My Favorite Things - July Card Kit Release Day - Celebrate You!

Happy to share that the July card kit Celebrate You by My Favorite Things is now available for purchase.  I have a new card today to share with you featuring elements from this release.

The card started by creating an A2 panel of Chantilly Cream Prestige Cardstock and adhering it to a prepared white cardstock base.    Then I created a small panel of cardstock using a design from the Party Time 6 x 6 Paper Pad which forms part of the kit.

I popped the patterned panel in my Misti and stamped the oversized sentiment from Celebrate you using Versamark Ink and I heat embossed in gold.  I repeated this process 2 or 3 more times so that the sentiment was nicely raised and embossed.

The panel was backed with white craft foam and mounted on the Chantilly Cream panel.

I stamped the candle and gifts with Versamark Ink on more of the cream cardstock and heat embossed just once in gold.  Elements were die cut and backed with foam tape, arranged and applied.

Above zoomed in photo shows how nicely the wiggly coloured line paper works with the smart gold.

I hope you treat yourself to the kit .... you deserve it after all!   Happy shopping and crafting friends, I always appreciate you stopping by and love to hear from you all in the comments below.   Take care!

My Favorite Things - July Card Kit - Celebrating You - Countdown Day 1

Did you hear about July's new Celebrate You Card Kit by My Favorite Things?   It will be released tomorrow July 27th at 10am EST.    My card today is my second of three projects using this fun kit.

So rare for me to make cards that are just pure die-cutting with no stamping or colouring but here it is!!!  (OK, I guess I stamped the sentiment does that count)?

Creating this card was really quite simple.   Starting with an A2 panel of Poppin' Pink Prestige Cardstock and then over that I layered a die cut made using the Double Stitched Rectangles Die-namics and a patterned paper sheet from the Party Time 6 x 6 Paper Pad.  I chose this sheet to go with my confetti theme but there's a huge variety to choose from.

I backed this panel with white craft foam and glued it to the pink backing panel which in turn was glued to my prepared card base.

I used Prestige cardstocks in Poppin' Pink, Butterscotch and Tropical Teal because they tie in nicely with the patterned paper's colours and die cut the balloons from the Celebrate You Die-namics, balloon strings were made using Eiffel Tower.   Strings were glued directly and balloon die cuts were applied with foam tape.

I used Gold Sparkle Cardstock to die cut the cascading confetti piece which were either glued directly or added with foam tape for a fun affect.

For the final touch I stamped the sentiment from Itty Bitty Birthday to a sentiment strip created using Itty Bitty Sentiment Strips Die-namics and applied this with foam tape to float above everything else.  Card complete!

Come back tomorrow for a final card with a very different look and thanks for stopping by, happy crafting!

My Favorite Things - July Card Kit - Celebrate You - Countdown Day 2

Hello!   My Favorite Things have a new Card Kit releasing at 10am EST on the 27th July!!   The kit is named 'Celebrate You' and yes ... it is all about birthdays!   Here is my first of three cards to reveal some of what the kit can do!   Today I'm keeping it clean and simple with a fun shaker design.

Firstly, I die cut a white panel of cardstock using the new It's Your Day Die-namics.   On the reverse side I adhered some clear acetate.  I used strips of dimensional foam tape around the edge of the party hat design, used anti static powder to make sure the edges of the tape weren't sticky then sprinkled in my shaker filler contents and then I sealed the back of the shaker unit with more acetate.

I put more dimensional tape around the edges of the white panel and then adhered it to a colourful A2 panel of pattern cardstock from the new Party Time 6 x 6 Paper Pad.

For the decorative hat topper I die cut that piece twice from Poppin' Pink Prestige Cardstock and the second from the Gold Sparkle Cardstock and adhered.

Last but not least the simple design is anchored by the sentiment from the new Itty Bitty Birthday stamp set which I stamped on a die cut made using Itty Bitty Sentiment Strips Die-namics, black cardstock and Versamark Ink.   I heat embossed in white, backed the strip with foam tape and applied.  I mounted the whole panel to a sturdy white cardstock card base and with that the card was complete.

I chose to fill my shaker unit for a fairly stuffed look with little movement of the contents but you could easily do yours with just a few embellishments that are fun to shake around.

I'll be back tomorrow with something new from the kit - see you then hopefully!