An Adventure Was Going to Happen

Hi Crafty Friends,

Thanks for stopping by my blog, today I am sharing a Pooh themed Slimline Easel Card I created recently.

For my card, I used the dies from the new Spellbinders Classic Pooh Collection.I saw these were going to be released in January when I was checking out the "Coming Soon" section on the Spellbinders website before Christmas  and have been impatiently waiting all year (yeah ok a month) for them to make it downunder.

My Slimline Easel Card measures 8 1/2 inches x 4 inches. I wanted the extra height so I could include all the characters from the various sets.

To create the card base, I used Lawn Fawns Lawn Fawn's Grassy Hillside Borders die set to add all the grassy areas on both the front and inside of the card.

I also wanted Pooh to be sitting against a tree, so I pulled out a tree die from Hello Bluebird to use for that. 

All the other die cut elements used to create this scene are included in the three "Pooh" themed die sets from Spellbinders. I spent a day assembling a heap of characters and so far have been able to make two cards from what I created and have enough left over for at least 2 or 3 more cards, which I will share as I make them.

And finally a look at the bottom panel when it is opened up. I added the honey pots and flowers to each side of the card and then a sentiment for a stopper, which will hold the front of the card up. The sentiment is from the Silly Old Bear Betterpress Plate set.

 

Have A Wheely Great Day!

 

Hi Crafty Friends,

Welcome to my blog! Today I am sharing a fun Slimline card I created using products from Lawn Fawn and Hello Bluebird.

In Lawn Fawn's latest release back in February, they released a fun Ferris wheel stamp set called Wheely Great Day which as you can see I purchased and used on my card today along with an older Lawn Fawn Stamp set called Coaster Critters. I didn't have enough room on my card to used the roller coaster from the Coaster Critters stamp set, however the cute animals and accessories in that set were handy to use to complete the scene on this card. 

I pulled out my Black Widow Wax Colouring Pencils to colour all of the images, I figured as they were all small it was a good way to practise.

I used Hello Bluebird's Slimline Skating Pond Scene die set, which I have been wanting to use for a while. As you can see, I didn't use it as intended with ice in the area that I coloured grey. I figured that area could be concrete and a perfect place for a fair.

For the inside of the card I created a pop-up card, using Karen Burniston's Katherine Label Pop-up die set. 

I also decorated the inside of the card, using Lawn Fawn's Raffle Ticket die set. As I only used 5 colours of the rainbow when colouring the images on the front of the card, I decided to only use those same colours on the inside.

I used sentiments from both the Wheely Great Day and Coaster Critters stamp set to add my sentiment to the pop-up label.

Make A Splash

 

Hi Crafty Friends,

Today I am sharing a Slimline card using products mostly from Hello Bluebird. I love their Slimline Scene dies, so when a few more were released in August I had to add them to my collection.

For this card I have used Hello Bluebird's Ocean Floor Slimline Scene die along with the Sea Friends stamp set.  I love how easy it is to create a scene using these products.

For the inside of my card, I created a pop-up using Karen Burniston's Mini Pops Pop-up die set. I added the two pop-ups on either side of the card to pop-up the narwhal and mermaid.

I used elements from the Ocean Floor Slimline Scene die to add the rocks, seaweed and coral to my card. I also uses the Sea Friends stamp set. to add the different sea creatures.

For the sentiment I added two sentiments using Your Next Stamp's Little Darling Mermaid stamp set. I wanted a birthday sentiment and the sentiment seemed to work with the one on the front. of the card.

Here is another view of the inside of my card, this time taken at a different angle so you can see the pop-up portion of the card a little better.

Let's Hit the Slopes

 

Hi Crafty Friends,

It's challenge time with my friends over on the CCEE Stampers challenge blog. Being a brand new month, it's time to introduce a new challenge hostess which is Liz Williams.

During the month of February, the world’s biggest winter sporting event that happens  four years, will be held in Bejing, China for the Winter Olympics.  Make a card representing one of those winter sports being featured.  For embellishment, add a little gold or silver. 

I have had a couple of products from Hello Bluebird for a while, which perfectly fit this challenge. So it was good to be able to pull them out to create my card for today. I used the Bunny Hill Stamp set and the Slimline Downhill Vertical Scene die set.

I googled country uniform colors for olympics to decide on the colors to use when coloring the animals used in this scene ... the tiger represents Australia, the others could be a few different countries.

I used a sentiment from the Bunny Hill stamp set for the bottom sentiment, the "Go For Gold!" sentiment is from an older MFT Stamp set.

For the inside of the card, I added the slopes using Lawn Fawn's Stitched Hillside Borders die set and two more of the animals.

For the sentiment I added the "Way to Go" from Karen Burniston's Word Set 8 - Congrats die set. I die cut the top layer from gold cardstock to cover the gold portion of the challenge.

Don't forget to check out the CCEE Stampers blog (goes live 12 AM EST) to see the rest of the creations the CCEE Stampers created this week. You can also see more details of their creations on their individual blogs:

Anne Harmon

Liz Williams

Lois Bak

Lynn McAuley

Maryann Einam

Kelly McKown-Santi

Hey There Friend

 

Hi Crafty Friends,

Today I am sharing a Slimline card I created using stamps and dies from Hello Bluebird. The tree is a Slimline die called High Rise Scene and I added the cute animals using stamps from the Tree Neighbours stamp set.

I used Distress Oxide inks to add color to the sky, grass and tree areas of my slimline die.

My scene was adhered to a 3 1/2 inches x 8 1/2 inches side folding slimline card.

For the inside of my card, I used Concord and 9th's Thinking of You Perfect Pairings die set. I added a few more of the animals from the Tree Neighbors stamp set around the sentiment. 

Showers of Joy

Hi Crafty Friends,

Today I am sharing a fun Mini Slimline card I created recently.

To create the mini slimline portion of the card, I used the new Large Mini Stackables die set from Lawn Fawn, to die cut the blue background layer. I also used Lawn Fawn's Stitched Hillside Border die set to add the green hills along the bottom of the card.

The girl, ducks and clouds are all from Hello Bluebird's Singing in the Rain stamp set.

I white embossed the sentiment onto black cardstock.

For the inside of my card, I again added the green hills along the bottom of the card. I added the other girl image included in the stamp set, along with the ducks to the card.

For the sentiment I used Pinkfresh Studio's Perfect Sentiments Hot Foil Plate, foiling the sentiment using black foil and then die cutting using the coordinating die.

Balloon Birthday Wishes

 

Hi Crafty Friends,

Today I am sharing a birthday themed slimline card I created recently.

I have be wanting to play with this Hello Bluebird Balloon Buddies stamp set that I received early in November, but with all the Christmas card I was busy making I didn't have the time. Finally I have.

I used a blue colored cardstock panel to create the background of my card and then blended the top portion of the card with Tumbled Glass; Broken China and Prize Ribbon Distress Oxide inks to get a graduated blue panel.

I used Lawn Fawn's Stitched Hillside Border die set to create the grassy hills.

I stamped the images from the Balloon Buddies stamp set and then die cut them using the coordinating dies. 

"The "Birthday Wishes" at the top of the card is from Kaisercraft. The sentiment on the grass, is included in the stamp set I used.

For the inside of the card I die cut the birthday sentiment from Concord and 9th's Perfect Pairings Birthday die set. To create the rainbow effect, I cut panels of cardstock and colored each panel using two different shades of Copic Markers. I then adhered each colored panel onto a sheet of photocopy paper in rainbow order. I used this to die cut the sentiment.

I added the rabbit and two balloons left over after creating the front of the card.

Believe in the Magic of Christmas

Hi Crafty Friends,

Today I am sharing a Christmas themed Slimline card I created recently.

For the snowy background, I blended various shades of blue Distress Oxide ink onto a piece of white cardstock (list of colors included in supply list). I then used The Ton's Dot Cover Plate to die cut the panel and adhered it to a top folding white slimline card.

I used the snow border included in Trinity Stamps Slimline Scenic Border die set to die cut a piece of white glitter cardstock and  adhered it to the bottom of my card.

Next I stamped the deers and chimney included in Hello Bluebird's Rooftop Reindeer die set and adhered them to the snowy "rooftop".

I used a circle die to die cut a moon and added it to the top right side of my card.

I white embossed two sentiments included in the stamp set onto red cardstock and added them to my card as per photo above.

For the inside of my card, I added another glittered panel for the roof and stamped out two more reindeer and a chimney and adhered them to my scene.

I die cut the Giant Merry Christmas from Lawn Fawn and adhered it towards the right hand side of my card.

Finally I added another white embossed sentiment to the glitter portion of the card.

 

You're Manatee-rific

Hi Crafty Friends,

It's challenge time with my friends over on the CCEE Stampers challenge blog. Being a brand new month, it's time to introduce our new challenge hostess which is Kelly Santi.

Apparently November is Manatee Awareness Month, so our challenge this week is to create a card featuring a Manatee.

It seems up until this challenge I didn't have any manatee images in my stash, so I went searching online and found one store nearby that had two different stamp sets available. As I couldn't decide which one I would end up using I decided to buy both. The first was Manatee Mischief from Clearly Besotted which included the three manatee's I included on the front of this card. The second was Manatee-rific which included two manatees and a number of sentiments including the one used on the front of this card.

For the ocean background I used Hello Bluebirds Ocean Waves Scene Horizontal die. Instead of using it as a beach scene I used it as an underwater scene.

Besides the manatee stamps sets I used three other Lawn Fawn stamp sets ... You're Sublime; Mermaid For You and Ocean Shell-fie.

For the inside of the card I created an underwater scene, popping up the manatee images from the Lawn Fawn Manatee-rific stamp set. I used the pop up die from Karen Burniston's Street Lantern Pop-up die set to pop up the manatee images.

I used two of the dies from Honey Bee Stamps Makin' Waves Ocean Borders Slimline die set to create the waves and sand along the bottom of the ocean.

I added another of the sentiments from the Lawn Fawn Manatee-rific stamp set.

Don't forget to check out the CCEE Stampers blog (goes live 12 AM EST) to see the rest of the creations the CCEE Stampers created this week. You can also see more details of their creations on their individual blogs:

Anne Harmon

Liz Williams

Lois Bak

Lynn McAuley

Maryann Einam

Kelly McKown-Santi

Other Supplies:

Manatee Mischief - Clearly Besotted 

Swimming By To Say

Hi Crafty Friends,

Today I am sharing a beach themed Slimline Card I created recently.

I was going through some of the unused stamps sitting on my desk, when I discovered this fun Hello Bluebird Come On In stamp set which I hadn't used as yet. I figured it was about time I got it out to play with, so I created this card.

I used Hello Bluebird's Ocean Waves Scene Vertical Slimline Die to create the background of my card. I die cut the slimline die from white cardstock and then used Distress Oxide inks and blending brushes to color the various panels.

I added the sentiment combining two Lawn Fawn stamp sets ... Keep on Swimming and Scootin' By stamp sets. The sentiment is actually straight on the card but it looks slightly crooked because of the curve of the panel it is on.

For the inside of the card I used the same slimline die I used for the front to add some sand and ocean to the bottom portion of the card and sky to the top.

I added two more of the images and beach ball to the panel.

For the sentiments I used the "It's Your Birthday" sentiment from MFT Stamps Bitty Birthday Wishes stamp set and the "Relax and Soak up the Sun" sentiment from MFT Stamps Sunshine & Friendship stamp set.

 

Friends So Deer

Hi Crafty Friends,

Today I have a Christmas card to share with you using stamps from Hero Arts and Hello Bluebird.

To create my card I stamped Hero Arts Birch Forest Background onto white cardstock using Prize Ribbon Distress Oxide ink. I used a rectangle die to die cut the panel and adhered it to a top folding A2 card.

I used Lawn Fawn's Stitched Hillside Border dies to die cut to snowy hills from white glitter cardstock and added that to the bottom of the rectangle panel.

For the deers I used two stamps from Hello Bluebird's Rooftop Reindeer stamp set. The sentiment is also from that stamp set.

For the inside of my card I added another of the reindeer and a sentiment from the Hello Bluebird stamp set.

Gnomebody Like You

Hi Crafty Friends,

It's challenge time with my friends over on the CCEE Stampers challenge blog. Lois Bak, our challenge hostess for the month continues to issue the challenges.

Apparently September is also National Mushroom Month. Easy challenge: include a mushroom on your card. 

Last year Hello Bluebird release two Slimline dies that featured mushroom, as I had purchased both of these it was a no brainer to pull one of these out to make my card today. I used the Fairy Glade Scene Horizontal Slimline die for my card. The orange/yellow background was one I created a few months back which I didn't like at the time but I kept them and when the ink had dried properly I did like. So I decided to pull one of those out for the sky area. My go to color when coloring mushrooms is red, but as you can see I decided to try something different and colored the tops of my mushrooms purple instead.

To decorate my card I used Hello Bluebird's Next Door Gnomes stamp set for the gnomes and the smaller stamped mushroom and also the Garden Party stamp set for the larger stamped mushrooms.

The sentiment is from Your Next Stamp's Happy Gnomies stamp set.

For the inside of my card I created a pop-up card using Lawn Fawn's Pop-up Hooray and Oliver's ABC's die sets

I added a grass & cloud border to the bottom and top edges of my card using Trinity Stamps Slimline Scenic Borders die set.

To decorate I added more gnomes and a stamped mushroom using the Next Door Gnomes stamp set and the large mushroom from the Slimline die used on the front of the card.

I added the "It's your birthday" sentiment using stamps from Simon Says Stamp/Reverse Confetti from a Stamptember release some years ago.

Don't forget to check out the CCEE Stampers blog (goes live 12 AM EST) to see the rest of the creations the CCEE Stampers created this week. You can also see more details of their creations on their individual blogs:

Anne Harmon

Liz Williams

Lois Bak

Lynn McAuley

Maryann Einam

Kelly McKown-Santi

Other Supplies:

Celebrate Your Day Stamptember Stamp Set - Simon Says Stamp/Reverse Confetti (discontinued)