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- Winter Fairies ~ Bright Fairy Wishes
  
  Posted at 9:00 am by Crystal O. Minkler
  
  Jan 10th
  
  Hello there crafty friends! Crystal here from Tawny Owl Paperie with another sweet card using the adorable Winter Fairies stamp set by Scrapping for Less. I couldn’t wait to ink up this adorable fairy napping on the moon… doesn’t she just look so happy?! Love it!
  
  I started by stamping the cute fairy on the moon with Memento tuxedo black ink and then I colored the image in with the following copic markers:
  
  Skin ~ E000, E00, E21, R00, R20
  
  Hair ~ E35, E37
  
  Clothes ~ RV0000, RV10, RV11, C00, C1
  
  Moon/Cloud ~ Y000, Y11, Y13, Y18, B000
  
  Once the cute fairy and moon were colored, I fussy cut them… and even used my craft knife to cut the tiny space between the fairy’s hat and the moon. I just realized that I missed the space between her hat and her wing… oops! Anywho, I set that aside and got to work on the background.
  
  I blended a tiny bit of Squeezed Lemonade Distress Oxide ink in the center left portion of the panel and blended some Tumbled Glass, Blueprint Sketch, and Chipped Sapphire Distress Oxide inks around that center portion working my way outwards to the edge. I blended over these a few times to get just the right blend. I then dried my background with a heat tool and splattered some white acrylic paint onto the background for my stars.
  
  I set the background aside to dry and die cut the stitched scallop frame from Gina Marie Designs and the stitched clouds from Lawn Fawn, both from white card stock. I then adhered the clouds to the back of the frame piece and trimmed the edges. I trimmed down the blended background to 4-1/8 x 5-3/8″ and then popped up the frame/cloud piece on the blended background.
  
  I then adhered the entire panel onto a white card base. I love how this sweet card turned out! I sure hope that you like it too!
  
  Thanks so much for stopping by! See ya next time.
  
  Inky Hugs,
  
  Crystal
  
  Posted in All | Tagged #crystalominkler, #scrappingforless, #sflnewrelease, #sflstamps, #tawnyowlpaperie, cardmaking, copic coloring, Distress Oxide, fairies, handmade cards, ink blending, paper crafts, Scrapping for Less, splatter, Winter Fairies
- Christmas All Year Long – My Favorite Things Beast Friends
  
  Posted at 9:00 am by Lynnea Hollendonner
  
  Nov 9th
  
  Hey, everyone! It’s Christmas All Year Long at Scrapping for Less and I have some fun inspiration for you using the My Favorite Things Beast Friend stamp set. This was one of my first stamp sets from My Favorite Things and it’s still one of my favorites!
  
  I stamped and colored the little yeti holding the string of lights from the Beast Friends stamp set with my Copics. My favorite way to color these guys is with light Neutral Gray Copic markers and skin tones for his face and ears. I grabbed some Distress Inks and started blending ink onto a background panel. I only used Crushed Olive, but because I didn’t clean off my blender brush the inside blending is a different shade of green. I quite like it when I stumble upon happy accidents!
  
  Once the ink blended background was completely dry I white heat embossed the three trees from the Beast Friends stamp set repeatedly across my card. I was going to leave it this way, but I decided to add a bit of shine with a gold ink from the Gansai Tambi Starry Colors watercolor palette. I’m so glad I did! To match the gold watercoloring I heat embossed a gold sentiment onto a strip, popped up my sentiment and yeti, and added some gold glittery enamel dots around the card.
  
  I love how the gold and green play off each other, don’t you?! Thanks for joining me! I hope you’re inspired to break out your Christmas supplies and get crafty!
  
  Posted in All | Tagged Beast Friends, Card, Cardmaking Video, Christmas, Christmas All Year Long, christmas card, distress ink, heat embossing, ink blending, Lynnea Hollendonner, MFT, My Favorite things, Video Tutorial
- Bundled Up Circle Card
  
  Posted at 8:00 am by Lynnea Hollendonner
  
  Oct 13th
  
  Christmas is in full swing at Scrapping for Less! And it truly will be here before you know it!
  
  I’m a lover of classic Christmas colors! – red, green, gold! Gorgeous! I ink blended some Candied Apple Distress Ink onto a piece of cardstock keeping the ink darker towards the center and lighter towards the outside. I used a slightly darker color of ink – Fired Brick – and stenciled the Echo Park Magical Snowfall Stencil over the ink blending and die cut the panel with a stitched circle die. I thought the background needed something more, so I flicked on some metallic gold watercolor.
  
  I super love the Bundled Up stamp set from Sunny Studio Stamps because you can build your own penguin! I stamped the penguin and a bunch of accessories and colored them with classic Christmas colored Copic markers and trimmed them out with my scissors and added them to my die cut circle and stamped a sentiment under the penguin. I wanted to add a little more gold to my card, so I die cut a foiled piece of cardstock with a slightly larger die cut circle and added it to a circle card base. Check out the video above to see how I made that!
  
  This card has so much shine! And I love the subtle snowflakes in the background! Thanks for stopping by!
  
  Posted in All | Tagged Bundled Up, Cardmaking Video, Christmas, christmas card, distress ink, Echo Park, ink blending, Lynnea Hollendonner, Stencil, Sunny Studio Stamps, Video, Video Tutorial
- Longing to See You Giraffe | In the Wild
  
  Posted at 8:10 am by Stacy Tiedemann
  
  Aug 13th
  
  Hello my friends! It’s Stacy here from CraftaholicMomma up today on the Scrapping for Less blog. Today I have a card for you using the Stampendous Giraffe stamp and die combo set. There are two things that I really like about this set. One, you can take the background die and use it with any stamp you have in your collection to make a tree scene. You can make it like the safari I made here, or you could use it as a meadow tree or Halloween dead tree just by changing up the colors of card stock you cut. Two, the giraffe set is so cute and versatile. You could mirror stamp a second one and entwine their necks around each other for an adorable love you card. There’s just so much you can do with it!!
  
  I masked off the card layer with a circle die and masking paper. I used blending brushes and Distress Oxide inks to create the horizon and safari sky. I die cut the tree with black card stock and made it into a frame with a second circle die from my stash. I adhered this over the inked background with liquid adhesive. I stamped, die cut and colored the giraffe with Copic Markers. Stamping the sentiment and popping the giraffe and card layer up on foam adhesive finished it off nicely.
  
  I think it fits in nicely with this month’s theme of “In the Wild”. I would love to go on an African safari someday. I just LOVE giraffes and elephants!
  
  Thanks for visiting,
  
  Products Used:
  
  Stampendous Giraffe Stamp and Die set
  
  Distress Oxide inks: Forest Moss, Peeled Paint, Mustard Seed, Ripe Persimmon and Abandoned Coral
  
  Versafine Onyx Black Ink
  
  Memento Tuxedo Black Ink
  
  Inkadinkadoo Masking Paper
  
  Foam Adhesive
  
  Gina K Designs Connect Liquid adhesive
  
  Copic Markers: YR02, YR21, YR24 and YR27
  
  Bristol Card stock
  
  Neenah 110# Classic Crest Smooth Solar White Card Stock
  
  Memento Tuxedo Black Marker
  
  Blending Brushes (Amazon)
  
  Hero Arts Infinity Circle Dies
  
  Posted in All | Tagged card making, cardmaking, copic markers, craftaholicmomma, Design Team Post, die cutting, Distress Oxide, gina k designs, Giraffe, handmade cards, In the Wild, ink blending, masking, safari, Scrapping for Less, sfl, stampendous
- You’re My Little Star
  
  Posted at 1:21 pm by Stacy Tiedemann
  
  Jul 2nd
  Hello, it’s Stacy from CraftaholicMomma up today on the Scrapping for Less blog with the first project for the new monthly theme. The theme for the month of July is “Under the Stars”. You will see projects made celebrating nature, summer camping and activities.
  
  For my card I used a stamp set by Hero Arts and paper by Bo Bunny. I did some ink blending and die cutting.
  
  What is your favorite summer activity?
  
  All products used are listed below.
  
  I can’t hardly wait for you to see all the great projects the design team has in store. You’re going to love them!
  
  Thanks for visiting,
  
  Products Used:
  - Hero Arts Wish I Might Stamp set
  - Bo Bunny World Traveler 6×6 paper pad
  - Hero Arts Infinity Circle Dies
  - MFT Grassy Edges stencil
  - MFT Mini Clouds stencil
  - Distress Oxide ink in Tumbled Glass, Peeled Paint and Dusty Concord.
  - Makeup Blending Brushes (Amazon)
  - Versafine Onyx Black Ink
  Posted in All | Tagged Bo bunny, card maker, card making, cardmaking, circle dies, clear stamps, craftaholicmomma, Distress Oxide Inks, handmade cards, hero arts, ink blending, My Favorite things, Scrapping for Less, sfl, under the stars, wish I might, world traveler
- Underwater Patterned Paper Card
  
  Posted at 9:00 am by Lynnea Hollendonner
  
  May 5th
  
  Hey, everyone! It’s Lynnea and I’m using some products from the Scrapping for Less store today to create an easy underwater scene using ink blending and patterned papers! And there’s a video, too! So be sure to watch!
  
  I LOVE the Scrapberry Ocean Enchantment paper pack and I was really drawn to one pattern in particular. It had a bunch of tone on tone yellow fish in all different sizes! I decided to fussy cut a bunch of the fish and let them be the star of the show! They needed an ocean background and I don’t have a waves stencil, so I flipped inked my Clouds stencil from Pink & Main from the bottom instead of the top and it made a perfect wavy ink blended background! I added a bit of shimmer with my Spectrum Noir clear shimmer pen and a white heat embossed sentiment from the Lawn Fawn Critters Ever After stamp set.
  
  As a finishing touch to my background I added some clear enamel dots. I love how they look like bubbles! Thanks so much for joining me!
  
  Posted in All | Tagged Critters Ever After, ink blending, Lawn Fawn, Lynnea Hollendonner, Ocean Enchantment, patterned paper, Scrapberry, stamping
- Playful Pups Belly Rubs | Scrapping for Less
  
  Posted at 6:48 pm by Stacy Tiedemann
  
  Apr 16th
  
  Hello, this is Stacy from Craftaholicmomma up today on the Scrapping for Less blog with a totally cute and fuzzy card for you featuring a super duper cute stamp set called Playful Pups by Gina K Designs. The little puppy on his back just makes me want to lay on the floor with him and rub his tummy all day long!
  
  If you’d like to pick up this adorable puppy stamp set just click on the picture of the stamp set below.
  
  Thanks for visiting,
  
  Products Used:
  
  Gina K Designs Playful Pups Stamps Set
  
  MFT A2 Stitched Rectangles Dies
  
  Gina Marie Designs Cross Stitched Squares Dies
  
  Distress Oxide Inks in Vintage Photo and Dried Marigold
  
  Gina K Designs Amalgam Ink
  
  Versa Fine Black Onyx Ink
  
  Simon Says Stamp Falling Hearts Stencil
  
  Copic Markers: E25, E27, E29, E49
  
  Bristol Cardstock
  
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  Posted in All | Tagged amalgam ink, cardmaking, copic markers, craftaholicmomma, Distress Oxide, gina k designs, gina marie designs, handmade card, ink blending, MFT, My Favorite things, playful pups, Scrapping for Less, sfl, square dies, stenciled background, stitched rectangle dies, versa fine onyx black ink
- 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
- 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
- Inked Background with Masking Tape and Pink & Main Need Coffee
  
  Posted at 9:00 am by Lynnea Hollendonner
  
  Jan 20th
  
  Hi, everyone! Today I’m making a clean and simple masked background card with the Need Coffee stamp set from Pink & Main for Scrapping for Less! This girl looks just like me in the morning! Haha! I fell in love with her bunny slippers! Watch the video at the end of this post for my process!
  
  Isn’t the card so cute! I created a quick and easy background by die cutting a piece of kraft cardstock with a stitched rectangle die that would be slightly smaller than my card base. Then I used 1/4 inch skinny masking tape (but you could use skinny washi tape) and used my grid mat to space the strips of masking tape 1/4 inch apart. Once I had my panel covered with the tape I used a foam blender to blend on some white pigment ink. I tried to keep the ink concentrated near the bottom and fading out towards the top left.
  
  I stamped out the image from the Pink & Main Need Coffee stamp set with Copic safe ink and colored her using super basic two color blending for most of the colors. I used a variety of Copic markers and some Spectrum Noir markers. I snapped a photo of the markers I used so you can easily copy my coloring blends if you’d like to!
  
  I mounted my inked background onto a white card base and used foam tape to pop up my colored image. I stamped the sentiment onto a strip of white cardstock and trimmed the edge into a banner and mounted it with foam tape. I thought it needed a little finishing touch, so I added some embellishments with my White Blizzard Nuvo drops! Check out my process in the video below!
  
  Posted in All | Tagged background, Card, card making, Cardmaker, ink blending, Lynnea Hollendonner, masking tape, Pink & Main, pink and main, Scrapping for Less, sfl
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