congratulations award pin/card.

Hey everyone! I have an award pin/card to share today. I had a few different ideas for this project so I'll share a few with you & you can also check them out in more detail on my blog. Here's what I started with:

First, I cut this using the My Community Cricut cartridge at 5 1/2 inches. I used a mask & some misting for the background. The Gelatins stamp set I used is actually a baby shower themed set - little buddies. I used the circle stamps + the 'congratulations' sentiment. The inks are Prima chalk inks - farmer jeans & teal damask. I also used the small star stamp from the Little Buddies stamp set & heat embossed it with aqua ZING! embossing powder. 

When I was finished, I had a few ideas. Of course you could adhere a pin to the back of it so that it could be pinned onto your clothing. Or you could attach it as is to a card (misted with the same mask)...

 Or I thought you could even make it into a card. Simply cut a second shape in the same size & attach them at the top...

What other ideas do you have?

Hot Dog! It's a Birthday!

Hello again!  It's Jessica again with another fun card to share with you.  I have loved these sets since I first saw them and I had to use them together on this card.  I love the bright colors and I think it will be the perfect thing to give to a friend for a birthday along with a gift card to the movies.  Check it out...

I stamped the background with the Hot Diggity Dog set using yellow ink on yellow striped paper. I didn't want the patterned paper to just be a strip behind the sentiment, so I decided to punch out some pieces and line them up on the card.  The paper adds a little more color into the card as well.  The ribbon was added after running it through my Xyron 150 and then pleating it as I attached it to the card.  This is a really easy technique and adds a little dimension to the card as well.  The buttons and the background paper were also attached with Xyron machines and my chipboard and stamped sentiment are attached with some foam adhesive that I made with my (you guessed it) Xyron machine.  :)  This was a pretty quick card, and I can't wait to get back in my scrap room and play with these sets some more.  Be Sure to check out the gel-a-tins Facebook page as well as the Xyron Facebook page this week.  You won't want to miss a thing!

Father's Day Shifting Gears

Hi everyone! I hope you aren't suffering too much from the Monday Blues! :-)

Father's Day is fast approaching so today I'm bringing you a great card for Dad featuring the Gel-à-Tins Shifting Gears set!

I went for a CAS-meets-grunge effect and came up with this:

Perfect for an engineer or geek dad huh?!

I started with some silver cardstock and embossed the gears using a brass embossing powder. Then I tried something new - sprinkled embossing! I dipped a wide, flat, soft brush into my embossing powder and tapped it above the card base to sprinkle on the powder before heating it. Love how this turned out!

To finish up the design I rubbed a couple of different grey inkpads over the card to dirty it up a little, then embossed a Father's Day sentiment - and that's all there is to it!


Supplies Used:

Gel-à-Tins:
Shifting Gears

Other:
World's Greatest Dad stamp set (Papertrey Ink)
Pressed Greige Linen & I Steel Got It inks (Clear And Simple Stamps), Versamark ink (Tsukineko)
Sterling Silver cardstock (Clear And Simple Stamps)
Metallic Brass embossing powder (WOW!)

I'm looking forward to seeing you again when I next post! Have a great day everyone and thanks for stopping by!

Happy Birthday!

Sweet Hearts is a a great set to help celebrate any Valentines Day or Just for fun hand made card, layouts or other paper-crafting projects. This sweet set with 7 stamps.

Comes packaged in our signature medium 4.5" x 5.5" metal storage tin.  I used the cupcake stamp and some co-ordination paper from docrafts to give someone a little Birthday Treat!

 

SKU SHR-3589

 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

 

 

PRODUCTS USED

 

Gel-a-tins 'Sweet Hearts' Stamp Set

Xyron Mega Runner

Xyron 150 X Create-a-Sticker

Crafters Companion Embossalicious 8x8 'Grande Dots' folder

Spectrum Noir Pens

docrafts 'Little Cake Shoppe' Papers

Spellbinders frame die



 

 

Wishing You a Sweet Day

Hello Gel-A-Tins Fans! Kate here today, sharing a sweet card made with Gel-A-Tins "Sweet Cakes" Collection.  I don't know about you, but a cupcake can brighten any day for me! 

Here are the steps I used to create this simply sweet card:

1. Start with a 4.25" x 5.5"  Kraft card base.
2. Die cut out a Poloroid frame.
3. Stamp sentiment onto die cut frame with black ink.
4. Stamp cupcake bottom from Sweet Cakes onto colorful cardstock in complementary darker color, then fussy cut the image.
5. Stamp the cupcake from Sweet Cakes onto a different colorful cardstock in a complementary lighter color, then fussy cut the image.
6. Glue the die cut & stamped frame onto the card base.  
7. Add a little bling to the stamped cupcake top....looks like sprinkles, doesn't it?
8. Add ZapDots to the back of the stamped cupcake images and create the cupcake in center for the frame.
9. Give to someone to brighten their day! 

Gel-A-Tins Supplies:

Sweet Cakes Collection

Other Supplies:

Core'dinations Cardstock & Glitter Cardstock

Bazzill Smooth Kraft

Quick Quotes Powder Puff Chalking Inks

Archival Ink by Ranger

Helmar Premium Craft Glue & ZapDots

Have a sweet day! 

Kate 

gel-a-tins Merci

Hello, everyone! Hope you are having a great weekend so far! Today I am sharing a CAS card using 

gel-a-tins Big & Wild Things and Merci stamp sets:

I love the large images. It made it very easy to use multiple colors on the stamp. At first, I inked the image with the light blue color. Next, I took the darker blue and lightly tapped around the outer part of the bloom. To finish the card, I added a simple sentiment. The image/sentiment is added to a blue mat, with rounded edges.

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Supplies:
gel-a-tins - Big & Wild Things and Merci stamp sets
Colorbox Bright Collection

Happy Tails!

You are going to be wagging your tail over this darling set of puppies!

The Cosmo Pups set has a lot of charm and sweetness to it!

So many dogs, so many patterns, so many occasions...

I love the little added images of the paw prints and the bones.

Bark if you like this one...

Ruff!! Ruff!

'love knots' stamp on a 12x12 page.

Hope everyone is having a great weekend! I finished a 12x12 layout with my love knots stamp that I wanted to share. I love this stamp! It measures about 4x5 inches x 5.5 inches.

I used three inks in sort of an ombre efffect - red, pink, orange,yellow. Here is a close up so you can see the detail better.

It actually turned out much better than I expected! Always a happy surprise! :) For more details about my page, please visit my blog Markland & Main. Thanks for stopping by today!

Joy and Flowers!

Hello and Happy Monday everyone!  I hope that our fans in the U.S are having a good holiday with their families and that those of you that live outside the U.S. are doing well.  At my house we're getting ready to spend some time with friends and family and I am looking forward to it. 

I spent some time this weekend putting a card together to share with you and I hope you like it.  It's a fairly simple card, but I think you get a lot of bang for your buck!

I'm sure that you've noticed that this size is my favorite for cards. :)  I just really like the look and it gives you a great canvas for showing off a pretty patterned paper.  This is all from a Basic Grey pack that I picked up at the Mesa CKC I went to in April.  It took so little paper to get so much impact on this card.

I layered the two patterns you see and then used three more little pieces for the stamped items.  The two different leaves are from one stamp set and the circle and sentiment are from the Chocolate Bliss set.  I just loved that simple look for the sentiment with all the busy papers and the fancy flower. 

Speaking of that fancy flower, if you're like me you buy those things and you're almost afraid to use them on a project, right?  They're just so pretty and they can be an investment depending on what your LSS charges.  A card like this puts the focus on your stamped images and that sparkly flower and really shows it off. 

I do want to talk about the sentiment too.  A simple sentiment like that can be used so many ways.   This could easily be a birthday card or a congratulations card for a new house or baby or new job or graduation.  Think outside the box when you're using your stamps!  You can get so much use out of a set!

Thanks so much for stopping by today!  Be sure to check out all the other projects here on the blog.  The girls have been hard at work making beautiful projects to share with you and we have some exciting things to share with you this summer.  You won't want to miss any of it!

Different Is Good

Hi everyone! Aren't you glad it's the weekend?! :-)

Today I'm bring you another fun card featuring the Gel-à-Tins Take Me To Your Leader stamp set!

I love finding quirky ways to use stamps and decided to create a design featuring just one of the robots but in a different way:

Fun huh?!

I started with some steel cardstock and stamped the pattern of robots with a co-ordinating ink. I then overstamped one of them with watermark ink and embossed with red embossing powder.

To finish up the design I added a sticker sentiment that really captured the spirit of this card! Love how it turned out!

Supplies Used:

Gel-à-Tins:
Take Me To Your Leader

Other:
I Steel Got It ink (Clear And Simple Stamps), Versamark ink (Tsukineko)I Steel Got It cardstock (Clear And Simple Stamps)
Apple Red embossing powder (WOW!)
Life Tiny Text stickers (Cosmo Cricket)

I'm looking forward to seeing you again when I next post! Have a great day everyone and thanks for stopping by!