Mini Postage Collage Thanks

When Waffle Flower recently came out with the mini postage collage frame I couldn't resist because who doesn't love miniatures of things: puppies, kittens, postage collage dies?!! This one is under 2" and has the matching stencil like its larger counterpart. SO cute! And the mini wax seals...come on!!

Our Just Us Girls Challenge #777, CASE a Design Team Member, is this week and you can CASE the colors, layout, postage, floral, wax seals or something else from my card or any of our cards as you wish. You need to tell us who you CASEd and how you took our card and made it your own.

Postage collage mini card closed.

Postage collage mini card slightly open.

Postage collage mini card wide open.

Using the mini collage die and stencil was just like the regular size...just as fun, but faster. I looked all through my stamps to find tiny images to stamp on the collage. It ended up being a heart, a bee and a bow. I decided to cut gold "stamps" instead of trying to gold emboss those tiny rectangles, and that led to gold for the one wax seal, leaves and stems. The seals are sooooo cute. I knew I had small sentiments and grabbed one that was good for the occasion I needed. I popped up the two envelopes and the mini card on foam tape.

Products I used:

Waffle Flower - Postage collage Mini Seals die set

Stampin' Up! - Dots embossing folder

Spellbinders - Aura sequins

Random mini stamps

Concord and 9th: Mini ink pads

Gold cardstock

We hope to see you play along this week. It will be fun to see what you create from our cards!

Carol

Good Times and Tan Lines

It is definitely summer now where I live. Hot temps and getting humid. (Insert sad face) Well, pool party anyone? For our Just Us Girls #776 Stencil week I chose to make a bird's eye view of a pool with bright umbrellas around it! I used two different stencils for my card.

First, I grabbed some dove grey cardstock and ran it through my Big Shot with my Ellen Hutson A2 Piercing Plate 2 for texture on the pool deck.

I die cut the pool edge three times using my Waffle Flower Nesting Rectangle Frames die set. I adhered the three rectangles together to raise the pool edge.

When the nesting rectangle die cuts the frame, you also get a center rectangle. I took one and stenciled pool water with My Favorite Things Perfect Pool Water stencil using a Ranger Tumbled Glass distress Oxide ink pad.

I made a white A2 card base and adhered the pool deck and pool to it.

Next, I die cut and stenciled pool umbrellas using my Waffle Flower Beach Umbrella Die-n-stencil set, using a Ranger Candied Apple distress ink pad. I added Tim Holtz idea-ology red pearls to the umbrellas. Then I popped up the umbrellas around the pool on foam tape and added some Concord and 9th Dew Drops (to look like splashes of water from the pool).

Last, I stamped my Colorado Craft Company Beach Life sentiment with Chipped Sapphire distress ink and adhered it to the pool.

We hope you will grab some stencils and join us this week! Thanks for visiting!

Carol

Time For New Adventures

Time Out Challenges #289 is an Inspired By theme: your favorite winged things. I like flamingos, and I have a lot of flamingo stamps and dies, but I wanted to do something a little different. I decided that ever since our daughter moved out of state, airplanes have become my favorite winged things because we can visit her, and vice versa, in just a little over two hours. So, I got out quite a few products and got to work.

Our generous sponsor for this challenge is Lawn Fawn: A $25 store credit! Also, the challenge winner will be invited to be a guest designer in a future Time Out challenge. 

We are joined by Kathy Asper of My Asperations, and winner of Time Out #284 as Guest Designer. Her cards are wonderful both outside and inside. Treat yourself to a stroll through her blog as well as all of the DT's blogs where you can find out how they made their "Inspired By" cards and what products they used.

I did a lot of die cutting after stenciling a hilly scene with pink clouds. I have had a stamp set with an airplane doing a heart pattern in the sky and now I've finally used it, minus the part of the stamp with the airplane! Airplanes make all the other elements possible: hot air ballooning, traveling the globe, seeing sights like the Eiffel Tower as well as carrying our bags. I chose happy summer colors since vacations do make us smile. The little wooden arrow signs say, "It's time for new adventures." I have always loved the stamped sentiment: "It's never too late to change your view." That's what vacations are all about, right?

Products I used:

Honey Bee - Lovely Layers Globe

My Favorite Things - Cloud stencil

Sizzix - Summer Days die set

Paper Smooches - Get Out of Town stamp set

Stampin' Up! - Sent with Love stamp set

Memento Tuxedo Black ink pad

Distress Oxide ink pads

Concord and 9th - Mini ink pad

Holographic silver cardstock

You can always use butterflies, dragonflies, bees, birds, angels, dragons, fairies or whatever else you come up with to be creative. Remember, it is supposed to be your favorite winged thing, so tell us why!

We look forward to seeing your creations in our gallery!

Carol

Sending You Smiles

Hello friends! Thanks for stopping by. I have a card today with some patterned paper that I have actually hoarded for quite a while. I recently bought a second piece of it so I could cut into one of them and not feel like I was running out. (Girl Math) It is so colorful and pretty! For our Just Us Girls Moodboard Week #775 hosted by the lovely Carol Mayne, we have a bright cheerful palette of colors to use as a jumping off point. 

I wanted to make sure that the patterned paper took a front row seat on my card, so I CASEd a recent Kelly Schirmer fun fold card here from Instagram. She used the fun fold instructions here and made it her own with her beautiful patterned papers. My paper reminds me of a quilt, so I thought that a little embroidery would work with a sewing-esque card.

Here are the products I used for my card:

Patterned paper - JoAnn Fabrics

Spellbinders - Stitched alphabet dies

Pretty Pink Posh - Gems, Encouraging Greetings stamp set

Stampin' Up! - Classic ink pad

White and navy cardstock scraps

DMC - embroidery floss

This card was not difficult at all and it sure is a good way to showcase a pretty piece of paper! A note can be written on the back of the card. 

We hope you will join us for this fun moodboard challenge. See you in our gallery and thanks for visiting!

Carol

A "Quilted" Card

Well, we are flying through the year and Mother's Day is almost over. Next up is Memorial Day, Father's Day, then the 4th of July. Is it too early to start patriotic cards?

The Color Throwdown #832 is asking cardmakers to use dark blue, light blue and red for their current challenge. So I jumped at the chance to make a summer holiday card.

When I bought this Concord and 9th Poinsettia Quilt Top die set I had no idea how many ways there would be to use it to get different looks. I have made Christmas cards, fall and and now summer versions. The "quilt" part of this card opens on top of a red 5" x 7" card. 

Well, I guess I'll be breaking out all things summer for m next makes! Thanks for stopping by!

Carol

S'up Dog?

Happy Saturday! I hope you are relaxing and that you will have some crafting time this weekend. I am taking part in a fun blog hop once a month called CASE IT. The idea is to look back a week on Instagram and CASE a card you like, then share your card and the one you CASEd. I am a big Alli Frazier fan and that is where the idea for my card came from. CASE= Copy and Selectively Edit, meaning make it your own. Here is my card, and then  a screenshot of Alli's.

The cards look somewhat similar on the outside, but she called hers an interlocking card and mine has a sliding shaker mechanism. Isn't her card pretty and fun? The inside of my card has another "card" that opens to the sentiment.

Basically, you make a shaker of your choice, then back it with two folded-in-half circles of the same size (they look like tacos), then another whole unfolded circle. The outside card base is a gate fold, and the inside "card" is top folding and slightly smaller than an A2 size. (Outside card: 8 1/2" x 5 1/2" cardstock scored at 2 1/8" from each end on the long side. The inside "card" is 4" x 10 1/2" scored at 5 1/4") 

I found this tutorial a few years ago on Xeniacrafts.com in Spanish (I was a Spanish teacher so I understand, but her video is very visual and I gave you the measurements above.) Use lightweight cardstock for the slider mechanism on the back of your shaker. You don't have to use a circle....most shapes will work. It also doesn't have to be a shaker. One more hint: With your paper cutter, slice off a hair off each of the two "gates" of your gate fold card base so there is space for the mechanism to slide up and down. You will notice that there is space between my gates and that is why.

Products I used on my doggy card:

Simon Says Stamp - Peeking Pup die, Circles dies

Ellen Hutson - Clever Sausage stamp set (sentiment)

Stampin' Up! - Patterned paper (older)

Acetate

Seed beads

Altenew - Obsidian black ink pad

Here is one of the first cards of this style that I ever made, for your reference.

We hope you enjoy this month's CASE IT Instagram Hop! The hop details and links to all the cards are on my 4/10/25 @sawithadtomakeit Instagram post.

Thanks for stopping by!

Carol

Zesty Wishes

I love lemons and especially limes...that yummy flavor and smell. There are many amazing lemon cards out there but I decided on limes for our Just Us Girls Challenge #774 Word Week: Fruit.

Products I used:

Simoln Says Stamp - Citrus Slice Background die

Lawn Fawn - Zesty Lemon dies, Henry's ABCs dies

Concord and 9th - Mini ink pads

I ink blended the edges of a kelly green cardstock panel with a darker green that fades toward the middle. Then I die cut the Citrus Slice panel on white cardstock. After die cutting my letters, lime, leaves and flowers, I ink blended them in the colors of my choice. After arranging them on a strip of vellum, I adhered them and added yellow gems to the center of the little white flowers.

Think about joining us with fruit-inspired cards this week! It will definitely get you in the mood for summer!

Thanks for stopping by!

Carol