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  I need Vitamin Sea!! Featuring Newton’s Nook “Vitamin Sea”

  Posted at 7:29 am by Christine Patterson

  Jun 12th

  

  Hello Everyone! Christine with Pattercrafts here with a set of 3×3 cards featuring the “Vitamin Sea” stamp set from Newton’s Nook!

  Today I made a set of six 3″x3″ cards. The card bases were made with colored cardstock cut to 6 inches x 3 inches and scored at 3 inches.

  The front panels: I cut watercolor cardstock to 2 7/8″ x 2 7/8″. I found coordinating distress ink to match my card bases and used the distress ink to stamp the image. Once all the front panels were stamped, I went back in with the distress ink and went over the entire panel – keeping a very light hand over the stamped image.

  To finish the cards I used a variety of Nuvo Drops!

  Thank You So Much for joining me today. I hope you enjoy and get inspired.

  Distress Ink Colors: Mustard Seed, Worn Lipstick, Dusty Concord, Peeled Paint, Broken China, Spiced Marmalade

  Nuvo Drops: Glitter Drops Yellow Bird, Glitter Drops Sherbert Shimmer, Crystal Drops Crushed Grape, Crystal Drops Woodland Green, Glitter Drops Blue Lagoon, Crystal Drops Ripened Pumpkin

  Posted in All | Tagged 3x3 cards, distress ink, Newtons nook, Scrapping for Less, sfl, Vitamin Sea stamp
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  Always be a Mermaid | Picket Fence | Scrapping for Less

  Posted at 3:08 pm by Stacy Tiedemann

  Jun 4th

  Hello, it’s Stacy from Craftaholicmomma up today on the Scrapping for Less blog. For the month of June we will be focusing on “Under the Sea” as our theme.

  Today I have a card I made using a stamp set by Picket Fence called “I am a Mermaid”. I die cut the card with the Art Impressions Flip Card Die. The papers are from Scrapberry’s “Ocean Enchantment” collection. I colored the images in with my Copic Markers (colors listed below). Full list of products used are posted at the end of this post.

  This card was so much fun to make. I think she came out very pretty. I hope you think so too. Leave a comment below if you’ve ever taken an ocean or beach vacation and to where.

  

  Thanks for visiting,

  

  Products used:

  Picket Fence “I am a Mermaid” stamp set

  Art Impressions Flip Card Die

  Scrapberry “Ocean Enchantment” 6×6 paper pad

  Copic Markers: YR12, YR16, YR18, B32, B34, B37, B39, E000, E01, E11, R30, R32, R35

  Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Ink in Salty Ocean

  Gina K Designs Amalgam Ink

  Versafine Black Onyx ink

  Nuvo Clear Sparkle Overlay Marker

  Studio Katia Clear Droplets

  Posted in All | Tagged alcohol markers, amalgam ink, art impressions, card making, cardmaking, clear stamps, copic coloring, copic markers, Copics, craftaholicmomma, die cutting, distress ink, Distress Oxide, flip card die, gina k designs, greeting cards, handmade cards, mermaid, Nuvo Clear sparkle marker, Ocean Enchantment, papercrafting, patterned paper, Picket Fence, Scrapberry, Scrapping for Less, sfl, Sunny Studio, versa fine black onyx ink
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  Pink and Main “Turtley Amazing”

  Posted at 10:00 am by Luci Manos

  Jun 3rd

  

  Hi Everyone!  Luci here from My Crazy Craft Life with a few cards I made using the Pink and Main “Turtley Awesome” stamp set!  I made some fun backgrounds from three embossing folders, a stencil, and “Distress Inks” to use with images from the stamp set. Carta Bella Ogee, Darice, and Tim Holtz  The images are stamped with Hero Arts Intense Black Ink and colored with Copic Markers.  I stamped the sentiments with VersaFine Onyx Black Ink and finished off the cards with Glossy Accents, Spectrum Noir Sparkle Pen, Nuvo Dream Drops, and a black gel pen.

  Be sure to check out the video HERE for the details!

  

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  Posted in All | Tagged copic coloring, copic markers, distress ink, distress oxide ink blending, Distress Oxide Inks, diy cards, Glossy Accents, Greeting Card, greeting cards, handmade cards, inspiration, Nuvo Dream Drops, Pink & Main, pink & Main Naughty or Mice?, pink and main, Scrapping for Less, sfl, SFL Design Team Project, spectrum noir sparkle

• Masking Two Ways with Dreamland Crafts “Graduation Boy”

  Posted at 9:00 am by Lynnea Hollendonner

  Mar 17th

  Hi! Today I’m showing you two ways to use masking to create an *almost* one layer card! I used the Graduation Boy stamp set from Dreamland Crafts and you can get yours at the Scrapping for Less store!

  

  I started by stamping the boy from the Graduation Boy stamp set onto a piece of watercolor cardstock with Versafine Onyx Black ink. I heat embossed it so that I could do some watercoloring with my Sakura Koi watercolor set. Once my watercoloring was done I heat set the paint completely. I used a Versamarker (Versamark ink in pen form) and colored all over the colored image and embossed it with clear powder. I repeated the process again so that I would have more dimension to my clear embossing. This is one of my favorite ways to emboss! There’s no need to fussy cut a mask and no wait for drying time!

  

  I used a piece of Inkadinkado masking paper and sketched a simple hill shape and cut along my sketch line. I used the top piece to mask off the upper portion of my card so that the hill section of my cardstock is exposed. I used two colors of green Distress Ink – dark at the top and lighter at the bottom. Then I dried the ink with my heat gun and added the other portion of my masking paper to the cardstock so that the green hill is covered.

  

  I grabbed the Cloud stencil from Pink & Main and some Distress Ink and created my cloudy background. It’s super easy since I didn’t have to mask off my colored image – I just blended the ink right across my heat embossed image! I used a stitched rectangle die to cut down my panel and adhered it to a card base! You can watch my process video below!

   

  Posted in All | Tagged Clean and simple, distress ink, Dreamland Crafts, Graduation Boy, ink blending, Lynnea Hollendonner, One Layer, Pink & Main, Video, Watercolor

• Heffy Doodle Party Palooza Spinner Card

  Posted at 9:00 am by Lynnea Hollendonner

  Mar 10th

  Hey, everyone! It’s Lynnea! I have a super fun card using the Heffy Doodle Party Palooza stamp set from Scrapping for Less! I have a video at the end of this post, so scroll down to watch it! This is my first spinner card and I’m obsessed!

  

  I started by stamped out the cake and candle image twice onto Copic friendly paper and coloring them with the markers pictured below. I barely used any markers and tried my best to keep my coloring simple! It’s important to select images that are symmetrical when creating a spinner card because you need to glue the images back to back. The candles had a little wax drip coming off the left side making them unsymmetrical, so after I stamped them I used a Copic safe pen to draw a straight line down the side of the candle eliminating the drip. This is better seen in the video below.

  

  I used simple blending techniques and only 2 markers per color. Then I cut out my images right up against the black line and used a marker to go around the outside of the image to eliminate the white core of the paper that shows.

  

  I wanted to add some interest to my background, so I used the Altenew Wave Builder stencil and some Cracked Pistachio and Scattered Straw Distress ink to create my stenciled background. I temporarily adhered my background to a white card base and die cut a circle through both my background and my card front. Now to create the spinner mechanism I glued a piece of clear thread to the top and bottom of the circle on the back of the stenciled background. Then I sandwiched the string between my two cake images. Make sure to use super strong adhesive when gluing the cakes back to back. This is the main focus of the card and you don’t want it to fall apart!

  

  I adhered the white frame to the card front and adhere the stenciled background to the card base. Then I used some black ink to stamp the sentiment from the Party Palooza stamp set. All that’s left to do is wind up the cake and open the card and watch it spin!

  

  You know I’m a fan of creating bonus cards! I had this cute die cut circle left over from my spinner card, so I popped it up with foam onto the front of another card and quickly colored another cake to be my focal image. I already had the sentiment set up in my MISTI so it was no problem to just stamp it again! Check out my video below!

   

   

  Posted in All | Tagged Card, card maker, card making, Card Making Video, copic, distress ink, heffy doodle, Lynnea Hollendonner, Party Palooza, Scrapping for Less, Spinner Card, Stencil, Video

• Easy Masked and Ink Blended Rolling Pin Background

  Posted at 9:00 am by Lynnea Hollendonner

  Mar 3rd

  Hello! I have some tips for easy masking with die cuts and a video using some products from the February 2019 Flavor of the Month card kit from Scrapping for Less!

  

  I used the rolling pin die from LaLa Land Crafts and die cut it from some full stick post it notes. Here’s my tip! I used a stack of 5 post it notes so that I didn’t have to die cut a bunch of the rolling pins – I just kept the post it notes held together and die cut the rolling pin 4 times from the stack of post it notes. This gives me 20 die cut masks from just 4 passes through my Big Shot! Yay for saving time! I easily peeled the layers apart and pressed them onto a sheet of Bristol smooth cardstock. Then I blended on some Distress Inks – Spun Sugar at the top, then Picked Raspberry, and Ripe Persimmon at the bottom. I kept the masks in place and flicked on some water. When I removed the masks I was over the moon with how pretty this background is! I used the Baking Marci stamp set and stamped the sentiment three times onto black cardstock, added some shimmer to the sentiments strips, and popped them up with foam tape.

  

  I used the silver hearts from Pink & Main and scattered them across my background to complete my card! I hope you’ll watch my video below!

   

  Posted in All | Tagged Card, card maker, card making, distress ink, february 2019, Flavor of the Month, FOTM, heat embossing, ink blending, La-La Land Crafts, Lynnea Hollendonner, masking, Scrapping for Less, sfl, whip it up

• Avery Elle Cool Beans Card

  Posted at 9:00 am by Lynnea Hollendonner

  Jan 30th

  Hi! It’s Lynnea Hollendonner and I have a project for the Scrapping for Less blog today using the Avery Elle Cool Beans stamp set and some colored pencils! And there’s a video at the end of this post!

  

  I love the cute little coffee cup image in the Cool Beans stamp set and I toyed around with a bunch of ideas in my head before settling on this one! I used the Splatters stencil from Tim Holtz and some Ground Espresso Distress Ink to create my background. I taped down my stencil and then blended on the ink keeping it darker at the bottom and lighter at the top.

  I stamped my coffee cup with some ink safe for colored pencils and grabbed a few colors of my Prismacolor pencils. I usually tend to stay away from colored pencils. I’m not good at coloring – especially with pencils. I can never get colors to blend and I always have streaky pencil marks. I usually use a blending stump and some gamsol to blend the colors together, but I can’t seem to keep a good point on the stumps and the gamsol almost shreds my paper. I watched Jennifer McGuire’s video where she showed how to put gamsol into an alcohol ink blending pen and use that to color with pencils and I was AMAZED! I had to try it for myself! Watch the video below to see exactly how I colored this cup!

  

  I put down some quick color with my pencils and then used the blending pen filled with gamsol to blend the colors together. And look! No streaky pencil lines! I cut out the cup and popped it up with foam and added some colored hearts as accents to finish off the card!

  Posted in All | Tagged Avery Elle, Card, card maker, card making, Colored Pencil, Cool Beans, distress ink, Gamsol, Lynnea Hollendonner, Prismacolor, Scrapping for Less, sfl, Stencil, Video

• My Favorite Things Santa & Friends Winter Scene

  Posted at 9:00 am by Lynnea Hollendonner

  Nov 30th

  Hi, there! I’m on the Scrapping for Less blog today with a product focus for My Favorite Things! I’ll be using the super adorable Santa & Friends stamp set and some masking along with Distress Inking to create a winter scene!

   

  

   

  I started by cutting out a circle from some Inkadinkado Masking Paper to create my moon and sky. I used a standard circle stacking die. I aligned the masking paper on my card so that just the circle would be peeking through and used a blending brush and some Squeezed Lemonade and Fossilized Amber Distress Oxide inks to create my moon. I used the die cut circle from the masking paper to cover up the inked moon so that I could use different inks for the sky background. I used regular Distress Inks, but I wish I had used the Oxides. I didn’t have a dark enough blue, so I’ll have to pick one up! I used Chipped Sapphire for the blue, darkened the edges with Wilted Violet, and added some Black Soot around the very edges for depth.

  I used some white acrylic paint mixed with water to spatter on some snow to my background. I decided to use the flicking technique with an acrylic block – though I’m not sure why. Haha! This was my first time using the block – usually I just mix some onto my work surface and pick it up with a brush and flick. I thought it would be tidier to do it with the block, but as you can see – I need some practice! I got a few big globs of white and not all the drops are completely round – some have tails and have a pointed trajectory. Oh well! I wasn’t about to start over! I never do! I’m a firm believer in Tim Gunn and “making it work”! Haha!

   

  

   

  I used the Lawn Fawn Village Border die and cut it from black cardstock and used some yellow cardstock to back the windows and doors to make it look like a city with lights on in the buildings!

  I stamped the reindeer from the My Favorite Things Santa & Friends stamp set onto watercolor cardstock with Versafine Onyx Black ink and embossed it with clear powder so that I could do some watercolor. I used my Staedtler felt tipped markers because that’s what I have and what I’m most comfortable with, but I encourage you to use whatever coloring method you like best! I added some color where I wanted it to be the darkest and used a waterbrush to pull out the color.

   

  

   

  I stamped my sentiment onto white cardstock and trimmed it down into two strips and adhered them and the reindeer onto my scene with foam tape. Watch the full video below!

  Posted in All | Tagged Card, card making, Cardmaker, cardmaking, distress ink, Distress Oxide, ink blending, Lynnea Hollendonner, masking, My Favorite things, santa & friends, Scrapping for Less

• Newton’s Nook ~ Sending Warm Thoughts

  Posted at 9:00 am by Crystal O. Minkler

  Oct 19th

  Hello! Crystal here with a couple of cute Fall cards using the Sweater Weather stamp set by Newton’s Nook. Now this adorable set is geared a bit more towards a Christmas theme with the snowflakes and the mittens included in the set. I had a different idea for this set since the temperatures are starting to drop and it’s finally time to pull out some sweaters, I really wanted to make a Fall themed card using this set so let’s have a look at what I came up with…

  

  I started by blending some Vintage Photo and Walnut Stain distress ink over the Newton’s Nook Tree Rings stencil on two pieces of kraft card stock measuring 4 x 5-1/4″. I adhered a strip of coordinating card stock on the left edge and then adhered a 1-1/2″ strip of Echo Park Celebrate Autumn patterned paper on both pieces of stenciled kraft card stock. I then mat these pieces with a dark brown card stock measuring 4-1/8 x 5-3/8″ and adhered them to kraft card bases. I stamped the sentiment on a piece of coordinating card stock using Versamark watermark ink and heat embossed a fine white embossing powder. I then die cut it with a banner die that I trimmed on one end. I adhered these banners to the card and set them aside.

  

  Since I wanted a Fall theme for my card, I decided to use the coffee cup and pumpkins from the Newton’s Nook Fall-ing For You stamp set that was included in the September 2017 Flavor of the Month card kit. I stamped all the images in Memento tuxedo black ink and them colored them in with the following Copic markers:

  Newton ~ YR0000, YR21, YR24, BG70, BG72, N0, N1, N2, R37, R56

  Bear ~ E44, E47, E49, E70, E71, E74, R00, YR15, YR21, YR24, YR68, Y35, BG70, BG72

  Pumpkins ~ E55, E57, YR15, YR27, YR68

  Coffee Cups ~ R37, R56, BG70, BG72, YR21, YR24, YR68, N0

  All that was left to do was fussy cutting the images out and adhering them to the cards using a liquid glue. I sure hope you enjoyed the cards I’m sharing with you today. I had so much fun making them!

  Thank you friends for checking out my blog post!

  See ya next time.

   

  Inky Hugs!

  ~ Crystal

  

  About the Author

  

  Crystal Minkler

  My name is Crystal. I’m a wife and SAHM to our four children whom I homeschool. Card making and paper crafts are my sanity and passion. [VISIT MY BLOG]

  Posted in All | Tagged #scrappingforless, cardmaking, copic, copic coloring, distress ink, Echo Park, Fall, handmade card, handmade cards, heat embossing, Newton's Nook, Papercraft, Scrapping for Less, Versamark

• The Greeting Farm ~ You’re Awesome!

  Posted at 9:00 am by Crystal O. Minkler

  Apr 20th

  Hello! Crystal here with a super fun card using The Greeting Farm’s Mini-Remix Boys. How cute is this stamp set?! I am loving it! I think it’s the perfect stamp set for me to use for my three boys!

  

  I was thinking I’d make a card to help encourage my second oldest to keep up the good work on his school work to finish up the year. I started by die cutting the sidewalk. I used a stitched border on either side to cut it out. I then masked it in sections and blended a bit of  Pumice Stone distress ink. I then cut a piece of green card stock from my leftovers from past card kits to fit the lower portion of the card. I adhered the sidewalk piece to the green card stock and trimmed the entire piece. I then die cut the houses from leftover black card stock and set them aside. I trimmed the houses and adhered them to the back of the green card stock. I cut a 4 x 5-1/4″ piece of white card stock and blended some clouds using a stencil and Tumbled Glass distress ink. I adhered the white cloud background to a black piece of card stock that measures 4-1/8 x 5-3/8″. I adhered the whole grass/sidewalk piece to the bottom of the white card stock. I then adhered the whole piece to a white card base.

  

  Now to stamp this cute little boy stamp… I stamped him, the skateboard and the soccer ball using Memento Tuxedo black ink and colored it in using Copic markers {Skin – E50, E51, E53; Hair – E79, E77, E74; Shirts – N0, N1, R29, R89; Jeans – B97, B99; Shoes – R29, N0; Skateboard – Y06, YR68, R29; Soccer ball – N0}. I fussy cut all the pieces and then went around the edge with a Memento tuxedo black marker to cover the white edges. I set those aside and then die cut the ‘you’re’ portion of the Lawn Fawn sentiment die from the Banana Split subscription of the March 2018 Flavor of the Month card kit. I stamped the ‘awesome’ sentiment on black card stock using VersaMark ink and heat embossed some ultra fine white embossing powder. I trimmed the ‘you’re’ sentiment and adhered it to the card using Ranger Multi Medium Matte. I fussy cut the ‘awesome’ sentiment into a banner and adhered it to the card using mono multipurpose liquid glue. Once I had those where I wanted them, I adhered the little boy and his accessories. There you have it… how sweet is this card?! I think my son will get a kick out of it!

  Thanks for stopping by!

  See ya next time.

  ~ Crystal

  

  About the Author

  

  Crystal Minkler

  My name is Crystal. I’m a wife and SAHM to our four children whom I homeschool. Card making and paper crafts are my sanity and passion. [VISIT MY BLOG]

  Posted in All | Tagged Banana Split, copic, distress ink, Flavor of the Month, FOTM, Scrapping for Less, the greeting farm

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