Craftin Desert Divas Blog: April 2016

Saturday, April 30, 2016

A picture makes every moment last forever

Hi and welcome, everyone! Lisa M. from In The Crafting Cave bringing you the CDD daily post.
For today's daily post I want to show you a fun way to combine three stamp sets and create a unique gift. Using , , and Stamp Sets I created this card with one thought in mind, the gift of pictures. As I sit here and write this post, I realize the many different ways this can be used. Give a gift certificate to the local photography studio, gift a camera or a scrapbook. See, the possibilities?

Give the gift of pictures pink baby shower card

I love using different stamp sets to create one card. I feel like I'm getting my monies worth then.

I don't do a lot of no-line coloring, so I thought this would be an excellent opportunity to give it a go.

I like the look of it with this particular card. While this card is very fun and whimsical, the no-line coloring keeps the feel of the photo real, as real as it can. You could even take this a step further and add a background to the picture.

I use the Picture That Stamp Set for so many things. It's on my favorites list.

Here are the products I used:

This card is super easy to create. You can find all the details along with a step by step tutorial on my blog, In The Crafting Cave.

As always, thank you for stopping in!

And don't forget you can find us at

Friday, April 29, 2016

Congrats!

Hello everyone!! Laurie here to share a "Congrats" card with you. This idea has been in my head for quite some time, I just wasn't sure exactly how to execute it. The Tag It stamp set is a great set to make tags, obviously. But there is one particular image in that set that I thought I could do something "different" with.

I wanted to create a background pattern. I picked some spring colors..yellow, pink, blue and orange.
This is the pattern I came up with...

After stamping my background, I used the largest scallop die from the Fancy Frames Die set to cut this panel. This is where I got a little stuck with my design. I really liked how this turned out, but it was far too plain!! I used the Party Dies set and die cut the ribbon image from cardstock that matched the inks. I adhered the ribbons to the inside of each "tag" image.

Of course, I didn't actually plan for a sentiment...for some reason it's always an afterthought :)

I lucked out and found that the "Congrats" from the Be Inspired stamp set fit well between the stamped tags. To finish off, I die cut some scrap vellum with the Heart of Hearts die and adhered a few of the hearts to the card (I adhered them with Multi Medium Matte, the glue did not show at all!)

I added a few clear rhinestones to the centre of each ribbon for a bit of bling.

I hope you enjoyed today's project!!

Thanks for stopping by!!

Here are the products I used:

Thursday, April 28, 2016

Happy Birthday

Hi everyone, this is Jeanin from . Today I want to share this fun birthday shaker card with you today.

I used the cute lion from the It's All About Zoo stamp set as well as the balloons included in the set. I stamped the images on watercolor cardstock and colored them in with watercolor markers.

For the shaker part of the card, I used a white top-folded notecard and cut out a piece from the top. I used a clear zip log bag to create the shaker pocket that was slightly larger than the part I cut out from the card. I filled the pocket with Emerald Isle sequins, closed it up and adhered it to the notecard.

To hide the sides of the shaker pocket, I adhered a larger and smaller white strip on top. I used the "Happy Birthday" sentiment from the Simply Said stamp set and stamped it in the bottom left corner of the card with black ink. To finish off the card I adhered the little lion to the card using 3D foam squares.

You can get more details on my blog HERE.

Here are the products I used
(click on the picture to be redirected to the products)

I really hope you enjoyed my card. I am looking forward to seeing your creations on the blog.

Wednesday, April 27, 2016

Oh slow life....

Hello there my lovely crafty friends... It's Jan here from handcraft hobby. I am here today on Craftin Desert Divas Blog sharing with you my project I made using Peek A Boo Animals stamp set

Here's what I created :

I have to admit that I purposely made this card just to use this Sloth image from with particular sentiment "Oh Slow life" and altered the sloth's eyes to be half closed like the movie Zootopia.... I love Mr. Flash from the movie :)

This card is quite simple, I stamped the hat and masked it off then I stamped the Sloth toward the left side of my panel and hand-drawn the tree for him to hang on. I also stamped the Fence at the bottom right of my panel and also the Leave. Both images are from stamp set.

I colored all images using various copic markers. I used the 2nd largest die from to cut my panel out and mounted onto a blue card stock.

Here's the closer look at the image

I used 2 stamps set to build my sentiment. One is from stamp set for the words "Oh" and "Life". And another one from mini stamp set for the word "Slow". I used masking tape to mask off the words that I didn't want before I inked them up.

I then used my cloud stencil to do my background. become my favorite die to make my card base. I cut the panel 3 times. One I dried embossed with woodgrain embossing folder and attached to another one of the panel. The last one I scored about half an inch from the edge. I used strong double sided tape at the flap and attached it to my front panel. I then adhered my main panel using foam tape onto my woodgrain card base. To finish off my card I sprinkled around the sentiment. And my card was done!

At closer look at the sentiment and the sequins

I hope you like my Mr Flash and Thank you for stopping by.

Here's CDD products that I used :

Tuesday, April 26, 2016

Wishing You....

Hello my crafty friends! Linda here to share with you a card I made for today's daily post on the CDD blog.

Here is the card that I made:

I started out by die cutting the flowers from watercolor paper using the Flowers in Bloom SVG Outline. Then, I randomly placed the coordinating stamp on my MISTI, inked it up and stamped it on a piece of scratch paper:

Then I took the negative portion of the die cut and placed it around that stamped image so that it would have a perfect border:

Next, I placed the die inside the negative:

Then, I inked up the stamp again using Versamark ink and embossed it with white embossing powder:

As you can see, it is a full-proof way to perfectly stamp onto a die cut!

Next, I watercolored the flowers using a wet on wet technique:

I then popped it all up on a kraft background to make my flowers pop and stamped my sentiment using Versamark and brown dye inks.

Here are all of the CDD products that I used:

Flowers in Bloom

Flowers in Bloom SVG Outline

Wishful Thoughts

Fancy Frame Dies

Thank you for stopping by!

Cheers!

Sunday, April 24, 2016

CDD "In The Garden" Linky Party - Week 1

Welcome to another Craftin Desert Divas linky party.

The linky party theme is....

We want to see all those projects that contain some part that you would find in a garden. I'd love for you to play along with us!

Every other Monday will mark the beginning of a new semi-weekly linky party here. I will designate a theme and invite you to share projects you've made!!

And don't forget about the prizes! Every linky party will have a sponsor and a winner, plus a top 3! The winner will be announced on a semi-weekly basis. The more times you link up, the more chances you have to win!! Sponsors will be announced at the beginning of every linky party.

This party sponsors are...

CDD- 1 4x6 stamp set

CDD- One digi stamp of choice

Here are the DT inspiration projects.

Be sure to visit their blogs for all the details.

Jan - Handcraft Hobby

Showcasing , , , , , , , and

Jeanin - Some Bits and Pieces

Showcasing , , , and

Nicole - Teachdanz

Showcasing , , and

Elodie - Scrappy Doo

Showcasing , , , , , , and

Patricia- Scrapflower

Showcasing , and

Linda - ScrapHappyLin

Showcasing , , , and

Lisa B. - Our2AngelsInHeaven

Showcasing ,

Linky parties are from Monday at 12AM Arizona MST thru Sunday 12PM Arizona MST.

Any projects you submit must be linked to your blog or online gallery.

Projects must be NEW, no back linking, please.

Number of entries for this linky party is unlimited.

You may link up ANY type of craft project (layout, card, altered item, tag (etc) as long as it goes with the theme of the party.

Please link your project back to Craftin Desert Divas Linky Party.

Winners will be randomly chosen by random.org

An InLinkz Link-up

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