Drive by crafting with Drive By Crafts

Hey, Crafty Friends!! This post is gonna be a quick one. Just like the title says it's gonna be a drive by. 

I'm here with Team Pink & Main! We've teamed up with our good friends from Drive By Crafts to bring you amazing projects created by both teams! All week long will be packed with crafty inspiration and prize-winning opportunities!! 

Today is our last day of inspiration and I'm wrapping up the week with an adorable card using

Pink and Main's Fired Up Stamp Set.

I love that he looks like he's flying in this pose! This set is just too cute!!

Close-up of the details...

You can find this sweet stamp set inDrive By Crafts' online store, HERE.

I also used these other Pink and Main products...

Frosty 6x6 Paper Pad

Stitched Rounded Rectangle Dies

Cloudy Frames Dies

Thin Fish Tail Banner Dies

Fired Up Dies

Two winners will be chosen. One person will win the DBC gift card and one person will win 2 stamp sets from Pink & Main. 

Enter to win...

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You'll have 5 opportunities to enter! If you enter each day you'll receive a BONUS entry!

GOOD LUCK TO YOU ALL!!

Winner's will be announced on May 7th on the Drive By Crafts blog. You have until May 6th at midnight PST to enter to win these fabulous prizes.

Thanks for stopping in!!

Until next time...
HAPPY CRAFTING!!
~ Mitsyana

So many cards, so little time!!

Hello,  Crafty Friends!! I have been a busy little bee! LOL

I'm so excited to be sharing a huge array of cards with you today!!

All these cards are from BRAND NEW STAMP SETS from Diamond Press!!

These are from the Nature Stamps, Die, and inks set.

I totally love this very retro set... They are from In the Kitchen Stamps, dies, and inks set.

I am an absolute TAG nut!! And these are beyond FANTASTIC! They are interchangeable!! and you can mix and match the tags with cut out insert sentiments!! By far an absolute FAVE!!

This set is called Everyday Words Nesting Dies Set! These are so versatile!!

Check them out in action here...

If you are excited about these sets then you'll be even more excited to hear that I'm doing a GIVEAWAY!! That's right, you heard me right, I said a GIVEAWAY!!

I will be giving away a Diamond Press Machine!! I will choose one person at random from comments left on my Diamond Press Instagram post. So be sure to head on over for your chance to win! **Contest is open to U.S. Residents only and machine color will be chosen at random by Diamond Press**

All you have to do is head on over to my Instagram account, follow me, and like the Diamond Press Post. I love HAPPY comments too... so, if you're feeling extra generous, please leave me one (or three... LOL)!

You can find ME on Instagram HERE.

Visit my awesome Gal Pals, Pam Bray and Heather Conklin, on their Instagram accounts for more Diamond Press inspiration. They will also be doing a GIVEAWAY so make sure to LIKE, FOLLOW, and give a little CRAFTY LOVE!!

You can follow them here...
Pam Bray
and
Heather Conklin

Special Shout out to my girl, Beth Kingston, for SLAYING her demo on HSN LIVE!! And  For Diamond Press for making these amazing products! Make sure you send them some CRAFTY LOVE too! Without them, none of this would be possible!

Now go watch HSN and SHOP!! LOL

~Mitsy

Happy Everything!

Hello Crafty Friends!!

It's been a long month and I'm finally getting back to my normal crafting routine. So I decided to perk things up with a bright and cheerful card with lots of warm colors. We've had nasty weather off and on here in Texas and I wanted to make something "HAPPY"!!

For today's project, I decided to use a paper stack that always puts a smile on my face...

Hello Darlin' Stack

It is full with lots of bright colors, florals (not much flowers blooming around here lately), and lots of fun and whimsical patterns!

Other Supplies Used

Autumn Leaves Mini Stack (DCWV)

The Basics Stack (DCWV)

A7 Black Cards w/ Envelopes (DCWV)

Stephanie Barnard's Drop-Ins Card Front Dies (Sizzix)

Die- Succulents (Stamps of Life)

Die- Succulents TWO (Stamps of Life)

Mega Runner (Xyron)

Color Pencils - 057, 059, & 101 (Spectrum Noir)

Odorless Mineral Spirits

Blending Stumps

3D Dots (EK Success)

Hemp Twine

Glossy Accents

2way Glue Pen

I started of by die cutting these adorable cacti out of green striped paper from DCWV's Autumn Leaves Mini Stack. I used the same striped paper for all three types of cacti. I die cut one each of the prickly cacti and two of the leafy.

Instead of inking my edges I used color pencils and a blending solution to add depth to my die-cuts. These papers are very high quality and didn't smudge, run, or warp while I did this technique.

I also shaded the die cut pots as well. outlining first with color pencil then going over and blending with the blending solution (aka- odorless mineral spirits). 

I added foam adhesive dots to make the lips of the pots pop. Then added foam adhesive to the back of the cacti as well to make them three dimensional.

Next, I worked on the card base.

I started with these premade A7 Black Cards.

Then I matted it using this colorful honeycomb paper from the Hello Darlin Stack. It was one of the sheets from this stack that immediately grabbed my attention. It is so bright and playful! If that doesn't just scream HAPPY I don't know what does!! In this same stack I also found this sunny yellow paper and a fresh green paper that went together beautifully!

I cut each piece at the following measurements...

Honeycomb: at 4-3/4" x 6-3/4"

Black mat: 4" x 6"

Yellow: 3-3/4"x 5-3/4"

Green: 1-1/2"x 5-3/4"

I shade the edges of the yellow and green papers. Then used my Xyron Mega Runner to layer the all together.

I thought this "Happy Everything" sentiment drop-ins die went perfectly with the HAPPY feel of my card. So I cut out two copies of this die cut, one in black and one in white. Then used a glue pen and attached them together, shifting it slightly to make the black look like a shadow. 

I attached all my die cuts to my card front and pulled my little leafy plant stem forward for added dimension.

Lastly, I attached little bows of twine to the front of each pot.

And here is my finished card...

Here is a close-up...

I really love how this card turned out! And it really does make me HAPPY just looking at it.

We need more BRIGHT and CHEERFUL in our everyday lives...

And this was an awesome start to what I know is going to be an awesome week!

Hope you all find your HAPPY. 

Mine was in my craft room!!

Love and Appreciation

Happy Thursday, Crafty Friends... It's fall and can you believe Thanksgiving is just in one week?!

Thanksgiving is the time of year to be thankful for all they have. For me, I am very thankful for family and friends! I appreciate each and everyone one of them. And though I try to show them I care everyday, sometimes life just get's in the way. I guess that's what I get for "adulting"... mommy & wifey duties, house chores, design team obligations... they all pile up! 

I'm making an active effort to let my loved ones know I appreciate & love them. 

Today is my first Guest DT post for FB stamps and I made this fall themed I love you card.

Supplies Used

Gerbera Daisy Stamp Set (FB Stamps)

Eileen Hull XL - Tea Cup Die 3D (Sizzix)

Chipboard

Whimsy Embossing Folder (Lifestyle Crafts)

Autumn Leaves Stack (DCWV)

Creative Station Lite (Xyron)

Mega Runner (Xyron)

VersaFine Onyx Black (Tsukineko/ Imagine Crafts)

Clean Color Real Brush Markers (Zig/ Kuretake)

Wink of Stella (Zig/ Kuretake)

Mixed Media Paper (Strathmore)

Whipped Spackle (Faber-Castell)

3D Dots (EK Success)

PITT Artist Pen XS (Faber-Castell)

Chalklets(EK Success)

White Gel Pen (Sakura)

Glitter Enamel Dots

Hemp Twine 

Button

Scissors

I started by stamping my images in black ink onto mixed media paper. then, I colored the flowers with my Zig Markers in Yellow, Mustard, Beige,Dark Oatmeal, &  Brown and went over the centers with a clear glitter pen. I also colored the leaves in Mild Green, Olive green, & Deep Green. 

I fussy cut the flowers all the images out but if you are not great at fussy cutting or just want to save time FB Stamps have the cut files for all their stamps and the coordinating digi dies are FREE!!

I stamped doubles of the bigger blooms and cut off the outer row of petals. then layered it onto the bigger bloom with foam dots.

I wanted my flowers to be an arrangement and not just floating on the card... so, I used Eileen Hull's Tea Cup Die for the cup and the tag. I cut them from Chipboard then adhered my patterned paper onto them with my Creative Station Lite.

I shaded the edges with  abit of chalk in colors that were at least 2 shades darker than the paper.

 The little "I love You" stamp comes included with the Gerbera Daisies set.

In the picture above it looked cute it felt it was missing something...

So, I added some texture to the background with a bit of modeling paste and a stencil.

And cut out a band for my teacup and embossed it and added enamel glitter dots.

I traced around the cup and tags with an extra fine black pen and then added highlights with a white gel pen. I also went over the embossed area with the same black pan as well. 

Then finally, I finished it off with a button topped multi-looped twine bow.

Here is a close up of all the dimension in this card...

I am enjoying this stamp set very much and I'm looking forward to making more with it!!

I hope you all enjoyed today's card!!

Until next time...

HAPPY CRAFTING!!

~Mitsy

Three times the fun

Hello, Crafty Friends!! It's a new term with Craftwell's Cut'n'boss team and I'm so excited to start this term off with a bang!! Today, I have a group of cards to share and will  teach you how I made amazing 3D embellishments with a variety of Teresa Collins dies.

Supplies Used

Cut'n'boss (Craftwell)

Teresa Collins Pocket Dies- Today, Thankful Holiday, Girl's Best Friend, Lover's Lane, 

Noteworthy (Craftwell)

 Truly Mitsyana- Terrific Tags (Brutus Monroe) 

Mega Runner (Xyron)

Creative Station Lite w/ 5" Permanent Adhesive Refill Cartridge (Xyron)

Natural Burlap Stack (DCWV)

Classy Copper Stack ( DCWV)

 Brads (Prima Marketing Inc) 

Crop-a-dile (We R Memory Keepers)

Liquid Lacquer

Pages from an old book

Hemp twine

First, I used my Cut'n'boss machine and several different Teresa Collins dies, I cut out my diecuts from pages from an old book. With a large cutting platform, I can cut out several dies at once.

Also, these dies are very durable. So durable that I cut through 5 pages at a time. These pages were from an old book and cut very easily. I easily could have cut through more b the looks of it.

Next, I cut out these frames from metalic paper from DCWV's Classy Copper Premium Stack. This sheet had a houndstooth pattern to it and when diecut, gave the appearance of hammered metal... very cool!!

The Cut'n' boss doesn't only cut Craftwell brand dies but other competitor brands as well!! And not just for paper either!! Here I used one of my tag dies from the Terrific Tags set with DCWV's Natural burlap!! How freaking awesome is that?! For amazing results I used the following platform combo...

From Bottom to Top

D PLATE

A PLATE

B PLATE

MATERIAL 

DIE (CUTTING EDGE FACING MATERIAL)

A PLATE

Run this combo through your machine a few time to ensure best cutting results.

To make the rose I used the smallest flower from the Teresa Collins Girl's Best Friend set. I stacked my 5 layers on top of each other. And cut slits about a 1/4" toward the center of my flower, crating flower petals. 

Then I punched a hole in the center of my flower and fastened it with a brad.

Then, I pulled each petal upward toward the center. I skipped every other petal while working on a rotation. This ensured that each petal was separated. 

Then I curled the edges out the outer petals by pulling the edges slightly back.

For the daisy, I used the smallest flower from the Thankful Holiday set.  Again, I used 5 layers cut from and old book pages. This time I cut my hole first, inserted my brad, then cut my slits for the petals. Then I rotated each flower so that the flower petal below showed from between the petal from above. 

Next, I pinched each petal in half . I did this to each petal for each of my flower layers.

The butterfly was the easiest of all the dies to make three dimensional...

This time, I used only 4 layers. I glued just the bodies (not the wings) of the butterfly together. When my glue dried I bent the wings up.

I used my Creative Station Lite to attach my copper frames and some of my flat die cuts, like my butterfly, leaves, and frames.

I used the tag die on each card fronts but on one card I turned it sideways for a different look and tucked a doily die cut under it.  and trimmed off the overhanging edges. You don't need to have use your dies upright... a lot of the times if you tilt or turn your diecuts it give a whole new look.

Here are a close up of all the cards I made with all the different embellishments I made.

I hope you enjoyed a quick break down on how I create my embellishments!!

For more inspiration please visit my personal blog at:

www.upontippytoes.com

Until, next time...

HAppy Crafting!!

~ Mitsy

February Inspiration Photo and Challenge

Hello, Crafty Friends!! It is already a new month... where is the time going?? Is it just me, or do crafter's always seem to lose track of time? I know when I'm in my craft room "playing", hours seem to just breeze by. And, coincidentally, the same thing happens when I'm shopping at a craft store. Hmmm... I think we crafters enter a different dimension once we cross over any crafty threshold. But, it's just a theory I have, so don't quote me.

Anyway, like I said, It's a new month. A new month means, a new Die-Namites Photo Inspiration Challenge!! WOOT WOOT!! And, with Valentine's Day being just around the corner... well, you know what that means...

Yup, this month's theme... LOVE!!!

You have till the the 28th to link you project ... To find out more info, please visit the 

Die-Namites February Inspiration Photo and Challenge here..

For my project, I was inspire by all the red and golds in the inspiration picture. I also stayed true to the love theme.

Here is what I came up with...

For this project I used the following Die-Namites Dies:

Winged Heart

Budding Branch

Regal Heart

Other Supplies Used

Xyron Mega Runner

Craftwell eBrush

 Cardstock (Bazzill Basics)

Patterned Paper (From stash)

Stencils (Tim Holtz, DCWV)

Sharpie Markers- Bronze, Brown, Green, Red

VersaFine Onyx Black Ink Pad

2Way Glue Pen (EK Success)

3D Dots (EK Success)

Paper Shapers 3" XL Circle Punch (EK Success)

3D Lacquer

Pencil 

Scissors

Sponge Dauber

Lock Charm

I started off by laying my Regal Heart die on the back side of patterned paper and tracing the entire shape of the die and cutting in out.

Then I used the Regal Heart die to cut a heart out of red cardstock. 

I used my ebrush machine an a brown sharpie to shade around the edges of my heart.

I then used a 2way glue pen to adhere the two pieces together.

I then cut out 2 Winged Heart die cuts from white cardstock. The first heart I airbrushed the rose and leave with my ebrush machine and green & red markers. The inked the edges with VersaFine Onyx Black ink and an ink dauber.

The second set of wings, I inked up the edges with the back in again. But cut the heart in half and removed the heart and roses. Leaving only the wings and bottom leaves. Then I eBrushed the wings with a green Sharpie.

Next, I layered the two wings together and mounted my Regal heart with foam adhesive.

For my card base,  I cut my card front down to "x 5.25".

I aibrushed stencil design onto the card front using bronze and brown markers.

I used a 3" circle punch to create a window.

With my Xyron Mega Runner, I adhered my window panel onto black cardstock. And then onto a 4.25" x 5.5" card base.

Before I attached the card front to card base, I added golden branches behind my heart.

I Cut out 2 sets of Budding Branches, trimmed the down to more manageable sized pieces, and tucked them behind the heart. I attached both the branches and lock (onto  the heart)with 3D Lacquer.

And, lastly, mounted the Winged heart onto the card front with foam dots.

And here is my finished card...

I think I really captured the essence of the inspiration picture... even without all the green that was in the inspiration photo.

I hope that this card is able to inspire you!!

Until next time...

Happy Crafting!!

~ Mitsy