Snow Cute Card and Easy Pocket Duo

Hi crafty friends! Today I've got a fun little card and gift card pocket duo to share with you featuring the Snowy Pastels paper and ephemera from this month's Paper Pad Club.

If you've been following my posts lately you might have noticed I'm currently obsessed with embossing folders again. LOL! I have always loved the way they look, but they keep getting moved around my stamp room as I make room for new things. Out of sight, out of mind, I guess. In my current creative chaos, the embossing folders moved over by the die cutting machine and it's like I've got a whole new stash of goodies to play with! I guess that's the pay off of 30 years of collecting craft supplies!

For this card I dumped out my Snowy Pastel Ephemera bits and pulled together a few I wanted to use.  Isn't this sweet girl critter so sweet? I cut a little slit in the coffee mug ephemera to slip her hand under the handle, then tucked a little flower behind her. For the background, I pulled out the Perfectly Plaid stencil that is part of the Enjoy this Life bundle and used distress sprays and spritzes in salvaged patina and chipped sapphire to create the background. I love how the sprays give a dissipated look to the color. Snow fun!

I finished off the card with a white scallop mat and a strip of Snowy Pastel paper. I added a little chipboard snowflake, embellished with a flatback pearl, and then added to the top folding A2 card base that I had embossed with a snowflake embossing folder.

This time of year my cards often get a little gift accompaniment. For this coordinating gift card pocket, I chose a similar but smaller ephemera piece. The gift card pocket is so super simple. It's a 3" x 6" piece of patterned paper, folded in half and glued on the two sides. I punched a half circle as a little thumb notch, then embellished with more patterned paper and some ribbon and jingle bells. Super fun and quick.

Thanks so much for stopping by today! I hope you have a fabulous day!

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Birthday Wishes and a Hop

Hello sweet friends! Today I'm excited to be taking part in an Instagram Hop with a bunch of other crafty friends to celebrate Creative Worship Stamps (formerly Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps) 17th year in business! Wow! Korin and I started our stamp companies only a few months apart, so it's hard to believe it's already been that long.

There's an awesome prize up for grabs along the hop, so you'll want to head on over to Instagram to start the hop. Their Black Friday Sale kicks off today as well, so it's a great time to grab any goodies you've had your eye on. It's been such a sad time lately in the stamp industry seeing so many small stamp companies close, if you are able, I urge you to support the amazing companies that are still around like Creative Worship Stamps.

A while after I closed Verve, I had the privilege to work closely with Korin behind the scenes at Sweet and Sassy Stamps for a few years. I also illustrated a line of stamps under the J Tilman Designs label. So for my card today I thought I would combine some of the stamps I illustrated with the Texture Tiles stamps that drew me in to the company way back when.

I started by stamping out the flowers and leaves from Forever Loved. I colored them up with Copic markers (R01, R20, R22, YG23, YG63, YG67), then cut with the coordinating Forever Loved Dies.

The background started with some neutral graph paper. I blended tattered rose distress oxide and over coffee Catherine Poolker inks, then did some smooshing with the same colors. Next I went in to add some texture with the Script and splatters stamp from the Texture Tiles 1 stamp set.  

For the sentiment, I created a banner with the opposite side of the same paper, embossing the sentiment from Joyful Day in brown, and then stamping over it with the splatter texture stamp.I then tore another strip of that paper and sponged with Over Coffee ink and then stamped with the crackle texture from Texture Tiles 6.  

I found a scrap of muslin and a mini doily in my stash, so decided to layer them up on the background, and then I pulled out some sprays to do some splattering.  I used Saltwater Taffy and Vintage Photo Distress Spritz as well as some watered down bleed-proof ink.  Once the background was how I wanted it, I layered on the flowers and sentiment, then finished off with a seam binding bow that I inked up here and there with tattered rose distress oxide and then painted with a light coating of fairy fluff magicals.

Thanks so much for stopping by today! I hope you have a fabulous day and enjoy the hop!

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