July 29th, 2023 - You Are Loved Clear Stamp Set CLR282

 

Hi friends! I cannot believe we are almost to the end of July already! Time flies when you're having FUN! Tia here with you from RockyMtnCraftia.com. This is my last Christmas in July card, but I'll keep working on those holiday cards until the beginning of December. 

Yesterday my lovely teammate Teresa Cashion from Lollipots 'N' Polkadots, posted a beautiful card where she also featured the 'You Are Loved' stamp set. It's just such a beautiful and versatile set-truly a MUST HAVE!!! 

I am here showing another take with this clear stamp set. Today, I focused more on the sentiment that comes with the set because it is just so lovely. From the Book of Matthew 6:26- "Look at the birds of the air; they do not stow away in barns. Yet your Heavenly Father feeds them."

To keep the focus on the sentiment, I used a clever card sketch from Cards By Kendra. This is sketch #12 from Kendra's Card Challenge #10. (P.S. she has a new challenge going on now!)

I embossed the sentiment, so in person it's all shiny and raised! I fussy cut the "parent & child" birds from the set and placed them on both sides to draw you into the sentiment. And of course this is all added onto some beautiful holiday papers from my fav. Echo Park for an A2 sized card.

A clean and simple Christmas card made lickety-split! This is a great card idea for making multiples of cards to mail out!

Thanks so much for checking in with us today! I hope you've been inspired by my Christmas in July cards and the whole team! The best part is you can revisit the blog all year long for these cards! 

Now, time to get warmed up for August and shhhhhh-a NEW RELEASE?!?! Stay tuned!

And GO GET CRAFTY!

-Tia

How To Create a Bold Clean and Simple Design with Mini Butterflies

Hello pals!  It's Joy here with you today and I'm going to talk about how to create a bold, but clean and simple design using the Mini Butterflies stamp set.  I think at times we think of clean and simple as being a lot of white space and not a lot going on, but why not add punches of colors to keep the eye engaged?  

I like to use the rule of thirds similar to photography. The theory is to have intersecting grids that correspond both vertically and horizontally.  In photography you typically choose if the horizon is going to be in the top 2/3 or bottom thirds.  In this card I chose the pink splash to be my "horizon"  leaving the bottom one third empty.   

To create this card I blended Distress Oxides through a Paint Splatter stencil in the colors Picked Raspberry, Squeezed Lemonade and Mermaid Lagoon.  You could use any splash or linear stencil to obtain this same look.  

After the stenciling was complete I then stamped three of the Mini Butterflies onto the splashes of colors making sure to have a portion of each one hanging off into the white space. This add a lot of interest without having to apply "more". To finish of my card I added matching enamel dots and stamped the beautiful sentiment that quotes Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Well, friends, I hope you’re feeling inspired from this post! Tag me on Instagram if you make a project using this as inspiration!! I’d love to see how you made it your own!! Xx, Joy

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