Happy Monday everyone! It's Amanda from Twiddler's Nook. I'm back this week to playing with all things beach! Have you noticed how much amazing beach-themed product has been released this year? It's over the top and I'm here for it! Today I took the time to play with Waffle Flower and Pretty Pink Posh beach releases from June. Still loving it all!
This card starting with the Waffle Flower Lighthouse and Coastline die sets. I love that the Coastline set comes with a simple coloring stencil and the lighthouse dies were so easy to put together! I used some copic markers on the lighthouse for dimension. Plus I added splatter to my sandy beach panel from the coastline.
Moving on to the background panel, I chose the Pretty Pink Posh Seashell background stencil and Lawn Fawn forget me not ink. Then I spritzed it with Solar Spray for shimmery texture.
I used liquid glue to adhere the lighthouse to the rock and then glued that whole scene to my background panel. I adhered that to a card base and moved on to choose my spattering of sentiment strips.
The Pretty Pink Posh sentiment strip dies and stamp series are literally one of the best investments I've ever made. They're available for every occasion and the perfect little addition to almost any design. I chose three from the Summer stamp set and cut them out with the smallest strip die, then adhered them with liquid glue too.
This might be the flattest card I've ever created. But it works so well and I love it!
I appreciate you sharing your time with me. Have a fabulous day!
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I don't know about you but I've been a long time fan of all things nautical/beachy. There is so much to enjoy out there right now with those themes. Here's how I was inspired today:
Let me introduce you to the purple crab. I googled 'crab colors' and caught an article about a purple crab that was spotted in the Philippines. My card features:
Waffle Flower - Inquisitive Crab | die
Waffle Flower - Nesting Piercing Ticket Frames | die
Waffle Flower - Coastal Greetings Combo | stamp & die
The crab was cut from Concord & 9th - Fig and inked up with their Grape Soda Ink. The cup outline was cut from Concord & 9th Powder with the interior panel from Lilac and inked with Grape Soda. The straw is Lilac and the boba is Nutmeg. The lid is vellum.
Gotta love a pun, love the sentiments in the Coastal Greeting set.
Crab + Boba? Sure! They are enjoying an Ube Milk Tea Boba.
Thanks so much for stopping by!
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Hey friends! This is Amanda from Twiddler's Nook and I interrupt your regularly scheduled summer fun for some spooky wishes featuring the Mama Elephant Halloween awesomeness that recently released! If you've been here for just a minute, you know Halloween is my favorite and any excuse to create for it has me ALL IN!
I had a general idea that I wanted to create a big sentiment with the adorable mummies and witches around and in the letters somehow. So I started with my background to set the tone and choose my color palette...perfect summerween colors! I used the Pretty Pink Posh Layered Stars stencil set on pink cardstock to start off with. I used Lawn Fawn carrot and jet black inks.
Next, I adhered white cardstock to craft foam and covered the back with adhesive sheet. Then I die cut my sentiment using the Lawn Fawn Henry's ABCs die set. This gave instant dimension with less work than cutting each letter 4 times and gluing them together. After arranging my letters together I chose a Spellbinders Emerald Cut Label die to cut from vellum as a backdrop.
Now that I had a general placement and size of open space, I chose a couple of mummies and a witch from the new Mama Elephant sets - Mummified and Bewitched. I stamped, colored and die cut them, then adhered each mummy with foam squares and the witch with liquid glue.
Hiding adhesive behind the letters and images, I adhered the vellum panel with tape runner to the stenciled background. Next, I used liquid glue to adhere the whole thing to a card base.
For finishing touches I added orange glitter brush pen to the sentiment and white gel pen highlights to the images.
On a scale from 1 to spooky, how much do you love crafting for Halloween?
I appreciate you sharing your time with me. Have a fabulous day!
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