Today I’m honored to be guest designer at the Try It On Tuesday Card Challenge Blog.

Since today’s challenge theme is Numbers, I considered making a birthday card, but then decided to go for an anniversary card. My daughter’s first wedding anniversary is in August. I knew from the get-go that I’d use the Tim Holtz Bulletin Alphanumeric set of dies. They’re my favorite set of alphas.

I chose the green Palette Paper Collection and hunted through the beautiful green patterns until I’d found my ideal cut outs. I had seen a card by Tina Smith for Simon Says Stamp where she used vellum layers over parts of the squares. I thought it was genius. I took some heavyweight vellum paper and stamped on it with two different stamps from the Honey Bee Stamps Mini Messages Everyday set in order to get the Happy Anniversary and the word Years. I heat embossed these onto the vellum using Ink On 3 Gold Rush embossing powder and then die cut them with the Artful Palette dies. I carefully ripped them and then adhered them to the other elements like this: The piece with Year on it allowed me to easily hide liquid adhesive under the planned placement of the giant 1. The Happy Anniversary piece needed an adhesive hiding spot so I added 2 tiny little hearts from another die I had (can’t remember which one) and hid the adhesive here. I also took a toothpick and hid a little glue under the letters (that was hard and took my strongest eye glasses).

I used Tim Holtz’s Bulletin Alphabet to cut out the 1 from thick black cardstock. I also cut the number one from matte gold cardstock and used just the inner portion to adhere to the center of the black one. 

I also cut a heart and a butterfly from the gold, and a larger butterfly from the black and adhered all this as shown. I splattered a piece of 4 x 5.25” Basic Beige Stampin’ Up! cardstock with Tim Holtz Black Distress Paint using a tiny paint brush and his Splat Box. I mounted all this on an A2 piece of black cardstock.

What number will you choose for your Try It On Tuesday project? Look forward to seeing how you play along with us.

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I adore typography. I even took a class in typography at my local community college back in the early 90s. I love to collect fun fonts and I have an entire Pinterest board dedicated to typography. When I found this cool Floral & and Sentiment Press Plate at Spellbinders, I had to have it. One of the nicest things about this set is that the Happy Birthday and the Many More are separate pieces. This means I can foil my heart out with just the birthday plate and nothing else.

For this card, I decided to experiment with the A6 size that Jennifer keeps promoting on her YouTube lives. It IS a really fun size. That means you are looking at a card that is 4.5” x 6.25”.

I started with using the ampersand and sentiment press plates on Stampin’ Up! Crumb Cake cardstock. I chose the Spellbinders Copper Glimmer foil because I just love all things copper. Copper is so unexpected and warm. I used the Spellbinders Modern Ovals nested die set to cut out the ampersand and the coordinating dies to cut the sentiments.

I used Tim Holtz’s Distress Watercolor Pencils in Broken China and Bundled Sage (both in Set 6) to color in the flowers and leaves on the ampersand. I used the gorgeous Oceanside cardstock from Spellbinders for the larger oval and the A6 base of the card. The textured and patterned paper in the background is unique. It is printed as you see it. I have not done anything to it except cut it to 4.25” x 6”. I picked up this paper in the “giveaways” pile at a crafting event with friends. Lucky me. There is a high chance it is from Club Scrap.Finally, the hole-less sequins are from Pink & Main. They are called Peaches and Cream.

Tell me - have you made any A6 cards?

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If I were ever stuck on a desert island with only a select number of craft supplies, the Waffle Flower Postage Collage (PC) collection would be at the top of my list. One of the most viral stamp/die/stencil collections ever made, I never get tired of using it and trying more and more ways to combine them all.

Today’s card using the original Postage Collage A2 Die, the PC Envelope Die, the PC Envelope Stencil, the PC Collage Mini Seals Die and the original Postage Collage Stamp Set.

I started with the stencil and ink blended using Tim Holtz Distress Ink in Tumbled Glass and Faded Jeans, and Stampin’ Up!’s Crumb Cake ink.

I colored in the tiny hearts formed by the die with a Uni-ball Signo Gold Gel pen.

Next, I used the original Postage Collage A2 die and cut the stenciled panel to make it look like a sheet of stamps. Using Gina K’s Amalgam black inkpad, I stamped with the PC stamp set in 3 places.

Now that my background was done, I die cut an envelope, an envelope liner, a little paper note, and a tiny seal all with the PC Mini Seals die set and scraps of cardstock. I inked the edges of the letter, and I stamped a tiny little heart-circle in Versamark inside the little seal using the Simon Says Stamp Easter Greetings Stamp set (I was so happy to discover this little stamp in my stamp collection). I assembled everything as shown and added a Gold foiled Happy Birthday sentiment from the Spellbinders You Are Everything Press Plate and Die set with foam tape. I backed the panel with Stampin’ Up!’s Crumb Cake cardstock and then with Spellbinders Malibu cardstock.

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Spring and the color lavendar go together like the finest pairing of cheese and wine. They simply belong together. I made this card for my youngest daughter on the completion of her medical assistant certification. She loves lavendar. I used the Spellbinders Colorwheel Lavender cardstock along with Neenah Classic Crest 110lb cardstock. I dry embossed a 4” x 5.25” piece of lavender with the Simon Says Stamp Boho Flowers Embossing Folder. It’s an ideal floral pattern for almost any time of year.

Next, I matted that to a cardbase 4.25" x 5.5". I used the middle-size circle from the Pink Fresh Studios Elegant Circles die set and cut it (and kept the center) from the white cardstock. I used the Spellbinders Betterpress You Are Everything Letterpress inking plate and matching die along with their gold foil to create the sentiment on my Spellbinders Glimmer machine. The flowers are from Pinkfresh Studios Breezy Blossoms where I used their matching stamps, stencils and dies. The ink is Lavender Glaze from Taylored Expressions.

I assembled everything as shown and added Clear Iridescent sequins from This Calls for Confetti (such a cool business name.)

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About a year ago, I discovered this utterly adorable artwork by the one and only Stamperia at Simple Pleasures in Colorado Springs (y’all, this IS the mothership of papercrafting and they ship). I bought the chipboard pieces, several 12 x 12 pieces of the darling paper, and had no idea what I’d do with them. About a month later we learned we’d be grandparents for the first time. I had an idea. I bought more of the Hidden Grove paper line from Simon Says Stamp. The grandbaby showed up early so I put the pedal to the metal in late January and made these three mixed media hoops.

Except for the moon on the largest hoop (which was made with Tim Holtz Antique Linen Distress Spray, Scattered Straw Distress Spray and Pumice Stone Distress Ink together with his Moon Mask), everything you see is part of the Hidden Grove line from Stamperia. If you’re not familiar with this company, all their artwork is divine. Be prepared to fall in love.

Each hoop has a few pieces of chipboard embellishments on it, especially on the edge of the hoop. And there are a few pieces of the Hidden Grove chipboard in the backgrounds. However, the majority of the images were fussy cut using my favorite detail scissors from We R Memory Keepers. I used similar or identical paper to the background, and once it was cut, I inked all the edges just a tiny bit with Frayed Burlap Distress Ink. Next, I backed each of the pieces with a chipboard harvested from old mailers, notepads, etc. I simply traced around my fussy cut pieces and then cut the cardboard out inside the trace line by about 4mm, to ensure it was smaller than my artwork and wouldn’t show. It wasn’t pretty looking but it made the pieces sturdy. Then, I raised the cut pieces up from the Hidden Grove paper background with a LOT of craft foam. I ended up using a combination of 2mm fun foam and 4mm fun foam from the hobby store. I used Bearly Arts glue for everything on this project. It’s my favorite liquid glue.

The hoops themselves came from Goodwill (the largest one) and Amazon (the 2 smaller ones). I bought a $0.69 bottle of walnut colored stain from the same hobby store along with some cheap foam brushes. It took no time at all to stain the hoops (separated inside from outside hoop) and have them dry.

The very back of the hoops is more chipboard, which I covered with solid cardstock to make it look better from behind. The ribbon I got from the Etsy seller named Delainenoe.

This was a labor of love and now hangs in the little guy’s nursery using Command Adhesive Velcro Strips.

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When I started this card I knew I wanted to combine this adorable Flourish Rabbit die from Simon Says Stamp with the Elegant Circles Die Set from Pinkfresh Studio. What I didn’t know is that I’d use one of the oldest embellishments I own and had never opened before (we’re talking 19 years, people).

I cut the bunny from Neenah Classic Crest 110lb coverstock. For the piece that makes the background of the ear, I gently ink blended a little Dried Marigold Distress Ink to give a hint of color. On that same piece, I colored the eye black so it would show through the top piece of the die. I used 2 alcohol ink markers to color the flower and leaves on the rabbit. I also used one of my lightest Copic markers (E40) to add in a hint of shading on a few edges of the rabbit.

I used the largest die in the Pinkfresh Studios Elegant Circles die set and cut it from a pale green cardstock, Soft Seafoam from Stampin’ Up!. I stacked this die cut with 3 more behind it to give it a lot of lift and sandwiched a circle of Heavyweight Vellum from Amazon amongst the stack. After I had glued the rabbit on this portion, I wanted to add tiny flowers and leaves on the bottom edge to give the rabbit something to sit on. I pulled out my basket of “paper flowers.” In this basket is both the kind of paper flowers I would buy from Prima decades ago and tiny little paper flowers from left over die cutting I had done recently. I unearthed an unopened package of tiny white paper flowers and silver brads from a long-ago company called Making Memories. I bought these in about 2007 when I was working for Archiver’s. I paired these cute little flowers with greenery from some large Poppystamps Pop Up Easel card die sets. I put tiny orange Poppystamps Fairy Jewels in the center of all the flowers and glued everything onto my circle frame.

I discovered an already paint splattered piece of Stampin’ Up! Crumb Cake in my stash, cut it into a 5 x 5” square and dry embossed it with the Tufted 3D Embossing Folder from Spellbinders. I backed this with a piece of pale orange cardstock 5.25 x 5.25” and another piece of Crumb Cake, 5.5 x 5.5”. Finally, I stamped a sentiment in dark green ink from the Simon Says Stamp Easter Greetings stamp set and used the Honeybee Stamps Mini Messages Banner die set to cut out the greeting. As usual, I attached this to a white cardbase.

I am entering this card in 3 challenges. First is the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge with the theme of Emboss It. Next is the Double Trouble Challenge using the 3-2-1 element (3 Copic markers, 2 new dies, 1 cotton tail) plus Thing 3 theme of Easter. Finally, I am entering the CreaLadies challenge with the theme of animal. 

NOTE: Square cards in square envelopes, of any size, cost more to mail than a rectangular envelope. Please check with the USPS to make sure you have enough postage.

A very happy Easter to you!

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