Picnic Pals with Brutus Monroe!

 Happy Friday! I have a super cute card for you today featuring Brutus Monroe! This month's subscription box is here and it is all about picnics! "Picnic Pals" comes with the stamp set and matching dies, cardstock, sequins, ribbon, preprinted panels, sentiment strips and a super cute pin! 

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To make my card, I started by ink blending the background with a layering stencil I already had from Brutus Monroe called "Zig Heart". To make the grass, I blended Mowed Lawn distress oxide through one of the dot zig zags and moved the stencil up to do the next line. Each time, I masked off the zig zags that I already blended.

To make the sky, I did the same thing using one of the heart zig zags from the Zig Heart stencil and Salvaged Patina distress ink. Then, I trimmed the grass in two pieces so I could have a staggered look.

I glued the grass to the sky panel and trimmed it down to 4" x 5 1/4". Then I stamped and die cut the images from the picnic pals stamp set. I colored them in with my Copic Markers and adhered them to my card panel. I added a few small flowers from the set that I turned into butterflies. To finish the card off, I stamped the sentiment on the card panel and then adhered the panel to a piece of brown cardstock from the subscription box. I think this set is just so super cute!!!

Copics used:

Sun: Y000, Y11, Y15, Y17

Birds: BG10, BG13, YR04

Shirt: W0, W1

Pants: BG18, BG23

Bunny W0, W1, R20

Flower V01, V12, V15 YG01, YG23

Butterflies: Y11, Y15, E31

Thank you for stopping by! 

Kimberly

Day 3 The Rabbit Hole Designs Release Blog Hop!

Day 3 of The Rabbit Hole Designs Release Blog hop!! Everyone needs a fun door hanging for the perfect halloween decoration and these witch booties fit that bill. How cute is this pair of shoes??!!?? The Right Shoes stamp set is illustrated by Tatsiana Zayats and has matching dies. 

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To make this shaker card, I first ran the Cat Eye stencil and a piece of vellum through my die cutting machine to emboss it. I mounted it behind a frame cut out of patterned paper. Next I used the crystal clear foam tape to make the shaker. I loved the clear foam tape for this because the cardstock I used was black and it doesn't show the layer of white that the regular foam tape would have. I added the sequin and attached a piece of white cardstock so you could see the shaker elements. Then, I adhered that to the black card base. 

Next, I stamped and fussy cut the shoe image and spiders from The Right Shoes stamp set. I didn't die cut it because the matching dies cut off the wall hanging string and I wanted this to look like it was hanging. Then, I colored in the image along with the spiders and mounted them on the card. To finish the card, I stamped the sentiment and cut it in half so I could stager the placement on the card. I layered it on a strip of black cardstock and adhered it to the card. I also used an epoxy drop on the card to look like it is holding the shoe strings. 

Thank you for stopping by! Don't forget to HOP along with the rest of my amazing team!

The Rabbit Hole Designs

Amanda

Jenn

Joy

Kim {You are here}

Lauren {Next Stop}

Tangii

Terra 

Vanessa

GIVEAWAYS:

To celebrate the next three days of release, The Rabbit Hole Designs is giving away two savings vouchers; one to a lucky Instagram Follower and one to a lucky Fan Page follower. Winner will be chosen at random from the comments left on the INSTAGRAM post, and tagging friends, and also from commenting on the Fan Page post. So make sure to head on over to INSTAGRAM and look for the giveaway post @therabbitholedesignsllc and look for the post at The Rabbit Hole Designs Fan Page by 11:59 p.m. PST 07-29-2021. Winner will be announced on The Rabbit Hole Designs blog 07-30-2021.

Hello Friend with some Shimmer! {The Hedgehog Hollow}

 Hello there! I would like to share this retro friend card with you today! This month's Hedgehog Hollow subscription box has so many fun products to create with.

 

I was not able to get a great photo of the shimmer on the finished card, but the spots in the background are all Yellowstone kaleidoscope powder. So shiny!!! To start my card, I ink blended Pop Art color hive ink and Yellowstone color hive ink through the stencil.

 

Next, I stamped one of the images from the Atomic Age stamp set using Fog color hive ink randomly around the stenciled panel. Then, I blended Pop Art and Yellowstone around the edges of the panel.

 

Next, I mixed the Yellowstone kaleidoscope powder with a little water and sprayed it over the panel. I dried it with my heat gun and sprayed it lightly with hairspray to set the powder.

 

I stamped the Hello friend image from the Mid Century set three times on a piece of Ultra white cardstock. I fussy cut out one full image and two "hello" sentiments from he image. I colored them with Copics and gently sprayed them with my Yellowstone Kaleidoscope powder/water mixture. Once it dried, I lightly sprayed them with hairspray. Then, I began assembling my card. I attached my stenciled panel to a card base of Welch Dragon cardstock using foam tape. Then, I attached the two "hello" sentiments and the "hello friend" image using foam squares. To finish the card, I added a few Solar Flair Crown Jewel Gems.

Thank you so much for stopping by!

Kimberly 

 

New Release Day 2 TRHD and it is SCARY!

 Hello crafty friends! Today is day two of The Rabbit Hole Designs Blog Hop and August release. It is all about Halloween. The Halloween Cupcake stamp set and the Cat Eye Stencil are my favorite from this release.  I always love Tatsiana Zayats illustrated stamps. They are so sweet!

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I started out ink blending the Cat Eye Stencil with Cathrine Pooler Aquatini ink on a panel of Welsh Dragon cardstock. Then, I stagger stamped the sentiment from the Halloween Cupcake stamp set on white cardstock using lawn fawn Narwhal ink. next, I randomly stamped the different sized spiders on that panel using black ink. I stamped the pumpkin from the Halloween Cupcake stamp set and die cut it using the matching Halloween Cupcake die. I drew in some circles on the wrapper and colored it in using copics. 

Finally, I assembled the card. I layered the sentiment panel to a piece of black cardstock and added foam tape to attach it to the stenciled background. then, I popped the cupcake up on foam tape and added that to the sentiment panel. 

Thank you for stopping by! I hope you create something spooky today! Make sure you hop along with the rest of my talented teammates!

The Rabbit Hole Designs

Kelly

Kim {You are here}

Tangii {next stop}

GIVEAWAYS:

To celebrate the next three days of release, The Rabbit Hole Designs is giving away two savings vouchers; one to a lucky Instagram Follower and one to a lucky Fan Page follower. Winner will be chosen at random from the comments left on the INSTAGRAM post, and tagging friends, and also from commenting on the Fan Page post. So make sure to head on over to INSTAGRAM and look for the giveaway post @therabbitholedesignsllc and look for the post at The Rabbit Hole Designs Fan Page by 11:59 p.m. PST 07-29-2021. Winner will be announced on The Rabbit Hole Designs blog 07-30-2021.

Watercoloring with Color Hive inks {Maker Forte}

Hello! Kimberly here to share with you a card I made using what I am going to call sloppy watercoloring. I am not a painter. I pretty much just get by when I watercolor my images. One day I will take a formal lesson, but for now, I am just going to have fun with it!

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 To start, I embossed this floral image from the Maker Forte Varada Sharma "Grateful To You" stamp set on a 3 1/2" x 6 1/2" piece of watercolor paper using Color Hive embossing ink and white embossing powder. Next, I smooshed Yellowstone color hive ink and Tiptree Jam color hive ink on my glass mat. Using a wet paintbrush, I picked up the Yellowstone ink and filled in the two main flowers.

Before the ink could dry, I picked up Tiptree Jam ink on my clean brush and just dotted the Tiptree Jam ink all over the yellow flowers. This is where sloppy came into play. No rhyme or reason, just spots...all over!

Next, I cleaned my brush and with clean water, I blended the colors together. I also added some Yellowstone ink in areas that I missed the first time.

To finish the image, I used Palm Tree color hive ink on the leaves, Acid Wash color hive ink for the berries and combined Purple Rain color Hive ink and Acid Rain color hive for the smaller flowers.

While I waited for the ink to dry, I stamped the image on a piece of Gina K. masking paper and fussy cut it out. It is important to cut extremely close to the lines of the image when you mask. It will affect the ink placement on your project if you leave too much white space around the image. Once the ink dried, I removed the back of the masking paper and lined it up over the painted image. Then, I blended Fog color hive ink over the Alex Syberia 3D background stencil and removed the mask.

To finish the card, I added the "Happy Birthday" sentiment to the card panel using Eclipse Black color hive ink. Then, stamped the "To my friend" sentiment on a strip of white cardstock. I layered it on a piece of eclipse black cardstock and popped it up on foam tape. Finally, I put foam tape on the whole white panel and adhered it to a card base of British Racing Green cardstock.

Thank you for stopping by! I hope my sloppy watercoloring technique works for you if you decide to try it and I would love to see what you make!

Kimberly

Have a Quacky Birthday! {Brutus Monroe}

 Hello! I have a super cute card to share today featuring the Brutus Monroe Splish Splash Inspiration Box. This really is an adorable box! I have shared baby cards, thinking of you and inspirational cards using this box. Today's card is a birthday card. I used the egg stamps in the set and made them into balloons and I really just adore this little duck! 

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To start, I ink blended the brick wall stencil using Antique Linen distress oxide on white cardstock. Then I put a post it note just touching the bottom 1/4 of the cardstock and blended Walnut Stain oxide to give him a ground to sit on. Next, I stamped and die cut the duck and birthday hat using the included matching Splish Splash dies.  I stamped out three eggs and drew on the bottom of each the little knot that would be at the end of a balloon. Then I fussy cut them. I colored them in with Copic Markers and assembled the card on a Lagoon card base. I did draw in the string that holds the balloons using a black Copic Multiliner. This was a super easy card to make and I really just love the Splish Splash inspiration box!!! It is such a great value! It comes with the stamps and dies but costs less that the stamp and die set together, plus you get so many added extras that you WILL want to use! 

I hope I inspired you to create something today!! Thank you for stopping by!

Kimberly

Sparkling Warm Wishes!

 Hello crafty friends! I am so smitten with The Rabbit Hole Designs new release "Hoppy Holidays" illustrated by Tatsiana! Isn't this bunny the sweetest?

To make this card, I blended Speckled Egg distress oxide through the Splish Splash stencil on Kraft cardstock. Then, without lifting it, I spread glitter paste through the stencil over the distress ink. Next, I put it to the side to dry. 

While I waited for the glitter paste to dry, I stamped the image from the "Hoppy Holidays" stamp set on Kraft cardstock, colored it in with Copic markers and fussy cut it out. Then, I stamped the sentiment on a strip of Kraft cardstock. I cut a flag in one end and layered it on a piece of blue cardstock. 

Once the glitter paste dried, I wrapped twine around the card and tied a bow. I popped the stenciled background up on foam tape and added it to a blue card base. To finish the card, I popped the image up on foam tape, attached it to the card and tucked the sentiment under the bow. 

Thank you so much for stopping by! I hope I have inspired you to create something today!!

Kimberly

Quick and Easy with Mermaid Kisses {Brutus Monroe}

Hello crafty friends! I just wanted to share with you a few quick and easy cards I made using the pre printed panels from the Brutus Monroe Mermaid Kisses Inspiration Box! These three cards are all using preprinted panels in the kit along with the pre printed sentiments also in the kit.  

When I get a kit to work on, I immediately stamp a bunch of the images and either die cut them (which this kit comes with the matching dies) or cut the images out using my Brother scan n cut. Having a bunch of images stamped and cut makes it super easy to build a scene because you don't waste time on coloring something you won't use. Once I have set up my scenes on the card and know exactly how I want it to look, then I color my images to match the color scheme I am going for. So I set to work stamping the images from Mermaid Kisses.

For this car, I colored in the seaweed and just a few of the fish. I wanted mostly a black and white background. Then I die cut the center, added acetate and sequins from the kit and popped it up on a card base using Sea cardstock. I added the images I colored in, a sentiment strip and a couple of baubles from the kit...Done! So quick and easy.

 For this card, I made a rough mask to cover the image at the top of the preprinted panel and ink blended over the Brutus Monroe Turbine stencil {which I purchased separately from the kit} using Tumbled Glass distress oxide. Then, I colored in the images and the panel using Copic Markers. I attached the images and sentiment strip, using foam tape on a couple to pop them up for dimension. Finally I attached it to a card base using a piece of Sea cardstock.

This final card is only a preprinted panel and a sentiment strip. No stamped images were added to this! I made a rough mask to go around the images and ink blended over the Brutus Monroe Tangled Waves Stencil using Mermaid lagoon distress oxide. Then, I colored in the panel and added a sentiment strip. I attached it to a piece of cardstock from the kit and DONE!!! 

How cute are these cards and they were so easy to make! I have had so much fun using the Mermaid Kisses inspiration box. It has everything to make some real adorable cards! Thank you for stopping by! I hope I inspired you to create something today!!

Kimberly

Gingerbread Christmas {Maker Forte}

 Hello! I just love Christmas in July! It is so enjoyable to make cards for the holidays when the holiday stress doesn't accompany me in my creative space. I made these cards using the new Maker Forte Gingerbread Village and Modern Christmas Sentiment stamp sets. The Tiptree Jam and Palm Tree ink pads were perfect for this project!

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For my first card, I heat embossed the strip of gingerbread houses from the Gingerbread Village stamp set a few times on Kraft cardstock. Then, I stamped and colored three of the single gingerbread houses on Ultra white cardstock. Next, I fussy cut them and adhered the outer two directly to the card. I popped the middle one up on foam tape. To finish the card, I heat embossed the sentiment from the Modern Christmas Sentiments stamp set on a strip of Eclipse black cardstock. Then, I popped it up under the gingerbread houses. I rubbed white ink around the perimeter of the Kraft card panel and popped it up on a Teetree Jam card base with foam tape.

For my second card, I ink blended Tiptree Jam Color Hive ink through the first layer of the Flurry of Flowers Stencil on Kraft cardstock.

Next, I ink blended Palm Tree Color Hive ink through the second layer of the Flurry of Flowers layering Stencil.

Then, I stamped and colored a gingerbread house from the Gingerbread Village stamp set. I fussy cut it and added foam tape to the back. I stamped the sentiment on a strip of ultra white cardstock and popped it up on foam tape. Next, I cut out a strip of Tiptree Jam cardstock and rubbed white ink on the edge of the strip and stenciled panel. 

Finally, I assembled the card. I added foam tape to the stenciled panel and popped it up on a Palm Tree card base. Then, I added a vellum snowflake I had in my stash and popped the gingerbread house on top of it. Next, I adhered the strip of Tiptree Jam cardstock under the gingerbread house and popped up the sentiment strip on top. Lastly, I added some clear embellishments I had in my stash and ran a Wink of Stella Pen over the snowflake, gingerbread house, and sentiment. Unfortunately, I cannot capture that shine in my picture.

Thank you for stopping by! I hope I inspired you to make some holiday cards!

You're the Best! {Hedgehog Hollow subscription Box}

 Hi there! Kimberly here to share a card I made with this months Hedgehog Hollow subscription box. I just love the retro theme! With a few extra products from Maker Forte, this retro shaker card was created!

How fun are these colors together? I started out blending Acid Wash color hive ink through one of the "mirage layering stencils". Then I lined up and blended Purple Rain color hive ink through the other. Next, I used some texture paste with the "50s Wallpaper Stencil" over the ink blended background.

While I waited for the texture paste to dry, I stamped the sentiment from the "Roadside Attractions" stamp set and fussy cut it out. Then I prepared the Coronation Purple card base. Once the texture paste was dry, I die cut a rectangle out of the center and adhered the cut out to the card base so it would be lined up when I attach the stenciled panel. I decided last minute to add an image from the "Atomic Age" stamp set using Eclipse Black color hive ink. I glued acetate to the underside of the stenciled panel and added foam tape for the shaker. Next, I added a bunch of Acid Wash Crown Jewel Gems to the center and attached the stenciled panel. To finish the card, I glued the sentiment to the center of the acetate and added a few of the Acid Wash Crown Jewel Gems.

Thank you for stoping by! I hope I inspired you to create something today! This is such a fun kit!!!
Kimberly

I Sea it's your Birthday!! {Brutus Monroe Mermaid Kisses}

Hello and Happy Friday! I am so excited to share another card I made using the awesome Brutus Monroe Mermaid Kisses Inspiration Box. I just love everything in this box and have really enjoyed creating with it!

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I started out ink blending Speckled Egg distress oxide over the whole white panel. Then, I ink blended Spun Sugar, Milled Lavender, and Speckled Egg distress oxide over the Brutus Monroe Sea Skin Stencil (that I purchased separate from the inspiration box). 

I had different plans than the final outcome so I ended up covering this with an oval spotlight stencil to block off part of the center which you will see in the next picture. However, that is not necessary for the outcome of the card. I covered the whole stencil with glitter glaze for that shiny scale look and let it dry.

While I wanted for it to dry, I stamped and cut out the mermaid, a turtle, and a few other underwater elements and colored with Copics. Then,  I cut a card base and an oval frame out of a piece of Heather cardstock that was included in the inspiration box. I trimmed out two of the sentiments from the sentiment strips in the Inspiration Box and gathered everything to assemble the card.

I adhered the scale panel to the Heather card base with foam tape. Then I arranged all of the images on the scale panel and glued them down. I popped up the mermaid and the turtle with foam tape. I realized after I had glued everything down, the scales were upside down. (Yikes!) I think I wanted the blue on the bottom the whole time and my focus was on that and not the direction of the scales. To finish the card, I added the clear bubbles and some sequins from the Inspiration Box. I really love how this turned out even with a few minor whoopsies! 

Thank you for stopping by! I hope I inspired you to create something today!

Kimberly

Wishing you a Merry Christmoose!

Hello crafty friends!!! I love this new The Rabbit Hole Designs Christmoose-Moosmas set illustrated by Tatsiana!!! How sweet are those adorable birds that are adorning this festive moose's antlers???!!??? I had so much fun creating with this set this month.

 

I started out by stamping the snowflake stamp from the Christmoose-Moosemas set all over my white panel with embossing ink. I heat embossed white embossing powder over the ink. Then, I ink blended Twisted Citron Oxide ink and Tumbled Glass Oxide ink through my Splish Splash stencil over the embossed snowflakes. I used a tissue to wipe any excess ink off the snowflakes. Next I stamped, colored  and cut out the Moose image and glued it to the white stenciled background. 

 

To finish the card, I stamped the sentiment on a white strip, layered it on a green strip of cardstock and adhered it with foam tape. Then, layered my card front on a green card base. 

 

Thank you for stopping by! I hope I inspired you to create something today!!

Kimberly