My Little Paper World

Not sure about you...but coffee is my best friend these days!  It's also something I enjoy doing with my friends (going to a kid friendly cafe, drinking coffee - baby chinos for the kiddies and eating as much cake as I/we want!)... so these cards are perfect as a little invite and thank you to my extended 'tribe' - because aside from coffee my close friends are always there for me and my little family.    I created two cards below using Ink Road Stamps - The Struggle is Real . I played around with repetitive stamping of the word 'coffee' for the background and used a coffee cup die negative and pattern paper as my feature in the centre of the card. I added some hearts and heat embossed the sentiment in black on vellum. Lastly I added black twine and some black sequins. The second card uses the same process just in a slightly different layout.  Thanks for stopping by - you can also see me on the Ink Road Stamp blog here ! Happy...

I’m back again for Craftie Café – this time trying a new (for me) stamp brand! I generally stalk the Craftie Café website – waiting for new stock, or checking if I’ve missed something that I’d love to add to my stash. I saw this stamp a few times while browsing and was quite hesitant at first to try it. Being Christmas themed this month – I figured I’d give it a go and I’m really happy I did! I’ve not heard of Nellie’s Choice brand – but Craftie Café stock a few of their stamps and I thought it worth a try to share with you what they’re like and how I use them. I decided to stick pretty close to the example shown on the packaging in terms of colours – using tradition Christmas colours,  with what Lawn Fawn ink I had (supplies list below) and I created a video tutorial of the process I used to create these cards. Here is my card using Nellie Snellen’s (Nellie’s Choice) stamp set – Christmas Wreath .     The three layering stamps fit together really easi...

(I'm a little late sharing this post - I thought I had scheduled it, but it obviously didn't happen as it's now Sunday!)  It's Friday Feature over on the Ink Road Stamps blog ! Here are my cards using the featured stamp set: #beautifulmess   I created three simple cards using a rainbow colour scheme. I though it fitting for the stamp set... Wanna see what other members of the Ink Road Stamp design team created? Check their projects out here . Happy Crafting. Samantha

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas!!! Just this week at our local shopping mall, my boys noticed all the Christmas decorations up – and though no Santa – his chair is ready and waiting! With Christmas just around the corner I’m hoping to inspire you with my reindeer card using a Poppystamp die that I got from Craftie Café. I’ve listed all supplies below with a few instructions on how I created this card… I started by die-cutting the reindeer’s antlers using brown cardstock. I did this quite a few times as I wanted to create some dimension. It took a bit of juggling around on the card front, but it was at this point I realised that I had too many reindeers and that Rudolph wasn’t going to fit! (Don’t worry – I resolve this!) The reindeer’s faces were created with my fingerprint using Lawn Fawn Inks Doe and Walnut. Once I had finished inking up my finger and creating their faces I adhered the antlers. Next using the alpha block stamps I stamped out each o...

Last week I shared a few cards using WPlus9 - Banner Love stamp set. I made a few extra banners and thought I'd create two more baby themed cards...Click here  to see the previous cards I created... Here are the (new) cards. Quite a simple card using left over banners that didn't get used. I adhered them to my card front, followed by a machine stitched line. Next I stamped the sentiment from Wplus9 - Happy Gang stamp set and I finished it off by embellishing it with some My Little Paper World sequins . Since I also had left over blue banners I couldn't help but make the same card in blue... I'm quite happy I was able to use up my left overs - normally they get put aside for 'just in case' moments and don't actually ever get used!  Thanks for stopping by! Happy Crafting... Samantha