Mini Slimline Card | Love You To Pieces

Hello everyone! This is the month of LOVE… Love is sweet like cookies. Let’s spread more love like sprinkles! Today, I want to share this mini slimline Valentine’s Day card with you all.

I made this Mini Slimline Valentine’s Day Card using:

I printed the cookies on Neenah Solar White cardstock and I used Arteza EverBlend Art Markers to color both cookies. After coloring I fussy cut them with scissors.

Visit Graciellie Design Digital Store to grab this new cute Love & Cookies Digital Stamp Set and check out the Valentine’s Day Collection.

Thanks so much for stopping by my blog today. I hope you all have a wonderful day!

Fall – Winter 2021 Coffee Lovers Blog Hop | Christmas Cup of Cheer

Hello hello hello… Welcome to our Fall/Winter Coffee Lovers Blog Hop!!! This is one of the merriest blog hop season for all coffee/tea/cocoa loving crafters where you can find LOTS of inspiration and inspire others with your projects, too.

All the fun starts at the Coffee Loving Cardmakers blog, from November 12th through November 19th, 2021. You can participate at this blog hop during this week hop by creating Fall/Winter Coffee/Tea/Cocoa theme, and anything goes projects. Your projects need to be new, not previously posted, please, no back linking. You can link up your project this week here.

We are so thankful to have AMAZING Super Sponsors who continually supporting our coffee loving crafting community. They have provided prizes for this blog hop. You can visit each of their blogs here to personally thank them for their generosity.

Kicking off this blog hop, I made this Christmas Cup of Cheer. I know Christmas is just around the corner. I made this card today using supplies from these Super Sponsors:

I printed the background on a white cardstock with Epson Laser Jet Printer and then I trimmed in into 4.25 inch x 5.5 inch.

I pre-heated the laminating machine. I trimmed the foil sheet slightly bigger than the printed background. I put them inside the carrier sheet and run it through the laminating machine.

For the coffee mug, I printed it on the watercolor paper with Laser Jet Printer. I heat-embossed the snowflake in the middle of the mug with embossing powder twice for extra thickness. And then, I colored it with watercolor pencils and water brush.

After coloring, I dried the whole image with craft heater and then fussy cut it with scissors. I added the image on top of the card with fun foam and adhesive runner.

Now it is your turn! We cannot wait to see your projects… Thanks so much for stopping by my blog today. Have a wonderful, caffeinate day!

National Coffee Week | Coffee Makes Everything Better

National Coffee Day is on September 29 and we are at Coffee Loving Cardmakers celebrating it for the whole week!!! You will find lots of caffeinated inspiration and lots of prizes to win!!!

Today, we are featuring the Super Sponsors: STAMPlorations and Trinity Stamps. They are donating these prizes:

STAMPlorations – $20 Prize Code
Trinity Stamps – $25 Gift Code

Two lucky random winners will be picked from all the comments at Coffee Loving Cardmakers Blog Post. The commenting will close on Tuesday, October 5th at 11:59 pm pacific. The winners will be posted here on the Coffee Loving Cardmakers blog on Friday, October 8th.

I made this coffee slimline card using. For the background, I used the Just Plaid ARTplorations Stencil. I added the Some of the Unicorn White Pigment Ink using the Trinity Stamp Blending Buddy Brush just around the edges of the cardstock to create that frame stenciled background. I added some splatters of white acrylic paint and then I dried the whole background with craft heater. I cut it with D2BA Wavy Slimline Framelit Dies.

The beautiful floral coffee mug is from the A Cup of Blooms stamp set that I stamped on one of the A Cup Of Blooms Laser Cut Shapes with Mini MISTI and Nocturne Versafine Clair ink pad. And then it was colored with Altenew Artis Alcohol Markers. I added it on the card with 3D foam tape.

The sentiment is from one of the Coffee Backgrounds ATC Ephemera that I trimmed the word strips with paper trimmer. I added the word strip on the card with 3D foam tape.

Don’t forget to visit each sponsor blog post for more inspiration from their design teams. Thanks so much for stopping by my blog today.

Have a fabulous caffeinated day!


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Stencil Challenge | Sending Hugs Mixed Media Card

Hello everyone!!! June is here!!! We officially is in the middle of the year 2021, yes… we are half way through this year. Keep the faith and have hope to live every day that the situation will gets better. Sending paper hugs to you all…

Today, I would like to share this simple Sending Hugs mixed media card with you all…

I made this card using Make Marks 1 ARTplorations Stencil, Make Marks 6 ARTplorstions Stencil, Petals 3 ARTplorstions Stencil, Just Everyday Greetings Clear Stickers, Bit of Washi #2 Clear Stickers, Crazy Double Running Stitch Rectangle Nesting Dies.

I went with monochromatic colors for masculin card since we are celebrating Father’s Day in June. I did monoprinting technique with white and light blue acrylic paints for the first layer of the background paper, and then the top layer is double-stencil with 2 kind of stencils and Distress Oxides ink pads.

I embellished the card with some of the clear sticker washi tape pattern and the sentiment is also a clear sticker. These clear stickers are fun to use on any projects.

I hope this card sparks you an idea to join our STAMPlorations June Stencil Challenge. You can use any stencils to create any kind of projects to play along. Please make sure to read the rules to be eligible to win the prize.

And when you used any STAMPlorations products on your project, you can link it up at the Never-ending Anything Goes Challenge. You can check other fun challenges at STAMPlorations Blog for this month. There are many fabulous inspirations from the design teams, too.

Thanks for stopping by my blog today. Have a fabulous day!!!

Graciellie Design’s 7th Anniversary | Hello Mixed Media Slimline Card

HAPPY 7th ANNIVERSARY TO GRACIELLIE DESIGN and HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO GRACIE!!! Today we are celebrating these two special events with an Instagram Hop!

Join the hop for lots of inspiration from the design team, lots of chances to win the amazing prizes from the generous sponsors. Head over to Gracie’s Instagram and my Instagram @helengdesigns to start the hop!

And here’s my card for this celebration day that I created using the beautiful Magnolia Branch Mega Bundle digital stamp and Botanical Dream digital paper pack.

I love working with digital stamp. When I want to make a batch of cards, I can use the Print-and-Cut feature from Silhouette Studio and cutting it with my Silhouette Cameo machine. But today, I simply just printed the magnolia branch image on a white cardstock using inkjet printer and then I colored it with pencil colors and colorless blender pencil.

After I fussy cut it with scissors, I put it in my spraying box and sprayed it with metallic silver spray for extra shine on the magnolia branch. I dried it with craft heater.

For the background card, I printed one of the pattern from the Botanical Dream digital paper pack on white cardstock in 8.5 x 11 size. Yeah… I printed the full page. It might sound taking so much ink, but I can cut the whole page to make 2-3 cards. I cut it in the size of slimline card and added it on the card with permanent adhesive runner.

I cut the black frame using 2 dies from the D2BA Rectangles Slimline Framelit Dies and I added it on the card with permanent adhesive runner.

Next, I printed the sentiment from the same Magnolia Branch Mega Bundle digital stamp on a white cardstock and then I cut it with one of the D2BA Rectangle Fancy Framelit Dies.

I put both magnolia branch image and sentiment label on the card with 3D foam tape for extra dimensional. And then, I added some white acrylic paint splatters on the card.

I hope this card sparks a little fresh idea for you to create today… Thanks for stopping by!