Simply Cardmaking with Laurel Beard

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Funny Happy Birthday Cards

Sometimes, all you need a good ‘ole sentiment to make some really fun birthday cards! For these cards, I used the sentiments from the That Thing You Did sentiment set from Ellen Hutson and hand painted some birthday cakes and make some really great, and funny, birthday cards! This first card is my favorite because I love the white cake against the gold washed background.

This next card features a few painted stripes to form the cake and then the addition of flowers and leaves here and there. Yes, I need to work on painting leaves.. They sorta look like blobs right now, but hey… the sentiment is funny.

 

 

If you aren’t a painter, you can draw the cakes with a pen or even some Crayola markers. Get creative! The recipient will love it…..

 

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DIY Easy Valentine’s Day Cards + Foil Quill First Impressions

Easy DIY Valentine’s Day cards for anyone to do! That’s right. Whether you have Valentine’s themed supplies or not, I’ve got you covered!

Here is a look at some of the cards I made in the video! I also give lots of tips and tricks in the video as well!

Did you have a particular favorite card or technique? Will you be making Valentine’s Day cards? Let me know in the comments!

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Grunge Florals – Mixed Media – Fun Stampers Journey

Grunge Florals? Why not. I am totally going outside of my comfort zone here using the Fun Stampers Journey February Stamp of the Month Club. Instead of watercoloring flower like I normally do, I thought I would whip out some of my embossing powders and see what I could come up with a different look.

  1. Stamp the floral image  from the February Fun Stampers Journey Stamp Club with Embossing Ink and heat set with Metallic Copper Embossing powder.
  2. Add a squirt of Dragon Scales Dream Drops to the center of each flower and blend with your finger. These Dream Drops look gorgeous on dark cardstock and come in a variety of colors.
  3. Add Embossing ink to a rectangle frame and apply 3 colors (Metallic Copper, Aquatini, Black Glint) of embossing powders (add one at a time so your powders don’t mix together, but heat set all at once)
  4. Add a strip of embossing ink (I used the Wow Embossing Pen) and heat set with Black Glint Embossing Powder.
  5. Adhere Rectangle Frame to Card
  6. Stamp Sentiment with Embossing ink and Metallic Copper embossing powder and heat set.

To learn more about the Stampers Journey Stamp of the Month Club, visit HERE! The value is incredible.

So what do you thinik? Do you dig the grunge look? I do, every once in a while! And I like all the texture and shine on this card!

Goodies used (affiliate links used at no cost to you)

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Mystery Boxes: Multiple Box Options

It’s that time again. Purging for charity!  50% of the proceeds will be donated to a charity I support. 

For this destash, I have a variety of sizes/prices available for you. Pricing includes priority shipping. This purge is not limited to just stamps/dies.

  • Stamps
  • Dies
  • Mixed Media
  • Stencils
  • Inks
  • Embossing Powders
  • + more

Some of the stamps and dies are gently used and some are not used at all. Some include storage pockets, some don’t.  Most dies have the magnetic backing sheet, but a few don’t.  It’s going to be like Christmas morning when you receive your box!

  • $200 boxes (box packed with stamps, dies PLUS additional crafty goodness listed in the bullets above)
  • $120 boxes
  • $75 boxes
  • $200 Box (Altenew stamps and dies only)
  • $75 (Altenew stamps and dies only)

More info:  Each box will contain stamps/dies DOUBLING the cost of the box you purchase.. For the larger priced box, I will include loads of other things too! These boxes are all stuffed full! Ask anyone who has gotten one of these boxes!  The brands of the stamps are brands that I use and share in my youtube videos. 

Value:  I estimate the value of the contents of each box ranges from $150-$400+.   The value of each box is at the minimum DOUBLING the value of the contents inside.

How to buy: To purchase, paypal me at laurelbeard@me.com as friends/family (so no fees are applied). Your mailing address MUST be on your paypal profile.  USA only.

All sales are final and no returns accepted. I apologize to all of my international friends, but these boxes are for USA shipping only. 

I will update the post when I sell out, which I predict will be quickly. Last time, I sold all my boxes within 12 hours of my post published! 

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Metallic Watercolored Amaryllis

Who doesn’t love metallic watercolored Amaryllises?  And best thing is, you need very few supplies to recreate this beauty! You don’t even need watercolored cardstock.  I stamped the flowers from Mondo Amaryllis several times with Embossing ink onto regular black cardstock and heat embossed using Wow’s Ultra Fine white embossing powder. Then I watercolored them with Altenew’s Metallic watercolors…. It’s so shiny and so pretty! Once that was all dry, I die cut them with the coordinating die and layered them onto a card base.  The sentiment is from the Totally Random Sayings 1 stamp set. I love the bold, thick font. I heat embossed with the same ink and embossing powder as the flowers. The sentiment is popped up with some X-Press foam tape (on sale I might add).

What do you think about the metallic watercolors on black cardstock? I like that some of the black still shows thru….

Goodies used:

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