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Let it snow {Purple Onion Designs}

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Hi, crafty friends! I promised I’d be back on the weekend with a card featuring Holly Mabutas’ new collection with Purple Onion Designs, so here I am. I paired the new Hold on tight with the older Snowy Forest and used a very limited color palette.

I stamped the main image with Memento Tuxedo Black, but opted for the softer Hero Arts Wet Cement for the trees, as I really wanted them to truly be in the background and not distract too much from the focal image. I used the RV90 family for the trees and most of the clothing and made the bunnies different by adding patterns to their scarves.

I stamped the sentiment from the Seasons Sayings sentiment set using Stormy Sea ink from Papertrey Ink, sprinkled Chunky white embossing enamel over my panel and melted the granules from the back, giving it that textured snowy look I love. I used a black glaze pen to add some shine to their eyes and mounted my panel onto a card base I created from Stormy Sea cardstock from Papertrey Ink. This wound up being an odd size card, it measures 5 1/4 x 5″. I added a few snowdrift sprinkles from Little Things from Lucy’s Cards to finish.

Very limited color palette for this one.

For a limited time, the entire Cotswood Christmas collection is available as a bundle at a 30 % discount. The bundle includes all 9 images in the collection and a sentiment. The offer ends Wednesday 11 November 2026, so if you want it, you’re better off not sitting on the fence for too long.

Take a little time to relax {Purple Onion Designs}

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Hi, crafty friends! I’ve been MIA for a while, and I don’t really have a good reason. I needed to reorganize my craft room a bit, and my order for the storage I was missing arrived on the day I left for summer vacation. Bad timing, right? The motivation to get it done had taken a holiday by the time I got back, and it just took time with work and life getting in the way. Anyway, I hope I’m back, and I’ve seen lots of holiday cards recently, so you’d think I’d post one now, but nope. As much as I usually love creating holiday cards all year, I’m just not ready yet, in spite of Christmas items having popped up in the grocery stores and other shops weeks ago. The snow that’s currently falling outside my craft room window (yes, it’s snowing *why why WHY*) doesn’t help. In fact, it makes me long for summer, which is why I’m sharing a shaker card today with palm trees in the background and a pig jumping into the ocean!

This little guy (gal, maybe?) is part of the Sunshine and Daydreams collection that released this summer from Purple Onion Designs. (S)he is half of the Swim buddies duo, which also includes a goose. I used the goose on her own for this card, and I had a plan for a shaker card for this pig, and it turned out pretty much I wanted it to. Love it when a plan comes together!!

I stamped the Beachscape background in Memento Rich Cocoa ink and only colored in the part that would be inside the shaker window, leaving the rest uncolored. This is a great trick to draw your eyes in to a focal point, and it gives a cleaner look than coloring the entire background, and the bonus is that it’s also less work, which is always a win!

I used the First Class Frame die from My Favorite Things to create six layers of white cardstock for the shaker walls, using Shortbread cardstock from Concord & 9th for the top layer, with a piece of acetate from Hot off the press for the window. I filled my shaker with a blend of the Sea Glass and Starry Night sequin mixes from Little Things From Lucy’s Cards, as well as a few blue 3 mm diamonds from Kort & Godt.

I used Avocado ink from Concord & 9th to stamp my sentiment, which is from the Sunshine & Rainbows sentiment set. The green color stands out against the white background and ties in nicely with the colored palm trees inside the window.

The Farmhouse color combination from Concord & 9th was my inspiration for the colors I used on this card. It’s a combo I probably wouldn’t have thought of on my own, but I quite like the end result. Give me anything blue, and I’m here for it, that Capri color definitely is a show stopper!

I used quite a few Copics for this one, in spite of the coloring being on a somewhat smaller portion of the card front.

Ice cream truck in the woods! {Purple Onion Designs}

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Hi, crafty friends! My blogging has been sporadic lately. Madness (the good kind) at work and the world cup are the reasons behind my absence, but now that we’ve been kicked out of the world cup because FIFA didn’t want us advancing to the semi finals, I can focus on other things. Vacation time is also right around the corner, so I’m hoping to share lots of cards! I’m starting with this cute ice cream truck from Purple Onion Designs, brilliantly illustrated by Pei. This is Happy Cone Mobile, and it’s from the Sunshine & Daydreams collection that was released a few weeks back. The Woodsy Background is from the same collection.

I wanted a storybook look to this, and the ice cream truck is a fairly busy image, so I decided to stamp the background in fadeout ink from Inkon3 for a no line look.

I colored my scene with Copics, and when the coloring was complete, I put the panel back in my Misti and stamped the truck again, this time in Obsidian ink from Altenew. It gives such crisp, dark black lines, but it’s not Copic friendly, so I need to do this step once the coloring is complete. I tend to hold my breath hoping I don’t offset the stamping, as I don’t want to have to start all over again. This time it worked. I stamped SPECIAL DELIVERY and the postmark stamp using Classic Kraft ink from Papertrey Ink. The stamps are from the Vintage PostCARD and the Vintage PostCARD Add-On stamp sets, which are both older sets from Purple Onion. I also stamped a sentiment from the Sunshine & Rainbows sentiment set using Clover ink from Concord & 9th.

I used the largest die in the Nesting Postage Stamps die set from Hero Arts to turn my panel into a large postage stamp.

I adhered strips of solid color cardstock towards the top of my 6 1/2 x 5″ card base, before mounting my huge postage stamp scene in the center with foam tape. The colors I used are Nectar, Sorbet, Starfruit, Clover and Bluebell, all from Concord & 9th.

To finish off the card I added a couple of yellow hearts from the Beach Dreams Crystal collection from Little Things from Lucy’s Cards.

I used a LOT of colors for this one. Very few colors for the background, but a lot for the truck and these cute friends!!

A big thank you

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Hi, crafty friends! A few weeks ago, I spent a crafty session playing with the Bouquet turnabout stamp set from Concord & 9th. I tried a bunch of different color combos and turned a couple of my panels into cards. Today I’m sharing one of them.

I’ve been made aware that this beautiful peach is my signature color.  I kind of thought it would be blue, it’s my favorite color, after all, but I don’t make as many blue cards as I used to. Anyway, peach works with just about everything. It’s great with blue, it works really well with green and it’s also dynamite with pinks and yellows. It’s just a really good color. For this card I teamed it up with blue. More specifically, Capri and Bluebell from Concord & 9th, which were both in the new color release this spring. Capri is the most amazing color!!

The Bouquet turnabout set is a little different, as the turnabout itself is actually two separate stamps. There’s one turnabout for the stems and the greenery, and there’s another for the actual flowers. I inked up the greenery with Eucalyptus, Juniper, Parsley and Basil, turning for each color. For the florals, I used Nectar, Grapefruit, Bluebell and Capri, all from Concord & 9th. You’d think it would be messy with eight colors together on one card, but it worked really well.

I cut my panel down using the largest die in the Additional A2 Layers die set from Waffle Flower and adhered it to an A2 card base I created from Grapefruit cardstock from Concord & 9th. I stamped one of the sentiments in the Bouquet turnabout stamp set using Nectar ink, die cut it with a circle die, then mounted it on a die cut circle from Grapefruit cardstock, which I then mounted in the center of the card.

I finished off the card with a few pearls, gems and sequins from the Melon mix from Little Things from Lucy’s Cards.

hello friend! {Purple Onion Designs}

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Hi, crafty friends! There’s a new release out today from Purple Onion Designs. The Sunshine & Daydreams collection is a beautiful summer collection illustrated by Pei. It consists of 12 images, and there’s also a sentiment set and a few individual sentiments available. These images are so awesome and as always, the images from Pei are a blast to work with.

For this card, I started by stamping the goose from the Swim buddies set (there’s also a pig in the same set) in Extreme Black ink from My Favorite Things. I masked the goose before stamping the Beachscape background stamp using Classic Kraft ink from Papertrey Ink for a soft look.

I colored the panel with Copics, and I made sure to have the feet barely touch the water, making it look like the goose is testing the temperature of the water. Quite a timid one, this one, the exact opposite of the pig in the same set, which is so much fun!

I added White puff embossing powder from Wow! for a seafoam look near the bottom of my panel and stamped a sentiment from the much older Sweet Summer sentiment set using Memento Rich Cocoa ink. I wanted to add a sentiment from the new sentiment set, but my panel was too small for all of them. This older one was the perfect size for this smaller 4 Bar card size.

To finish off the card, I added a few sequins, gems and pearls from the Melon embellishment mix from Little Things from Lucy’s Cards.

This Tropic color combination from Concord & 9th was my inspiration for this card.

For a limited time, the entire Sunshine & Daydreams collection is available as a discounted bundle. The discount for the bundle is over 30 %, so if you love Pei’s work as much I do, it’s available until June 24th 2026.

 

Floral birthday card

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Hi, crafty friends! A little known fact about me is that I love coloring florals. I don’t do it often, as it’s very time consuming, but every once in a while, I do take the time to do it, and for this card, I did just that.

The floral stamp’s an old Stamptember collaboration stamp with Studio Katia called Flower Bunch. Studio Katia is no longer in business, I believe, but that doesn’t mean this image is any less gorgeous. I stamped it with Extreme Black ink from My Favorite Things onto X-Press It blending card, colored it with Copics and fussy cut the whole thing.

I created a card base from Rustic White cardstock from Papertrey Ink and added some interest to the background with the Garden Lattice Base and Garden Lattice Top dies, both from Honey Bee. I cut two of each, stacked them and adhered them to my card base, gluing the fussy cut image down in the bottom left corner.

I die cut the Gratulerer 6 die (PD17240) from Papirdesign from Summer Sunrise cardstock from Papertrey Ink and backed it with a couple of additional ones die cut from Harvest Gold cardstock, also from PTI. I stamped and white heat embossed a sub sentiment from the A06 stamp set from Norsk Stempelblad AS onto a scrap of True Black cardstock from Papertrey Ink, trimmed it down to a strip and backed it with additional strips for dimension. I’m pretty sure I used some glitter spray at the end of my coloring, because the image on this card really sparkles. It’s not in my notes, though. To finish off I scattered a few sequins from the White Orchid sequin mix from Little Things from Lucy’s Cards.

I even embellished my envelope. I used the By the numbers die set from Papertrey Ink for the big numbers, then white heat embossed another sentiment from the A06 stamp set from Norsk Stempelblad AS, this time onto Autumn Rose cardstock from Papertrey Ink.

I love how you can get so many variations of pink with just five markers.

Live every hour like it’s happy hour {Purple Onion Designs}

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Hi, crafty friends. It’s no secret that I’m a fan of Pei’s illustrations for Purple Onion Designs, and today’s card features Tofu floating in a pool. Tofu’s Flamingo Floatie is one of the images from last year’s Spring is in the air collection from Pei.

I stamped and colored my image with Copics on X-Press It blending card, before using a die in the A2 Double Stitched Rectangle STAX die set from My Favorite Things to create faux stitching around the perimeter of my panel.

I masked off my image, before using Powder, Harbor and Sea Glass inks from Concord & 9th to ink blend the background through the Perfect Pool Water stencil from My Favorite Things. I flipped and rotated the stencil to create my pool water.

While I still had my mask in place, I stamped a sentiment from the Good Libations stamp set from Purple Onion using Oceanside ink from Concord & 9th. With the masking, you can still read the sentiment perfectly, but it looks like it’s behind Tofu’s tail, which I think adds a fun detail on what is really a simple card.

I adhered my panel to a card base I created from Oceanside cardstock from Concord & 9th, added a layer of Glossy Accents to Tofu’s glasses and finished off with a mix of sequins and gems from the Ice Water embellishment mix from Little Things from Lucy’s Cards.

Very limited color palette for this one.

Merry X-mas penguins {Lili of the Valley}

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Hi, crafty friends. I’m sharing another holiday card today, this time featuring Penguin Photo Strip from Lili of the Valley. It’s no secret that I’m a sucker for penguins, and these are fun and playful. I love the idea of the photo strip, but I decided to shake it up and not make it a strip.

I started by coloring the images with Copics. They each come with a frame, but I wanted this postage stamp look, so I cut my images on the inside of the frames.

I wanted some interest in the background, and the Sparkling Snow embossing folder from Simon Hurley/Spellbinders is amazing! It creates proper six pointed snowflakes and gives such a cool texture,  I want to use it on everything. I used it with a panel of Blue Breeze cardstock from My Favorite Things. It’s one of my favorite light blue colors, I may need to hoard it since MFT went out of business. I trimmed my panel down, matted it with a panel of Cranberry cardstock from Concord & 9th and adhered both to a top fold white card base I covered with an A2 panel of X-Press It blending card, just so that my whites would match.

I adhered each of my colored images onto Cranberry cardstock for a nice framed look, then adhered my matted images to postage stamps I die cut with the Postage Collage die from Waffle Flower.

I mounted each of my postage stamps using foam squares, adding the first two straight before making sure the last two were wonky. I like that both the images and their placement tell a story about what happened in that photo booth, everything going perfectly at the start, followed by slight chaos. To finish off the card, I added black glaze to the eyes for some shine and a tiny bit of dimension, as well as snowdrift sprinkles from Little Things from Lucy’s Cards.

Not a whole heap of colors used for these.

Hello summer {Purple Onion Designs}

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Hi, crafty friends! It’s FINALLY starting to feel like summer. For the past week or so, we’ve had sunny weather and temperatures above 25. HEAVEN! We even had around 300 lightning strikes in the greater metropolitan area early Sunday morning. The thunder actually woke me up. I love thunder, so I spent around 20 minutes listening intently before falling back asleep. With the warm weather comes time spent at lakes, in the fjord or at the beach, and today’s card certainly fits that summer theme, featuring a few cuties from the new Lakewood collection at Purple Onion Designs, illustrated by Holly Mabutas.

I stamped the Floatie gang, added a mask, stamped the floating swim raft and the Boat House, all using Altenew Obsidian ink on Fabriano Artístico cold pressed watercolor paper.

I used my Mijello Mission Gold watercolors and brushes in varying sizes to color in my scene, cut it down and stamped a sentiment from the Happy Hello sentiment set using Blueberry ink from Concord & 9th. Cold pressed watercolor paper is fairly textured, so I stamped it a few times for a crisp impression.

I adhered the panel to a 5 3/4 x 5 1/2″ top fold card base I created from Stamper’s Select White cardstock from Papertrey Ink, before finishing off with a few Raindrops from Little Things from Lucy’s Cards.

This calls for a hangover {Purple Onion Designs}

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Hi, crafty friends! Have you checked out the new release from Purple Onion Designs? There are two new collections from a couple of our favorite illustrators: Pei and Holly Mabutas. Holly’s collection is massive, with 24 stamps, including some really versatile backgrounds that I’ve had a blast playing with (I’ll share more in a future blog post), and Pei’s collection consists of 12 stamps in her sweet and fun signature style. My favorite character of hers, Mousy, makes an appearance, but today, I’m focusing on Mr. Corgi’s Margarita.

I knew I had to color up this image as soon as I saw it. This is so adorable with the corgi hanging off the top of the glass. And so funny, and very typical of Pei’s illustration style. I love it!

I colored the image with Copics, fussy cut him, then added VersaMarker pen to the rim of the glass and used white puff embossing powder from Wow! to mimic a salt rim. The embossing also adds some fun texture to the glass. I also used a black glaze pen to add a little bit of shine and dimension to his eyes.

I ink blended Parsley and Starfruit inks from Concord & 9th onto a white cardstock panel for an ombré effect, then used the Geometric embossing folder from WRMK to create some subtle dimension. I added the panel to a card base I’d covered with Parsley cardstock from Concord & 9th, before mounting the image using foam tape.

In this release there are also a few sentiment sets, and this one from the Good Libations set was the perfect one to pair with the corgi. I stamped it in Parsley ink onto white cardstock, then ink blended with Starfruit ink and fussy cut, before mounting it onto the card with more foam tape. I used a couple of different embellishment mixes from Little Things from Lucy’s Cards to finish off. The sequins are from the Beach Dreams mix, while the gems are from the Seashore mix.

Simple color palette for this one. This was so fun to color!!!

For a limited time, you can purchase a bundle with all 12 stamps in the Spring is in the air collection. This bundled set is discounted over 30% off the regular prices and is available for a limited time.  The bundled promotion ends on Thursday, July 10, 2025 on the Purple Onion designs website.