It is Topflight Stamps 2nd birthday! To celebrate, we’ve teamed up with up some of our favorite crafters to bring you a blog hop showcasing some of the fabulous products available from Topflight Stamps. Please hop along with us all and show all of the crafters some love! If you’ve never heard of Topflight before, they are a retailer located in the USA that sell international brands so you don’t have to worry about customs and expensive shipping! Some of my favourite brands from their store are Carabelle Studios, Lavinia Stamps and…
Welcome to the Heffy Doodle Blog Hop featuring the new Heffy Doodle release. Today is full of inspirational cards to give you tons of ideas on how to use those new HD products! I have two cards for you today, but sadly no video since there sometimes aren’t enough hours in the day. But I’ll do my best to explain and link to similar technique videos. For my first card, I created a scene featuring the Big Bug Hogs Stamp, Gnome Matter What Stamp and the Grassy Lass Dies. I…
Today I am reviewing the Life-Changing Blending Brushes by Picket Fence Studios! Everyone knows that I love blending inks together to make pretty background using a variety of different inks but let me tell you, this is a show-stopper! I was a little skeptical as I really do believe that practice makes perfect and that blending is a skill, however, I was able to try out these brushes at Creativation and I just had to order them! Disclaimer: I ordered these brushes with my own money without any expectation to…
Welcome to the Spellbinders Just Add Color Blog Hop! Let me tell you these stamps are some kind of wonderful – so detailed that it takes the work out of cardmaking for you. They are a lovely focal point with intricate little dots that really only a cling stamp can do. It’s been a while since I worked with cling and I was quite happy to get one of these into my Misti Stamping Tool once again. Today I used the Mandala Blossoms stamp to create this elegant, layered card.…
Nuvo expanding mousse is the latest craze hitting our cardmaking world these last couple months! If you haven’t tried the embellishment mousse that was previously released by tonic, there are several colours and generally it has a flat but shimmery look to it. It’s a perfect medium to put over stencils! Expanding mousse takes things a little but further in that the mousse will puff when heated. Remember using those liquid pens to make snow back in the day? I cannot for the life of me remember what it’s called…
Today is release day over at Concord and 9th! It’s always a favourite day of the month for me with tons of exciting and inspirational products! The entire release is available here and I have six cards for inspiration on what to do with the new stamps and dies! My first card is a beautiful housewarming card using the Floral Print Silhouette Bundle – I adore how easy it was to line everything up and that house is just too cute with that door opening up to reveal the background. Concord…
Welcome to the Spellbinders Decorative Hot Foil Blog Hop! Today I am working with some gorgeous floral patterns and borders to create these simple, elegant cards. I used a combination of gold, silver and rose gold foils matched with some beautiful FSJ cardstock colours (Rock Candy is my favourite!). Using your Glimmer Foil Machine is quite easy. I always find experimenting with the plates to have the best results. I used the shim to create a really tight fit into the Spellbinders Platinum 6 die cutting machine and I love…
Today I created a quick card tutorial which I haven’t done in a while. I masked off an area on my card base to create a very colourful background. I used Worn Lipstick, Abandoned Coral and Squeezed Lemonade Distress Oxide inks to create the blend. For the Birch Press Mini Dahlia Layering Frame, I used some elegant colours to create the blend: Black Satin Mirror, Pearlescent White and Snow Crystal Glitter Cardstock. I love the way these layer so nicely once on top of the other to create a textured…
The Life-Changing Magic of TidyingUp by Marie Kondo has become trendy again since the new Netflix series Tidying Up with Marie Kondo debuted last month. I have to say I’ve been a Marie Kondo fan for some time and have been folding my clothes using her method for nearly one year, but since watching the series, I was inspired to give my craftroom a little declutter. Curious as to what my craftroom looked like before? Here is last year’s tour. Keep in mind my stamps and inks somehow doubled since…
Today I am experimenting with three different cards and a variety of mediums for my cardmaking process video today: alcohol inks, pastes, sprays, stamping and tons of tips along the way. I am using the January Hedgehog Hollow Box (limited quantities left!) which includes three stamp sets, chipboard and a stencil to create these cards. Get Free Shipping on this box! Life would be pointless without you is such an adorable sentiment to pair with a unicorn. I just adore these chipboard pieces – I want more of them but…