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  • Zig Zag Dies – Hearts, Squares, Circles, Ovals, Rectangles, and Borders – Oh My!

    Zig Zag Dies – Hearts, Squares, Circles, Ovals, Rectangles, and Borders – Oh My!

    Hi everyone!  Have you seen the new Zig Zag dies that were released this week?  I can’t stop using them!  I have several samples today using all the Zig Zag dies, and I’m featuring this Easter card where I used two of the Zig Zag Rectangle dies.


    For the smaller Zig Zag Rectangle, I used blender brushes with oxide inks to create a shaded pink panel.  I layered that onto the largest Zig Zag Rectangle that I cut out of plaid patterned paper.  I colored several images from the Sunny Studio Chubby Bunny set with Copic markers, die cut them out, and added some shimmer to the eggs and letters with a glitter pen.  I used some foam adhesive to pop up the images on the card panel.

    Zig Zag Rectangles

    Zig Zag Squares


    Zig Zag Circles

    Zig Zag Ovals

    Zig Zag Hearts

    Zig Zag Borders

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    Zig Zag Dies

  • Hoppy Easter – Star Fusion Coverplate

    Hoppy Easter – Star Fusion Coverplate

    Now that Valentine’s Day is past us, I’m focusing on Easter/Spring cards.  I lean toward bright colors, so using soft colors for these types of cards is a good change for me.

    For today’s card, I’m using the new Star Fusion Coverplate from Kat Scrappiness as my focal point. I die cut it from some striped pink and while patterned paper from my stash.  I adhered this to a piece of kraft cardstock.  I sprayed the kraft cardstock with shimmer mist to give it some extra shine.

    I cut a Stitched Scalloped circle out of white cardstock and a piece of green patterned paper.  I then cut the green piece with one of the Fancy Scalloped border dies.  I adhered the two pieces together and popped it up on the right side of the card with dimensional adhesive.  I then cut of the portion that was hanging off the card.  I colored the cute little rabbit and carrot from the Lawn Fawn Hoppy Easter set with Copic markets and adhered it the the scalloped circle with Nuvo adhesive.

    For the sentiment piece, I used one of the Stitched Sentiment dies.  I heat embossed my sentiment from the Lawn Fawn Hoppy Easter set using white embossing power and adhered it to the card using dimensional adhesive.

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  • “Hoppy Holidays” Card

    Hello, crafters!  This is Cynthia for the KS Design Team, and today I’m bringing you a fun layered card project featuring some adorable little animals.  I used the Crafters Essentials WINTER Dies, the Merry Critters Stamp Set, and embellished with the “Frozen II” Sequins Mix.  All of these products and much more are available now at the Kat Scrappiness website, so be sure to pick them up for your own holiday card making.  In the meantime, let’s go through the steps I used to create this card.

    My first step was creating a wintery background for my scene.  I cut a piece of light blue card stock with the swirled backdrop die from the Crafters Essentials WINTER die set, then cut the two stitched snow drift pieces out of white card stock.  I attached one of the drifts flat to the background panel, and the second drift was raised on a single layer of foam tape.  One important note:  leave the top edges of your drifts free of adhesive so that you can tuck in your embellishments when it comes time to assemble your final scene!

    To create the look of falling snow, I simply used the Nuvo Embossing Pen and randomly dotted it all over the blue panel.  Then I sprinkled on some Hero Arts White embossing powder and heat set it.  This is such a simple way to really give your winter scenes some life 🙂

    Now it’s time for some good ol’ stamping and coloring.  The images from the Merry Critters stamp set are just precious, and perfectly sized for any card you’d like to make.  I stamped multiple trees on some smooth white card stock, then colored them in with my Copic markers.  I always use Memento Tuxedo Black ink for my stamping, since I know it won’t smudge when I used alcohol based markers.  If you’re not sure of an ink, always stamp a sample image on some scrap card stock and try your alcohol markers with them.  It’s so much better to take them time to do this step instead of accidentally ruining a project!

    To add even more detail, I decided to use my Snow Pen and embossing gun to create snow on my little trees.  There are plenty of products you can use for a similar look:  white embossing powder, sparkle embossing powder, texture paste, etc.  Get creative!

    My two main focal images are the bunny and the sleigh full of presents, both from the Merry Critters stamp set.  I also stamped the adorable little bird perched on top of the presents so that the bunny would have a friend.  We all need a good friend, right?  I colored them with my Copics, then carefully cut them out along the black lines.  When doing this, try to preserve your stamped edges instead of cutting them off.  You can always run a black marker around the edges of your cut pieces to hide the white cutting lines when you’re done, which really gives a professional finish to your work.  Note:  Instead of cutting around the sleigh’s delicate runners, I stamped that part of the image right on the snow drift piece, then laid the cut-out image over it.

    For my sentiment, I cut out a stitched banner die and used the Hoppy Holidays stamp from the Merry Critters stamp set.  It fit very neatly in the bottom corner of my scene – big enough not to be missed, but discreet enough to let the scene shine 🙂

    The final finishing touch was to add some sequins (of course!)  This time I used the gorgeous “Frozen II” Sequins Mix and picked out some snowflakes, some light blue sequins, and some tiny sparkling crystal sequins.  I laid these along the swirled lines of the backdrop piece, as if they were sparkling bits of snow being blown along the frosty wind.  Perfect!

    And that is my finished card!  This one was SO much fun to create, and if I were making a scrapbook layout I could have included a bunch more trees and all of the cute animals.  As I mentioned at the top of this post, all of these awesome stamps, dies, and sequins are now available in the Kat Scrappiness store.  I’ve included a shopping link for you down below, and please be sure to use my “CYNTHIA10” coupon code to save 10% off your entire order.  Thank you so much for reading my post, and I’ll see all of you again at the end of the month 🙂

     

    Kat Scrappiness Shop

     

  • Merry Christmas Critters – Box Card

    Merry Christmas Critters – Box Card

    Hi Crafters!

    Today, I have a fun box card I made using the new Merry Critters stamp set from Kat Scrappiness.  Box cards are so fun to make and receive!  They are also pretty easy to make with so many options.

    I colored all the images from the Merry Critters set with my Copic markers.

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    I used the box card die from Lawn Fawn.  Several companies offer them.  Here are a few that are available that are available at Kat Scrappiness. I used various pattern paper from Lawn fawn to the panels of the card.  I then added the critters and sleigh to the inside of the box.  I attached a piece of black and white bakers twine from the sleigh to the cute reindeer, so that it looks like he is pulling the sleigh.  I stamped the sentiment Merry Christmas (also from the Merry Critters set) to the front panel and added the tree and gifts.

    At this point, I thought I was finished with the card, but also thought it was missing something.  Mona, from the design team, suggested snowflake sequins – which was perfect!  I used snowflake and tree sequins from the Sugarplum Fairies and Frozen II sequin mixes from Kat Scrappiness.

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    Thanks for stopping by and happy stamping!

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  • Crafters Essentials – Fall Dies

    Crafters Essentials – Fall Dies

    Hi everyone!  I can’t believe it is only two weeks until Halloween!

    Today I have two cards that are using the new Crafters Essentials Fall die set.  This set includes 9 dies that are perfect for making Halloween and Fall cards.  With just these nine dies, you can create a variety of cards.

    For my first card, I used some distress oxide inks to create an orangy yellowish background.  Then I die cut the bat from the Crafters Essentials Fall die set several times.  I strategically placed the bats on the card and stamped the Happy Halloween sentiment from the Toil & Trouble Layered stamp set using VersaFine onyx black ink.

    For my second card, I used three dies from the Crafters Essentials Fall die set – the tree, pumpkin and scarecrow.  After die cutting the the scarecrows, I colored them with my Copics and added some Kat Scrappiness jewels to their shirts.  I adhered all the dies cuts to the card based and stamped the Happy Fall Y’all sentiment from the Happy Fall Y’all stamp set by Kat Scrappiness.

     

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    Thanks for stopping by and happy stamping!

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  • “Happiness Is Handmade” Card

    Good morning, crafters!  Cynthia here with another blog post featuring some brand new items from Kat Scrappiness.  Today’s card was made with the Stitched Diagonal Backdrop die, the Crafters Gonna Craft stamp set, and some White Jewels.  So let’s roll up our sleeves and get started.

     

    The first step was to create a background using the stamp set.  I used a piece of smooth white card stock and stamped with my Memento Black ink.  I knew I’d be coloring with my alcohol markers, and the Memento ink won’t smudge.  I stamped the scissors first, carefully repeating the image several times.  Then I brought in the pencil stamp and added more of these, since they were smaller.  I turned the stamp so that some images show the point of the pencil, and other images show the eraser.  I then stamped the marker stamp, making sure to keep the nib end in the image.  Then all I had to do was scatter the medium sequin stamp all around the main images, filling in the white spaces as evenly as I could.  By starting with the big images, filling in with the small, and keeping the angles true, you can easily create a custom background that doesn’t look jumbled or messy 🙂

     

    Now it’s time to color!  I decided to use my Copic Sketch markers, but anything you prefer will work just as well.  I kept the colors pretty simple, using only two shades for each color, although I did use three different blues to give the sequins some dimension.  I also used a light, warm grey marker to create shadows around each image.  This doesn’t take much time, but has a big impact in bringing your images to life!  If you don’t have a grey marker, it’s also good to use a grey pencil to add the shadows.

     

    I found a very nice green card stock in my paper supply and used it to mat my background piece.  Then I used the Stitched Diagonal Backdrop die and cut out a piece of heavyweight black card stock.  I absolutely love the size of this big die, and there are tons of different ways to use it!  You can put two different papers in each triangle, turn one of the triangles into a shaker, put an image in one and a sentiment in the other, or lots of other things.  I love that the triangles are also large enough to really show off all the stamping I did – it would be a shame to cover it all up, don’t you think?

     

    Before I attach my diagonal panel down to my project, I needed to add my sentiment.  I prefer to heat emboss when the card stock is still separate in case the heat causes some warping.  Whenever you come across a stacked sentiment stamp like this one, you can stamp it all in one line with some simple masking.  I just used a bit of washi tape to cover some of the words while I stamped the others, then reversed the process to finish the sentiment.  I used White embossing powder which really pops against that intense black card stock.

     

    I attached the diagonal piece flat to the card front with some strong adhesive tape, centering it carefully over the green mat layer.  This card would have also looked good had I popped up the black piece with foam tape – I was probably too lazy to get up and find my roll of foam tape!  Haha!  The very last little detail I added was just three of the gorgeous White Jewels that are also new in Kat’s shop.  These jewels are amazing!  They all have a gorgeous iridescent sparkle to them, each one is perfectly faceted to reflect the light, and there are four or five different sizes in every bag.  I can’t recommend them highly enough!

     

    And that is today’s finished card project.  I really hope that you had fun reading over this blog and that it inspired you to try out these new items for yourself.  Even as I was doing the stamping I was thinking of at least three other cards I wanted to design, using those fabulous images in different combinations.  The stamp set, the die, and the jewels (which come in six different colors) are all available now in the shop.  Follow the link below to get started, and don’t forget to use my discount code “CYNTHIA10” to receive 10% off your entire order.  Thanks for looking, and happy crafting!

    Kat Scrappiness Shop

     

     

  • Create a Faux Coffee Look!

    Create a Faux Coffee Look!

    Hi there! Hannah, here, with another Kat Scrappiness project!

    Kat seems to have a huge love of coffee. She and her design team participate in several “coffee” themed blog hops throughout the year it seems, and she has a whole section in her shop dedicated to Coffee Themed Products.

    Recently she came up with two brand new products in her line that were both coffee related. Her “Got Coffee” die and her new Layered Coffee Cup die are two of the newest Kat Scrappiness brand products in her shop. Today’s card is using both of those, as well as a stamp from another new KS product: Owl Envelope Art stamp set.

    First, I die cut the coffee cup bits out of Neenah Solar White cardstock. For the center portion of the cup, where a logo might go, I lightly dusted it all over with Altenew’s Rose Quartz and the edges with Altenew’s Puffy Heart. In the center of this, I stamped the small owl from the Owl Envelope Art stamp set. I also covered some of the small portions of the lid with the same Altenew inks.

    Next, using some light grey Copic markers I created a curved or shadowed effect. Basic Copic coloring rules applied here, sticking with either a W, C, or N and then using alternating colors. I relied heavily on the “0” to ensure a smooth transition to white.

    Using a liquid adhesive, Ranger Multi Medium Matte, I layered most of my coffee cut bits and adhered them together. If you are confused as to how to go about building the cup, there is a fabulous guide Kat has put together:


    Then came the fun part! Playing with Yupo paper and Copic markers! You can see my video here:

    Taking some Neenah Desert Storm paper I cut out the largest rectangle from the Cross Stitched Rectangle dies. Along the edges gently dusted the beautiful Delicata Golden Glitz.  Using the same Delicata ink I performed the same technique on a light pink doily I had.

    Using pink fun foam I cut out the “got coffee” sentiment. As it turned out the pink in the foam was pretty much the same pink in the doily and a complimentary one to the other pinks in the cup, therefore I left the foam naked and didn’t cover it with adhesive and paper.

    I trimmed my Yupo paper down to an A2 length and die cut out the inner portion of my cup. This die cut portion was a total mistake on my part, I didn’t have the plans above when I was crafting the card. However, I like how it tied the cup in with the background, created movement in my card, and looked like coffee!

    I layered everything on top of a light pink A2 card front using my favorite dot runner and Ranger Multi Medium Matte, then finished off the look by sparkling gold dots everywhere.

    I rather like the final look of this card! If you like it and are in need of any of the following products please feel free to use my discount code HANNAH10 at checkout!

    Products Used:

    Layered Coffee Cup die by Kat Scrappiness
    “Got Coffee?”     sentiment die by Kat Scrappiness
    Owl Envelope Art     stamp set by Kat Scrappiness
    Cross Stitched Rectangle die by Kat Scrappiness
    Delicata Golden Glitz Ink
    Ranger Multi Medium Matte Adhesive
    Yupo Paper
    Fun Foam
    Neenah Solar White in 80 and 110lb
    Neenah Desert Storm in 80lb
    Momento Tuxedo Black

    Are you participating in our monthly challenges? Each month we have a new challenge whose theme is picked out from our Design Team members. You create your project, based on the theme, and making sure you use at least one Kat Scrappiness product and you could win a $25 store discount! This month’s link can be found above, at the top of this page, or here!

    This has been Hannah Rubenstahl, from Fanciful Spaces, hoping you have an epic crafting day.

  • Out of the Box

    Out of the Box

    Hello Kat Scrappiness fans!

    I am very excited to be posting my first design team project for Kat Scrappiness.  Today I am sharing a fun new project using one of the adorable new stamp sets available this month.  It’s called Punny Snacks and it features some really cute food stamps and some cute punny sayings.  I decided to think “outside the box” for my project and create a mini pizza box to hold some small note cards that are food themed as well.  This little box could also be a 3-D card by itself or it could hold a gift card as well.

    When I first got my hands on this fun stamp set I immediately broke out my copic markers and colored up all of the cute little food stamps.  I made a chart showing the exact colors I used for each stamp to save me time later when I wanted to use them again.  Here is the chart all colored with a list of all the copic markers that I used if you’re interested.

    The only marker I didn’t list was the colorless blender, marker “0”,  which I used to draw some color away from the hamburger bun to give the appearance of seeds.

    The first thing I did was create the mini pizza box to put the note cards in.  It looks complicated but in my video I will show you step by step how to assemble this cute little box.

    The next step was to decorate the top of the box with some traditional red gingham patterned paper to match the decor of a real pizzeria.  I added the sentiment “you have a pizza my heart” to the top and I hand cut two slices of pizza to pop up on opposite corners of the box.

    I then made 5 cute little notecards to fit inside of the box.  I used the rest of the food stamps and funny puns to decorate the top of 5 mini note cards.  I used the Stitched Postage Stamp Edge Rectangle Dies to showcase the stamps and sentiments on the cards.

    I just love how they all look together with all those fun colored images!

    The last step was to decorate the inside of the box so it could be used on its own as a 3-D card or gift card holder.  I colored and cut 6 slices of pizza and assembled them on a white circle to resemble a pizza pie.  Just for some added interest I used a paper crimper to give some texture to the bottom piece of paper in the box and make it look like corrugated cardboard.  I also added the sentiment “we’re made for each other” to finish it off.

    This was a super fun project to make and you can see the process

    in the video below or on YouTube.

    [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuwuiJwhdYk]

     

    Be sure to check out all of the new products at Kat Scrappiness and use

    code: LISA10 to get 10% off your order at checkout.

    Have a great day everyone!

    I already am!

    Lisa 

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    • Punny Snacks Stamp Set by Kat Scrappiness

    • Stitched Postage Stamp Edge Rectangle Dies by Kat Scrappiness

    • VersaFine Onyx Black Pigment Ink Pad 

    • Memento Tuxedo Black Dye Ink Pad

  • All Aboard for Christmas with Angeline

    All Aboard for Christmas with Angeline

    Ho ho ho! It’s just a few days away from Christmas. Angeline here to share with you a Christmas card I made using some fun foilable products and Newton’s Nook Designs stamps.

    I first created the background using Pattern Paper Pack 1 – FOILables – Toner Graphics by Creative Vision S and Thermoweb Decofoil [Lapis Watercolor], by running it through my Heidi Swapp Minc Machine. It’s so fun to just have ready-patterns, foil and you’re done!

    Then I created a snow slope using the Fancy Scalloped Stitched Border Dies by Kat Scrappiness then I arranged the cute Santa in his train with his friends from the Newton’s Nook Designs [All Aboard for Christmas]; which I have colored in with my Copic markers.

    “Choo choo!” All aboard the fun Christmas train 🙂

    Here is the list of supplies I used to make this card. For all the supplies linked, you can get it from Kat Scrappiness store. Do remember to use my code “Angeline10” to get 10% off your order! Happy shopping and Merry Christmas!

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    Pattern Paper Pack 1 – FOILables – Toner Graphics by Creative Vision S
    Fancy Scalloped Stitched Border Dies by Kat Scrappiness
    Newton’s Nook Designs [All Aboard for Christmas]
    Thermoweb Decofoil [Lapis Watercolor]
    Heidi Swapp Minc Machine
    Copic markers
    Sizzix Big Shot

  • Peek-a-boo Halloween Shaker Card

    Peek-a-boo Halloween Shaker Card

    Hi there! Hannah, from Fanciful Spaces here! I am CRAZY excited to share this card with you! Ever since I successfully used whole coffee beans in my fall coffee blog hop card I’ve been obsessed with shaker cards! I have a million ideas of what I can stick inside a shaker card! Today I’m bringing you one with candy corn! To make it even better, the shaker portion can be seen both on the inside and the outside of the card!

    Here is the front side of my card:

    Here is the inside of my card:

    Isn’t it stink’n cute?!?!?!?! It wasn’t much harder to make than a regular shaker card, I did have to make duplicates of the postage die frame and of the cat in the pumpkin, and I had to cut an opening in my card base. But really, it wasn’t very hard.

    I started by cutting two A2 (5.5″ x 4.25″) sized panels out of my Neenah Solar White 80lb cardstock, using my Clarity Stencil Brushes I dusted Mustard Seed and Spiced Marmalade Distress Inks in a gradient from corner-to-corner.  Then, creating a frame with the Stitched Postage Stamp Rectangular Dies by Kat Scrappiness, and some washi tape, I cut those two pieces. I stamped my sentiment on one piece, using the Peekin’ Pumpkin Kitty stamp set by Gerda Steiner Designs and my Memento Tuxedo Black Ink. Using the same ink, I stamped out the pumpkin/kitty stamp, twice, into some more Neenah Solar White cardstock. I colored this with Copic Markers and then fussy cut it.


    I took my card base, which was Neenah Solar White 110lb cardstock and cut a rectangle opening using the Never Ending Rectangle Dies, also by Kat Scrappiness. On the inside, I used my tape runner to adhere a piece of acetate down, and then the colored frame I had made without the sentiment stamped on it.

    On the front side, I taped a 4 sheet thick frame I built up using fun foam and Scor-Tape. If you are re-creating this card you will have to double check the thickness of your foam with the thickness of your candy corn, both are possibly going to be thicker or thinner than mine. Basically, I wanted my frame to be just as thick as the candy corn was and no thicker. This frame was taped on using more Scor-Tape and then I laid my candy corn inside.

    The next idea was that next I was going to carefully place my card base on top the frame, however, in the video, this is when things went awry. I accidentally adhered the frame on upside down. This was a problem because my sentiment was on wrong! WOOPS! So I had to cut it off of the card base, create a new card base and frame, and layer that on. The result was that this card is a touch thicker than it needs to be, but it really isn’t noticeable with all the other thickness in this card. At the end of the day, my goof wasn’t noticeable at all!

    Once my card front was properly placed on my card base I just used some Ranger Multi-Medium Matte to adhere the Copic pumpkins to both the front and the inside!

    It is so crazy cute and super fun, isn’t it?!?!?! Like I said, you really can’t see where I messed up, no one will ever know except for you and me! 😀

    If you’d like to watch how I made it, watch this video!

    [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-E_OzmnL1wA]

    The following is a list of the products I used, you can save 10% on your order by using my discount code Hannah10!

    Neenah Solar White in 80 & 110lbs
    Clarity Stencil Brushes
    Distress Inks
    Stitched Postage Stamp Rectangular Dies
    Peek’n Pumpkin Kitty Stamp Set
    Memento Tuxedo Black Ink
    Never Ending Rectangle Dies
    Acetate
    Fun Foam
    Scor-Tape
    Ranger Multi-Medium Matte
    Copic Markers
    Candy Corn