Hello everyone! It’s a busy day on the blog because today start the Spring & Summer Coffee Lovers Hop. So let’s make a colorful coffee card combining some of my favorites products from Joy Clair Designs and Kat Scrappiness. As I told you before, I am fascinated with the slimline cards. To make this colorful coffee card, I used the large size of the Stitched Scalloped Nesting Slimline Die from Kat Scrappiness. I masked the...

Hi there, I just pop up to share an excellent news with you! Joy Clair Designs is excited to announce a Design Team Call. We are looking for full time and guest designers for our blog team, video content team, and social media teams. We are looking for Design Team members that are passionate about stamping & paper crafting, and are active on Social Media. The Design Team members will be asked to create projects of a high quality that have a...

Today I have two very simple friendship cards to share with you all. This month Joy Clair Designs released many flowers and I want to walk you through how I made these very simple friendship cards. You are special card! This card is super simple. First, I printed off the Flowers and sentiment from the Floral Joy Digital Set. Once printed, I selected the flowers that I wanted to use and cut it down with one of the embossed edge squares dies from...

Hi friends, I just pop up to share the Perfectly CAS card of this month. I am featuring the stamp set Party Animals from Joy Clair Designs. This month the theme of the challenge is animals and I used one of my favorites from the Party Animals Set. I stamped the alligator image and the sentiment with with VersaFine Onix. Then I colored the animal with Illustrator Markers from Spectrum Noir. Additionally, I resized the layer with the large size...

I love using digital stamps. They are convenient, easy to keep organized on the computer and are cheaper than traditional stamps. They are great to explore techniques or simply to use in natural way! Today, I want to share two super simple cards adding dimension to the digital stamps.  I didn’t use any special technique, just print the images and colored them with alcohol markers but let me give you the details. I printed my digital...

Hi there, today I have a card created with a simple coloring with stencils. I love the pattern designs and colored them with color pencils is really simple. I am using the ColourBlend Pencils from the Florals Collection from Spectrum Noir. DETAILS: I started with a metallic stencil and a light color with the perfect sharpened point. I just traced the design of the white card stock with the light color that I wanted to use, colourblend Honey....

Hi there! Today I am featuring the Floral Joy Digital set in two different cards. Floral Joy includes different design of flowers. Additionally, you can combine then and create your own design. One of the advantage of digital images is that you can resize, edit and pick what you want to use. On this opportunity, I am using the large design included on the set. The die cut that I used on this card is the Watercolor Stripes Cover Die....

Hello there, I just pop up to share a little bit of everything new at Kat Scrappiness. The last weekend was the official release and you have to see all the new things. Let me start with the Slimlines Nesting Dies. Kat Scrappiness has two different and beautiful designs. One is the Stitched Scalloped Nesting that includes 4 nesting dies in different sizes. With that I die cut the top layer of my above card. I used the third layer size....

Hi there, Did you enjoy the May 2020 release blog hop from Joy Clair Designs? I am so happy with the new products and all the comments that you gave to my projects. Today I have some projects with Spicy Like That set. Spicy Like That is a digital set perfect for celebrations. This set includes fun images and sentiments. For my first card, I used the margarita cup and Happy Cinco sentiment. I inked the background with three different colors of...

Welcome to Day 2 for the new Release of Joy Clair Designs. Today we have two additional sets to share with you! My first card is using the Bumble Bear Digital Set. This has 14 stamps between images and sentiments. The base is textured card stock and the second layer is an inked layer that I prepared with Catherine Pooler Inks. the tiny Dark Brown Teddy Bears, are part of the exclusive collection of Kat Scrappiness. The top layer is an slimline...