RobsCreations

It happened again! At the beginning of March, I managed to get two card making magazines with plenty of gifts !!! Here  you can find the blog post on the bumper packs I got just before winter holidays. But let's go back to the new ones! Bargain number one is the ‘Make amazing cards’ bumper pack which contains: a project magazine, designer papers, decoupage sheets, 15 clear stamps , 2 embossing folders and more. The stamp set is too cute and came in handy for Easter cards :-)   Bargain number two is the ‘Rose and cute bunnies Make Special Cards’ bumper pack which has a 52-pages magazine, 9 cards + envelopes in 3 different shades, 25 clear stamps and patterned papers.   I find the shades of the cards very Easter-ish!   I think I'll use some of the flowers in this stamp set for mom's day cards... :-) Here some cards I made by picking elements from both packs

Last month I had the chance to get, for the first time, a couple of Cardmaking & papercraft  magazines: Papercraft Inspirations and Make Christmas card magazine. Papercraft Inspiration December issue had a Christmas window build-a-scene embossing folder and stamp free gift, as well as  free festive papers . Make Christmas cards was offering:  2 embossing folder borders ,  13 stylish stamps ,  32 Christmas papers ,  12 découpage sheets ,  117 toppers & motifs and  73 festive greetings. Here you have some of the cards and tags I've made with the magazines' gifts All cards have been donated to hospitals 

This is the first batch of festive cards I made! 🎄🎅  With few exceptions, I went for very simple cards. I used unconventional colors (blue, pink, brown), minimal details (no sentiments, few glitters), and definitely unusual paper themes 🤣 For a touch of originality, I thought about cards with  trees entirely  made of rhinestones  For the following cards instead, I have mixed and matched the complementary parts of the trees obtained with the Sizzix DECORATIVE TREE thinlits die set Last but not least, here you have classic festive cards with the reds and greens and some sparkle 😊

Made with a digital stamp .  I've created the background with the Xcut circle nesting dies and the sentiment with a black pigment ink and a mix of white and transparent embossing powders . I water colored the stamp with the following ZIG Clear Color Real Brush colors: 222, 070,029,260, 031, 010, 043 and 052.  Headband has been colored with a red STABILO point 88 Mini marker and a gold gel pen. #robscreations 

A simple slider card made with a digital stamp.  I've created the background with clear stamps from the Lawn Fawn "Plan On It Calendar" set and Memento dew drop ink pads.  I water colored the stamp with the following ZIG Clear Color Real Brush colors: 303, 038, 050, 052, 062 and 010.  Headband has been colored with a turquoise STABILO point 88 Mini marker and a white gel pen.

This is a post to show you how to use sentiment stamps  in an unconventional way. I am sure you all know what sentiment stamps are, but, just in case, let me remind you that they are that little sentences you can add onto cards to wish Happy Birthday , to congratulate someone, to encourage or simply to say I love you to the card's recipient. Well, after some months/years of crafting you start accumulating sentiments from different stamp sets and with different fonts and size... a cool way to use several sentiments at the same time is to combine them to create a nice  background. I stamped the sentiments using  dye   inks , rather than pigments because they dry very fast. Wild Rose , Celery Stick , and Doe  dye ink cubes  are from  Lawn Fawn  while  Lavender Fields is from My   Favorite Things . I picked sentiments and tiny shapes ( butterflies , flowers , candies , etc) from different stamp se...