I absolutely love this Enchanted Ocean Collection by Crafters Companion! It’s my new favorite and I was inspired to make so many cards. The collection is filled with ocean element dies and stamps, pretty “illusion film” to create iridescent backgrounds inside the intricate die cuts, and the most gorgeous papers. Each paper is filled with layers of ocean creatures and coral in a beautiful color palette. To start, I like to stamp, color and cut a whole bunch of embellishment elements to build my card layouts. My favorites of this collection are the coral die cuts…
The Crafters Companion Floral Creations die set is so fun with a huge variety of blooms to craft beautiful bouquets for cards. The set comes with a little divided storage box so you can cut and assemble a bunch and keep them for future card projects. I sat down for a session of die cutting with a mix of colored paper and after an hour or two, I had a big batch of blooms for my cards. I took inspiration from the sample on the box and crafted a background of a pretty floral paper frame and a more subtle…
I just love the Vintage Butterfly Collection from Crafter’s Companion, and even use the components to enhance other collections. There’s a whole page of stamps and dies with a postal / tickets / labels theme that I keep on my craft table to create quick ephemera. These are so easy to layer in card front compositions. The paper pad is also so pretty with different colored butterflies flying across layered florals and calligraphy text. This is an example of a collage card that just came together so easily, featuring the collage style butterfly embossing folder. I also layered…
I absolutely love this stamp and die set by My Creative Life called Homespun. The macrame dies are so intricate and easy to cut out. Then I can get creative with fun dimensional embellishments. It’s like I’m weaving my own little macrame wall art. The sentiments like “I can knot thank you enough…” and “hang in there” take it to another cuteness level. I paired it with Crafter’s Companion Bohemian Collection, especially the Bohemian paper pad with its layered imagery of dream catchers, pretty beads, feathers, and florals in…