Paper Gal

Hello crafty friends! I am sharing a fun DIY Christmas plaid background project with you. If you are new here to my blog then I have to warn you that I am obsessed with creating my own plaid backgrounds. There are a lot of stencil, stamps and dies to help create a beautiful plaid background, but for me, a simple strip of post it tape is my favorite way to customize and achieve this fun look. First, I created an A2 size card base made from smooth white cardstock. I then trimmed down a panel of craft cardstock to create the plaid background. Using strips of post it tape I mask off diagonal strips. Using a blending tool and distress ink, I color in each strip. Pro-tip : to create the glitter on the strips add double sided tape runner over the desired strip then sprinkle clear glitter over the top. Shake off the excess and use a scrap piece of paper over the top and use a brayer or press down to push in the glitter to the adhesive to stay put! I then die cut the mistletoe, bow and berries ...

Hi all and welcome to another week of the  Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge . This week's challenge theme is   Anything Goes! We are featuring products from My Favorite Things . You don't have to use them to join in but if you have some we would to see what you make. As always just for entering you will be eligible for the drawing of a  $25 voucher to the Simon store! I am happy to share a project using the My Favorite Things Polar Bear Pals stamp set . One of my favorites Christmas stamp sets. I began with an A2 card base made from smooth white cardstock. I then trimmed down another panel made from more white cardstock to ink blend with red distress ink. I splattered white paint over the inked panel for a snowy look. I then stamped a couple of images from the stamp set and colored them in using copic markers. I fussy cut them out and adhered to a square of black cardstock. To create the polaroid frame, I die cut out a square that fit the image I colored out of w...

Hi all and welcome to another week of the  Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge . This week's challenge theme is   Sparkle and Shine We are featuring products from  Memory Box . You don't have to use them to join in but if you have some we would to see what you make. As always just for entering you will be eligible for the drawing of a  $25 voucher to the Simon store! I am happy to share a project using the Memory Box Falling Snowflake stencil  to create a colorful and sparkly splash of snowflakes. I am also sharing a technique that might be over looked with stencils. I began by stenciling the snowflakes from the stencil onto white cardstock by masking off the snowflakes I wanted to use. I call this image isolating. I did this by using cheap copy paper and cutting out a mask with scissors to fit the desired snowflake size.  I used distress inks and a blender brush to add a rainbow of color to the stenciled snowflakes in a diagonal pattern. Then on a se...

Hello crafty friends! I am sharing a project I made using the amazing stamp set form the Warmest Wishes Monthly card kit . I just love when we get out first snow and get to pull out all those cozy items like mittens which inspired the theme of this card. Click HERE to see the entire card kit. I began with an A2 size card base cut from smooth white cardstock. I then trimmed down another piece of white cardstock and distressed the edges with ink. I stamped the mitten images from the Warmest Wishes stamp set using Pawsitively Saturated inks and fussy cut them out. I arranged the mittens randomly around the inked panel and used 3d foam squares to pop them up. I trimmed off the part of the mittens hanging over the panel and then added it to the card base. I then trimmed down a strip of red cardstock and adhered it over the mittens to showcase my sentiment. I used an older wishes die from my stash cut from gold cardstock three times for thickness and adhered it to the red strip. I stamped ...

Hi all and welcome to another week of the  Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge . This week's challenge theme is   Thanks/Thanksgiving We are featuring products from the amazing CZ Designs . You don't have to use them to join in but if you have some we would to see what you make. As always just for entering you will be eligible for the drawing of a  $25 voucher to the Simon store! I happy to share a project that I made using the gorgeous CZ Designs Scripty Thanks die for this challenge. I die cut the scripty thanks sentiment and shadow 9 times from smooth white cardstock. I adhered them to  panel of white cardstock in a diagonal pattern. I then trimmed down the panel and added to the card base. I then die cut the flowers from white cardstock and used distress ink to color them in. I used a brown copic marker to color the stems and the centers of the flowers. I used foams squares to adhere them to the card. I then die cut the sentiment and shadow again from...

I'm happy to be sharing a project using the fun Whirl Stars die set from the new Simon Says Stamp Festive Fun release. I created these festive tags using a stitched tag die from my stash cut from white cardstock. I then used some distress ink to blend the edges of each tag for some interest. I then used a dot embossing folder to add texture to them as well. I then die cut the stars from red and green cardstock. Again, I applied distress ink to the edges of the stars for some added interest. I used a white gel pen to add dot detail to the red star. I added the stars to the tags using foam adhesive squares. I used a small circle die to cut out a reinforced tag topper and then used a hole puncher to create an opening on the topper for the ribbon to go through. I die cut the sentiment for each tag out of gold cardstock and also from fun foam for thickness and dimension and glued them to the bottom of each tag. Last, I added a little wooden button to each green star with liquid glue fo...