Oak Leaves and a Forest Squirrel by Kim Singdahlsen

Fall is my favorite season. I love all the brilliant colors of fall but it isn't just those traditional colors. I love how they look against the sky as it gets more wintery.  And I love how the colors look with a hint of frost in the morning.  There's such amazing contrast in the fall.  It may not be officially fall, but as soon as it is September, I feel like I can start using bright leaves and fall themes! 

I cut the Whittle Oak Leaf in a rainbow of fall colors and arranged them in a little window as a backdrop to the charming Whittle Forest Squirrel. For the contrast I was talking about, I used a bluish-gray cardstock with the Memory Box Waves 3D Embossing Folder. I think it works as well for blowing wind as it does for waves.

As with all of the whittles dies, the detail in these is amazing.  Of course, you can add ink and highlights and anything you love to do with dies...but the detail in them also allows them to stand alone.  I just cut these out. I spent a little time arranging, but it was truly a quick and simple card.

The sentiment comes from the Whittle Everyday clear stamp set.  Across the whittle stamp sets there are so many punny sentiments - many would work perfectly with the squirrel. As I was looking at my card, I felt like it was "prettier" than I would want for the punny sentiments.  The stamp sets not only have those punny sentiments, but also basic and classic sentiments, so I settled on "thinking of you". 

I hope you enjoyed my Whittle Forest Squirrel happily sitting in the rainbow of leaves!  It's always fun to work with the any of the Whittles because they have such charming expressions. As they are sitting on my desk waiting to end up on a card, I smile every time I look at them!

 

Supplies

2431 Whittle Forest Squirrel craft die

2124 Whittle Oak Leaf

CL484 Whittle Everyday clear stamp set

30038 Stitched Square Layers

SP1006 Stormy Blue 6x6 pack

SP1009 Earth Neutral 6x6 pack

SP1001 Berry Red 6x6 pack

SP1002 Sunny Orange 6x6 pack

SP1003 Lush Green 6x6 pack

SP1007 Vibrant Violet 6x6 pack

EF1013 Waves 3D Embossing Folder

JWL003 Bright Jewels

Oak Leaves and a Forest Squirrel by Kim Singdahlsen

Fall is my favorite season. I love all the brilliant colors of fall but it isn't just those traditional colors. I love how they look against the sky as it gets more wintery.  And I love how the colors look with a hint of frost in the morning.  There's such amazing contrast in the fall.  It may not be officially fall, but as soon as it is September, I feel like I can start using bright leaves and fall themes! 

I cut the Whittle Oak Leaf in a rainbow of fall colors and arranged them in a little window as a backdrop to the charming Whittle Forest Squirrel. For the contrast I was talking about, I used a bluish-gray cardstock with the Memory Box Waves 3D Embossing Folder. I think it works as well for blowing wind as it does for waves.

As with all of the whittles dies, the detail in these is amazing.  Of course, you can add ink and highlights and anything you love to do with dies...but the detail in them also allows them to stand alone.  I just cut these out. I spent a little time arranging, but it was truly a quick and simple card.

The sentiment comes from the Whittle Everyday clear stamp set.  Across the whittle stamp sets there are so many punny sentiments - many would work perfectly with the squirrel. As I was looking at my card, I felt like it was "prettier" than I would want for the punny sentiments.  The stamp sets not only have those punny sentiments, but also basic and classic sentiments, so I settled on "thinking of you". 

I hope you enjoyed my Whittle Forest Squirrel happily sitting in the rainbow of leaves!  It's always fun to work with the any of the Whittles because they have such charming expressions. As they are sitting on my desk waiting to end up on a card, I smile every time I look at them!

 

Supplies

2431 Whittle Forest Squirrel craft die

2124 Whittle Oak Leaf

CL484 Whittle Everyday clear stamp set

30038 Stitched Square Layers

SP1006 Stormy Blue 6x6 pack

SP1009 Earth Neutral 6x6 pack

SP1001 Berry Red 6x6 pack

SP1002 Sunny Orange 6x6 pack

SP1003 Lush Green 6x6 pack

SP1007 Vibrant Violet 6x6 pack

EF1013 Waves 3D Embossing Folder

JWL003 Bright Jewels

Thinking About You Always by Candice Crawford

 

Happy Memorial Day! Hope you are all enjoying the holiday.  Today, I am back on the blog showcasing a bright and cheery card using the Woven Basket Pop Up Easel set that released in early spring. This basket die is perfect for Easter and any occasion.  Although this die makes a Pop Up Easel card, the basket image can be used on its own to create a great focal image for an A2 size card. 

The Basket die comes with several greenery pieces that I used along with the flower dies from the Fern and Daisy Pop Up Easel Set. I also used the butterfly die from this set and some of the greenery pieces to complete the full floral basket. The centers of the flowers were embellished with some white nuvo drops for added dimension. 

To add a bit of interest to the card I sponged on some Mustard Seed Distress Oxide ink in the background.  The sentiment comes from the Greeting Basics stamp set and I used one of the sentiment frame dries from the Christmas Quotes stamp and die set to cut of the sentiment to adhere it to the basket with foam tape. 

There is  a ton of dimension on this card and I absolutelylove it.  From the layered flowers and greenery to the layered basket pieces and butterfly, this basket image jumps off the card with so much texture. I hope you've enjoyed today's cardshare and found inspiration. 

Until next time...happy crafting. 

 

 

 

 

Supplies

 

CL490 Greeting Basics

2377 Fern and Daisy Pop Up Easel Set craft die

2463 Woven Basket Pop Up Easel Set craft die

Thinking About You Always by Candice Crawford

 

Happy Memorial Day! Hope you are all enjoying the holiday.  Today, I am back on the blog showcasing a bright and cheery card using the Woven Basket Pop Up Easel set that released in early spring. This basket die is perfect for Easter and any occasion.  Although this die makes a Pop Up Easel card, the basket image can be used on its own to create a great focal image for an A2 size card. 

The Basket die comes with several greenery pieces that I used along with the flower dies from the Fern and Daisy Pop Up Easel Set. I also used the butterfly die from this set and some of the greenery pieces to complete the full floral basket. The centers of the flowers were embellished with some white nuvo drops for added dimension. 

To add a bit of interest to the card I sponged on some Mustard Seed Distress Oxide ink in the background.  The sentiment comes from the Greeting Basics stamp set and I used one of the sentiment frame dries from the Christmas Quotes stamp and die set to cut of the sentiment to adhere it to the basket with foam tape. 

There is  a ton of dimension on this card and I absolutelylove it.  From the layered flowers and greenery to the layered basket pieces and butterfly, this basket image jumps off the card with so much texture. I hope you've enjoyed today's cardshare and found inspiration. 

Until next time...happy crafting. 

 

 

 

 

Supplies

 

CL490 Greeting Basics

2377 Fern and Daisy Pop Up Easel Set craft die

2463 Woven Basket Pop Up Easel Set craft die

Thinking About You Always. by Pam Simpson

Hello everyone, card we do not like to make and send! But in this troubled world we are in at the moment, something we need to send or have made ready..Sympathy..

I love the delicate look from Poppystamps Tall Skyline Tree Frame & Soaring Tree Fame.. they also perfectly match to layer! as I have done. 

White card.

3D foam tape "Soaring tree Frame"

Layered up.

Background paper from Memory Box "Springtime Bouquet" 

Card Base..8 inches x 4.1/4 inches..layered using Grey card/white reverse paper from my background.

Topper of trees, layered onto Grey card, "Greeting Basic" sentiment "Thinking About You Always" and these cute! very handy Whittle Birds, few pearls ..

Thank you for stopping by Pam x.

Supplies

 

2291 Tall Skyline Tree Frame

2289 Soaring Tree Frame

2190 Whittle Birds

CL490 Greeting Basics

PP1006 Springtime Bouquet 6x6 pack

Thinking About You Always. by Pam Simpson

Hello everyone, card we do not like to make and send! But in this troubled world we are in at the moment, something we need to send or have made ready..Sympathy..

I love the delicate look from Poppystamps Tall Skyline Tree Frame & Soaring Tree Fame.. they also perfectly match to layer! as I have done. 

White card.

3D foam tape "Soaring tree Frame"

Layered up.

Background paper from Memory Box "Springtime Bouquet" 

Card Base..8 inches x 4.1/4 inches..layered using Grey card/white reverse paper from my background.

Topper of trees, layered onto Grey card, "Greeting Basic" sentiment "Thinking About You Always" and these cute! very handy Whittle Birds, few pearls ..

Thank you for stopping by Pam x.

Supplies

 

2291 Tall Skyline Tree Frame

2289 Soaring Tree Frame

2190 Whittle Birds

CL490 Greeting Basics

PP1006 Springtime Bouquet 6x6 pack

August Challenge Reminder by Sue McRae

Hi everyone, Sue here with a reminder post about Poppystamps August Challenge, Heat Wave, which can incorporate all sorts of ideas like summer, heat embossing and hot colours.

I decided to use hot colours and heat embossing on my shaker card.

I started by stenciling the Midnight Mandala Stencil onto white card stock with Distress Oxide Inks.

I cleaned off  the stencil, taped it back in place over my design and applied glass bead glitter gel over top. Make sure to wash your stencil and tools right away before the gel hardens or else you'll need a chisel to clean everything! The gel is milky when wet and dries to a clear sparkly finish!

I die cut the largest Stitchwork Square Frame in red and added clear acetate and foam tape along the back to create my shaker box. I used a double layer of foam because the glitter gel has some height to it and I wanted to make sure there was going to be room for the sequins to shaker around.

For the shaker elements I used clear sequins and seeds beads in colours that matched the inks.

I attached this onto a white card base and white heat embossed the sentiment onto black card stock and added it to the front of my card.

Now it's your turn to join the August Challenge. You have all month to play along and a winner will be randomly chosen to win a $20 gift certificate to the Poppystamps online store! I can't wait to see what you create!

Happy Crafting!

 

Supplies

 

42031 Midnight Mandala Stencil

CL8151 You Are Awesome clear stamp set

2070 Stitchwork Square Frames

 

 

August Challenge Reminder by Sue McRae

Hi everyone, Sue here with a reminder post about Poppystamps August Challenge, Heat Wave, which can incorporate all sorts of ideas like summer, heat embossing and hot colours.

I decided to use hot colours and heat embossing on my shaker card.

I started by stenciling the Midnight Mandala Stencil onto white card stock with Distress Oxide Inks.

I cleaned off  the stencil, taped it back in place over my design and applied glass bead glitter gel over top. Make sure to wash your stencil and tools right away before the gel hardens or else you'll need a chisel to clean everything! The gel is milky when wet and dries to a clear sparkly finish!

I die cut the largest Stitchwork Square Frame in red and added clear acetate and foam tape along the back to create my shaker box. I used a double layer of foam because the glitter gel has some height to it and I wanted to make sure there was going to be room for the sequins to shaker around.

For the shaker elements I used clear sequins and seeds beads in colours that matched the inks.

I attached this onto a white card base and white heat embossed the sentiment onto black card stock and added it to the front of my card.

Now it's your turn to join the August Challenge. You have all month to play along and a winner will be randomly chosen to win a $20 gift certificate to the Poppystamps online store! I can't wait to see what you create!

Happy Crafting!

 

Supplies

 

42031 Midnight Mandala Stencil

CL8151 You Are Awesome clear stamp set

2070 Stitchwork Square Frames

 

 

PSC#71 Heat Wave

Welcome to the Poppystamps Challenge! We're so happy you've stopped by, and we sure hope you'll join us! On the first of the month, we announce a new Poppystamps Challenge with a central theme. The design team will provide samples for inspiration, and you can play along through the end of the month for your chance to win.

The winner of our blog badge for the Poppystamps Challenge 70# Glim & Glam is Becca Yahrling

The lucky winner of the draw (chosen by random number generator) for the monthly prize is Bonnie Klass.

Please contact me (Jeanne) at poppychallenge@gmail.com to claim your prize.

Want to play? 

The rules are simple - just create a project following the theme, use at least one Poppystamps image or die, and link it up here.  The design we love best will receive our winner badge to proudly display on their blog, and one lucky random winner will receive a prize.  You don't have to have a blog to play.  You can link to any online gallery.   In fairness to other players, we reserve the right to remove entries that do not use at least one Poppystamps image.   We ask that you link a maximum of  3 entries to each challenge.   You are welcome to link your design to other challenges.  Grab our badge to post on your blog post or sidebar!

PSC#71 Heat Wave!  August always seems like it's the hottest month of the year!   We're heating things up with this month's challenge looking for cards made to reflect this time of year.  You can show us ways to cool down, and celebrate summer.   How about some HEAT EMBOSSING?   Watching the powder melt is just magic!   Maybe a little puppy love for the dog days of Summer?  Or bring out the warm vivid colors of the sun - red, orange and yellow!  It's your choice, just be sure to use at least one Poppystamps image (stamp or die) on your project! 

Need a little inspiration?  Here are some samples from our design team.  Want a closer look?   No worries.. we'll be featuring these projects on Wednesdays throughout the month, so you can see how each project was created.

Sue Mc Rae

Jeanne Jachna

Jennifer Svare

Now it's your turn!  Need a little more motivation? How about a prize?  The winner (chosen at random) of this challenge will receive a $20 Gift Certificate to spend on their favorites from the store!

You have until 12 am US EST on August 29 to link up your design here!  We'll start a new challenge and announce the winners on September 1.   

Thanks for joining us!  We can't wait to see what you make! 

 

 

PSC#71 Heat Wave

Welcome to the Poppystamps Challenge! We're so happy you've stopped by, and we sure hope you'll join us! On the first of the month, we announce a new Poppystamps Challenge with a central theme. The design team will provide samples for inspiration, and you can play along through the end of the month for your chance to win.

The winner of our blog badge for the Poppystamps Challenge 70# Glim & Glam is Becca Yahrling

The lucky winner of the draw (chosen by random number generator) for the monthly prize is Bonnie Klass.

Please contact me (Jeanne) at poppychallenge@gmail.com to claim your prize.

Want to play? 

The rules are simple - just create a project following the theme, use at least one Poppystamps image or die, and link it up here.  The design we love best will receive our winner badge to proudly display on their blog, and one lucky random winner will receive a prize.  You don't have to have a blog to play.  You can link to any online gallery.   In fairness to other players, we reserve the right to remove entries that do not use at least one Poppystamps image.   We ask that you link a maximum of  3 entries to each challenge.   You are welcome to link your design to other challenges.  Grab our badge to post on your blog post or sidebar!

PSC#71 Heat Wave!  August always seems like it's the hottest month of the year!   We're heating things up with this month's challenge looking for cards made to reflect this time of year.  You can show us ways to cool down, and celebrate summer.   How about some HEAT EMBOSSING?   Watching the powder melt is just magic!   Maybe a little puppy love for the dog days of Summer?  Or bring out the warm vivid colors of the sun - red, orange and yellow!  It's your choice, just be sure to use at least one Poppystamps image (stamp or die) on your project! 

Need a little inspiration?  Here are some samples from our design team.  Want a closer look?   No worries.. we'll be featuring these projects on Wednesdays throughout the month, so you can see how each project was created.

Sue Mc Rae

Jeanne Jachna

Jennifer Svare

Now it's your turn!  Need a little more motivation? How about a prize?  The winner (chosen at random) of this challenge will receive a $20 Gift Certificate to spend on their favorites from the store!

You have until 12 am US EST on August 29 to link up your design here!  We'll start a new challenge and announce the winners on September 1.   

Thanks for joining us!  We can't wait to see what you make! 

 

 

Multiple flower cards by Tina Wilstrup

Hello Poppy fans! Today I'm sharing a 5-for-1 card series using the Flora bloom solids.

First I taped the dies together with washi tape to make sure they'd cut exactly the same place with each cut.

Then I chose 5 colors of cardstock and cut the flowers.

I then adhered them to a cardbase in rainbow order.

I then stamped a flower image over the rainbow flower and heat embossed with clear embossing powder. For this I used 2 different Memory Box stamp sets.

I used a mix of vellum, black cardstock and glitter paper for the word dies and the shadows.

For all the cards I also stamped an accompanying sentiment.

So there you have it. 5 quick cards for different occasions that are nice to have in your stash.

See you next time

Tina

Supplies

 

2331 Flora Bloom Solids Set

2194 Luscious Script Thanks

2149 Hello Outline

2197 Luscious Script Wishes

2309 Love Outline

CL8151 You Are Awesome clear stamp set

CL5255 Peony Garden Corner clear stamp and die set

CL5256 Cherry Blossom Wreath clear stamp and die set

GP1001 Delicate Pastel Glitter Pad

GP1003 Twinkling Jewel Glitter Pad

Multiple flower cards by Tina Wilstrup

Hello Poppy fans! Today I'm sharing a 5-for-1 card series using the Flora bloom solids.

First I taped the dies together with washi tape to make sure they'd cut exactly the same place with each cut.

Then I chose 5 colors of cardstock and cut the flowers.

I then adhered them to a cardbase in rainbow order.

I then stamped a flower image over the rainbow flower and heat embossed with clear embossing powder. For this I used 2 different Memory Box stamp sets.

I used a mix of vellum, black cardstock and glitter paper for the word dies and the shadows.

For all the cards I also stamped an accompanying sentiment.

So there you have it. 5 quick cards for different occasions that are nice to have in your stash.

See you next time

Tina

Supplies

 

2331 Flora Bloom Solids Set

2194 Luscious Script Thanks

2149 Hello Outline

2197 Luscious Script Wishes

2309 Love Outline

CL8151 You Are Awesome clear stamp set

CL5255 Peony Garden Corner clear stamp and die set

CL5256 Cherry Blossom Wreath clear stamp and die set

GP1001 Delicate Pastel Glitter Pad

GP1003 Twinkling Jewel Glitter Pad