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Love always,
Nina
Winner Winner Chicken Dinner!!!
on February 01, 2017
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Hello everyone! Thank you for joining us in our new release sneak peeks for the Creativation and Creativeworld show in January! We are grateful for your love and support!
Our random winners are:
Congratulations, Vera, Julia, D.Ann, Christy and Bunny! Please email us your snail mail address along with the name of the stamp set of your choice at the following address:
Love always,
Nina
Congratulations, Vera, Julia, D.Ann, Christy and Bunny! Please email us your snail mail address along with the name of the stamp set of your choice at the following address:
Love always,
Nina
We will bring our Year 3 Catalog!
We will also bring our Spring 2017 release that we will start sneak peeking tomorrow!
Have a wonderful weekend, everyone!
Happy Crafting!
Nina
Hi, crafty friends! It's 
As soon as I received this set, I coudln't resist creating my own stamped background. This time I divided my card front into two parts and stamped different images to add interest on my background.
I didn't do any serious blending but simple coloring with Copic markers to enhense the graphic look of my card design. Here is a step-by-step photo tutorial on how I made my card:
1. Draw a line vertically using a pencil and ruler in the middle of A2 size white cardstock.
2. Stamp the monkeys from the 
3. After stamping two monkeys, mask off the right side of card front with post-it note. Then stamping banners and flowers with black ink.
4. After done stamping on the left side of card front, start stamping on the right side as well.
5. Remove the mask and color the images with Copic markers. Then remove the pencil line using an eraser.
6. Stamp the sentiment from the 
That's all for today. Thank you so much for joining me. Happy crafting!
~May
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For these projects I used the 
For the next project I made the gift bag using two of the die cuts. I adhered the two pieces together along with the handles using double sided tape. Once again, I decorated the front of the gift bag using my colored images. Since there was no place to stamp or write I made a mini card, the size of the gift bag pocket. I taped the card directly onto the back of the gift bag. This allowed me to stamp a sentiment and write a little message. You can close the card using clear tape.
I had so much fun working with these wonderful products. I hope I have inspired you in some way. Thank you for stopping by and have a wonderful day!!!
~Amy
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I made 2 variations. Let's begin with the backdrop. I used the floral image (which is part of the stamp set) to provide a wallpaper-like background and to do so I used strips of masking tape to first mask off the middle section on the card panel. Then using Versamark ink the image was stamped a few times to fill up the space. After removing the masking tapes the area was clear heat embossed. This embossed surface would resist the colors that I applied with Zig Clean Color RB markers and a waterbrush. These markers were used to color the purses as well.
A brad was inserted into the cardstock and secured with a piece of tape behind. The hanging purse was glued in place. I did stamp the sentiment before hanging up the purse. The front panel was adhered onto a card base.
The following 3 pictures show more of the working process for this card.
To color the background, I used Blue Gray, Gray and Light Blue markers.
The image was stamped in Black Onxy VersaFine ink before getting clear heat embossed. As I was after a denim look, I colored it blue with a Blue Gray marker and a waterbrush. Then I hand cut the image without leaving a white border. I braided with thin gold string and adhered onto the back of the image.
To make the purse pop, I cut the image apart separating the top and lower portions. Next I used the corresponding die to cut out two pieces of (black) foam which I will name F1 and F2 (for easy reference). On F2, I trimmed and left out the bottom portion as I only needed the top.
Both the top portions of the purse and F2 were adhered together, then subsequently adhered onto F1. Finally the bottom portion of the purse was adhered onto the bottom of F1. A blue sequin was adhered to complete the look.
On the second card, I was hoping to make the purse look like leather so I tried Mustard, Beige, and Mid Brown colors. Blue Gray and Mustard were applied onto the background. A gold elastic cord was used as the handle and a gold sequin was added as well.
For just that additional "purse-nal" touch, I adhered a ribbon bow tied with brown cotton cord.
That is all from me. Thanks for dropping by! I hope you have a great time creating with your supplies.
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To get started, I grabbed the Wild & Free and Peace on Earth stamp sets and did a little stamp surgery on the "Peace on Earth" sentiment to cut off the dove. Don't get me wrong, I love doves and all but I wanted the FOX to be the star of this card. As a nature lover, that Wild & Free set really calls to me. I seem to want to use it on everything! Plus, using non-Christmas stamps for your cards is also a great way to get more from your supplies.
If you've never done it before, stamp surgery is really easy to do -- just go slow, use sharp scissors, and be brave. Since the stamps are clear you can remount the dove on an acrylic block later if you want to use it the way it was intended. :)
I used this washi tape as inspiration for my ink colors -- love doing that, because then you can have a matching envelope later. I swatched out some colors and ended up going with a darker orangey red for the fox to make him really pop.
The card fronts are all done on off-white paper that has little recycled bits in it -- I think it really goes with the nature theme. Plus the little bits are kinda like confetti. Or snow!
I planned out my layout by stamping it by hand first on some scratch paper, then I pulled out my MISTI tool and stamped all the main parts. I stamped the "Peace on Earth" and Mr. Fox as part of the same step, then I heat embossed them with clear sparkle powder for that extra little something. The rest of the stamping is all un-embossed.
I went in and stamped the dots and the tiny star by hand, so each card is a little different. I know the photo above with the MISTI shows the tiny details already stamped, but I was having so much fun I forgot to stop and take a photo, oops! :)
I layered the stamped pieces to a navy base card, and then it was time to add some sequins! I like to pour out some sequins in these little ceramic dishes as it helps to keep them from getting all over my desk. I bet you know how that goes!
Now I thought I'd walk you through the finished card from top to bottom.
Here's a closeup of the heat embossed peace sentiment so you can see that sparkly embossing powder.
And here's Mr. Fox.
Using the MISTI tool I was able to make six cards all at once -- and I could have kept going, too.
I decided to pair these cards with a mint envelope as I'm just loving mint these days. I put some of that inspirational washi tape on the back flap, even though the colors aren't an exact match.
Here's one last look at the finished card:
Thank you so much for joining me, and to Waffle Flower for having me. I had so much fun and I can't wait to pop these cards in the mail.
Wishing you all a peaceful and joyful Christmas,
Lisa xo
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I'll be working with the 
So, I started out by doing some stamp surgery on the deer from the 
Then I positioned stamps from the 
Next I went to town watercoloring the card with Distress inks. If you haven't done this before, you just swipe the inks on a non-porous surface such as this white plate, then pick up the color with a damp brush and color.
Once the card was dry, I added some snowy white dots with Dr. Ph. Martin's Bleed Proof white. This is kind of an opaque ink that you can paint with and it works like magic! I've been using it a ton lately.
I finished up the card by layering my stamped piece to a kraft notecard, and that was that! I thought about adding some sequins but decided to keep it clean and simple.
I think this card is great for making in batches, especially if you have a MISTI tool. Plus the card is flat for mailing, so no extra postage needed, yay!
Thanks so much for joining me today, and hope you have a warm and cozy Christmas! xo
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I started out with a panel of watercolour cardstock, and used 3 distress ink colours to blend together until gradual and seamless. Then took a water Spitzer and sprayed some water over the top, used a paper towel to soak up any excess water.
Now here's a technical bit of magic. I wanted to die cut the doily circle as a whole but I certainly didn't want the negative pieces of the die to detach themselves and find myself piecing together a puzzle for the next hour.
So I used the trick I saw Jennifer McGuire do were you take a drier sheet (normally for laundry purposes) and rub your cutting plate with it.
I don't understand what magic exactly happens but it allows you to have a die cut stay as one complete piece! Perfect!
Next up I took the Doily Cirle Die and used multi matte medium to adhere it to a piece of fun foam to add dimension. Once dry I fussy cut around it to make sure nothing was sticking out.
I adhered the whole die cut piece back into its original spot.
I wanted this card to be a "yay! I support you" card so I die cut the 
From the 
Finished up with a sprinkling of my favorite sequins and beads and voilà! Complete.
Happy crafting!
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First I die cut some words using the 
I cut my panel diagonally. At the bottom of the card I added an Awesome word die cut out of violet cardstock and foam.
To finish my card, I inked the edges with grey Distress ink, added a ribbon and some sequins.
I hope you like it!
Inside the card I stamped a flower and then used the 
I hope you enjoyed and found some inspiration.
Have a wonderful day!
Eva
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