Rabbit Garden Frenzy card

Hi! My card today is a thank you card using Lawn Fawn's Some Bunny stamp set and lawn cuts (matching dies). This card is also perfect for the current Lawn Fawnatics Challenge Happy Little Critters so I am entering it there too!

Supply List:

Lawn Fawn Some Bunny stamp set
Lawn Fawn Some Bunny lawn cuts
Lawn Fawn Double Slider Surprise die
Lawn Fawn Stitched Hillside Borders die
Lawn Fawn Grand Greetings stamp set (retired)
Lawn Fawn Perfectly Plaid Chill Petite Paper Pack
Lawn Fawn Jet Black ink
Sparkle N Sprinkle Sparkle embossing powder
Copic markers
Distress inks
Tim Holtz Distress sprayer
Anti Static Bag

Versafine Onyx Black ink
Bossy Joscie Crafty Goods Handcrafted By personalized stamp
Nuvo Aqua Shimmer Glitter Gloss Pen

Tonic Tim Holtz Stamp Platform

Tonic Tangerine machine

Tonic 12" Wide Base Craft Guillotine

Tonic Easy Clean Craft Mat

I used Lawn Fawn's Double Slider Surprise die to make this card interactive and fun! I started by stamping out all the images with Lawn Fawn Jet Black ink, which is a Copic friendly ink. I colored all the images and then put them back in the Stamp Platform, and stamped the images again, using Versafine Onyx Black ink. Then, I sprinkled on Sparkle N Sprinkle's Sparkle embossing powder and heat set them. I die cut them out using Lawn Fawn's Some Bunny lawn cuts and my Tonic Tangerine die cutting machine. I also die cut out the panels of the Double Slider Surprise die set and then blended Distress Inks onto them and spritzed them with water using the Distress Sprayer. I blotted off the water splotches, and ended up with a nicely textured background! I did the same for the hillside borders - I ink blended them, spritzed them, then die cut them and layered them up to create the ground and garden area.

I assembled the Double Slider Surprise, following the directions in Kelly Marie's reveal video (which are so helpful!) and layered the slider card over a panel of Chill Plaid, layered over a yellow card base. Here is a photo of the card with the sliders pulled out.

This photo shows the Sparkle embossing powder for the images, and the shimmer from the Nuvo Aqua Shimmer Glitter Gloss pen. I also added some white highlights with a white gel pen.

And here is the other side of the slider, that cute bunny gardener!!

I made this as a Thank You card, and stamped out a sentiment from the (unfortunately) retired Grand Greetings stamp set from Lawn Fawn. I also stamped some sparkles in that stamp set along the bottom for a little extra fun.

I had a lot of fun with this card and I love how it turned out! Those bunnies make me happy. I love this stamp set! Well done Kelly Marie and Erica!!

Thanks for stopping by. Have a magical day!

-Chris

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Mahalo cards

Today I am sharing some Mahalo cards I made, using Alt E New's Totally Tropical stamp set. I needed to mass produce a lot of thank you cards, and these layering stamps fit the bill! I could get lots of color without having to color each image. I stamped the layers for the hibiscus with several pink inks with a black ink outline, masked it off and then stamped more flowers and leaves with a rainbow of ink colors: yellows, oranges, blues, and greens, along with black ink for the outlines. I made over 30 of these, and will be sending out a lot of thank you notes soon!

Supply List:

Alt E New's Totally Tropical stamp set
Lawn Fawn Jet Black ink
Gina K ink pads
Sparkle N Sprinkle Sparkle embossing powder
Nuvo Aqua Shimmer Glitter Gloss pen
metallic watercolor set
Distress Oxide inks
Bossy Joscie Crafty Goods Handcrafted By personalized stamp
MISTI stamp platform

Tonic Tim Holtz Stamp Platform

Tonic 12" Wide Base Craft Guillotine

Tonic Easy Clean Craft Mat

After stamping the images, I stamped out the sentiment from Alt E New's Totally Tropical in gold ink and then covered it with Sparkle N Sprinkle's Sparkle embossing powder and heat set it. Then, I did some ink blending with Distress Oxide inks along the outer edges of all the card panels. I also splattered some metallic watercolors onto the panel as well. I created card bases, and then adhered the panel onto the front.

I also jazzed up a few of them. I swiped on Nuvo's Aqua Shimmer Glitter Gloss Pen onto the pink hibiscus and squeezed on some yellow stickles onto the yellow and blue flower centers. The shine is hard to show in a photo, but it was super sparkly in real life!

My Mom taught me to send thank you notes so these will put a dent in the stack of thank you card I need to send out. Thanks Mom for your life skills teachings!!

Thanks for stopping by. Have a magical day!

-Chris

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A Brief Note tee hee card

Okay ... so my friend challenged me to use ALL of my stamps ... challenge accepted! I store my stamps alphabetically, by manufacturer, and then by stamp set name. I am starting at the beginning and gonna work my way through. I of course can use things out of order, but I will also be plodding along. So, my first stamp set is this set by Amuse Studio. I don't know the name of the set. I stamped out the flourishes in a few different colors, both first and second generation stamping. I also Copic markered the briefs to make them stand out a bit more. And, a swipe of the Nuvo Shimmer Glitter Gloss Pen over the briefs, a blend of distress ink along the card panel edges, and a 1/4" corner rounder on the card panel, and this card was done! Simple, easy, and fun ... one down, don't know how many more to go!

Supply List:

Amuse Studio stamp set
Nuvo Aqua Shimmer Glitter Gloss Pen
Lawn Fawn Jet Black ink
assorted colored inks
Distress ink
Bossy Joscie Crafty Goods Handcrafted By personalized stamp

Tonic Tim Holtz Stamp Platform

Tonic 12" Wide Base Craft Guillotine

Tonic Easy Clean Craft Mat

I also stamped the back of it with my new Bossy Joscie Crafty Goods handcrafted stamp set, and used the digital image to add a watermark to my photo above. Bossy Joscie is incredible to work with, and super helpful. I love the custom stamp she made for me!

I am super excited about this challenge ... it is something I have been wanting to do. It is really nice to re-introduce myself to some stamp sets that I haven't used in a long time :)

Thanks for stopping by. Have a magical day!

-Chris

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Santa Cookies

Today's project are some Santa cookies I made .... Just had to share these :) My friend, let's call her Jody, bakes a LOT and is an amazing cook and baker. She made some amazing cookies recently and I asked her to teach me how to make the Santa cookies. So, being the awesome person that she is, she invited me over and supplied all the goodies. I brought two boxes of Nutter Butters, and we made these Santas!

To make these, melt white melting chocolate and dredge the bottom half of the nutter butter through the melted white chocolate, place a cinnamon dot as the nose, set them aside on wax paper. Once all of the Santas have their beard and nose, dredge the top half of the nutter butter through white melting chocolate again, and then scrape off most of the white chocolate above the wide part of the nutter butter. Immediately dredge the hat part through red sparkling sugar and set aside. Then, dab a drop of white melting chocolate onto the base of a white chocolate chip and place it onto the hat for the tassel. To finish off the cookies, melt a few mini chocolate chips and then dab a drop of melted chocolate chips onto the base of two mini chocolate chips and place them for the eyes. Easy peasy!

So easy ... right? Here are two FUN fails! Or, as they say, "Nailed it!" Yep, sometimes one can make some mistakes :) But, they still tasted good, so it doesn't matter if I have a cross-eyed Santa or a three-eyed Santa. It all tastes the same!

These were really fun to make, and I can't wait to make some more for upcoming holidays ... my friend "Jody" is willing to host me again for more cookie making shenanigans :) THANKS Jody!

Thanks for stopping by. Have a magical day!

-Chris

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Sparkly Unicorn Birthday card

Happy day! I made this magical unicorn card for my niece's birthday. She likes horses, and her favorite color is blue. So, I made a blue magical unicorn :) Let's peek at the card, shall we?

Supply List:

Pinkfresh Studio Magical Unicorn stamp set
Pinkfresh Studio Magical Unicorn die set
Lawn Fawn Moonstone ink
Sparkle N Sprinkle Royal Blue embossing powder
Sparkle N Sprinkle Sparkle embossing powder
Nuvo Aqua Shimmer Glitter Gloss pen
Lawn Fawn Gift Card Pop-Up lawn cut

Versamark ink [VM-001]
Anti Static Bag [99512]
Versafine Onyx Black ink [VF-82]
Nuvo Deluxe Adhesive [200N]
Nuvo Smooth Precision Glue Pen [206N]

Tonic Tim Holtz Stamp Platform [1707e]

Tonic Tangerine machine [138e]

Tonic 12" Wide Base Craft Guillotine [454a]

Tonic Easy Clean Craft Mat [1514e]

I started out by laying out the die cuts onto a piece of cardstock to "size" where I wanted things to be. Then, I masked off the area that the ears and the face would be with trimmed post-it notes so I didn't stamp in those areas. I then stamped the star cluster from the Magical Unicorn stamp set, using Lawn Fawn's Moonstone ink. I stamped the star clusters all around the background of the card. I also stamped out the unicorn horn with Versamark Ink and sprinkled on Sparkle N Sprinkle Royal Blue embossing powder. I heat set it and then die cut the horn with my Tonic Tangerine die cutting machine. I also die cut the ears, flowers, and leaves with the coordinating dies. I swiped the ears with Versamark ink and sprinkled on Sparkle embossing powder from Sparkle N Sprinkle. I heat set these as well. I layered up the ears, horn, flowers and leaves (which I had also stamped with coordinating ink colors from my stash), and adhered everything down using adhesive and foam adhesives for some dimension. I stamped the eye lashes and sentiment with Black Onyx ink and then sprinkled on more Sparkle embossing powder and heat set it.

I stamped a sentiment inside the card using Versamark ink and sprinkled on more Royal Blue embossing powder and heat set it. Here is a close-up of the inside sentiment.

And, because my niece wants Costco cash cards for her birthday and Christmas (since she is saving up for a very specific camera at Costco), I made a gift card holder using Lawn Fawn's Gift Card Pop-up lawn cut. I adhered the gift card popup to the inside of the card, and slipped in the Costco gift card.

I think she will love this card, I sure hope so. Happy Birthday to my sweet Hannah!

Thanks for stopping by. Have a magical day!

-Chris

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Mahalo Totally Tropical floral card

I stamped out the Totally Tropical stamp set by Alt E New, and also used masking to layer the hibiscus and yellow plumeria together, with the leaves surrounding them. I also stamped and masked the leaves at the bottom of the card too.

Supply List:

Alt E New Totally Tropical stamp set
Nuvo Aqua Shimmer Glitter Gloss pen
Mica watercolor set
colored inks
Bossy Joscie Crafty Goods Handcrafted By personalized stamp

Nuvo Deluxe Adhesive

Nuvo Smooth Precision Glue Pen

Tonic Tim Holtz Stamp Platform

Tonic 12" Wide Base Craft Guillotine

Tonic Easy Clean Craft Mat

I stamped the Mahalo sentiment using my Stamp Platform, and stamped in with two colors to give it some gradience. I also swiped on some Nuvo Aqua Shimmer Glitter Gloss pen over the sentiment as well. Then, I pulled out some Mica gold watercolor from my stash, and flicked gold watercolor paint onto the cardfront.

I also swiped some Nuvo Aqua Shimmer Glitter Gloss pen over the hisbiscus image. I also swiped more gold watercolor along the edges of the card panel. I layered it onto a blue cardstock base, and the card was done!

This card was so much fun to make, and it came together pretty easily since I used the layering stamp set to color in all the images, and my Stamp Platform. A bit of splatter and a swipe of glitter pen, and it was done. I love tropical florals, so this stamp set will get used quite a bit!

Thanks for stopping by. Have a magical day!

-Chris

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Hibiscus You are Fabulous Thank You card

Today's card is a thank you card for a dear friend. I stamped out WPlus9's Hibiscus Bouquet and used the WPlus9 Fierce and Fabulous sentiment. Let's check out this card.

Supply List:

WPlus9 Hibiscus Bouquet clear stamp
WPlus9 Fierce and Fabulous clear stamp
Sparkle N Sprinkle White Detail embossing powder
Sparkle N Sparkle Sparkle embossing powder
Nuvo Aqua Shimmer Glitter Gloss pen
Lawn Fawn Reveal Wheel Sentiments stamp set
Lawn Fawn Gift Card Pop-up lawn cut
Bossy Joscie Crafty Goods Handcrafted By personalized stamp
Memento Tuxedo Black ink

Versamark ink
Anti Static Bag
Versafine Onyx Black ink
Nuvo Deluxe Adhesive
Nuvo Smooth Precision Glue Pen

Tonic Tim Holtz Stamp Platform

Tonic Tangerine machine

Tonic 12" Wide Base Craft Guillotine

Tonic Easy Clean Craft Mat

I used the Stamp Platform to stamp out the Hibiscus Bouquet image with Memento Tuxedo Black ink, which is Copic friendly. I colored the images with Copics, and then stamped them again with Versafine Black Onyx ink. Then, I sprinkled on Sparkle N Sprinkle's Sparkle embossing powder and heat set them. Then, I stamped the Fierce and Fabulous sentiment using Versafine Black Onyx ink. I swiped some Aqua Shimmer Glitter Gloss pen across the flowers to give them a little extra sparkle!

I stamped a lot of thank yous inside the card. My dear friend is fluent in several languages so I thought these thank yous would be so much fun! I used different colored inks too. And, I also used Lawn Fawn's Gift Card Pop-Up to die cut a gift card holder, which I adhered inside the card so I could slip in a thank you gift card.

I love this stamp set, and will definitely be making lots of cards with this Hibiscus Bouqet. It is gorgeous!

Thanks for stopping by. Have a magical day!

-Chris

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