Design Team Projects

Stitched Fishtail Banners – Two Cards

May 7, 2018

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IHi everyone, spring has finally arrived here in Oklahoma! I’ve got two cards today that feature the new Kat Scrappiness Stitched Fishtail Banners in spring colors.

For each card, I used all four dies in the Stitched Fishtail Banner die set and cut them out of pattern paper. I staggered the die cuts and adhered them on the left hand side of each card. For the first card, I used a sentiment from the Everyday Brush Stroke stamp set, stamped it in Versamark ink, covered it in black embossing powder, and heat set it.

On the second card, I used the Happy Birthday sentiment from Dad’s Tools stamp set. I stamped it in Versamark ink, covered it in white embossing powder, and heat set it. I then adhered sequins from the Breezy Summer sequin mix from Kat Scrappiness.

Use code caren10 for a 10% discount in the Kat Scrappiness shop.

Thanks for stopping by and happy stamping!

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Design Team Projects

5 Minute Card With Video

May 6, 2018

Tina Dornbaum

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Hi Everyone, it’s Tina here today. The new Stitched Flags dies released this month from Kat Scrappiness makes it super easy to create fast cards. All you need is the Stitched Flags, the Condensed Uppercase Alpha Dies, Patterned Paper and scor-tape. Below I have a video showing you how to make them.

Below is the video. You can watch it here or open it with YouTube.

I hope you enjoyed today’s video showcasing the new Stitched Flags Die and Condensed Uppercase Alpha Dies. See below for a list of all Kat Scrappiness products used.

To receive 10% off your order at checkout Use code: TINA10

Don’t forget Kat Scrappiness has a challenge every month. To enter the challenge go here. Don’t forget to submit your photos at the end of the post “Add Your Link” for a chance to win a $25.00 gift card to Kat Scrappiness! The contest closed at the end of each Month.

Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

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Challenges & Hops, Coupons & Sales, News

National Scrapbooking Day at Kat Scrappiness!

May 5, 2018

adminkat

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Welcome to National Scrapbooking Day at the Kat Scrappiness Blog! We have so much to share with you today!

We are celebrating our love of paper crafting in several ways today and we hope you will join in with us!

SALE

First of all, EVERYTHING at Kat Scrappiness is 20% off!!!! Just visit http://www.KatScrappiness.com and use coupon code: NSD2018

GIVEAWAYS AND CHALLENGES

Next, we have several giveaways today! Here is what you can win and how to enter.

Grand Prize: $75.00 worth of Kat Scrappiness brand products (of your choice). This includes our stamps, dies and sequins!
First Prize: A set of the Large Alpha Dies by Kat Scrappiness! Valued at $36.99!
Second Prize: Your choice of $30.00 worth of Kat Scrappiness Sequins! We have almost 400 different sequin mixes to choose from!
Third Prize: Lola The Giraffe Stamp Set by Kat Scrappiness
Fourth Prize: Interactive Card Stamp Set by Kat Scrappiness

Last but not least, you can also enter to win our Card Challenge Prize!

Card Challenge Prize: Four (4) of Kat Scrappiness’ newest dies. WIN THEM BEFORE YOU CAN BUY THEM! This includes the Stitched Scalloped Rectangles, Circles, Squares and Ovals dies which haven’t been released yet!

How to Win!

To enter our Card Challenge, scroll to the bottom of this page.

To enter all of our other giveaways, you can enter below:

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Card Challenge

Congratulations to our winner, Nitasha G!

An InLinkz Link-up

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Design Team Projects

Masculine Cards with Dad’s Tools

May 5, 2018

Lisa Golzbein

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Hello again Kat Scrappiness fans!

It’s Lisa here on the blog today to bring you some Father’s Day/Masculine card inspiration. If you’re anything like me, masculine cards can be difficult. I know for me, most of my projects involve the color pink and lots of sparkle and shine. Up until now masculine cards have been a chore because I’m not inspired by the color schemes or the focal points. This month there is a new stamp set in the Kat Scrappiness store that has breathed new life into the masculine card world. Step aside feminine layering stamps because Dad’s Tools are making their debut!

The new Dad’s Tools stamp set at KS gives a fresh new look to dad’s old toolbox. There are 4 different elements in the stamp set to layer and decorate with. There is a hammer, a screwdriver, a nail and a screw and so many fun sentiments to play with.

I found it helpful to swatch some gray and brown colors before I started my card to see what combinations would look best when I started stamping the layers of my tools. I used the heart stamp from the Swatches stamp set to make this visual tool and it was quite helpful.

With layering stamps you want to start out with your lightest color ink and add progressively darker layers as you go.

For my first card today I decided to recreate a fun toolbox and fill it up with some of Dad’s Tools.

I cut down a standard A2 card base into the shape of a toolbox and gave it a front panel which doubled as a pocket so I could fit the hammer, screwdriver and some nails and screws into it. The white embossed sentiment “Happy Birthday” fit perfectly onto one of the Stitched Fishtail Banner Dies which is also one of the new releases this month in the Kat Scrappiness store.

I layered the sentiment onto a second darker fishtail banner and added the

“Mr. Fix It” sentiment under the banners.

For my second card today I went with a more traditional card and I used only the hammer and screwdriver from Dad’s Tools for the focal point under the sentiment.

I used patterned paper for my first layer and a faux pegboard piece of paper for my second layer. I cut both of those layers out with two different size dies from the Wonky Wavy Stitched Rectangles dies to give some added interest to the borders. For the focal point of the card I used another one of the new releases this month called Stitched Flags.

The shape of these new dies is so unique and can be used alone or with a sentiment for a fun element on your cards. I stamped the sentiment “Happy Father’s Day” from Dad’s Tools in Versamark ink and white heat embossed it onto one of the Stitched Flags. I mounted the Flag onto some foam tape for some extra added dimension.

Make sure to check out what the other girls on the design team have done this month with the Stitched Flag dies! There is so much talent and creativity, you will definitely want to add these dies to your collection!

Also mark your calendars for National Scrapbooking Day on May 5th!

We will be having some fun giveaways and from May 4th – 6th there will be 20% off sitewide if you use coupon code NSD2018.

National Scrapbooking Day 2018 at Kat Scrappiness

Thank you so much for joining me today here on the blog! Don’t forget to use code Lisa10 when checking out for 10% off your order!

Have a wonderful day, I already am!

?Lisa ?

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Design Team Projects

Happy Birthday Cards

May 5, 2018

Crystal Schneider

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Hi it’s Crystal and I’m really excited to be a guest designer here at Kat Scrappiness for May! When I first saw this banner die I knew I wanted to do something with lots of color.

For my first blog post I have two cards to share with you today. I really love to watercolor and I have seen a lot of people watercoloring with Tim Holtz Distress Ink so I thought I would give it a try. I just got them a few months ago and have not had a chance to play with them yet. As always when watercoloring you should tape your paper down so it doesn’t warp as bad but I don’t have much patience so I skipped that step. But I was not to worried about it warping since I was going to be die cutting it afterwards. I added water to my paper first then brushed the colors on in different random spots letting them mix a little bit at the edge. I’m not sure why but watercoloring is so relaxing.

After it was dry (I used my heat tool to speed up the process I don’t have patience). Then I took the three shorter banners and ran them through my die cutting machine. Then I took a scrap piece of watercolor cardstock and die cut a circle.

Laying out the banner die cuts in to a circle changing the size and color randomly into the circle till I had a arrangement I was happy with.

I stamped Happy Birthday from the new Dad’s Tools stamp set with VersaMark and heat emboss with gold embossing powder.

I then layered on to my card base Crafter’s Companion Shimmer Gold cardstock, then a small pattern of paper then the circle. Then add some sequins from Kat Scrappiness’s store for a little detail.

I only needed half of my water colored background for my card so ended up just going ahead and die cutting the other half of my water color cardstock with the banner and making another card.

Supplies I used:

Dad’s Tools – 6″X8″ Layered Stamp Set by Kat Scrappiness

Stitched Flag Dies by Kat Scrappiness

Stitched Fishtail Banner Dies by Kat Scrappiness

Tim Holtz Tonic Stamp Platform

Mixed Rainbow Confetti Sequin Mix – Shaker Card Fillers

Tsukineko Full-Size VersaMark Clear Embossing Ink Pad

Metallic Gold Rich – WOW! Super Fine Embossing Powder 15ml

Gold Dust Shimmering cardstock

Tim Holtz Distress ink

Watercolor Cardstock

Paintbrush

Gemini Junior Die Cutting Machine

Thank you for stopping by I’m looking forward to coming back later this month and sharing another card If you have any questions please leave a comment.

~Crystal

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Design Team Projects

Love Our Life Together

May 4, 2018

Siqi Zhou

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Hello, everyone! It’s Siqi here. Today’s card is going for a love theme but a no-pink-and-red color scheme.

So, I first stamp a turnabout stamp from Concord & 9th called Heart Turnabout Stamp with some embossing ink just one time, and added some silver embossing powder for embossing resistant. I then chose some teal and blue colors from Distress ink line and did ink-blending throughout the entire panel. I then trim down about 1/8 inch each side to make it be slightly smaller than an A2 size notecard.

For my sentiment, I die cut the love word die from Love Notes Dies by Neat & Tangled out of some white cardstock three times and adhere them all together. I also die cut the shadow die of the word out of some vellum, to adhere it under my word die cut.

For the banner, I actually use a banner die from Stitched Fishtail Banner Dies by Kat Scrappiness. I used the second biggest die from this die set, However, it is a bit shorter than my sentiment. So, I did some partial die-cutting on each end, and move the die off set lengthwise between die-cutting, to get a longer banner that fits my sentiment. It’s a great tip to get more life out of what you have, and also saves money so you don’t have to buy all different sizes dies.

I stamped the sentiment “our life together” from the Love Notes Clear Stamps by Neat & Tangled on the banner and use the same silver embossing powder to heat-embossed it.

I used foam tape for adhere my card panel on an A2 size top-folding black notecard, and adhere my word die-cut and banner onto it as shown.

To finish it off, I added some Kat Scrappiness sequins that coordinate with the color scheme of this card.

I hope you like today’s card, and thank you for stopping by today. Have a wonderful weekend!

Supply List:

Kat Scrappiness Stitched Fishtail Banner Dies

Kat Scrappiness Turquoise Sunrise Sequin Mix

Kat Scrappiness Breezy Summer Sequin Mix

Heart Turnabout Stamp by Concord & 9th

Love Notes – 4″x6″ Clear Stamps by Neat & Tangled

Love Notes Dies by Neat & Tangled

Gina K Designs Cardstock 8.5″X11″ 12/Pkg – White

Gina K Designs Cardstock 8.5″X11″ 12/Pkg – Black Onyx

Tsukineko Full-Size VersaMark Clear Embossing Ink Pad

EK Success Embossing Powder Tool Applicator

Silver Embossing Powder by Lawn Fawn

Ranger Multi Medium Matte .5 oz

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News

Thanks for Building Me Up

May 3, 2018

Heidi Randazzo

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May’s new stamp set from Kat Scrappiness called Dad’s Tools is another great all around stamp set with perfect “punny” sentiments for anyone important in your life. I love the idea of sending a thank you note to those who have made a difference in our lives. Many times, those people may be pleasantly surprised that they’ve had such an impact. Today’s card is super clean and simple and revolves around a favorite sentiment of mine from the set.

Many times, when I receive my design team package, I like to take out the stamps and arrange them on a card base while I’m brainstorming ideas for projects. I liked the idea of using boxes to show “building up” so I stacked a few kraft-colored squares using my Never Ending Square dies on a panel of white card stock cut about 3 3/4″ by 5″.

I arranged my stamps around the boxes to get the perfect fit keeping everything spaced close together in a cluster. When I was happy with my design, I stamped the hammer and nails using various shades of grays for the hammer head and nails and browns for the hammer handle. I used my Tim Holtz Tonic Stamp Platform which made it very easy.

I added some Doodlebug paper to the front of a 4 1/4″x 5 1/2″ note card to serve as a background for my main panel.

I stacked the boxes onto the panel using various levels of foam tape to give a 3D look of stacking.

I added the sentiment on a strip of white card stock as well as a little heart cut out to finish the card.

Thanks so much for joining me today. Be sure to check out the new Kat Scrappiness stamps and dies for the month of may over at the shop. Feel free to use my coupon code: Heidi10 to receive 10% off your order.

Don’t forget, this Saturday, May 5 is National Scrapbooking Day. The Kat Scrappiness blog will be having a big sale and some great giveaways so stay tuned……..

—Heidi