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 Welcome back friends!  There's just something about these adorable penguins from SU!'s Penguin Place bundle that I can't get enough of.   Today's box card is for a winter birthday.  I added some colored craft wire for the balloon strings that holds those balloons up in mid-air.... LOVE that!  I also added some trees from the Perfectly Plaid bundle .  This set is great for creating fun interactive cards, box cards, fancy folds - who wouldn't love getting one of these?!   The " Happy Birthday " die-cut is from My Favorite Things and is called " Box Card Greetings " - the other die-cut sentiment in that set says " Hello Beautiful ."  I wanted to enter this into MFT's Outside the Box challenge this month which is winter themed.  Unfortunately,  I don't happen to have any winter MFT stamps yet -- so many things on my wish list, so little money to get them.  Isn't that the life of any crafter?!!  : D You can find my tutorial for

Hello happy crafters!  I have a fun button spinner card to share featuring more of those cute penguins!  This card looks very similar to my Ladybug Spinner , and my Easter Wreath Spinners , but this one actually " spins " super well instead of turning it with a wheel... and the mechanism only takes a button and some circle dies!  And here's my card in action... I used some of the  Rainbow Glimmer Paper  because the top color blended nicely with the penguin's feet and beak, and it's sparkly like snow!   The snowflakes behind the penguins are die-cut from the Christmas Layers Dies . I did cut some apart and glued to the wheel just behind the penguins - making sure not to let them overhang the inner circle that goes around the button (as that would prevent the wheel from spinning.) The sentiment was embossed with VersaMark and white e.p. with  The Greatest Part of Christmas  stamp set, and cut with the  Stitched Shapes Dies. I cut more of Christmas Layers Dies out

Wow, what an amazing response I received to my Penguin Slider Card that I posted Friday in some Facebook cardmaking groups!  I had a lot of requests for instructions, so I created this li'l video tutorial on how I made it.   I re-created the card, this time using no special dies , so more of you can hop on board.   So grab your  Penguin Place bundle, cardstock, paper trimmer, foam tape, and be sure to grab my igloo digital stamp and let's get crafting this cute slider! *Note:  for those who want to create this slider without using the igloo , click here Also... I forgot to mention that I resized my igloo to 2 3/4" x 3 3/4" before duplicating and printing it out.  :)   If you have any questions, please leave me a comment and I'll try to answer as best I can.  Thanks so much!!    ~ Happy Inking :) ♥ ♥ ♥ Stamps:  (SU!) -  Penguin Place ; (ITD) -  Polar Fun   (you can download a FREE version of my igloo image HERE ) Dies & Punches : (SU!) -  Penguin Builder Pu

Hey all!  Yes, it's another cute penguin slider card!  Aren't you proud of me... hopped off the box card bandwagon for just a bit, LOL!  Don't get used to it though, I have another fun box card to share with you soon!   This card is very similar to my igloo penguin slider card except without the igloo.... and added some " Perfectly Plaid " trees!  This card uses the Snow Drift Dies and Slider Channel Dies that I mentioned in my video however you CAN create this without any special dies - just use your paper trimmer to cut the slider channel like I show in my video, and use your scissors to create curvy hills OR use the slope stamp in the set!  :)  Watch my video here .

Hi all, my card today is called a slider card because the 3rd cute li'l penguin is going to SLIDE out of his igloo with just a slight tilt of the card!    🐧   Here's a quick li'l video of my card in action... How cute is that, right?!  The 3 cute penguins are from  Stampin' Up!' s new set, " Penguin Place " and the matching punch, along with a li'l bit of dsp from the  Whimsy & Wonder  pack.   The igloo is one I drew and you can now download a free copy of it HERE  (for a limited time) and then be sure to watch my video tutorial HERE for instructions!  :)   I'm not real happy with how I did the snow drift on the bottom.  I should have made the snow drift taller and popped it up to cover the slider track.  However, my first thought was if I did that, you might not see the penguin very well since he's already on his belly, but ... yes, I should definitely try that next time!  By the time I thought of it and tried removing that snow drift, t

 Welp, it's the 1st of September y'all, Fall is in the air! And a new challenge begins today at the  Imagine That Digistamp Blog !   A challenge player suggested I draw a meerkat, and well... I couldn't stop at just one!  I ended up with a larger than normal set again this month (7 versions of meerkats + sentiments).  So I decided to do something fun and send different digis ( from this set)  to the various challenge players so we have a variety in the Link-Up!   I created 3 cards with the 3 pairs of cute meerkats.... They are all colored with Copics and I created a different background on each one.  On the first, I tried a distant tree line with Copics. On the 2nd, I colored bg with Copics as well, but then I used a blender (Copic 0) to pick up some of the color, which gave it a textured "sand" look, sorta??  And the last I colored everything with Copics except the sun rays which I used a blending brush and stencil.   Which one is your favorite??   ALSO... if you

Happy Saturday!   Are you tired of seeing my Multi-Tiered Pop-Up Box Cards yet?  😉  I can't help it.  Ok, I digress, this one I made purely for the purpose of creating a photo tutorial of my penguin card, but I  thought the white (snow) layers might make it too difficult to see the card folds etc.  I used the same gorgeous dsp from Stampin' Up! called Whimsy & Wonder.   I seriously am going to have to buy a couple more packs of this one.  It has holographic pieces all throughout this pack and just so pretty IRL!   You can download my PDF tutorial on this card HERE . One of the ornaments on this paper has a reindeer face on it, which reminded me of an older set I have called " Reindeer Waltz " clear art stamps from when I designed for Layers of Color (are no longer in business) .   I thought they would go nicely with these trees from SU!'s Perfectly Plaid stamp set & punch. The Stitched Snowdrift layers were created using dies from My Favorite Things. 

 Welcome friends!  I had a great time last night on a Zoom call with my SU! upline and 8 others in her downline group - so fun to "meet" them and put faces to names and craft together - for 3 hours!  :)  We all worked on our own projects and they were so diverse, love it!   For my zoom project, I created a multi-tiered pop up box card --- no surprise there, right guys?!  BUT, this one was on a much larger scale and needs a 6 1/8" square envelope, which I had to make myself, but with the help of my nifty envelope punch board , it was pretty easy... PRETTY being the operative word as I used some the same Whimsy & Wonder dsp from SU! as I used on my card!   I will include the measurements for making this card below my photos, so keep scrolling :)  The Whimsy & Wonder dsp has holographic striped paper that I used on the sides of my box.   These cute penguins and matching punch are bundled in the new Holiday Catalog, July - Dec. 2021, and so is the Whimsy & Wond

 Hi friends!  I'm sharing my 3rd ever slimline card today, this time featuring the Sweater Weather on Safari stamps/dies for the August Slimline Challenge and this week's sketch challenge at My Favorite Things ! I started with a white slimline 110 lb. heavy white cardstock.  Then I cut a rectangle mask out of copy paper and taped it over the base using Post-It tape (low-tack tape).  I then sponged on grass on lower third then yellow, orange, and just a tad bit of pink passion at the top using blending brushes.  Then I removed the mask and added some grass that I die-cut using Slimline Grassy Hills dies and taped them on.  The tree (isn't is pretty?!) is from LaLa Land Crafts several years ago when I was a Design Team member, so not sure if it's still available or not. I then stamped the sentiment and coffee beans onto the bg and grass.  And lastly, I stamped, colored with Copics, and die-cut the safari animals.  The tiger and elephant are glued flat to b.g., and the z

 Today's card is a Fall-inspired pop up box card that I created as a pick-me-up after a long week.  Let's just say the last 10 years of digital memories and family cookbook, my store's digital art files and more... gone!  Very heartbreaking.  Luckily, with the help of my creative projects team, I got most, if not all, of my art files back.  Huge thanks to Deanne and Helen ♥   So I had a play with my new Box Card Bouquet dies and some Rainbow Glimmer paper and made this collapsible pop up card and it cheered me up a bit!  The rainbow glimmer paper I used for the front stitched label, the "hello beautiful", the side layers and the stitched piece in back of the flowers are from Stampin' Up! and it's pretty thick, but so so pretty when the light hits it!   Nothing is inked with this card - it's all die cutting with MFT Die-namics!  (A complete list of supplies used are at the end of this post.)  Thank you for looking today.  If you have used a great d

 Today's card is one I made a week or 2 ago and forgot to post it here.  It was another sister throwdown challenge which was to use the Perfectly Plaid set (by Stampin' Up!) ) with Fall colors.  Only after I finished my card did I realize that I hadn't actually used the stamp set at all! 🤣  I HAD inked up a stamp or 2 from the set but they didn't end up in my card.  I DID however use the tree punch that came in the bundle.   Even this stamp set is Christmas themed, with the Fall colors I decided to make it into a birthday card, possibly for a guy.   •  The Plaid Tidings papers were cut into rectangles and glued side-by-side onto the Peacock layer.  •  I cut trees out of the Crumb Cake c.s. and ran the negative strip  through with a herringbone embossing folder and popped it up over the plaid rectangles with dimensionals.   •  I ran twine thru buttons and adhered with glue dots. •  Happy Birthday was white embossed onto that pretty rainbow glitter cardstock and popped