CAS Paper Smooches Card!

Hi guys!  I wanted to share a quick card with you today and IT'S NOT a Christmas card!  While I love making Christmas cards, I needed a little break from the snowmen and wintry scenes.

I also wanted to create one more entry into the Paper Smooches November Challenge. They are looking for a few designers for their new challenge team and I would just LOVE to be a part of that!!

I combined an older and newer stamp set on my card today.  The first set is Bee Mine and was one of the first PS sets I bought.  And I specifically bought it for the large bee image!

After colouring and die cutting that cutie, I did the same with the clouds from the Sunnyville Stamp Set.  To create my little scene, I used a stitched square die and a grassy border die. I used It's A Boy and Lime Rickey inks from Catherine Pooler to add the colour.

I popped the square panel onto a 3.5 X 5 inch notecard. I love making this size of card when you have a small scene. I really wanted that bee to pop off the card so I used a double layer of foam adhesive.  Of course, no card of mine is complete without some shimmer and shine! I added some sparkly dots on the wings and Nuvo Crystal Glaze to the eyes as well as the wings.

The sentiment comes from the Kindess Sampler Set which is a must have set for your stash!!  

I hope you enjoyed the CAS card! Thank you for stopping by!

See you soon,

Laurie

Paper Smooches November Challenge!

Hey, friends!  I wanted to drop in quickly with a card I made for the current Paper Smooches Challenge.  This challenge is especially exciting because it's also part of their new Challenge Design Team Call..yippee!!

If you're interested in entering, you can find all the details HERE!

I created a Christmas/Holiday card to add to my stash.  I used a bunch of awesome dies and hardly any stamping...the sentiment only.

I used the following PS products on this card:

Snowman 2 Dies

Bird House Dies (for the tiny, red bird)

Birch Tree Dies

Holiday Cheer Stamp Set

All the "colouring" was done with Distress Inks and either a sponge dauber or ink blending tool. Super quick and easy!

I love how this card turned and hope you do, too!

Thanks for dropping by! Have a great day and see you soon!

Laurie

Paper Smooches October Challenge!

Hey, friends! I've decided to participate in the monthly challenge going on over at Paper Smooches ! This one is very interested as the challenge is to get inspiration from one of the PS Design Team.  This design team is amazing so inspiration is easy to find!!  I would suggest checking these ladies out on social media if your mojo needs a little boost!

My muse of choice is the amazing Alice Huang!  I love her style. She does a lot of no-line colouring, which is awesome, as well as a lot of die cutting...which is one of my favourite things to do!  She creates stunning, dimensional backgrounds on her cards which are to die for!!

So, that is exactly what I did!  

I used the Loopy Leaf die to cut out five different colours of cardstock. I placed them onto the card front, not adhered, to get the placement just right. After figuring that out, I die cut the leaf again from craft foam for each piece. 

Before adhering them down, I stamped the sentiment which is from the Kindness Sampler Stamp Set. Paper Smooches has, hands down, the BEST sentiment stamp sets!!

I adhered all the loopy leaves down with liquid glue, added a bit of glitter pen to the hearts and called this card done!

Thank you, Alice for the inspiration and thank YOU for stopping by today!

Laurie

Paper Smooches Flower Challenge!!

Hello friends!!  It has been awhile since I've participated in any sort of challenge...not design team related.  Paper Smooches always has great challenges, and I used to participate in them often!  So, when I seen this month's challenge, "Flowers", I just had to play along!

I dug through my PS stash of stamps and dies and chose the Best Buds stamp set for all my flowers.  I picked the small florals in the stamp and using the Gina K Wreath Builder Template, created a 4X4 wreath.

I stamped everything in a alcohol marker safe, grey ink.  I thought I'd stray away from a bold, black ink.  I coloured all those adorable flowers with Copic markers.

My collection of Copics is fairly small, so I tend to use the same colours over and over in my projects. But I don't mind, I LOVE these colours!  I was flip flopping on what to do next and thought I'd place a cute critter in the centre of the wreath. So I used the bee and the bear images from the Courteous Cuties stamp set and used the co-ordinating dies to cut them out.  

And yes, I decided to cut the centre of my wreath out using the smallest of the Pinked Circle Dies. I found that with all that stamping, the critters got "lost". Plus, I didn't really want to cover too much of those pretty flowers!

After I die cut the circle out of the front panel, I lined everything up and cut it out of the front of the cardbase as well.  I stamped the sentiment (from Courteous Cuties) onto the positive die cut using white embossing powder and adhered it onto the inside of the card.  I added a ton of foam adhesive to the stamped panel and popped it on top.

Of course, I didn't let those critters go to waste!  I glued the bear on the inside of the card and he looks super cute there!!

I was going to add some sequins to the front, but went with a few white gel pen details instead.

I'm really happy with the way this card turned out. I'm not gonna lie, this one took me awhile :)

Thanks for stopping by today!! See you soon!

Laurie