Oh So Cute By Lisa: Distress Oxide Inks

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Wednesday, August 26, 2020

Did Somebody Say Cake?

Hello hello hello! I am so excited because I am up on the Kat Scrappiness blog today with a really fun card I made for my daughter's friend's birthday. I love to take out a bunch of different Kat Scrappiness dies and use them in new and creative ways. Today I decided to make my own stencils with the Nested Layering Heart Dies. I needed to have a heart shaped stencil to do some ink blending in and I didn't have anything like that.

I started by taking the 3 smallest dies in the Nested Layering Heart Dies and cut them out of some 6x6 stencil sheets from The Crafters Workshop. I just love blank stencil sheets because you can create any stencil you want with dies that you already own. How's that for getting double duty out of your supplies!

I just love using my Distress Oxide Inks to do ink blending and I thought it would look really neat to do some ink blending over an embossed background.

I took a piece of Bristol Smooth card stock and stamped the Unity Faithful Letter background stamp in Versamark embossing ink and sprinkled Brutus Monroe Alabaster embossing powder over the panel. I then heated it until the powder was smooth and melted.

Next it was time to put my stencil to work. I placed my handmade heart stencil all over the panel in different positions even overlapping in certain spots and used 2 different color inks on each heart to get some beautiful blends. I had so much fun making a random pattern using my favorite colors. I was sort of going for a rainbow effect as much as possible. I just love the look of the text being highlighted over the heart shapes.

I'll be honest, the ink blending looked way better than I thought it would. I was very happy with how it turned out! Once I liked the layout of the hearts, I used the largest die in the Stitched Scalloped Rectangle dies to cut out the panel and give it a finished edge. I used a bright piece of pink card stock to matte the panel on so it would really stand out.

For the sentiment I wanted a bold black die cut for the front and the Hooray w/ Shadow die was the perfect choice. I used a piece of vellum paper to back the black die cut and it looked great against the bright rainbow colors. The two smaller sentiments are from the Taylored Expressions Simple Strips - Birthday stamp set. I just love the look of white embossing on black paper!

And last but not least, what card would be complete without some Sparkling Clear Droplets?

I love how they let the color show through behind them!

I love how this card turned out and I love how with a little creativity and imagination you can create anything you want. You just have to think outside the box sometimes!

Here's another picture with all of the fun Kat Scrappiness products I used on my card:

Thank you so much for joining me today, I'm so glad you stopped by to check out my latest card and I hope you'll check out all the fun stamps and dies over at Kat Scrappiness!

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Have a great day, I already am!

🎉 Lisa 🎂

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Friday, June 12, 2020

Hooray Times Two

Hello and welcome! Today on my blog I have two very different cards using the same die.

I love how versatile the Kat Scrappiness Hooray with Shadow Die is! It is large enough to stand alone on a card and be the main focal point. All you need is an interesting background and your card practically makes itself. I made 2 very different cards today with the Hooray card. One has lots of ink blending and stenciling in the background while the other is more of a clean and simple type of card.

For my first card today I used assorted Distress Oxide Inks in

rainbow colors to get a polka dot ink blended background.

The first step was to take a piece of Bristol Smooth cardstock and do some ink blending with these Distress Ink colors in this order using an ink blending tool and foam applicators:

I applied these colors to my cardstock with a fairly light hand and then I applied the

Altenew Bubble Wrap stencil to the same panel and went back over the panel with the same colors but using a slightly heavier hand to get the large polka dot stenciled look. I just love how it came out!

Next I used the largest die from the Wonky Wavy Stitched Rectangle Dies to cut a rectangle out from the ink blended panel. I then took the Kat Scrappiness Hooray with Shadow Die and cut the shadow layer out in black and the actual word layer out in white. The layers are so easy to put together because the shadow layer is the perfect matte for the word. I added in an extra sentiment under Hooray to make this a birthday card and then I decorated with my favorite embellishment from Kat Scrappiness, Sparkling Clear Droplets!

I matted the card on a black panel to really make the rainbow colors pop and my card was done.

Here is a look at the card with all the supplies pictured.

For my next card I went a little more CAS but still using the

Kat Scrappiness Hooray with Shadow Die.

I also did some ink blending with Distress Inks on this card but only for the word Hooray.

Once again I did a little ink blending with these 3 colors in this order using an ink blending tool and foam applicators:

Fossilized Amber

Picked Raspberry

Candied Apple

Once I had the blend the way I wanted I cut the word Hooray out of the panel. I just love how those 3 colors blend together to give a warm tropical look! I cut the word Hooray out 4 more times, twice in white and 2 more times in a coral color. I used the white words to give a tone on tone look by adhering them directly to the white card base and the 2 coral words I used to build up the ink blended Hooray die cut. Once I applied the two white Hooray cuts to the top and bottom of the card I did some ink splattering in gold using the Kuretake watercolor paint in gold to add some interest to the background of the card. Once the ink splattering was done I added the ink blended Hooray to the center of the card and finished off the card with some Altenew Gold Sequins

Here is a look at the card with all the supplies pictured.

Although I don't often make CAS cards, I like how this one came out!

Thanks so much for joining me today! Head over to Kat Scrappiness to check out all of the amazing sentiment dies with shadows!

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Have a great day, I already am!

🌈 Lisa 🌈

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I only promote products I actually use and think

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Tuesday, November 12, 2019

Coffee Gnomes

Good morning and welcome to my blog!

Today I am up on the Coffee Loving Cardmaker's blog and I have some holiday themed

caffeinated inspiration to share with you in my ICU!

Today in the "Intensive Coffee Unit" I have a pair of tags with some

Coffee Drinking Gnomes!

This Simon Says Stamp Gnome Wafer Die is just too cute and I know the second

I put that cute little gnome together he/she needed a coffee cup to go with!

The Karen Burniston Coffee Charms Dies were the perfect size to pair with this

gnome die cut and I distressed them with some Gathered Twigs Distress Oxide Ink.

I started out with some Simon Says Stamp Stitched Dress Up Tags and die cut

them from some Neenah Desert Storm Cardstock.

To give these tags a fun background I used the Echo Park Shine on Stars Stencil

and taped it down to the tag with some Therm O Web Purple Tape.

Next I sponged over the stencil with some Tumbled Glass Distress Oxide Ink on

one tag and Picket Fence Distress Oxide Ink on the other.

While the stencil was still in place over the tags I also layered on some

Gina K Glitz Glitter Gel to add some holiday sparkle!

For the sentiments on my tags I used stamps and dies from the

Simon Says Stamp Clean Line Christmas Stamps and Dies.

I used vellum to stamp on so that the background would show through.

I love how the dies cut out the exact shapes of the sentiments, it such a clean look.

I will be entering my tags in the 25 Days of Christmas Tags put on
by Tracey McNeely each year.
I was inspired by Becca Yahrling's tag this year.
I love how she made a white patterned background on her kraft tag,
so I recreated that look on my tags here today.
Have a look, so cute!

Thanks so much for stopping by today, if you have any questions

about my tags, feel free to leave a comment below.

Have a great day, I already am!

☕️🧙🏻‍♂️Lisa 🧙🏻‍♂️☕️

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Saturday, October 26, 2019

Day 26 of the 31 Days of Halloween Spooktacular Video Hop | Mummy Card

Hello and Happy early Halloween everyone!

Technically it's only 5 days away so it's not that early and all month long

Katy from Hook Line and Inker has been hosting a Halloween Video Hop on YouTube.

It's called The 31 Days of Halloween Spooktacular Video Hop!

31 Days

31 Crafters

31 Videos

ONE BIG PRIZE!

To be eligible for the prize drawing at the end, you must

hop along and leave a comment on ALL 31 videos.

Here is a link to the blog post that will be updated daily with the

link to that day's video:

31 Days of Halloween Spooktacular Video Hop

You can watch my video here :

or click on this link to watch on YouTube
Mummy Card Video

The 26th day of the hop belongs to me and I made a
Halloween card that I am in love with!

How cute is that adorable little Mummy???

I used the super cute Unity Mummy Stamp and I just love how easy it was to color!

There is lots of shading lines on the stamp so it was like a roadmap to show you

where to put your darker colors.

I included the coloring in my video so you can

see the process. I also have been loving ink blending lately and I used

3 different colors of purple Distress ink on my card for the background.

I couldn't decide if I wanted a background with or without a moon or if

I wanted white stars or glittered stars so I made both.

I used The Rabbit Hole Designs Circles and Stars Stencil with Gina K Glitz Glitter Gel.

For my final card I decided on the moon with the glittery stars but here is

what the other 2 backgrounds looked like.

For the finishing touches on the card I added some

Lawn Fawn Quinn's ABC's dies for the word "boo" and I backed

them with foam to make them dimensional. I also added some bats from the

Kat Scrappiness Crafter's Essentials - Fall Dies

I really enjoyed everything about this card and I hope you enjoy my

YouTube video! Below is a list of all the supplies (with links) that I used to make this card.

If you have any questions at all please don't hesitate to

Thursday, October 24, 2019

Light Up Halloween

Good morning and welcome to my blog, if this isn't your first visit than welcome back!

Today I am up on The Rabbit Hole Designs blog and I have a fun Halloween card to share with you!

You've got to love a holiday that says......"It's ok to combine orange and purple with each other!"

You wouldn't think that these colors would look good together but I just love them

blended next to each other! Maybe it's that they are so opposite, they do say opposites attract!

Anyway, I just love the color combination and I love the way this card turned out!

The best part about this card is the light up pumpkin!

I used the EZ Lights by Pear Blossom Press.

These lights are super easy to use and make easy work of making light up cards!

They consist of one battery pack attached to 3 mini lights.

I placed the 3 lights under the pumpkins eyes and nose.

Here is a quick recipe for my card:

1) I used the largest Wavy Wonky Rectangle die from Kat Scrappiness to cut a

panel out of Bristol Smooth card stock. (I love this paper for blending Distress Oxide Inks)

2) Blend Distress Oxide inks: Carved Pumpkin into Spiced Marmalade on the bottom and

Wilted Violet into Shaded Lilac at the top. Next I spritzed the panel with water using the

Tim Holtz Distress Sprayer and dry to give your background a distressed look.

3) Stamp Happy Halloween from the "Boo To You" stamp set in black

ink at the top of the panel and add the little spider around the words.

4) Add grassy border at the bottom of the panel to ground your card. I used patterned paper

from the Queen and Co Dots Paper Pad and I cut it out using the Lawn Fawn

Grassy Border Die. I also sponged the top of the grass with dark green ink to give it a little depth.

5) Stamp the pumpkin image from "Hey Gord-geous" in Gina K Amalgam Ink

and color in with various Copic Markers. I added Gina K Glitz Glitter Gel to

hat, eyes and mouth for a little sparkle. Die cut pumpkin with matching die.

6) Lastly tape the EZ Light battery pack to a piece of black cardstock measuring

5 1/2" x 4 1/4" and place foam tape all over panel avoiding battery pack.

I placed my battery pack on the bottom left of the card

and threaded the 3 lights up through the bottom right of the main panel. I adhered the

3 small lights to the back of the pumpkin behind the eyes and mouth. I placed my pumpkin on foam tape to leave room for the lights and then I adhered the main panel down to the black panel.

Press purple button on battery pack and prepare to be amazed!

** I added a small half circle over the battery pack and hand wrote

"push here" however there are stamp sets available that already have these sayings.

Here is one by Lawn Fawn:

Push Here Stamp and Die Set

This card was so much fun to make and the EZ lights make quick work of light up cards!

In no time you can have a fun interactive card that will amaze your recipient!

Thanks so much for stopping by my blog today!

Don't forget that you can purchase The Rabbit Hole Designs products at

Simon Says Stamp!

For more inspiration, updates, and news make sure to check out these links.

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Have a great day, I already am!
🎃Lisa 🎃

Disclaimer: My blog uses affiliate links

whenever possible at no additional cost to you.

I only promote products I actually use and love

and think other crafters might enjoy as well!

Tuesday, June 11, 2019

Wishing You Love & Coffee

Hello coffee lovers and welcome to Lisa's *ICU (Intensive Coffee Unit)

I am so excited to be joining the Coffee Lovers design team and today I'm sharing my first

project with you. I had so much fun with the SugarPea Designs products from

National Iced Tea Day yesterday I thought I'd make one more card with the

Coffee To Go Cup dies while they were on my desk. While I do enjoy a hot cup of coffee,

my favorite is definitely Iced Coffee. It has always been a favorite of my Mom and I guess I

inherited her taste for it. You might be surprised to hear that my favorite place to get Iced Coffee is McDonalds. I'm not really a fan of Starbucks, their coffee is too strong for me. I actually like a little coffee in my cream if truth be told.

😂😂😂

Along with the Coffee To Go Cup dies I also used another SugarPea Designs stamp set called

Special Delivery for the heart accents on the coffee koozies,

the stripes on the straws and the sentiment.

Here is the card recipe:

I started with a kraft colored A2 card base.
For the base layer on my card I cut a white panel out of the largest Stitched Scalloped Rectangle dies from Kat Scrappiness.
Next I used Ground Espresso Distress Oxide Ink to sponge over a Gina Marie Coffee Bean Stencil. I made sure to fade it out towards the edges, I love that look.
After I die cut the pieces from the Coffee To Go Cup dies, I stamped the heart images from the Special Delivery stamp set in green on the koozies The postal stripes stamp from the Special Delivery set were perfect for adding stripes to the straws!
I made sure to cut the lids from the Coffee To Go Cup dies out of vellum so you could see through them to the whipped cream on top. I sponged some beige ink on the cream to give it some dimension.
The sentiment from Special Delivery was stamped in Cocoa Bean ink from Papertrey Ink on top between the coffee cups.
For the finishing touch on the bottom of the card I completed the sentiment by cutting out the "coffee" portion of the "Got Coffee" sentiment die from Kat Scrappiness out of brown paper.

I really love how this card turned out and I am so glad you were able to spend some

time with me today in my own personal "ICU". I'll be back again with another caffeinated

creation on the 25th! Here's hoping you get in some card making and coffee time today!

Have a great day, I already am!

☕️Lisa ☕️

Sunday, May 5, 2019

Angie's Digital Stamps May Challenge

Hello again crafty friends!

It's time for another fun challenge over at Angies Digital stamps!

The design team has created some wonderful projects
for this month's challenge.

The theme for May is Anything Goes.

It is challenge #31 and it runs from 5/5/19 - 5/31/19.

Here is my card for this month:

For my card this month I chose to use the adorable sentiment

"You Make My ❤️Jump For Joy" from Angies shop.

I took 6 heart shaped die cuts colored with Distress Oxide

inks and matted them on black Kat Scrappiness Stitched Scalloped Hearts.

I made a long thin card measuring 8 1/2" x 3 3/4"

instead of the standard A2 size card so I could fit all

the hearts on the card.

If you shop Kat Scrappiness for any of the linked products you

can save 10% off your order by using my code LISA10 at checkout!

I love how this card turned out and I hope you'll all play along with us

this month at Angies!

Enjoy your day, I already am!

❤️🧡💛Lisa 💚💙💜

Thursday, March 14, 2019

Crabby Beach Shaker

Good morning and welcome to my blog!

Today I'm up on the The Rabbit Hole Designs blog with my
second guest designer project for March.

I had a lot of fun creating a beachy card for you with some
actual Florida sand and one very tired crab!

For my card I used the newly released Caffeinated Crab stamp.
How cute is he with that coffee cup in one hand and a doughnut in the other!
Here are the steps to create this card:

First I stamped my crab in black ink and colored him in with my Zig markers, then cut him out with my Scan n Cut machine and put him aside.
For my background I took a piece of smooth card stock and blended 3 colors of Distress Oxide inks over the Water Ripples stencil from La-La Land Crafts. Broken China, Stormy Sky and Tumbled Glass.
Once the background was complete I took the largest Kat Scrappiness Wonky Wavy Stitched Rectangle die and the next size smaller to cut out a panel and a frame at the same time. I adhered acetate to the frame portion and built it up the edges with foam tape.
Next step was to skip work and spend the day at the beach🏖☀️⛵️⚓️Well how else was I going to collect sand for my shaker card???
Pour authentic Jupiter beach sand and some beautiful Frozen II sequin mix on to base of card. I also glued some sequins to the top of the base so they would stay in view when the shaker was shaking!😂 (Kat Scrappiness literally has hundreds of sequins and mixes to choose from!)
Cover base with shaker guts in place with prepared acetate backed frame.
Last step was to send that tired crab to the beach for some much needed R & R! I added a sand castle for him to sleep in and a beach ball so he could play with his friends!
Oh yeah one more thing....... shake card for all family members to see and hear until they're annoyed and tell you to go away.🤦🏼‍♀️🙅🏼‍♂️🙅🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♂️

I'm super happy with my little beachy card and I hope you'll
try out a shaker card with some fun elements too!
Tell your boss Lisa said it's ok to skip work and go to the beach!

If you are interested in any of the supplies that I linked to in
the Kat Scrappiness store you can use code LISA10 to save 10%
on your entire order anytime!

Thanks so much for joining me today!
Make sure you check out all of the

new release stamps in The Rabbit Hole shop that are available now!

For more inspiration, updates, and news make sure to check out these links.

The Rabbit Hole Designs

The Rabbit Hole Designs Instagram

The Rabbit Hole Designs Facebook Page

The Rabbit Hole Designs Pinterest

The Rabbit Hole Designs YouTube

Have a great day, I already am!

🦀Lisa 🦀