Posted by: Julie Elak on Monday, June 12, 2023 at 12:00 am
Guest Cristina Raposo is here to help you build up your stash of birthday cards.
Today, the card is full of warmth with shades of pink and orange, plus a cute bunny from Sprinkles – Coffee and Tea. Cristina paper pieced the cup and layered the bunny over a inked circle. Yep, there are some sparkly gumdrops too!
For these cards I wanted the fun of making a wish to come through in the bright happy rainbow colours! I used the Magical Wishing Wells stamp and die set for the images and sentiments.
For the landscape card I did a relaxed watercolour technique with some liquid watercolours from Hero Arts. The images were painted with Tombow markers and given dimension with YNS Pop Dots. A little extra sparkle was added with some YNS Gumdrops
The mini slimline was made with some Distress Oxides and some ink blending with a stencil. The main image is also from the Wishing Wells set and painted with watercolour markers and added to the card with more YNS Pop Dots. I also stamped the ‘wishing’ with black pigment ink and heat set with clear embossing powder. I love that this sentiment has a die cut!
I have to add that one of my fav things about YNS other than they are also Canadian, is the wonderful artwork of their stamps and the fact that their dies are so well designed! When you look at the wishing wells you can see how it cut around the inner details and not just the outside! A small thing perhaps but for me it’s a very much appreciated one! I hope you find inspiration in these cards and try to create a little wishing well magic of your own!
Posted by: Julie Elak on Monday, May 29, 2023 at 12:00 am
Guest Cristina Raposo is sharing a thank you card today and this one features a well placed pom pom!
One of the bunnies from Sprinkles – Coffee and Tea is the focus of Cristina’s card. Strips of solid colored card stock are layered behind the tea cup and a few gumdrops add some shine to her fun card.
Posted by: Julie Elak on Tuesday, May 16, 2023 at 12:00 am
Guest Kim Taylor has a Father’s Day card for us today, featuring pets and lots of paw prints.
From Kim:
This card is made with the YSN 6×6 Paw Prints Stencil, the 6×6 Geometrics Designer Paper Pad, the Photo Booth Thumbs Up Stamp and Die set and some printed photo mat paper from my stash.These cute as a button images are coloured with Ohuhu Alcohol Markers and popped up with YNS Pot Dots for some fun dimension. The sentiment is from the same stamp set. I really love the options that this set offers! And as always the finishing touch is some YNS gumdrops in from the Perfect Blend set.
Posted by: Julie Elak on Tuesday, May 9, 2023 at 12:00 am
If you are looking for ideas for a Mother’s Day card then you are at the right spot! Guest Kim Taylor pulls together a card full of color and gumdrops this week.
From Kim:
For this project I used both the Spring Smiles Stamp & Die Sets and Flowers and Smiles Stamp & Die sets. I used the Circle Panel Die with a piece of watercolour paper that I spritzed with some water and splattered with some Ken Oliver Liquid Metals in Sparkle Berry. I stacked up the panel with extra die cut layers of cardstock (I save my oopsie pieces for just this reason) for some dimension. All the images are coloured with Ohuhu Alcohol Markers. The sentiment is from the Flowers and Smiles stamp set. And of course what’s a YNS card without some pretty gumdrop? For this card I used the Coral Reef Sparkly set.
Posted by: Julie Elak on Tuesday, May 2, 2023 at 12:00 am
Guest Kim Taylor is back with some coffee to get you going today!
From Kim: This cute little A2 card is made with the Sprinkles Coffee and Tea Stamp set CYNS178 and the Coffee Sentiments set CYNS853. I stamped the coffee ring with several shade of mocha inks for the main panel on 100lb Hammermill cardstock. The image was coloured with Ohuhu alcohol markers, fussy cut and given dimension with some YNS pop dots.
The sentiment is stamped in the darker shade of ink and gumdrops in coffee shades were added to be the finishing touch! The front panel is matted on some brown paper then added to a top fold card base of Accent Opaque 110lb cover.