Cheers and Sips Masculine Card for Lets Craft Together Blog Hop - plus a surprise card!

Welcome back to another Let's Craft Together Blog Hop! This months theme is Masculine Birthday - my favourite type of card to make. I'm surrounded by men/boys - I'm outnumbered at home. This really is my most favourite type of card to create. I feel like many people struggle to create a masculine card, I love the challenge. Keep reading till the end to see a surprise card!

I have created what I'm calling the Ice tray card. The reverse side of Stampin' Up! DSP packs are usually block colours with a slight pattern and make this pack of Celebratory Sips has the perfect background for my creation.

Lets take a closer look at this card.

Using the Cheers and Sips bundle and dsp pack, I have cut 1-1/2" squares from 2 sheets of DSP and glued them to sheet of Basic white (3-1/2 x 5-1/8"). The next frame is Timid Tiger - my new favourite orange! Then finally adhered to a Secret Sea card base. 

The images are stamped and die cut in the same colours and lifted with a foam dimensional.

The inside is a collage of the same images.

I've been so looking forward to use this bundle, I'm glad I've had a chance to use it for this blog hop!

NOW for the SURPRISE! I was so inspired by this card layout I really wanted to use the reverse side of the papers I used to recreate the same card. 

Heres what I created.. what do you think? 

I can almost taste the summer cocktail. These colours are pretty and work so well together.

Strawberry Slush, Blackberry Bliss and Old Olive.

I never forget the inside, this time I mixed it up with stamping and embossed images.

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Thanks so much for stopping by and hopefully I have inspired your creativity. I love reading your comments, be sure to leave me a quick hello below! 

Embrace Beautiful Gallery for July's Lets Craft Together Blog Hop

 Welcome back to another Let's Craft Together Blog Hop! This months theme is RUSTIC themed.

I have created a scrappy card with strips from the DSP pack Beautiful Gallery. You could say I couldn't just pick one sheet to work with as they are ALL beautiful and rustic!

Here's the challenge picture

Lets take a closer look at this card.

I really love how the strips, although being very different still do compliment each other so well when laid out together. These strips were the 'leftovers' from a series of cards I was making - see below for the unfinished culprit cards. 

The sentiment and arch dies are from this stamp/bundle - Everyday Arches
The sentiment is stamped in the new InColour Secret Sea, on Cloud Cover cardstock. 

Heres the set of cards that left me with quite a few strips!

I really couldn't bring myself to cover the front with anything... the paper really does sing on its own!

Which is your favourite? 

This cards design is always fun and a great way to make use of what may otherwise end up in the bin. 

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Thanks so much for stopping by and hopefully I have inspired your creativity. I love reading your comments, be sure to leave me a quick hello below! 

Silver and Gold BLING IT UP for June's Lets Craft Together Blog Hop

 Welcome back to another Let's Craft Together Blog Hop! I have been MIA lately. Its been a busier than expected 2025, but I'm back now and ready to get crafty again. This months theme is BLING IT UP! Looking around my stash - which is pretty thin and empty at the moment, I struggled to think of what I would create to represent this theme.

I have created this Silver and Gold Floating Strip card, let me show you how to make it.

If you look closely you'll see both silver and gold foil sheet strips which are cut at 1/4" and 3/4" in width. The wider strips I dry embossed with the WAVES 3d emboss folder. 

How great does the embossed parts look? 

Your project will start here - laying out all the strips, adhere the thin ones so you can emboss the others and easily slide the back into place. 

Cut off any excess. 

To make it 'float' - add foam dimensionals on the thicker strips and adhere directly to your white card base.

I'm loving the embossed effect, it really pops!

Some simple stamping on the inside and a gold embossed leaf to match the front

This stamp set was easy to use, easy to fussy cut and great for embossing in Silver and Gold too.  

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Thanks so much for stopping by and hopefully I have inspired your creativity. I love reading your comments, be sure to leave me a quick hello below! 

Birdhouse Easel Card

Today I'm sharing this beautiful Birdhouse Easel card using some bold cardstock and the large dies from the Country Birdhouse Bundle. I've gone with Cherry Cobbler, Bubble Bath, Old Olive and Basic Black.

Lets take a closer look at this card. I really loved layering all the die cut pieces to create an interesting and detailed birdhouse. 

Creating a Simple Easel card is easy

* Cut your card base lengthways 10.5cm x30.5cm

* Score along the long edge at 14.9cm and 4cm 

* Attach a piece of card stock that extends past the 4cm fold

Dont forget the inside - I added a cute little bird and raised it with a foam dimensional to add as a stopper for the easel flap. 

Thanks so much for stopping by and hopefully I have inspired your creativity. I love reading your comments, be sure to leave me a quick hello below!