Spring Is Coming!

Sunday, February 25, 2018


It's been such an honor and pleasure to be Dare 2B Artzy's February guest designer....thank you, Cindy and Kendra!  There are so many wonderful stamps, dies and pattern paper in the store and I've had so much fun playing with some of the newest goodies which reminded me of spring (which can't get here soon enough for me)!
 
 

 My first card today features April Showers.  I love this darling little girl and her cute rain boots, raincoat and umbrella!  I created a 'stormy' background with distress oxide inks and added the rainbow cut from cardstock.  I stamped the girl image on the card and then popped up a copic colored image on top to give a 3D effect.  The puddle and raindrops were colored and then I added glaze to make the appearance of water.


This first card took a little bit of time to put together, but the second card (below) took no time at all.  Both cards were so much fun to create!

  
For this card, I layered pink and blue cardstock then added the bright yellow piece cut with the new Trellis Background Die.  The pretty plaid pattern paper is from the Summertime Petals Collection.  The vases were actually cut from the Pitcher This Paper pattern using the Water Pitcher Dies!  Doesn't get easier than that!  The sentiment from the Refresh The Soul stamp set is white embossed.
 

Many of the new papers have dies that coordinate with images making it super easy to create cards, scrapbook pages, tags and more!  Hope you'll stop by the Dare 2B Artzy store and check 'em out!





Kathy

Reverse Confetti Inspiration Station

Thursday, February 22, 2018




Each week, one of the Confetti Crew shares a project which was inspired by a photo. Inspiration Station is then shared exclusively with our newsletter subscribers.  The newsletter also contains upcoming news, promotions and more!  Why not sign up today so you won't miss a single edition!  

Here's a sneak peek at my card for this week's newsletter...

Kathy

Bear Hearts

Monday, February 19, 2018

 Valentine's Day may be behind us, but there's still plenty of LOVE being shared at STAMPlorations!  There are so many fun, new things in the shop like the one I'm featuring today -- and everything is 10% off for a limited time!
 
  
For my card, I began by creating an alcohol ink base then used gold embossing paste over the Honeycomb Delight Mini Stencil.  These sweet heart-hugging bears are from the new Romantic Expression 2 set (this is one of three new sets in the Romantic Expressions series released this month). I stamped one of the sentiments on an oval die cut, colored in the hearts and edged in yellow ink.

Thanks to these challenges for the inspiration:









 
 



 


Be sure to stop by the STAMPlorations Blog today to see the wonderful Design Team projects featuring the new Romantic Expressions stamp sets!


Kathy

Alpaca Love

Sunday, February 18, 2018


It's been great guesting this month with Dare 2B Artzy!  There are so many fabulous new products that are so fun to play with like this Spit Happens stamp set and Alpaca coordinating dies!


For my card, I  embossed a brick background and used a strip of pattern paper from one of the new designs in the Summertime Petals Collection.  The super cute alpaca and cactus images from the Spit Happens stamp set were copic colored.  The sentiment was white embossed on black cardstock.  Though I went with a general sentiment for this card, there are a few sentiments in this set that really make me laugh and I'm looking forward to using them for a few future cards :)
 

There are so many fun new products and Dare 2B Artzy is having a Blog Hop to share off some of the amazing new things!!  Be sure to follow each blog and leave comments along the way for your chance at winning!  A randomly chosen winner will be selected from one of the blogs, so the more you comment, the more chances you have to win!!

Winner will receive a stamp set and stencil of their choice!!  Blog Hop ends tonight Sunday, February 18th at 7:00pm Central.  Then a winner will be posted!
  
Use code FEBHOP10 for 10% off your order!!!


Here is the entire hop list:

Be sure to leave some love for each of the Artzy Designers!!



Kathy

Saturday Coffee Cafe - A Good Idea

Saturday, February 17, 2018

 Happy Saturday!  The CafĂ© is open on the Coffee Lovers Cardmakers blog and I’m really glad you stopped by!

A good idea.  That’s how my weekend started.  My daughter is co-planning a baby shower and had a good idea for the perfect baby shower gift she wanted to create.  Since she’s away at college and was only coming home this weekend, she did some things from school, I did some things here and yesterday we ran all over to get the things we still needed for this good idea! (see below)




For my card, I started by creating a background with distress oxide inks.  I cut kraft cardstock with Mama Elephant’s Tri Window Cover die.  The fabulous coffee cup images are from Honey Bee Stamps Coffee Break.  I used Verve Stamps ‘coffee’ word die and a sentiment from SugarPea Designs Caffeine Addict to finish.




Thankfully, I was (and still am) fully fueled on caffeine, because coffee IS always a good idea when you gotta get ‘er done.  The cafĂ© would not have been open today, nor the perfect baby shower gift would have come together, otherwise!!

 
 Lots of pink tissue wrapping and love!


Kathy

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