Gathering Basket Cards and Techniques From My Newest Video

Slimline cards are trending right now but I find them hard to photograph in my set up. I hope you can see the beautiful basket (from the Gathering Basket and Galvanized Bucket die set from Susan's Garden Club) that I created with a Faux Leather technique using Bister powders on a crackle stamped kraft cardstock piece. I am going to do a video on just these basket techniques so you can see exactly how I made this. I filled the basket with Beautiful Berry Bush pieces from Susan's Garden Club at Tonic Studios and added some Nuvo Harvest Moon glitter accents to those and the berry branch from Bright Rosa on the right. I love the "thinking of you" die on this card from Sue Wilson and Creative Expressions and use it all the time. 

The basket on this card was created with another faux leather technque, this time with glycerin and distress inks. I filled it with kitties and attached it to a card with a stenciled background created with a The Crafter's Workshop stencil. Here is a look at the inside of this card: 

In my newest video here, I show these cards and share links to the techniques here for the baskets. I am working on two new videos with more specifics on each of the techniques shown so be sure to watch for those. Did you know you can click the little bell next to the subscribe button and then you will be notified every time I post a new video? Thanks for watching and subscribing and helping me #share the joy of creativity!

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

Video - Baskets & Buckets of Card Making Techniques and Fun!

I was very happy to see the new Susan's Garden Club dies at Tonic Studios and knew I had to purchase some to play with. But the die set that excited me the most was the Gathering Basket and Galvanized Bucket set because I love to play with techniques for wood and metallic looks on my cards and that is what I share in my newest video here. 

This is the card I demo in my video. Just look at the black and gold texture on the bucket in this card! It is very hard to show the beauty in a still photo so be sure to check it out in the video here. I show how easy it is to create that look with my Metallic Camo Technique using specialty embossing powders from Stampendous and Seth Apter. I filled the bucket with ferns from Susan's Garden Club at Tonic Studios and Bright Rosa from Paula Pascual. The card is an easel card and stands up with another die from Bright Rosa:

I created this textured metallic bucket with Aged Black and Aged Spice Embossing Powders from Stampendous and Rocky Road from Seth Apter and filled the bucket with pretty flowers from the Columbine Die Set from Tonic Studios and Susan's Garden Club. The "celebrate" is also from Tonic Studios. Here is a look at this bucket close up:

It is even prettier in real life with wonderful colors and bumpy texture. To see how easy it is to achieve this look as well as see two more techniques, watch here. Thanks for your visit here today and for your support of my YouTube channel.  

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

Cards 4 Boys OR Anything Goes 4 Kids at Send a Smile 4 Kids

It’s Saturday and time for another fun challenge at Send a Smile 4 Kids! Again this year, all challenges at SAS4Kids are Anything Goes 4 Kids! We will often have an alternative theme that you can choose to follow, but are not required to. Create and link any card that is appropriate for a child and your card could be chosen as one of our top three cards and you could join us as a guest dt member on a future challenge. We are also continuing as a monthly challenge so new challenges will be posted on the first Saturday of every month and you will have a whole month to make and link your cards.

The theme for this challenge is: Cards 4 Boys OR Anything Goes 4 Kids.  

I created my card for a boy with a Sizzix Emojis embossing folder and die set. The circle (die from Gina Marie Designs) is popped up on an Action Wobble, and the sentiment die is from Simon Says Stamp.

Be sure to check out the rest of the cards from TEAM SAS here and we would love it if you entered our challenge. 

Altenew's Painted Fantasy Wide Washi Tape and Crealies Create A Card #15

In my newest video I share how to make great fun fold cards with Crealies Create A Card dies as well as pretty wide washi tapes from Altenew. This card was created with Crealies #15 Create A Card die set and Altenew's Painted Fantasy wide washi tape. The wonky circle dies are from Gina Marie Designs and the perfect sentiment is from Sue Wilson and Creative Expressions. The view above is the card opened up and would be perfect for display. It folds flat as in this picture for mailing: 

As I explain in the video, there are templates on the Crealies website that help you line up the dies and created easy beautiful fun fold cards. I chose to add a piece of pink behind the center circles but you can choose to leave that open if you prefer. The Altenew Painted Fantasy wide washi tape was attached to pink cardstock and then cut out as shown. 

I am entering this card in the Anything Goes challenge at Simon Says Stamp Wednesday.

Video - Die Cut Crazy Series - Altenew Wide Washi Tape and Crealies

I love to design with fun folds and pretty wide washi tapes and I combined those two loves in my newest video here. I am featuring two Create A Card dies from Crealies which makes these unique fun folds so easy to make as well as gorgeous wide washi tapes from Altenew on each of the cards I share in the video.

I created the front of this card that I demo in the video with Altenew's Teal Shadow wide washi tape as well as butterfly dies from Lil' Inker and a border die from Penny Black. I know you can use designer paper for a similar look, but I show in the video how different this and other Altenew wide washi tapes look depending on what cardstock you attach it to. So you can get many different looks with one roll of wide washi tape. The scripty "happy birthday" was created with dies from Tonic Studios.

I also show in the video how to use the Crealies Create a Card #19 for the horizontal look as above and the vertical look below on this card: 

I featured Altenew's Misty Meadows wide washi tape on this card as well as a pretty flower die from Amy Designs. 

Be sure to watch the video at my YouTube channel here to see how easy it is to make awesome fun fold cards with wide washi tape. Thanks for your visit here and your support of my YouTube videos.

I am entering the first card in the Anything Goes challenge at Simon Says Stamp Wednesday.

Flower Cards with Flower Soft From My Newest Video

Remember Flower Soft? Many of us bought it years ago when it was hot for making flowers on our cards but I haven't seen a card made with it for years. I pulled mine out recently and had a play updating it with today's tools and supplies to make it easier to attach. A few years after the original flower soft came out, Flower Soft came out with Ultra Fine colors and I find I like those better now along with new crafty products such as TCW Tacky When Dry Gel Medium. I applied that through a Gina K Designs stencil and when it was dry I attached Ultra Fine Sage Flower Soft mixed with a little Christmas Green for this textured background. All the flowers were created with Raspberry Fizz Ultra Fine Flower Soft but they look different because I started with different colors of cardstock covered with two sided tape from Sookwang. The flowers were cut out with dies from Marisa Job and Spellbinders. 

I started with another Gina K Designs stencil on this card with brushed on green ink and then I moved it over and added TCW Tacky When Dry Gel Medium. When that was dry I attached green Flower Soft and some more Marisa Job flowers created in various colors of flower soft. They are soft and full of texture as you can see in the video here. The sentiment die is from Sue Wilson and Creative Expressions.

I am entering the second card in the Add A Sentiment challenge at Simon Says Stamp Wednesday.

Video - Remember Flower Soft? Updating Older Products With Today's Tools

I am on a mission to use older products I have in my craft room and updating them with newer tools and products to make them current and easy to use. I came across my Flower Soft recently and had a play for this video. 

If you don't have any Flower Soft and would like to see the colors and more info, you can visit Frantic Stamper here.

It is still very much winter here in Wisconsin and my favorite thing to do with Flower Soft is to create snowy winter scenes. We used to have to attach Flower Soft with thick glue which was messy and uneven in my opinion. In my new video I show how easy it is to cut a snowbank out of two sided Sookwang Scor-Tape and simply push the white Flower Soft into it. I also added some Flower Soft snow to the tree using glue in a fine tip bottle. The animal dies on this card are from Sizzix, the tree is from Die-Versions and the hello is from Tonic Studios.

I created another winter card with white Flower Soft on the snowbank in the snowglobe attached again with Scor-Tape and added snow to the trees with glue. The snow globe die is from Gina Marie Designs; the trees and the snow holes were made with dies from Memory Box; The deer is a die from Tim Holtz and Sizzix and the "warm winter wishes" is from Cutplorations. I can use both these cards for warm winter wishes now or save for my Christmas cards next year. 

In the new video I also share non-winter cards made easy with Flower Soft and new products, so click here to check that out.

I am entering the second card in the Add A Sentiment challenge at Simon Says Stamp Wednesday.