One Panel, Three Cards

Happy Thursday!! Nora here from A Creative Touch with THREE cards I created from one stamped panel. I have never used this technique before, though I  have seen many designers use this method. One of my goals in 2021 was to use some new card techniques so I decided to try it for this post.

I started off by stamping a panel using the leaf stamp from the Pretty Posies stamp set and white cardstock.

I first randomly stamped the back of the leaf stamp with Catherine Pooler Midnight Ink around the card front. I will say that the black ink stained my stamp beyond help. However, I only had to stamp the image once each time.

Next I used Wow! Clear Embossing Ink and heat embossed the Pretty Posies leaf with 

Opaque White Embossing Powder. 

To complete the panel, I used the new Bubbly Stencil to blend red bubbles over the entire front of the card, overlapping some of the leaves.

When the panel was finished, I cut it up into three separate pieces.

The first piece of the stamped panel I mounted onto a red, A2 card base. I then used a score board to score some lines around the cut strip.

Next I die cut the hello out of black cardstock using the Sweet Friend Fri-Dies. I adhered it to the front of the card and used Glossy Accents over the top of it.

The second piece of the stamped panel I layered over some pattern paper and red banners that I die cut using the Pinked Slimline Dies.  I then adhered these to a black, A2 card base.

I stamped a sentiment onto a white piece of cardstock using Pretty Posies and adhered the strip over the stamped panel with foam adhesive. The last step for this card was to glue a trio of black crystals around the sentiment strip.

The last card I took the remaining stamped panel and a black piece of cardstock, adhering it onto a white, A2 card front.

I then adhered a red scrap across the front as shown. 

I die cut a friend sentiment using the Sweet Friend Fri-dies and adhered it over the red strip. I added a foam heart for the tittle of the i. My last step was to cover the whole sentiment in Diamond Stickles.

This was a lot of fun and I know I will be using this method for card making again. What a fabulous way to build up your card stash.

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Fall Card

Hello my crafty peeps!  Who else is excited for fall?  I am so over this heat and I can't wait until the weather cools off for a bit.  

For my card today, I am showcasing the Casual Comfort stamp set and Casual Trees fri-dies along with the Sweet Friend fri-dies and a retired A2 Tin Roof cover plate.

I started by embossing my background panel using the Tin Roof cover plate die.  I did this to create some subtle texture to my background.  I adhered this panel on an A-2 size card base.

Next, I die-cut the branches using the casual trees fri-dies a few times.  I placed the negative back in my Misti stamping tool and position the positive die-cuts and stamped the images.  

I die-cut the bow using a die from my collection and adhered them all together with liquid glue.

I adhered the focal image onto my card with liquid glue, and added the "hello" die-cut from the Sweet Friend fri-dies.   Here's another look:

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Hello Wow Changers!

Hello all!  Lisa here and today I'm sharing a card using a couple of the fantastic new Wow products now available in the CAS-ual Fridays shop! 

I started with one of the beautiful florals from the Mon Ami Stamp Set.  I stamped a bunch on some Copic friendly paper and colored them in with V01, V05, and V15 Copic Markers.  Then I used the Wow Mixed Media Embossing Brush and brushed some onto the base of the florals.  You want to be sure to get a lot of the liquid off of the brush and back into the jar using the lip of the jar because some will still be on the base of the brush and will drip down.  You can always dip it in and add some back.

The awesome new Wow Changers Lightening Effects Kit is a great way to use some of the embossing powders in your stash and add a little Wow to them!  The kit is so cool!  It comes with three Changers; Glisten, Texture, and Sheen and three empty jars all in an adorable little handled carrying case.   I took some purple that I had in my stash and added a little of it and a little of the Glisten Changer into one of the empty jars that comes in the kit and shook it up and I love the effect!  I sprinkled that onto the painted flowers and heat embossed them.

I love the shimmery look it gave me otherwise solid purple powder!  So cool.  For this mixture I probably used about 3/4 purple and 1/4 of the Glisten.  In hind site I'd have used a little less of the purple.  I still have some of the mixture left and will use it again and maybe add some more Glisten Changer or maybe one of the others!  Or maybe something else! SO fun!

I created a simple background with some texture paste and the Modern Petals Stencil.  I cut out and arranged all of my flowers into a wreath form around a circle die cut.  Attached them using foam tape and then cut some of those pretty die cuts using the Casual Trees dies and some glitter paper and added those with glue around the wreath.  Finally I used the Hello die from the Sweet Friend Fri-Dies.. cut it once from glitter paper and twice more from white cardstock-stacked them together and then added them across the wreath

Had so much fun experimenting with these new products!  I'll be using them frequently for sure!

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Playing With Pattern

Hello everyone!! 

Nora here from A Creative Touch with a fun hello card inspired by a print I saw on Pinterest. 

Stamps: Peaceful Garden

Dies: Garden Fri-dies, Sweet Friend Fri-dies

Stencils: Bold Flower Stencil, Tin Roof Stencil

I don't know about you but I am OBSESSED with patterns. I have a great Pattern Board on Pinterest and I constantly pin ideas that I think I can use to create a card. The print that inspired this card is one that can be found here.

I began this card by using scrap paper and stamping the solid flower stamp from Peaceful Garden using the three colors I thought I might use. 

When I got the design down how I wanted it, I started on my final version of the card.  Again, I used the solid colored flower from Peaceful Garden and stamped twelve solid images-four in yellow, four in green and four in gray-on a white piece of cardstock.

When that was complete, I then stamped the rose image from the same stamp set over the top of the gray using black dye ink. I thought the stamp was perfect for what I had planned.

To decorate the green and yellow solid circles I used stencils. 

I die cut a mask out of a post it using the Garden Fri-dies and used the Bold Flower Stencil with yellow ink to stencil over the solid yellow image.

I then used the Tin Roof Stencil with green dye ink to decorate the solid 

green stamped images.

I die cut my finished panel with a rectangle die and used gel pens in white and green to give the stenciled images a little bit more emphasis.

I added the panel to an A2 sized, top folding card front and framed it with a yellow 

cardstock frame.

 

I added a hello sentiment using the Sweet Friend Fri-dies that I had die cut four times out of white cardstock and adhered together. Adhering die cuts together makes the sentiment sturdier. My last step was to cover the sentiment with clear sparkle pen.

This card was so fun to create and I love that I used a TON of products. I don't know about you, but I tend to buy more than I use so when I can combine my love of stamping, stenciling and die cutting on one card, I always have a fun time. 

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