Sweet November Stamps ~ The Nutcracker

Happy Hump Day!  Today I'm sharing another holiday card featuring some of our clear stamps released last month from Sweet November Stamps!  

Today's card features "The Nutcracker" clear stamp set.  This sweet little stamp set features a little girl with her nutcracker doll and the tiny mouse king.

To create this scene, I stamped my mouse and little girl and then masked them both off.  Then I stamped the fireplace and wall in the back ground.  These images are from the "Simple Room Christmas Add On" clear stamp set.

To create my textured purple wall, I laid down my blend of purple Copics and then I added a little bit of Blender solution to a textured rag and dabbed it all over the surface.  I did this before I colored anything!

Wishing you the last week before Christmas!

Happy last minute shopping!

~ Ally ~

Chibitronics ~ Glowing Hearts Card

Happy Monday!  Today I’m sharing my latest light up card featuring products from Chibitronics.  I'm headed on all the way to Valentine's Day with my card creating this week.

Today we’re going we are going to light up a Valentine's themed love card with some pretty pink LED Light Stickers and also one of our cool Animating Rainbow Fade Stickers.

I began today’s card creation by stamping our little girl from Mo's Digital Designs and coloring her up with Copics. I created a framed embossed heart with some simple dies and an embossing folder. And for the greeting, I die cut and inked up a "hugs" sentiment. For the card front, I used some postage themed stamps and lots of fun pink ink.

I positioned all of my elements on the card front ensuring a cut a hole through the embossed heart and the card front under the little girl's T-shirt to allow the light to pass through and shine more brightly.

I transferred the location of the hole to the inside of my circuit building surface and traced out the heart shape to allow me to know the location of all my lights. I used my Craft Stencil to trace the location of my 5 Pink LED Light Stickers and my final single Animating Rainbow Fade LED Light Sticker.

I traced the paper Battery Holder and located it in the bottom right hand corner of the card. From there I drew the negative side of the circuit using a blue pen. The blue line crossed over all 6 of the negative sides of the light stickers.

Next I drew a red line to indicate the positive side of the circuit. This side of the circuit will start on the inside of the paper battery holder or switch.

Next I applied my self-adhesive Battery Holder to the circuit surface. I began to apply the Conductive Fabric Tape to the negative side of the circuit, beginning inside the Battery Holder.

Next I applied all of the Conductive Fabric Tape to the positive side of the circuit. I began my tape inside the Battery Holder lid. This will allow the tape to make contact with the battery when the lid is pressed down.

 

I stuck down all 6 of my LED Light Stickers. I placed one Animating Rainbow Fade LED Light Sticker under the T-shirt location and 5 Pink LED Light Stickers in the rest of the light locations.

To finish off the inside, I adhered down the C-shaped foam adhesive inside the Battery Holder, added a battery in the center and closed up the battery holder. Don't forget to test your creation before adhering this closed!

Then I added Foam Tape around the edges of the card, peeled off the backer paper and closed up my card.

 Let's see the card all lit up...

Super cute!

Make sure to check out the step-by-step video over on our YouTube channel on all the card making details and the making of the circuit. You also get to see the card go through all of it's rainbow lights too! CLICK HERE for the video.

 Hope you enjoyed today's tutorial and I hope you and your loved ones have a wonderful holiday season!

~ Ally ~

Sweet November Stamps ~ Cozy Penguin

Happy Saturday!  Today I'm sharing a merry card featuring some new digitals stamps from Sweet November Stamps!  

Today's card features the new "Cozy Penguin" digital stamps!

This cute little penguin comes with a cute pair of glasses too so I chose to use him.  I thought he needed a few friends too so I added the sweet little "Cozy Fall Critters", "Beckett Bear" and "Chandler Chipmunk". 

Today's card is this week's entry for Craft Roulette.  This will be my 54th submission.

The four parameters that the wheel gave us this week were:

• Project: Postcard (The penguin is holding a postcard)
  
• Colors: Florist Shop (lots of fun shop colors in there!)
  
• Element: Globe(s) (snow globe)
  
• Random: Abstract Blobs (Green ink blobs & water splatter/blobs)

Here's a little close up my little snow globe friend group...

To create the background, I blended Twisted Citron and Mowed Lawn Distress Oxide inks and then stamped some fun postal images and snowflakes all over the space.  I splattered it with Mowed Lawn ink and water to create the abstract blobs.

To finish off the card, I stamped a greeting from the "Cold Hands, Warm Heart" clear stamp set on the base of the snow globe.

Make sure to check out Craft Roulette over on YouTube and join us almost every Friday at 6:30pm CT for a brand new episode!  There is still time to play for yesterday's episode. 

Good luck!

~ Ally ~

Scrap 'N Stamp ~ Polar Bear Slider Card Tutorial

 

Join me SUNDAY evening at 8pm ET over on the Scrap 'N Stamp Facebook page for a fun Crafty Live.  Click here to visit.

This week, I'll be playing with the adorable polar bears from the My Favorite Things "Cooler With You" stamp set and we're going to make a slider card!

Hope to see you there! 

~ Ally ~