Star Dream Metallic Cardstock for the Win

 Hello friends. Today I am posting for CutCardStock! I’m in the holiday mood and creating fun wintery cards! Star Dream Metallic is perfect to create the shiny stars and sentiments.

Check out this sweet holiday scene complete with Santa and the reindeer!

Snowy Winter Tag and Card

 Getting ready for the holidays here at CutCardStock. Today I am showing you how to create a home decor winter tag plus a matching card!

Vellum Window Fall Card

 Happy Fall! Today I am posting this fun vellum window fall card for CutCardStock. I enjoy Fall weather and love creating cards with leaves and fall colors!

I love how the inside leaves shine through the vellum adding additional layers.

Interactive Halloween Card

 Are you ready for Halloween? I am starting with this fun bat card and posting for  CutCardStock today!

Candy Shop Holiday Decor

 Today I am posting for The Funkie Junkie Inspiration Blog. The theme is Holiday Homecoming: Celebrate with Family and Food. Today I present my candy shop home decor piece. My favorite food is candy!

Compare Distress Oxide Inks on Different Surfaces - What's the Difference?

 Happy Fall my friends! Today I am posting for The Funkie Junkie Boutique. We are presenting fall leafy projects this time around, and I decided to see how stamped Distress Oxide Inks look on different card bases.

I have a YouTube video HERE if you prefer to watch the process.

Choose Your Card Panels

Distress Oxide Inks, a mixture of dye and pigment ink have some unique properties. They show up on darker cardstocks, and seem to light up when spritzed with water. I selected the following types of cardstock to try this out. Cardstocks include Kraft, Cougar White 80 lb., Cougar Natural, Ranger Wood Grained, Black, Dark Brown and Olive Green.

Stamp All the Card Panels

I selected CMS450 Leaf Print 1 for all of the panels, stamping with Seedless Preserves, Rusty Hinge, Crushed Olive, Crackling Campfire and Vintage Photo Distress Oxide Ink Pads. You could also use Leaf Print 2 or another leaf stamp set.

Attach four of the leaf prints to acrylic blocks for ease in stamping. Using the large Maple leaf, ink with Seedless Preserves Oxide Ink. Stamp on the left side of all the bases at an angle. This one happens to be on Natural Cougar Cardstock.

Select another large stamp and ink with Crushed Olive. Stamp this one on the right side at an angle to start a fan inspired print.

Do the same with two additional leaf stamps using Crackling Campfire and Rusty Hinge to fill in the fan.

Using  CMS Shattered Background, ink with Walnut Stain and stamp over the entire panel. After stamping the first one, I changed my approach and left an opening in the center so the leaves weren't stamped over.

Assemble the Cards

Prepare Kraft A2 card bases for all the panels except the black panel. It is mounted on a white card base with an orange panel to highlight the leaves.

Trim the panels to 3.75 x 5.0 inches using the Deckle Edge Trimmer. This adds some interest to the cards. 

Here is the leaves stamped on dark brown cardstock.

Select Gratitude Small Talk Stickers from the book. Note: this is an older product I have in my stash. You could use Tiny Text stamps or other small sentiment stamps to make your own strips.

Glue the strips on white cardstock to add dimension. Using a blending tool, ink the sentiments with Cracklin Campfire to add color. Trim the strips and attach to the card panels.

Using a blending tool, add color to the perimeter of the panel prior to adding to the card base. Note - do not ink blend the back or brown panel.

Tie a piece of twine around the panel prior to attaching to the card base.

Add interest to the kraft envelope by stamping a leaf in the lower left front corner in the color of your choice.

Let's Look at all the Difference Between the Panels

White Cougar 80 lb. Cardstock

Ranger Wood Grain Card Stock - I love the additional texture.

Natural Card Stock

Brown Card Stock

Black Card Stock

Green Card Stock

Thanks so much for stopping by today! Be sure to visit The Funkie Junkie Boutique! They carry a great variety of products! I'd love to hear which color panel you like the most.  Leave me a comment below.

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Products used:

CMS 450 Leaf Print 2 (I used Leaf Print 1) 

Seedless Preserves Oxide Ink

Rusty Hinge Oxide Ink

Crushed Olive Oxide Ink 

Crackling Campfire Oxide Ink

Vintage Photo Distress Ink Pads

Walnut Stain Distress Ink

Tonic Torn Edge Trimmer

CMS 466 Shattered 

Ideology Small Talk Stickers - Occasions from my stash

Kraft Cardstock

Cougar White 80 lb.

Cougar Natural

Ranger Wood Grained Cardstock

Black Cardstock

Dark Brown Cardstock

Olive Green Cardstock

Americana Home Decor

 Let's celebrate our great country with a fun patriotic tag! Today I am posting today for The Funkie Junkie Boutique!

Ideology Layered Decor Piece

 Hello again friends. I had soooo much fun creating this fun holiday layered piece for The Funkie Junkie Boutique! You can win a $25.00 gift card by using Ideology Christmas Products and tagging The Funkie Junkie Boutique. We will choose one winner.

Make Your Own Ephemera!

 Hello friends. I'm posting for The Funkie Junkie Boutique today. This Saturday Spotlght post is all about creating your own Ephemera using some of the new Sizzix dies including Vintage Labels, Collector and Specimen sets. In the end I created a journal cover, and I will walk you along creating the collection of ephemera pieces.

Check all the fun layers of Vintage Goodness here! 

Altered Mixed Media Box

 Hello Crafty Friends! I had a blast making this Altered Mixed Media box!

Get ready for the Christmas Holiday - Santa Calendar Box

Greetings crafty friends!

So excited to share this Christmas Countdown Calendar I made for our grandsons! Trying to get ahead for Christmas!

Christmas Crafting is in full swing!

Here is a fun scene I created for the Simon Says Challenge this week.

I hope you have a wonderful Thanksging holiday!

More Halloween Fun

Hello friends! I am still playing with the Tim Holtz goblin dies from last year!

For this card, I smooshed many pieces of Canson watercolor to create the distressed bases for the Die Cuts.  The truck is the Holtz Jalopy die modified.  I added the pumpkins from the Crazy Bird accessories plus a Lawn Fawn Stamp Set. The bacgrrouns used a Hero Arts background stamp with Distress inks that I added sprays of water and stamped on watercolor paper.  The monster is from last seasons Holtz release. I glued all pieces and added google eyes to the large monster.

Card 2 started with the Coffe spill small stencil in different distressed inks, blended on the A2 cardbase. The coffee cup from Fresh Brewed Blueprint Set was stamped on watercolor paper and colored with Zig markers.  The monsters are colored with ink smooshing in different Distress inks. I assembled the card, adding google eyes to the left monster who is propped up on a wobbly base!

I hope you all have a joyful day!

Halloween Card Fun.

I had a blast playing with Tim Holtz collage paper and distress inks.  I used Holtz’s Blueprint Halloween stamps for the main images.  I created Frames and backgrounds by distress ink smooshing the backgrounds and using collage medium to attach the collage paper on top.  Once dry, I cut the background and Frames from the paper.  To lighten some of the backgrounds, I used a brayer to apply Picket Fence paint on top.  I embossed a couple of cutouts for embellishments and used other bling from my stash.  Here are the cards I made.