Wishing you Comfort & Joy

Hi friends. I have a bittersweet post today as it's my last post as a design team member for LDRS Creative. A big thank you to Angie and Stephanie for having me on the team.

Now back to my card today. I am using several products from the latest release including the Garden Wreath die, the Christmas Cottage paper collection and the Cardinal Seasons - Petal Pushers stamp set.

I started by die cutting the Garden Wreath twice from slightly different shades of green card stock.  I attached one layer directly to my card panel which I had covered using one of the patterns from the Christmas Cottage paper collection. 

On the patterned paper, I decided to add in a bit of grey shading to the paper so I took a light grey Copic marker and added in just a bit of shading.

I then added small bits of foam tape to the second wreath die cut and adhered it on top of the other one, slightly offset.  I love the bit of dimension this gives and how full it makes it.

I stamped the sentiment which is from the Cardinal Seasons - Petal Pushers set and added it with some foam tape.

Some red gems finish off the card.

Here's a closer look at the wreath die cuts.

Thanks for visiting today. Crafty hugs! ~ Alanna

Sweet Tweets for You and Yours

Hi friends. My card today features fun products from the latest release at LDRS Creative. I've used the  Cardinal Seasons - Petal Pushers stamp set and some other fun goodies from LDRS Creative.

I started out by stamping the fun birdhouse image from the Cardinal Seasons - Petal Pushers set in rainbow colors along my card panel. I then die cut it using the largest die from the Scalloped Rectangle Frame die collection.

I took a couple of the bird images from the You're so Tweet set and stamped them with the Raven Hybrid ink onto a couple of my bird houses.

I then stamped the sentiment which is from the Cardinal Seasons - Petal Pushers stamp set.

I popped up the panel with some foam tape, added a clear glaze to the heart portions of the birdhouses, and adhered it to a top folding cream card base and the card is done.

I hope you've been inspired today. Crafty hugs! ~ Alanna

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Wishing you the Beary Best for LDRS Creative

Hi friends. I'm up on the LDRS Creative blog today using the most adorable set Frozen Fun. There are so many great winter animals in this set. And I love that there is a pond for these cuties to play in.

For my card today, I started by stamping a few of the images from the Frozen Fun set with the Raven Hybrid ink. This is a great ink because it works with nearly any coloring 

medium. I used some water based markers in my coloring today.

After my images were stamped and colored, I die cut them using the coordinating dies. I then took the largest rectangle die from the Scalloped Rectangle Frame die collection along with one of the papers from the 6x6 Christmas Cottage paper collection. 

There are so many great prints in this paper collection. I chose the red and black plaid to tie in with the red accents on my cute little penguins.

I first adhered the pond to my patterned paper and then added my little critters, some with liquid adhesive and some with foam tape to create depth.

I stamped one of the sentiments from the Frozen Fun set, trimmed it out and added it with foam tape and my card is complete.

Thanks for stopping by today. I hope you've been inspired to get out your critter stamps and create a fun scene.

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LDRS Creative October Feature Day 2

Hello everyone and welcome to our Fall and Halloween Feature!

For the next two days, the Design Team from LDRS Creative has created gorgeous projects to inspire you with the latest Fall collection that is now available in a local craft store near you!

We are talking about... 

The A View for All Seasons Stamps (with a perfect coordinating die set), Woodland Wonderland Stamps (also with a coordinating die set available), and No Matter the Weather Stamps.

Some amazing Halloween High Jinks Stamps (cut out in no time with the coordinating die set), Happy Haunting Stamps (with a perfect coordinating die set here), and one of the new Petal Pusher sets, Pick of the Patch (and its die set)!

We also continued adding to our wonderful Basic dies line: In the Breeze Die Set, Down Main Street Die, and Over the Hills Die. Not to forget Up a Tree Die Set, Garden Gateway Die Set, Garden Wreath Die Set. They fit with all of our products, so don't miss on them!

People have been amazed by the thickness of the brand new Fall 6x6 paper pack, Sweater Weather - 6x6 Paper. How GORGEOUS is it?!

And of course, a brand new all-in-one stencil called A Walk in the Park - 6x6 Stencil !

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For my card today, I started by stamping the wreath image from the No Matter the Weather set with some light orange ink.  I then took one of the detail layers for the wreath and heat embossed that image with gold embossing powder.

I don't know that I have ever heat embossed over regular stamping before or if I have, it's been quite some time.

I really love the look this gives and the texture the embossing adds to the wreath.

I also decided to do something that I haven't done in ages which is to score my card panel to create dimension.  I took my scoring tool and scored at every 1/4 inch.

I realized at this point that I probably should have stamped my sentiment before I did the scoring but I took a chance and with the help of my Misti so I could stamp the sentiment multiple times, I was able to get a great impression, even with the texture from the scored lines.

The sentiment comes from the same No Matter the Weather set.  As part of the finishing touches to this card, I decided I wanted to add just a bit more gold heat embossing and to create some depth on my card edges.

I took my Watermark Emboss Pad from LDRS Creative and ran it over just the edges of my stamped card panel. I then used the same gold embossing powder and heat set this. I love how this looks and how it pulls the whole card together.

I finished off the card by popping up my stamped panel with foam tape and adding some metallic gold gems to my wreath.

Hop around this short hop to see all the beautiful creations and new techniques used on them!

LDRS CREATIVE INSPIRATION

Anita 

Alanna {YOU ARE HERE}

Ilina

Melissa

Corinne

Jane

Lynnea

Jeannie

Ashley

And to celebrate these two days, we are offering 15% off on your next order in the LDRS Creative store when you add any item from the Fall collection using code FALLFUN (*valid until October 27, midnight EST).

Happy hopping!

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LDRS Creative October Feature Day 1

Hello everyone and welcome to our Fall and Halloween Feature!

For the next two days, the Design Team has created gorgeous projects to inspire you with the latest Fall collection that is now available in a local craft store near you!

We are talking about... 

The A View for All Seasons Stamps (with a perfect coordinating die set), Woodland Wonderland Stamps (also with a coordinating die set available), and No Matter the Weather Stamps.

Some amazing Halloween High Jinks Stamps (cut out in no time with the coordinating die set), Happy Haunting Stamps (with a perfect coordinating die set here), and one of the new Petal Pusher sets, Pick of the Patch (and its die set)!

We also continued adding to our wonderful Basic dies line: In the Breeze Die Set, Down Main Street Die, and Over the Hills Die. Not to forget Up a Tree Die Set, Garden Gateway Die Set, Garden Wreath Die Set. They fit with all of our products, so don't miss on them!

People have been amazed by the thickness of the brand new Fall 6x6 paper pack, Sweater Weather - 6x6 Paper. How GORGEOUS is it?!

And of course, a brand new all-in-one stencil called A Walk in the Park - 6x6 Stencil !

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For my card today, I am using the No Matter the Weather stamp set. There are so many great images in this set and I decided to create my own patterned paper for today's card with just stamped images.

I started by taking the wheelbarrow image and stamped it multiple times across my card panel making sure to leave enough room for my pumpkins.  After all my wheelbarrows were stamped, I added the fun pumpkin image to each of the wheelbarrows and then stamped the stem images.

I stamped the sentiment from which is also from the No Matter the Weather set and then decided that the white space in the card needed just a bit of something else. I went looking through my stash of LDRS Creative sets to find something that would work and found the perfect small dots image from the If Friends Were Flowers stamp set. I thought this was the perfect touch to finish off my handmade patterned paper.

Finally, I popped it up with foam tape and added some gems to finish off the card panel.  I mounted this on some dark brown card stock and then adhered everything to a top folding Kraft card base.

Hop around this short hop to see all the beautiful creations and new techniques used on them!

DAY 1:

LDRS CREATIVE INSPIRATION

Anita 

Alanna {YOU ARE HERE}

Ilina

Melissa

Corinne

Jane

Lynnea

Jeannie

Raluca

Ashley

And to celebrate these two days, we are offering 15% off on your next order in the LDRS Creative store when you add any item from the Fall collection using code FALLFUN (*valid until October 27, midnight EST).

Happy hopping!

Creating a Wreath with Diecuts and Press n' Seal for LDRS Creative

Hi friends. I was up on the LDRS Creative blog yesterday sharing this card. I hope you like it. 

For today's card, I used the following products available at the LDRS Creative store.

- Cardinal Seasons Petal Pushers stamp

-Cardinal Seasons Petal Pushers die collection

-Christmas Cottage 6x6 papers

-Raven Hybrid Ink

To get started, I stamped and die cut several of the gorgeous leaf and berry images from the Cardinal Seasons Petal Pushers stamp set.

I absolutely love this set and the layering aspect of these stamps. They allow you to really create leafy greenery full of dimension without a lot of fuss.

I then die cut the images out using the coordinating Cardinal Seasons Petal Pushers die collection.

I arranged them on my card base that I had adhered a piece of paper from the new Christmas Cottage paper collection to. I thought the nice bold red and black background of the paper would pair nicely with my leaf images.

I then took a piece of Press n' Seal wrap and laid it directly over my stamped and die cut images. At this point, I have added no adhesive to anything. 

I carefully peeled up the Press n' Seal making sure that all of my die cut elements were still sticking to it. I turned it over and then adhered foam tape to the back of it, as shown below.

This does two things. First, it makes it so that all of the pieces stay together and it also will give my wreath a bit of dimension.

Here's a closeup of the assembled wreath. I also added three more leafy die cuts to the wreath with some more foam tape for more dimension.

I stamped the sentiment, which is from the same Cardinal Seasons Petal Pushers set using the Raven Hybrid ink onto a thin strip of card stock. I added foam tape in the middle of it to keep it at the same level that the wreath was at. I added liquid adhesive to each end and adhered it to the wreath.

And here is one last look at my card. I hope you've been inspired today.

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2 Alcohol Inked Backgrounds with Florals for LDRS Creative

Hi friends. I realized I never shared these two cards that were previously up on the LDRS Creative blog.

For both cards, I started out by taking some various colors of alcohol inks and adding them to Yupo paper to get a fun background.

I then stamped and die cut the floral images which are from the Love and Smell the Roses and If Friends Were Flowers sets.  I decided to leave them uncolored as to not detract from the pretty backgrounds.

I added them to the cards with foam tape and then stamped the sentiments which are from the Love and Smell the Roses set.

Here is a photo of both the cards together.  Individual photos are shown below.

As always, I truly appreciate you stopping by today and taking a look at my cards. It means the world. Crafty hugs! ~ Alanna

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Cards made Easy with Patterned Paper

Hi friends. I am up on the LDRS Creative blog today with two very CAS cards that let the gorgeous patterned paper from the Christmas Cottage collection take center stage.

If you haven't yet taken a look at all the scrumptious papers in the Christmas Cottage collection, you have to go check them out. The color palette is so fresh and fun and the patterns are absolutely fantastic.

For my first card today, I am using my favorite pattern from the package with the sweet birdhouse, bird and foliage. I absolutely love the colors.

I simply trimmed down the paper to 4 1/8 x 5 3/8 and matted it on a piece of light blue card stock.

I then heat embossed a sentiment from the Cardinal Seasons - Petal Pushers stamp set using the Watermark Emboss Pad from LDRS Creative. I then took the ticket type die from the coordinating Cardinal Seasons - Petal Pushers die collection and die cut my sentiment. I added some thin foam tape to the back of it and this card is complete.

For my second card today, I took another favorite pattern from the Christmas Cottage paper collection. This time, I trimmed it down to 4 x 5 1/4 and then layered it over a piece of red card stock. These two layers were added to a light blue card base.

As I did with the first card, I heat embossed another sentiment from the Cardinal Seasons - Petal Pushers set with white embossing powder onto the same light blue card stock that I used for the card base. I popped it up with some foam tape for added dimension.

I also white heat embossed a few of the leaf images from the Cardinal Seasons - Petal Pushers set and adhered them around my sentiment.

Here is a final look at both cards together. I hope you've been inspired today to pull out some patterned papers and let them do most of the work for your holiday card making.

Crafty hugs! ~ Alanna

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LDRS Creative September Release Day 4

Thank you for joining us on our LDRS Creative inspiration week blog hop!

Be ready for our Big, Big, BIG new collection! You can even see them in action with step-by-step projects by our amazing designers on their blogs and our own LDRS Creative Youtube channel (make sure you subscribe).
And the fun part? It's already available in a local store near you! Don't you just love going to your favorite retailer to treat yourself with the latest LDRS release?!

Each of our four days will feature a new theme featured in this fabulous release.
Day 4 is all about WINTER and CHRISTMAS!

After seeing the out-of-this-world release so far, let's cheer altogether for more cuteness; with the Otterly Lovable Stamp (and its coordinating die set), Frozen Fun (again, with a coordinating die set), the amazing Cardinal Seasons - Petal Pusher Stamp and its coordinating Pusher die set, and finally, the adorable Candy Cane Lane set (with a die set, of course)!

We also have some new things going on in the new Paper Product section, with a brand new Winter themed 6x6 paper pack, Christmas Cottage!

 We are giving away a $50 LDRS Creative gift card to two lucky hoppers! To enter leave a comment on each blog in the hop, plus follow us on Facebook and Instagram.  Make sure to visit our Instagram page, for a chance to win a separate prize, too!

Simply use the list at the end of the post to keep hopping!

Winners will be announced on the LDRS Creative inspiration blog and Instagram page on September 17, 2019.

AND for the release event we are excited to offer some great savings!

Save 15% on the new Summer Critters release*, including already discounted bundles and use code SEPTEMBER15

(*Coupon valid until September 15, 2019, midnight EST)

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For my card today, I am featuring the uber fabulous Cardinal Seasons - Petal Pushers, both the stamps and the dies.

These dies are brilliant as they partially cut away some of the detail - such as the wing on the bird. Brilliant!

I started by stamping the cute little birds from the Cardinal Seasons - Petal Pushers stamp set along with the tree branch image for them to sit on.

I then used the coordinating dies to cut them out.

I thought they would look nice against the woodgrain paper that is in the new Christmas Cottage paper collection. I die cut it with the largest die from the Scalloped Rectangle Frame die collection. I just love the detail it adds to the sides.

I glued the branch directly to the patterned paper and then added the birds with some foam tape, making sure to give the wing a bit of extra lift where it cuts out.

I then stamped the sentiment which is also from the Cardinal Seasons - Petal Pushers set and then die cut the top of it with the same die I used to cut the patterned paper so that it would match seamlessly.

 Here's another look. I hope you've enjoyed my project today and have been inspired.

Hop along and leave a comment so you could win!

Day 4:

LDRS CREATIVE BLOG
MELISSA
MELANIE
ALANNA {YOU ARE HERE}
RALUCA
ZSOFIA
JEANNIE
ILINA
JANE
LYNNEA
ASHLEY
ANITA

And make sure to be back for the winner announcement, next week!

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