Wednesday, December 6, 2023

Yeti for the Holidays?


Hello Crafty Friends! It's Laurie here! I am sharing my Yeti for the Holidays? as my Design Team Inspiration Card for Paper Nest Dolls using Yeti Father and Son. I just love these cuties. There is a Yeti Mom and Baby that you could add to this card for the whole family! Lol!

The Details of My Yeti for the Holidays?

I had a lot of fun colouring these two with my Copic markers! I decided to create a fur texture with individual strokes in the shadows and left the highlights white. The tree was also coloured with individual strokes to create texture. The Father Yeti’s tie pulled together my colour scheme of red and green.

For my card, I wanted to use the Whimsy paper with these cuties. This paper is perfect for those wintery scenes! In fact, I used it for another card that I made a few years ago and will post it at the end.

So, I created a slimline card using the Dotted Slimline Dies by Studio Katia. I used all three dies that came in the set to create my card. I thought it would be fun having the yetis stepping out of the wintery scene with their Christmas tree.

To complete my wintery scene and to add interest, I used a Stitched Hillside Die to add an extra layer to the scene. I made sure that my “snowbank” did not cover up the snow-covered trees on the background.

Next, I typed and printed my sentiment out on my computer. There are so many great sentiments out there that it was hard to pick one! Lol! The sentiment was die cut out with another stitched die.

For embellishments, I used some wooden snowflakes that I had in my stash for that rustic look and a scattering of red rhinestones to add sparkle.

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Copic Markers

Fur: W3/W1/W0/0
Faces: E43/E42/E41/E40/RV00/0
Horns/Nails/Tree Trunk: E44/E43/E42/E41
Reds: R29/R27/R24/R22
Greens: G29/YG63/YG03

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Card Recipe for My Yeti for the Holidays?

Yeti Father and Son, Paper Nest Dolls
Paper Basics - Stamper's Select White Cardstock, Papertrey Ink
Frozen Slimline Designer Paper Pack, Whimsy Stamps
Dotted Slimline Dies, Studio Katia
Slimline Stitched Hillside Border Dies, Lawn Fawn
Stylish Shapes Dies, Stampin’ Up!
Wooden Snowflake Embellishments, Stampin’ Up!
Red Rhinestone Jewels, Stampin’ Up!
Garden Green and Real Red Card Stock, Stampin’ Up!

Finished card size: 8 ½” x 3 ½”

Stamp Size: 3”

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My Merry Penguins Card

For more information on my other card, please click here.

Hope you like my Yeti for the Holidays? Card using
Yeti Father and Son by Paper Nest Dolls!

Thank you for stopping by!

Hugs,
Laurie

Tuesday, November 21, 2023

Ice Cream Cravings

   Hello Crafty Friends, Noelene back today with some D.T. inspiration for the Paper Nest Dolls


It seems lately I cannot have enough baby cards on hand! This time it was for a gender reveal. So today's card features the yummy mummy image from PND called Ice Cream Cravings.




I printed & coloured my image with Copics on some X-Press It blending paper. I created my card using layers of die cut squares onto a 6x6 base. I embellished it with some cute die cuts of baby clothes & lace & flowers to finish.




Copics:
Hair & Shoes: E41, E43, E44, E47, E49
Skin: E0000, E000, E00, E11, R20
Ice Cream: Y15, T19, E21, E23
Pants: BV00, BV01, BV02
Shirt: G000, G00, G02




Ice Cream Cravings is available in rubber here & digital stamp here




For more inspiration, check out my Instagram!

Thanks for stopping by!

Hugs

Noelene x

Monday, November 20, 2023

Celebrate the Season Card


Hello Crafty Friends! It’s Laurie here! I am sharing my Celebrate the Season Card as my Design Team Inspiration Card for Paper Nest Dolls using the digital stamp called Emma in Christmas Sweater

Details of My Celebrate the Season Card

For my card, I decided to create a mini slimline card using the Pink Fresh scallop die. What is so nice about this die is that it cuts two scallop rectangles at once. I used both scallop rectangles with one in pink and one in red to match my colour scheme.

I love Mintay Papers, and the Merry Little Christmas paper is gorgeous! So, I decided to use it for my colour scheme of red and pink with white accents. I coloured Emma with my Copic markers to match my colour scheme. Don’t you just love her snowman sweater!

For the sentiment cluster, I used a silver snowflake to add some sparkle, a fussy cut candy cane from the Mintay paper and a die cut sentiment.

Next, I used Glossy Accents on the candy cane and Stardust Stickles on the trim of the hats and boots. The only thing left was to add a few red rhinestones for a bit more sparkle.

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Copic Markers:


Skin: E000/E00/E21/E11/E04/R20
Hair: E37/E35/E33/E31
Reds: R29/R27/R24/R22
Pinks: R85/R83/R81
Whites: C3/C1/0
Snowman: C6/C3/C1/R27/C3/C1/0/YR18/YR15




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Card Recipe for My Celebrate the Season Card:


Emma in Christmas Sweater, Paper Nest Dolls
Paper Basics – Stamper’s Select White Cardstock, Papertrey Ink
Merry Little Christmas 6” x 6” Paper Pad, Mintay Papers
Essentials Mini Slimline Stitched Scallop Rectangle Dies, Pink Fresh Studio
Simple Stripes – Christmas Stamp, Taylored Expressions
Simple Stripes Die, Taylored Expressions
VersaFine, Tsukineko
Red Rhinestone Basic Jewels, Stampin’ Up!
Silver Snowflake, From My Stash
Stardust Stickles, Ranger (Hat/Boot Trim)
Glossy Accents, Ranger (Candy Cane)
Paper Snips, Stampin’ Up!
Basic White, Real Red, and Pink Pirouette Card Stock, Stampin’ Up!

Finished card size: 3 ¼” 6 ¼”

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Hope you like my Design Team card using
Emma in Christmas Sweater by Paper Nest Dolls!

Thank you for stopping by!

Hugs,
Laurie

Friday, November 10, 2023

Stone Age Boy & Dinosaur

  Hello Crafty Friends, Noelene back today with some D.T. inspiration for the Paper Nest Dolls


Today I have a birthday card to share using one of the images from the PND Stone Age Family set.
 I have made a birthday card using the 2 images from this set, Stone Age Boy & Dinosaur.




This is a super cute set released in 2022 based on our favourite cave man family The Flinstones. The set comes with 8 different images so you can mix & match to your hearts content to create different scenes. I created my card on a 5"x7" base & shaded the background after masking my image. Lastly I added the sentiments & some shaped sprinkles to embellish.




Copics:
Dinosaur: V04, V05, V06, YR18, YR12, B0000, B000, B00, B01
Skin: E0000, E000, E00, E11, E13, R20
Hair & Bone: W00, W0, W2, W4
Clothes: E18, E19, E53, E55, C8
Club: YG61, YG63, YG67




Stone Age Family is available in rubber here & digital stamp here




For more inspiration, check out my Instagram!


Thanks for stopping by!


Hugs

Noelene x

Tuesday, October 31, 2023

The Spooky Season


Hello Crafty Friends! Happy Halloween! It's Laurie here! I am sharing The Spooky Season using Scary Doll Owen and Scary Doll Emma by Paper Nest Dolls as my Design Team Inspiration Card. I couldn’t resist squeaking in one final Halloween card!

The Details of My Card


For my card, I had to do some research! I’m not a big horror fan. So, I had to google what these characters were and colour them according to the photos online. Lol! I used my Copic markers to colour them and added Glossy Accents to the shovel and the knife. Also, I added silver gelly roll pen to all the metallic trim on Emma’s jacket.

Since I had two stamps to place on my card, I decided to create a slimline card, but I thought it would be fun to use the tag “Tis the Season to be Spooky”. So, I brushed Black Soot along the edges to give it a distressed feel. Next, I added a black mat to the tag and rubbed Brushed Iron wax on the mat, the die cut gates, and the mat of my card to tie them all in together. Once I did that, I placed my sentiment sticking above the card with an iron gate on either side of it with my characters layered in front.

I love the oval dies that I used for the black mat and the Skull and cross bone paper! Such a fun and interesting shape!

For embellishments, I used several bats and black rhinestone stickers, as well as a spider trinket that I placed over the printed spider on the tag. The only other thing that I added was the reverse “Scary” word to the tag. It summed up my card perfectly!

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Copic Markers:


Scary Doll Owen
Skin: E000/E00/E21/E11/E04
Hair: E18/E08/YR18/YR14
Overalls: B99/B97/B95/B93/B91
Reds: R29/R27/R24/R22
Stripes: B95/B91/YG63/YG61/YG03/B39/B37/R29/R27/R24/R22
Shoes: R29/R27/R24/R22/C3/C1/0
Shovel: C6/C4/C3/C1/E18/E15


Scary Doll Emma
Skin: E000/E00/E21/E11/E04/R20
Hair: E53/E51/E50
Jacket: C9/C7/C6/C4
Dress: C3/C1/0
Boots: C9/C6/C4
Knife: C6/C4/C3/C1/E18/E15



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Card Recipe for The Spooky Season:


Scary Doll Owen and Scary Doll Emma, Paper Nest Dolls
Paper Basics - Stamper's Select White Cardstock, Papertrey Ink
Fright Night 12” x 12” Collection Pack, Photo Play Paper
#9 Slim Stitched Box Oval Dies, Photo Play Paper
Tim Holtz Gate Keeper Thinlits Dies, Sizzix
Reverse Cut Halloween Words, Frantic Stamper Inc.
Brushed Iron Metallique Wax, Art Alchemy
Black Soot Ink, Ranger
Blending Brush, Stampin’ Up!
Bat Stickers, Recollections, Michaels Arts & Crafts
Black Rhinestone Stickers, Recollections, Michaels Arts & Crafts
Spider Trinket, Stampin’ Up!
Glossy Accents, Ranger
Silver Gelly Roll Pen, Sakura

Basic Black and Pumpkin Pie Card Stock, Stampin’ Up!

Finished card size: 3 ½” x 8 ½”

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Hope you like my Design Team Inspiration Card using Scary Doll Owen and Scary Doll Emma for Paper Nest Dolls!

Thank you for stopping by!

Hugs,
Laurie




Thursday, October 5, 2023

Scary Cute Halloween Card

Hello Crafty Friends! It's Laurie here! I am sharing my Scary Cute Halloween Card using Vampire Ellie by Paper Nest Dolls as my Design Team Inspiration Card.

The Details of My Card

For my card, I had so much fun colouring Vampire Ellie with my Copic markers! I knew that I wanted to give her black hair and decided to go with a ghoulish green and red since she is a vampire. I made her skin a bit lighter by not using E04 for my shadows to give her a deathly pallor. Lol!

For the balloons, I went with an ectoplasm green like in Ghostbusters and a black for the bat. I used my white gelly roll pen to make bat’s fangs stand out and for the highlights on both balloons. The balloons also had glossy accents add to them to make them look like real balloons. Star Dust Stickles were added to the red bows and red trim of her dress. 

I decided to create a mini slimline card since I wanted to create a spooky graveyard scene with my dies. Of course, if you have a vampire, you must have a moon dripping blood! Lol! So, I stamped the blood drips first before die cutting the moon out. That way the craters on the moon die did not cause voids in the stamped dripping blood. Next, I brushed Fossilized Amber Distress Oxide Ink around the edges of my moon to make it glow.

Then, I die cut the graveyard in Basic Black and Basic Gray to help differentiate the two layers. Don’t you love how the spooky sky and moon show through the gate to the graveyard!

For the sky, I went with some spooky green skulls paper to match my colouring. Plus, they reminded me of all the ghosts in the graveyard.

A couple of black glimmer bats add some sparkle to the sky. The “Scary” sentiment was die cut from red glimmer paper to match my red colouring.

Finally, the finishing touch was a scattering of red rhinestones and black sequins to match my colour scheme.

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Copic Markers:

Skin: E000/E00/E21/E11/R20
Hair: N10/N8/N6
Greens: G29/YG67/YG17/YG03
Reds: R39/R37/R35R32
Shoes/Bat Balloon: N10/N8/N6
Skulls: C3/0

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Card Recipe for My Scary Cute Halloween Card:

Vampire Ellie, Paper Nest Dolls
Paper Basics - Stamper's Select White Cardstock, Papertrey Ink
Kelly Panacci Halloween Designer Mat Pad, K & Company
Red Glimmer Paper, Stampin’ Up!
Black Glimmer Paper, Stampin’ Up!
Boneyard Edgers Dies, Frantic Stamper Ins.
Full Moon Dies, Lawn Fawn
Reverse Cut Halloween Words, Frantic Stamper Inc.
Bat Punch, Stampin’ Up!
Fossilized Amber Distress Oxide Ink, Ranger
Blending Brush, Stampin’ Up!
Ghoulish Grunge Stamp Set, Stampin’ Up!
Cherry Cobber Ink Pad, Stampin’ Up!
Metallic Sequin Assortment, Stampin’ Up!
Red Rhinestone Basic Jewels, Stampin’ Up!
Glossy Accents, Ranger
Star Dust Stickles, Ranger
White Gelly Roll Pen, Sakura

Basic Black, Very Vanilla and Basic Gray Card Stock, Stampin’ Up!

Finished card size: 3 ½” x 6”

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Hope you like my Design Team Inspiration Card using Vampire Ellie for Paper Nest Dolls!

Thank you for stopping by!

Hugs,
Laurie

Friday, September 15, 2023

My Aloha Santa Card

Hello Crafty Friends! It's Laurie here! I am sharing My Aloha Santa Card for as my Design Team Inspiration Card for Paper Nest Dolls using Vacation Santa Set. There are 7 stamps, which include Surfer Santa, Ice-cream Santa, Santa with Reindeer Floatie, Santa & Mrs. Claus, Palm Tree and Flamingo & Gifts, that come in both rubber and digital stamps.

The Details of My Aloha Santa Card 

For my card, I thought to create an Aloha card since Hawaii is the perfect place for Santa to take a vacation before his busy time of year! Lol!

Once Santa was coloured with my Copic markers in bright vacation colours, I placed him on a stitched circle cut out from paper that looked like pool water. I thought it would be fun to place the “pool” off-centred on the card and trim a small piece off the one edge.

Don’t you just love the sparkle of the Aloha sticker, and it pulls out the orange that I used in my colouring! Of course, if Santa is in the land of paradise, he needs a sunny day to folic in the pool! Hence the die cut sun behind the Aloha. Lol!

For my card base, I used green DSP for my palm die cut frame and then some orange DSP with flowers behind it to add to my colour scheme. To mirror the palm die cut, I used a paper palm leaf in one corner.

I added some Star Dust Stickles to Santa’s hat trim, white Gelly Roll Pen for the shine on his floatie and Glossy Accents to Rudolph’s nose. Finally, for embellishment, I used a few sprinkles to match the colours of my card.

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Copic Markers

Skin: E15/E13/E11/E00/E000
Beard/Whites: C3/C1/C0
Reds: R29/R27/R24/R22
Oranges: YR09/YR07/YR04/YR02
Reindeer: E35/E33/E31/E30/E31/E53/E51/E50/R29/R27/R24
Coconut Drink: R85/R83/R81/C3/C1/0/E33/E31/E30/E53/E51/E50

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Card Recipe for My Aloha Santa Card

Vacation Santa Set, Paper Nest Dolls
Paper Basics - Stamper's Select White Cardstock, Papertrey Ink
Island Oasis 12” x 12” Designer Series Paper, Stampin’ Up!
Make a Splash Collection 6” x 6” Paper Pad, BoBunny
Spring Showers Dies, Lawn Fawn
Stitched Circle Layering Dies, Memory Box
Palm Leaf Frame Die, Paper Roses
Summer Glitter Assortment Sprinkles, Doodlebug Design Inc.
Paper Palm Leaves, The Paper Studio
Aloha Sticker, Crafter’s Square
White Gelly Roll Pen, Sakura
Star Dust Stickles, Ranger
Glossy Accents, Ranger

Tahitian Tide Card Stock, Stampin’ Up!

Finished card size: 5 ½” x 4 ¼”

Stamp Size: 3”

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Hope you like my Design Team Inspiration Card using
Vacation Santa Set by Paper Nest Dolls!

Thank you for stopping by!

Hugs,
Laurie

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