Hooray for the Graduate!

Hello crafty friends! It is April and that means graduation season is upon us! 
My daughter Brooke is graduating this month with her Bachelors in Social Work and I couldn't be more proud!

I am up on the  Kat Scrappiness  blog today and I have a very bright and colorful card to share with you. What better way to celebrate a graduate than with a gorgeous rainbow to show them how bright their future will be?

 Kat Scrappiness has a fun rainbow die called After the Rain  and it cuts out 7 individual arcs for your rainbow. I chose to only use 6 arcs for my rainbow in the interest of space but you could add one more arc and use any color palette you like.  I made a similar card previously with a pastel color scheme and it came out lovely!

To start off with I took a sheet of white card stock and cut out a panel using the largest die from the Stitched Rectangle Dies and I stenciled on a beautiful cloud background for my rainbow. Once I was happy with how the clouds looked I began adding in my rainbow one arc at a time.

I wanted to add a couple of stitched clouds to my card so I used the Stitched Puffy Clouds and die cut 3 of the 4 different sizes to add around my card. I made sure to hang one cloud off the side of my card for a more organic look.

For the sentiment on my card I knew I wanted a big bold die cut in black and white so the Hooray with Shadow Die was the perfect addition. This die comes with 2 layers so you can cut out a shadow for your word and it was just what this card called for. I added a smaller sub-sentiment to make this a graduation card in black and white as well.

The only thing left to do was add some sparkle and shine so I reached for the 

Tear Shaped Water Droplets to decorate this pretty rainbow with. 

I also used the Embellishment Pick Up Tool and the Embellishment Sorting Tray to help me apply all of the clear droplets. These 2 tools make for such easy placement of embellishments and the embellishment tray is triangular which makes clean up a breeze. All those tiny droplets just fall back into the bag with ease because of the shape of the tray.

Here's one final peak at my card for today with all of the supplies used. I hope you'll check out all of the fun products in the  Kat Scrappiness store and make a rainbow card for that special someone who could use a happy colorful rainbow!

Also if you wanted do some crafty shopping in the next 2 days, there is an Easter Sale going on right now and you could save 15% off of all Easter and Spring products. Just use the code EASTER2021 at checkout!

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Have a great day, I already am!

🌈 🎓  Lisa  🌈 🎓 

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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The Masked Heart

 

Hello and welcome to my blog! Today I have a fun card to share with you using some various Kat Scrappiness dies to make this beautiful one layer card.

All the credit goes to a video I saw recently by Cathy Zielske where she did this technique and I wanted to recreate it with some KS dies today.

Have you ever used masking paper? If not you really should give it a try! It's a lot of fun and you can get some really cool effects with it. Essentially it masks off a part of your paper so you can make a design within a certain shape. Another use is to mask off stamped images so you can ink blend a background around them and maintain a one layer card.

For today's card I will be masking off my card panel using a heart shape opening so that my design will have a heart shape when I pull up the masking paper.

Here's the process:

I started by cutting out a panel of 110 pound Neenah card stock with the largest Stitched Rectangle die.

Next I cut out a piece of masking paper that was just slightly larger than my panel and then I cut a heart out of the center of it using one of the hearts from the Layering Hearts die set. Once the heart was cut from the center of the masking paper I laid the paper over the card stock panel so I could start my stamping.

I chose a simple stamp that resembled a flower and I used 3 different distress oxide inks to stamp the flowers in the heart making sure to overlap the edges of the heart and fill it up completely. Once I stamped all of the flowers in all of the colors, I went back over each of them and did some basic ink blending in the same exact colors.

Once the stamping and ink blending were done it was time for the big reveal!

I made a very short video to show you how it looked when I pulled the masking paper off.

I could watch that video over and over again, it's so satisfying!

Once the heart was revealed it was time to decorate the rest of the card.  I used the Friendship Greetings stamp set for the sentiment. In the center of the heart I stamped the "You are Beautiful" sentiment with black ink and I stamped the second sentiment on black card stock and embossed it with WOW white embossing powder and popped it up on foam tape under the main sentiment.

And of course I cannot leave well enough alone and I just have to add jewels to all my cards!

The Sparkling Clear Jewels are hands down my favorite jewels and I use them on almost every card.

Here is one more look at my card with all of the Kat Scrappiness dies and stamps pictured.

I really had fun making this card and if you haven't tried masking paper on your cards I highly recommend it. There are multiple videos on YouTube showing the various techniques you can do.

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!

Don't forget to follow 

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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!

Frap Bear and PSL's

Hello again, are you ready for some more Fall themed projects?  

I'm up again today on the KaDoodle Bug Facebook page with 

another adorable design team project!  

This just might be the first Fall season ever that I finally try a Pumpkin Spice Latte! 

It might be due to this adorable Frap Bear I found over in the KBD shop! 

Oh she is so stinkin' cute I can't even stand it! 

Since one project was not enough I created 3! 

I made the card pictured above using some patterned paper from Papertrey Ink and the Stitched Scalloped Rectangle Dies from Kat Scrappiness.
I stamped the sentiment onto a Stitched Flag Die also from Kat Scrappiness and layered it onto 2 more in orange and black.

The second project is a tag using the print and cut file from the 

Frap Bear image in the KaDoodleBug shop.  

I die cut a tag out of burlap and added some fun twine and ribbon to the top.

I glittered up the pumpkin and leaves with some sparkly 

Stickles just like in the card above.

 The 3rd and final project was a dashboard I created for my daughter's planner!

She usually wants one of every cute thing I create!  It sure makes for one cute planner!

I sized the Frap Bear down a bit from it's original size to fit on this dashboard.

The background grid stamp is from Papertrey Ink and the "Oh Frap" sentiment 

I cut out using my Brother Scan N Cut and 

added some highlights with my white Gelly Roll pen.

I have been loving these pens in the #10 size.  

They are so bright and white and they go on smoothly on dark paper!

Well that's all the Pumpkin Spice Latte goodness I have for you today! 

I might have to get over to Starbucks, or Dunkin Donuts and finally try one of these 

Pumpkin Spice Lattes after all! 

Enjoy your day and get in some crafty time today with your PSL's!

I'm headed back to the craft table to enjoy mine!

🎃Lisa 🎃