Dahlia

Today's card features the oversized Dahlia stamp from Creative Worship Stamps. I stamped it on mixed media paper, colored it with Arteza Real Brush Pens, and added some white acrylic paint splatters. The sentiment features the NEW Typewriter Keys stamp set that is also their stamp of the month in April and FREE with any purchase of $75 or more. 

 If you'd like to enter the drawing for a $25 gift card to CWS - visit my 

 Instagram page and click on this card for more info.

 Supplies and Tools:

• From Creative Worship Stamps
• Dahlia Background Stamp
• Typewriter Keys Caps Alpha Stamp Set
• Peaceful Botanicals Stamp Set
• Peaceful Botanicals Die Set  
• Damask Pattern Stencil
• Mixed Media Paper Pad    
• Versafine Clair Nocturne Ink  
• White Acrylic Paint (for splatters)   
• Arteza Real Brush Pens
• Piped Floral Lace 3D Embossing Folder (Altenew) 
• Silver String 
• Dusty Concord Distress Ink (Ranger) 
• Crochet Lace 

 This post linked to:

• Simon Says Monday Challenge - Emboss It
• Can You Handle the Pressure Challenge - ATG with embossing folder + optional kids

Birthday Wishes

  I'm up on the Stamp Simply blog with this masculine fun-fold birthday card featuring one of the Ink Drops paper pads in stock and quite a few of their stamp sets. All the images were stamped in Uncharted Mariner Distress Ink with splatters added in the same color. Instead of using the coordinating dies for these sets, I tore around the edges and inked them in the same distress ink color. 

  Supplies from Stamp Simply:        

• He is the Light Stamps Set
• He Stilled the Storm Stamp Set
• Mackinac Bridge Stamp Set  
• Great Lakes Freighter - The Edmund Fitzgerald 
• Grace Stamp Set
• Fishtail Banner Dies
• Ink Drops Ocean Paper Pad (Craft Consortium) 
• Circle Dies (Spellbinders) 

  Other Supplies:

• Drywall Tape
• Dashing Rectangles Dies (Elizabeth Craft Designs)  
• Uncharted Mariner Distress Ink (Ranger) 
• Versafine Clair Nocturne Ink   

This post linked to:

• Krafty Chicks Challenge - Masculine 

Gatefold Card

Today I have a gatefold card to share with you that features the Stamp-of-the-Month from Creative Worship Stamps, Finch Collage. This stamp can be yours free when you place an order for $75 or more in March. 

Instead of folding my card stock in half to create the typical A2 card, I folded both sides to the center to create a gatefold opening. Next, I spritzed mixed media paper with Shiny Bauble and Flickering candle Distress Mica Spray. For the front panels I laid down my Damask Pattern stencil and removed some of the ink with a baby wipe. For the inside panels, I added white gesso through the stencil. The Finch Collage was stamped on mixed media paper and colored with Arteza Real Brush Pens. The front panels were also splattered with diluted black acrylic paint. To complete the card I stamped a sentiment from The Lord Is Near and the Sitting Pretty birds on white card stock and glued it to the inside of my card. 

 Supplies and Tools:

• From Creative Worship Stamps
• Finch Collage Stamp 
• Sitting Pretty
• Worshipful Wordfetti
• The Lord is Near   
• Damask Pattern Stencil
• Dina Wakley White Gesso 
• Plastic Palette Knife   
• Shiny Bauble Distress Mica Stain Spray (Ranger) 
• Flickering Candle Distress Mica Stain Spray (Ranger)  
• Mixed Media Paper Pad    
• Versafine Clair Nocturne Ink  
• Arteza Real Brush Pens
• Black Acrylic Paint (splatters 

 This post linked to:

• Just Us Girls Challenge - Stencil Week
• Krafty Chicks Challenge - Masculine

Best Wishes

 I'm up on the Stamp Simply blog with this mini 3 x 6 inch card that I created by folding a piece of 6 x 6 designer paper in half. All the papers (with the exception of the kraft card stock) were from the Vintage Emporium Paper Pad. I created a side pocket on the front of the card to tuck another tag into. 

The inside of the card is decorated with papers from the same paper pad and I created a pocket on one side to hold another tag.

  Supplies from Stamp Simply:        

• He is the Light Stamps Set
• He is the Light Die Set 
• He Stilled the Storm Stamp Set
• Scripty Background Minis Set 1 
• Mackinac Bridge Stamp Set  
• Great Lakes Freighter - The Edmund Fitzgerald 
• Birthday Sentiments 
• Vintage Emporium Paper Pad (Craft Consortium)  
• Cheesecloth    
• Burlap Ribbon 

 Other Supplies:

• Arteza Real Brush Pens
• Mixed Media Paper Pad   
• Versafine Clair Nocturne Ink  
• Vintage Photo Distress Ink (Ranger)
• Nested Rectangles Dies (Scrapbook.com)
• Labels One Nestabilities (Spellbinders) 
• Labels Four Nestabilities (Spellbinders)  
• Slot Punch 
• File Tab Punch   

 This post linked to:

• Love those pretty patterned papers challenge - ATG with patterned paper + optional circles