Halloween Slimline Card with Pretty Pink Posh Trick or Treat Friends

It's the last day of the month so it's time for some Halloween inspiration! Today I made a slimline card - it's been while since I've made one - and used some adorable images from Pretty Pink Posh. The paper I used is very old, but it's a good way to use up any Halloween patterned paper you've been hoarding.

I created images and a background with color themes that remind me of Halloween (and match my ghosts from the patterned paper). It was fun to think of how I could color each image to match the orange, green, blue and purple distressed background!

Watch the video below and let me know what you think of this Halloween card! It's hard to believe the year is half over, too. But I'm looking forward to what the rest of the year brings!

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Happy Summer Swish 'n Pop Dolphin Card with Lawn Fawn

Have you used the Lawn Fawn Swish 'n Pop die set? I have only used it once or twice, but I'm trying to use it more and thought maybe having some photos with step-by-step instructions could be useful! It was more photos than I could fit into a Swipetorial, so you can catch it in my Instagram Stories for the next day and then it is saved as a Highlight on my profile.

I kept the card super simple so that I could just focus on how I put it together, but you can decorate your card any way you'd like! Add in more sea creatures or maybe the new critters with floaties... It's just a fun ocean scene with the dolphin jumping across and I definitely want to do more with this layout in the future.

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Love Stinks with Ink Road Stamps

I have another Ink Road Stamps design team project to share today! I am using the Break Up stamp set and created a broken heart background with rose gold embossing powder, pink and black inks. The sentiment is also embossed with rose gold! I thought dripping pink and black hearts pretty much sum up what it feels like to go through a break up... If you'd like to see how this card comes together in just a minute, watch my video below! You can also see it over on TikTok. 😉

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Shello Turtley Awesome Sparkle Blends Shaker Card

It's time for a shaker card featuring one of my favorite embellishments... Sparkle Blends! This card has the really adorable blend called "Turtley Awesome" and has the perfect beach blend. There are really cute turtles, shells and beach balls, too! 

I used paper, stamps and dies from Heffy Doodle and distressed with some of my favorite colors for oceans - particularly the new Uncharted Mariner color. You can see my process for making the card in my YouTube video down below!

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Stenciled Butterflies for Craft Roulette with Pretty Pink Posh

Abi and I were on Craft Roulette this weekend! We had lots of FUNN making our cards while chatting with Mary Gunn. The parameters were perfect for making a card with Abi - A2 sized card, pink + 3 colors, bugs/insects element and metallic/foil as a random. I remembered I had a layering stencil set with butterflies from Pretty Pink Posh and knew Abi and I could work together to get our cards made.

We have A2 top folding cards; used pink + yellow, blue and purple as our butterfly colors; used butterflies as our bugs/insects; and have silver paste layered on our butterflies as well as our embossed sentiment. If you missed us live, you can watch the replay down below!

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Christmas on the 25th: Easy Patterned Paper Rainbows - Two Ideas!

It's the 25th of the month so it's time for some Christmas inspiration! I wanted to create something super simple that can be made in bulk or multiples. So the perfect time to use a rainbow die and patterned paper! This die has 10 stripes so I used 5 different papers from my paper pack - they are double sided. The die fit perfectly on my 6x8 paper to cut out twice so I have stripes from both sides of the paper for 10 total.

In the video I share 2 different ways to attach them to a card base with a clean and simple embossed sentiment. They are great cards to sit and watch a show while you attach your stripes and you can get 10 cards out of this one idea! Watch the video down below to see them come together.

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Non-Traditional Colors for an I Love You Card with Scrapbook.com

So I know that Peppermint is themed for Christmas, but I wanted to try and use it for a different holiday or occasion. I have the I Love You dies (coming soon!) and thought I'd try to make a non-traditional color for maybe a winter anniversary or even for Valentine's Day.

The background patterned paper is from the new Peppermint Patterned Collection and the pink and green cardstock die pieces are from the corresponding Smooth Cardstock pack. I also used the Hearts Pattern layered stencils with Distress Oxides to match the colors of the pack to create my heart background.

What do you think? Does it feel like a winter "love" card? Or is still too Christmas-y? I think it looks cute, especially with the white fox from the Spring Animals stamp set but definitely a different color combo for an I Love You card!

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Go Wild! Radiant Rainbow Shaker Card with Heffy Doodle

I really must have been in the mood for shaker cards for my design team projects this month, because I'm back today with my Heffy Doodle DT project and I created a shaker using dies and stencils! I love the Radiant Rainbow theme for the Heffy Doodlers challenge this month, so I created a rainbow frame from the Go Wild die set and just love how vibrant it turned out. The sentiment is from the same die set and there is a subtle stencil background inside the shaker. Check out my video down below to see it come together!

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Underwater Birthday Card with Avery Elle

I really like how my card turned out with this week's Craft Roulette parameters. The four parameters were [1] card with ribbon; [2] neutral background + 2 colors; [3] water; and [4] inked edge. I used ribbon under my sentiment strip, which also has the inked edge, and my background is Kraft with white embossing powder. The two colors I chose were pink and teal with an overall underwater theme!

For this card, I did an Instagram "Swipetorial" so you can see each step with some details over on my Instagram - just click the image down below.

Did you participate this week? What did you think of the parameters?

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You Had Me at Meow Shaker Card with Time for Tea Designs

Today's card is my latest design team project with Time for Tea Designs! I hope you caught my video on their channel already; if not, it's posted up on mine today. I shared how I created my paw print background that gives a 3D effect, coloring in the orange cat and how I used a gorgeous Sparkle Blend to create the shaker card through the large sentiment die.

If shaker cards are not your thing, you can adapt this into a normal card, just glue the background down the card base instead of popping up and adding sequins inside. I really like how easy shaker cards can be when I use a large sentiment die. What do you think? Do you like seeing sequins through the sentiment?

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Birthday Cards with Pool Party by Lawn Fawn

I'm back with another batch of birthday cards! This month I doubled Crafty Al's Sheet Load of Cards to make 12 cards. They all had a taupe and golden yellow color scheme, but 6 had tones of coral and the other 6 had mint and blue. As always, I use these batches of cards to use up my patterned paper, so the designs are currently retired. But that's okay! Use what's in your stash, too!

Today's video does not go into very much detail about the card assembly as this design is from another YouTube channel, but I share with you how I created my sentiment and coloring of my cutie sloths on their floaties. I hope you check it out and let me know if you also participated in this month's Show Us Your Sheet Load!

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