Wonderful Water-Melon Muncher

 

I hope you are enjoying these last days of summer not to mention some yummy summer fruit favorites like watermelon!

For my card, I first layered dark green cardstock to the card base.  I then added this pattern paper layer, putting glaze on the "watermelon pits" to make them shiny.  Using a pierced circle die, I cut dark green, black and lime green cardstock and layered them together for the backdrop for this super sweet MELON MUNCHER image.  The sentiment from this set is white heat embossed on a black cardstock mini tag and I added a lime bow.
 

 

Thinking of You

 

Pretty flowers in a tea cup...now that makes me happy!  It's also making me happy to be a guest designer for Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps this month :)

 

For my card, I used a gorgeous Sweet 'n Sassy set:  In This Together.  This set also comes in a digital option too!  

 

Plus, the sentiments in this set are uplifting and really lovely.

Saturday Coffee Cafe - Mug Shots

 

Happy Saturday and welcome to the Cafe!  I'm so glad you dropped by today to see what's brewing..

Decorating shelves with pretty cups is right up my alley!  I should probably do this in my house because my cabinets are overflowing with mugs...much to my husband's chagrin - LOL.

For my slimline card, I first created the background using Pink & Main's Stained Glass Stencil and brushed on Distress Oxide Ink Antique Linen with one of Pink & Main's Ergonomic Blending Brushes.  The 'shelves' were made from dark brown cardstock cut with Honey Bee Stamps Barn Wood Planks dies.  These adorable mug images are from Catherine Pooler Mug Shots set that I've colored with Copics and the cute planter is from Altenew's Indoor Garden set.

Make today awesome...with a pretty mug filled with your favorite caffeinated beverage!

Snow One Like You

 

Merry Christmas!! While I may be finished with my Christmas cards (for now), I am enjoying creating cards with a winter-theme to use for New Year! This has been an amazing year for Pink & Main with so many wonderful stamps, dies, embellishments, new lines and so much more! I can't wait to see what 2022 will bring!

For my slimline card, I cut light blue cardstock with the Stitched Slim Line die and embossed it with the Catch A Wave embossing folder. I created the snowy hills cutting a piece of white cardstock with the Stitched Slimline die and hand cut the slopes. These images from the Snow Sweet Set 2 have to be my favorite snow people -- they are incredibly cute! I added the 'snowflakes' created by using dies in the coordinating Snow Sweet Set 2 Dies set and silver glitter cardstock from the Metallics Glitter Paper Pack.

 

All The Stockings Are Hung

“All the stockings were hung by the chimney with care…”  That’s what kept going through my mind as I was creating with the new Hero Arts Fireplace Stamp & Cut!  I grew up in an apartment – which didn’t have a fireplace – but we still hung my stocking – it was just on a furniture knob in the living room (lol!)

 

The first thing I did was get all the pieces ready:

1.  Cut brown cardstock with the fireplace die from the set.  I then cut black cardstock for the inside of the fireplace.

2.  Stamped and colored all the images.  For the fireplace, being a layered stamp image, the MISTI is a must!  For the logs, I first used Distress Ink Pad Old Paper for the solid stamp, then Distress Ink Pad Walnut Stain for the detailed log stamp.  For the fire, I lined up the solid stamp to fit into the logs and used Distress Ink Pad Candied Apple then lined up the detail stamp to fit into the red flames using Distress Ink Pad Mustard Seed.

3.  I love to fussy cut so I cut out all of the pieces.  If that’s not your thing, these images can be stamped directly onto the card once you decide where you want to put the fireplace die cut.  There is a die to cut out the stocking images.  After I fussy cut the pieces, I edged them using a Tsukinek Sponge Dauber and Distress Ink Walnut Stain.

4.  The ‘framed’ words were created with Lawn Fawn Mini Picture Frames (rectangle shaped die).  I cut the scallop rectangle with kraft paper, then stamped the sentiment from the set on white cardstock and cut it out with the rectangle frame die.

5.  For the background, I cut a piece of white cardstock (4.25” x  5.5”) and dry embossed it with Sizzix 3-D Texture Fades Embossing Folder – Brickwork by Tim Holtz.

6.  After adhering the fireplace die cut to the embossed background with Bearly Art Precision Craft Glue, I arranged all the images as shown using Scrapbook Adhesive 3D foam strips.  These adhesive strips are thin and I could cut small pieces to fit the images.  I love to pop things up, but you could certainly glue the images to the card as well.