Happy we’re half-way there day! Although this time of year I’d be ok with the weeks going a little slower – so much to get done, sigh. I’m back today with part 2 of the Spellbinders November Card Kit. Here’s what I came up with:
and here are your close-ups:
I was tempted to go all out and cover this snow globe with glossy accents or acetate or half of a globe Christmas ornament but reigned myself in…less usually is more š
This is my favorite card from all 10 – I love Rudolph and his Mrs.
This was super simple and quick. I love that they include 2 of every ephemera – sometimes you love a piece so much it’s hard to choose what to use it on!
What can I say…I’m feeling the pink and the red this season. I could’ve used about 50 of that cocoa mug die cut.
Another quick and easy card. The glossy accents really make those berries pop!
Thanks so much for checking out my cards today – hope I was able to give you some holiday inspiration! xoxo, Sarah
It’s was a busy weekend for me – I traveled to PA for my nephew’s 8th birthday party – LEGO EVERYTHING!! I did make a birthday card for him but as it’s not Christmas themed I’ll save it for a later date. So now I’m getting back into the swing of things and have Part 1 of the Spellbinders November, Deer Santa Kit for you. LOVE this kit, love the die set, love the ephemera, love the washi, love love love.
Here are the first 5 cards I came up with:
Here are some close-ups of the finished cards:
Such cuties – if only I could get my Charlie cat to wear a Santa hat!
I love this Holiday cheer sentiment – the script is gorgeous and super fun mixed with the large block font. It has a great hand done look.
This deer is so cute – I fell in love instantly.
Who wouldn’t love a present wrapped up in that shiny gold ribbon?!?
Such a pretty piece of ephemera – I just wonder where exactly she is off to.
As always thanks for stopping by to check out my cards – hope I was able to give you some inspiration to use with your kit! xoxo, Sarah
I’m back with the last part of the cards I created using Simon Says Stamp July 2018 Card Kit. These cards will focus on the pattern papers included in the kit. Here is what I came up with:
Here are some close-up photos for you:
I liked this pattern paper the best out of the bunch. I know I complained about them a bit, but I did enjoy the idea of the overhead shots that some of them had.
This stamp perplexed me a bit at first and I didn’t think I’d use it, but it really worked perfectly for beach and pool themed cards.
Again, I liked the overhead shot so I did this card similar to the first one and just let the paper shine.
I saved that extra strip from the first card and added a mini beach scene to the inside of this one.
Adding those sequins as scales on the fish was one of the first ideas I came up with for this kit and I’m really pleased with how it worked out. It really gives a lot of shine to the card.
I went to my Cricut and used it to write out this fishy inside sentiment, then added a few more stamped fish to finish it off. As I mention in the video, it takes a little longer but there are some great ABC stamp sets out there that you can use to write out specific sentiments for your card. Lawn Fawn’s Milo’s ABCs is my favorite.
I again used my Cricut to cut out this drink and then turned it into a shaker (which moves but doesn’t really shake). It gave me the look I was going for though. If you don’t have a Cricut, there is a great martini shaker die and stamp set from MFT that would give you a similar look.
I kept the inside super simple since the front was so detailed and finished it off with some washi and a leftover cardstock strip from one of my previous cards.
For this last card, I used this pool patterned paper and another one of the cutouts as the sentiment. I used an embossing folder that mimicked a raft and added a pink bikini using one of the SSS dies from a card kit last summer.
I again went pretty simple with the inside and just finished it off with the sunshine sentiment.
So this will finish up the cards using the July card kit and just in time because my August card kit arrived in the mail this week š I’ll probably be a little later with that kit because of my moving but I’ll get it out to you as soon as I can and in the meantime I’ve got a few happy mail videos that I’ve already recorded and I’ll post those as soon as I can get the voiceovers done. Thanks, as always, for stopping by. xoxo, Sarah
Sorry I’m a bit slower in getting these videos out. I settled on my new condo on Friday and I’ve been cleaning and packing and ahh it’s so overwhelming. I can’t wait to have everything done and be fully moved in but that won’t be until the middle of next month. It doesn’t help that my internet is incredibly slow right now for some reason and it’s taking over a day to upload to YouTube!
Anywho…for this set of cards I focused on using the stickers that were included and here is what I came up with:
Here are some close-ups of the finished cards:
I wasn’t sure what to do with these mini stickers and then when I saw that “you made my day” sentiment I thought, oh a calendar. I used my Cricut to create the grid, write in the numbers and a few events, and then cut a thin red circle to highlight one of the days.
Sweet and simple. I think this would be great to use as a thank you card for a birthday or special trip you went on.
Do you ever like the inside of your cards better than the outside? This happens to me every so often, so I just cut the halves apart and use the inside as a front panel. I really loved those rainbow stickers.
I also really loved the script sentiments in the stickers – I could use a whole sticker pack of just those.
I’m not sure about the background on this one. I liked the wooden panel paper but the colors were a bit crazy. I think it works, but it’s just a bit busier than what I usually do. Love the cacti stickers though š
I can’t take credit for the inside sentiment – I found it on the internet, but I think it’s the perfect inside finish to the stuck on you stamp.
I really love this card. It sort of came together by accident and once I had the idea, I had to do it.Ā I really love the upside down hearts for the seeds too.
I added these watermelon stickers and a strip of the lime green to finish off the inside. I think I will write inside with my white gel pen and that will allow the white outline on the watermelon stickers to really pop.
Aren’t those butterflies gorgeous?!? This card really speaks for itself. I love how the colors of the butterflies match the colors in the sentiment letters perfectly.
And you know how happy I was to find this matching sentiment for the inside!
As always…thanks so much for stopping by to check out my cards. I hope I was able to give you some inspiration on using the sticker portion of this month’s card kit.
Hope you’ve all had a great weekend! Mine was cards, cards, cards – I completed the planning, filming, editing, voiceover (and now blog post) all in one weekend which I think is a record for me! I was just having so much fun I didn’t want to stop. Lucky for me I don’t have to because my SSS July kit came in the mail yesterday, lol. I think I’ll wait until tomorrow to start devouring that one.
As you know I’ve been eyeing the Love From Lizi Kits for quite some time now and was thrilled when they invited me to be a guest designer this month. I really enjoyed using all the stuff in the kit and there is probably enough leftover to make 10 more cards. Here is the video of what I came up with:
Here are some stills of the finished cards:
The sand was such a great addition to the embellishment bag – it gave some fantastic texture to this scene. Isn’t that frog adorable?
Ain’t that the truth?!? I am a beach girl and very much looking forward to my trip to Myrtle Beach this October!
This card is my favorite. I LOVE that background stamp and was really pleased with how the coloring turned out.
So cute! I love those little guys and the dimension of the decoupage is fantastic. I added the little wooden ship wheel under the puppy’s paws to make it look like he is steering.
I used Lawn Fawn’s Milo’s ABC’s to spell out “you and me” so the full sentiment reads “By the sea, you and me.” I thought the font matched the thinner portion of the sentiment on the front really well.
The photos don’t do this paper justice – it’s super sparkly and just gorgeous. I had originally planned to have 3 cones with the sentiment, but that background paper was so busy I decided on adding just one. I added some white cardstock behind that pink ice cream die cut to make it a strawberry/vanilla swirl.
I used an old paper pumpkin stamp set to add this “Happy Birthday” sentiment and then added in some slots for a gift card.
I was so disappointed when I saw the sand had shifted in front of those seashells. I thought I had figured it out!! Stay tuned, I’m going to sit down with this again and see if I can come up with a fix for you.
Again, I love that punny sentiment and how about that gorgeous starfish paper? It was my favorite of the kit!
This guy is too fun. I thought that frog was just adorable so I used him on quite a few cards. Here I’ve got him floating in the pool using a mini wobbler.
Yes, indeed it is.
This is my second favorite card of the kit. It took quite a bit of time to make but it was well worth it to have those doors open to reveal that lounging frog!
Since the front was so detailed, I kept the inside super simple.
This card will probably go to my niece – she loves the beach just as much as I do and will love all those little guys chilling in their beach chairs.
Love that cat sleeping along the border there.
This is a tie with the earlier stamped background card as my favorite. I love the subtle stamping for the beach and couldn’t be happier with how my ‘waves’ turned out.
Since I used the Lawn Fawn Mermaid ink to dye the texture paste, I decided to continue that color on the inside.
Again with the frogs – just too cute. I will probably send this to my nephew, I think He’ll get a kick out of them.
Love that little guy splashing down in the inner-tube.
This kit is already sold out, but you can still get the decoupage pages and a few of the other items on the Love From Lizzie website. I’ve linked what is available for you below.
As always, thanks for stopping by to check out my cards. Let me know which was your favorite in the comments!
As promised, I’m back with part 2 of my 10 Cards, 1 Kit using the Simon Says Stamp special edition Mother’s Day Card Kit. For this second half, I’ve created 5 wedding themed cards since it is that time of year and the papers in the kit worked really for those too. Here is what I came up with:
Here are some close-ups of the finished cards:
I kept all of these cards fairly simple, but I love simple. That knot to echo the sentiment is just really sweet.
And this is the perfect sentiment for inside a wedding card – at least I think so.
This was as complicated as it got for this batch of cards. I’ve been doing a lot more layering in my happy mail lately and I think it spilled over a bit here. It’s not my normal design, but I really love this card.
That peachy keen ink was a perfect match for these pattern papers.
Couldn’t you just die over that congratulations script? This stamp set is wedding themed but you can use this one stamp on so many cards and the size of it makes for a great simple card.
This would be really pretty to stamp on an envelope and add their last name in a fancy handwritten script.
Such an easy card. As you know I am in love with everything Maggie Holmes – I was really excited to get both these hearts from the chasing dreams collection and the stickers from the flourish collection – yes, more please.
This is why I always hang on to scraps, I only had a small stripe of that floral patterned paper left after the Mother’s Day cards but was able to use it on several cards.
You know how I love a shaker card. I think this is such a great card to give because the new couple can take off the shaker and add it to the photo album if they’d like.
Again that script is fantastic in or outside a card.
Thanks so much for stopping by today to check out my cards. xoxo, Sarah
I’m back today with part two of my 10 Cards, 1 Kit using the Simon Says Stamp June 2018 Card Kit. Hope you like what I came up with:
Here are some close-ups of the finished cards:
I really love this design, but I love almost any two-tone design. Somehow this card feels both masculine and feminine to me at the same time.
I really love the look of partial stamping with that large floral spray. I would totally use this panel on the front of a card too.
I mentioned it yesterday but I’ll say it again – these papers are lovely…pardon the paperlovely pun š
and again, the mix of the outline and solid stamps together makes for some great sentiments.
I decided to do some more no-line coloring today. This was my first time using gray background paper and stamping with the hippo ink worked really great.
The thanks stamp was a little small but combining it with that floral helps to balance out all the white space.
These tulle shakers are so much fun and since there’s no foam tape, much easier to mail!
Since the shaker is so busy I kept the inside simple with just the sentiment and extra stripe of that pretty purple sky.
I kept this last card fairly simple though I added a lot of stamping – I really loved this paper but wasn’t quite sure what to do with it so I thought stamping with a colored ink would be nice. Seedless Preserves Distress Oxide did the trick.
I finished this off with my favorite sentiment, an extra stripe of the patterned paper, and then finally a strip of some MFT Pure Plum card stock.
Thanks so much for stopping by today, hope I was able to give you some inspiration! xoxo, Sarah
