Wildflower Slimline

 Hi Artzy friends -

Spring weather is finally here to stay, and I'm enjoying watching everything in my yard bloom. I'm already behind in planting my pots!

I colored this wildflower image from the Wildflower Garden stamp set a few weeks ago. I actually stamped it twice to get a full slimline sized panel. I really enjoyed coloring all of these pretty flowers with Prismacolor  colored pencils. 

 

Other Dare 2B Artzy products used to create this card are the Slimline Land & Clouds Border dies as well as a sentiment banner die in the appropriate size for my sentiment, and the largest die from the Wavy Slimline Framelit dies 

I hope flower season is here to stay for a while! 

Thanks for visiting and have a great day!

Avra

Home Sweet Home

 Hi Artzy friends -

Today I am sharing a slimline card created with the Dare 2B Artzy Home Sweet Home stamp set and the Little Village and die set. 

I love how fun it is to color these whimsical houses!

Another awesome thing about the dies that coordinate with this stamp set is that the same dies cut out the images in our Bistro stamps and Candy Shop stamps! How clever is that? And great for our crafting budgets!

Other products I used for this card were papers from the Everything is Blooming collection, and dies from the Wavy Slimline Framelits set. 

Thanks for visiting and have a great day!

Avra

Floating By

 Hi Artzy friends -

For me, January means the end of the holiday card making season, and time to start making birthday cards for the year. 

I hope this card puts a smile on the recipient's face, especially if they have a winter birthday!

This full front, or edge to edge shaker card is easy to create with any clear packaging you may have laying around. I made a pocket with a card panel that was foiled with the Make Waves Hot Foil Plate and a piece of clear plastic packaging, and filled the pocket with sequins and shaker bits before sealing up the pocket.

I then colored and die cut my jellyfish and other sea creatures from the Jellyfish stamps and dies sets. I added them to the front of my card, along with my sentiment from the Seahorses stamp set, which I stamped on a banner die from the Wavy Slimline Framelits dies.

I just love all the sparkle and shine and "fun factor" of this card!

Join us in the Dare 2B Artzy blog challenge this month with a Winter Fun card for a chance to win a $15 gift certificate to the store!

Thanks for visiting and have a great day!

Avra

Beautiful Day

 Hi Artzy friends -

Today I am sharing a slimline card created with some fun new Dare 2B Artzy products.

Most of us know that for many Dare 2B Artzy stamp and die sets, there is paper that also coordinates and you can cut many of the images right out of the paper - no stamping, no coloring, easy peasy!

Now we have another product to add to the Breezy Blossoms images that make an additionalway to create a beautiful card with no coloring! Check out the Breezy Blossom Stencil! Dare 2B Artzy has made it easy to line up and rotate the stencil with your stamped images to create these fun florals in any colors you like! 

I die cut the images twice, once out of fun foam, and mounted my stenciled images on the foam to add dimension to my card.

The patterned paper, cut with a die from Wavy Slimline Framelit dies, is from the new Everything is Blooming paper collection.

My sentiment is from another new stamp set, Love Grows.

I hope you'll check out these beautiful new products at Dare 2B Artzy. Be on the lookout for another post tomorrow, as well as a hop over on Instagram featuring all of our talented designers!

Thanks for visiting and have a great day,

Avra

Sea You Soon

 Hi Artzy friends -

Today I am sharing a fun slimline triple flap card using images from the Sea Horses stamp and dies sets. 

I used dies from the Wavy Slimline framelits and the Rectangle framelits to cut some of my layers out of papers from the Make Waves collection. 

After constructing my triple flap card front out of white cardstock I adhered my patterned paper layers. I cut the word Hugs 3 times with the word die from the new Mini Hugs Tag Die set and adhered them together to add dimension. I added that and two of my colored and die cut sea horses to the fronts of the three flaps.

Beneath my three flaps I added two sentiments from the same stamp set as well as my third sea horse. This interactive card would be appropriate for just about any type of celebration!

I just love Dare 2B Artzy's paper collections. They coordinate so well together that mixing and matching the different patterns is a breeze!

Thanks for visiting and have a great day!

Avra

Dare 2B Artzy 2021 Favorites

Hi Artzy friends -

As we near the end of 2021, I thought I would revisit some of my favorite projects from the past year using Dare 2B Artzy stamps, dies, and papers released during the year, and a variety of fun folds as well!

It's difficult to narrow down because there have been so many fantastic new products to create with this year!

The first card I shared in 2021 was actually one of my favorites! The adorable bear and penguins from Just Chillin' are some of my favorite winter images! And I love the papers in the Snow Much Fun collection! 

This Turtley Awesome card made the list because I think this turtle eating ice cream is just so fun! 

Early 2021 found many of us receiving our Covid vaccines and looking forward to seeing and hugging our friends again. This cute card features bears from Bear Hugs, and beautiful colorful papers from the Ice Cream Social collection. Slimline dies, such as these from the Wavy Slimline Framelits dies were very popular in 2021 as well!

At Dare 2B Artzy, we love to get a jumpstart on Christmas cards in July, and this card was created to get us thinking about winter, 6 months ago! I just love the Slimline Snowflake dies cut out of silver glittery cardstock! Such a simple card but it makes a big impact!

The most recent Dare 2B Artzy release included so many beautiful images and papers that can be used for holiday cards and all year round. 

Two of my favorite cards made with products from the release include one made with the Pop Up Feature die, and a slimline card. Both feature papers from the Merry and Bright collection, which may just be my favorite Dare 2B Artzy papers to date (although I'm sure I say that every time new a new paper collection is released!)

I hope you enjoyed taking a look back at Dare 2B Artzy products and projects from the past year with me.

And I hope you are looking forward to getting Artzy with some fantastic new products to come in 2022! I know I am!

I would love it if you would use my affiliate link when you shop! 

Thanks for visiting and have a great day!

Avra

Rocking Christmas

 Hi Artzy friends -

Today I have another card for you featuring the new Rockin' Holiday stamps and dies. 

This set is versatile because it can be used for both holiday and non-holiday cards.

This time I made a Christmas card by adding a strip of Peace Love Joy paper behind the rocking horse. The green striped paper is the back side of the O' Christmas Tree paper. Both are from the Merry & Bright collection.

My sentiment strip is cut with a die from the Wavy Slimline framelits dies.

I stamped the ornaments from the stamp set to add a little interest to the inside of the card.

To finish off my card I popped the rocking horse up on an action wobble! So fun!

The theme for our challenge this month is cards for Babies/Kids/Teens. Link your card here for a chance to win a $15 gift certificate to the Dare 2B Artzy store. 

Thanks for visiting and have a great day!

Avra

BFF Birds

Hi Artzy friends -

I love how some of the new stamps and dies sets from Dare 2B Artzy coordinate so well together. I also love how, just by changing the sentiment, the images lend themselves to cards for so many occasions!

These birds are from the new Scandinavian Songbird and Joyful Robin sets. 

Check out all of the sentiments included in these two sets!

My birds are sitting on a Slim Mini Flower Patch die background, and the light blue layer is cut from a die in the Slim Mini Wavy Layers set. The sentiment strip is from the Wavy Slimline Framelits die set. 

I know you will find loads of occasions to create cards for using these two new bird themed sets!

Be sure to visit Dare 2B Artzy to see all of the latest products perfect for your holiday and year round projects!

Thanks for visiting, and have a great day!

Avra

Summertime Friends

 Hi Artzy friends -

Now that (Christmas in) July is over, I am holding on to a little bit of summer with this ocean friends slimline card.

The adorable manatees and the octopus are from the Seas the Day stamps and dies sets.

I cut the 3 background layers with dies from the Rectangle Slimline Framelits set and the Wavy Slimline Framelits set. The blue bubble patterned layer and the red and white striped strip,  (adhered on the inside edge),  are from the Otterly Awesome paper, in the Seas the Day collection. I just love everything in this collection for summertime themed cards!

I thought by adding the word "friends" to my card, I will be able to use this card for so many occasions, by simply adding the appropriate sentiment or note to the inside before mailing. The word stamp is one of 17 individual words in the new A Single Greeting stamp set! They can mixed and matched, or used individually, on all of your cards or scrapbook pages!

Enjoy these last weeks of summer - I know I will!

Thanks for visiting and have a great day!

Avra

Bold Happy Birthday

 Hi Artzy friends -

 I am always looking for quick easy ways to beef up my stash of birthday cards, so today I have 4 cards to share with you, all created with the same die. The die I used was the Slim Mini Birthday die, but I created 3 A2 cards and a slimline card!

To create my A2 cards, I cut the Happy Birthday die out of three different colors of cardstock. I saved all the pieces as I poked them out of the die so I could inlay them back into the other colored die cuts. It was then super easy to create 3 colorful Happy Birthday elements all at once!

These can then be used on just about any size card - mini slimline, slimline, or A2 being the most common sizes that come to mind.

I created three simple A2 cards that I'll be able to use for any birthdays that come along.

First I mounted one to a matching teal background, and added "to you" stamped beneath it, along with 3 red gems.

For the next one I attached my happy birthday to the center of a piece of paper from the Seas the Day collection.

For the next card I mounted the happy birthday in the center of a white card base, and embellished it with the new Mini Stars Border die. 

After completing these 3 coordinating cards, I decided to get a little crazy and create a slimline shaker card.

This time, I cut the Slim Mini Birthday die out of white cardstock and created a shaker element, filling the Happy with blue sequins, and the Birthday with orange sequins. 

I then cut the two background layers for my slimline card using dies from the Wavy Slimline Framelit dies. The wavy frame is cut from paper from the Ice Cream Social collection. I love the fun colors and patterns and the shaker element on this slimline card!

I hope you've been inspired to think of different ways to use your dies, and to create lots of birthday cards to have on hand! 

If you'd prefer to get a jump on your holiday cards, please join us for our Christmas in July challenge for a chance to win a $15 gift certificate to the Dare 2B Artzy store!

Thanks for visiting and have a great day!

Avra

Have a Sweet Day

 Hi Artzy friends -

I created this fun "surprise inside" card for a very special friend. I hope she likes it, and I hope you do too!

This yummy shake image (as well as an image you'll see on the inside), and the sentiments are from the new Dare 2B Artzy Be Frappe stamps and dies. (The dies also cut the images in the new Latte Love stamp set.)  Of course it could be a frappe, an iced or hot coffee, or whatever beverage your prefer! The sentiment strips were cut with  a die from the Wavy Slimline Framelit dies. 

When the card is opened, the image, framed in a pretty yellow frame, pops out, and another yummy treat is revealed inside. 

It's so fun to stamp your choice of sprinkles on top of the doughnut!

The sentiment strips on the inside of the card are cut from smallest layer in the new Slim Mini Wavy Layers dies.

The patterned papers used on this card are from the fresh springy Home Grown Collection. 

Thank you for visiting and have a sweet day!

Avra

Triangle Gatefold, Two Ways

 Hi Artzy friends -

Did you know that Cindy Sartain goes live on Facebook on the Dare 2B Artzy page almost every Monday at 7:30 p.m. Central Time? Her video is always full of great inspiration and tips (and sometimes sneak peeks) using fabulous Dare 2B Artzy products! 

If you watched on May 3rd, you saw her share how she makes triangle gatefold cards; and she shared the written dimensions and assembly directions in the Artzy Community Facebook group. Request to join the group if you are not already a member. You can find the measurements in the files. 

Because I love trying new-to-me fun folds, I created two triangle gatefold cards - a slimline version, and a mini-slim version. 

My slimline card features images from the Seas the Day stamps and dies sets, as well as paper from the Seas the Day collection. 

On the inside I adhered the white dotted rectangle and the sentiment strip from the Wavy Slimline Framelits die set.

I created a belly band to hold the card closed, mounting my octopus and stamping my sentiment on two diecuts from the Wavy Squares Framelits.

My mini-slim card features images from the Crafty Gnome stamp and die sets, and paper from the All the Buzz collection. 

On the inside I used the new Slim Mini Wavy Layers dies to cut the two layers on which my sentiment and additional images are displayed. 

I created a belly band for this card as well, again using the Wavy Squares Framelits for my main image and greeting. 

I also created my own matching slim-mini envelope with papers from the All the Buzz collection, using Dare 2B Artzy's brand new Slim-Mini Envelope dies! 

Don't you love presenting a card/gift that's all color coordinated?!

I hope you will tune in to Cindy's Facebook live's on Monday evenings, and if you can't watch her live you can always catch the replay any time!

There is still time to enter Dare 2B Artzy's challenge for the month of May. The theme is Flowers, and you can earn a chance to win a $15 gift certificate to the Dare 2B Artzy store. 

Thanks for visiting and have a great day!

Avra