The Daily Marker 10 Day Coloring Challenge Finished Cards, Day 2

Hi all, I've got a couple more finished cards to share today.  These two came together pretty quickly because they are stamped scene images by Anita Jeram for Colorado Craft Company.

I mentioned yesterday that I needed to step up the Christmas card making, so although these could have been winter or birthday cards, I went ahead and made them holiday cards.

This first card features the main image from the Snow Happy set.  I started by adding a sentiment from my Scandinavian Prints Christmas set for Neat & Tangled.  

Then I trimmed my panel down a bit, and adhered it to a light blue card base.

The frame is kraft cardstock that was first die cut using a rectangular die from My Favorite Things, and then cut a second time to add the oval opening using the Card Front Dies from Neat & Tangled.

The frame was then popped up over the image with foam tape.  Super simple, but you really don't need a lot with a large image that carries the day.

The second card features one of the images from the Christmas Presents set.  I love this image, but had ben kind of avoiding it because there are so many things to color in it and sometimes I get overwhelmed by having to find all the different color/shading combinations.  Solution?  Go with a monochromatic color scheme.  In this case, I went with sepia tones.

I thought about making this just a birthday card since the colors aren't really Christmassy, but decided to go ahead and go with a Christmas theme.  The sentiment is from Neat & Tangled's Santa's Wonderland set.

Papertrey Ink's Honey Nut cardstock was the perfect match for the color scheme, so I went with that for the base, but trimmed the panel down a bit more than I normally do so you can see more of it.

I'll have a couple more finished cards to share with you tomorrow!

*This post contains affiliate links to Simon Says Stamp

Spellbinders Past Club Kits Sale

There's currently a big sale going on at Spellbinders.  Select past Club Kits are 40% off.  Today I'm sharing a couple of cards using the Bonjour Large Die of the Month kit.  

The focal part of the kit is of course these gorgeous butterflies.  There are four layers to the butterfly, and I love how by changing up the layers you can get very different looks.  For these cards I used the exact same colors of cardstock, but changed the order. 

For my butterflies, I adhered each layer together.  You could also adhere just the center portions to get a wonderful dimensional look.

Once I adhered all the layers, I die cut the base layer into a panel of white cardstock.  This was then adhered to the card base and the assembled butterfly was inlaid into it.  I had also previously added a strip of black and white striped paper to the card base.

 

The sentiments on both the cards are from my Typed Sentiments set for Neat & Tangled.

Aren't these butterflies just beautiful?

Be sure to check out the sale at Spellbinders.  Here are a couple of cards I've shared before using kits that are on sale:

Thanks so much for visiting!

Neat & Tangled February Release & Giveaways - Day 3

It's Day 3 of the Neat & Tangled February release, and today we're showing off the last of my new products for this release, the Skinny Strips dies and the Typed Sentiments stamp set. 

The nice thing about being a product designer is that you can create the stuff you want to have in real life.  I've been needing a set of thin strips for sentiments for a while now.  There are 12 different strips. four each 1/4" wide in lengths from 2 1/2" to 4" in a rectangle and banner style.  Then there are two each in rectangle/banner that are 3/8" wide. 

For the Typed Sentiments set, I tried to provide a good mix of basic sentiments, but also ones that are a little more unusual.  I think you'll get a good giggle out of a few of them!

You've been seeing these skinny strips pop up in a lot of projects already this week, so I thought I'd use them in a different way.  I cut all four of the skinniest rectangle strips from five different shades of cardstock - just pieces that I found in my scrap bin.  Then I arranged them along the bottom of a panel of white cardstock.  Once i was done, I die cut the piece using the 4" x 5 1/2" rectangle from the Card Front Dies set.

The sentiment is of course from the Typed Sentiments set.  Super quick and easy. 

I did basically the same thing using the banner style strips and five colors of pink/red cardstock, but adhered them on an angle for this next card. 

The panel was again cut using the smaller rectangle from Card Front Dies, and I added another sentiment from the Typed Sentiments set.

These cards are really so easy to create and I love that you can use your scraps for them. 

Be sure to head over to the Neat & Tangled blog to check out what the rest of the team created, and to enter to win these new goodies. 

Leave a comment here as well as I'm picking some commenters from this week's posts to win some of my new products.  You'll want to stop by my Instagram account as well (@mprantner) as there are extra chances to win there.  Winners will be announced Friday morning.

See you back here tomorrow for our final reveal day!

Joyeux Noel

I'm playing with some of the recent Neat & Tangled releases today.  I love the images from Elena's Nativity Play set (which incidentally is just back in stock).

My images were stamped, colored with Copics, and die cut.  I chose a couple pieces of patterned paper for the background, and framed the scene with piece of gray cardstock that was die cut using the largest frame die from the Scalloped die set as well as one of the ovals from the Card Front die set.

The framed piece was then dry embossed using the Cubic cover plate for some additional texture/interest.

The sentiment is from the Nativity Play set and was cut out using one of the banners from the Scalloped set.

Aren't these kiddos so cute?