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Owl Always Love you and Winter cards

By KariV on December 21, 2018 in Christmas, Paper Crafting

Hello! Today I am sharing my last cards as a Designer for Our Daily Bread Designs. I have absolutely loved designing for ODBD, and I will certainly miss all the fun!

My first card is for my friends at ODBD, using the Winter Greetings stamp set with that beautiful owl. (I’ll always love you, ODBD friends and team! And a big thank you to Kelley for having me!)

I love that this set has a variety of greetings for both winter cards and other sentiments! I used the Pine branches and Pinecones dies on this card (some of my favorites).

My next card shows the beautiful snowy trees from the December release called Peaceful Wishes.

I added some glitter to those snowy trees and used Distress ink to ink around the edges of this card. If you don’t have a tag die, never fear…you can use a rectangle die in a smaller size to make a tag! I love how it looks with some grey pine branches and a blue thread bow. The frame is from this set.

My last card is a favorite:

I cut out that PEACE word from this die, then colored it with Copic markers in a variety of violets. I added dots using a white gel pen.

Then I cut out the Snowflake Sky die and used it as a stencil. To make it feel soft and dreamy, I used Clarity brushes to add the Distress ink in Salty Ocean, and Tattered Jeans. Those Clarity brushes are wonderful!

I hope you enjoyed my projects today. I hope you have a very happy Holiday season and a Merry Christmas!

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Glitter Embossed New Year

By KariV on December 20, 2018 in Paper Crafting

Hello! Today I have a New Year card to share that’s full of glitter…but never fear! This is the kind of card that won’t get glitter all over the place. It’s a fun embossing technique and I have a video to show you just how easy it is.

Here’s the front of the card. Those glasses are popped up on an Action Wobble!

Here’s the inside of the card:

Watch the video below or on YouTube to see just how it’s done.

I hope you enjoyed this project today. Here’s one last look at that beautiful glittery embossed background:

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

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Flourish Tree Three Ways

By KariV on December 14, 2018 in Christmas, Paper Crafting

Hello! Today I have three very different cards using the exact same die, the Flourished Tree Inset die from Our Daily Bread Designs.

The first one is very simple, just showing off that beautiful die:

After I finished, I thought it needed a little more pizzazz, so I added some green sequins.

There! That’s better. Just a few simple touches and you have a beautiful card. I used the Pierced Rectangle Dies to create a frame for the middle piece. The fun foam creates even more dimension behind that middle panel.

Then, I thought it would be fun to create a STENCIL from this die cut. So I cut two trees out of white heavy cardstock, and used one for the green tree stencil and one for the red tree stencil. Here’s my card:

It creates a beautiful stencil and I just alternated the colors and the direction of the tree! I added a white heat embossed sentiment from this set on black cardstock and a few clear gem stones to dress it up a bit.

After I was finished with this card, I saw those cardstock stencils and decided to create a card out of them, too! Nothing goes to waste around here! I simply cut around each of those tree stencils (they were already red and green from creating the last card) and added them to a Snowy Sky backdrop.

I added some vellum before adhering the Merry Christmas sentiment from the Holiday Words dies. I hope you were inspired by all the ways you can use this Flourish Tree Inset die!

For more inspiration on the December release products, visit the Our Daily Bread Designs blog here.

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Celebration on a Card

By KariV on December 13, 2018 in Paper Crafting

Hello! Today I’m sharing a fun dimensional celebration card using the Pretty Pink Posh New Year’s products! You can find all these products in the December 2018 Hedgehog Hollow Box. I LOVE it when the matching dies are included in the kit. It makes it so easy to make a dimensional card like this:

I stamped all the images in the stamp set with Gina K Amalgam ink (I’m loving this ink!), Colored them up with Copics, then die cut them all with the matching dies.

Then I popped them all up using foam tape for some fun dimension.

I added some of the sequins included in the kit to complete the celebration! Here’s a close up:

I hope you can see that dimension. This would be a very fun card to receive!

I originally planned on using the Happy New Year script die on the front, but I decided that it already had enough going on, so I added it to the inside of the card instead with a little noisemaker.

In case you are curious about the copics I used on this card, here’s my color list:

Black/grey: N0, N1, N3, N5, N7
Yellow: Y35, Y15
Browns/Tan: E51, E53, E55, E57
Light Blue: B000
Purple: BV04, BV08

I hope you had some inspiration on creating your own dimensional celebration on a card! Happy New Year and I’ll see you next time!

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Blessed to Have you as a Friend

By KariV on December 7, 2018 in Paper Crafting

Hello! Today I have a sweet card to share featuring a new favorite stamp set from Right At Home Stamps called Cuppa Friendship! These girls are just too cute and so much fun to color.

Just look at these sweeties. I colored them up with Copics and added some fun patterned paper surrounding them.

I finally also picked up these beautiful hand lettered sentiment stamps from Right At Home stamps that have been on my wish list for a really long time. I stamped the “blessed” on 110# paper and fussy cut it out. The remaining part of the sentiment “to have you as a friend” is white heat embossed on black paper.

Linking up to the last day of the Fall/Winter Coffee Lovers Blog Hop. (even though I’m imagining them to be holding Hot Cocoa!)