Garden Grown ft. Kate Hadfield Designs

 

 

Hello everyone!  Today I'll be showing you how to create this sweet little gardening 

box products from

Kate Hadfield Designs

Garden Grown Digital Stamp Set

  This is really cute and folds flat nicely for mailing.  I love digital stamps for a project 

like this because I can size my images to whatever size I need! Let me show you how I

 made my little box scene.

 

 

I used a folding pop up box die for my project today.  These are all the parts I will 

need that are all die cut.  Many companies sell their own version of these 

types of boxes.  Let 's put the project together!

 

This is my box put together with the inner panels made with a coordinating

 floral paper.  For the crossbars in the middle I used the same green card

stock and then die cut some grassy strips to adhere over them.

 

I chose what elements from the stamp set I wanted to use and printed them out onto white card stock after sizing them. This was a lot of coloring!  But I wanted a good mix of elements.  This is what took the longest in the making of the project.

 

These are half of the elements colored.  I tried to go with the same color-way on

 various items like the flower pots here.  And, of course, I was trying to keep to

the colors in the flowered paper.

 

These are the other half of the elements colored.  After the coloring was done, I

 fussy cut the images leaving a narrow white border.  

 

All that was left to do was place my images on the inside crossbars.  I made sure 

to tilt them and was conscious of how far up they were showing, making sure 

they weren’t blocking any behind.

 

I hope you enjoyed my tutorial today…gardening season is right around the corner!

 

Supplies used:

 

Garden Grown Digital Stamp Set - Kate Hadfield Designs

Pop Up box die - Lawn Fawn

Green Card stock for box base

Flowered card stock for panel insets

Copic colors:  YG11, YG03, YG25, YG67, E15, E47, G20, G12, G46, C1, C3, C5, Y02, Y04, Y00, E55, E40, E41, E43, E33, YG91, YG99, E31, BV000, BV00, BV11, BV13, R5, R17

You can find this digital stamp set and many more at

Kate Hadfield Designs

 

Til next time…

 

Betsy

In my capacity as a design team member for Kate Hadfield Designs, I do receive the products I use from them. 

All opinions and creative decisions remain my own, and I only work with companies/use products that I love.

Blooming Roses ft. Pajama Crafter Stamps

Hello everyone! Today I'm sharing with you this softly painted rose card using products from

Pajama Crafter Stamps

Sketched Florals Rose Stamp Set

Birds of a Feather Stamp Set

I love painting images like this and I used Distress Ink to paint it! Let me show you how I made my card!

I heat embossed my image in gold onto sparkle watercolor paper from Paul Ruebens (Amazon). I love this paper as it gives just a hint of sparkle in the light. I started painting and did the leaves first.

I flooded each leaf with water and then picked up the ink colors from a palette I was using. I used 4 colors for the leaves and 4 colors for the flowers.

I wanted this to be soft and springy so my colors really are not bright, but soft. I flooded each part of the petals, put in my lightest color and then added shadows with the darker colors finally fading to the lightest color.

Once the painting was finished, I splattered it with gold paint. Then I cut my panel down to 3 1/2" x 5". I trimmed a piece of gold shimmer card stock and embossed it with a geometric pattern to go behind it. I also heat embossed a sentiment using the Birds of a Feather Stamp Set. I trimmed it out and used a gold metallic ink pad along the edges. I did this for the watercolored panel as well. I chose a soft pink for the A2 size top folding card base.

I've had the butterfly embellishment in my stash for a long time...like years! But it looked really nice on this card. It is metal so this will have to be a hand delivered card. I was actually going to put a bow here and that would have looked really nice but I liked the butterfly better. I adhered my layers together and my card was finished!  I hope you've enjoyed today's tutorial. 

Here is a list of supplies that I used to make my project today: Florals Rose Stamp Set, Birds of a Feather Stamp Set, watercolor paper, gold embossing powder, gold shimmer paper, pink card stock, Distress Ink: Twisted Citron, Peeled Paint, Forest Moss, Everygreen Bough, Spun Sugar, Worn Lipstick, Abandoned Coral, Dried Marigold, Gold paint for splatter, Gold ink pad for edging, an embellishment for lower left corner.

Til next time...

BetsyIn my capacity as a design team member for Pajama Crafter Stamps, I do receive the products I use from them. All opinions and creative decisions remain my own, and I only work with companies/use products that I love.

Gil Bunny Rabbit Gardening ft. Polkadoodles

Dang! Stadium Food ft. Pajama Crafter Stamps

Spring Chicks ft. Kate Hadfield Designs

 

Paper Piecing ft. Polkadoodles

 

Hello everyone!  Flowers are the epitome of Spring!  So

today I'm bringing you a card using products from

Polkadoodles

Alcea Hollyhock Flowers

I love paper piecing - especially with flower images.  There

are many others to choose from this collection as well!  Let

me show you how I made my card.

I started by printing out my white card stock which would be

my focal piece.  Then, I printed it out onto copy paper and then

printed it out 2 more times by taping patterned paper over the

design.

I also computer journaled the sentiment onto the light pink paper.

Time to start the coloring.  I used my Copic markers for this project

and felt that it would be best to do the coloring first.  I started

with the green leaves, buds and stems.

I started lightly and then went darker.

I wanted my coloring to be a bit dramatic so I kept going darker

and darker with the greens.

Next I fussy cut each of the flowers on the pink papers.  I started

with the light pink first.  

I also went around the edges with a black marker.

I went around the design and finished cutting out the flowers using

the dark or light pink.  I adhered these to the white panel when they

had all been cut out and edged with the black marker.

At this point I decided to add a touch of shading coming out of the

center of each flower.  I then die cut the panel to give a more fancy

edge.  Once the panel was die cut and I adhered a piece of green

card stock to my white card base, I used a metallic gold pen and

filled in the stamen bits in each flower.

I then die cut my sentiment and trimmed off the edges to fit where I

wanted it to go.

As a final embellishment I adhered some tiny gemstones around the

flower cluster and that finished my card!

I hope you enjoyed todays tutorial.  I love paper piecing and actually

this was how I made my very first card using digital stamps!  It

brings an interest that otherwise would be there!  You can find this

flower digital stamp as well as many others at

Polkadoodles

Supplies used:

Alcea Hollyhock Digital Stamp

White A2 size card base

White and green card stock

Fancy rectangle die

Gold metallic pen

Thin foam tape strip

Tiny Gemstones

Copic colors:  R81, R83, R85,

YG11, YG23, YG63, YG67, RV34

Til next time...

Betsy

In my capacity as a design team member for Polkadoodles, I do receive the products I use from them.

 All opinions and creative decisions remain my own, and I only work with companies/use products that I love.

Birds of a Feather ft. Pajama Crafter Stamps

 

Hello everyone!  Hope everyone is doing well and Spring has

arrived in your area.  It's yet to arrive where I live, but I've made

another sweet Spring card using products from

Pajama Crafter Stamps

Birds of a Feather Stamp Set

Spring Plaids Paper Pad

I love creating with plaid paper.  I love all the different colors and

patterns which provide endless inspiration!  Let me show you how

I made my card.  I had previously stamped out this little line of birds

from the stamps set.

I had already chosen the plaid paper that I wanted to use and a solid

background color.

 I color-matched my coloring to the paper.  I colored the little birds in

rainbow colors, but not rainbow order.  Instead they sit beside their

complimentary color, except for the yellow whose compliment is

purple.  Once they were colored I fussy cut the image leaving a

narrow white outline.

For my pink background I used the Dainty Scalloped Rectangle die

from Trinity Stamps and the Fancy Rectangle Frame Die is from

Pink Fresh Studio.  The middle actually cuts out, but I adhered it

inside the frame.  I stamped out the sentiment onto a scrap of white

card stock, cut it out and adhered to a piece of the pink card stock.

I popped up both the birds and the sentiment on foam tape, centered

both on the card base and that finished my card!

I hope you enjoyed this springtime tutorial.  It was so easy!  And

it's pretty sweet as well!  You can find the supplies and many more at

Pajama Crafter Stamps

Supplies used:

Birds of a Feather Stamp Set

Spring Plaids Paper Pack

Copic Colors - BG01, BG10, BG13, YG20,YG61, YG03,

Y00, Y11, Y21, YR00, YR61, YR02, R81, R83, R85, W5

Dainty Scalloped Rectangle Die (Trinity Stamps)

Fancy Rectangle Frame Die

A2 white card base

Pink card stock

Scrap of white card stock

Foam Tape

Til next time...

Betsy

In my capacity as a design team member for Pajama Crafter Stamps, I do receive the products I use from them..

All opinions and creative decisions remain my own, and I only work with companies/use products that I love.