Cards with Caitlin

Vintage Wintery Cozy Notes Card

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When I saw this digital stamp from Sweet November Stamps, I fell in love with it! It just screams old timey winter scenes to me and I love it. It’s called Vintage Christmas Shopper but, since it’s past Christmas I decided to make it a winter themed card.

Copic Colors Used:
Background: W00, W1, W3, W5, W7, W9, BV000, BV0000, B37, B99
Coat: R35, R39, R46, C00, C0
Face: E000, E00, E11, R30, R32
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Challenges:
If You Give a Crafter a Cookie…: Cookie Challenge #176 JANUARY-RED

January 10, 2023January 10, 2023 by cardswithcaitlinxo Categories: Coloring Card, Thinking of You, Winter CardsTags: coloring card, winter card 1 Comment

Take Care Pink Green Floral Card

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When the Altenew Inspiration Challenge for this month came out, I sat down and colored this flower. I loved the effect I was able to get with it but, I was really stumped on how to take this card even further. That was until I got the Bed of Roses Stamp Set in the mail recently from a recent clearance sale! I thought of the My Favorite Things current sketch challenge and got to work!

I took light pink and lime green cardstock and clear embossed the garden roses with an ultra fine embossing powder. I then took Altenew Rouge Crisp Ink Dye to the pink paper and ink blended it on. Then, I repeated the process on the lime green cardstock with Frayed Leaf. I then used a die cut to cut strips out. I alternated them and glued them onto the card. I stamped take care on white, added a flair to the end, and added a layer behind it. To make the flower really stand out, I glued 4 layers to the back of it.

Challenges:
Altenew January 2023 Inspiration Challenge
MFT Sketch #627 – missed the deadline by an hour! Oops.
Inspire.Create.Challenge #133 | New to You (inspirecreatechallenges.blogspot.com)
Monday Challenge – Something New

January 10, 2023January 10, 2023 by cardswithcaitlinxo Categories: Coloring Card, Thinking of YouTags: altenew challenge, altenew markers, mft sketch, take care Leave a comment

Frosted Pink Gold Cupcake Card

Hi y’all! I’m participating in my first Craft Roulette Challenge! This birthday card is pretty different from my normal style but, I think it’s super fun! The colors were inspired by the Color Hue Challenge.

Texture and shine! 2 of my favorite things in a card! For the white background, I used an embossing folder to give it some dimension. I angled cut it and offset it with gold foil paper. I tried something different this time around and embossed a sentiment on the foil paper! It turned out better than I expected. Thankfully the happy birthday fit perfectly!

For the frosting I ink blended 2 different shades of Altenew Dye ink onto a light pink paper. For the candle, I alternated between gold foil and gold sparkle paper. The cupcake liner I altered with a muted gold textured paper and a foil gold paper. I backed the card on pink. I hope y’all enjoyed this card and it inspires you to take a shake at a handmade birthday card soon!

Products:
My Favorite Things (MFT) Frosted Cupcake Die
Spellbinders Embossing Folder
Altenew Detailed Blending Brushes
Altenew Crisp Dye Ink Strawberry

Challenges:
Craft Roulette – Episode #145 ; parameters: Diagonal Cut, White Background, Light(s), Off to the side
Color Hues: the Color Challenge – Light Pink and Gold

Simon says stamp Wednesday Challenge – something new

January 7, 2023January 7, 2023 by cardswithcaitlinxo Categories: Birthday CardsTags: birthday card, card inspiration, color hue challenge, Craft Roulette 6 Comments

Bachelorette Green Pink Card

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Hi folks! I hope everything is going good for y’all! My kid’s physical therapist recently got engaged and it was the perfect reason to break out this Stamping Bella Curvy Girl Bachelorette stamp! I’ve been itching to use it! I chose the colors based off remembering a color challenge wrong. Oops! It was nice to bring the pzazz out in this card though!

I used a heart patterned paper from Scrapbook.com for the heart background. I used the green glitter paper from Simon Says for the ‘wreath’ and accent strips on the bottom. I made the color of the hearts with a fun pink embossing powder and then die cut the hearts out!

Copic Colors Used:
Dress & shoes: YG06, YG13, G20
Ring: B0000
Sash and Crown: C00, C1
Skin, E00, E000, E30, E31, R30, R32
Champagne: E41, E42, E43
I get my markers at Scrapbookpal.com they have great prices!

Challenges:
Passion for Markers: Week 671 – new (promarkerchallenge.blogspot.com)
We Love Stamping: January challenge
Crafting Happiness Challenges: January: 138 Celebrations
Polkadoodles Cardmaking, Craft & Scrapbooking Challenge: Wk 52 Card making & craft challenge – Anything Goes at Polkadoodles

January 3, 2023January 4, 2023 by cardswithcaitlinxo Categories: Coloring CardTags: bridal card, card inspiration 9 Comments

Winter Penguins Skating

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Hey y’all and Happy New Year! Today I’m here with a card heavily inspired by the Hero Arts Stay Crafty Challenge! I knew I to do a shaker card that was outside of the box. So today I decided to have my penguin skating on the frozen lake! Boy was this card a labor of love and trial and error. I’m so thankful it turned out the way it did, even it took several hours and taking reconstructive surgery. Lol.

The key to this card was LAYERS. Soooo many layers. I struggled to keep the penguin to have enough space from the layers I put the fishing line on and the top acetate layer. When I had too few layers it wouldn’t move and that was incredibly frustrating. For the sky I did a distress oxide background. The trees I colored with alcohol markers and paint splattered with a mix of water and white acrylic paint. The frozen lake is an alcohol ink swirl artwork piece.

Thank you for checking out this card! Here’s to a year of happiness and crafting!

Colors Used:
Trees: Altenew Markers G702, G715 & Copic Markers E25, E37
Penguin: C3, C5, C7
Penguin stomach: W0, W00
Penguin Skates: E40, E41, E43
Penguin Feet: YR07, YR61, YR14

I get my markers at Scrapbookpal.com and they are currently having a 10% off sale today only!

Challenges:
Stay Crafty with A Blog Named Hero: December Challenge | Hero Arts
Creative Fingers Challenge Blog: Challenge #245.
SheepSki Designs Challenges (sheepski-designs-challenges.blogspot.com) – Winter Season
Crafter’s Cafe: #292 Anything Goes (crafterscafeblogchallenge.blogspot.com)
Crafty Animals: Challenge #68
Die Traumfabrik – Dream Factory: Challenge #111 – MR. Poppers Pinguine / Mr. Popper’s Penguins (traumfabrik-challenge.blogspot.com)
Love To Scrap Challenge Blog: LTSCB #159 Anything Goes + LTSCB #158 Winner & Top Picks

January 1, 2023January 1, 2023 by cardswithcaitlinxo Categories: Winter CardsTags: card inspiration, interactive card, mixed media, penguin card, stay crafty challenge, winter card 7 Comments

Pink & Green Floral Thanks

Happy New Year’s Eve everyone! I hope all of you had a wonderful year. I was fortunate enough to spend lots of time crafting this year.

The making of this card:
I stamped the Altenew Thank You 2022 stamp set that I received as a surprise gift in the mail. This gift helped push me back to my coloring. So, thank you for that! I stamped the flower in black ink and then colored it with Altenew markers R437, R318, R403, R601, G702, G715. Then, I fussy cut the image. I used the grid like die cut in green. Then, I cut it down and made it into an accent strip. I decided to separate the 2 flowers. After I fussy cut those, I glued several strips of paper to the back of the flowers to give them dimensions.

I decided to stamp the sentiment, thanks, onto the same shade of green paper as the accent strip. I stamped it with a white pigment ink and actually had success! Hooray! I used a light pink cardstock and ink blended over it with the Rouge ink color. I cut this piece slightly larger than the green strip of paper and glued them together. I placed them towards the bottom of the card. And there you have it! My card to wrap up the year for the

Challenges:
Altenew Yearly Inspiration Challenge
Passion for Markers: Week 670–Mega Christmas challenge–use die cuts (promarkerchallenge.blogspot.com)
Alphabet Challenge Blog

December 31, 2022December 31, 2022 by cardswithcaitlinxo Categories: Thank you cardsTags: alcohol markers, altenew, altenew challenge, altenew markers, card inspiration, floral card 7 Comments

Christmas Cards 2022

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Merry Christmas y’all! I don’t know about you but, our December was jam packed this year! I actually didn’t get around to making cards until the days leading up to Christmas and on Christmas. So, my apologies for those receiving cards late this year. It’s the thought that counts though, right? I hope these give you some idea for your cards in the future!

Pink Ornament Tree Card

For this card I broke out a piece of alcohol ink artwork I had done and stamped it and fussy cut the ornaments! I hand stamped the tree in brown and detail brushed ink on with green for the leaves. I handmade a star from foil paper because I couldn’t find my star dies. Oops. TO finish things off, I used a rectangle frame from gold paper.

Supplies: Scrapbook.com Build a Scene – Home For Christmas ; Hefty Doodle Skinny Imperial Rectangle Frames ; Altenew Detailed Blending Brushes

Pink Doe Christmas Card

I used the same pink alcohol ink artwork from the previous card and cut strips from it. I used gold foil paper and used a embossing rectangular die cut of various Christmas like shapes. I alternated the pink and gold. I put a white rectangular frame on the edges of those. I added 2 layers of rectangles under the doe to raise it up off the card and placed it on top of everything in the center. I hand stamped the doe in brown and fussy cut it out.

Supplies: Scrapbook.com Winter Wishes and Spruce Sprigs Stamp Set ; Scrapbook. com Stitched Border Strips ; Hefty Doodle Skinny Imperial Rectangle Frames

Holiday Shopping Gal Card

I hand stamped Happy Holidays in a gold shimmer pigment ink. I embossed snowflake like stripes in foil and adhered them to the right of the card and put a blue alcohol strip piece in the middle. To tie things together, I stamped in blue a person holding presents and fussy cut it out. Then, I adhered it on top of the stripes.

Supplies: Scrapbook.com Build a Scene – Snow Globe Stamp Set ; Scrapbook.com Winter Wishes and Spruce Sprigs Stamp Set ; Altenew Enchanted Gold Pigment Ink ; Scrapbook. com Stitched Border Strips

Shiny Embossed Stocking

I die cut several strips of embossed holiday like shapes in red and grayish blue stripes. Then, I glued all of the same color lined up together to make the appearance of one piece of paper. Then, I die cut them with a stocking die cut and adhered it to the middle of the card.

Supplies: Scrapbook. com Stitched Border Strips ; Scrapbook.com Nested Stockings

Winter Wonderland Card

I used a Hello Bluebird die cut to make this scene. I colored the trees with green and brown colored pencils and then added white acrylic paint on top of the trees. I made a blue alcohol swirl artwork piece and die cut the pond. I use a sky scrap that I made for a space themed card earlier in the year with distress oxide ink.

Oh Holy Night Card

Stamped this card with Enchanted Gold Pigment Ink and black ink. I stamped the star in gray and put color pop glitter on it and spread it around with a toothpick. I adhered these to a green card base. Fun fact, I made over 70 of these this year! 60 were without the green card base and were put in boxes for Operation Christmas Child! It was such a fun thing to do.

Challenges:
NBUS: NBUS Challenge #45 (mynbus.blogspot.com)
The Paper Funday Challenges: December 2022 Challenge #48 – Anything Goes with Optional Twist: Holiday Time
Make My Monday Challenge Blog: #190 Gifts-Stamped or Created (mmmchallengeblog.blogspot.com)
Shopping Our Stash Weekly Challenge Blog: SOS486 – Time For Presents
Winter Wonderland: End of Year Anything Christmas Goes Challenge (christmasblogchallenge.blogspot.com)

December 26, 2022January 1, 2023 by cardswithcaitlinxo Categories: Christmas CardsTags: card inspiration, christmas card, christmas cards 13 Comments

Inktoberfest Day 22

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Hi everybody! I had the opportunity to participate in Inktoberfest again! This time we experimented with using reinkers as alcohol inks! I’ll admit that I had no clue what I was doing with this originally but, I was intrigued and determined! Low and behold I did it and was so much fun. It was way outside my comfort zone but, I’m thankful I did it!

Supplies Used:
Reinkers Used: Frappe, Blue Raspberry, British Racing Green, Outrageous, Roller Skates
Stamp: Mug Full of Fun
Precision Tip Applicator Bottles
Vellum Paper
Heat Gun
Versa Mark ink pad and pen
Cardbase Paper
Ranger Silver Embossing Powder
My Sweet Petunia – Misti
Waffle Flower Crafts – Stencil Mat Medium Acry
lic Block
Sticky Mat ( currently in pink for Breast Cancer Awareness!!! )

October 21, 2022October 21, 2022 by cardswithcaitlinxo Categories: InktoberfestTags: alcohol inks, christmas card, inktoberfest, maker forte, maker forte inktoberfest, winter cards, winter wonderland Leave a comment

Inktoberfest Day 3

Hi y’all! I’m so excited to have had the opportunity to be a guest on the Market Forte YouTube Channel for inktoberfest! I decided to go with autumn themed cards and I’m in love with them! I showcased distress oxide techniques.

The first card is a distress oxide Ink resist card. I first clear embossed pumpkins on the background with an acrylic block. Then, I applied 3 colors of distress oxide with foam blenders. Then, I die cut 3 circles for the center piece and ink blended it yellow with distress oxide. I then stamped my sentiment, hello autumn, onto the yellow circle. I glued the 3 circles together and kept the sentiment on top. I glued my card onto the card base and adhered the sentiment circle on top.

My second card I played with watercoloring with distress oxide inks! How fun is that? To start off I taped my watercolor paper onto a hardboard (I’m just using a clipboard). I smeared some ink onto my stencil mat and sprayed water onto it. Then, I took my wet paint brush, dipped it in color, and applied it to the paper. Make sure to let your layers dry to give the color more dimension. To finish things off I gold embossed the pumpkin latte stamp twice onto the center of this card. I glued the top onto the card base and there you have it! A fun pumpkin latte card.

Thank you so much for reading and watching! Have a blessed day!

Products Used:
Maker Forte Pumpkin Spice and Everything Nice
Crystal Clear Embossing Powder (I used this one PW111 Ultra Fine Embossing Powder)
PW100 Gold Embossing Powder
Distress Oxide Antique Linen, Crackling Campfire, Festive Berries, Squeezed Lemonade
MISTI Stamping Tool
Bearly Art Glue
Neenah Crest 110 lb Solar White paper
Memento Tuxedo Black Ink Pad
Scoring Board
Crafter’s Essential Bone Folder
Popular Wagner Precision Heat Tool HT400

October 3, 2022October 3, 2022 by cardswithcaitlinxo Categories: InktoberfestTags: distress oxide, distress oxide watercolor, inktoberfest, maker forte, maker forte inktoberfest, resist ink technique Leave a comment

Butterfly thinking of You CAS card

Hi y’all! I’m back with a guest designer for my favorite challenge, Color Hues! I won their Chocolate and Mint challenge. So, I get to join them for this one! Brown and Yellow. I’ll be honest, I did struggle a bit with creating something unique for this challenge. I don’t really have much brown or yellow in my day-to-day life. After hours going into trying different versions, I came up with a CAS design. I would’ve saved a lot of time if I knew that in the beginning! Lol.

I haven’t touched my foil machine in quite some time. I decided to put it to use with some butterflies from Spellbinders. I found a copper foil in my stash and knew that it’s what I wanted to use with it. I feel like it’s brown tinted with a little bit of yellow. I colored in yellow in the wings with a detailing brush and yellow ink. To give it more depth with the brown, I used distress ink and pops of color. I sprayed the brown ink with a little bit of water and mixed it with the clear glitter pop. It allowed for the brown to have a little bit of dimension on the butterfly.

I wanted the butterfly to have more dimension. Therefore, I sprayed glimmer spray on a piece of brown construction paper and used an embossing mat to emboss the butterflies onto the paper. I then die cut it out which helped flatten it out. I stamped the thinking of you sentiment in yellow on a white cardstock. I glued the embossed brown paper butterfly to the right bottom corner facing the I turned the edges of the foiled and colored butterfly upward and glued the center of the butterfly down to the brown paper butterfly.

How would you do a brown and yellow card?? I’d love for you to join along in the challenge! Thanks for reading!

Supplies:

Glimmering Butterflies Glitter Foil Plates & Die set
Glimmer Hot Foil Machine
Glimmer Hot Foil Roll – Copper
Thinking of You Stamp & Cut

September 16, 2022September 16, 2022 by cardswithcaitlinxo Categories: Thinking of YouTags: brown and yellow, foiling, hero arts, ink blending, spellbinders, thinking of you, thinking of you card 5 Comments