Kel Acopan | Kat Scrappiness Blog

Ready for Halloween!

Hi Friends! kel here today to share a super fun Halloween card using the Toil and Trouble Layered stamp set =o) Halloween is my absolute favorite holiday and I actually leave a bunch of Halloween decorations up in my craft room and in my work office year-round because I love it that much! So I’m sooooo excited to be able to start sharing the Halloween goodness!!

As much fun as coloring images with Copics is, sometimes it’s really nice to not color and this layered stamp set is just perfect for that! I actually worried that I wasn’t going to have enough shades of grey ink to work with, but ended up just using the same ink cube for all 3 layers… the layering of the ink created its own shading and I was so happily surprised!

The sentiment was stamped with Memento black ink and the kitty is popped up on some 3d squares. I also put some mats behind him using the Stitched Scallop Oval dies. The last thing I did was add some of these amazing jewels to the card. I diecut (for the stitched edge) strips from some coordinating scrap paper with the long rectangular stitched die from the Crafters Essentials 1 dies (the one in the bottom left corner of the item image in the store). I added the Orange Jewels to the strips, and then the Black AB (Rainbow) Jewels to the top corner of the card to finish it off.

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September 19, 2018

Bright Coffee Fun!

Hi Friends! kel here today to share a bright and fun coffee card using the new Let’s Get Caffinated stamp set =o)

I definitely wanted to make the sentiment the focus of the card because it’s so cute!! I think it would be super cute to make it like a multi-colored subway art kinda thing too… something to try next!!

The sentiment was stamped with Memento black ink. I used the super cute coffee cups from the Coffee Chick stamp set by Your Next Stamp to randomly stamp out a background and then colored them up with my Copics. I wanted to stick with a fun and bright scheme but kinda messed up the spacing of the 3 colors which is why you’ll see a couple darker shares of green and orange in there haha!! After stamping out my sentiment, I trimmed it out to fit on a nice bright turquoise cutout from the Stitched Postage Stamp Edge Rectangle dies and popped it up on some 3d squares. The last thing I did was add some glitter to the flowers on the cups because glitter=more fun!

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September 10, 2018

Farming Friends Birthday

Hi Friends! kel here today to share a quick birthday card with you!!

I used the amazing Crafter’s Essentials 1 Dies on this card. I can’t begin to tell you how easy this makes putting a card together!! I have been in a funk lately and the mojo has been hiding from me… so when I sat down at my desk today to put a card together, I had the hardest time thinking of what I wanted to make!! Finally I pulled out the Crafter’s Essentials 1 Dies and this card just came together like magic! Minimal brainstorming on my part, which really helped motivate the mojo to come out and play lol! Then I used these two adorable farming friends from the Hay There by Lawn Fawn stamp set and then colored them up with my Copics. I added the flags, also from the Crafter’s Essentials 1 Dies to the top of the card, and then stamped out the “Happy Birthday” sentiment from the Everyday Brush Strokes Stamp Set using a nice red ink pad straight onto the white piece.

Quick and simple and easy, thanks to these dies. Seriously! Thanks for stopping by, see you again soon! Don’t forget to take part in our awesome monthly challenge for your chance to win a $25 Gift Card!!

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September 1, 2018

Life is Tough Card

Hi Friends! kel here today to share a card featuring some of the amazing dies in the Kat Scrappiness store!!

I started with the Stitched Scallop Border Dies, using the one with the smallest scallops. I took some of this yummy coordinating paper, 4 sheets total, and cut them to 4″ x 5.25″, perfect as a mat on this card. Then I started running them through my diecut machine, making sure to stagger them out so you could see the beautiful patterns. I tried to make the curve in the Stitched Scallop Border Die sorta line up on each layer, but I wasn’t super exact.

Then I used some matching baker’s twine as an accent behind the sentiment, cut out using the Stitched Scalloped Rectangle dies and used one of my favorite sentiments from the Everyday Brush Strokes Stamp Set, stamping it out Memento ink in Tuxedo Black ink on a scrap piece of white paper. The last thing I did was use my Crystal Katana to add some of these amazing new Jewels in Champagne to the card. They’re a beautiful yellowish-gold in the package, but because they’re kinda clear, they pick up some of the color of whatever they’re sitting on. So I love that they pulled some of the blue-grey from the paper!! So pretty!!

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August 19, 2018

Happiness is Handmade

Hi Friends! kel here today to share a card featuring some of the new products in the Kat Scrappiness store!! But first I wanted to share with you my latest haul video… some products I got in July as well as the items from our August DT package!

And now onto my project!

I used one of the new backdrop dies, the Stitched Scalloped Collage Frame Die along with the new Crafters Gonna Craft Stamp Set. This stamp set is just amazing. I love how you have all kinds of sentiments and crafting essentials in this set!! I also used one of the adorable Heffy Doodle stamp sets from my latest KS haul as well! This set is Elephant of Surprise and these elephants are just too cute!! I stamped everything out with my Memento ink in Tuxedo Black ink and then colored them up with my Copics and trimmed them out.

Here’s a speed process video too, showing how I put it together from start to finish. There’s no voiceover in the video, just music, so feel free to watch it on mute! And the video is sped up 8x, so in total it took me about 40 minutes to get this all done… the coloring tends to take some time but the fussy cutting definitely took the longest!

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August 10, 2018

Oceans of Love

Hi Friends! kel here today to share a card featuring the one of the new backdrop dies, the Stitched Diagonal Backdrop Die in the Kat Scrappiness store!!!

I thought it was perfect to make a shaker card with, and wanted to use one of the adorable Heffy Doodle stamp sets from my latest KS haul (video coming soon!) as well! This set is Oceans of Love and there are some adorable sea creatures in here!! I was too lazy to mask the stamps, so did my best to line them up close to each other and with the exception of the sting ray’s tail, tried not to overlap them. After I stamped them out with my Memento ink in Tuxedo Black, I stamped out some of the bubbles that come in the set in blue ink, and then colored up these fishy friends with my Copics and trimmed them out. I also added some glitter to the bubbles and the narwhal’s horn, because GLITTER. haha!

After stamping out my sentiment across the diagonal panel (also using my Memento ink in Tuxedo Black), I added some of the smallest Pretty Pink Jewels to the card. I also used some of the beautiful Mint Sparkles Sequins Mix to fill my shaker. I absolutely LOVE the texture in the gold stars as well as the big clear iridescent sequins. So pretty!!

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August 5, 2018

Coffee Card featuring Crafters Essentials 2 Die

Hi Friends! kel here today to share a card featuring the new Crafter’s Essentials 2 dies in the Kat Scrappiness store!!!

I used the brand new Crafter’s Essentials 2 Dies on this card. I used the biggest die, the background with the arrow cutouts, and the wide fishtail banner die. In my video you’ll see that I cut out the fishtail banner from the actual background piece I used… I’m a big believer in being thrifty with my hoard of patterned paper lol!! If it gets hidden then I usually end up die-cutting or punching it for use somewhere else on the project or even in another project. I also used the Layered Coffee Cup Die to create the focal point of this card. I stamped out the sentiment from the Coffee Chick stamp set using the Walnut ink pad on the sleeve of the coffee cup… so happy that it fit so perfectly!

Here’s my video… apologies for the bad framing of this one. Trying out a new setup to get a tighter zoom but ended up cutting off a lot of the bottom of the frame. Sorry!! I was going to try to reshoot but this is *gasp* the last of my striped paper and I couldn’t recreate the card!! So sad!!

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July 19, 2018

You’re a Legend!

Hi Friends! kel here today to share a punny card with you!!

I used the brand new Crafter’s Essentials 1 Dies on this card. That stitched rounded piece is such a perfect size and I was so happy with how nicely it fit in the center of the card… big enough to make a statement but not so big that you don’t get to see the paper behind it!! I stamped out Nessie from the Loveable Legends by Lawn Fawn stamp set, then used the coordinating dies to cut her out and then colored her up with my Copics. I used the waves stamp from the same stamp set and stamped out some water on the stitched panel using the Mermaid ink pad, and then offset her to the side a bit. I also stamped out the sentiment using the Merman ink pad and then made a fishtail banner out of it!

The last thing I did was to add some sequins because sequins always make it better lol! For this one I picked out blues and clears from the Turquoise Sunrise sequin mix, and then greens from the Spring Leaves sequin mix. I really love that you can mix and match from different sequin mixes to make what works for your project!!

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July 10, 2018

Birthday Food!

Hi Friends! kel here today to share a fun foodie card for a special birthday!!

I used the brand new Crafter’s Essentials 1 Dies on this card – just two of the ten million dies in this set… I kid!! But there really are TONS of dies in this set and they’re all amazing!! So from this new die set, I used the window die and fishtail banner die. I stamped out the “happy birthday” sentiment from the Everyday Brushstrokes Stamp Set using my Memento Tuxedo Black ink. And then I stamped out a bunch of the foodstuffs from the Punny Snacks Stamp Set, fussy cut them, and then colored them up with Copics. I tucked them into the windows and tried to spread them out… LOVE!! This Punny Snacks Stamp Set is just too much fun!!

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July 1, 2018

Belated Father’s Day Waffle!

Hi Friends! kel here today to share a fun card for a special somebody!! I gave it to the hubs for Father’s Day last week so I can share it now. =o)

I used a whole bunch of dies on this card, including the brand new Stitched Scallop Circle dies to make my card (I used the 3rd and 4th largest circle dies). I also used the Wonky Wavy Stitched Rectangle dies on my polka-dot layer in the back, and the widest Stitched Fishtail Banner Die to stamp my sentiment on. I was lucky that it worked out that the sentiment fit so perfectly on that die!!

I used the Waffle Lot Stamp Set by Technique Tuesday for this card for the hubs because our middle child has been on a waffle kick recently… We’ve been eating homemade belgian waffles just about weekly!! And for Father’s day, the boys surprised him by making him a Father’s Day breakfast complete with waffles and his favorite breakfast foods! So I thought that this card would have been perfect!!

I just love that the Stitched Scallop Circle dies are nested far apart enough that you can still see the stitching on the bottom layer!! And I fussy cut the hearts out… phew. That’s all I can say about this little things! haha! The sentiment is stamped in this beautifully rich walnut ink and the hearts and waffle were stamped with my trusty Memento Tuxedo Black ink and then hand colored. The Stitched Fishtail Banner, waffle, and hearts are all popped up on some 3D dots/strips for a little extra oomph!!

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June 19, 2018

Author: Kel Acopan