A Birthday Card

I made a birthday card and wanted to show it off.  If you want the details, you can check Arlene's A Bit of This and That. 

Yes, every little stamp and die, except for the calendar page in the background are from My Favorite Stamper.  Blame my DCD friend, Linda for my large number of stamps and dies.  I do.  LOL

Only one more day to go to enter our Birthday Challenge!

Your Diva, Arlene

Thank you to Sunny Studio For A Tremendous Month

 

Sunny Studio is Die Cut Divas' sponsor for March and it's always fun to play with Sunny Studio.  Everything becomes a bit sunnier when you can play.

There is still time to play.  You may enter your project here by 9pm Pacific Time today.  The Theme is Birthday!

Sunny Studio is donating a gift certificate of $25

Arlene loves sending snail mail and opted to make a snail mail birthday card. You can see the products she used at A Bit of This and That.

Linda did a slimline card too! She used the new Cherry Blossoms & Out on a Limb.

See more details & a bonus card on her blog Stampin', Scrappin', & Singin'.

Sue just couldn't resist the adorable Lovable Llama Stamp and matching Lovable Llama Dies to create this card. She also used Candy Shoppe Stamp for the sentiment. For details on how she made her card, check out her foleysfriend blog.

Dawn has made a little gift card - using the Happy Birthday from Floating By set. Bow is from Holiday Style set 

We are so glad you've joined us for a month of birthdays.  

The Die Cut Divas

For a Spring Birthday

Hey Diva Friends - Linda here with a spring birthday card as inspiration for our March Birthday Challenge. Sunny Studio has sponsored us for the second March in a row and we're delighted! 

I have a lot of Sunny products and am so thankful for Mendi and her team at Sunny for their great service & quality!! And their logo always makes me smile!!

Our March winner will receive a $25 credit to Sunny's online store.

Today I've pulled out some older faves that I can't resist.

Sunny Studio Frilly Frames Eyelet Lace,

Blooming Frame & Spring Greenery

You can find more details and a bonus card HERE at my blog Scrappin', Stampin' & Singin'.

Please enter your birthday project to our March Challenge gallery by 9pm Pacific Time on March 31st. Be sure to include a die cut or embossing folder in your design. Thanks for visiting!!

Linda & the Divas

Make A Wish Card

Hello Crafty Friends - Today, I have a cute birthday card featuring

 Make A Wish Stamp Set and The Wishes Die.

Sunny Studio is Die Cut Divas' sponsor for March and it's always fun to play with Sunny Studio.  Everything becomes a bit sunnier when you can play.

Sunny Studio is donating a gift certificate of $25

The Theme is Birthday!  Have fun and make a Birthday card.

Supplies Used:

 Sunny Studio Make A Wish Stamp Set

Sunny Studio: Wishes Die

Echo Park Pattern Paper: Birthday

Accent 80# Ultra Smooth Cardstock: Opaque White 

Recollections Brand 110# Cardstock: White

Recollections Brand 65# Shimmer Cardstock: Blues

Memento Ink: Tuxedo Black

VersaFine Ink: Onyx Black

Copic Markers: Y02, Y08, B16, B41, V12,

 V25, G14, YG06, Y21

American Crafts: Birthday Ribbon

Doodle Paper Playground: HB2U

Bearly Art Glue

Foam Tape

Thank you for stopping by the blog today. I hope you found some inspirations!

Herd it's your birthday

 Dawn here with a bonus card for you..... Using wonderful stamps from our sponsor Sunny Studio 

I made this card for another challenge that I am a designer for but as it fits our challenge theme I'm sharing it here

The challenge at Sweet Stampin' is KISS - Keep It Sweet and Simple.  I used Miss Moo stamp, die cutting with a Gina K square die and adding to a small  4.25" x 4.25" base.   Really CAS 

Do come and join us with your birthday creations

Dawn and the Divas

Mosaic birthday

 Hi there,

Cindy here to share a mosaic birthday card.  Yes I used a small die, Sunny Studio Quilted Hexagon Dies to cut a bunch of small tiles and just ran with it. 

It took me sometime to put it together, but I had lots of fun doing it.  For detail supply list, please visit my blog: Escape To Stamping.

Remember our March challenge theme is Birthday, and our sponsor this month is Sunny Studio.

Do click the Monthly Challenge button to get all the details.  See you in the challenge gallery!

Have a lovely day!

May March Be Sunny With Sunny Studio

 

Sunny Studio is Die Cut Divas' sponsor for March and it's always fun to play with Sunny Studio.  Everything becomes a bit sunnier when you can play.

Sunny Studio is donating a gift certificate of $25

The Theme is Birthday!  Have fun and make a Birthday card.

Arlene needed a birthday card for her son.  What says birthday more than balloons?  You can see what stamps and dies she used here.

Cindy uses balloon on her card too, but of a different shape.

Michelle used ink blending to make her card colorful-

Lucille made her card using Sunny Studio's Country Scene's stamps

Annie created with fun birthday card with Miss Moo.

you are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

More Play With Birch Press Design

 I really couldn't stop playing with the String Art Frame, as you can tell.  You can create so many gorgeous cards and get a little creative too.  I had a piece of alcohol inked paper and saw this piece as part of the earth in clouds and went with it.  I mounted the String Art Frame on a navy panel, affixed a sentiment and it was done.

When I was coloring one of the frames, I tore a piece and then thought of making a circle with two partial frames, so cut another partial frame and rotated the frames so both outer edges would show in slightly different colors.  I now have a totally different shape made from the same die. 

Birch Press Design String Art Frame - both cards

Birch Press Design birthday - 2nd card

Vagabond die cut machine

Sentiment pre-cut on 1st card & gems on 2nd card

Tone -on-Tone Birthday Wishes with Birch Press

 Hi Dawn here to share my Birch Press designs.... Our sponsor this month is Birch Press Design who will be giving our winner a $20 gift certificate. 

I was lucky that my Teamie, Arlene, sent me some Birch Press die cuts - String Art Frame.  Today I have a Twofer using one the frames..

Card 1

I started by jnking up my card base - using all four inks in the Altenew Warm and Cozy set.  I then took the frame die and using the darkest ink (Firebrick) used my mini blending brush to colour it up.  I did this over some white card and got a bonus background.  I added the frame over my card base, and then used a circle stamp and sentiment from Gina K's Wreath Builder set.  A few little gold gems finished my card....

Card 2

This is how I used my bonus background

Loved the look of the background.  I stamped one of the Dovetail Butterflies from Altenew in the Firebrick ink and Obsidan black ink.  I used the matching die cut and added it with some 3D tape to the card.    I used the same orange as my card base to die cut the Birthday sentiment from Paper Roses.  I used vellum for it's shadow layer and then did a bit of stamp surgery on a sentiment from Altenew's Sentiment Strip set.   A few little black gems and it's done.

Do come and join us this month with our Tone-on-Tone challenge. 

Tone On Tone Big Birthday Take 2

 Happy Monday everyone,

Cindy here to share another Tone On Tone card featuring Birch Press Design Big Birthday Sugar Script die.

I used some happy yellow tones to stencil my front panel, and the Big Birthday is done with yellow tone on tone.

Do come over to join in this month's Tone On Tone challenge.  Winner will receive $20 gift card to Birch Press Design who is our lovely sponsor this month.

For more details of my card, you could visit my blog:  Escape To Stamping.

Have a lovely day!

A Bugaboo Birthday Party!

It's party time on the Diva Blog - Diva Linda here with a cute birthday scene 

 using digi stamps from our Bugaboo sponsor!! 

Our random winner this month will get a $12 gift code to their shop.

Bugaboo Digi Stamps:

BugBdayBird4

Birthday Puppies Set

I love Bugaboo digi stamps - so fun to color and combine! You don't need to use this brand to play along in our June Birthday challenge but we'd love it if you do! You have until 9pm Pacific Time on June 30th to add your link.

For more details on my card and a bonus, please go to my blog here (Scrappin', Stampin' & Singin').

Thanks for stopping and hope to see your birthday card in the gallery - just remember to use a die or an embossing folder in your birthday design!!

June Birthday

 Hello there,

Cindy here to share another birthday inspiration.  Sorry my post is a little late due to massive distraction on my part!  LOL

My card features the adorable Bugbday Pup with Ice cream digi stamp from Bugaboo Digi Stamp who is our sponsor this month.  Challenge winner will win $12 gift code to the store.

Here'e my card.

Hope you enjoy!  I am loking forward to seeing you creation in the challenge gallery!!

It's Birthday time at Die Cut Divas

Hi all... Dawn T here.  June is birthday month here at Die Cut Divas... and June is my birthday month.  My birthday was 14th and it's one of my friend's birthday today (25th) so what better than to share her birthday card here.

Our sponsor this month has a HUGE variety of dies that would be perfect for a birthday card.  I used an Elizabeth Craft Design's large Happy Birthday die that can be purchased from Cheapo Dies

This was such a quick card to make.  I used some marbled Patterned paper and add some glittered contact vinyl to card stock before die cutting the sentiment.  As it is such a big die, it take pride of place on the card.  A few sequins and some layering and it was done.

Do come and join us at Die Cut Divas with your Birthday projects.  Just remember you must use your die cut machine... dies, or embossing.... somewhere on your card.

Dawn T and the Divas

A Christmas Quilt

I'm here today to share a card I've made using an embossing folder together with a digital image from The Stamping Boutique.  They are our fabulous sponsors this month.

 

I punched out a series of 1.25" squares from three different Christmas paper and adhered them to a scarp of white paper.  I trimmed and then run through my Cuttlebug with an embossing folder.  I printed out The Stamp Boutique sentiment (available HERE)  and die cut with a Cottage Cutz stitched oval.   Edged it with some soft green in.  

Do come and join us with your wet or dry embossing (or both!) 

Dawn and the Divas

Guest Designer - Deborah Nolan

Die Cut Divas lets get to know.............Deborah Nolan   

Tell us a little about yourself -
Hmmm…. I've been married to Spouse for 23 years, and after many miscarriages, we had Gigi, who just turned 11 years old. We three are ridiculously close as we have no near family. I'm a film aficionado, and I rarely watch TV until a series is long over and playing on Netflix. I love to read, sing (especially harmonizing to hymns in the bluegrass gospel style Spouse plays on his mandolin), and I would really like to spend more time in the garden this year.

How long have you been a card maker/scrapper & when did you start?
I started scrapbooking in 2002 after Gigi was born. I was invited to join a LSS Design Team shortly thereafter, and I had to make a card, a tag and a page for each assignment – which is how I started getting into card making. I eventually became much more interested in making cards than scrapbooking. (I suspect this is because the canvas is much smaller.) J ·

Do you follow sketches or dive right in?
I start with a sketch – although I don’t seem to be very good at following it once I get going. This can be very annoying, and no matter how I well I'm doing, it’s almost inevitable for me to decide a lower layer needs to be changed, so I do a lot of repositioning. · How many projects do you make a week? It depends on our family’s schedule. If the rest of the world isn't intruding into my free time, I make 3-5 cards per week. (Note that I didn't say I make 3-5 good cards per week.) · 

What is your favourite tool (what can't you create without) & why?
Asking me to limit it to one tool is just plain mean! It’s a toss-up, probably, between two tools that help me with my glue issues – and I just realized I don’t know the name of either of them! (How sad it that? I had to go hunt them down online.) The first one is the only thing I have from Creative Memories… the Multi-Purpose Tool. (Real descriptive name, eh?) It’s about 7” long and has a flat, narrow body made from a mildly flexible plastic that can be used like a spatula to slide between two adhered items to gently pry the top one loose. (Remember how I said I reposition things a lot? This is what keeps them from getting mangled or bent.) The other item is a Xyron Adhesive Remover. This is a rubbery 2”x2” square that will remove most dried adhesives. Since I tend to somehow get bits of glue everywhere, this is a LIFESAVER. I’ve also found that it’s pretty good at removing light applications of Ranger Distress ink. (BONUS!)

What at the moment is your most favourite thing to do on your project?
I’ve really started to get into paper-piecing lately – either by fussy cutting or with dies. (I prefer the later as I’m lazy and love the perfection of a die-cut edge.)

How would you describe your style? Non-existent. (Elusive at best, AWOL at worst.) Seriously, I envy some of my friends because I can spot their work a mile away. Kelly Booth, Donna Mikasa, Lucy Abrams – all are great cardmakers with distinctive (and KILLER) styles – whereas I’m all over the place. I can say that I’m drawn to the clean and simple school, that I tend to choose colors that are exactly opposite one another on the color wheel for maximum pop, and that I am very keen on using a large mat as my first layer.

What about your style would you change (or not) & why?
I would really like to have one, for starters. I think I get a little anal with my color matching, and I’ve always been stumped by patterned paper. I recently took Jennifer and Kristina’s online class, Pattern Play, and this was SO helpful. I don’t think I learned anything new, per se, but it gave me the ability to harness all those different bits of knowledge and mentally organize them so they’re working together in a more efficient way. It’s like I defragmented my brain.

Have you been published or on a Design team - when & where?
 I have been published multiple times in Take Ten, The Stampers Sampler, Somerset Studio, Cards, Paper Trends, and Paper Crafts specialty publications. I’m currently a Design Team member for Memory Box and The Craft’s Meow, and I’m a staffer at Scrapbook News and Review.

 Memory Box
The Craft’s Meow
Scrapbook News and Review



Describe (pictures are even better) your crafting area
My creative space is ½ of a room in our unfinished attic and has no heat, no AC, and almost no natural light because the chimney shaft blocks the only window – which is pretty dang small. (Oh, the humanity!) I threw convention out the window a few summers ago and sponged the unfinished walls on my side with paint because I just couldn’t take the ugliness any longer. I still don’t have trim or baseboards, but I can live with that for now. Since the dormers start 4’ from the floor, my vertical real estate is limited. I’ve arranged my most-used tools and supplies in three strategic spots: hanging from a pegboard above my work surface, nesting in my tool carousel to my left, and stored in multiple drawer units to my right. I like to keep staples within arm’s reach. Also to my left are my stamp pads and a Cropper Hopper hanging file box that holds my paper scraps by color. I can easily pivot on my stool if I want to stitch a card on the sewing machine, and, If I want to heat emboss or die cut, the necessary tools are located about three feet away. (I have since replaced the Big Shot in the picture with a Vagabond, btw. You can also get an idea of what the walls used to look like in this picture.) These pictures are at least two years old, but everything is pretty much the same – although I have some rain gutters (for ribbon storage) that I want Spouse to install on the slanted dormer wall.

Do you have a blog? If not where can we see more of your fabulous creations?
The Society of Stampaholics (or SOS because these initials privately refer to Save Our Sanity).  SOS

 Do you host any challenges? Please tell us about it/them.
  I host a monthly, international card exchange called the Card Chain Challenge. You have until the 17th or so each month to sign up, with a reveal of all participant’s cards on the 1st of the following month. Each participant makes and sends a card to the person above her on the sign-up list (the first person on the list sends her card to the last person on the list so it comes full circle). The challenge is very rewarding since everybody “wins” and at least one person actually does win a prize (usually a stamp) from a random drawing of the participants. You should definitely come and sign up for this month’s challenge!

Thank you Deborah for being our Guest Designer for April & don't forget about her fabulous CCC that Deborah holds every month.  I can tell you it is a lot of fun - maybe not so much for the postie (he doesn't like being stalked lol).