Fabulous Foiling (or not) with Flutter Flys

I fell in love with a card by Carol Hintermeier made with Picket Fence Studios Flutter Fly Toner Card Fronts and Layering Fauna Butterfly die so of course had to purchase both. I had a play with them for my newest video here and share 9 different cards. The toner sheets with different butterfly patterns can be foiled and most of my cards are, but this is one of the cards where the background was not foiled. I brushed on blue ink on the card front and pink and yellow on the die cut butterfly. 

After foiling the toner sheet with a rainbow foil I simply used some dies to make easy lovely cards. This one features strips created with Taylored Expressions Easy Strips dies. The sentiment die on both the above cards is from a set from Hunkydory. The card below has a sentiment die from Penny Black:

One more card shows simply a Picket Fence Studio Fabulous Foiled toner butterfly sheet with Twinkling Pink foil from Gina K Designs and an inked embossed card front:

Simon Says Create 2024 Create It Take Its and Impressions

Yup- that is me and the Tim Holtz taken first thing when I walked into Simon Says Create in Columbus Ohio this last weekend! I was able to see so many of my crafty heroes up close and make many projects with their fantastic products. There were two full days of shopping and creating in two large rooms and I loved every minute! I wasn't able to take the classes but still had so many hands on instruction at each CITI table. 

Look who signed my Idea-ology project making it a keepsake I will keep forever! We also had the opportunity to sit down with many of Tim's content creators, and I made these cards with Richele Christensen and Cheiron: 

Do you believe we could just sit down and do a make and take with Jennifer McGuire and Gina K of Gina K Designs?? The line was soooo long when I snapped this picture I wasn't that lucky, but Rina K and Mindy Eggen did help me make these two beauties featuring new polymer sheets we could buy (and of course I did.) 

I have been a huge fan of Pear Blossom Press's EZ Lights for years, and Trinity Stamps has created many die sets to feature these lights as well as other fun dies like the donut shaped set. Here are a couple more cards I made with 49 and Market products and Spellbinders BetterPress plates:

I made many more cards, but if I included them all this blog post would be very very long. Here are a couple of the many I made with Simon Says Stamp products:

The two day Simon Says Create show was well worth every penny of the $45 it cost. I have many more card samples and lots of new products to play with as soon as I have time. Even though I didn't get into the classes so I can't comment on those, I do recommend the show and Create It Take Its very very much! 

Nine Ways to Create Cards With Picket Fence Studios Flutter Flys

Do you like to make gorgeous colorful cards in just minutes and are you a butterfly lover like me? If so you will want to check out the nine different ways to make cards with Picket Fence Studios Flutter Fly Fabulous Foiling Tone Card Fronts in my new video here. I show how to make the card above in the video with just one toner card front, the Picket Fence Studios Layering Fauna Butterfly Die, one piece of white Poly-Glaze from Gina K Designs, and one sheet of rainbow foil from Deco Foil and Brutus Monroe. Here is another version of this card with pink and gold foil and a sentiment die from Hunkydory:

Here is a set of cards I made with one toner card front and one rainbow shattered foil sheet from Deco Foil with a sheet of black toner. We can get two separate images from one piece of foil with no waste of any rainbow foil. The stencil on the left if from Brutus Monroe and the white and foiled butterfly on the right is also a Flutter Fly Foiling Toner Card Front.

To see how to make these and many more cards, watch the new video here. 

Waffle Flower Postage Collage Plus Rub-ons from Many Companies

I am still making cards with Waffle Flower's Postage Collage die because I truly believe it is my favorite way to take an OK background to amazing in just seconds. I love my rub on transfers from many companies but forget to use them. The two cards above were made with 49 and Market rub on transfers and then cut with the Postage Collage die. I like to add the rub-ons by simply running through my die cutting machine for even easy pressure and then cutting with the die. Sometimes I have the rub-on images run off the sides and glue that on and raise the center piece like on the green card on the left. But simply gluing the postage collage piece to layers looks lovely too.

Hero Arts has some beautiful Hero Transfers and I used white sympathy images and pansies from them on these two cards. And below is one I made with Prima rub-on transfers and inked with purple ink before raising the center piece.

I just can't stop playing with the Waffle Flower Postage Collage die. I just purchased a new Altenew Press Plate called Floral Engravings and decided to cut it out with this unique die after running the press plate through my BetterPress. 

For a different look, I raised the outline piece and glued the center piece down after inking both with blue ink. I love how the inked flowers continue from the sides through to the center images. 

I am entering the last card in the Feminine challenge at Simon Says Stamp Wednesday.

Woodgrain Cards Inspired by Tracy Renner

Once in awhile I get so inspired by cards I see on the internet and I just can't wait to try the ideas for myself. Tracy Renner posted many cards and a tutorial on Facebook with woodgrain backgrounds and scenery stamps. I followed her directions and made this card with scenery stamps from Blue Knight Rubber Stamps. My favorite of Tracy's cards were created with a chevron pattern like on this card made with the same stamps:

It was even easier to glue on a trees die cut from Tim Holtz and Sizzix and a sentiment from Waffle Flower rather than stamping with a scenery stamp after creating the woodgrain chevron pattern background for this card. 

I love how these cards turned out and will be teaching the technique in an upcoming class here locally.