Peacock Backdrop Thank You Card

Hello and welcome to my blog! Today I am up on the Kat Scrappiness blog with a card using some old and new products from the KS store! I made a thank you card because you can never have too many of those! One of my favorite techniques is ink blending and especially in rainbow colors! I just love to make an ink blended rainbow and then cut a pattern out of it.  Here's the short and sweet on how I made my card.

I started with a base of Bristol Smooth cardstock and did some ink blending with some Distress inks in rainbow colors.  I die cut the rainbow panel using the Peacock Backdrop Die. I love how the peacock pattern showed up really well through the rainbow colors!

I cut the rainbow panel down to a smaller rectangle size so I could layer it on to another piece of cardstock.  I embossed another panel with some larger polka dots and adhered the rainbow panel to that.

The last step was to die cut the Thank You Brush Script Word Die out of white paper and lay that on top of the rainbow panel. I decorated the entire card with Pink Heart Droplets, Blue Heart Droplets

and White Jewels for some extra sparkle!

Here's another pic with all of the supplies pictured:

I love how this card came out and I love the pattern in the Peacock Backdrop Die! I hope this gave you some new ideas about using your cover dies!

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Have a great day, I already am!

🦚  Lisa  🦚 

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DIY Stencils with the Kat Scrappiness Heart Panel Die and a Video

Since I got the Heart Panel Die from Kat Scrappiness, I've been thinking that it would make an awesome stencil.  After some internet browsing I found out that you can buy full size acetate sheets just to make your own stencils! GENIUS!! I found this listing on Amazon for 12x12 stencil sheets:

12 pcs 7 mil Blank Stencil Sheets, 12x12 inch Mylar Template Stencil Material

I only paid 7.99 for this item but at the time I am writing this post the price is listed as $9.69. 

Still a good price since it comes out to $1.23 per sheet and you can get 4 stencils from 1 sheet by cutting each sheet into four 6x6 individual sheets. 

That's roughly 30 cents a stencil! You can't beat it. Now you can make your dies do double duty.  It's like getting 2 products in one! These sheets cut very easy in my die cut machine and I can't wait to cut some more!

Here is the card I made after I used my homemade stencil with the Heart Panel Die.

I used the Happy Valentine's Day sentiment from the Kat Scrappiness Say It With Hearts stamp set and I stamped it on to one of the dies from the Stitched Sentiment Strips.

What a fun technique and it's amazing how many possibilities there are just with the cover dies alone from Kat Scrappiness! Check out the patterns in these cover dies, 

I bet they would make gorgeous stencils!

Medallion Coverplate

Star Fusion Coverplate

Fancy Floral Coverplate

Peacock Backdrop Die

I have a video showing the process of making the stencil and the card.

You can watch it here or on YouTube.

I hope you enjoyed learning about DIY stencils and that you'll give it a try as well!

Have a great day, I already am!

💓Lisa 💓

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at no additional cost to you. These

are products that I may have been sent

or ones that I purchased on my own.

Either way, they are products that I 

use frequently and LOVE!

Pumpkin Spice & Everything Nice

It's my turn today on the Kat Scrappiness blog.  Pumpkin Spice season is fast approaching and today's card should put you in the mood!  I wanted to use the Layered Coffee Cup Die to create a Pumpkin Spice Latte card and I thought it would look great against a fall colored background.  To make such a background I decided to watercolor with some Distress Inks.  I took 3 colors, Mustard Seed, Spiced Marmalade and Peeled Paint and I watercolored a background and then splattered it with black paint. 

After it dried I took my Peacock Backdrop Die and cut it out.  

The next step was to cut out a piece of brown paper with the Stitched Scalloped Rectangle Die.  I used the 2 largest sizes in the set and I nested them in each other and ran them through my vagabond.  That left me with a frame that I could put around the watercolor panel to finish it off.

  

Once I had my background done I moved on to creating the coffee cup for the front of the card. I die cut the Layered Coffee Cup Die

 in dark brown, the koozie in craft and the top in white. I used a white gel pen to add stitching around the coffee cup and koozie to give it a finished look. 

I added a pumpkin die cut from my stash to the front of the koozie. I cut it out in orange paper and  dry embossed it using a polka dot embossing folder to give it some texture. 

I thought that this pumpkin could use a little something extra so I popped a dark brown heart to the front for some extra cuteness. 

Now that the coffee cup was finished, I needed a little something to adorn the top of the coffee cup. I wrapped a piece of twine around the top of the cup and hand punched the word "enjoy" out with a mini tag punch.  I didn't have the word enjoy in a stamp in a font I liked so I computer generated it.

Now I needed a sentiment so I printed out a cute one using the same font as the little "enjoy" tag.  I layered the sentiment onto a piece of orange card stock. 

Inking the edges really allowed it to stand out. 

Last but not least I added Orange Jewels all around the sentiment and the 

coffee cup for some added sparkle!

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All in all I think that this card came out beautiful!

Hope you enjoy!
Have a great day, I already am!

☕️ Lisa  ☕️

Products Used:

• Layered Coffee Cup Die
• Mustard Seed
• Orange Jewels
• Peacock Backdrop Die
• Peeled Paint
• Spiced Marmalade
• Stitched Scalloped Rectangle Die