A Notecard Set Featuring The Greetery Bontaticuts Forget-me-nots Dies

This simple, but effective card set was totally inspired by The Greetery design team and is one of the key reasons I purchased the Botanticuts Forget-me-nots dies.  I die cut using the dies and then watercolored the die cuts and accented with my Polychromos pencils.  I paired the frame die cut using The Greetery Postage Stamp die with some patterned paper from the stash.  Oh my, these products delivered.

ETA:  The sentiment comes from Clearly Besotted Sweet Little Sentiments.

It is so hard to decide on a favorite, but I'd have to say the blue one is leading the pack.  Charming and lovely and fun to make.  

Better Together - A Mix and Match Challenge Using Capsule Crafting by Andie

During this time of quarantine, Brandy and I miss crafting together.  It isn't that we did so often - we didn't see each other every week sometimes.  It's more that we can't see each other.  So I had an idea to create a challenge each week - one just for Brandy and she could create one just for me.  Brandy has to amp the idea up and came up with our official title:  Better Together - A Mix and Match Challenge.  As the quarantine process has extended and even though there are re-openings everywhere, out of an abundance of caution and love for our fellow citizens, we continue to isolate to help slow the spread of the virus.  As such, we decided to modify the challenge for the month of June.  Instead of a weekly challenge, we determined to use a capsule crafting approach.  Capsule crafting was created by Kristina Werner and you can see her take in these posts.  I explained how I chose my capsule supplies in this post.

This will be my last post using the capsule to craft some cards, our challenge for June.  I'm really pleased how these cards turned out.  I ink blended a background using Distress Oxide inks and then stamped with Oxide ink using my Simon Says Stamp You Are background stamp.  Using my Waffle Flower Sprigs dies and Clearly Besotted Sweet Little Sentiments for a sentiment strip, the card almost made itself.

I've so enjoyed our capsule crafting and look forward to July and the challenges ahead!

Better Together - A Mix and Match Challenge Using Capsule Crafting by Andie

During this time of quarantine, Brandy and I miss crafting together.  It isn't that we did so often - we didn't see each other every week sometimes.  It's more that we can't see each other.  So I had an idea to create a challenge each week - one just for Brandy and she could create one just for me.  Brandy has to amp the idea up and came up with our official title:  Better Together - A Mix and Match Challenge.  As the quarantine process has extended and even though there are re-openings everywhere, out of an abundance of caution and love for our fellow citizens, we continue to isolate to help slow the spread of the virus.  As such, we decided to modify the challenge for the month of June.  Instead of a weekly challenge, we determined to use a capsule crafting approach.  Capsule crafting was created by Kristina Werner and you can see her take in these posts.  I explained how I chose my capsule supplies in this post.  

I decided to use my capsule for crafting, but didn't follow the mood board exactly.  These cards were more of an inspired by the mood board, which made me think of pattern and softness together.  I selected these patterned front card bases to pair with my Clearly Besotted Stamptember My Best Friend stamp set.  This set has such a soft look after layering the colors to create the flowers.  You will see by the plethora of cards that once I got stamping, I was carried away and ultimately made an entire set of 14 cards with this stamp set.  

Whew!  That was long, but I can tell you I enjoyed every single minute.  So fun!

Better Together - A Mix and Match Challenge Using Capsule Crafting Week 1 Andie

During this time of quarantine, Brandy and I miss crafting together.  It isn't that we did so often - we didn't see each other every week sometimes.  It's more that we can't see each other.  So I had an idea to create a challenge each week - one just for Brandy and she could create one just for me.  Brandy has to amp the idea up and came up with our official title:  Better Together - A Mix and Match Challenge.  As the quarantine process has extended and even though there are re-openings everywhere, out of an abundance of caution and love for our fellow citizens, we continue to isolate to help slow the spread of the virus.  As such, we decided to modify the challenge for the month of June.  Instead of a weekly challenge, we determined to use a capsule crafting approach.  Capsule crafting was created by Kristina Werner and you can see her take in these posts.  I explained how I chose my capsule supplies in this post.  

For this card, I ended up using my Waffle Flower Springs dies to make an arrangement on the front of my card.  I ink blended Distress Oxide inks onto white cardstock, die cut the sprigs and placed them on an ink blended matting which I had sprinkled with Distress Oxide ink.  The sentiments came from my Clearly Besotted Sweet Little Sentiments  which I fussy cut out to create a unique sentiment strip.  The sentiments were also stamped in Distress Oxide inks.

As you can see, I played around a bit with the layout and colors arranged on the card front.  I also did a bunch of different sentiments so that I don't just add a bunch to the stash with the same sentiment.  So much fun!

Stitching A Hello

Sharing a card made using up some of the Concord and 9th Stitched Turnabout stamp set.  The focal point is a purple ink stamped image that I clear heat embossed and fussy cut out, raising up with a foam sheet.  The sentiment is a Clearly Besotted Sweet Little Sentiment that I also fussy cut out.  I think they coordinate to create a sweet notecard.

New Baby Stitched Turnabout Card

I put together this simple little new baby card using some of the backgrounds I created using my Concord and 9th Stitched Turnabout stamp set.  I stamped the heart in pink and clear heat embossed the image, fussy cutting the image out to mount over the fun grosgrain ribbon.  A chartreuse sentiment from the Clearly Besotted Sweet Little Sentiments stamp set fussy cut out creates a delicate addition.  A few sequins to fancy this card up and I'm done.

I'm entering this card in the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge Stitches

Stitched Turnabout Cards

I decided to put a few of the Concord and 9th Stitched Turnabout stamped images to good use.  These notecards were made using the stamp set and fussy cutting out the heart.  As I mentioned with the Mother's Day cards, I super love how the card design was easy and the sequins added just the right touch.

Card making fun at it's finest.  I'm going to enter this in Simon Says Stamp's Wednesday challenge Simon Says No Designer Paper.