Holly Jolly Christmas

 

Welcome to this week's LIMES inspiration post!

I chose this card as my inspiration from the gallery of this week's Splitcoaststampers' Featured Stamper!

LIST: Colours (red, white, pink, silver), Techniques (embossing, die cutting), Elements (grid of hearts, oval sentiment panel, heat embossed stamped sentiment)

INCLUDE: red, white, grid of small shapes, , die cutting, 

MODIFY: colours, stenciled instead of die cut, small cirlce   and die cut for sentient

EXCLUDE: hearts, oval, heat embossing, scallops

You all know I love a grid layout, and I've had this idea ever since I got this half-circle stencil. I wanted to blend it then turn the stencil to create these 3/4 pie shapes. But the circles didn't match up when I turned the stencil. I was not going to be defeated by that! lol! I masked off one of the half-circle shapes and blended darker green ink through individaully.

Then I used a similar technique to mask around a circle on another stencil and I added some red berries

I have a couple of sentiment stamp sets that have these little 'type-written' greetings that fit perfectly in small circle die cuts. I added a red frame and added it to a die-cut Christmas word

Refresh your crafty stash FOR FREE!

Today, I'm sharing 18 quick and easy ideas for refreshing your crafty stash without spending a cent!

LIMES with Brennan

Today, I'm excited to be introducing you to one of my newest crafty friends, Brennan. He's a talented newcomer on the card making scene and also to YouTube, so I'm excited to introduce you all to him, and show you how 3 of his cards helped me squeeze even more out of LIMES! (you can get a FREE LIMES worksheet here!)

Mad For Plaid!

 
Today I'm trying out 10 different ways to get the look in your cardmaking from some DIY options to the latest tools. and here's a spoiler alert - some are more successful than others.....

Stencil Mat Comparison

I recently realized that I own pretty much every product designed to hold your stencil while you're ink blending - but which one's best? Watch my video to find out, and get a FREE downloadable comparison chart so you know too!

Holiday Magic

Christmas is magic, isn't it? And so is this cheap little product that can completely transform your favourite crafty supplies (and other household items, too!)!

I'm part of a Holiday Magic Video hop today - once you've watched my video, you can hop along for even more magical inspiration!

Trying New Techniques at the Card Maker Success Summit

 

Today I'm sharing two cards I made with my favourite technique that I learned from one of the speakers at last year's Card Maker Success Summit. I love clean and simple techniques, but I also love to get messy every once in a while and these two cards involved layers of Distress Oxide Sprays, lots of water and then some heat embossing over the top. (isn't it interesting how the colour of the embossing changes the overall look of the cards - the gold one seems much 'greener' than the white one, but they're both from the same panel!)

The next Card Maker Success Summit starts exactly 1 week from today, and it's full of even more fun techniques to learn and try - I can't wait to learn from the 24 other amazing speakers that will be sharing their knowledge of techniques!

It's free and there are already so many people signed up - it's going to be a blast! I hope we'll see you there!

Click here for more information!