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Card Tutorial, Fun Techniques, Quick & Easy, Sales & Specials

Friendly Hello Sale-a-Bration Bundle

January 15, 2022 R'Chel Leave a comment

Have you gotten the Friendly Hello Bundle from Sale-a-Bration yet? It’s SO good!! The beautiful paper and coordinating stamp set will have you creating cards for so many occasions this Spring.

Colors are beautiful and images are captivating. I can’t wait to see what you create. I had a blast with this bundle…here’s what I’ve done with it so far.

Get your own Friendly Hello Bundle today by placing a $100 order with me through 2-28-22 and select Friendly Hello Bundle from the Sale-a-Bration rewards during checkout. Or message me to place your order! 😀 ❤

Friendly Hello Bundle #159990 through 2/28/22 (This promotional product is only available for a limited time and is FREE when you spend $100. Remember to add at least $100 to your cart to select this item.)

For the Live demo for this card stop by My Inky Paws Facebook page on 1-16-22 at 3pm pt. The Supplies list for this project is here. Thanks for hanging out with me! Happy Crafting to You and see you next time with a new project!!

Card Tutorial, Fun Techniques, Quick & Easy

Simply Elegant Mini Cards Kit and Craft-along

January 13, 2022 R'Chel Leave a comment

Sometimes you just need a tiny card! These 3″ x 3″ cards are the perfect size for adding to a bouquet of flowers, a treat basket, or slipping to someone to brighten their day. We’re using the Elegantly Said stamp set and Simply Elegant Specialty DSP to create these little beauties.

The Live Video #replay is available at Stampin’ Stuff with My Inky Paws page to craft-along with. The kit materials are available here at my Cats Paw Farm website.

For the Live demo for this card stop by My Inky Paws Facebook page The Supplies list for this project is here. Thanks for hanging out with me! Happy Crafting to You and see you next time with a new project!!

Card Tutorial, Fun Techniques, Holiday, Quick & Easy

Spooky & Festive

September 28, 2021 R'Chel Leave a comment

This week we started exploring some Halloween cards with the Festive & Bright Bundle and also brought in the spider web as a guest star from Frightful Tag dies.

This is a card that combines a lot of fun techniques, looks like you spent hours on it, and comes together super quick so you can make several in one sitting. I love it when that happens!

Crumb Cake is what I chose as the card base, with Very Vanilla writing panel and card front. You can see I used a Basic White Envelope as I need to place an order and restock my Very Vanilla envelopes. whoops! It’s ok though as the spider web is white so coordinates just fine.

The hats die from Festive & Bright Bundle is stamped along one side of the card front. Affix the card front to the card base and then die cut both layers with the right side of the hat die from the Festive Finishes Dies. I love how thoughtful Stampin’ Up! was with these dies. You can use the right and left sides together to create a stand-alone die cut, or use use one to create an edge!

While I was die cutting the card edge I also cut a matching piece out of scrap paper to use as a mask. The edge of the writing panel on the inside was masked with this scrap and blending brush used with Cinnamon Cider and Cajun Craze to give some depth and shading to the edge before it was adhered to the inside of the card.

The spiderweb was cut from Basic White and I gave it a shimmer with some Wink of Stella. Alternately you could cut this piece from some shimmer card stock. Spooky is one of the sentiments in the Festive & Bright bundle and it’s stamped with Versamark on a piece of Basic Black cardstock from my scrap bin. I chose gold embossing powder, but it would also look great with any of our metallics or white. Affix the sentiment to the spider web and then a couple of dimensionals on the back side of the spider web hold it up off the card to give some shadow behind it.

I gave the hats and brooms a bit of color with Crumb Cake light and dark Stampin’ Blends and then added a few touches of shimmer with Wink of Stella (because isn’t everything better with WoS?)

That’s it! The Live tutorial is up on My Inky Paws Facebook page, and start to finish with me chatting is only about 27 minutes. Told you it was a quick card! Supplies list is here.

Thanks for hanging out with me! Happy Crafting to You!!

Artistic, Card Tutorial, Fun Techniques

Spotlight on Spotlight Technique!

September 20, 2021 R'Chel Leave a comment

Spotlight Technique is one of those that every papercrafter should have in their arsenal. It’s beautiful, memorable, and simple – Trifecta!!

I love big stamps for Spotlight. Alternately, several smaller images stamped together, butterflies for example, make stunning Spotlight cards. When working with large stamps (Daisy Garden is about 5 inches x 6 inches) I use my Stamparatus for this one so I can line up the images perfectly. In case I have to reink and go back over the image in places it makes it a snap and turns out perfectly. For a Spotlight card you’ll need 2 identically stamped card fronts. Stamp with a dye ink (Memento Tuxedo Black) if you’ll be using alcohol ink markers, and stamp with a solvent ink (like Stazon) if you’ll be using dye inks for coloring.

I don’t like to waste my images so I’ll usually color one entire front. I like using the Stampin’ Blends as they do blend well together, both within the Light/Dark set for each color as well as with other colors. Once one stamped card front panel is colored then choose where you wish to cut it. There are many ways to do this. The example I have here is a sunbeam cut. You might choose to cut a section horizontally, vertically, or create multiple sunbeams on the diagonal.

Mount your black and white image to your card base. Apply dimensionals liberally to the back of your colored and cut section and then line it up with the background image. The results are always stunning, and take very little time to create. I can’t wait to see your Spotlight cards too!

Have fun with this technique. You can find the supplies I used for this card here (I used Stazon & Stampin’ Write Markers for this card): https://s.tamp.in/BesF8j You can catch my Live teach and watch it done in Memento with Stampin’ Blends, too: https://fb.watch/88LbNi-B18/

Come on over to the My Inky Paws FB page and give me a Like and Follow for more Cards & Coffee Live Tutorials.

Card Tutorial, Quick & Easy

In Symmetry MYODSP

August 10, 2021 R'Chel Leave a comment

Stamp your own DSP with the component stamps from In Symmetry photopolymer stamp set. Using a different color for each stamp and beginning with the largest stamp you can create a field of flowers, leaves and hearts to serve as a beautiful and simple background for your card. Add a pop of ribbon and some rhinestones and you have a quick card that will bring cheer to your recipient!