Quokka Love ❤️

 

Hello everyone! I hope you're having a good day, if not than just take a look at my card and it should brighten it up! That cute little animal is called a Quokka and it is known as the world's happiest animal! If you're interested in learning a little bit more about this adorable little marsupial, you can read this POST where I went into a little more detail.

The Quokka is the main character of the brand new 

stamp set from Kat Scrappiness called Quokka'n Up!

This Quokka a selfie loving animal and will add the cute to your cards and projects!

For my card today I did some watercoloring on a beautiful rose themed background.

I used the Stitched Scalloped Border dies to cut some white card stock for the top and bottom of my card.

I thought they framed the roses beautifully and toned down the busy pattern. Once I had the two scalloped panels glued down I tucked my cute little Quokka into the bottom panel and added the sentiments to the top and bottom of the card. To finish it off I added some fun bling to the sentiments by adding a trail of White Jewels and a single sweet Red Heart Sprinkle.

To make placing my embellishments easier I used the brand new Embellishment Pick Up Tool and Triangle Embellishment Tray recently released by Kat Scrappiness.  No more embellishments all over my desk and on the floor and the pick up tool makes placement a breeze!

I hope you enjoyed my card today and I hope you'll check out all of the fun crafty goodness over at

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Have a great day, I already am!

Lisa 

Perk Up!

Welcome back to another blog post for The Coffee Loving Cardmakers!

Today in my ICU I have a sweet coffee card that is sure to perk you up!

I used a darling stamp set by Darcie's Heart and Home called 

Mocha Me Crazy. I just adore the sweet graphics in Darcie's stamp sets!

Here is my card for today:

I started with some Doodlebug patterned paper from the Cream and Sugar 

paper pad and covered my card base with it. The little coffee cup and percolator

from the Darcie's Mocha Me Crazy stamp set 

were watercolored with my Zig markers and cut out with my Scan n Cut.

The center white panel was embossed with my large circles embossing folder

and layered on the patterned paper.  I used a banner die from MFT to cut out the

 floral strip under the main images. To finish off my card I stamped the sentiment from 

the same stamp set on to a speech bubble from the Lawn Fawn Chit Chat stamp set and dies.

I just love how this sweet set turned out!

I'll be back again soon with some more caffeinated craftiness in my ICU!

Have a great day,

I already am!

☕️Lisa ☕️

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Watercolored Mandala Card with Video

Good morning crafty friends!

I'm up on the Kat Scrappiness blog today with a 

card I'd like to share with you using one of the newest dies in the store!

It's called the Mandala die and it cuts a beautiful intricate pattern

into your project. Today I've used a water coloring technique called ink smooshing

(yes it's a thing)😆

I used 3 different color distress inks:

Salty Ocean

Peacock Feathers

and

Lucky Clover

This technique is easy and fun to do and you can get beautiful

results every time! There are so many color combinations you 

could use depending on your favorite colors.

Here is a video I made to show you the ink smooshing technique.

You can watch it here or on YouTube.

Thanks so much for joining me today.  I hope you'll give this technique a try!

It's lots of fun and it looks beautiful with minimal effort.

Don't forget to use my code Lisa10 to save 10% on your 

order anytime at Kat Scrappiness!

Have a great day, I already am!

🎨Lisa🎨

Happy Little Stampers February Watercolour Challenge

Hello crafty friends and welcome back to another Watercolour challenge
over at the Happy Little Stampers blog!

This month the theme is anything goes with an optional "Metallics" twist.
Here is my card for this month.

For my card I decided to do some watercoloring with Distress Inks and since the

theme this month is metallics I heat embossed my image with

gold embossing powder before I colored it.

I chose one of my favorite flower stamps from the 2018 Stamp-A-Faire

with Papertrey Ink. Betsy Veldman designed a beautiful stamp set called 

Painted Poppy and it is just perfect for watercoloring!

First I stamped the poppy with Versamark Ink onto a watercolor 

panel that I cut with a die from the My Favorite Things 

Stitched Jumbo Fishtail Banner.

Next I heat embossed the flower with WOW gold embossing powder.

I used 4 different distress inks in these colors for my flower:

Spun Sugar

Picked Raspberry

Old Paper

and

Crushed Olive

I also stamped the "thank you" sentiment from the Painted Poppy set in 

Crushed Olive distress ink to match the card.

For the base of my card I die cut a piece of paper from some PTI 

Rustic Cream card stock. I used the largest die from the 

Stitched Scalloped Rectangle dies from Kat Scrappiness.

For some added texture I embossed that panel with 

a script patterned embossing folder.

I adhered the watercolor panel on the diagonal and finished 

off the card with some rustic twine.

I love using distress inks to watercolor, there are so

many gorgeous colors to play with!

Come join us for the Happy Little Stampers Watercolour Challenge this month!

We want to see your watercolor projects.

Thanks for stopping by! I hope you get some free crafty time today!

Have a great day, I already am!

💐Lisa 💐

Happy Little Stampers ATC August Challenge

Hello everyone!

I am back again with the 

Happy Little Stampers ATC challenge.

 Every month Happy Little Stampers has an ATC challenge and the theme for August is Water!  For anyone who isn't familiar with ATC cards, they are mini works of art that measure 2.5" x 3.5" and are traded around the world. Usually they are numbered and signed on the back by the artist.

For my project I created 3 ATC's with faux 

watercolored backgrounds made with Distress Inks.  

Here are the 3 cards I made for this challenge.

I watercolored 3 adorable sea creatures hand drawn by a very talented designer in the UK named Tracey Hey.  

Her website is called Alpaca Pals and she has the cutest stamps with some of the most adorable critters you've ever seen!

Here are closeups of the individual cards.

I hope you'll play along with us this month and enter the ATC challenge at Happy Little Stampers!

The winner for this challenge will receive a $20 coupon to spend at the shop! 

IF YOU USE STAMPS BY HAPPY LITTLE STAMPERS AND YOU ARE OUR RANDOM WINNER, YOUR PRIZE WILL BE DOUBLED!

Have a great day, I already am!

🐳Lisa🐳

Happy Little Stampers July Spotlight

Hello crafty friends and thanks for joining me today here on my blog. Happy Little Stampers has a fun new addition to their blog. On the 20th of each month they are going to choose a different stamp set to be the "Spotlight" for that month and the design team will make some projects showcasing that set.

For the month of July the stamp set is my favorite one!

"Whimsical Friends"

I just adore those cute quirky birds and that fun elephant, not to mention that super cute curly font!  I really think that this set looks great with watercolors which is just what I did on my card. Here is the card that I created with the 

Whimsical Friends stamp set.

For the background of the card I used the Linked Circles Cover Panel die from Reverse Confetti. I sponged it with distress inks to give it a light pastel appearance.  I stamped the elephant, small bird and sun onto a banner that I die cut from a piece of watercolor paper and I used my Zig Clean Color markers to watercolor the images. To finish off the banner I stamped some stars and added some sequins for sparkle.  

I really enjoyed making this card and I hope you enjoy seeing what the design team came up with this month using the Whimsical Friends stamp set! 

Thanks for stopping by and enjoy your day!

I already am!

🐘Lisa 🐦