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Daisies for Mom

Hello! I have a couple daisy cards to share today, using a favorite die set from Scrappy Tails Crafts. This set is called Layering Daisies and it’s really fun to work with.

My video shows you an easy way to watercolor these dies, and create two cards. Watch it below or in HD on YouTube:

I love working with these products…and you can see the Hummingbird I used here on this card. Hummingbirds are my mom’s favorites and everytime I see one, I think of her.

I used brush watercolor markers for these cards, which are so vibrant and colorful!

For the background on this card, I mixed some watercolor brush marker color with embossing paste. Then I added it to my card panel with a dot stencil. I added the daisies all around the frame of the card.

The circle sentiments are my favorites! So unique and perfect for cutting out glitter paper. I used glitter paper on both projects.






Hope you enjoyed these projects today. See you soon!

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The Greatest Gift…..Really!

Today I’m going to tell you all the reasons why I love this new set from Our Daily Bread Designs called “The Greatest Gift.”

  1. It is a beautiful Mother’s Day set with GORGEOUS butterflies (just look at that detail in the wings!)
  2. It has not only the butterfly stamps but also the matching DIES to cut out those butterflies (yes! The dies come with it!)
  3. I love all the sentiments like: “A mother holds your hand for a while, but holds your HEART forever” and “To the World you are a Mother, but to your family you are the World”
  4. The font on said sentiments is a fantastic blend of script and uppercase lettering
  5. It makes beautiful cards so easy…

Here are my creations this week with this set:

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I heat embossed the butterflies on VELLUM with glitter embossing powder. I thought the wings looked so beautiful on vellum. And there is that sentiment that I love! I used this set for the gate, which I embossed with Liquid Platinum embossing powder.

Here’s a closer look at those butterflies…look at that detail in the wings!

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On this card, I also heat embossed onto vellum and then I added color to the back of the vellum using Distress Oxides. If you look closely, you will see where I stamped the butterflies using WATER onto the background to create a ghosted effect. So cool. I love that circle scalloped rectangle die…I just picked this up last month at the Stamp Convention.

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For this last card, I thought the butterflies needed some flowers to complete the scene. If I were to mail this card, I would definitely need to make a larger envelope! This time I embossed with gold embossing powder onto white cardstock, then I added some color using a finger dauber and some Distress Oxides in three different colors: Picked Raspberry, Spiced Marmalade, and Squeezed Lemonade. I inked up the background with some Salty Ocean Distress Oxide and added another of my favorite sentiments from this set.

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I hope you enjoyed these projects today! I’ll be back next week with some fun beachy projects to share…and I can’t wait!

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