over the vellum.

Stop by the Weekly Scrapper blog to read more about the details and process and to see the finished card. See you tomorrow with another post! 

Creative Cardmaker: Liquid Gold Gilding...

Happy Tuesday! Today over at Scrapbook Expo's Weekly Scrapper blog, I have a step-by-step tutorial for you on using Liquid Gold Gilding paint on cards with a quick and easy design. These cards literally took me only a few minutes and don't use many supplies at all...one sentiment stamp, paint, paintbrush, an old pencil and a black ink pad. Stop over to read more!

We have a snow day today, so I'm getting started on my Papertrey Ink goodies for this month that will be released on February 15th! Check out these pics of Kati with our neighbors! :) The girls are thrilled to get a day off today! We've gotten over a foot of snow, and it's still coming down. Enjoy your day!

Creative Cardmaker: Adding unexpected dimension to cards...

Good morning! I'm up with another Creative Cardmaker post over at Scrapbook Expo's Weekly Scrapper blog. Today I'm talking about adding unexpected dimension to your stamped backgrounds, so break out your stamps and dies, and let's get started!

I've used Papertrey Ink's Quilted Summer stamp set for the flowers and stems, the Scripted stamp set for the sentiment, and the Life Is Beautiful dies to cut out the butterflies. For inks, I've used True Black, New Leaf, Pure Poppy and Aqua Mist.

Head over to the Weekly Scrapper to see the full tutorial!

Link me up if you give this a try. Would love to see how it inspired you. 

Have a great day!

Danielle

Release day...

Have you been following the Papertrey Ink countdown this month? Today is the day all of the new products will be up for sale at 10pm EST! Here are a few more new stamps and dies we were lucky enough to work with this month! First up, I used a new stamp set called L' Shanah Tovah (sentiment and small leaves) paired with Vintage Linens stamps.

On this card, I wanted to try a more neutral color scheme and went for grays, blacks and golds. The wreath is cut with the Rustic Wreath die.

Fruitful Year card:

(All supplies by Papertrey Ink unless otherwise noted.)

STAMPS: L' Shanah Tovah, Vintage Linens

INK: True Black,  Soft Stone, Ripe Avocado, Enchanted Evening; Soft Granite by Hero Arts, Versamark - craft supply

PAPER: Soft Stone, white

DIES: Vintage Linens, Rustic Wreath

OTHER: gold embossing powder, sequins.

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Next up I've used the new Petite Places: Main Street stamps and the new Graceful Greetings dies.

To create a little home for the cute little shops that were stamped, I cut some of the Limitless Layers 2.5" Square dies and layered them with a Vintage Linen paper and paper from the Sweet Blush Pattern Pack. 

 Hello Miss You card:

(All supplies by Papertrey Ink unless otherwise noted.)

STAMPS: Petite Places: Main Street, Mat Stack 3 Collection

INK: Aqua Mist, Tropical Teal, Pure Poppy, Hibiscus Burst, Summer Sunrise

PAPER: Vintage Linens, Sweet Blush Pattern Pack, white

DIES: Graceful Greetings, Limitless Layers 2.5" Square die collection

OTHER: twine, sequin.

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Last are the Morning by Morning stamps and dies. 

In the background, I watercolored the paper with gray paint, then added the die cut over the top, along with another Graceful Greetings die cut.

Thanks card:

(All supplies by Papertrey Ink unless otherwise noted.)

STAMPS: Morning by Morning, Graceful Greetings

INK: New Leaf, Hibiscus Burst, Sweet Blush, Plum Pudding, Winter Wisteria

PAPER: Watercolor paper, Winter Wisteria Pattern Pack

DIES: Morning Glories, Graceful Greetings

OTHER: sequins, watercolor paints.

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Is there a product you can't wait to get? Visit the PTI team to see more with these new items. Everything will be available on July 15th at 10pm EST at Papertrey Ink. Thanks for stopping by!

Ashley Cannon Newell
Betsy Veldman
Dawn McVey
Erin Lincoln
Laura Bassen
Laurie Willison
Maile Belles
Melissa Phillips
Nichole Heady

Gossamer Blue: May and a winner!

First, I need to announce the winner of the Cards With Dimension Craftsy class from my last post. Thank you to ALL who stopped by and said hello. Love to hear from you always! A random winner was chosen, and it is...petunia670! Email me at dflanders71@hotmail.com to claim your free class! (You can still get the class for 1/2 off by clicking the link in my last post.)

Couple of quick cards to share with you today made with the Gossamer Blue kits for May, available now. The first one is a mix of the Bits & Pieces kit, the Life Pages kit and the Life Pages Themed Add-on. Love them all! The papers are from Crate Paper Confetti line, one of my very favorite paper pads ever. Such beautiful patterns.

Added a bit of Graphite Glimmer Mist sprinkled over the top by Tattered Angels. (It's an older mist from my stash).

Next, this one is mostly the main kit (papers, bow clip and hello chipboard).

The today and happy day stickers are from the Life Pages Themed Add-on. 

Check out the Gossamer Blue GALLERY for more inspiration with these kits! The team does such amazing work.

Guest post for Bella Blvd...

Good morning and happy Monday! Before I am off to Taylor's high school today to help pack all of the band and choir uniforms for their upcoming Disney trip this week, I wanted to share a few projects I made for a guest post over at Bella Blvd!

Stop over to see full supply lists and read more about these, but on this first card, I created a background with Papertrey Ink's Cover Plate: Stitched die and die cut some of the papers with Circle Scribbles dies and Doodlie-Do dies for the leaves. Don't you love the font in the "hello"? That is from Bella Blvd's Color Chaos line, which I really liked and used a lot of for today's projects!

Simple and clean, yet very layered and colorful!

Next, another Color Chaos paper that I just added a few details over the top- chipboard, a few hearts in patterned paper and vellum and a seam binding ribbon. Seriously easy!

On the next card, I absolutely loved the paper from Color Chaos that had the color splashes all over it! I cut out a Cover Plate: Hearts die to add over the top. I love how the color is bursting through, yet it still has clean look with some white space to allow the eye to rest.

Some of the Color Chaos stickers and chipboard finish it off!

Here I added some chipboard sentiments from Bella Blvd's Ciao Chipboard collection, then cut a Big Hugs die to add over the top.
Adds a little bit of fun dimension.

My last card was inspired by all of the sticker borders and chipboard borders in the Bella Blvd collections. I created a background with them here as my base.

The saying was cut from one of the papers with a Mat Stack 5 die.

Last a layout with all of the pretty papers. It's been awhile since I've made a layout.

Trimming out these Life Is Beautiful butterflies from the lovely papers gave me a starting point to work with some great pattern and color! I decided to watercolor the background in sort of a rainbow effect with pinks, oranges and yellows. Then I added the butterflies in coordinating colors across the top to anchor the photo and journaling, which is about my relationship with my 15 year old right now...getting a little bumpy as any teen/mom relationship, but I know things will come full circle again one day, and I have to allow her to fly right now! It's so hard to let them go though, isn't it? I always write notes to my girls about my current feelings. I hope one day, these will have great meaning to them. Until then, it's a creative outlet for me... and a therapeutic one at that!

Hope you will stop over to check out Bella Blvd's collections, they are colorful and lots of fun to work with! Thank you to Bella Blvd for having me as a guest this month!

Release day...

I have a few more cards to share with you using some new products coming out tonight, April 15th at 10pm EST at Papertrey Ink. First up, is the new Graceful Greetings stamp set!

On these, I stamped the sentiment in Versamark ink, then poured different colors of embossing powder on and heat embossed them to melt the powder. Then I stamped the flowers from Graceful Greetings. 
The papers are from last month's Chicken Scratch Gingham paper pad. These little cards make me so happy! I love all of the colors.

Graceful Greetings card:

(All supplies by Papertrey Ink unless otherwise noted.)

STAMPS: Graceful Greetings

INK: Aqua Mist, Pure Poppy, Summer Sunrise, Harvest Gold, New Leaf, Sweet Blush

PAPER: white cardstock, Chicken Scratch Gingham

DIES: none

OTHER: Zing! embossing powders, twine

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Next is Petite Places: School stamps and dies and Keep It Simple: Teacher stamps.

The background is from the Black & White All Over paper pad (dot). The scallop is cut with the Scene It: Doily Tag Base.

Thank You, Teacher card:

(All supplies by Papertrey Ink unless otherwise noted.)

STAMPS: Petite Places: School, Keep It Simple: Teacher

INK: Pure Poppy, True Black, Tropical Teal

PAPER: Chicken Scratch Gingham

DIES: Petite Places: School, Scene It: Doily Tag Base, Shaker Shapes: Pencil (loop)

OTHER: Copic Markers, button from Wee Folk mini kit, ribbon-craft supply.

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Next is Enclosed: Apple and Tucked In: Thank You.

Again I used the Black & White All Over paper pad and added some stamping to the background with Quilted: Spring stamp set. I had stamped this background previously and didn't end up using it, so I found it and pulled it out. I think it works nicely with the reds and greens of the apple! When you are feeling uninspired, try stamping a few backgrounds. Then maybe later on you'll be inspired to use them for something!

Thanks card:

(All supplies by Papertrey Ink unless otherwise noted.)

STAMPS: Enclosed: Apple, Tucked In: Thank You, Quilted: Spring

INK: New Leaf, Ripe Avocado, Pure Poppy, Pinefeather

PAPER: Pure Poppy Pattern Pack, Sweet Blush and Spring Moss cardstock, Black & White All Over Paper Pad

DIES: Enclosed: Apple

OTHER: sequins, twine.

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Last is Flower Favorites stamps and dies and Lunchbox Love stamps.

Again a Black & White All Over paper is used in the background (frame), then I watercolored a piece to adhere in the center. 

Cheer Up Buttercup card:

(All supplies by Papertrey Ink unless otherwise noted.)

STAMPS: Flower Favorites, Lunchbox Love

INK: Hibiscus Burst, Pure Poppy, New Leaf, Aqua Mist, Harvest Gold, Summer Sunrise, Smokey Shadow Pattern Pack

PAPER: Black & White All Over

DIES: Flower Favorites

OTHER: sequins, watercolors.

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All of the new things you see here will be available on April 15th at 10pm EST. Thanks for stopping by and please visit the other gals to see what they've made with the same products: 

Nichole Heady

Amy Sheffer

Ashley Cannon Newell
Betsy Veldman
Dawn McVey
Heather Nichols
Laura Bassen
Lauri Willison
Maile Belles
Melissa Phillips

Elle's Studio: April...

Do you love to work with die cuts? If so, you should check out the Elle's Studio kits sometime. They have a new kit for April available today, and the little pieces are so cute. I love to layer these on cards. Here on this card I used two of the die cuts from the April kit. One is the "hello triangle card", and the other is the "thinking of you" die cut.

Behind the Hello card, I used an Elle's Studio paper from their new Cienna line called Flowers. I also cut a few of the little flowers out to add to the front of my card as well.

Next I used the "Happy Note" die cut and the striped card from the April kit and layered them together. I put the striped die cut behind and just let a bit of it peek out from the top for color.

The sentiment on the front is from Elle's Studio - Shine Cutouts. And I added a Studio Calico flag, enamel dot and twine. The background paper is the Adorable paper from the Cienna line. Those little flags were actually from the kit I used in my Craftsy class. You can get them HERE.

These are the adorable cut files and printables for April.
I really need to get my Silhouette going again, so I can try these out!...

Elle's Studio also has grab bags available, too. This only happens twice a year so this is your chance to stock up and SAVE! There are three different types of bags to choose from: Scrapbook, Stamp, and Journaling Tags. These grab bags are available while supplies last, but they probably won't last long, so make sure you grab them now! 

Here are the links to shop the April deals at Elle's Studio: 

April kit, April printable, April cut file, Scrapbook grab bag, Stamp grab bag, Journaling tag grab bag. 

Stop by to see all of the design team's work this month in the gallery for more inspiration!