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Hello I've got one more Christmas in July card for you.   This is for another Christmas in July video hop over on YouTube. I started off by stamping the fireplace from the Cosy Christmas stamp set from Clearly besotted.  I stamped it in memento tuxedo black ink on the card base. Then I also stamped the fireplace on some Inkadinkadoo masking paper.  I also cut a half circle out of the masking paper for the carpet in the scene. After placing the masks down I was ready to use distress oxide inks to blend my background. I used vintage photo, broken china and cracked pistachio distress inks. I used the Dollarama makeup brush to do the blending.  Then it was time to take off the masks. Then I colored the fireplace and added some details to the carpet with spectrum noir markers. Next I stamped the penguins from the Lawn Fawn Here we go a waddling in memento tuxedo black ink.  I also colored  these in spectrum noir markers.   The colors I u...

Hello there I've got another Christmas card to share with you for my Christmas in July series.  This one is a collab with a bunch of other creative people from craft collab.  So definitely check out my video for some Christmas inspiration and hop along on the other videos for even more Christmas inspiration. For my card today I used the stamp set by Newton's Nook called Sun soaked Christmas.  I love this stamp set, it's so fun Santa hanging out at the beach. This is perfect for Christmas in July. I started of my creating my background using distress oxide inks and the Dollarama make up brush to blend it. I used fossilized amber and vintage photo for the sand and broken china distress oxide ink for the water. Then I stamped the images from the Newton's Nook stamp set  in Memento Tuxedo Black ink and colored them with spectrum noir markers.  I used the colors DR5, EB2, CT4, BT7, JG6, IG6, CR10, TN7, LV2, IG10, CG1, IG4, JG6, EB8 and the colorless blender....

Hello there, I've got a another card in my Christmas in July mini series over on my YouTube channel today.   It's also part of my Recycle with me series over on YouTube. For Today's cards, I made three of them over on the video.  I used a Rae Dunn Christmas mug set box.  I really liked the designs on it and it reminded me of stamp designs that you would stamp on your projects.  I also loved the red on the kraft color.  Stamping on craft card stock can look so good. I feel like this recycled piece already accomplished that look with one less step. I cut apart the box and cut out the red designs.  Then I was ready to make the cards.  I used the Advanced Tape Glider to adhere various pieces from the packaging to the card base.  Then used nuvo drops in different spots to create some very simple cards. I used autumn red, might night blue and English mustard nuvo drops. to   To watch the Video directly on YouTu...

Hello there, today I start my Christmas in July series over on my YouTube channel. There will be 4 videos in total in this series. Today’s card is a super simple one. My friend Diane send me this Trader Joes candy cane green tea packaging.  I know I needed to turn it into a card.   I simply cut down a cardbase. Cut a few lines off the green packaging and trimmed down the cardboard where the image with the polar bear was.  Then I grabbed out the scotch advanced tape glider to adhere the two stripes and the bigger picture onto the cardbase leaving room between. Then to finish off the card I used Autumn red crystal nuvo drops to add a raised effect to the card. This also allowed me to bring the red from the packaging out a bit more.   You could definitely add a Christmas sentiment to the front or inside of this card but I personally wanted this Recycled piece to shine. To watch the video directly on YouTube <-----CLICK HERE Thanks so mu...

I've got a fun card today using the caffeinated dino from the Rabbit Hole Designs.  Of course there is a video over on my YouTube Channel where you can watch the process.  Today's video is also a collab with Jessica Shier she did a video over on her channel too. We both used the same stamp set and did a summer theme. We came up with two different cards. I started off by using the sixxiz sidekick machine to cut out some grass using the My favorite things "Grassy edges" die.  Then I used the Big shot machine to cut out the sun rays embossed background using a Tim Holtz embossing folder and my big shot machine. Next I adhered the embossed background to the card base with the Scotch advanced tape glider. I then adhered the grass with the Xyron sticker maker over the embossed sun rays. At this point I was ready to stamp and color the dino. I stamped it in memento tuxedo black ink and colored it in spectrum noir markers.  The colors I used were CG1, JG6, TB3, CT3, ...

Hello There, it's been awhile since I did a recycle with me card project for you.  Today I've got 3 fun cards to share with you using the packaging from Oreo cookies.  I created a grad card and 2 fun coffee, cookie and cinnamon bun themed cards. For the first card I used Honey bee stamps "Coffee Break" stamp set and stamped the to go cup in memento tuxedo black ink.  Then I colored the to go cup in with spectrum noir markers.  I used TN8,  BG4 and OR1.  I then used various pieces from the Oreo cookie packaging and glued it down on the card.  Then for the background  I used vintage photo distress oxide ink along with the Dollarama make up brush to blend the ink onto the card base.  For the sentiment I used the stamp set from Honey Bee Stamps called "Perfect Blend". For the second card I created a grad card. I used broken china distress oxide ink along with the Dollarama make up brush.   I glued the word Oreo on top of the car...

Hello There, I've got a fun Birthday card for you today. Also I switched things up over on my YouTube channel and got my husband to do the voice over. We did this for a few reasons. One it's my birthday, he's a guitar player and loved this card I created and I created this card for our work music recital for a raffle prize. For today's card I used Wilted Violet Distress Oxide ink and Broken China Distress Oxide ink to blend a background on the card base.  I used the Dollarama make up brush to blend these two colors together.  Then I was ready to stamp the penguin from Lawn Fawn's Here we go a waddling stamp set.  So this is a Christmas set. Though I wanted to see it as a non Christmas penguin.  I used Memento Tuxedo black in and only put ink on the penguin and not his Christmas hat.  I stamped it on the paper and started coloring with my spectrum noir markers.   With the markers I just drew in the top of his head where the hat would of been....