My Creative Journey

Happy New Year, friends! I really love the start of the new year. I find myself dreaming more and finding inspiration in the little things. The beginning of the year has me embracing the new and looking forward to changes that accompany the new. Today's project is fast and easy and had me mixing and matching from stash. I wanted to really focus on the year, 2024, and so I reached for the large number dies from My Favorite things. These number dies have been in my stash for years and knew they would be the perfect size to be the focal point on the card. I selected some sparkle cardstock and some random white cardstock from the stash then had a die cut session. I love the look of dimension and use the random white cardstock to create; the extra height also provides a little shadow contrast against the background. Next, I selected some adorable little critters from the several Mama Elephant Little Agenda sets from stash. I just love seeing little critters peeking out of letters or sha

  Hello! I’m so glad you stopped by. Today I’m sharing a fun shaker card using a background created with alcohol inks.   I had purchased a ton of alcohol inks from Ranger Ink and decided it was time to experiment. I took one crafty afternoon and made a ton of backgrounds on different substrates.  I just love all the different color values from just one or two colors. The alcohol ink blending solution is a great way to achieve this look. I used so much of the blending solution that I had to go out and buy the bigger bottle. LoL  😂    Some of the different papers I used was classic Yupo, translucent Yupo, and sparkle Yupo. Each paper gave me different results from the same colors. The sparkle Yupo adds fun texture to the background. The translucent Yupo would be fun to illuminate with a battery operated candle or tiny lights. The card’s background was created on classic Yupo. I wanted to make sure this background would shine and decided on creating a shaker card. I used some rectangle d

Hello and welcome! Today I have another rainbow-inspired slimline card. The star of the show on this slimline card is the Fern Square die from Simon Says Stamp. I had so much fun creating the Leafy Rainbow slimline card that I searched my stash for another “sleeper die.” I found another square die from Simon Says Stamp called Fern Square. Since this was the same size as the other Leafy Square, I decided to cut them from Concord & 9th cardstock in rainbow colors and then nested them together. I also decided to turn the square on a corner so the fern looks like it is growing upwards. While the rainbow ferns were drying, I dressed up the inside of the card. I love seeing the inside of cards dressed up and I tend to forget this; but not this time! I used a leaf border stamp from the Leafy Frames set and a sentiment from Just Miss You set; both from Simon Says Stamp. The border leaf stamp does not stretch across a slimline so I started in the center then shifted the stamp to either sid

Hello there! Today I am sharing a fun rainbow-inspired slimline card. This little Leafy Square die is such a fun little die. It is what I like to call a sleeper die; you kind of forget it is there but then it just shines the second you take you out! This idea actually came to me after playing around with a couple of the die cuts already cut from a previous project. I was trying to stack the leaves but they got stuck and then: IDEA! Why not purposely nest the leafy squares into each other and why not make it a rainbow?  So, I chose some color card stock from my Concord & 9th stash and cut out my leafy rainbow. Next, I began to nest the leafy squares together in rainbow order. I used a strong liquid glue along the overlapping sections of the leafy squares to keep them together while I got the card base ready.  To prepare the card base, I cut down a white piece of cardstock to 8.5 in tall by 7 in wide then I scored and folded it at 3.5 in. Then, I cut a stitched and scalloped slimline