Love and Hope

Hello and welcome to my blog! 

Today I'm up on The Rabbit Hole Designs blog and I have 2 cards

for you using the Put a Bow on It stamp set that was recently released.

This stamp set is so elegant and can be used in so many different ways!

For the release I colored it up, cut it out and used it as a focal point

on the front of a gate fold card with a shutter mechanism on the inside.

On today's cards I decided to stamp directly on to my card and 

heat emboss the images in gold.

For the first card I stamped the bow image and "Love" sentiment multiple times 

randomly all over a white card stock panel cut to 5 1/2" x 4 1/4" with 

Ranger Watermark Resist Ink. I love this ink as it gives a clean and crisp

impression every time and is super sticky.

Next I sprinkled WOW Gold Embossing Powder all over

the stamped images and hit them with my heat gun.

I love watching the transformation of gold powder when it melts,

it's truly magical and I never get tired of seeing it.

The next step was to die cut the largest rectangle from the 

Kat Scrappiness Stitched Scalloped Rectangle dies from gold glitter paper.

I adhered the scalloped rectangle to the embossed panel and since it 

was slightly smaller, it allowed some of the images to peek out around

the edges.  I love that look.

For the second card I repeated the steps of stamping the bow randomly over

the white card stock and heat embossing with gold but this time

I decided to a bit of watercoloring inside of the bows with some pretty pinks. 

Once the bows were colored I stamped the sentiment "Hope" 

from the Put a Bow on It stamp set in pink ink.

I once again used the largest rectangle from the Kat Scrappiness 

Stitched Scalloped Rectangle dies but this time from pink glitter paper.

I backed the rectangle with acetate so I could create a shaker card this time.

I included some pink sequins from The Rabbit Hole Designs Fearless Bundle

as well as a mix of sequins from the Kat Scrappiness sequin shop.

I'm loving how these two cards came out and I love how versatile

the Put a Bow on It stamp set is.

Thanks so much for stopping by today.

Have a great day, I already am!

💘Lisa 💘

Peonies in Gold

Welcome back to my blog! I am up on The Rabbit Hole Designs blog today and I have 2 cards to share with you using the new release Pretty in Peony stamp set.

Did you ever have an idea in your head for a card and when you actually sat down to make it,  you couldn't make it look like the picture in your head?   It always amazes me when that happens because I see it so clearly yet I just can't reproduce it.  It is very frustrating and sometimes I wind up creating something different but still very beautiful.  This was one of those times.  These 2 cards started off as an idea to have very bright flowers pop against a very stark black background.  Although I like how they came out, they started out very different in my head! 

Card Recipes

• I began by stamping the peonies in clear versamark ink on watercolor paper and heat embossing them in gold.  

• Next I took my Zig clean color markers and did some quick coloring with 2 colors for the flowers and 2 colors for the greenery.  

• Once I had the color down, I took a small wet paintbrush to move the color around for a loose watercolored look.  What a therapeutic technique!

• I took the flowers and leaves over to my scan n cut and cut them all out.

• I prepped 2 card bases in black, both with a Kat Scrappiness Stitched Scalloped Rectangle die. One rectangle I embossed with a diagonal striped embossing folder.

• For the sentiments, on the first card I used a Thank You die from my stash and cut it out in gold glitter paper to match the outline of the flowers. On the second card I stamped a sentiment from the set in clear versamark ink and heat embossed it in gold on to a small scalloped rectangle.

• I popped the some of the flowers up on foam tape to give them some dimension.

Thank you so much for joining me today on the blog.  I hope you have enjoyed my cards and make sure to check out all of the brand new items in the shop! The Rabbit Hole Designs has just added 5 fun new dies to their inventory and you're going to want to check them out!

Caffeinated Bee die

Caffeinated Crab die

Caffeinated Flamingo die

Caffeinated Octopus die

Caffeinated Unicorn die

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 🌸

Paper Sweeties April 2019 New Release Sneak Peeks and Video

Welcome to my blog crafty friends!

I'm glad you're here because Paper Sweeties recently underwent

a website makeover and it's bright, beautiful and very user friendly!

In other fun news, today starts the New Release sneak peeks for the

brand new April stamp set! Make sure to head on over to the new

shop and blog and take a look around!

This month Paper Sweeties is releasing the 

Hello Stamp Set with matching Sweet Cuts Dies!

Here are pictures of both:

This stamp set features the beautiful Hello sentiment in a flirty font with

lots of additional sentiments to pair it with. It also has 2 flowers and 

2 different size leaves.  The matching dies have the beautiful hello word

along with both flowers and both leaves.

For my card I decided to do some gold embossing over an 

bright ink blended background.

I used Picked Raspberry and Spiced Marmalade

Distress Inks blended over a piece of Bristol Smooth

card stock. I took the flower stamp and the leaf stamp

from the Hello set and stamped them in Versamark Ink

so I could heat emboss them with WOW gold embossing powder.

I placed the Hello die cut on to a 

Sweet Cuts Scalloped Rectangle Frame cut from vellum.

I finished the card off with a beautiful bow made 

from Licorice Seam Binding and 3 sequins 

from the Cupcake Sprinkles mix.

I made a video tutorial to show you exactly how I made this card.

You can watch it here or on YouTube:

Thanks for stopping by my blog today, don't forget to 

check back tomorrow for Release Day!

Make sure you visit all of the other New Release Team members blogs to 

see what they have created for the sneak peeks!

Debbie Marcinkiewicz - Paper Sweeties

Jinny Newlin

Karen Letchworth

Larissa Heskett

Lisa Golzbein

Mackie Robertson

Maria Patrick

Have a great day, I already am!

🌸Lisa 🌸