Pretty Framed Flowers Notecard Set

Brandy has been stamping away using her MFT Bold Blooms stamp and die set.  When you have a set of these lovely flowers in a bright and beautiful selection of colors you can't help but put them together into a beautiful card set.  I'm sharing with you only two in a set of lovely cards.  The background is dry embossed with a Spellbinders striped embossing folder and the die cut from is also a Spellbinders die.  I think these cards are delightful and ever so pretty, don't you?

I'm going to link this card up with the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge Anything Goes.

Andie for 

More Christmas Cards with the Leftovers

I mentioned this weekend that I love, love, loved my new The Greetery With Love at Christmas stamp and die set.  When I made the previous cards and had all the mess out, I made a few extra images, playing a bit with some more colors.  These cards were put together using watercolor Bee Paper as the card base so that I could use the Distress Oxides to watercolor a bit of a background for the cards.  The sentiment comes from a Papertrey Ink stamp set and is gold heat embossed onto the sentiment frame die cut using a Waffle Flower ATC die.

I super love how these turned out as well.  I'm so very glad I picked this stamp set up.  I'm going to link this card up with the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge Anything Goes.

Guest Post - Cousin Jessica's Crafty Night Out

Brandy has some crafty family members and so I joined their party on October 5th to celebrate World Cardmaking Day 2019.  Brandy's sister and cousin Jessica each had a card making goal for the evening.  Jessica allowed a photo and this post to share her creation for a neice's birthday.  Her niece is young and loves flamingos.  Brandy brought out the Cricut to die cut this silhouette image on pink cardstock which was then mounted onto a Distress Oxide blending background which had been dry embossed to create/add to the texture on the card.  Some IO die cut grass pieces and this card is beautifully done.

It is so much fun to share our crafty "bug" and this night was filled with chatter, inky fingers and a few Crumbl cookies (who can craft without a little sweetness?!?!).

Andie for Jessica

Warm Wishes At Christmas - More Christmas Cards

Have you checked out The Greetery stamp sets yet?  I always did love me some Papertrey Ink and The Greetery has the same/similar vibe and style.  If I were independently wealthy (I am not!) I would be the proud owner of everything that they produce.  Instead I had to pick among my favorites and today's cards were a primary motivator.  I followed Betsy Veldman's video and example from this post using The Greetery's With Love at Christmas stamp and die set and my Distress Oxide inks. 

I'm ever so in love and just find these cards delightful!

On the inside, a little tone on tone leaf action, similar to Betsy Veldman's look.  I amped the contrast on these photos a bit, the real-life look is a lot more subtle.

I just can't even decide which is my favorite.  Since green is my favorite color, I'd probably land on one of the green ones, but the contrast in this red version is also quite delightful.

In the end, a very satisfying purchase, make and finish.  Check out The Greetery!

Celebrating 10 Years of Blogging with a Card!

Today is the 10th anniversary of launching the Contagiously Crafty blog! We're celebrating with this pop-up card made using the  Pink and Mail Box Card die.  If you want to check out that very first post from 10 years ago today, click here.

Ten years has gone by so fast. Andie has don a great job keeping the blog alive, if it wasn't for her efforts there would likely not be a blog to celebrate. Thanks for all the work.

In 10 years we have done a lot of crafty projects from scrapbooks and cards to calendars and Andie's beautiful crocheted items. The best part has been that our friendship was the foundation for the blog and has continued to grow with the blog.

Here is to the next 10 years!

Spellbinders September 2019 Card Kit

Brandy received her Spellbinders Card Kit of the Month for October 2019 quickly and decided that she needed to open that box and put the kit to good use.  Here's her set of 12 cards from the kit!  Notice that is two more than the card bases that they give you in the kit!

This last card is my favorite!  I really enjoy all of the cards - the dies and embellishments this month, in particular, were fantastic.  All in all, a good use of the kit, don't you think?

Andie for 

'Tis the Season for Making Christmas Tags

As I mentioned earlier in the week,  I had purchased the Papertrey Ink Mix-ups Pocket Tags dies this year and I love them so much I wanted to use them. I had also purchased quite a few of the Simon Says Stamp snowflake dies and wanted to use them as well.  There has been quite a lot of the pink and grey Christmas color combination and so these cards were inspired by a plethora of crafty goodness


























The sentiments are from the Simon Says Stamp Comfort and Joy stamp set.  The cards were dusted with Pumice Stone Distress Oxide after I used the Hickory Smoke (below) and found it too dark for the look I was going for.

The sentiment on the inside is a Lawn Fawn sentiment stamp set for tag making.  I really like how these turned and and will definitely look forward to using them this Christmas.

A NoteCard Set - Making a Card Design New

You might remember these beautiful cards that Brandy made last month using a Spellbinders card kit and a couple of Gina K.'s sentiment stamp sets.  They were so beautiful, she put together these additional cards using die cuts from watercolor paper and watercoloring the images.  

Brandy's description to me is that "These did not turn out like I had planned. I liked how the watercolor worked out on the flowers, but I don't like the design as much as the one for Stamptember." 

I think they are invoke the same sweet sentiment and, while different, they are beautiful.  Great cards.

Andie for