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  • Fun craft supplies journal

    Fun craft supplies journal

    Hello everyone, this is Mona back with a fun art journal page featuring Kat Scrappiness new Flower Pot Dies

    I started by making my background using Distress Ink in Mermaid Lagoon , and for the bottom I used a lighter brown to make it as ground. I die cut several craft related die cuts , some from MFT and some from W9 PLUS.

    I went on by Die cutting a second rim of the flower pots to add dimension and stamped in a few other crafting elements coming out of the clay pot using this amazing stamp set called Crafting is my Jam by Neat and Tangled. I adhered everything in place, stamped in my sentiment and added  some stamped sequins to make the finishing touches.

    I really hope you enjoyed this mini tutorial, thanks for stopping by. See you soon.

     

  • From the Zoo…

    Hi again, Cheryl here with another project to share.

    Today I’m working with a Gerda Steiner stamp set called Party Animals. Such cute images! So, I got out my Oxide Inks and did some ink blending and then used one of KS Stitched Heart Tag Dies. I cut one from the ink blended cardstock and four more from just white.

    You can see I only want the area with the heart with some above and below.

    I then glued the four together to create the shaker well. Add a piece of acetate and trim so it doesn’t show. Then glue this to the back of the main, ink blended piece. Trim anything that shows from the front. Fill with your shaker bits and glue another piece of acetate to the back to keep it all in.

    I added foam tape to all the other areas. I then stamped my sentiment onto some vellum and heat embossed with black embossing powder. I also colored and cut out my cute alligator with Distress Markers and cut out with my Brother Scan N Cut 2. I added foam squares to the back of the little guy.

    I picked out the leaf shaped sequins and made a little cluster with a regular sequin in the center to resemble flowers. And added a few others as well. The patterned paper is from Doodlebug’s At The Zoo 6×6 paper pad. I cut it just a tiny bit smaller than the card base. Then glued the panel in place.

    I love how easily these Oxide inks blend! So easy and no harsh lines. And today I see the next 12 are being released!!! Cannot wait! Anyway, that’s my card for today. Hope some of the process photos help to see how I did this. Get out your supplies and have some fun paper crafting! See you next time!

    Here’s the products I used from the KatScrappiness Store.

    Stitched Heart Tag Dies

    Gerda Steiner Party Animals Stamp Set

    Doodlebug’s At the Zoo 6×6 Paper Pad

    Lucky Charms Sequin Mix

    Tutti Fruiti Sequin Mix

    Fired Brick Oxide Ink

    Fossilized Amber Oxide Ink

    Spiced Marmalade Oxide Ink

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  • Teacher Thank You Card

    Teacher Thank You Card

    Hey, everyone! It’s Kevin here sharing a colorful thank you card that would be perfect for teachers or anyone at school or daycare using a couple different sets from Lawn Fawn. Check it out-

    I started by figuring out what order I wanted my crayons from Color My World to be in when I did my masking. I stamped them on some scratch paper first and numbered them to save some thinking time for the actual card.

    After stamping the jar from How You Bean? I used some Inkadinkadoo masking paper to mask off the crayons inside the jar.

    Some quick Copic coloring and a Distress Ink smooshed background made this card super colorful. An easy sentiment made from the Kat Scrappiness Thank You die finished it off!

    Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

     

       

  • Lola the Giraffe Slider

    Hey stampers! Kevin back with a fun way to stretch your stamps using Kat Scrappiness’s brand new Lola the Giraffe and Interactive Card Instructions stamp sets.

    I made this fun interactive slider card with Lola as the main focus. I used one of the “happy”s from Lawn Fawn’s Happy Happy Happy set in the background. I stamped it repeatedly with Fossilized Amber Distress Oxide Ink.


    Then I added Lola and her interactive neck. It’s simple a strip of card stock, colored to match, inserted behind her body with a foam square on the back to keep her from neck from coming all the way out of the slit. A white heat embossed “birthday” and directions from the interactive set finished it off.


    Here she is with her neck stretched all the way up. These cards are awesome to send to kids! But I know plenty of adults who have a blast with them as well!

    Thanks for stopping by and make sure to check out these two new great sets from KS!

      

     

  • Happy Birthday…

    Hi everyone!

    Cheryl here, with a new DT post. I have a birthday card to share, so let’s get to it!

    I found a piece of polka dot paper in my stash and really wanted to use it. Came in a card kit, I believe, so I don’t know who it’s by, sorry. Kathleen sent me the stencil you see in the photo in my DT kit this month. So I white heat embossed it onto a piece of  Tim Holtz watercolor paper. I then got out my Distress Inks and went about to create a piece that would pull out some of the same colors as the patterned paper had. I believe it was Mustard Seed, Abandoned Coral, maybe some Worn Lipstick. Anyway, after it was dry I cut a piece of it using KS Stitched Fancy Scalloped Circle Dies. I got really brave and took the Lawn Fawn word die from my DT kit and cut it right out of that circle!!! Fingers were seriously crossed, lol. Anyway, I then cut the same word out of some white fun foam and glued the two together. I was sure to keep the tiny inside bits to put back in. I then mounted the scalloped piece to another circle slightly larger, cut out of  black cardstock.

    I took the sentiment and using liquid glue, I put it back into place and added a bit of weight till dry. I also took those tiny bits and glued them back in place.

    I took a black strip and stamped birthday and heat embossed with white embossing powder. I cut the ends into banner shapes and mounted with a bit of foam tape. I then pulled out some Fabrika Decoru enamel dot drops and some Nuvo enamel drops, along with a few stray star shaped sequins from my stash.

    I mounted the circle piece to my patterned paper and trimmed off the excess. I mounted that to a black card base and attached a piece of white cardstock to the inside to be able to write a message. When the entire card was finished I took some Glossy Accents and totally covered the word happy. I love how it’s so shiny!

    So there you have it! A really fun card with a few different techniques. Watercolor, heat embossing, and some die cutting. I love that stencils are so affordable and can really give a fun look at very little cost. I’d love a bunch of background stamps but they aren’t so cheap and stencils are, so I plan to add to my collection! Really, you can do more with them anyway, as to a stamp. Hope you got a bit of inspiration today.

    Happy Crafting!

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  • Happy Birthday Card

    Happy Birthday Card

    Hello friends! Katty here to share a fun and simple birthday card with you all. I made this card for my mom who’s birthday is this month.

    I began by using the Kat Scrappiness Stitched Fancy Scalloped Square Dies. I used white cardstock with two of the smaller sizes and cut out 6 open scallop squares. I glued them together in sets of two, slightly overlapping each other, creating three sets. Then I glued the three pieces together, slightly overlapping each other as well. I used pink cardstock as my background.

    I used the Sparkling Clear Droplets Sampler Pack and filled in the squares in the center of the overlapped die cuts. I used Ranger Distress Ink in the color Fossilized Amber and stamped my sentiment on white cardstock, the sentiment came from the Easter Stamp set Happy Hoppy by Gerda Steiner Designs.

    I used the same Distress Ink to stamp out two flowers from the Gerbera Blooms Stamp Set by Mudra. I fussy cut both the sentiment and the flowers and tucked the flowers in on opposite ends of the card. I didn’t add the full flower, just pieces of it which I layered together. Finally, I backed the card front on a pink diagonal stripe patterned paper.

    I love how it turned out. Thanks so much for stopping by today! XOXO -Katty

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  • Rainbow Thank You Card

    Rainbow Thank You Card

    Hey Kat Scrappiness stampers! It’s Kevin here back with another thank you card! This time I put on my best Laura Fedora and tried my best at a rainbow schemed card. I used my favorite Kat Scrappiness word die and some colorful Distress Inks. Let’s get started!

    I started by grabbing my Stampoholic Nano to do the repetitive rainbow stamping of the “THANKS A BUNCH” from Mudra’s Purely Labeled Sentiments. I cut a strip of plain white card stock to 2.25 inches, leaving about an eighth of an inch margin around the label sentiments I will be stamping.

    I started from the bottom and worked my way up making sure to line up the stamp with the previous image and the grid lines on the Nano. Since I used Distress Inks, double stamping was a must for this card. They aren’t meant for solid stamping like this, so that why I used the Stampoholic.

    I popped the stamped rainbow panel onto a strip of paper from Echo Park’s Summer Fun paper pad and adhered it to a top fold white card base. Finally, I cut out the Thank You word die from Kat Scrappiness twice from white paper and once from black. I stacked the three layers together to give it some added dimension.

    Thanks for checking out this rainbow thank you card project. It was a lot of fun and I think that this sign could work with so many other of the Mudra sentiment labels and Kat Scrappiness word dies.

      

     

  • Summer Themed Birthday Card

    Summer Themed Birthday Card

    Hey, stampers! Kevin here sharing a super CAS, yet colorful, birthday card. Even though it is snowing today up here in Minnesota my mind is on SUMMER. So I created this card with palm trees, pineapples, and bright bold colors in mind. I also love mixing older stamp sets with new products, so here’s how I used an older Lawn Fawn stamp set with some new paper from Echo Park!

     

     

    I started by adding a strip of patterned paper from Echo Park’s Summer Fun paper pad to a white card base. Then on a separate panel I added some Distress Ink using a water brush. I chose two shades of yellow that matched the stripes  in the Summer Fun paper. Then I stamped out a flamingo from Lawn Fawn’s Flamingo Together and used some more Distress Inks to watercolor it. After die cutting the flamingo I popped it over the water colored area and added a bold sentiment from Mudra’s Purely Labeled Sentiments stamp set with more foam dots.

    These CAS cards are perfect for spring/summer birthdays. Feel free to leave a comment and ask any questions you have about this cool summer project! Have a great day!

     

      

     

  • Distress Oxide tags with Angeline

    Distress Oxide tags with Angeline

    Hi crafty friends 🙂

    Angeline here to share with you some tags I made using my brand new scrappy supplies — the yummy-licious Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Inks. I wanted them for the longest time and finally got them and never regretted it! They are just so so beautiful and the “oxide” effect is truly gorgeous.

    First, I wanted to test the oxide inks on different cardstocks, so I cut 2 tags from watercolor cardstock and textured cardstock using the Kat Scrappiness Stitched Scalloped Nesting Tag dies.

    I first swiped the ink pad on my craft mat, then spritzed it with my Tim Holtz distress sprayer to get the droplets. Then I smooshed my cardstock on the inks — drying and spritzing as I go — to get the “oxide” effect. Once it’s all dried up, I stamped the sentiment. I also cut out the heart using the Kat Scrappiness Double Stitched Heart dies and added some Metallic Bright Gold Nuvo Crystal Drops.

    What I noticed is, the inks blended better on the watercolor cardstock and gave a more opaque look. Whereas, the textured cardstock did not blend too well and gave a brighter colored look. So, it really depends on which look you prefer, but I like them both 🙂

    Then I also tested the inks on kraft paper. The inks turned out beautifully on darker colored paper and although it looks chalky, it doesn’t feel chalky to the touch. I cut out some shapes using the Gina Marie Designs Stitched Sky dies to decorate my tag and also added some Nuvo Glitter drops in White Blizzard. I stamped the sentiment using VersaFine Onyx Black Pigment ink.

    So, if you’ve not tried out the Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Inks, you should! It is so much fun and it gives such great effects on your card/tags/crafty projects.

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    Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Inks

     Kat Scrappiness Stitched Scalloped Nesting Tag dies

    Kat Scrappiness Double Stitched Heart dies

    Gina Marie Designs Stitched Sky dies

    Metallic Bright Gold Nuvo Crystal Drops

    Nuvo Glitter drops in White Blizzard

    VersaFine Onyx Black Pigment ink

    Watercolor cardstock

    American’s Craft textured cardstock

    Kraft paper

    Tim Holtz Distress Sprayer

    Unity Stamp stamps

  • Classic Thank You Cards feat. Kat Scrappiness Dies

    Classic Thank You Cards feat. Kat Scrappiness Dies

    Hello, everyone! It’s Kevin again, this time sharing two classic thank you cards made with some of my favorite Kat Scrappiness dies. Before we get started, I want to tell you guys where I got my inspiration from. I am addicted to Instagram, like I am sure many of you are, and I came across a wonderful pair of cards from Marge. Make sure you check her out! Let’s get started with my versions-

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    I started by doing most of my die cutting. I used the Double Stitched Rectangles from KS to cut some kraft card stock and patterned paper from Lawn Fawn and my stash. On the smallest rectangles I white heat embossed some images from the stamp sets I am using- Lawn Fawn’s Octopi My Heart, I’m So Jelly  and Virginia Turtle’s Pricks Really Suck.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Then I die cut a couple of the Fancy Scalloped Ovals from Kat Scrappiness and stamped the octopus and cactus on them. I stamped them a little bit higher than center to leave room for the sentiments.

     

    Next, I die cut Kat’s “Thank You” dies and added some color using a few Distress Inks. I tried to get an ombre effect by adding heavier color to the bottom of the die cut.  After layering the stitched rectangles onto a white A2 sized card bases I added the ovals with some foam tape. Then I used some tape runner to adhere the sentiments. I little bit of Wink of Stella on the sentiments finished them off.

    I hope you found some inspiration today! I had a lot of fun creating this pair of thank you cards inspired by Marge. Have a great day!