Video - How To Color DieCuts With Foil and Embossing Powder Part One

I am die cut crazy and love to play with techniques to give my diecuts color and shine, and in my newest video here I feature foil and embossing powder techniques. All the dies in this video and in Part Two coming soon are from Dies...to Die For at ShopScrapbook101.com, and I am posting this video on their YouTube channel too while Stacey takes some time off to deal with health issues. 

My great-nephew (does that make me really old or just really great to be his great-aunt??) is graduating from my old alma mater and the BHS school colors are maroon and gold. I "colored" the graduation gown and hat with Gold Static foil on a Brutus Monroe/Therm O Web Designer Toner Sheet and brushed on maroon (or burgandy) ink as I show in the video. All the graduation dies can be found here on the DTDF website. I rolled up a monetary gift to look like a diploma and tucked it in a pocket created with the Torn Edge Resting Rectangle die from Dies...To Die For. 

As I show in the new video, I colored all these diecuts in this baby slimline card with foil and Gina K Designs Petite Foil-mates, and also explain how to not waste any gorgeous foil but putting the leftovers through the MINC or laminator with Deco Foil's black Toner Sheets. All the baby dies shown can be found here on the DTDF website.

I have also discovered another way to color our diecuts with embossing powder and I call the technique Hot Camo. In the new video I show how I added red, black and white embossing powders to the graduation gown and hat and achieved a textured fun color mixture. Here is a close up look at that texture:

Combining the words "Congrats" and "Grad" was an idea I totally lifted from Stacey of Dies...To Die For and is a fun play on words perfect for a graduation card. 

I had so much fun playing with these foil and embossing techniques that I made many more cards with the coming May release at Dies...To Die For, so be sure to on the lookout for those cards and the Part Two video soon. I hope my cards and new video inspire you to give some of these techniques and dies a try! 

CAS Altenew Antique Rose Card

 I just couldn't resist this gorgeous Antique Rose die set from Altenew and I had so much fun with it I made a bunch of cards for an upcoming video. I also took a free layering class from Altenew with this and other layering die sets and got many great ideas which I will also be sharing soon. "Thinking of You" cards are the ones I use the most so I combined the beautiful layered rose with a favorite sentiment die from Sue Wilson for a simple but lovely card. The top layer of the rose and leaves all have a hint of sparkle from the glitter cardstock I chose. 

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

More Pop Up Double Bitty Ball Animal Cards From My Newest Video

I received a request from a special friend to create a pop up frog card for his wife's birthday and had so much fun creating this card, of course I shared it in a new video with other bitty ball animal cards. I can share that it is very hard to grow a YouTube channel and get many views and minutes watched on each video, but my highest viewed videos are these also featuring pop up animals made with the ingenious dies from Karen Burniston. So I know others love these double bitty ball animal pop ups as much as I do! 

Of course the best part of these cards is when the recipient opens the card and a critter pops up! I belong to a Facebook group called Karen Burniston Pop Up Peeps and saw a frog card there I was able to get inspiration from and my friend loved how this card turned out. I hope his wife does too when she opens it on her birthday!

I also learned how to make this type of card and the monkey from Karen Burniston on her Facebook group and YouTube channel. I made this card for a little boy who will delight in the silly joke and how the monkey pops up when he opens the card. 

I hope you are inspired by my cards and new video to give these double bitty ball pop up animals a try!

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

Video - Cookie Monster, Frog and Monkey Pop Up Double Bitty Ball Cards

One of my favorite all time dies is the Bitty Ball Pop Up Die from Karen Burniston when it is used doubled up to make animals and critters of all kinds. In my newest video here, I show new frog and monkey Bitty Ball cards and how to make a Cookie Monster card from scratch. Here is the card I make in the video:

I have shown this card on my blog before but now you can learn step by step how to make it in the new video.  Of course the best part is when you open the card and see who pops up:

Isn't he adorable? The stenciled sentiment was made with the Taylored Expressions Falling Happy stencil and an older birthday die from Penny Black. Of course the best way to see Cookie Monster pop up when the card is opened is to watch the new video here.

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

Shakers and Slimline Cards with New Dies From Dies...to Die For

I love to make shaker cards and slimline cards and I combined those loves on the two cards I am sharing today from my newest Die Cut Crazy video. I created the background with a new stencil from Pinkfresh Studio called Mirrored Triangles and I used the new Tulips, Flower Pot and "celebrate" die from the new release at Dies...To Die For at Shopscrapbook101.com. I also used the Slimline Torn Rectangles die. Here is a look at this card "all shook up": 

Here is another celebration Hello Peeps card from the new video and another view of it all shook up: 

I used the Bunny Peeps die set and added the word Peeps in the same color using Hannah's Alphabet raised on fun foam. The shaker frame was created with Dies...To Die For Slimline Plaid 2 die and the layered Hello is from Spring Words with Shadows. 

I love all the new dies in the newest release and hope these cards and my new video inspire you to give them a try! 

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

Video - Cardmaking for Celebrations With New Dies...To Die For April Dies

It is Spring and and I am celebrating the hopefulness of this spring with a new celebrations video featuring the brand new April release of dies at Dies...to Die For at Shopscrapbook101.com! Here is the screen fold card I show how to make in the video:

There are four folds on this card and each features new dies from the April release and one of the folds is a see through acetate where the sentiment and candles look like they are floating. Here are a few more views of this fun fold card:

The new dies I used to make this card are: Slimline Bow Border, Celebrate, Make A Wish, Streamers and Crepe Paper Border. I also used the Slimline Torn Rectangles and a fun stencil from Artplorations called Fan Fair. I also show how to make a slimline envelope with a little extra room for a thicker card like this one with the new Slimline Envelope die.

Here is another celebration card I share in the new video and it features the Teapot Cardmaker die and the new "celebrate" die. I created the front of the teapot with a new technique I am sharing in a video soon and a sentiment die from Cutplorations. 

I had great fun making these and the other cards in the new video and hope the cards and ideas inspire you to give them a try! 

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

Cards For Moms (From the Kids) at Send a Smile 4 Kids

It’s the first Saturday of a new month 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 also have an alternative theme that you can choose to follow, but are not required to. The theme for this challenge is: Cards For Moms (From the Kids.) 

I made my card both an easel card and an eclipse card and the O in MOM is a mirror for her to see her beautiful face. I started with Gina K Designs Red Velvet Glitz Glitter Gel through an Artplorations stencil and when the gel was dry I die cut out two M's with Kat Scrappiness alphabet dies. I raised them on black fun foam and popped them back in for the eclipse look. The fun shoes on the bottom of the card were cut with dies from Dies...to Die For and the sentiment die is from Spellbinders. Both the stitched and dotted oval and strip dies are from Gina Marie Designs.

Here is a look at the inside of this easel card:

On the inside of the card I added some more sparkly shoes and a layered perfect sentiment from Honey Bee Stamps.

 

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

 

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