Stretch Your Stamps to Create an Emboss Resist Background with My Style Stamps Build a Blossom

Hello crafty friends! Today I have a card featuring My Style Stamps. I used the scribble flower from Build a Blossom as a sun on a background. I love to use my stamps in ways other than how they are clearly intended. By taking advantage of the way the flower looks like the sun and stamping it all over for a background I was able to stretch this set. For more on the card check out the video.

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday: Anything Goes 

Free Easter Treat Tag Printable and Tutorial

Hello crafty friends! Today I have a simple Easter treat featuring Peeps Bunnies. To create these treats I cut apart the Peeps and reassembled them to make bi-color and tri-color Peeps. I use lollipop sticks for mine and placed them in candy bags. Finally I attached the free printable below with some twine. For more details instructions please see the video or this older post that features from step by step photos. 

Challenges:

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Anything Goes

Open Minded Crafting Challenge: Food Related

Pile It On: Easter/Spring

Copy this image into a word document and then print on cardstock to make your own tags and treats.

Newton's Nook Inky Paws Challenge Watercolor

Hello crafty friends! Today I have a card for the latest Newton's Nook Designs Inky Paws Challenge to use watercolor. I created this card with pigment ink embossing and watercolor over the resist of the embossing. Check out my video for more.

Challenges:
Newton's Nook Inky Paws: Watercolor

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Anything Goes

Easter Kitty Card featuring Gerda Steiner Designs

I colored this cute Easter Kitty from Gerda Steiner with my Crafter's Companion Spectrum Noir Blendable Pencils for Kathy Racoosin's 30 Day Color challenge and then this weekend I turned it into a simple Easter card. I didn't even add a sentiment because I thought it would be clear to the recipient what the occasion was and I would put a message inside. The papers are from the Basic Grey What's Up 6x6 pad.

Challenges:

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Spring Pins

Addicted to Stamps and More: Anything Goes

Newton's Nook Designs March Release: Newton's Birthday Flutter

Hello crafty friends! Today I am here with the Newton's Nook Designs March Release. I have a card and video with today's Newton's Birthday Flutter set. On today's card I used Inktense pencils and a rainbow pattern. Check out the video for more and scroll down for more on how to win this set.

This set is such a fun little birthday set to pick up because of the naughty Newton eating the bird and I can easily imagine a few other situations to put him in. Be sure to check out the rest of the design team for some great inspiration.

Would you like to win “Newton's Birthday Flutter”?
This set will be given away to ONE lucky winner! 

Here's how to win: 

Comment on the NND blog and Design Team and Guest blogs (see list below)! The winner will be chosen at random from the collective blog release posts. Make sure to check out each of their blogs and comment for your chance to win. You will not know which blog has been chosen so the more you comment on the better your chances are of winning! You have until Thursday, March 19th at 9pm CDT to comment  -- winners will be announced on the blog post on Friday March 20th 

Check out all the awesome Design Team Blogs below to enter:

Newton's Nook Designs
Lydia Evans
Larissa Heskett
Samantha Mann
Crafty Math-Chick
Jess Moyer
Stephanie Muzzulin
Danielle Pandeline
Kimberly Rendino
Yukari Yoshioka
Wanda Guess (Guest Designer)

Newton's Nook Designs March Release: Farmyard Friends

Hello crafty friends! Today I am here with the Newton's Nook Designs March Release. I have a card and video with today's Farmyard Friends set. On today's card I used a lot of masking and Copic coloring. Check out the video for more and scroll down for more on how to win this set.

I love all the fantastic puns in this set and how you can mix up these images with other sets to get great themed cards.

Would you like to win “Farmyard Friends”?
This set will be given away to ONE lucky winner! 

Here's how to win: 

Comment on the NND blog and Design Team and Guest blogs (see list below)! The winner will be chosen at random from the collective blog release posts. Make sure to check out each of their blogs and comment for your chance to win. You will not know which blog has been chosen so the more you comment on the better your chances are of winning! You have until Thursday, March 19th at 9pm CDT to comment  -- winners will be announced on the blog post on Friday March 20th 

Check out all the awesome Design Team Blogs below to enter:

Newton's Nook Designs
Lydia Evans
Larissa Heskett
Samantha Mann
Crafty Math-Chick
Jess Moyer
Stephanie Muzzulin
Danielle Pandeline
Kimberly Rendino
Yukari Yoshioka
Wanda Guess (Guest Designer)

Rainbow Coloring with Inktense Pencils and Gerda Steiner Designs

Hello crafty friends! Today I have a card featuring Late but with Love from Gerda Steiner Designs. I wanted to bright a bright and colorful look to this cute little snail from the set to show you how you can get a completely different look with this set. Check out the video for more.

Also I combined the cute little snail with a variety of different supplies from my stash because I always love to mix my new and old crafty goodies.

Challenges:

Seize the Birthday: Anything Goes

Simon Says Stamp Monday: Critters/Animals

Newton's Nook Designs March Release: Beautiful Blossom

Hello crafty friends! Today I am here with the Newton's Nook Designs March Release. I have a card and video with today's Beautiful Blossoms set. On today's card I used pigment inks to color the flowers from the set. For more on this technique check out my video. Also scroll down for more on how to win this set.

I really love how easy this technique is and how you can get interesting coloring without any fancy tools or know how. But more than that I love this set. There is so much you can do with these stunning flowers. I can see solid stamping with them, masking them off into bunches or an emboss resist. I can't wait to see what Newton fans create.

Would you like to win “Beautiful Blossoms”?
This set will be given away to ONE lucky winner! 

Here's how to win: 

Comment on the NND blog and Design Team and Guest blogs (see list below)! The winner will be chosen at random from the collective blog release posts. Make sure to check out each of their blogs and comment for your chance to win. You will not know which blog has been chosen so the more you comment on the better your chances are of winning! You have until Thursday March 19th at 9pm CDT to comment  -- winners will be announced on the blog post on Friday March 20th

Check out all the awesome Design Team Blogs below to enter:

Newton's Nook Designs
Taheerah Atchia
Lydia Evans
Larissa Heskett
Samantha Mann
Crafty Math-Chick
Jess Moyer
Stephanie Muzzulin
Danielle Pandeline
Kimberly Rendino
Yukari Yoshioka
Wanda Guess (Guest Designer)

St. Patrick's Day Card featuring Gerda Steiner Designs

Hello crafty friends! Today I have a St Patrick's Day card featuring this cute kitty digital stamp from Gerda Steiner Designs. I used my Copic markers to color this images and then added some grass with the grassy borders die from Lawn Fawn. I kept the card design simple with some random clover paper from a calendar and a simple orange patterned paper from Studio Calico.

Challenges:

Simon Says Stamp Monday: Animal/Critters

Cute Card Thursday: Celebrate

Masculine Card featuring Essentials by Ellen for the Ellen Hutson Mix It Up Challenge

Hello crafty friends! Today I have a card for the Ellen Hutson Mix It Up challenge to combine Essentials by Ellen with Hero Arts. I don't have a lot of Essentials by Ellen sets yet but I decided to challenge myself to use the Christmas themed 12 Days set to make a non-Christmas card and came up with this masculine card featuring the pipe. The Hello Handsome sentiment and hearts and from Hero Arts.

Paper Pieced Lawn Fawn Card

Hello crafty friends! Today I have a card featuring some of the adorable Lawn Fawn products now available in the shop. I started with the Let's Play stamps and dies. Since I had picked up the two new Pint Sized Patterns Collections I decided to do some paper piecing instead of coloring. You can check out my video below for more on how it came together.

I used some of the older Lawn Fawn dies as well including Spring Showers and the Grassy Border die. I love how all the different Lawn Fawn products old and new coordinate perfectly. Head on over to the shop and pick up your favorites today!

Challenges:
Lawnscaping: Dots and Stripes

Cute Card Thursday: Dies and/or Punches

Cupcake Card featuring Newton's Nook and My Style Stamps

Hello crafty friends! Today I have a card using lots of colored stamping but no coloring. I love to color in images with my Copics, watercolor or even colored pencils but it's also great to create a quick card with just some ink and paper. Check out my video for more on my thought process in creating this card. 

Challenges:

Cupcake Inspirations: Confetti

Clear It Out: Anything Goes

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday: Girly

Rainbow Stamping with Gerda Steiner Designs.

Hello crafty friends! I wanted to brighten up your day with a rainbow color scheme. There are so many awesome little stamps in the new Hello Spring set from Gerda Steiner and In this card I try to show how you can combine all these small elements but have a big impact. Check out my video for more. 

Challenges

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday: Anything Goes

Marker Pop: Bright Colors

Spring Coffee Lovers Blog Hop featuring My Style Stamps

Hello crafty friends! Today I have a card and video for the Spring Coffee Lovers Blog Hop featuring My Style Stamps Coffee Lovers set. I created a fun artsy watercolor background for my paper pieced coffee cup. Check out the video for more. 

Tips from this card/video:

Dry and dab watercolor paint in between layers to control the final result.

Don't be afraid to try several papers because you can always use the discarded pieces for another project.

Challenges:
Spring Coffee Lovers Hop

Simon Says Stamp: Anything Goes