HAPPY EASTER 2019!
FROM THE GUESS FAMILY TO YOUR FAMILY!
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Hi everyone! Happy Friday! Happy GOOD Friday! Rejoice! I'm so happy that Easter weekend has arrived and I'm looking forward to activities at church and rejoicing in the resurrection of our Savior and King. Such a very special time of year. I love everything about it and it's been a nice few weeks of reflection and prayer. I hope you and your family enjoy a beautiful holiday with those you cherish. It's going to be a gorgeous sunny weekend here. We can all wear our Sunday finest to church. All is good.
I have one last Easter crafting project to share today, before I put everything away. This idea came to me late the other night as I was sitting at my craft desk reading my favorite magazine (Country Living UK Edition).... I saw this gorgeous photograph with a beautiful Easter table. And the table cloth fabric was pastel, speckled eggs! Well, my mind went "ding" and I remembered the perfectly sized Egg Die from the most recent Pretty Pink Posh collection. So, one thing led to another, the magazine was put aside, and I started water coloring eggs! LOL. Can you picture me? And Lucky yawning in his bed?
At first I just watercolored a bunch of eggs... Then the next day I turned them into two cards and a pillow box treat! It took me a long time to come up with a card design. You have no idea how many things I tried! I ended up with a simple wreath and a pretty Easter word die cut. I kept it clean and simple.
The pillow box was made with kraft cardstock and the We R Memory Keepers Pillow Box Punch Board. I splattered white paint onto it after it was assembled. I added a doily and some pretty natural cord then affixed the eggs to the front with foam tape.
It's hard for me to pick a favorite color!!! On all of the eggs I watercolored them with wet on wet technique and then let them dry. Then I splattered the same color paint and brown paint and then finally white ink! (That's a lotta splatters!)
Here are all my pretty eggs lined up in a row! I guess I should have made a dozen!
This is the inspiration photo that started this whole project!
I die cut the eggs and the Easter word die from watercolor paper. The word die is watercolored with brown paint and splattered with white.
That's it for today.... And that's it for Easter projects for 2019! Hope you have a beautiful, happy and blessed weekend! He is Risen! XOXO
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Hello friends! Today I have a pretty floral card to share with you! I used lots of new products and I'll talk to you more about them later in the post! The stamp set featured today is an exclusive collaboration set between Altenew and Scrapbook.com! It's a beauty, and it's called Rose Blossom! It makes the most gorgeous flower blooms and leaves. I loved it right away! This post is sponsored by Scrapbook.com as one of my Creative Ambassador posts for 2019. Yeah! So excited to share with you throughout the year... I am quickly becoming (more of) a fan of Scrapbook.com since I've received more of their products. They are starting to carry more stamp companies and that's great - since they always have sales and the shipping is lightning fast!! I'm really proud of this partnership.
Happy Holy Week too! It's Easter week so my mind is turning towards thinking of Jesus and his last week... We've been spending a lot of time in church activities and quiet reflection of the meaning of Easter. I will have one more pastel project to share with you later this week to finish up my Easter projects. I hope you're having a good week too!
My finished card is an A2 card base made from Neenah Solar White. I will buy a package and then get out my trimmer and my Scor-pal and make a bunch of card bases to keep on my desk. That way I can just grab one when I need it. There is only one other paper layer, and that is a white layer die cut with a Stitched Rectangle Die cut.
This stamp set does not have matching dies, but it was very easy and quick to trim out the flowers and leaves with my detail scissors. You know, old school! LOL. I used shades of pinks and red to make the flowers and shades of green for the leaves. This stamp set is a multi layered set. Each flower is made up of four stamps.... With each color slightly darker to give that pretty effect. The stamp set comes with a guide to show you how to line up the flower layers for ease of stamping. I also used my MISTI for this one. I initially made some flowers by just 'eyeballing' the layers and they came out nice too. NO stress.
In this close up photo you can see my accents. The big blooms are the star of the show... But I stamped an outline image and some blue dots (from this set) onto the paper to make my background.
This was my first time using the exclusive Scrapbook.com Hybrid Ink Pads. OH MY GOSH. Yeah, perfect stamping right from the get go. Brand new stamps and brand new ink pads. The coverage was PERFECT. And the colors are awesome. Each ink pad has a color name, but also a number. I.e. Pink 1, Pink 2, Pink 3, etc. so it's super easy to see which colors match! LOVE. I'm pretty much sold on these inks now. The flower that is slightly darker than the other one - I used RED instead of pink as the final step. I like that they are different.
Some of the colors I used on this project!
The sentiment is from a not yet released stamp set called "Best Year Ever!" and it will be a freebie on World Card Making Day! I used brand new Nuvo Dream Drops in Cloud to add some pearlized accents to the card. My first time using Dream Drops too. This card has a lot of firsts!
Thank you for stopping by today! Enjoy your week! Blessings to you all! XOXO
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Hi everyone! I'm scurrying around still, trying to get all my Easter ideas executed!! I have sooo many cute new stamps and sooo many ideas. I don't think I'm going to be able to get them all done! Easter is in a week now! It's finally Spring time here and I'm excited for Easter festivities at church. Easter is my favorite holiday of the year. Everything about it - but especially the meaning to me as a Christian woman. I always try to think of Jesus and his last days during this time of year and be extra mindful of His sacrifices and His resurrection. It's a time of reflection and prayer especially as we go into the coming week. I wish you and your family a beautiful Spring and Easter!
Today's card was made with brand new stamps and dies from Hello Bluebird. One of my favorite stamp companies now. Every release is cuter than the last one! EEK. I also used a Christmas die on this Easter card! It's full of spring pastels and furry friends... And those tiny bluebirds?? So sweet!
The finished card is an A2 card base covered with Pastel Gingham paper. Then I layered one layer of white cardstock for my top layer.
I used the awesome new banner stamps and dies with the cute animal stamps. I love how they're looking up at the banner! This banner die is so versatile. I have loads of ideas for using it for different holidays and things! I used Spun Sugar Distress Ink to blend the color onto the banner. I splattered Worn Lipstick Distress Ink and White paint over the blended pink ink. I set that aside to dry...
Next I stamped and die cut out the animals and birds and leaves and colored them with Copic Markers. I added bits of highlights with a white gel pen.
Here's a close up of the animals' coloring. I stamped the "Easter Blessings" onto the pink banner in black ink.
I die cut the word Rejoice using the Christmas dies! I love to re-use supplies in different ways. I die cut it out of white paper and then inked it with a sponge and Distress Ink to match the blue of the gingham paper.
This banner die is really cool.... The ends of the banner pieces actually fold over the bar. It makes it look so realistic! Everything was attached to the card using foam tape.
I used a small flower from the Doodlebug Sprinkles collection to add to the leaves at the bottom of the banner.
That's it for today! Have an awesome weekend everyone! Thanks for stopping by! See you soon. XOXO
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Hello crafty people! Another week is rolling by! Hope yours is going great so far. Guess what? It's raining again! LOL. It's just really starting to be funny...but not funny at the same time... But I'm rolling with it! Everything around here is GREEN and lush and so beautiful. It's remarkable what all that water has done. I was inspired by the rain to make this fun shaker card to share with you today! It's from a Queen & Company Shaker Kit that is one of my favorites! But, it's being discontinued, so there are only a few left!! It's called the Spring Shaped Shaker Kit. It's a sweet umbrella with the sun and clouds, in bright pretty colors. And lots of bling! I'm posting this real quick and then I'm off to my Tuesdays Together Meetup! Have a blessed and happy day!
The finished card is an A2 card base. I covered it in that yummy rainbow striped paper, and then layered an panel of white paper, offset to one side.
I stamped the sentiment onto a banner, die cut from a new Foundations Die Set from Queen & Company. I die cut the sun and cloud out from cute polka dots paper. The sun and clouds are also shaker shapes but I just used them flat, instead. That cloud is really fabulous! It makes me happy. I die cut the umbrella out of pink paper and then die cut a second one from gray paper to make the handle a different color. I sprinkled in some gems and it was done! (If you've never used a Queen & Company Shaker Kit, you need to! They are SO easy. Really everything is done for you!!)
Those pretty droplets come in lots of colors! They're sooooooo shiny!
I layered the sentiment over the umbrella handle and wrapped the bottom back around it. I added white raindrop gems to mimic the rain....
If you like this kit, snap it up! There are only a few left in the warehouse, and this one isn't coming back! I'll be back soon with an Easter card! Been working hard to get all my Easter ideas out of my head and onto paper! XOXO
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Happy Happy Friday! I'm doing a little happy dance in my studio! (I can't dance outside because, um, it's freaking raining again!) Oh Lord! I am waiting for my husband to get home from work so we can go and celebrate his well deserved promotion he received at work this week. Praise the LORD! I am so proud of him and so excited for him to achieve this goal he's been working towards. He is a good man and he works so so hard. This is a good day. We're going out for some Italian food and probably a drink or two. YEAH!!
Okay, back to crafting! The other day I received a big ole box of happy from Doodlebug Designs! YIPPEEE! Long one of my very favorite companies. I adore their sweet style and cute images. They always make me smile. (And I totally collect their awesome pins too!) I received this box because Doodlebug recently revamped their clear stamps products and now they have matching dies for all their stamp sets too! I made some projects yesterday and can't wait to share them with you. So cute for Spring and Easter. Lots of bright color and just down right cuteness.
For my review of the stamps - they stamp nicely, straight out of the package. No bare spots or ink blotching. A+ in that regard. When I went to open the dies, much to my excitement, I found out that they are pre cut! AWESOME! You don't have to cut them apart with your snippers! I love that some companies are starting to do this now. It's such a nice touch. So, I definitely recommend the Doodlebug stamps/dies.... And you guys know I'm addicted to their shape Sprinkles already. But we won't go there today.
First up is a bright and colorful Easter Card! The finished card is A2 size with a white card base. I layered a strip of that gorgeous plaid paper on the right side, and then layered more white on top of that piece. Next I stamped and die cut out all those adorable shapes, and colored them with Copic Markers! I used colors to match the patterned paper so it all goes together.
The sentiment was stamped and die cut out with a banner from my stash. I added some flowers and leaves to complete the banner edge!
I die cut a stitched circle out of white and then a larger stitched circle using the grass patterned paper. Then I layered on my bunny, lamb and Easter basket! SO SWEET! I added a few more of the shape sprinkles tiny flowers.
Here are some of my supplies!
Next up is a cheerful all occasion card sure to make someone smile!! The card is an A2 white card base. I layered beautiful golden yellow floral paper to make my bottom layer. I die cut a stitched rectangle from Neenah cardstock. I used the Polka Party Stencil from Taylored Expressions to make a dots background. I faded out the color from the bottom right up to the top left. Just thought it looked happy!!
The 'grass' layer is part of a scalloped rectangle die cut, cut to fit. I used Twisted Citron Distress Ink to color it a bright green.
I stamped and die cut out the bee, the sun and the little girl and colored them with Copic Markers.
Isn't she sweet!? Sending you Sunshine!!
That's it for me today! Wishing you a blessed, happy and creative weekend! See you soon! XOXO
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Greeeeeetings! Popping in today with something really really fun! I had the opportunity to work with the newest Card Kit from Spellbinders! It launched yesterday! This is my first time receiving and using a Spellbinders Kit and I loved it! I was very impressed by how much product was in the beautiful box. A great value! The kit has a full stamp set, An entire 6x6 paper pad, cards and envelopes, beautiful and creative dies, cardstock stickers, sequins..... All beautifully packaged like a present in the mail. The cost? $35.00! What?? I bet I could have easily made ten cards without stopping. So many goodies. This month's kit has a feminine, ballet theme to it and pretty shades of pink, grey and black. I think it will be perfect for Mother's Day cards and Bridal Shower cards just to think of a few ideas. Gorgeous. I'm excited to share this with you. I made three cards to showcase the kit! Let's get started!
Here are my three cards together...
First up is a collage type of card I made to feature the awesome dress dies that come in the kit. This is an A2 card size. I splattered the front of the card with black ink first, before adhering all of my pretty layers. The dress is my focal point. It's made by using three different dies (easy to mix and match colors) and the papers that come in the kit. The bodice is black, the belt is silver and the skirt is floral. I added a second skirt layer by die cutting the skirt die from vellum and layering it underneath. EEEK. So pretty!!!
There is no stamping on this card! Yay! Sometimes that is a fun way to make a card. I used the tags, the flowers, the words, the heart and the butterfly that all come with the kit! I played around with the layout until I got it just right! Then I glued everything down with foam tape. These colors make me swoon.
I added a bit of twine from my stash - to the top of the tag.
Here's a close up of the dress/skirt layers. The die cut makes the flat piece and then there are score lines to fold the skirt into perfect pleats!
Next up is a clean and simple layout birthday card. Again, a white A2 card base. I used the big birthday cake cardstock sticker as my focal point. I used Copic Markers to color directly onto the sticker to make pink icing and to color the flowers and the cake stand. SO EASY!
For the sentiments, I alternated stamping the little words from the stamp set and the word banners. I love this playful look.
And for this last card, I stamped the pretty ballerina onto a circle die cut and made her dance right on by! This is an A2 card base layered with black cardstock and then striped paper. I wrapped a bit of floral paper around the bottom third of the card front.
The two step stamping was quick and easy to line up. I stamped her body in black ink and the dress in pink ink. Done. I layered the circle with another vellum circle... Added some sequins and some leaves from the kit. The sentiment is a word banner cardstock sticker.
Here are just a few things that come in this wonderful kit!
That's it for today! I was so anxious to share this with you. I've had these done for a couple of weeks! It's hard to keep a secret sometimes. I hope you're having an awesome week. Our roof is now fixed and I'm breathing a big sigh of relief. Thank you for all the encouragement and kind words the past week! Love you. Mean it. XOXO
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(I linked to the card kit and also to the supplies that are sold separately)
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Hi everyone! Happy Spring Friday! I hope you had a good week and have some fun things planned for the weekend. My week was sort of stressful and I turned to crafting to get out of my own head. As I've been saying for months, it has been raining...for months...here. It's the weirdest, wettest weather I can recall. Just days and days in a row with pouring rain and wind. As a result, our home suffered some damages and some leaking. It has been a daily full time job trying to arrange inspections and contractors and roofers... It's taken weeks to get it all arranged. And all of that I find to be really stressful. It's stressful because something is wrong with the house, and it's stressful to have strangers in my home and it's really stressful trying to pay for all of this!! It all sort of came to a head this week with people working and delivering supplies and all that. It's made my anxiety go through the roof. My Bible is open to the book of Philippians and I'm trying really hard to be joyful and not worry. I am a total worrier by nature - that's the human side of me. I know God is in control and I know I'll be okay - but I just fret. Life lessons of course! So, I have been trying to craft and forget what's going on. Poor Lucky is freaked out by people on his roof. LOL. We'll be fine but I am streeeesssssed. Send a little prayer my way!!
Anyhoo...on to this super fun and happy card I made yesterday! I find that coloring with my markers is excellent therapy. I went around the studio and got out all my Spring and Easter stamps and laid them out on my table... And the beautiful Pretty Pink Posh stamps spoke to me first! Spring is HERE!!! Now if it would be sunny that would be awesome!!!
This card is A2 sized made from Neenah Solar White cardstock. (I always make my own card bases). I layered on some sweet yellow and white gingham from a brand new paper pad. (Echo Park Easter Wishes). The gingham covers the entire front of the card. The card has a white stitched rectangle layer, and a stitched circle layer for the sentiment. The grass border die is the finishing touch. LOTS of die cutting on this one!
I wanted to create a pretty spring garden for those adorable bees to fly around in! I set to work stamping and die cutting out flowers, leaves and beeeeezzzzz. I die cut extra because I was in the mood to color. Lots of pretty Spring shades of pink and green.
Here is my little garden on my work table. This makes me smile.
After I colored everything, it was time to start composing my card layout. I tried to fit as much on as possible! Lol. Seriously so much cuteness. I ended up making a tiny garden at the bottom of the card and then put the bees on the top circling the sentiment. The bees and flowers were adhered with foam squares.
I added white gel pen accents to the bees and flowers... I added clear Wink of Stella to the bees' wings and then just a few enamel dots - from the same collection as the paper pad. I tucked the flowers into the grass - and there are two layers of the grass border.
The center of the rectangle layer was inked with Tumbled Glass Distress Ink and an Ink Blending Tool. I thought the card had too much white space and needed some 'sky' for those bees.
That's it for today! I am wishing you a beautiful weekend! Take care and I'll see you soon! XOXO
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Hey there everybody! I have some fun news to share today - and three cards to share too! Cheers to a great week! Guess what? It's raining here again! Yeeks. So I've been in the craft room working away... Rainy days are perfect for crafting, don't you think?
My fun announcement has been under wraps for a while and I'm happy to finally share with you. I've been invited to be a Creative Ambassador for Scrapbook.com for 2019! Yeah! Specifically, there are six of us who will be the design team for the exclusive Scrapbook.com Stamp Sets! I'm honored to be part of this inaugural team. This is very exciting - the stamp sets are being rolled out and they are super fun, and very high quality. Great price point too! You gotta love that. Every other month I'll be doing a post featuring the newest stamps. Today is my first post. Hope you'll enjoy joining me for this cool new feature here on my blog.
Scrapbook.com has a great community built into their gallery. Everyone can make their own gallery to share the projects they've made with their goodies from Scrapbook.com. I love that feature because not everyone has a blog - but everyone can be a part of the sharing there. CLICK HERE to visit my gallery! Do you have one set up? There is so much inspiration.
My three cards today all feature the same stamp set. It's called Mid-Century Floral. It's mod, it's funky, it's pretty, it's fun! It's retro too! Reminiscent of the 50's and everything good about that era. I created three very different looks, but all are clean and simple and easy to make. Not a ton of layering or complicated techniques. Quick and easy cards. That's always a good thing.
First up is a one layer stamped card in pretty, warm, color tones. Easy to stamp with the new stamps...In red, orange and gold. The card base is made from kraft cardstock in A2 size. I layered the white layer and die cut it with a stitched rectangle die.
The sentiment is from another brand new set called Happy Little Sentiments...and they are just that! Happy! I always love a typewriter font, don't you? The top layer is adhered to the card base using foam tape.
This second card has me feeling blue... In a good way! I used several shades of blue, aqua and teal inks to create a dot pattern with the stamp set. I heat embossed the sentiment with bright white embossing powder. The finished card is A2 size with a horizontal orientation.
I used some Nuvo Jewel Drops to make the blue shiny drops onto the card. I ended up die cutting out one of the circles for just a little bit of dimension.
This third card is the exact same layout as the first card, but with Spring colors! It changes the entire look, just by using a different color palette! Bright green and pretty pink. And a new sentiment from the Heartfelt Friendship stamp set. This card is also an A2 size.
Here are some of the stamp sets! SOOOO many great sentiments! Check them out!! I think you'll be pleasantly surprised by the great selection.
That's it for my post for today! Thanks for stopping by to see me! Hope I've given you inspiration, and some ideas for easy stamping! Have a wonderful, blessed and beautiful day!
Mid Century Floral Stamp Set
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Hey everyone! Happy Friday! Hope your week was amazing!! And cheers to a fun weekend! Easter is only one month away now, and I thought I'd better get started on my Easter projects. STAT. I have lots of cute new Easter products, stamps, dies, etc. that I want to use and share with you. If I'm not careful, I'm gonna run out of time! So I'll start today with some super cute and colorful treat bags. These are one of my favorite projects to make. If you've followed along with me for a while, you've seen this Mama Elephant Favor Bag die before here on my blog! To see my other posts: CLICK HERE to see the Bunny Bags I made! CLICK HERE to see the Panda Bags, and CLICK HERE to see the Christmas Bags. Yup, one of my favorite products. LOL.
Mama Elephant came out with the Chickie add-on for the Favor Bag this year and I had to have it! EEEEP. Adorable! I combined all my favorite Spring colors and went to town yesterday creating these bags. They'll be perfect for candy treats or place cards on the Easter table. I made a girl one and a boy one. Super sweet!
This little chickie is sooooo cute! This is the girl one and she has a pink bow in her hair!! The bags are made from pretty aqua cardstock. Usually I like to make the bags from kraft, but I thought I would try something new this time.
And here's the boy one! His bow tie is blue of course!!!
Here are my die cut pieces. To make the Favor Bag you cut two of the die and then glue them together after you fold on the score lines. It's so easy! I use liquid glue to adhere them together, because I like to put candy inside and don't want them to come loose. I die cut the fence die from bright white paper. The chick is cut from yellow paper, and the feet are a slightly darker yellow paper. The beak is orange paper.
I used distress inks and small sponge daubers to ink around the edges of all the die cuts. This really makes them pop!
I used a white gel pen to add highlights onto the die cut pieces. The fence die cut is very long. I trimmed the pieces with my paper trimmer to make them fit across the bottom of the bag on the front (and the back!)
This is the back of the bags. I added some fence and cute jelly beans!
One of the best details of this die is the teeny scallop edge. It's just the right amount of sweetness!
My little helper was wondering if there were any cat treats inside by any chance!!
That's it for today! I'm out of things to post, so I'm gonna have to get busy creating!! Have an awesome weekend! XOXO
I made an exciting announcement on Instagram today! I'm now a Creative Ambassador for Scrapbook.com! Six of us are going to be the designated design team for launching the new, exclusive line of stamps made by Scrapbook.com. Stay tuned for some projects. I'm very excited about it. Click over to my Instagram Stories to see the new stamps if you have time. CLICK HERE to shop the new stamps and take a peek.
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