Hello! Clare here today, with a card using layering stamp sets in a very simple way!

I was playing around with Altenew’s Peony Bouquet, and after I had stamped all the base layers, I decided I thought it looked beautiful on its own, without adding the optional one or two extra layers.

I stamped my flowers in Hero Arts Bubblegum, Soft Pink, Navy, Pool, and Dusty Blue. I added some of the line layers to fill, and also added a couple on some of the leaves, to differentiate them.

I finished off my card simply with some sequins, and a heat embossed sentiment from Hero Arts Thank You Tag on a die cut frame from My Favorite Things.

Thanks so much for stopping in today and God bless!

Peony Bouquet (Altenew)	Thank You Tag (Hero Arts)	STAX Pierced Rectangle Die Set (My Favorite Things)	Tim Holtz Distress Watercolor Cardstock 8.5	Inkadinkado Embossing Magic
Heat It Craft Tool (Ranger)	VersaMark Watermark Stamp Pad	Hero Arts Color Layering Mini Ink Set – Clare’s Soft Flowers	Hero Arts Midtone Shadow Ink Pad – Bubble Gum	Hero Arts Midtone Shadow Ink Pad – Pool
Hero Arts Color Layering Mini Ink Set – Mariana’s Cornflower

Hi all, it’s Clare here today! I couldn’t stop with My Favorite Things Beast Friends after last week – I wanted to show how you could use it to make a non-holiday or even winter card.

I started out by die cutting a bunch of trees using My Favorite Things Birch Trees dies, and adhered them to navy cardstock. I then stamped a bunch of little leaves from Avery Elle’s Woodland Wonders, and colored them with Blue Gray, Cobalt Blue and some water to lighten it up. After die cutting the leaves, I adhered them to my trees.

Next was the landscape – I die cut two pieces of vellum using Lawn Fawn’s Stitched Hillside border dies, then die cut a piece of white cardstock using the same die. I inked my sentiment first with Versamark, then with Hero Arts Navy, added some Sparkle clear embossing powder, and heat embossed the sentiment. I trimmed my hills down, and adhered them to the base.

Next was the beast! I colored the little dude pretty much with Mid Brown – I struggle to color images that have “large” spaces, such as his tummy.

I brought in a little pink with some butterflies from Avery Elle’s Woodland Wonders, colored with Light Carmine and water.

Thanks so much for stopping in today and God bless!

BB Beast Friends (My Favorite Things)	BB Beast Friends (My Favorite Things)	My Favorite Things Die-namic Set – Birch Trees	Woodland Wonders Stamp Set (Avery Elle)	Stitched Hillside Borders Die Set (Lawn Fawn)
VersaMark Watermark Stamp Pad	Hero Arts Shadow Dye Mini Ink Set – Winter Cubes	ZIG Clean Color Real Brush	Tim Holtz Distress Watercolor Cardstock 8.5	Advanced Tape Glider and Tape – Pink (Scotch)
Double-Sided Foam Mounting Tape .5″ (Scotch)	WOW! Embossing Powder 15ml – Clear Hologram Sparkle	Heat It Craft Tool (Ranger)	Inkadinkado Embossing Magic

…it’s Clare popping in today, with a fun card that has a wide range of uses!

I started my card off by coloring the cute little cow-raccoon (instead of cowboy? somehow it just doesn’t work…) from Mama Elephant’s Rowdy Raccoons, and coloring him in with some ZIG’s. I used Light Gray for his main body, Gray and Light Gray for the mask and tail, Mid Brown and Gray for the rope and boots, Brown and Beige for the hat and horse head, Light Pink for the ears and nose, and finally, Deep Blue and Persian Blue for the handkerchief.

I then die cut a tag using the Hero Arts Tag Infinity Dies, and blended a background using only Stormy Sky. For the stars, I die cut a piece of scratch paper using My Favorite Things Vertical Stars in the Sky, then used it as a stencil. I stamped my sentiment in Hero Arts Cup O’ Joe, adhered my raccoon, and my tag was good to go.

Now, you could leave it at that, and pair up the tag with a present or gift, but I decided to go the card route….

I die cut a background using Lawn Fawn’s Stitched Borders die, and adhered my tag on that.

Have a blessed day!

Rowdy Raccoons (Mama Elephant)	Rowdy Raccoons Creative Cut (Mama Elephant)	Stormy Sky Distress Ink Pad (Ranger Tim Holtz)	Stormy Sky MINI Distress Ink Pad (Ranger Tim Holtz)	Hero Arts Hues Dye Ink Pad – Black
Cup O’ Joe (Hero Arts)	ZIG Clean Color Real Brush	Round Ink Blending Tool Replacement Foam (Ranger)	Stitched Borders Die Set (Lawn Fawn)	Stars in the Sky Die-namics (My Favorite Things)
Tim Holtz Distress Watercolor Cardstock 8.5

Hello there! Clare here today, with a party night scene!

For todays card, I started out by blending a background on watercolor cardstock using Chipped Sapphire, and then die cutting it with the My Favorite Things Stars in the Sky background die. Just make sure you clean the die after die cutting a freshly inked piece of cardstock, otherwise some ink will remain on the die and transfer over to the next paper you cut with it – ask me how I know. 😉

I backed it up with some glittery cardstock, freehand cut some hills, and then heat embossed a sentiment from Avery Elle’s Band Camp, the star of today’s show.

Now, onto those crazy critters. Honestly, when I color, I don’t usually keep track of what specific pen colors I used, because I usually do a lot of blending, and there’s so many different ways to get the same shading, with just different pen colors or different amounts of color layering. But, the overall gist of coloring for these guys goes as such: alligator (Olive Green and Pale Green), turtle (Mid Green and Pale Green), owl (Light Gray and Gray Brown), hats (Deep Blue and Blue) and instruments (Yellow).

I die cut those suckers out, adhered them to the card base, and finished the card off with some Glossy Accents on the instruments.

Thanks so much for stopping in and God bless!

Band Camp Die Set (Avery Elle)	Stars in the Sky Die-namics (My Favorite Things)	Lawn Fawn Cardstock Black Licorice	Tim Holtz Distress Watercolor Cardstock 8.5	Hero Arts Hues Dye Ink Pad – Black
Chipped Saphire Distress Ink Pad (Ranger Tim Holtz)	Chipped Sapphire MINI Distress Ink Pad (Ranger Tim Holtz)	VersaMark Watermark Stamp Pad	ZIG Clean Color Real Brush	Round Ink Blending Tool Replacement Foam (Ranger)
Heat It Craft Tool (Ranger)	Embossing Magic Pad (Inkadinkado)	Glossy Accents (Ranger Inkssentials)	Double-Sided Foam Mounting Tape .5″ (Scotch)	Scotch Foam Mounting Tape .5″