Brutus Monroe Blog Hop

Hi Crafty Friends! I am excited to be participating in a blog hop with my friends over at Brutus Monroe.

I had such a great time guest designing this month and I was honored to be asked to participate in the team blog hop.  For my project, I decided to showcase this beautiful paper collection called Rustic florals. 

This paper is so beautiful, and I knew when I saw it, I had to have it. I decided to create a layered card using this paper set and some black card stock.

So I started out by cutting my first layer using one rectangular dies I had in my stash.  Then I cut a piece of black card stock about 1/4 inch larger around the edged.  

Then I took then next smaller die and did the same thing and adhered this layer onto the first layer. 

I wanted my final layer to stand out a bit more, so I adhered that using some double sided foam tape.

I decided to go simple with my sentiment and cut out the word "HI" several times with one of my letter sets. As a final touch, I added some black Nuvo drops.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Gingerbread House

Hi everyone! Well as you probably know by now, I am celebrating all month long with my Christmas in July. I am also guest designing over on the Brutus Monroe blog so I thought it would be fun to incorporate some of his stamps into my series.

Today i am working with the stamp set called Gingerbread Village. This set is so cute and there are so many possibilities with it. Let me show you what I created.

I made a few cards using this stamp set and the first time I stamped everything on white card stock and colored in the images using my copic markers. But I know that everyone does not have copic markers, so I decided to show you another way to get around a lot of the coloring. 

Kraft Card stock is the perfect color for gingerbread. So I stamped my house and gingerbread man onto some kraft card stock.  Before fussy cutting the images, I adhered some double sided adhesive so that I could create stickers.  I find with smaller images, it is easier to use double sided adhesive that way I know they will have a strong adhesive.

I used my red copic marker to color in the candy canes and chimney and my green copic marker for my wreath.  For the white, i used Faber-Castell Pitt artist pen. I matted the white card stock onto some black card stock.

Then I took another piece of white card stock and created a red and white checkered border using washi tape. I adhered my black card stock onto this piece.

The scarf, hat and boots adhered to my little gingerbread man so easily as stickers. I highly recommend this when working with smaller objects.

I adhered this panel onto my card base and as a final touch added clear Nuvo drops over the white snow to make it glisten. 

Here is a closer look.

Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies

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