Stampin' Fancy Friday Card Instructions

Hello Everyone! Happy New Year! It's been pretty quiet over here on the blog lately. I have been crafting a bit but just haven't been able to find the time to update the blog. So for 2021 I will be mainly posting to my Instagram and Facebook pages (Sootywing Studios). You can find all of my crafty goodness there. 

Today I did want to share some instructions I put together for my latest Stampin Fancy Friday card. The challenge this month is to showcase your favorite set from the Mini Catalog. I've had a couple of requests for some instructions so I am sharing them HERE for you. I would have done a video but I'm not super savvy doing videos and my lighting in my craft room is pretty bad, ha! So for now I have some step by step instructions.

My favorite set by far is the Fine Art Floral product suite. I love everything from this product suite. I really enjoyed putting this card together. It has quite a few elements but it's super fancy and is such a pretty card for that special someone.

Please join us in the Stampin' Fancy Friday challenge for this month. Post your project on Instagram and tag us (@stampinfancyfriday) or use #stampinfancyfriday when you share so we can all see your card. I can't wait to see what you come up with.

Thanks for stopping by! Have a wonderful day!

Thankful Poppies

Hello! Today I'm sharing a card with the fun Painted Poppies set. I'm a sucker for a floral sets and this one is a must! It's kind of a simple card with minimal layers and colors. I wanted to focus on the flowers.

I stamped the large poppy in Gorgeous Grape ink and then used my aqua painter to add Grapefruit Groove ink. The aqua painter pulled in some of the Gorgeous Grape color and I love the effect it gives. The small flower was stamped in Lovely Lipstick and watercolored with So Saffron ink. The leaves were stamped in Coastal Cabana and colored with Soft Sea Foam ink. Isn't that fun!

I cut out a scalloped rectangle from Stitched So Sweetly dies. I told you these will be used quite a bit! On top of the scallop I splattered Pool Party ink from my Stampin' Up! Write markers. Also, if you notice under the sentiment I die cut the swirls from the Painted Labels dies.

Once I added everything to Whisper White thick cardstock, I added some sequins from the Woven Threads assortment.

I hope you enjoyed this floral card. I'll be back shortly with a cute Valentine shaker card!

Have a great day!

Global Design Project #202

Hello! I'm back with another sketch challenge and another post!! This time I'm playing along with the Global Design Project sketch challenge. You can find the challenge HERE.

Another fun sketch challenge. I used one of my new favorites....Good Morning Magnolia bundle. The flower in this set is just to die for. I love coloring it!

I watercolored the flower using an aquapainter and various inks: Flower - Petal Pink, Grapefruit Grove and Lovely Lipstick; Leaves - Soft Sea Foam, Granny Apple Green and Coastal Cabana; Stem - Sahara Sand and Early Espresso. Once everything was dry, I added some splatters using my Crumb Cake marker. I really love how you can quickly add color to the flower and it looks so great.

The Coastal Cabana background piece was embossed with the Tin Tile embossing folder. I then used a strip of DSP from the Mosaic Mood Specialty DSP. I also added some gold touches with Gold Glimmer paper and Gold foil sheets.

Thanks for stopping by! I hope this flower brightens your day.

Bright Birthday Cards

Hello! So I lied and I have a non-craft fair post today. :) While I'm still working on craft fair items, I did have to squeeze in some time to make a couple of birthday cards for a birthday party this past weekend. I'm sure I probably had some cards laying around that I could have used for the party but I love the excuse to make new cards, ha! And I LOVE how these came out. It's hard for me to not love a water color background card.

I knew I wanted to use the Brights DSP paper stack. The older girl loves blue so I went with the Pacific Point polka dot paper and then I used the Melon Mambo polka dot paper for the other card.

I used white Shimmery card stock for my water coloring. For the blue card, I used Pacific Point and Coastal Cabana ink. For the pink card, I used Melon Mambo and Gorgeous Grape ink. After I got the water color to my liking, I added some additional splatter with the Coastal Cabana and Melon Mambo markers.

The numbers were die cut with the Large Number framelits. I'm so sad these are retired because they are perfect for birthday cards. I also used the retiring stamp set to stamp "th" on the little banners next to the number.

I had to find some way to add in my favorite ribbon of all time!! The polka dot tulle ribbon is peaking out from behind the little banner next to the number.

Then I decided to use the Well Wishes framelits to die cut Happy Birthday from silver foil paper and the Lovely Lipstick foil paper (SAB - sold out). And after I put the cards together I used the Glitter Enamel shapes for some extra sparkle!! I love how these colors are so bright and coordinate perfectly with the cards.

Thanks for stopping by. Have a great day!

Amazing Life Birthday Card

It's March and it's coooold!!! We are starting off this month with a bunch of snow! Not how I wanted to start off the month but it's ok. Hopefully this is the last of it.

Today's card is a fun card I made using the cake image from the Amazing Life set. This card started out totally different in my head but I like how it turned out. I originally wanted to color the cakes in a rainbow pattern but after I stamped them I wasn't sure I was going to like how it looked. So I decided to do a watercolor background instead using Blueberry Bushel and Call Me Clover ink. I love how it came out!

These are great colors for anyone! And I didn't make it to frilly so it would be perfect for a guy. I love the sentiment from this set. I stamped it in versamark and embossed it with white embossing powder on black cardstock. I really think it pops against the watercolor background. Underneath the sentiment, I added a couple of strips of DSP, Sparkle Glimmer Paper and Gray Granite ribbon. The final touch was a couple of Glitter enamel dots. Love these too!!!

I hope this card brought some sparkle and fun to your day! This is another card that would be super fun in some other colors. What color combo should I try next??


Product List

Amazing Life Photopolymer Stamp Set

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Coastal Cabana 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock

[131297]

Blueberry Bushel 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock

[146968]

Shimmery White 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock

[101910]

Basic Black 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock

[121045]

Botanical Butterfly Designer Series Paper

[149622]

Sparkle Glimmer Paper

[146957]

Blueberry Bushel Classic Stampin' Pad

[147138]

Call Me Clover Stampin' Pad

[147139]

Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad

[132708]

Versamark Pad

[102283]

Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies

[145372]

Banner Triple Punch

[138292]

Gray Granite 1/2" (1.3 Cm) Textured Weave Ribbon

[147656]

Aqua Painters

[103954]

Glitter Enamel Dots

[146934]

White Stampin' Emboss Powder

[109132]

Colorful Seasons Snowflakes

Hello! Well yesterday's snow was a whole lot more than we were expecting!!! What started out as a storm what was only going to produce 1 - 3 inches of snow turned into about 7 or so!! That is way too much snow for me for early November! It sure looked pretty but was a nightmare for anyone on the road.

Well to start off the winter season early, haha!, I have some snowy, wintery cards to share. I actually made these a while ago but haven't gotten around to sharing now. But now seems like the perfect time!

To start these cards, using Night of Navy and Balmy Blue ink, I made a water color background on Shimmery card stock. I did use a tiny bit of blue Brusho as well for some of the darker areas. Once I was happy with the background, I die cut snowflakes (from the Seasonal Layers thinlits). Those snowflakes were used on the second card.

Behind the snowflake cut outs, I added Dazzling Diamonds glimmer paper for more sparkle! I used the Merry Christmas to All bundle for the sentiment. Then added Gray Granite ribbon, Polka Dot tulle ribbon and Iridescent sequins. Isn't this so pretty?!

For the second card, I embossed the white card stock with the subtle embossing folder and layered that on to Dazzling Diamonds glimmer paper. (the glimmer paper is sticking out from the edges in case you can't see it in the photos). The sentiment is from the Sincerely Santa stamp set and it was stamped in Night of Navy ink on Vellum. I layered this oval cut out onto Balmy Blue card stock that was cut with the Stitched Labels framelits.

After I glued everything together I added some white sequins from the Basic Adhesive-Backed sequins and a Silver Baker's twine bow.

So what do you think? Which one is your favorite??

Stay warm and have a great weekend!

Stitched All Around - Watercolor card

Hello! It's another gloomy rainy day here in the east coast. Enough with the rain already!! While I wait for the sun to shine, I'll share a fun and bright card I made. I actually made the watercolor background a couple of weeks ago but I never had the time to finish it. So these pretty colors have been staring at me waiting to be put together on a card!

To start, I wet my Shimmer white paper and added Gorgeous Grape, Grapefruit Grove and Lovely Lipstick ink and blended until I got a background I liked. Then I added some drops of those same colors and heat dried with my embossing gun. I layered this onto Petal Pink cardstock (also a new favorite color!). I stamped the sentiment twice on Petal Pink cardstock. I cut it out with a stitched shape circle and then I just cut out the word "darling" to make it pop.

The final touches on this card were Gorgeous Grape and Polka Dot tulle ribbon, Flirty Flamingo bakers twine (which I just realized is retired) and Glitter Enamel dots. I am loving these colors together! Gorgeous Grape is my new favorite color from the catalog. I've been waiting for a purple like this forever!

I hope this brightened up your day! Thanks for stopping by!

Product List

Stitched All Around Clear-Mount Stamp Set

[146632]

Shimmery White 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock

[101910]

Gorgeous Grape 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock

[146987]

Petal Pink 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock

[146985]

Lovely Lipstick 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock

[146970]

Gorgeous Grape Classic Stampin' Pad

[147099]

Grapefruit Grove Classic Stampin' Pad

[147142]

Lovely Lipstick Classic Stampin' Pad

[147140]

Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies

[145372]

Layering Circle Framelits Dies

[141705]

Aqua Painters

[103954]

Gorgeous Grape 1/4" (6.4 Mm) Mini Striped Ribbon

[146940]

Whisper White 5/8" (1.6 Cm) Polka Dot Tulle Ribbon

[146912]

Glitter Enamel Dots

[146934]

Flirty Flamingo Baker's Twine

[144356]