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Shaker Card – Shaking Up My St. Patrick’s Day Birthday Card

March 9, 2019

Hey peeps. As promised I’m shaking up my St. Patrick’s Day birthday card for my sister. I mean who doesn’t love a great shaker card? If you missed my card from yesterday you can check it out here. This card will be for my twin sister again because our birthday is on St. Patrick’s day (lucky us) and I always try to incorporate green into our cards. IF you’ve missed any of my other shaker cards, you can find them here.

For my card today I’m pulling out all the stops. Overload of green and sequins? Yes, please. This card was super easy to create and would be perfect for spring as well. I mean look at all that beautiful green on this card!! 🍀 I’m in love with this color combination of twisted citron, mowed lawn and lucky clover distress oxide inks.

St. Patrick's Day Shaker Card

Let me give you a closeup of all that marvelous green sparkly sequins and bits. OH MY!!! 😍

St. Patrick's Day Shaker Birthday Card

Here’s a quick tutorial. You can watch it here or on my Youtube channel mzdanajoy. I’ve used affiliate links at no cost to you.

Thanks so much for stopping by and I’ll see you back here soon.

Working My Green With A St. Patrick’s Day Deco Foil Birthday Card

March 9, 2019

Hey peeps. I’m working my green today making a St. Patrick’s Day Deco Foil card. My birthday is on St. Patrick’s day and it’s a special on this year because my twin and I are turning 50! Yes we made it to this fabulous age and I couldn’t be happier. You see when I turned 40 I was diagnosed with colon cancer. It was the scariest time of my life and for my family. We were so fortunate that the cancer was easily removed and I am almost 10 years cancer free.

Anyway back to the St. Patrick’s Day card for my sister. I started with a beautiful blend of distress oxide inks for my background. Next I added some splattered gold splatter to the background as well. Wanting to pull in some beautiful gold foil on my card, so I grabbed my deco foil foam adhesive sheets and foil sheets and got busy.

My completed card looked great with all the gold and green. Perfect for St. Patrick’s Day. You can see more of the deco foil in action on this video I made during my holiday card series.

Deco Foil Birthday Card

Deco Foil St. Patrick's Day Birthday Card

Here’s a quick tutorial of how this card came together. I’ve used affiliate links at no cost to you.

Thanks for stopping by. I’ll be back tomorrow with another video sharing another St. Patrick’s Day themed card. Have a great day everyone.

Easy Copic Coloring With Avery Elle Phonomenal Stamp Set

February 25, 2019

Hey peeps. Easy Copic coloring is my go to when I’m just getting back in the swing of things. I haven’t had the chance to really get a new video up due to a death in my family and then battling a head cold however to get me back in the swing of things I’m sharing a tutorial doing some easy Copic coloring with a great stamp set from Avery Elle.

I fell in love with this stamp set as soon as I saw it at Creativation. It’s call Phonomenal and it give you so many cute sentiments and ingredients for a pho inspired bowl of soup. This was a great opportunity to do some easy Copic coloring with zero stress. I’m playing catch up on the Daily Marker 30 day color challenge and this was a great way to color up some images. I have a quick tutorial to sharing how this card can together. Here are the Copic colors I used today.

Shrimp: YR000 and YR02
Noodles: E41 and E42
Red Pepper: R14 and R27
Leaf YG17 and YG45
Lime YG21, YG23 and YG25
Chopsticks: E30 and E31
Egg: Y04, Y15, N0 and colorless blender
Bowl: B000 and B00
Broth: 31

Here’s a quick tutorial. You can watch it here or over at my Youtube channel mzdanajoy. I’ve used affiliate links for your convenience at no cost to you.

Thanks for stopping by today. I’ll see you back here tomorrow for more inspiration.

Valentine’s Day Card Series 2019 – Day 5 and a GIVEAWAY

February 1, 2019

Hey peeps. I’m back with the final day of my Valentine’s Day Card Series 2019 and a giveaway. And of course I have a tutorial today. I want to thank everyone who have commented on my blog and subscribed during this series. I appreciate your kindness and support. For my card today I did a little bit of ink blending inspired by Kristina Werner.

First I pulled out my my dried marigold, worn lipstick and seedless preserves oxide inks to start blending that color on some 80 lb Neenah Solar White card stock. I knew by using this color combination I would end up with a very pretty Valentine’s Day Card.

Next I stamped the top and bottom borders with the beautiful cascading hearts from the Concord and 9th Little Love Tags stamp set. I heat embossed the hearts with white embossing powder. I pulled out one of the sentiments in this stamp set and heat embossed it in white as well on the front of the card panel.

To finish up the card I placed this panel on a 110lb Neenah Solar White card base and added a few clear droplets to mimic additional water splashes. I just love love, love how this card turned out. You can easily mass produce this is card with so many pretty colors for Valentine’s Day.

Here’s a quick tutorial. You can watch it here or over at my Youtube channel mzdanajoy. I’ve used affiliate links for your convenience at no cost to you.

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Dana

Valentine’s Day Card Series – Day 4 Simon Says Stamp

January 30, 2019

Hey peeps. It’s day 4 of my Valentine’s Day Card Series for 2019. I swear these series go by so fast. I feel like I just finished the one from last year. If you missed that series be sure to check it out here. I’ve been doing these series for a few years now and I love seeing how far I have come in my style and designs. So let’s check out today’s card and video.

For my card today I used the Deco Hearts Wafer Dies from Simon Says Stamp. The details on this die are so beautiful and it makes it so easy to emboss with it. Then you also get an outline die which is perfect to cut this out or use as a solid die cut. If you are looking for a fantastic set of tiny sentiments you must check out the Simon Says Stamp You Got This stamp set. I am in ❤️ with this stamp set. The positive words and inspirational sentiments are just awesome. Perfect for sending to family and friends.

Now it’s time for the tutorial. Thank you so much for watching my videos and leaving comments. It’s really means a lot to me. You can watch it here or over at my Youtube channel mzdanajoy. I’ve used affiliate links for your convenience at no cost to you.

Thanks for stopping by today. See you back here on Friday for the final tutorial for this series.