Enjoy This Life - Free Virtual Retreat in September!

Back in May I shared that I was going to be a part of the Not 2 Shabby Virtual Retreat on my YouTube Channel. In case you missed it, you can find it down below. There is an exclusive bundle called "Enjoy this Life" that has some really great products in it for making wonderful Fall and Autumn themed projects. 

The class that I am teaching is called "Fall into Watercoloring" where we're going to use Distress products to create backgrounds and color in the adorable images from the bundle's stamp set. The two cards I'm sharing today use some of the products from the bundle and I wanted to share watercolor backgrounds similar to what we'll be making in our class during the retreat in September.

I hope you'll join us for the free retreat! You can sign up by clicking on the image just below the video as well as getting your kit. Make sure to order before the end of July to make sure you receive your kit before the Virtual Retreat! See you then!

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Hi! 90's Inspired Pocket Dolls Card with The Sassy Club

When I saw that this week's Craft Roulette parameters included "dolly" and "pocket," my mind knew exactly what stamps I needed to grab! I'm using the Lolly the Dolly and Star House stamp sets from The Sassy Club for this week's submission. They're perfect, right?! I started with picking my colors - I used my Color Cubes and started with #379 and it's definitely giving a Dunkin' Donuts + Baskin Robbins combo. I stamped my images with my Sassy Onyx Black ink pad and color them in with Copic, Ohuhu and olo markers.

After coloring, I fussy cut out the image and started on my background. I used some mixed media cardstock that was trimmed to 4x5.25" and I embossed the bow and star images from the Lolly the Dolly set with white embossing powder. Next I used a mix of different Distress Oxides that I matched my color scheme and blended and squished on ink. For some shine, I did a few sprays of Picked Raspberry Distress Spritz.

When my background was dry, I adhered it to my card base and popped up the images with foam adhesive as well as stamping a simple sentiment to the card where I found some space in the background in black ink. I hope this card brings some joy to you today and makes your nineties girlie heart happy like mine!

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Celebrate! Independence Day Box Card with Pretty Pink Posh

Hi, friends! I am back with a new video and continuing my Pretty Pink Posh box card series with a celebratory card for the upcoming US holiday, Independence Day or 4th of July! I kept the card basic in case you are not from the US or do not observe the holiday, you can switch out the colors to make it a New Year's Day card or for any other celebratory day or event.

I started with getting lots of die cutting done - the Scallop Box Card base out of white cardstock, a scalloped Sentiment Strip from red cardstock, the sentiment from Gift Card Bag in blue glitter cardstock, and finally fireworks from the Big Celebration Cupcake and smaller stars from the Stitched Stars die sets in different types of red, blue and holographic cardstock - solid, glitter and shiny!

To make the stenciled background, I added Blueprint Sketch and Lumberjack Plaid Distress Oxides to a piece of white cardstock by ink blending with brushes. Once a large enough space was covered, I used the Fireworks Stencil with Silver Lining Lunar Paste to add the stenciled design. I set that aside to dry; once it was dry, I cut the scallop pieces from the Scallop Box Card Dies.

I assembled the box card together, added the stenciled scallop pieces and scattered the stars and fireworks on the card using thin, 1mm foam squares. I adhered the sentiment to the sentiment strip and popped that up on the front of the box card. For some final touches, I added a few Blue Shimmer Confetti around the box card for some extra shine. I hope you like this month’s box card and let me know your suggestions for a future holiday!

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