Busy Beaver Canada Day Blog Hop

Happy Canada Day!!

We are blog hopping today in celebration of Canada’s 150^th Birthday, sharing projects featuring the cute new ‘Busy Beaver’ stamp & die set by Taylored Expressions!   Be sure to leave comments along the way because Scrap N’ Stamp Canada has some prizes to give away randomly- $150 in gift certificates (3 lucky people will get $50 gc’s) and a Busy Beaver set with a bonus maple leaf tag die!  Winners will be randomly chosen and announced on the SNS blog on Monday!

The link to your next stop can be found at the bottom of this post, 

so keep on reading!

This chunky beaver is too cute!

I really wanted to make my kids some bookmarks for all their summer reading.

To play up the bucky beaver teeth I used a Smile word die from MFT Stamps because I thought this sentiment I created was would be hilarious to my kids.

I wanted it to be really fun and chose to make it into a shaker bookmark. This was an great opportunity to pull out the Fuse tool and put it to work. In hindsight, I wouldn't have used the seed beads, as they are just to chunky (duh!) but they really make it a lot of fun.

The background I quickly ink-blended with some red-toned Hero Arts inks, in order to give it a little interest. Then out came my trusty Copics to do some quick colouring on the images. 

The finishing touches like the silver grommet and red ribbon tie it all together. My favourite part is this awesome tag die with the maple leaf. I know I will be pulling that out often, if not for just the maple leaf die.

Your next stop is with Amber Trubiak at http://foreverambersart.blogspot.ca/

Please visit Scrap N' Stamp's blog www.scrapnstamp.ca/blog/ for the complete list of women participating today and to find out the winners on Monday!

ps-Don't forget to leave those comments for your chance to win one of these 'gnawsome' prizes!

You Light My Torch Card

I recently made a card using this same design and it was a huge hit! 

While the previous one was a 5 minute card (or even less) this one has ink blending which could take more time.

I am in love with this Love Layers die from Concord & 9th. It is so simple but just beautiful. I've been dying to pull out my Polynesian stamp sets from MFT Stamps lately and had this great idea.

Using a rich green colour and insetting the the lit torch would make it look like you are looking through the lush greenery.

There is no fancy stamping, just simple ink blending. If you have not tried Bristol Smooth paper yet for this, you don't know what you are missing. This literally took me 2 minutes when before I might of even scrapped it multiple times before being satisfied.

I stamped my torch and quickly coloured it with my Zigs.

This one is more like a 10 minute card, but still has huge impact for such a simple design.

Thanks for joining me today and have an awesome weekend!

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SSS	American Crafts - Adhesives - Double-Sided Tape	Sizzix Big Shot Machine

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Hatchling Spring Time Card

Today is just a quick post, I've been so busy lately. I have not had a lot of time to dedicate to crafting or blogging, as my family is my priority. 

However I managed to squeeze this cute little card in this week!

This set is from Lawn Fawn and so adorable as usual. I did some easy stamping and heat embossing in white then some quick ink blending on top. When you use Bristol smooth it blends like butter.

A fancy stitched edge on an angle and a sentiment in black to ground the card and I was done.

Hope you enjoyed this and I'll see you in a few days!

Hello | Sympathy/Friendship Card

Today I tried to do some ink blending on Kraft cardstock. This is a really fun and simple technique.

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I used the Fancy Florals again from MFT Stamps. I love the detail of these flowers. I heat embossed them in white, so they would pop against the darker paper.

I used a mini ink blending tool to try and blend Hero Arts dye inks. While I liked the look, it wasn't vibrant enough for me. Thats when I went in with some Distress Markers. I simply coloured in the area and used a paper towel to quickly wipe off any excess and blend it.

I die cut a Hello sentiment in yellow and topped it with Glossy Accents. My sentiment is from MFT Stamps as well.

I went in with a White Sakura Gel pen and drew some dots to give it some whimsy. Then I ran some Wink of Stella glitter pen over the flowers for shine. Finally I added a few drops of Glossy Accents just for fun. 

I love how this card turned out, I hope you liked it!

Please share and I'll see you on Wednesday with my next project!

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