diy cover panel + stock your stash challenge

A DIY cheesy cover panel is super easy to create with just a few circle dies and is the perfect pair for the Reverse Confetti Mouse Mail!

The current Reverse Confetti Stock Your Stash Challenge is Hello & Just Because...

...so I couldn't resist creating a silly mouse & cheese card to send to my littlest pen pal.

The card was fun to make and came together quickly so I made a little video to share...

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Carly

supplies:
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Reverse Confetti Mouse Mail

Hero Arts Dies, Infinity Nesting Circles

COPIC Sketch Marker B000, Pale Porcelain Blue

COPIC Sketch Marker C0, Cool Gray No. 0

COPIC Sketch Marker C1, Cool Gray No. 1

COPIC Sketch Marker C4, Cool Gray No. 4

COPIC Sketch Marker Y35, Maize

COPIC Sketch Marker E02, Fruit Pink

COPIC Sketch Marker R22, Light Prawn

COPIC Sketch Marker RV13, Tender Pink

making a shaped card front with the stamp market

Cards with shaped fronts are fun to send and easy to put together with minimal supplies like stamps and scissors!

The new Friendly Bunch floral stamp by The Stamp Market is perfect for creating a shaped card front. Here's a quick video tutorial on how I did it...

Thanks so much for stopping by and have a great day!

Hugs!
Carly

supplies:
affiliate links may be used at no additional cost to you. thank you! 
The Stamp Market Painted Polka Dot Background
The Stamp Market Friendly Bunch
The Stamp Market Double Take

COPIC Sketch Marker R22, Light Prawn

COPIC Sketch Marker RV13, Tender Pink

COPIC Sketch Marker RV14, Begonia Pink

COPIC Sketch Marker YG01, Green Bice

COPIC Sketch Marker YG11, Mignonette

COPIC Sketch Marker G00, Jade Green

Catherine Pooler Ink Pad, Mint To Be

Catherine Pooler Ink Pad, Melon Ice

Avery Elle Dye Ink Pad, New Moon

Neenah Cardstock, Neenah Classic Crest Solar White, 25 pk

My Sweet Petunia MISTI Laser Etched Stamping Tool (8-1/8 X 10-1/2)

iCraft Purple Tape

mini stamped scenes

Do you ever have a bunch of cute colored critters and no idea what to do with them? Me too! My solution is to create mini scenes for them (I'm still working up to a full scene, LOL)!

I'm thrilled to be over on the Neat & Tangled blog with a little more about mini scenes so come over and visit!

Hugs!
Carly

a summer card with sprinkles

Celebrate summer with a sprinkled ice cream bar card because happiness is rainbow sprinkles even when they are paper! Right?! 

I have a real obsession with sprinkles, in fact the sprinkles in this picture are my "craft room" sprinkles. LOL! They are made of real sugar but they are perfect for shaker cards and double-sided adhesive!

Today I'm super excited to be hopping with Reverse Confetti and our theme in summer! As you can see my love affair with the Hey Sugar and Polka Panel continues! I was going for a yellow polka dotted bikini with my background, using the Polka Panel as a stencil on top of yellow watercolor.

To create my sprinkled treat, I die cut 3 layers with the popiscle...pink cardstock, adhesive woodgrain paper and double-sided adhesive.

Then I trimmed and layered the popiscles, woodgrain & double-sided adhesive on top of cardstock.

I removed the second liner paper from the double-sided adhesive and added sprinkles!

What do you think? I might have gone a little overboard with the black splatter at the end but I still love it!

Now hop on over to Laurie's blog and here's the full list if you get lost!

• Amy Kolling
• Melissa Phillips
• Tricia Barber 
• Kelly Lunceford
• Lisa Henke
• Amy Rohl
• Carly Tee Minner
• Laurie Schmidlin
• Heather Hoffman
• Amy Tsuruta
• Kathy Schweinfurth
• Audrey Tokach
• Deanne Kuntz
• Tatiana Trafimovich
• Jeanne Jachna
• Olga Moss

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Hugs!

Carly

1 stamp and 3 mediums + meet trinity stamps

I am so very proud to introduce you to Trinity Stamps, a new company by my friend Taniesa! I met Taniesa a few years back at the Ellen Hutson warehouse and was instantly struck by what a sweet & genuine person she is. I am so excited to see her realize this dream and I'm also so excited to start collecting all her adorable stamps!!! 

To celebrate the Trinity Stamps grand opening, we are having a hop & there are prizes! Head over to the Trinity blog if you get lost along the hop and to learn more about prizes!

Today I'd like to share an exercise I do to spark my creativity...I create multiple backgrounds with the same layout & same stamps but different mediums. The Trinity Let Love Grow stamp set was the perfect set to play with because it has so many possibilities! I created 3 backgrounds...

Copics

I still consider myself a Copic newbie so any practice is a good thing!


Distress Oxides

I love a good ink blended background! To create this card, I stamped the succulents in black and then covered with a mask before blending the Distress Oxides on top.

Distress Markers

Any watercolor markers would work well for this technique but I do love my Distress colors! To create this dreamy, watercolor look just use markers to color directly on stamps, mist with water & stamp!

After creating all my backgrounds, I added sentiments, black splatter and sequins to create cards. And here is a video of a quick trick I use for adding sentiments to backgrounds without messing them up!

Make sure to check out the rest of the Trinity Stamps first release because it's gorgeous! And keep hopping with us onto Jo Ann's blog!

Hugs!

Carly

P.S. Please forgive my mess as my blog is under a bit of construction. If you are having trouble leaving a comment, just click the post title and scroll down.  

watercoloring over nuvo mousse + Ardyth's 1K YT video hop

I am so excited to be joining a REALLY talented group of makers today to celebrate our friend Ardyth! Ardyth has an awesome YouTube channel that just reached 1000 subscribers and its her birthday! Two very fun reasons to celebrate!

I have a quick video for you on using Nuvo Mousse with watercolor and after you’ve finished watching, please leave a comment for your chance to win, and then click on the link in the video description below for the next person in the hop. 

There are more than 20 participants on this video hop and there are prizes to be won! 

• One comment from each video on the hop will be chosen to win 2 Catherine Pooler inks of your choice. 
• One comment from the whole hop will be chosen to win a $25 Gift Certificate to Ellen Hutson LLC. 
• One comment from the whole hop will be chosen to win a prize pack valued at over $100 from A Jillian Vance Design. 
• And because today is also Ardyth’s birthday, she’s contributing three $25 Gift Certificates (one to Ellen Hutson LLC, one to Catherine Pooler Designs and one to A Jillian Vance Design) to three randomly-chosen comment on her video on YouTube. 

If you get lost along the way, go to Ardyth’s blog for the full list of participants.

All prizes will be announced on Monday, June,11 so you have until then to comment. Now onto to the video...  

Thank you so much for stopping by and have fun hopping along!

Hugs!
Carly

supplies:
affiliate links may be used at no additional cost to you. thank you! 

Essentials by Ellen Clear Stamps, Mondo Hydrangea by Julie Ebersole

Tonic Nuvo Embellishment Mousse, Mother of Pearl

Creative Expressions, Smoothies Minis

ZIG Clean Color Real Brush Marker 082, Purple

ZIG Clean Color Real Brush Marker 081, Light Violet

ZIG Clean Color Real Brush Marker 036, Light Blue

ZIG Clean Color Real Brush Marker 045, Pale Green

Catherine Pooler Ink Pad, Midnight

Essentials by Ellen Designer Dies, Sunshine Word by Julie Ebersole