A Wish, A Splash & My 150th Craft Roulette Submission! 🧜‍♀️🎉

Hello, crafty friends!

I'm making a splash today with a very special card! This sweet and colourful mermaid creation marks my 150th submission for Craft Roulette! Can you believe it?! That's 150 creative challenges filled with fun, inspiration, and plenty of crafty adventures!

For this milestone card, I decided to dive under the sea with the adorable "Go With the Flow" mermaid from Sweet November Stamps (SNS). Isn't she just the cutest?! I absolutely love her flowing pink to orange coloured hair, her sweet little underwater friends, and that beautiful green tail! I brought her to life with my Copic Markers, using lots of bright, happy colours to make this birthday card feel like a true celebration.

Of course, I couldn't resist adding a little extra fun! I created a colourful background and added a white windowed panel to make a playful underwater shaker card. Each little window is filled with the cutest clay fish confetti, giving this mermaid plenty of friends to swim with! I just love all the little pops of colour peeking through the windows.

Now, let's see how I tackled this week's Craft Roulette parameters!

Project: Card on a Card – This one was such fun! If you look closely, my little mermaid is holding her very own tiny birthday card! How cute is that?!

Colors: Celebration Colors – I went all out with bright, cheerful colours! From her gorgeous rainbow hair to the vibrant shaker background, this card is bursting with happy birthday vibes!

Element: Water(s)(ing) – Well, what's more perfect for this parameter than a mermaid and her underwater friends?! Between the mermaid, fish, and other sea creatures, we've definitely got the water theme covered!

Random: Confetti – This might just be my favourite part! I filled my shaker windows with adorable little clay fish confetti. They're so colourful and add such a fun, interactive element to the card!

I finished everything off with the perfect birthday sentiment, "A wish, a splash, a birthday bash!" from the "The Guppies" stamp set. It couldn't be more fitting for this colourful underwater birthday celebration!

I'm so thrilled to be celebrating my 150th Craft Roulette submission with this little mermaid. Craft Roulette has been such a wonderful way to stretch my creativity, try new ideas, and think outside the box. Here's to many more crafty challenges!

And before you go, a little Sweet November Stamps reminder! 🎃

The brand-new Halloween release arrives in the SNS shop TOMORROW! If you love all things cute, spooky, and a little bit magical, you'll definitely want to pop over and check out the new goodies!

You can find all the Sweet November Stamps fun at sweetnovemberstamps.com.

Thanks so much for stopping by today! I hope this little underwater birthday bash brings a splash of happiness to your day!

~ Ally ~ 

Frosty & Festive Frilly Frames

Hello crafty friends!

I’m back today with another festive card featuring goodies from the Catherine Pooler Designs Frosty & Festive Collection, and I have to say—I am completely smitten with the new Frilly Frame Dies!

This die set includes four different frame shapes—a circle, square, rectangle and oval—and I love how easy they make it to create a fun collage-style card like this one. Each frame has that sweet little pierced, scalloped edge that adds just the right amount of detail.

For my card, I die cut the frames from some of my favorite Catherine Pooler colored cardstocks: Blue Raspberry, Rockin’ Red, Cotton Candy and Martini. I love how bright and cheerful these colors look together!

To fill each frame, I reached for the Jolly & Bright 6x6 Patterned Paper collection. Mixing the different patterns behind each colorful frame created such a playful holiday look without making the card feel too busy.

Then came the cutest part—the Frosty Friends! I added several of the adorable snowmen along with some of the smaller festive images and sentiments to decorate each little framed area. These snowmen are seriously so sweet, and I love that each one has its own personality. The little bundled-up snowman with the glasses might be one of my favorites!

This card was so much fun to build because every frame became its own tiny holiday scene. The combination of colorful cardstock, cheerful patterned papers and those darling Frosty Friends makes the whole card feel bright, happy and festive.

And those Frilly Frame Dies? I can already tell I’m going to be reaching for them again and again. They’re perfect for creating little scenes, highlighting sentiments, making patterned paper focal points and so much more. Definitely a must-have from the Frosty & Festive Collection!

Thanks so much for stopping by today. I hope this card inspires you to mix your favorite CP cardstock colors and patterned papers and create your own collection of festive little frames!

Happy crafting! 🎄☃️❤️

~ Ally ~ 

A Hauntingly Good Halloween Party!

Hello crafty friends!

The newest release from Sweet November Stamps, Halloween Party, has arrived, and it is filled with the cutest costumed critters ready for a little spooky-season fun!

There are four new collections in this release, each featuring its own Halloween party scene. You’ll find a piñata scene, a party decorating scene, an apple bobbing scene, and a pumpkin carving scene. Every collection is packed with adorable little critters dressed up and ready to celebrate.

For today’s card, I chose to create with the new Halloween Party: Decorating digi collection. This set includes the two sweet little owls, a pumpkin-lighting skunk, and four different spook-tacular banners for your critters to decorate with.

I decided to use the spiderweb banner for my scene and had so much fun building the whole nighttime background around it. I wanted the web to have a magical Halloween glow, so I added some fluorescent Copic airbrushing around the banner. I love how that soft glow helps the spiderweb stand out against the deep blue and purple sky.

Of course, the little critters were all colored with Copic Markers too. I absolutely love the richness and depth that Copics bring to a scene like this, especially with all of the warm browns, bright oranges, deep blues, and pops of purple and green. The colors really help bring these sweet Halloween characters to life!

I finished everything off with the perfect “Have a hauntingly good birthday” sentiment. I love that this card still has all the fun of Halloween while working perfectly for a spooky-season birthday too!

The entire new Halloween Party release is available now in the Sweet November Stamps shop, so be sure to check out all four adorable party scenes.

Thanks so much for stopping by today! I hope these little party animals inspire you to create something fun, colorful, and just a little bit spooky! 🎃🦉🕸️✨

~ Ally ~ 

Stay Cozy with Frosty & Festive

Hello crafty friends!

There’s something about a sweet little snowman that makes a winter card feel instantly cheerful, and today’s card features one of the adorable new snowmen from the Frosty & Festive Collection from Catherine Pooler Designs!

This new release is packed with so many fun winter crafting possibilities. You’ll find everything from snowmen and birds to fabulous sentiments, beautiful forest-inspired fronds, and some really fantastic new cover plate dies. There are lots of pieces that can be mixed and matched for Christmas cards, winter cards, and those cozy projects that can carry you well beyond the holiday season.

For today’s card, I reached for the new Frosty Friends Stamp Set and coordinating dies. This set includes four sweet little snowmen, snowy accent images, and four adorable greetings. I couldn’t resist this little guy all tangled up in his colorful Christmas lights! I stamped him, colored him with my Copic Markers, and die cut him before adding him to the front of my card.

I wanted the background to stay soft and frosty, so I created a simple snowy landscape using Cotton Candy Ink. I gradually built up the color with three layers of ink, making each layer a little heavier and deeper than the one before it. I love how the different intensities of pink create the look of rolling snowy hills while still keeping the whole card light and whimsical.

To carry the wintery feel up through the rest of the panel, I stamped several of the snowflakes from the Jolly Jingle Stamp Set using Cotton Candy Ink. The tone-on-tone pink snowflakes are subtle, but they add just enough detail to make the background feel wonderfully snowy without taking attention away from my little Frosty Friend.

For one final touch of sparkle, I splattered the entire panel with the new Sparkle Gold Shimmer. Those tiny flecks of gold add such a pretty bit of shine when the light catches them and look especially lovely against the soft pink and white background.

I finished the card with the sweet “stay cozy” sentiment, keeping everything clean and simple so that adorable snowman could remain the star of the show.

The entire Frosty & Festive Collection is available now in the Catherine Pooler shop. If you love cute winter characters, versatile sentiments, snowy elements, and beautiful dies, there are so many fun goodies in this release to play with!

You can shop the new release here:
https://shop.catherinepooler.com?aff=49

Thanks so much for stopping by today! I hope this little pink snowy scene inspires you to pull out your favorite winter stamps, add a little sparkle, and create something cozy! ❄️💕✨

~ Ally ~