Sweet November Stamps ~ The Nutcracker

Happy Hump Day!  Today I'm sharing another holiday card featuring some of our clear stamps released last month from Sweet November Stamps!  

Today's card features "The Nutcracker" clear stamp set.  This sweet little stamp set features a little girl with her nutcracker doll and the tiny mouse king.

To create this scene, I stamped my mouse and little girl and then masked them both off.  Then I stamped the fireplace and wall in the back ground.  These images are from the "Simple Room Christmas Add On" clear stamp set.

To create my textured purple wall, I laid down my blend of purple Copics and then I added a little bit of Blender solution to a textured rag and dabbed it all over the surface.  I did this before I colored anything!

Wishing you the last week before Christmas!

Happy last minute shopping!

~ Ally ~

Chibitronics ~ Glowing Hearts Card

Happy Monday!  Today I’m sharing my latest light up card featuring products from Chibitronics.  I'm headed on all the way to Valentine's Day with my card creating this week.

Today we’re going we are going to light up a Valentine's themed love card with some pretty pink LED Light Stickers and also one of our cool Animating Rainbow Fade Stickers.

I began today’s card creation by stamping our little girl from Mo's Digital Designs and coloring her up with Copics. I created a framed embossed heart with some simple dies and an embossing folder. And for the greeting, I die cut and inked up a "hugs" sentiment. For the card front, I used some postage themed stamps and lots of fun pink ink.

I positioned all of my elements on the card front ensuring a cut a hole through the embossed heart and the card front under the little girl's T-shirt to allow the light to pass through and shine more brightly.

I transferred the location of the hole to the inside of my circuit building surface and traced out the heart shape to allow me to know the location of all my lights. I used my Craft Stencil to trace the location of my 5 Pink LED Light Stickers and my final single Animating Rainbow Fade LED Light Sticker.

I traced the paper Battery Holder and located it in the bottom right hand corner of the card. From there I drew the negative side of the circuit using a blue pen. The blue line crossed over all 6 of the negative sides of the light stickers.

Next I drew a red line to indicate the positive side of the circuit. This side of the circuit will start on the inside of the paper battery holder or switch.

Next I applied my self-adhesive Battery Holder to the circuit surface. I began to apply the Conductive Fabric Tape to the negative side of the circuit, beginning inside the Battery Holder.

Next I applied all of the Conductive Fabric Tape to the positive side of the circuit. I began my tape inside the Battery Holder lid. This will allow the tape to make contact with the battery when the lid is pressed down.

 

I stuck down all 6 of my LED Light Stickers. I placed one Animating Rainbow Fade LED Light Sticker under the T-shirt location and 5 Pink LED Light Stickers in the rest of the light locations.

To finish off the inside, I adhered down the C-shaped foam adhesive inside the Battery Holder, added a battery in the center and closed up the battery holder. Don't forget to test your creation before adhering this closed!

Then I added Foam Tape around the edges of the card, peeled off the backer paper and closed up my card.

 Let's see the card all lit up...

Super cute!

Make sure to check out the step-by-step video over on our YouTube channel on all the card making details and the making of the circuit. You also get to see the card go through all of it's rainbow lights too! CLICK HERE for the video.

 Hope you enjoyed today's tutorial and I hope you and your loved ones have a wonderful holiday season!

~ Ally ~

Sweet November Stamps ~ Cozy Penguin

Happy Saturday!  Today I'm sharing a merry card featuring some new digitals stamps from Sweet November Stamps!  

Today's card features the new "Cozy Penguin" digital stamps!

This cute little penguin comes with a cute pair of glasses too so I chose to use him.  I thought he needed a few friends too so I added the sweet little "Cozy Fall Critters", "Beckett Bear" and "Chandler Chipmunk". 

Today's card is this week's entry for Craft Roulette.  This will be my 54th submission.

The four parameters that the wheel gave us this week were:

• Project: Postcard (The penguin is holding a postcard)
  
• Colors: Florist Shop (lots of fun shop colors in there!)
  
• Element: Globe(s) (snow globe)
  
• Random: Abstract Blobs (Green ink blobs & water splatter/blobs)

Here's a little close up my little snow globe friend group...

To create the background, I blended Twisted Citron and Mowed Lawn Distress Oxide inks and then stamped some fun postal images and snowflakes all over the space.  I splattered it with Mowed Lawn ink and water to create the abstract blobs.

To finish off the card, I stamped a greeting from the "Cold Hands, Warm Heart" clear stamp set on the base of the snow globe.

Make sure to check out Craft Roulette over on YouTube and join us almost every Friday at 6:30pm CT for a brand new episode!  There is still time to play for yesterday's episode. 

Good luck!

~ Ally ~

Scrap 'N Stamp ~ Polar Bear Slider Card Tutorial

 

Join me SUNDAY evening at 8pm ET over on the Scrap 'N Stamp Facebook page for a fun Crafty Live.  Click here to visit.

This week, I'll be playing with the adorable polar bears from the My Favorite Things "Cooler With You" stamp set and we're going to make a slider card!

Hope to see you there! 

~ Ally ~

Chibitronics ~ Design Team Call!

Do you like to add interactivity and light to your art?  Have you wanted to give it a try?  Chibitronics is searching for a few additions to our 2024 Design Team!  If you love interactive crafts we’d love for you to develop and share your favorite projects featuring our products to inspire others.  We are looking for all crafters who are interested in lighting up their creations! 

How to Apply
Send all submissions to jessica@chibitronics.com with “2024 Design Team Call” in subject heading.

Submission Deadline: January 15, 2024

Project Submissions: Please email us a link to a blog post or video featuring your interactive projects. If you share your projects in other social media channels such as YouTube, TikTok, Pinterest, etc., please include those links.  We’d love to see a new project but you may also link to existing projects.

Alternatively, if you have not used our products before, please tell us in your application 1-3 unique ideas you have for using and showcasing our products.

Please include the following information in your submission:
Name
Mailing Address
Phone Number
Email Address
Blog URL
Social Media URLs, if relevant (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, TikTok, Pinterest, etc.)

Apply HERE!

~ Ally ~

Scrap 'N Stamp ~ Sweet Treats

 

Join me tomorrow at 2pm ET over on the Scrap 'N Stamp Facebook page for a fun Technique Tuesday live video.  Click here to visit.

This week, I'll be playing with some cool Catherine Pooler Designs "Jar Full of Joy" stamps and dies plus a cute Woodware Craft Collection "Owl Christmas Mail" stamp set to create a sweet treat holder.

Hope to see you there! 

~ Ally ~

Sweet November Stamps ~ A MerWee Christmas!

Happy Saturday!  Today I'm sharing a SEA-sonal card featuring some new digitals stamps from Sweet November Stamps!  Today's card features the new "A MerWee Christmas" digital stamps!

I started by pulling in lots of our new critters and accessories from this collection.  I have used "Griswold" the walrus, "McCallister" the octopus, both "Reindeer Seahorses", the cool "Seaweed Xmas Tree", the "Merwee Present #3" and the sweet little "Starfish" for my tree topper.

I began by coloring in the wavy background first, layering some aqua colored Copics.  Then I colored in all of my adorable sea creatures!

I colored everything with my Copic Markers.  I used my Copic Blender pen to create the bubbles all around my scene.

Hope you'll check out the Sweet November Stamps shop for all the sea creature fun!

Have a great weekend!

~ Ally ~

Scrap 'N Stamp ~ Wanna Build a Snowman?

 

Join me SUNDAY evening at 8pm ET over on the Scrap 'N Stamp Facebook page for a fun Crafty Live.  Click here to visit.

This week, I'll be playing with the adorable die by Lawn Fawn called "Build a Snowman" and some cute knit patterned papers also by Lawn Fawn.

Hope to see you there! 

~ Ally ~

Sweet November stamps & Craft Roulette - Thank CHOO!

Howdy!!  Hope you're having a great weekend!  Today's card is this week's entry for Craft Roulette.  This will be my 53rd submission.

The four parameters that the wheel gave us this week were:

• Project: Thank you card (Thank CHOO!)
  
• Colors: Roadside Marketplace (lots of fun vegetable colors in there!)
  
• Element: Yard(s) (Train yard)
  
• Random: Confetti (Shiny silver snowy confetti)
  

So this week's card features some of the new stamp sets from Sweet November Stamps!  This stamp set is called "Sweet Treat Express".

I had fun masking off the train pieces and inking up that background.

Here's another few close ups..

I created a custom sentiment to go along with the "thank you card" theme!

If you'd like to check out how I colored in this furry filled slimline card creation, visit my YouTube channel right HERE for a coloring video.

Make sure to check out Craft Roulette over on YouTube and join us almost every Friday at 6:30pm CT for a brand new episode!  

Good luck!

~ Ally ~

Scrap 'N Stamp ~ Quick Backgrounds for Simple Cards

Join me TODAY at 2pm ET over on the Scrap 'N Stamp Facebook page for a fun Technique Tuesday live video.  Click here to visit.

This week, I'll be playing with some cool Catherine Pooler Designs inks to make some quick backgrounds to make some simple cards!

Hope to see you there! 

~ Ally ~

Catherine Pooler ~ the Bubbling Over Collection is Coming!

The newest release from Catherine Pooler is coming this week!  Introducing the "Bubbling Over" release!

Introducing the Calls for Champagne Bundle! This bundle is ready for everything from New Year's to new jobs, weddings, anniversaries, retirement and just about anything else you want to celebrate!

The "Calls for Champagne Bundle" contains This Calls for Champagne Stamp Set, This Calls for Champagne Dies, Hooray for Confetti Background Stamp, Round of New Year Dies, Cheers to You Sentiments Stamp Set and the Cheers to You Dies 

These products are available in the bundle at a discounted price, or pick and choose your favorites!

The sweetest bundle, "My Favorite Bundle" is packed full of floral fun.

This bundle features the My Favorite Floral Stamp Set and Dies and companion products: Favorite Prints Patterned Paper and the Spirodahlia Stencil.

The third bundle is the "Best Tea Bundle".  

This bundle features the Boba with my Best-Tea Stamp Set & Dies, Bubblin' Dies, A big Hey There Word Die, Bubbleberry Patterned Paper and the Taiwan Sequins.

And out final bundle has all of the new celebratory foiling products!

This bundle contains the Cheers to You Hot Foil Plates and Dies, the Hooray for Confetti Hot Foil Plate and also the Rectangle Frames Hot Foil Plates.  Three amazing foiling products!

All of these products are available in bundles or you can purchase each item separately.  You get to choose!  PLUS you can also do the "I Want It All Bundle" which contains everything (EXCEPT the foiling products) in this release!

EARLY ORDERING starts for StampNation members TOMORROW at 12 noon ET.  Just a perk of being a StampNation member!

 

Join us this week for our festivities!

Monday - Bundle Reveals on the Blog & Facebook at Noon Card Making

Tuesday - StampNation Early Ordering & Facebook LIVE at Noon

Wednesday, December 6th - General Ordering OPENS at 9am ET plus a YouTube at Noon

 

Hope you'll come check it all out!

Scrap 'N Stamp ~ Penguin Custom Snow Globe Shaker

 

Join me TOMORROW evening at 8pm ET over on the Scrap 'N Stamp Facebook page for a fun Crafty Live.  Click here to visit.

This week, I'll be playing with our "GIFT WITH PURCHASE" stamp set from Colorado Crafts, "Happy Feet".  We'll be making a custom snow globe shaker!

Purchase $50 before taxes or shipping in your cart and then put the "Gift with Purchase" stamp set in your shopping cart to get it for FREE.

Hope to see you there! 

~ Ally ~

Sweet November Stamps ~ Christmas Cookies

Happy Saturday!  Today I'm sharing a yummy Christmas card featuring some new digitals stamps from Sweet November Stamps!

Today's card features the new "Christmas Cookies" digital stamps!  There are a HUGE amount of digi options for this group of digital stamps.  There are shaped cookies, cookie alphabets and even a baking sheet and cooling rack!  You can see them all listed in picture form at the bottom of this post.  So many possibilities!

I began by creating my scene in my photo editing software.  I chose to use the "Cookie Sheet", "Cookie Rack", "Santa Cookie", "Reindeer Cookie", "Penguin Cookie" and finally the "Polar Bear Cookie".

I hand drew in the red striped towel and the two icing bags along the sides.

I colored everything with my Copic Markers.

And who doesn't love a little sparkle?!?  I added some clear glitter to a few aspects of the cookies like Santa's hat, pom-pom and a little on the critters.

I wanted a fun greeting for the front of my card so I stamped out a greeting from the "Sugar and Spice" clear stamp set.

Hope you'll check out the Sweet November Stamps shop for all the cookie fun!

Have a great weekend!

~ Ally ~

Scrap 'N Stamp ~ Christmas Critters Blog Hop *PRIZE*

Welcome to the Scrap 'N Stamp Christmas Critter Blog Hop!

Today's card features the adorable puppy and kitty from the Colorado Crafts "All Is Bright" stamp set.

I stamped my image in some super light ink first on my Kona grey paper.  I used my Polychromos Pencils to then color up the little Christmas scene.

I trimmed my grey colored panel with my Prism Studio "Stitched Rectangles Die" and popped it on some fun "Tartan" patterned paper from Craft Consortium. 

I stamped the adorable greeting on the front using Catherine Pooler's "Rouge" ink to complete my card.

To celebrate our critter hop, Scrap 'N Stamp is having a SALE on CRITTERS!  The sale will run Dec. 1st to 7th.

CHECK OUT THE CRITTER SALE HERE!! 

Plus we also have a FREE GIFT with PURCHASE happening right now.  Purchase $50 or more from the shop (before shipping & taxes) and you get the "Happy Feet" stamp set from Colorado Crafts!

 

 GIVEAWAY DETAILS!!

1.  Hop along and LEAVE A COMMENT on each designers blog post.
2.  A WINNER will be chosen by each designer along the hop to receive a $50 gift certificate to the store.
   
3. Winners will posted on the Scrap 'N Stamp blog on November 26th.  Good luck!

👉 NEXT BLOG:  Kia Gibson-Clapper

Thanks for stopping by and GOOD LUCK!

~ Ally ~