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…
I love the red white & blue color palette and collage style of this card making kit – all centered around Alice in Wonderland characters and imagery. I stamped a bunch of the sentiments that have some great font combinations and kitschy phrases, then I also stamped a whole page of the little imagery – Alice, pocket watch, playing cards, drink bottle, tea cup, cupcake, top hat – and colored them with some shading to add dimension. And of course lots of die cuts in black, gold, red and blue papers. After crafting my embellishments, I created my card bases…
Die cut cards just make me happy, and when the die cut covers the whole front of the card, it multiplies the beauty and impact. Just add a sentiment and a few embellishments, and you have a little work of art to send a friend to brighten their day…
I crafted a beautiful set of cards using the Delightful Daisies collection from Crafters Companion. The items that drew me to the collection was the designer paper pad, the springtime color palette, and the pretty embossed daisy die cut. It was so fun and relaxing to experiment with different techniques to craft these cards. The way I like to work when making a big set of cards from a collection is to cut, stamp, and color a whole bunch of embellishment elements. Then I cut and fold multiple card bases, including some fancy fold types, and add mat layers with…