Unicorn Shaker Card

**WARNING**

THOSE OF YOU WHO HAVE AN AVERSION TO GLITTER AND SPARKLE MAY WANT TO SHIELD YOUR EYES!!

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Ok so I may have gotten a little carried away with the glitter and sparkle but I just couldn't help it! Everyone knows that when you are making anything unicorn related it has to 

SPARKLE AND SHINE!

Good morning crafty friends, It's my turn on the Kat Scrappiness blog today.  For today's card I have a unicorn shaker card made with the OH SO POPULAR Crafters Essentials 1 dies. The fun 3 panel die in this set really lends itself to shaker cards! There are over 400 varieties of sequin mixes in the 

Kat Scrappiness shop that you can go shaker card CRAZY! 

For my card I filled those panels with the dreamy Fairy Dust Confetti Mix. 

Oh those colors are just heavenly!

I used the Pinkfresh Studio stamp set Magical Unicorn for the fun unicorn horn and headband and I also used the Avery Elle Star Frame Die to add some gold star embellishments to the headband. For some added greenery in the headband I used the tree die cuts from the Lawn Fawn Flamingo Together stamp and die set.

So I admit this card is a little over the top but if you need a birthday card for a pre-teen girl in love with unicorns than it's just perfect!

Here is a picture of all the supplies used on today's card.  I will link all the supplies below as well.

 Thank you so much for stopping by today, I hope you got some inspiration today to add some glitter and sparkle to your cardmaking!

Don't forget to use code Lisa10 at checkout to save 10% on your order.

Have a great day, I already am!

🦄Lisa 🦄

Supplies Used:

• Avery Elle Star Frame Die
• Crafters Essentials 1 dies
• Fairy Dust Confetti Mix
• Flamingo Together
• Magical Unicorn

Elephant Baby Card

I'm so excited because my new stamps came today from Tracey Hey.  Her line of stamps are called Alpaca Pals and they are adorable! On today's card I colored one of the cute elephants from the Never Forget stamp set.  

Tracey has the most adorable hand drawn animals in her stamp sets and they are perfect for all different kinds of cards. I needed a baby card for a shower and I thought this little guy would go well with the theme.

I just love how he looks popped up over the cutout hearts.  I watercolored a panel behind them with zig markers to match the colors in his hat and embellishments.  I finished the card off with a sentiment from Reverse Confetti and some Fabrika Decoru enamel dots in the color "Heavenly".  They are available with many other colors at Kat Scrappiness. 

I am also going to enter this card in the 

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge 

since the theme is anything goes.

Thanks so much for stopping by today!

Have a great day, I already am!

🐘Lisa 🐘

Scavenger Hunt Slippers Card 😂

Ok first of all let me explain the blog post title...

First of all I know I can't be the only one who gets inspiration from odd places right? My card for today came from an interesting place.  I've had a really cute pair of slippers for a while and lately I've been thinking they would make a really cute coffee card. Here is a picture of the super cute slippers.

This brings me to the other part of my blog post title. The Scavenger Hunt...  To make this card I went on a scavenger hunt in my craft room.  Now I know you all have done that! I knew I had several coffee cup dies but I had to search for eyelashes, a mouth and steam.  That's where the fun began! Here's the card and then I'll tell you about the scavenger hunt results.

To start with I used the really cute coffee cup die from Cas-ual Fridays because I adore the heart shaped handle. One of my favorite things about the slippers is the silver glittery sparkled cup so that was easy! Next came the fancy eyelashes.  I looked far and wide but finally realized that the only thing I had was a Pinkfresh Studio stamp of eyelashes.  The easiest thing to do was stamp them and let my "scan-n-cut" cut them out for me.  Hand cutting was not an option....too detailed for me. The mouth came from a small circle punch that I cut and then cut into again to form a little mouth. Moving on to the steam, I tried several methods including using white paint to make the steam and only succeeded in making a mess🙄 I finally remembered that I had a My Favorite Things coffee cup die set with steam dies, so much easier than paint!  The cute alphabet dies came from Jaded Blossom and I did a little bit of surgery to alter some of the letters to get that random whimsical look. The background for the card is some Hawaiian Shores Bitty Big striped paper from Papertrey Ink.

Well that's the card for today.  I am entering it into the 

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge this week since the theme is anything goes.  

I hope you are all enjoying your week! 

Thanks for stopping by!

Have a great day,I already am!

☕️Lisa ☕️ 

Papertrey Ink Make It Monday

I'm back again with another Papertrey Ink Make it Monday card.  This week Melissa is using die cuts to make stencils.  I love this technique and have used it before but it's been a while.  Today I made a card using a stencil that I made out of my Chevron Cover Plate.  I sponged the stencil with Pale Peony ink and then I added the July Corner Adorner to the corners with Aqua Mist ink.  I love how Melissa did that on her card, I think it adds such a faint classy touch to the card. I also used the corner adorner on the base of the card for a little extra interest.  I added two roses from the Watercolored Rose stamp set and a sentiment from the Penned Elegance set.  The Penned Elegance set is one of my favorites for many reasons but mainly I LOVE how the matching dies cut out the words so precisely! It's such a gorgeous touch! I cut out some Bitty Big paper for make a frame for the card as well and I finished it off with some clear sequins for sparkle. Here is my card for today.

Thank you so much for stopping by my blog today!

Have a great day, I aready am!

🌸Lisa🌸

SSS Wednesday Challenge and a new Stamp company

It's nice to know that my favorite challenges are here every week even when I can't be.  They are always there when I have time to play.  Oh how I wish I had time to play every day but "adulting" always seems to get in the way!

Yesterday was a crafty day however and I had time to play so I headed over to the Simon Says Stamp blog to see what the Wednesday challenge was for this week.  I was happy to see that the theme is to use a die or punch.  I just love my dies and punches and it's rare that I make a card without one.  For today's card I used several dies and an adorable stamp set I recently purchased that I have fallen in love with! There is a new stamp company located in the U.K. called Alpaca Pals.  The artist's name is Tracey Hey and she is so very talented.  Her stamp sets feature the most adorable hand drawn animals and if you haven't see her work yet, I highly recommend checking it out here. Take a look at the super cute Koala on my card today.  It's from her stamp set called "Koality".

How could you not fall in love with that sweet Koala, not to mention the adorable baby in his backpack!❤️🐨❤️

For my card today I made a scene using this sweet Koala.  Since I don't own any Eucalyptus stamps or dies I had to attach my sweet Koala to a palm tree.  I don't think he minds and he looks so cute hanging from that tree! That cute tree is a die from Paper Smooches and the grass die is from Lawn Fawn. Here is the card for today.

The sentiment is from the "Koality" stamp set and it is stamped on another die from Kat Scrappiness called the Distressed Edge Rectangle dies. I cut my Koala out using my 

Scan n Cut machine so I guess he is a die cut as well.  Lots of dies on this card to it's perfect for the SSS challenge this week!

Thanks so much for stopping by today and don't forget to check out Tracey's stamps, you won't be sorry!

Have a great day everyone!

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 🐦

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

Happy Little Stampers ATC July Challenge

Hello everyone!
I am super excited to be joining the Happy Little Stampers ATC challenge team.  Thank you Kylie for this great opportunity!  Every month Happy Little Stampers has an ATC challenge and the theme for July is Coffee!  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.  There is certainly no lack of coffee themed art these days and it is so much fun to create!  For my project I created 4 ATC's with some awesome faux coffee stained backgrounds.  

Here are the 4 cards I made for this challenge.

I used 2 different coffee cup dies, 1 from Spellbinders and 1 from Cas-ual Fridays and the sentiment stamps are from Technique Tuesday and Cas-ual Fridays.

Here are closeups of the individual cards.

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

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 ☕️

Patriotic Birthday Card

Good morning crafty friends, today I'm up on the Kat Scrappiness blog 

to share a new card with you!  

I hope everyone who celebrates the 4th of July had a safe and enjoyable day yesterday!  

In honor of the 4th I thought I'd use the new 

Crafter's Essentials 1 dies to share a patriotic birthday card with you!

The Crafter's Essentials dies have 13 individual dies in the package and there are literally an endless number of combinations available for making cards.  These dies are a cardmaker's best friend! There is a great picture showcasing 9 different sketches as examples using these dies which I'll share below. 

My card was a quick and easy one to make and I decided to use quite a few different embossing folders on the card to give it a lot of texture.

I used polka dot folders on the card background and mini polka dots on the letters from the Condensed Lowercase Alphas. The smaller white panel was embossed with a brick background folder and the circle die was run through my paper crimper to give it some texture as well.

I heat embossed my sentiment from Everyday Brush Strokes on to the blue strip across the circle in white.  I popped the circle, stars, white panel, sentiment and letters on foam tape to give it even more dimension.  Here is a picture of all the supplies used.  

Head over to the shop today to take advantage of the sale going on.  15% off storewide and a free sequin package with all orders!

Thanks for stopping by today, all products will be linked below.

Have a great day everyone!

I already am!

🇺🇸Lisa 🇺🇸

• Condensed Lowercase Alphas
• Crafter's Essentials 1
• Everyday Brush Strokes 

Get Creative Challenge - #71

Hi everyone!  I'm back today with another challenge from Get Creative Challenges! 

The challenge for July for the pink team has a theme of a shaped card (no squares or rectangles) and goes from 7/2 - 7/31. For my card I used a beautiful pansy image from Eureka stamps and I watercolored it with my Zig clean color markers.  I chose to make a scalloped oval easel card using some beautiful dies from Kat Scrappiness.  The Stitched Scalloped Oval dies are so pretty and versatile for so many card projects!  Both sentiments are from the Gina K stamp set, Wreath Builder.  What a fun card to make!  I'm very happy with how it turned out!  I hope you'll join us this month and play along, I can't wait to see your creations!

Have a super day everyone! 

I already am!

🌺Lisa 🌺

Angies Digital Stamps July Challenge

Hello crafty friends and welcome back to another monthly challenge over at Angies Digital Stamps! This week I chose to play with this adorable Heart Baby Onesie image from Angies shop.  I printed the images out 3 times on some pretty Papertrey Ink Sweet Blush Bitty Big paper and inked the ages after I cut them out.  I love how the card has a real vintage feel to it.  I used the Edgers 2 die from Papertrey as well for the pretty scalloped border under the onesies.  I made the sentiment on my computer and inked the edges as well after I cut it out.   

This month is challenge #22 and it runs from 7/1 - 7/27

 and the theme is Anything goes.  

Make sure to visit the other Design Team members blogs and see the beautiful cards they've created! Please remember you have all month to play along.

See challenge blog for official rules and have fun!

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day, I already am!
👶🏼Lisa 👶🏼

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge

Hi everyone.  I'm playing along this week with the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge.  This week is anything goes but also to use Wplus9 stamps if you have.  

I chose to use 2 stamp sets that I have from Wplus9.  They are Paisley Patterns and Fresh Cut Florals.  I just adore floral stamps and dies.  I stamped a random pattern on my background using the Paisley Patterns stamp set with a variety of different Papertrey Ink colors and then I layered the background with an intricate die from Kat Scrappiness.  That frame is called the Wood Grain Framed Wire die and I've been using it a lot lately.  It just seems to go with everything!

I made a focal point for my sentiment using 2 more dies from Kat Scrappiness called 

Stitched Scalloped Oval and Stitched Fishtail Banners.  I heat embossed a partial sentiment from Fresh Cut Florals onto the fishtail banner and adhered it to the scalloped oval.  I die cut the word "you" from the Lawn Fawn Quinn's ABC's die set and added it to the oval focal point.  

For the last added touch I die cut some flowers from the Fresh Cut Florals and arranged them on the top corner of the oval.

Here is a picture with all of the supplies used.

Thanks for stopping by today to check out my card!

Have an amazing day!

I already am!

🌺Lisa 🌼

Crazy Bird

Good morning everyone! 

It's my turn today over on the Kat Scrappiness blog and I've got a fun card to share with you.  This month Kat released a great new die called the Wood Grain Framed Diamond Wire and it really is a unique die that can be used in so many different ways.  Make sure to check out the other projects by the DT members to see how they have used this fun die.  

Today I decided to use the die as an interesting background and a place to showcase my crazy bird and computer generated sentiment. 

I started by stamping my Tim Holtz Crazy Bird on to some watercolor paper with 

Versafine Onyx black ink and coloring him with 2 colors of distress ink.  I rubbed some Squeezed Lemonade and Peacock Feathers on to an acrylic block and I used my water brush to pick up the ink and color my bird.  After I was happy with the results I hand cut him out and put him aside to dry.

  

Next I die cut the Wood Grain Framed Diamond Wire die out of some black cardstock and adhered a piece of black striped patterned paper behind it.  I really love the look of the wire die over the striped paper.  It adds to the "crazy" look on the birds face.  

I glued the wire die with the patterned paper to an A2 sized white card base with some 

Nuvo Deluxe Adhesive.  

For this card I wanted to add a sentiment with a crazy font so I generated a sentiment with my computer and hand cut it out.  I trimmed down the words into 6 different strips and inked the edges of each strip with some Black Soot distress ink.  

The only thing left to do was to pop up my bird and sentiment strips up on some foam tape. 

I love how this card turned out and the Wood Grain Framed Diamond Wire die 

gives it such a unique look.  

Thanks for joining me today, make sure to check out these great products in the shop and don't forget to use code Lisa10 to get 10% off your order at checkout!

All products will be linked below.

Have a great day, I already am!

🐦Lisa 🐦

Products Used:

• Crazy Bird
• Black Soot distress ink
• Nuvo Deluxe Adhesive
• Peacock Feathers
• Squeezed Lemonade
• Versafine Onyx black
• Wood Grain Framed Diamond Wire

CAS(E) This Sketch 278

A one layer card for the CAS(E) this sketch challenge this week.  

Seriously!!!! Do you know how hard it is to make a one layer card?

Well, at least for me it is!  Anyway I love how it turned out despite the lack of embellishments and layers.  I used the You Are a Masterpiece stamp set from Papertrey Ink for the butterflies and colored them with Zig Clean Color markers.  The sentiment is from a Kat Scrappiness stamp set called Everyday Brush Strokes.

Here is sketch #278

Here is a picture of the supplies used to make my card.

Have a wonderful day everyone!

I already am!

🦋Lisa 🦋

Papertrey Ink MIM Inchie Elements

I love Make it Monday with Papertrey Ink.  

I've missed a few but I wish I joined in weekly.  I'll have to work on that!  

This week's MIM theme is Inchie Elements and Lexi Daly has made an adorable card using some adorable sea creatures.  I decided to use an old set called Honey Bees.

I wanted to make my inchie squares a little fancy so I used some 

Stitched Scalloped Squares by Kat Scrappiness.

I love how this card turned out.  Here's a pic with all the supplies I used. I accidentally 

left out the Hexagon Stencil and

I also used the new Grid Stamp by Dawn McVey!  I love that stamp!

Have a great day!

I already am!

🐝Lisa 🐝

Happy Father's Day

Hello Kat Scrappiness fans!  It's my turn today over on the Kat Scrappiness blog and I'm sharing an eclipse card that I made for Father's Day.  I used one of the new dies in the shop this month called Stitched Scalloped Rectangle Dies.  I also used the Large Alpha dies to form the focal point of the card after I made a background with the Dad's Tools stamp set. 

I started by die cutting a white panel from one of the stitched rectangle dies and stamping the hammer and nails randomly all over in every direction.  I made sure to stamp some of the hammers and nails off of the card for a more random look.  Once the background was done I die cut the letter D A D out of the panel.  The next step was to die cut the same letters out of black paper two more times.  I adhered the black letters to each other and made the top layer the letter that was cut from the stamped background.  The last step was to cut the letters out one more time from double sided foam tape to pop the letters up on the card.  I adhered the stamped panel to a black card base and fit the thick letters back in like a jigsaw puzzle.  Because they had black layers under them they appear to have a shadow under them making them stand out.  I finished the card with a sentiment from Dad's Tools heat embossed with white on to a stitched flag and popped it up on foam tape.

I love to decorate the inside of my cards with a coordinating stamp and sentiment so I stamped Mr. Fix It on the inside with a hammer and a few nails to finish the card off.

The eclipse card is such a fun technique and you can check out YouTube for a great video showing this technique by my other Kat Scrappiness team member Tina Dornbaum.

All products used will be linked below.  

Don't forget to use code Lisa10 at checkout for 10% off your order!

Thank you for joining me today and I hope you have a great day!

I already am!

🔨Lisa 🔨

• Dad's Tools stamp set
• Large Alpha dies 
• Stitched Flag Dies
• Stitched Scalloped Rectangle Dies