Simple Stories Acorn Lane

I may have discovered my most favorite Simple Stories collection of all time...Acorn Lane.  I love pretty much everything about this collection.  The colors, the elements, the cute birds and foxes, those fun acorns.  You name it, I love it.

I started to play around with all the different goodies I have purchase lately and came up with this quick card.  Did I mention quick?

I die cut one of the 6x8 papers from the paper pad with the Dainty Scallop Edge mini slimline dies from Trinity Stamps.  I added another layer using the brown floral paper from the same Acorn Lane 6x8 paper pad.  I did go around the edges of the brown paper with a navy ink before gluing the bird panel on top.  These panels were both glued to a 3 1/2" x 6 1/2" card base.  

For a little bit extra, I went over the veins of the leaves and the tops of the acorns with Mercury Glass Stickles.  I put some foam tape behind the sentiment piece which came from the Bits & Pieces ephemera pack.  Stuck it on the card panel and this card was finished!  I think it looks super cute too.

Stay tuned because I hope to share more cards using the Acorn Lane collection.

Toodles!

~Kristina

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Pink Birthday - Pawsome Stamps

 Happy weekend everyone!  Poppin' on in to share a birthday card I made featuring products from Pawsome Stamps.  They have been sitting in my stash waiting for me to finally use them.  The time has come at long last!  I am using Bday Cupcakes stamps and Rays of Sunshine background stencil.

Step one was to stamp and cut out some masks.  Next I stamp the base, cupcake, HB2U sign and candle onto my white panel.  Then I added the masks on top.

Next I picked out three different pink Distress Inks.  I chose Picked Raspberry, Kitsch Flamingo and Spun Sugar.  I taped my card panel to the Rays of Sunshine stencil and got to ink blending.

I also mixed some of the inks with a shimmer spray and added splatters.  Once the splatters were dry, I removed the masks.

I grabbed several Copics and shaded the "cake" part of the cupcake.  I stamped the cupcake again onto two different papers from the Doodlebug Sweet Things collection.  I took my scissors and fussy cut the pink frosting out and the cupcake wrapper.  I did add a bit of shading to the wrapper with gray Copics.  I glued these onto the cupcake on the panel.  I used gray Copics to color the base, mints to color the candle, yellow for the flame and pinks for the sign.  

For a little extra detail I added Unicorn Stickles to the flame, Stardust Stickles to the pink frosting and Stardust Glitter Pen to the stand.

And the final card.

That's it for me today!  May your day be excellent!

~Kristina

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Coffee Lovers hop card two

 I'm back with my second card that I'm linking up for the Coffee Lovers Blog hop!  For this card, I followed the November 2022 Sheetload of Cards template from Call Me Crafty Al.

You can find all of the details HERE on how to play along.

I used Cool Days stamp from My Favorite Things, Zig Clean Color real brush markers to color the image, Feelin' Frosty paper from Simple Stories and a touch of Unicorn Stickles.

See ya soon!

~Kristina

Celebrate

 Hi my friends!  Popping in to share my latest card project.  It features a brand new digital stamp from Polka Dot Orchard called Red, White and Pooh!

This is such a sweet image and totally gave me vintage vibes.  So it was perfectly fitting to use the Vintage Pastels watercolor set from Prima!

I did also use the Odyssey watercolor set as well for the flag colors.  Oh, and to deepen the pink on Piglet's outfit.

I added a little blue and green splatters.  Once everything was dry I added Icicle Stickles to the sparkler.  I cut it out with a scalloped die and glued it to a dark cream card base.  I kept things nice and simple!

This fun new digital stamp is available HERE at the Polka Dot Orchard website.  It's even half price right now!

Have an awesome day!

~Kristina

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Translating inspiration with Scrappy Tails Crafts

Hiya!  I don't know about you but sometimes I get struck by inspiration when I'm not looking.  I have watched the movie Encanto at least three times lately.  It just makes me happy.  Then one night I couldn't sleep and my brain had an ah ha moment!  So, I set about translating the inspiration simmering in my brain into reality.

Are you excited yet??  Let's chat!

I was able to use elements from several different Scrappy Tails Crafts dies to bring this creation to life.  The most important set to start with is the Slimline Flower Stand Pop Up set.  I knew I wanted to have windows on two of the layers and a door on the bottom.  That meant I would need to make custom sized support posts for the middle and front layer.  

Once I knew the height I could cut the panels as well.  And then I had a pile of pieces!

I added stencil detail to the three main panels.  I cut two pieces of cardstock to use as stencils.  One was cut with the Slimline Brick Background die and one from the Slimline Cobblestone die.  I used the cobblestone stencil on the back panel and the front panel.  For the middle pink panel I used the brick stencil.

Now, to create my windows in the blue and pink panels I used the window dies from the Slimline Fairy House dies.  I glued pieces of paper from an older Doodlebug paper pad called Simply Spring.  Then I glued the window pieces back into the openings.

Let's start building!  I used liquid glue to adhere my first set of posts to the yellow back/roof panel. 

Then I glued the blue panel on top.  I also added a roof and topper using more dies from the Fairy House add on set.

I repeated the same steps for the pink panel.  Cut out windows.  Add paper.  Glue on posts.  Glue on panel.

For the very front panel I had a few more things to do.  Instead of windows I cut out an orange door.  I still added pattern paper behind it but didn't add it to the panel quite yet.  I cut a white fence using the fence die from the Garden Stand Flowers dies set.  I glued it to the green panel.  Now I added the door.  Next I tucked in a gray kitty and a butterfly from the Garden Stand Animals die set.  Then I added the green vines I cut from the Garden Gate dies set.  I cut several colors of flowers from the same die set and glued them on to the vine.

And then the final steps!  I added a vine to the middle panel and some flowers.  I used Crystal Stickles in the flower centers, along the roof sections and on the little butterfly.

And here is a view from different sides.

And a few close ups.

And there you have it!  One Encanto inspired slimline pop up card!

Thanks so much for visiting.  Hope to see you again soon!

~Kristina

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