terrarium die

Happy Tuesday! Are you ready for a fun Make & Tell? I’ve been digging around in the dirt a little around the yard, potting up some flowers and enjoying the sunshine. But yesterday was rainy, and it made me want to pull out my Pot-Pourri set and Terrarium die to “plant” some inky versions in my craft room!

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Pot-Pourri is such a fun set, and I haven’t given it a lot of love lately, so it was fun to pull it out again. I love stamping these plants in all shades of green for lots of interest. For the plaid background, I pulled out my Painterly Stripes Background and stamped that fun plaid using several shades of green.

The sentiment is from the Fresh Air set, and everything is layered over a Crimped Frame diecut. I used an easy masking technique to create the layers of plants. Very fun to do – you could definitely mass produce this card too…just set up your MISTI and stamp multiple panels assembly-line style.

Here’s today’s video – enjoy! 🙂

It’s TGIF time! Are you ready for the weekend? Do you have crafting plans? It’s cold and dreary here and I plan to sneak in some crafting time this weekend. Wanda is here for today’s TGIF with a project that’s so fresh and wintery, it’s making me think maybe winter’s not so bad after all if it inspires these kinds of beautiful things. Let’s read on to learn more about her pretty project…

Hello Greetery Friends! Happy New Year! I’m so looking forward to a new year of fun and creativity! Today I’m sharing a pretty thank you card and I’m calling it – Winter Garden. This time of year I always need thank you cards. For Christmas presents, for parties I was invited to, for business associates. So I like to stretch my Christmas stamps and dies in new ways to carry on into Winter months by making thank yous. I thought it might be pretty to use the beautiful Pine Bough Botanicuts Dies together with the innovative and pretty Terrarium Die and create a Winter Garden.

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I used shades of Winter for this project: Icy blue, sparkling bright white, warm brown and all shades of green. I really love to combine textures on my cards and that’s what I did here. Vellum for the sentiment, watercolor paper for the leaves and metallic paper for the terrarium. Twine and enamel dots as accents add even more texture.

I die cut the pine leaves from watercolor paper and used small sponge daubers and Distress Inks to add shades of greens. Once the ink was dry, I splattered lots of white paint to look like snow. The background of the terrarium was also ink blended with Distress Ink.

I used the little tag from the Sentiment Suites Basics to add a design element to the top of the card. The words are from the Christmas Caravan stamp set. I used Stazon Ink to stamp the gorgeous thank you sentiment from Pine Blossom onto a strip of vellum.

Happy Crafting!

Before I go, I have a couple of winners for our Sticker Giveaway from the Love Letters release day…

The winners were Virginia P with her guess of “envelope”, and Catherine Milne with her guess of “sketchbook roses” – they were both correct! I had to choose several random numbers until I found two with the correct answer! 🙂 Ladies, I sent you both an email and I’ll get your stickers out as soon as I hear back from you.

Have a great weekend everyone!

Make & Tell: Stamping a Terrarium Garden

TGIF – Winter Garden Terrarium with Wanda