Decoupaged Napkin Cards

Posted on December 7, 2018 by dannscraftingwhims

Why, hello there! I’m glad you’ve stopped back by! Today I have some fun cards to share with you. Seeing one of Janis’s projects over at HerPeacefulGarden reminded me that I had done some decoupage cards with napkins a few years ago that I never got around to posting. We’d gone to my cousin’s husband’s family’s house and she showed us all how to apply those pretty napkins like you get at Tuesday Morning to heavy cardstock or tagboard with some lightly watered down glue spread thinly over it. You pull the napkin apart, select the part you want to see, and carefully lay it down, pressing with a brayer, rolling pin or something else, to keep bubbles from forming. Once dry, apply it to a card base and you’re done! Here are the two I made that day:

SO pretty and SO easy! Now I always watch for clearance napkins for cardmaking, but I have a hard time covering them up as they are so pretty. : )

She had a neat sentiment for the insides:

“This is more than a card. It’s HUG with a fold in the middle.’ I love it!

Later, at home I took a set of tea napkins I had and decoupaged them, but when dry, I die cut the napkin base and layered it on a card:

That was a couple of years ago (so don’t feel too bad, Janis!) and it still looks just a if I’d made it yesterday! You can see the inside has just a little bit of chalk around the edge to make it special, too. It’s a lovely any occasion card in cool winter colors.

Materials used (blue tea cup card):

PPD Paula Scoletta Teacups Morocco Napkins
Spellbinders Resplendent Rectangles
Coredinations 110# white cardstock and 65# blue cardstock
Colorbok Metallic Paper: Shiny Gold
Sookwang Scor-Tape
Tombow Xtreme adhesive runner
Aleene’s Original Tacky Glue
Pebbles, Inc. Pearlescent Chalks Jewel Tones

I am playing along with the following hops and challenges. Be sure to click on them for more information on how you can play along and enter for prizes:

2018 Fall/Winter Coffee Lovers Hop

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: B is for ? Blue (and Bird, berries, and Butterflies)
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Wrap it Up Cardstock wrapped in paper napkins
CropStop December Linky Party #46 Anything Goes (Aleene’s, Core’dinations, Pebbles, Spellbinders & Sookwang)

Thanks for stopping by and for leaving your comments!

~D.Ann

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Hello My Favorite Nuts Acorn Shaker with Gift Card

Posted on December 6, 2018 by dannscraftingwhims

Hello, again! I’m glad you’ve returned! Today’s card is a shaker with a surprise:

Those of you who follow me, may recall THIS card with a similar concealed surprise. I just love that the Spellbinders Die-of-the-Month acorn can be turned into a gift card holder for these fun acorn-shaped gift cards from that coffee shop that ends in BUCK$!

And the Queen & Company Happy Harvest Fall Kit has those fab acorn shakers to match. This time the shaker is filled with fabulous mini ‘gems.’ Observation: The gorgeous glitter paper in that kit is made so well that the glitter won’t rub off, but that also means it’s not really the best for intricate dies, like the Hello Fall insert of this acorn die. It simply doesn’t want to cut clear through. I recommend using it for non-intricate cutting. The leaf also gets added dimension when you score the veins. The acorns get some realistic color with a dauber and some Distress inks.

What else is behind that acorn?….

This darling family! I love that the two squirrels/chipmunks in the acorn are hugging, with coffee in hand… something that has led to many a spill in this family! And the mugs have kitty paw prints on them and a stuffed kitty is lying on the floor… another signature of our family. The sentiment: ‘You are my favorite nuts’ – ever so apropos! By cutting them out of separate cardstock, I was able to color them with Copics and not have them bleed through to the back of the card. It also allowed me to fussy cut around the arms and put them through the cup handles.

By the way… didja notice that acorns, just like humans, come in all varieties?! : )

Materials used:

Spellbinders Small Die of the Month – October 2018
Queen & Co. Happy Harvest Fall Kit (dies, foam, clear plastic, paper, glitter paper and beads)
Neat & Tangled My Favorite Nut stamps & dies; Puppy’s Favorite Things stamps
Core’dinations cardstock: white, brown, kraft, yellow
Recollections card base
Tsukineko Memento Desert Sand dye ink
Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Inks: Spiced Marmalade, Rusty Hinge, Barn Door, Vintage Photo and Walnut Stain
Copic Markers: E13, 23, 25, 29, 31, 55, 71;Y38; YR02, 04, 07, 24; W1
Simply Defined Permanent adhesive runner & Stay-Put adhesive glue
Misc. ribbon and Starbucks gift card

I am playing along with the following hops and challenges. Be sure to click on them for more information on how you can play along and enter for prizes:

2018 Fall/Winter Coffee Lovers Hop

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: B is for ? Beads & StarBUCK$ (lol!) Behind the acorn.
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Wrap it Up Beads wrapped in an acorn shaker and gift card wrapped in acorn.
CropStop December Linky Party #46 Anything Goes (Core’dinations, Ranger, Spellbinders & Tsukineko)

I’m so glad you stopped by! I enjoy reading your encouraging messages and greatly appreciate them!

~D.Ann

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Hello Pumpkin Spice Season Zen Cup and Shaker Card

Posted on December 5, 2018 by dannscraftingwhims

Hello crafty peeps and Hello Pumpkin Spice Season! Ahhh…. PSL (Pumpkin Spice Lattes)… my favorite treat of the year! So much so, that I got a great Black Friday deal on a coffee maker and a bunch of decaf pumpkin spice pods so I can have it year round without having to pay mega BUCK$ at that place that ends in ‘BUCKS’ (in just 6 cups I will have recuperated my investment). But we’re not here to talk economics. The Fall/Winter Coffee Lovers Hop continues…

I received a Happy Harvest Fall Kit from Queen & Company (THANKS!). It includes the stamps, dies, and pre-cut adhesive foam and clear shaker covers, fall papers and cook shaker beads and gems:

I did a little bit of surgery to the stamps with a scissors to get the sentiment I wanted, added the fabulous Zen cup from Stamplorations and a card base and, violá:

To get the dimension on the pumpkins, I added some score lines and then hit them with a bit of darker ink on my finger (too lazy to go get a dauber. lol!). The unused inner piece of adhesive foam was perfect to cut up and use for popping up the sentiment. (I’m thinking I should have popped up the cup, too. 20/20 hindsight!) I ran yellow and orange markers along the edges of the foam that would show so they weren’t stark white.

There is something satisfying about hearing a shaker… It must take us back to our childhood and the comforting sound of a rattle

Supplies used:

Queen & Company Happy Harvest Fall Kit (stamps, dies, foam, clear plastic, papers and beads)
Stamplorations Zen Coffee Cup Layering Dies – CUTplorations
DCWV card base
Tsukineko Memento Potter’s Clay dye ink
Core’dinations orange cardstock
Tombow Xtreme adhesive runner
Simply Defined ‘Stay Put’ adhesive glue
Misc yellow and orange pens

I am playing along with the following hops and challenges. Be sure to click on them for more information on how you can play along and enter for prizes:

2018 Fall/Winter Coffee Lovers Hop
Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: B is for ? Beads
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Wrap it Up Beads wrapped in a pumpkin shaker

Thank you so much for stopping by and for your encouraging comments! I read and appreciate them all!! Happy hopping!

~D.Ann

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Coffee Lovers: Thanks a Pool-Sized Latte! Card

Posted on December 3, 2018 by dannscraftingwhims

Have you ever wondered what it’d be like to wake up one winter morning to have the ground covered in snow and your pool full of hot coffee with cute little foam animals floating all over? ‘Dive in!’ you say?! The current Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: B is for ? = Big, Bodacious Blue pool full of coffee with foam Bears (and cats)!! That’s where my crazy imagination took me for today’s Coffee Lovers Hop card:

The hand drawn and fussy-cut pool of ‘coffee’ has a liquid look due to glossy accents:

The inside of the card and the back of the envelope continue the theme:

The ‘Thanks a pool-sized latte!’ sentiment was done on the computer. To get the soft singed edges on the foam critters, I used Polychromos pencils and Gamsol.

Supplies:

Hero Arts Foam Animals stamp set
Tsukineko Memento Desert Sand dye ink
Faber-Castell Polychromos colored pencils:Cobalt Green; Light Cobalt Turquoise; Caput Mortuum Violet; Burnt Sienna; Raw Umber
Gamblin Artists Gamsol & Q-tips
Marvy Le Plume !! pen #1122
Ranger Inkssentials Glossy Accents
Core’dinations 65# cardstock: white, brown, blue
Recollections 110# cardstock (base)
Tombow Xtreme adhesive runner

I am playing along with the following hops and challenges. Be sure to click on them for more information on how you can play along and enter for prizes:

2018 Fall/Winter Coffee Lovers Hop

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: B is for ?
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Anything Goes
CropStop December Linky Party #46 Anything Goes (Core’dinations, Ranger, Tombow & Tsukineko)

Thank you so much for stopping by and for your encouraging comments! I read and appreciate them all!! Happy hopping!

~D.Ann

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2018 Fall/Winter Coffee Lovers Blog Hop – Life is BeauTEAful card

Posted on December 1, 2018 by dannscraftingwhims

Hello and welcome! Time has flown by. I can’t believe it’s already time for the 2018 Fall/Winter Coffee Lovers Blog Hop!

Here is my first card, using fall colors:

The inside and envelope coordinate, too:

Oh, and FYI that sentiment is done by some precision cutting of two different stamps. : )

Materials used:

Hero Arts Tea Party Fancy Die
Hero Arts To Seize or Not to Seize & Kit-tea stamp sets
Spellbinders Floral Ovals dies
Your Next Stamp Coffee & Tea Border die
Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Inks: Scattered Straw, Spiced Marmalade, Rusty Hinge & Barn Door
Tsukineko Memento dye ink: Tuxedo Black
Core’dinations cardstock: white & black
Scotch tape runner
Sookwang Scor-tape double sided adhesive
Simply Defined ‘Stay Put’ adhesive glue

I am playing along with the following hops and challenges. Be sure to click on them for more information on how you can play along and enter for prizes: