honey bee mermaid shaker

I'm over on the Honey Bee blog today with a sweet & simple mermaid shaker!

Come on over & say hi!
Carly


P.S. Is it possible to color a mermaid that doesn't look like Ariel? LOL!

blue elephants & repeating stamp patterns

I'm over on the Neat & Tangled blog today with a Copic-colored blue elephant and a repeating sentiment pattern...

Come on over and say hi! XO!
Carly

masked sentiments with reverse confetti

Masking is without a doubt my favorite stamping technique but this time instead of masking my image, I masked my sentiment to blend two images into one.

To start I stamped my sentiment on watercolor cardstock. Then I stamped my sentiment again on masking paper.

I cut around the top parts of the letters to create my mask. 

I placed the mask over the sentiment and stamped the Reverse Confetti Honey Bear on top.

Finally I gave Honey Bear a quick watercolor, a little Nuvo nose and heart.

Hugs!
Carly

supplies:
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Reverse Confetti Honey Bear
Reverse Confetti My Tribe

Ranger Watercolor Paper, 10 pk

ZIG Clean Color Real Brush Marker 045, Pale Green

ZIG Clean Color Real Brush Marker 222, Pink Flamingo

Tonic Nuvo Jewel Drops, Rose Water

Inkadinkado Stamping Mask Paper, 5x7, 12 pk

s'mores kit

A jar filled with s'mores ingredients is a great treat to bring to a bbq or surprise a friend! 

I'm over on the Neat & Tangled blog today sharing a little bit more about this one I've made. Come on over and visit!

Hugs!

Carly

diy cover panel + stock your stash challenge

A DIY cheesy cover panel is super easy to create with just a few circle dies and is the perfect pair for the Reverse Confetti Mouse Mail!

The current Reverse Confetti Stock Your Stash Challenge is Hello & Just Because...

...so I couldn't resist creating a silly mouse & cheese card to send to my littlest pen pal.

The card was fun to make and came together quickly so I made a little video to share...

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Carly

supplies:
affiliate links may be used at no additional cost to you. thank you! 
Reverse Confetti Mouse Mail

Hero Arts Dies, Infinity Nesting Circles

COPIC Sketch Marker B000, Pale Porcelain Blue

COPIC Sketch Marker C0, Cool Gray No. 0

COPIC Sketch Marker C1, Cool Gray No. 1

COPIC Sketch Marker C4, Cool Gray No. 4

COPIC Sketch Marker Y35, Maize

COPIC Sketch Marker E02, Fruit Pink

COPIC Sketch Marker R22, Light Prawn

COPIC Sketch Marker RV13, Tender Pink

making a shaped card front with the stamp market

Cards with shaped fronts are fun to send and easy to put together with minimal supplies like stamps and scissors!

The new Friendly Bunch floral stamp by The Stamp Market is perfect for creating a shaped card front. Here's a quick video tutorial on how I did it...

Thanks so much for stopping by and have a great day!

Hugs!
Carly

supplies:
affiliate links may be used at no additional cost to you. thank you! 
The Stamp Market Painted Polka Dot Background
The Stamp Market Friendly Bunch
The Stamp Market Double Take

COPIC Sketch Marker R22, Light Prawn

COPIC Sketch Marker RV13, Tender Pink

COPIC Sketch Marker RV14, Begonia Pink

COPIC Sketch Marker YG01, Green Bice

COPIC Sketch Marker YG11, Mignonette

COPIC Sketch Marker G00, Jade Green

Catherine Pooler Ink Pad, Mint To Be

Catherine Pooler Ink Pad, Melon Ice

Avery Elle Dye Ink Pad, New Moon

Neenah Cardstock, Neenah Classic Crest Solar White, 25 pk

My Sweet Petunia MISTI Laser Etched Stamping Tool (8-1/8 X 10-1/2)

iCraft Purple Tape

mini stamped scenes

Do you ever have a bunch of cute colored critters and no idea what to do with them? Me too! My solution is to create mini scenes for them (I'm still working up to a full scene, LOL)!

I'm thrilled to be over on the Neat & Tangled blog with a little more about mini scenes so come over and visit!

Hugs!
Carly

a summer card with sprinkles

Celebrate summer with a sprinkled ice cream bar card because happiness is rainbow sprinkles even when they are paper! Right?! 

I have a real obsession with sprinkles, in fact the sprinkles in this picture are my "craft room" sprinkles. LOL! They are made of real sugar but they are perfect for shaker cards and double-sided adhesive!

Today I'm super excited to be hopping with Reverse Confetti and our theme in summer! As you can see my love affair with the Hey Sugar and Polka Panel continues! I was going for a yellow polka dotted bikini with my background, using the Polka Panel as a stencil on top of yellow watercolor.

To create my sprinkled treat, I die cut 3 layers with the popiscle...pink cardstock, adhesive woodgrain paper and double-sided adhesive.

Then I trimmed and layered the popiscles, woodgrain & double-sided adhesive on top of cardstock.

I removed the second liner paper from the double-sided adhesive and added sprinkles!

What do you think? I might have gone a little overboard with the black splatter at the end but I still love it!

Now hop on over to Laurie's blog and here's the full list if you get lost!

• Amy Kolling
• Melissa Phillips
• Tricia Barber 
• Kelly Lunceford
• Lisa Henke
• Amy Rohl
• Carly Tee Minner
• Laurie Schmidlin
• Heather Hoffman
• Amy Tsuruta
• Kathy Schweinfurth
• Audrey Tokach
• Deanne Kuntz
• Tatiana Trafimovich
• Jeanne Jachna
• Olga Moss

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Hugs!

Carly