Give Thanks Card with Video

Welcome back to my blog. 

Today I'm up on the Kat Scrappiness blog and I have a 

Fall themed card to share with you.

I used one of my favorite techniques on this card and 

I filmed a video to show you the process.

I love to make watercolored backgrounds with Distress Inks and then die cut shapes out of it.  Once the background is colored the way I like it, I splatter some black paint onto it to give it an organic look. For this card I chose some pretty Kelly Purkey feather dies that I've had for a long time. I thought they would go nicely with the theme for this card. 

For this card I used the vase and pumpkin images from the new stamp set called "Happy Fall Y'all". 

I colored the vase with 4 colors of Distress Inks and then I cut the vase out with a die from the 

Stitched Scalloped Oval Dies. The vellum background behind the oval was die cut using the 

Stitched Scalloped Rectangle dies. I arranged the feathers behind the scalloped circle and added some yellow and orange jewels around the vase for some added interest.

Finally I stamped the sentiment on to some brown card stock in Versamark ink and heat embossed it with white powder.  I didn't like how the sentiment looked after I hand cut it so I used my 

Scan n Cut to cut the sentiment out.

Here is the video showing how I made this card or you can watch it on YouTube.

Thank you so much for joining me today!

Don't forget to check out our monthly challenge.  

There will be a different theme every month and a chance to win a $25.00 gift card to the store.

Also if you use my code Lisa10 at KatScrappiness.com you can save 10% on your purchase.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Enjoy your day, I already am!

⚱️Lisa⚱️

Products Used:

• Distress Inks
• Happy Fall Y'all
• Orange Jewels
• Stitched Scalloped Oval Dies
• Stitched Scalloped Rectangle Dies
• Versamark Ink
• Yellow Jewels

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

Coffee Card with Video

Good morning everyone!  I'm up on the Kat Scrappiness blog today I wanted to share a coffee card that I made that has a fun technique to go with it! I used the Fabrika Decoru Enamel Drops to make that cute heart embellishment for the front of the coffee cup.  I have a video for you to watch that shows exactly how I made it.  Some of the artisan coffee shops have the ability to put cool designs into the foam that you see on top of their drinks.  This technique I will show you mimics that look and can be reproduced on your cards!  The Fabrika drops are available in so many colors so the sky is the limit to what you can create!

For my card I used one of the new stamp sets that was just released in the shop called 

Let's Get Caffeinated.  I stamped one of the cute sentiments onto a 

Stitched Scalloped Nesting Tag die with some Distress Ink in Ground Espresso.  I tied a twine bow with multiple layers so it would really have some dimension.  I placed the Layered Coffee Cup die with the Fabrika heart embellishment on the front of the card and the sentiment on some foam tape and the card was done.  The background of the card was cut with the largest die from the Stitched Scalloped Rectangles in some pretty Papertrey Ink polka dot paper. 

The assembly of the card was fairly easy so I won't go into too much detail in this post.  The technique with the Fabrika enamel drops is easier explained in the video. 

Thank you so much for stopping by today!  Don't forget to use code Lisa10 to save 10% on your purchase in the shop!

Also please check out our September challenge this month.  The theme is wine and you could win a $25.00 gift certificate to the shop.  Please stop by and play along!

Have a great day everyone, I already am!

☕️Lisa ☕️

• Distress Ink in Ground Espresso
• Fabrika Decoru Enamel Drops
• Layered Coffee Cup die
• Let's Get Caffeinated
• Stitched Scalloped Nesting Tag die
• Stitched Scalloped Rectangles

Crafty Cards Two Ways and a Giveaway!

It's my turn today over on the Kat Scrappiness blog and I have a real treat for all of you crafty guys and gals out there!  Kat has a new stamp set available in her store this month that is dedicated to the crafter in you! 

It's called Crafters Gonna Craft and you're going to love it!  It has all kinds of crafty themed stamps but I think my favorite one is the marker, or maybe the scissors, or maybe the sequins....  Oh well obviously I can't decide!

The other thing I have a hard time deciding on is what style of card making I like the best. My favorite style is definitely soft colors and a shabby chic theme but I also love to mix it up with bold colors and graphic elements.  I guess I just love to try new things.  Today I thought I'd make two different style cards with the same stamp set.  The first card is bold, bright and graphic.

For this card I started out with some Bristol smooth paper and inked the background with Twisted Citron and Mermaid Lagoon Distress Oxide inks. 

The next step was to take all of the stamps from the Crafters Gonna Craft stamp set and arrange them randomly over the inked background and stamp them repeatedly in different positions.  I made sure to stamp some of them off the page to give a more random look.

After I stamped all of the images I trimmed the panel down with the largest die from the

Distressed Edge Rectangle die set. I spritzed the panel with water droplets to give it a more distressed appearance. The sentiment was stamped with Versamark Ink onto black card stock. The card stock was cut with the smallest die from that same die set and heat embossed with white powder to make it really stand out.  I popped the sentiment up on foam tape to give it some dimension.  To finish off the card and give it a little bit of shine, I added some Sparkling Clear Solid Confetti in the 4mm and 6mm sizes.

For my second card using the same stamp set I turned to my personal favorite style, soft and shabby.

I wanted the graphics on this card to have a very soft look so I pulled out some of my favorite shabby chic patterned paper and stamped the 4 main elements on it and hand cut them out.  I cut a white panel using the largest die from the Stitched Scalloped Rectangle dies and stamped the heart randomly in two different colors and they look as if they are floating around. I used the pretty patterned paper to cover the bottom of that panel.  For the focal point of the card I die cut a tag from the Stitched Scalloped Nesting Tags and embossed it with a pretty script embossing folder. I adhered the glue bottle, marker, scissors and pencil to the tag and covered the bottom with a pretty piece of white lace from my stash. I topped off the tag with a pretty twine bow at the top in mint green to match the color scheme. I stamped the sentiment "Happiness is handmade" under the tag in black to really make it stand out.

To finish off the card I added some Fabrika Enamel Drops in the color Gentle Shabby all around the card. What an appropriately named color for this card!

It always amazes me how different a card can look using the exact same stamp set! The sky is the limit when you are creating and it is one of my most favorite things about this hobby.  If you can dream it, you can create it!

***GIVEAWAY***

I want to give you guys a chance to win this wonderful crafty stamp set so I am having a GIVEAWAY over on my Instagram account.  I am giving one lucky person the Crafters Gonna Craft stamp set. Visit my Instagram account @ohsocutebylisa to play along and you could win this crafty stamp set to add to your collection!

Thanks so much for joining me today!  You can use code Lisa10 at checkout in Kat's shop to save 10% off of your order.

Have a great day, I already am!

  ✏️Lisa✂️

Supplies

• Crafters Gonna Craft
• Distressed Edge Rectangle
• Fabrika Enamel Drops
• Mermaid Lagoon
• Sparkling Clear Solid Confetti 
• Stitched Scalloped Nesting Tags 
• Stitched Scalloped Rectangle
• Twisted Citron

                                                                    

Mini Notecards by Lisa

Good morning crafty friends! 

I'm over on the Kat Scrappiness blog today to bring you a sweet mini trio of notecards. I have an easy technique that I think you are going to fall in love with. We are going to make mini notecards using the nested dies we all love and reach for all the time for our regular sized cards. The finished size of each card is approximately 4 1/8" x 2 3/4". What you need is the largest die from any of your nested die sets.  I've used rectangles but squares would work as well.  The 3 nested die sets I've used are the Stitched Postage Stamp Edge Rectangles, the Stitched Scalloped Rectangles and the Wonky Wavy Stitched Rectangle Dies. 

For my trio of sweet cards I used patterned paper for the card base for some color and variety but any paper or card stock would work.

 After I die cut the largest size die from each set, I folded the paper in half to create a mini card.  

Then comes the fun part! Decorate to your heart's desire! I added a piece of white card stock to the front of each mini card and stamped a background with florals and then popped the focal points up on foam tape. I used the Scripty "Hello My Crafty Friend" die as the sentiment on 2 of the cards. I finished each card off with some pretty colored twine and 3 sparkly sequins from the Barbie Sequin mix. I stuck with the rule of 3 to place my sequins down and it was just the right amount of added sparkle. Since the card base is made from dies that have decorative edges, your cards will have 3 fancy edges that are so pretty!

Making these mini notecards is a cinch and uses dies that you probably already have in your stash.  Kat's nested dies are the perfect size to create these mini cards. It might not be a new technique but it sure is fun! Small notecards are perfect for lunchbox notes, quick thank you cards or for any occasion that calls for a quick small card! For some added fun you can make your envelope out of the same patterned paper to match your card.  The possibilities are endless!

All supplies used are linked below.

Thank you so much for joining me today and don't forget to use code Lisa10 to get 10% off your order at checkout.

Have a great day everyone!

I already am!

💝Lisa💝

• Barbie Sequin Mix
• Nuvo Deluxe Adhesive
• Scripty "Hello My Crafty Friend" Die
• Stitched Postage Stamp Edge Rectangle Dies
• Stitched Scalloped Rectangle Dies
• Wonky Wavy Stitched Rectangle Dies