Birthday cards

Hello! Jamie here with more birthday cards. I'm so glad to be building up my stash of these cards, as I always need them, but never have enough made.

Distress oxide inks are quickly becoming some of my favorite inks. Paired with the large Happy Birthday stamp from Victorine Originals, they make a perfect card no matter what technique I use!

For this first card, I dry embossed a paisley pattern for the background of my card. Then I used my distress oxide inks to color in the background with a blending tool. To make the colors blend more together, I took some of that distress oxide ink on a wet paintbrush and flicked it all over my card in the same colors of the background.

I stamped that beautiful Happy Birthday stamp on a white scrap of paper. I didn't like the look of the straight ink, so I traced over the happy birthday in a coordinating color with my amazing Kirarina Wink Glitter markers.

Then I used the same "flicking" method to splatter that white paper. I matted the sentiment on purple paper and popped it up on the card with adhesive foam. To finish it off, I attached some metal curly embellishments.

For my second card, I again used the distress oxide inks, but I applied them directly to my paper. Then I "flicked" more colors over top of it. After that was dry, I random stamped the Victorine Originals Festively Wrapped gift stamp to finish my background. 

I stamped the Happy Birthday stamp on white card stock, and matted it on a pink. Then I added some two-tone twine to the left side of my card to finish it off. 

For my final birthday card, I stuck with the distress oxide inks, but wanted a more masculine card. I started by directly applying the ink to my cardstock, then I sprayed it with water. '

I wanted a more textured look, so I used the Victorine Originals Lined Background stamp. First, I just got the stamp wet with water and stamped it over the background. Then, I used ink to stamp again randomly over the background.

I added a strip of brown cardstock, that I had distressed the edges, to the bottom of the card. I "flicked" it with blue distress oxide ink and added some adhesive triangles.

For my sentiment, I used the Victorine Originals Happy Birthday stamp. I put it on kraft cardstock and then popped that up on the card. I added some splatters of blue to it to finish it off.

Thanks for checking out my birthday creations! Have a wonderfully crafty day!
             ~Jamie

Hippity Hoppity

How in the world is it April already? I'm having trouble accepting how fast time is moving. Happy Easter to you and all of yours! I hope you have a truly blessed day with those you love!

How cute are these little girls and these bunnies? This layout was a one-page kit I picked up cheap that I expanded. 

I started by assembling the layout and figuring out where to put my pictures, and then I added the fun "extras." I don't always enjoy doing it, but doodling on your layout makes the additions pop so much more! For my title, bunnies and duck and flowers, I doodled the edges and added some dots with the amazing Kirarina Wink Glitter Markers (can you tell that I ABSOLUTELY LOVE these things?).

I also took my Memento Dew Drop Ink pads and inked the edges of my animals and my flowers. 

I wanted to add an extra "Easter" element to these pages, especially since my daughters and my niece were picking up eggs in these pictures. So, I found the Victorine Originals Egg stamp, and knew it would be perfect. For this page, I stamped them in clusters of three, outlined them with the Kirarina markers, then colored them in with coordinating chalk.

For the second page, I wanted to hide the eggs in the grass. I stamped them across the page, outlined them with the Kirarina markers and colored them in with chalk, too. 

Thanks for checking out my newest Easter layout! What projects are you working on right now? Do you need some inspiration? Check out our newest mood board! It's beauty will definitely inspire you to think and create spring! As always, every entry is qualified to win our awesome prizes! See the blog for full information!

Happy crafting!
  ~Jamie

Bunny tails

Hello to all! Aren't bunny tails the cutest little things? They were definitely the highlight to this layout as this stamp set by Raisin Boat is the absolute cutest!

For this layout, I had pictures of my daughters and my niece from Easter last year, and I wanted to do something special. Thank goodness SumMore Fun had the most awesome stamp sets and the best idea to make these cute little bunny tails!

I started in the top right corner by sponging a sunburst stencil with Distress Oxide Inks. 

Then, I added grass and flowers along the bottom of the page. Using the Raisin Boat Sweet Smile stamp made this so easy! I added some extra color to my flowers by using the amazing Kirarina Wink Glitter Markers. I also colored some of the blades of grass with the green marker as well. To make the grass pop even more, then I added green Liquid Applique. If you've never used this before, you're missing out! More detail about it coming up on the bunny tails.

For the second page, I found the cutest SVG for my title. I cut it out in coordinating cardstock, and then added some doodles with the matching Kirarina Markers.

For the coolest aspect of the layout, I went back to the liquid applique. I'm sure there are many uses for this awesome product, but where I used it most is to add fun dimensional elements to my cards and layouts. Think snow on a tree ... or BUNNY TAILS! 

I started by stamping my bunnies in a line across the layout using the Raisin Boat Stamp Spring is in the Air. I added the first bit of color by putting polka dots with the Kirarina Wink Glitter Markers. 

Then, I moved on to the tails! I actually had liquid applique in all of these colors. They are years old, clear back from when there was a local scrapbook store - amazingly, they were still good! If you can't find it in all the colors, you have options. Get the white from SumMore Fun, and add ink or re-inker to color it. Or, I've even heard of people having success by using it white, and then stamp the ink on top of it. Full disclosure: the directions say apply your liquid applique, then let it dry, then heat set it. I'm too impatient for that. I applied all my bunny tails, and then took my heat gun to it right away. As it warms it, it makes the liquid applique puff up and bubble like this did - perfect for bunny tails! I think it's supposed to be even more puffy if you let it dry, first; but honestly, I've never tried that! 

I drew some grass blades with my Kirarina green marker, and then added some more grass with the liquid applique.

I matted all my pictures in coordinating cardstock to finish off my cute layout!

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Happy crafting and welcome SPRING!!!
~Jamie

You are My Sunshine

Hello! Jamie here, and it's my day to take over the blog, and I'm so in love with this project! Maybe it's because I'm wishing for spring? I'm also happy with how easy it was to take a Raisin Boat stamp set and use it for my journaling on this project.

This was actually a kit I purchased for under $2 at a garage sale at a crop I attended last fall. I totally scored with it!

I started by inking the edges of ALL the pieces with coordinating colors of Memento dew drop inks. The hardest part of these kits, I think, is not losing any of the tiny pieces. Sometimes that's a struggle! I had to cut down my sun "rays" and my grass into pieces before inking. Then I started assembling; this is probably my least-favorite part - but it's so worth it!!! 

After I assembled the layout, I took my amazing Kirarina Wink Glitter markers and added the doodling. This is pretty labor intensive, but it makes the layout so much cuter! I added some chalk in different places as well.

I took monthly pictures of my kids in their first year, so I don't journal on these layouts. Instead, I found the perfect sentiments from the Raisin Boat You are My Sunshine stamp set! I had to rearrange the you are my sunshine sentiment, but that's the great thing about using a stamp positioning tool and clear stamps!

I doodled some more with the Kirarina markers on the sentiments. I really wanted sunshine to pop off the page, so I wrote over that with a marker.

What have you been working on lately? Have you seen our new mood board? Don't forget to submit your creations for a chance at wonderful prizes!

Happy crafting!

       ~Jamie

Connected by Heart

Hello and Happy Saturday!

Design Team Member Heather here and today I am taking over the blog at SumMore Fun and have this easy and fun card to share with you.  I began by taking the cute world stamp with hearts from the Playing Cupid Raisin Boat stamp set and stamping it out onto a piece of white card stock with Versa Mark ink and then heat embossing with Silver Embossing Powder, I then cut it out with a square stitched die set from my stash and then mounted that onto another stitched square the next size up in black card stock which was then placed onto one more cut square in white, all three layers were then placed onto a top folding medium grey A2 card base.  I stamped the sentiment from the same set at the bottom in Versa Fine Onyx Black ink and then to finish it off I used my Kirarina Wink pens in White Pearl and Black Pearl to accentuate the stitched lines and to also color in the hearts on the world for some glimmer and shine. You can find links below to the products I used  and also to the ongoing Challenge, we would love to have you come join us.

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Challenge #22

Playing Cupid (10059-Z)

Kirarina Wink Glitter Markers

Rub a dub dub

I'm sitting here at a crop (stopping every few minutes to borrow products from the SumMore Fun booth) FINALLY getting some scrapbooking done. I hope this finds all of you well, as we haven't been at our house and it's been a rough couple of weeks.

Seriously, you guys, if you ever have a chance to attend a crop where SumMore Fun is a vendor - you must do so! The amount of wonderful product they have is so super awesome and handy for croppers!

Now on to the layout... I found this one-page layout kit at a recent scrapbooking garage sale. It was $1! How could I resist? I don't often make one-page layouts because I take WAY TOO MANY pictures, so first I had to figure out how to adjust it to a two-page layout.

From top to bottom: I colored in the title with the beautiful violet Kirarina Wink Glitter Marker. Once it was dry, I added some accents with purple glitter glue. 

I inked all the edges of my white photo mats with a coordinating ink. These Memento inks are PERFECT for this!

Then I went crazy with the bubbles! These are vellum circles. I inked the edges with the Bahama Blue Memento ink. I glued them to the sheet with a clear liquid glue. As they dried, they naturally curled - which made them look even more like bubbles! Once they were secure, I drew highlights on with a sky blue Kirarina Wink Glitter Marker. Then I added some shimmer chalk. To finish them off, I added lines of clear glitter glue!

I used the Raisin Boat stamp Baby Face for the bathtub. I stamped it twice, trimmed it out and glued it together. I colored in the bubbles with the sky blue Kirarina Wink Glitter Marker and then added some clear glitter glue. I also used the aqua blue marker for some accents.

For the journaling block, I used a sentiment from the Leave Your Mark Raisin Boat stamp and added accents with the sky blue Kirarina Wink Glitter Marker and some purple glitter glue.

On the second page, I stamped the new baby circle from the Talking in Circles Raisin Boat stamp set, and then cut around it and colored some of the dots with the three Kirarina Wink Glitter Markers I used on the previous page. I colored in the center of the stamp with a clear glitter shimmer pen.

I assembled the duck using pop dots after I inked the edges with Memento Ink. I colored in some accents with the Kirarina Wink Glitter Markers, a gold shimmer pen and some chalk.

What have you been working on lately? If it ties into the theme of our current mood board, don't forget to enter it into our challenge. You could get some of these awesome products for winning! See all the details on the blog post.

Thanks for checking out my most recent project!
            ~Jamie

Paper Airplane Valentine Card

Good Morning!  Beth from Beth's Beauties here, and the card I am sharing with you today uses stamps from Victorine Originals called Paper Airplane (74375-C) and Sending My Love To You (74369-B).  Isn't that paper airplane the cutest?!  After I stamped it, I used my Brother Scan N Cut 2 to cut it out.

The patterned papers are from BoBunny's 6x6 Love Letters paper pad and I used postage stamp dies to cut out the pieces.  I traced around the center panel of paper using a Kirarina Wink 024 White Pearl marker.  I added some Tickled with Teal Trendy Twine as well as sequins for additional embellishments.

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It's Valentines time!

Hello all! Not going to lie about it, I totally missed Christmas cards this year. It's always on my plan to get it done, and yet it rarely happens anymore. So, then I tell myself I'll send Valentine's cards... No telling yet if that will be accomplished or not, but I have gotten some made!

I started with this super cute stamp set from Raisin Boat called Playing Cupid. I love how many options it provides for different card ideas.

A while ago, I'm not going to admit how long ago, I started a one-sheet wonder. If you're not familiar with that concept, it's one sheet of patterned paper (and some times coordinating cardstock) cut up to make a certain amount of cards really quickly. So, all these blue and purple cards I had leftover from one of those workshops. (That pretty much means I just never finished them).

I started out using reinker, rubbing alcohol and pearl paint in a spritzing pen to make the backgrounds. Then I added my pre-cut paper according to the workshop. I finished them off with the cute heart and HVD sentiment from Playing Cupid. Then I added silver sequins and some glitter glue drops.

For the second card, I used a couple of different stamps from Playing Cupid, then colored them in with alcohol markers. I added the miles apart sentiment and then I also added some shimmer to my pop-up heart.

For the third card, I wanted to try something different - something beyond digging through all my sequins to find just the hearts. I've always held back on making cards or layouts like these - ones with lots of embellishments on them - because I feel like it's "wasting" my embellishments. But, recently I've started taking a closer look around my craft room and decided I could never use all these supplies... so, I gave it a whirl.

I started by foiling the medium sketch heart and the tiny sketch heart stamps from Victorine Originals. I used foam dots on the medium heart for my card. Then, I went back to work with the cute little heart stamp from the Raisin Boat Playing Cupid stamp set. To the top of those, I added sequins in coordinating colors that matched my foiled hearts. Then I used the miles apart sentiment.

For the next card, I foiled the Victorine Originals sketch heart stamp and popped it up in the middle of my card. I added some coordinating sequins and then used the love makes the world go 'round sentiment from the Raisin Boat Playing Cupid stamp.

I switched color schemes for my last two cards, and went more with the colors from the current mood board. For the background of this card, I again used the re-inker, rubbing alcohol and pearl paint for my card base. Then, I took the hearts I cut out of the black and white paper and laid them on the card and sprayed over them with ink spray. After it dried, I added some black and white fibers to the left side, and some of the sprayed hearts to the right side with foam adhesive.

I went back to the Raisin Boat Playing Cupid stamp for the HVD sentiment and popped it over the fibers. I really like how this card turned out!

I love to sew, but I just don't do it much on cards and pages because it takes so much time - I really love how it looks, though! One of these days, I'll set up my sewing machine for paper. For this last card, I adhered paper hearts in coordinating paper to the left edge and then hand-sewed with embroidery thread on top of them.

For the sentiment, I used the word love from the Raisin Boat Playing Cupid set and colored it in with the silver and pink Kirarina Wink glitter markers. I matted it on red paper and added it to the card.

Have you been working on your Valentine's cards already? If so, join in on the challenge for our current mood board. Don't forget, you can follow the theme, color or pictures for your inspiration. See the blog post for all the information!

Thanks for checking out my projects! Happy crafting!
   ~Jamie