Seashell Shaker Card

 Hi friends! It's Amanda from Twiddler's Nook with a really fun seashell shaker card to share with you. I mixed and matched more of the Pretty Pink Posh and Waffle Flower June beach releases to make this one. They just play so well together, it's natural.

I started this card by playing with the Waffle Flower Seashell Frame die and stencil combo. I cut the frame from white cardstock and chose an assortment of Lawn Fawn dye inks to color it in, one layer at a time.

Next, I cut the Pretty Pink Posh Seashell Shaker die - solid once from white cardstock and once from acetate, then I cut the shaker frame from white cardstock 6 time. I inked one of them lightly with teal and apricot inks. I glued all of the white frames to the solid base, and glued the inked frame to the acetate. Next, I filled the shaker wells with glitter, microbeads and heart confetti before gluing the top layer in place.

While that was drying, I took a piece of white cardstock and spritzed it with Distress Oxide Spray and Distress Spritz for color and shimmer.

Last, I stamped and heat embossed a sentiment from the Waffle Flower Coastal Greetings stamp and die combo. Now, with all the elements finished and dry, I started assembling the layers with liquid glue, except the sentiment which I popped up with foam squares.

I appreciate you sharing your time with me. Have a fabulous day! 

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Waffle Flower Coastal Greetings stamps and dies

Waffle Flower Seashell Frame die and stencil

Pretty Pink Posh Seashell Shaker dies

Lawn Fawn inks - juice box, blue jay, guava, peach fuzz, mermaid

Embossing and watermark ink

Embossing powder - white

Magic anti-static bag

Foam squares

Liquid glue

Blending brushes

Spill the Tea

 I'm a big fan of all things capybara so I was a happy crafter with Lawn Fawn's newest release.  Here's how I was inspired:

I also have a fun mash up of products.  Here's what I'm featuring today:

• Lawn Fawn - Capybaras! | stamps + lawn cuts
• Mama Elephant - Boba Tea | stamps + Creative Cuts
• Concord & 9th - Afternoon Tea - stamps + dies
• Mama Elephant - Bella Frame | creative cuts
• Pretty Pink Posh - Citrus | layered stencil 3

Do you see what I did? Rather than having oranges, they are having pink grapefruits.

Thank you so much for stopping by!

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Heading Back to the Beach

 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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Let's Shell-ebrate!

 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
• Lawn Fawn - Build-a-Drink - Bubble Tea Add-On | lawn cuts
• Lawn Fawn - Stripes 'n Sprinkles | 6x6

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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Spooky Wishes

 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!

 Links to products used or recommended are listed below:

Mama Elephant Mummified stamps and dies

Mama Elephant Bewitched stamps and dies

Pretty Pink Posh Layered Stars stencils

Spellbinders Emerald Cut Labels dies

Blending brushes

Lawn Fawn inks - Carrot and Jet Black

Liquid glue

Adhesive sheets

Craft foam

Foam squares

Hey sunshine!

I'm a long time fan of all things nautical so I've been really enjoying the current papercrafting trend.

 My card features:

• Waffle Flower - Floral Anchor | die
• Pretty Pink Posh - Sentiment Strips - Summer | stamps
• Pretty Pink Posh - Eyelet Circles

I googled nautical color combos and went with this one:

source

I think this might be a new go to color combo!

What has you inspired these days?

Thank you so much for stopping by!

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