Candy Canes and Peppermints, Oh My!

 All my posts this week will be holiday themed using the September Papertrey Ink release. I'm so excited to have been invited as a Guest Designer for such a great company!

This card is all about candy canes and lollipops! The peppermint and candy canes were die cut from the Gingerbread Builder Die set. This set is filled with so many little elements that go beyond just a gingerbread cookie. It's a must have in your holiday crafty stash! I also went extra on the glitter accents :)

The borders on this set use the Candy Cane Frame Post Card Die for the main white panel, and then in bright red I used the Skinny Ric Rac Die. The sentiment is heat embossed in rose gold powder, and stamped from the Doily Trees Stamp Set.

The final accents on this card include the light pink bow from the Stitched Circle Die and the green element from Reflections: September Die. 

Cards like this are perfect for any holiday that a friend may be celebrating this winter. Thanks for stopping by!

Ho Ho Ho - Vintage Santa with PTI

 I'm thrilled to announce that I am a Papertrey Ink Guest Designer for September! PTI is a company that I've loved since the start of this blog (seriously, search "papertrey ink" in my blog search and there are some oldies but goodies hidden in there!). They have an incredible holiday themed release for the month, and I'll be sharing my cards all week long.

This Santa card is packed with new releases. I love the vintage vibe of the drawing, which uses the Santa stamp from North Pole Mail. The background was first die cut with the North Pole Mail: Postage Stamp Frame Post Card Die. I then heat embossed in silver the two different "ho ho ho" sentiment stamps from This is Big Sentiments: Ho, Ho, Ho.

Now, I didn't want poor Santa's head just floating on the card, so I anchored him with a die cut "ho ho ho" stamped in green. I also gave Santa some festive twigs that were die cut from the Into the Blooms: Swag Die set.

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Yeehaw! Desert Inspired Birthday Card

 September is a HUGE birthday month in my family... we are literally celebrating all. month. long (my own birthday included!). Today happens to be my dad's birthday, so I created this desert themed card just for him. I grew up in Arizona where my parents still live, and the desert is definitely "home". Give me everything cactus related!

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This Concord and 9th Bootcut set is perfect for all my desert needs! I used the smaller images in the stamp set to put together the background panel. I stamped the saguaro with the new Hero Arts Reactive Glitz ink in Byzantine Green and the starbursts with Naples Yellow. You can see how the inks shimmer in the last photo below!

The Yeehaw is a perfect stamp! I stamped here with Versafine Onyx Black ink onto Sand Cardstock, which I cut with a Postage Stamp Infinity Die. I also used the Bootcut dies to cut the cacti and flowers from C9 cardstock.

I did my best to capture all that SHIMMER that's in the new Reactive Glitz inks! It's so pretty!

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Boo! Hey Ghoul-Friends!

 Hey ghoulfriend! I've got some cutie boo-tiful ghosts to share with you today 👻

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I'm really enjoying these Stitched Ghosts (see my previous post for more cuties) and I just love the different sizes and faces that can be made. Each ghost is lightly ink blended with Tumbled Glass. I thought they'd be cute popping out of a big BOO on the card.

The Alphabet Dies are from Hero Arts, and I embossed them with the Ghost 3d Embossing Folder. The colored cardstock is Amethyst and Kiwi.

Boo! Have a great weekend!

Hero Arts + SSS Collab

 I'm sure you are already well aware that it's STAMPTEMBER and yesterday the Hero Arts special collab set dropped! This stamp and die set is very limited. Once it's sold out, it is SOLD. OUT.

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The Celebrate set is beautiful and filled with gorgeous flowers (perfect for coloring) and great sentiments. I didn't grab the dies, but I was able to use my Brother Scan n' Cut to neatly cut these intricate images (best big purchase in my craft room!).

I used my Copic markers to color the gorgeous stamped images. The background uses the Sparkle Weave Stencil that's inked up with brand new Naples Yellow Reactive Glitz Ink (hard to capture on camera, but has an amazing shimmer!). 

For the center area, I stamped some dots (included in the Celebrate stamp set) in brand new Byzantine Green Glitz Ink. The Wood Frame Infinity Die was cut from beautiful Pitch Black cardstock. It's the perfect frame for some gorgeous flowers!

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Halloween Buckets - 90's Style

 I'm loving all the Halloween creations popping up right now. It is always my favorite holiday to create for! The cards I'm sharing today truly hit my 90's nostalgia spot...

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When I saw what my dear friend Wanda was creating with these new Pretty Pink Posh Candy Bucket Dies, the only word that came to mind was NEED!!! There were many years of my life where I would get a Happy Meal every Sunday after church... so you know I collected every single one of these buckets back in the day!

The dies are surprisingly easy to put together, so each of these three cards were done in one quick sitting. Each card starts with a houndstooth pattern paper that I've been hoarding for years... literal years. I can't be the only one that does that...?

Each of the solid cardstocks are from Concord and 9th's Variety Pack, and were inked around the edges with a coordinating Distress Ink. The pumpkin bucket was naturally inked with Carved Pumpkin.

Each card also has a layer of thick Vellum that was dry embossed. To help make the Vellum stand out against the busy pattern paper, I inked the back of the design with the Distress Ink color (here it's Carved Pumpkin).

My Frankenstein bucket was one million percent inspired by Wanda's creation. Each card also has adorable little Stitched Ghosts that are flying out of the buckets. For this bucket, the edges were inked with Twisted Citron.

Aren't those ghosties so cute?! They also come together quickly, and I lightly inked the edge with Tumbled Glass.

For the iconic ghost bucket, I added flying bats instead of ghosts. The bats are from the new Hero Arts Bat Infinity Dies. 

Don't forget your handy white gel pen to add fun eyeballs to your halloween buckets.

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Hero Arts September Release Blog Hop

 This is going to a VERY popular release from Hero Arts! How long have we been eagerly waiting for a full Halloween drop??! The day is here!

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When it comes to Halloween craft products, I get wide eyed OBSESSED over them. It is absolutely my favorite crafty holiday! The card above uses items from the September 2024 Card Kit of the Month. I'd honestly buy it for that haunted house stamp and die alone!

An extra large stamp set with matching dies, a mini stamp set, transfer sheets, glow in the dark lacquer pen, washi tapes, and more more more! Subscribe to the kit today!

Part of the kit is a little mini stamp set which has a variety of funky eyeballs. I used every eye stamp throughout the background of this card, stamped in Orchid and Green Apple. The spooky skeleton stamps (you bet I'll be using those again!) are inked in Charcoal and placed throughout the haunted house.

Now it's time to talk about this haunted house! I embossed it with Black Sparkle Embossing Powder, die cut it with the matching die, and colored the windows with Y15 Copic. The amount of sparkle makes me insanely happy!

My second card today uses the new Bat Infinity Dies. My brain instantly screamed SHAKER CARD! but I can see these being great for scrapbook pages or even home decor banners.

First, a Peony cardstock panel was heat embossed with White powder using the September Cling Stamp of the Month. I die cut 3 of the larger sized bats from the Peony panel. 

I used foam tape to make each bat an individual shaker slot, filled with Hero Arts orange sequins from an old kit. This way, the sequins will never drop all the way to the bottom and will always be seen. I die cut a couple smaller bats from Pitch Black cardstock to glue throughout the open spaces of the card. A simple "BOO!" stamped in Papaya ink finishes off the card!

Thank you so much for joining me and leaving a comment! Make sure your comment is not "anonymous" so you're entered for a chance to win a $50 Hero Arts gift certificate woohoo!

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