Bee Mine

 Hi Artzy friends -

Today I have a card that can be used for Valentine's Day, or any day that you want to express your love with a handmade card!

Speaking of love, I'm in love with the Dare 2B Artzy Heart Duo Stencils! With two stencils full of hearts, you have many options for creating "love-ly" backgrounds! 

For this card, I enjoyed trying out Simon Hurley Lunar Paste in Game Over. It's difficult to photograph but you really get a nice shine with these pastes. 

I colored and die cut the bees from Buzzy Beez stamps and dies and popped them up onto a vellum heart cut with a die in the Gift Bag and Box die set.

My sentiment was created with the Love You Double Layered Word Die. I used vellum for the shadow layer of my words as well, to let as much of my background shine through as possible.

I hope you will get out your stencils and play with different mediums! Dare 2B Artzy has some great stencils to choose from!

Thanks for visiting, and have a great day!

Avra

Impossible Birthday Card

 Hi Artzy friends-

Happy new year! I love the holiday season but I also love getting back into my craft room and spending some time by myself playing with my stamps and dies!

Something I usually find myself needing to do at the beginning of a new year is building up my stash of birthday cards. I've spent the past several months exclusively making holiday cards and my supply of other cards has been dwindling.

I love that many of Dare 2B Artzy's holiday stamps and dies can be used all year long!

I created this birthday card with the new Impossible Fold Die and the Baking Sweet Memories stamps and dies. 

The sentiments are stamped from the Simply Birthday Stamp set. I can see myself using this stamp set on just about every birthday card I make! 

The Impossible Fold die set comes with many "extra" dies that can be used to cut layers for this fun little pop up card, and on all of your other cards and scrapbook layouts as well! I used papers from the Home for the Holidays collection, many of which can also be used year round.

 

This card folds flat to fit in an A2 envelope for mailing, and "pops up" when you take it out of the envelope. It's so easy to create with this die set!

Thanks for visiting, and have a great day!

Avra