2025 Card | Woodblock Wednesday Card | Christmas Slimline Card | Hero Arts | Memory Box

Hello everyone and welcome to a new Woodblock Wednesday card idea. Wednesday is the unofficial day of the week to give your woodblock stamps some love.  Today I am using a woodblock stamp called Winter Trees (K5814) from Hero Arts.  Hero Arts has had many stamps over the years called Winter Trees but this one is circa 2014 and, believe it or not, I found one, HERE, for sale.  I am pairing the stamp with a die called Deer Trio from Memory Box, circa  2013, and some digital sentiments I bought on Etsy.

Here's how I did it.

• I cut a piece of white cardstock, 3.25" x 8.25", and, using a stamp positioner and Onyx Black Versafine Ink, I stamped Winter Trees by Hero Arts several times until the front was fully covered.  Then I heat embossed it with clear embossing powder.  

• I made a top-folding slimline card base using white cardstock - 3 5/8" x 8 5/8".  
• I die-cut a piece of red cardstock using a stitched slimline die, which I then adhered to the card front.
• I cut a piece of 2mm fun foam, adhered it to the back of the trees, and then to the card front. 

• I die-cut Deer Trio from Memory Box (retired) using a piece of Kraft cardstock.  Then I cut the deer apart, distressed the edges using Coffee Archival Ink, and adhered them to the card front. 
• I glued a sentiment to front and the inside of the card, that I bought on Etsy, printed, die-cut, and layered on the red cardstock.  
• Lastly, I added Frosted Lace Stickles along the bases of the trees and the deer. 

Final card.

Thanks for stopping by my blog today.  Don't forget to go through your stash and either use some of it or give some love to woodblock stamps on Wednesdays.  Until next time...

Hugs from Brasil.

~Michael

2025 Cards 9-12 | Caffeine Fueled Coffee Cards for the Criminal | Inauguration Day Cards

 

Hey all, today is a sad day for America. Well, not for 77,303,573 people. I still cannot believe that today, the USA will inaugurate its first criminal as President. I will be consuming a lot of coffee today, and to help ease the pain of this reality, I made a few Warholish coffee-themed cards.

• I made 4 top-folding A2 card bases using Kraft cardstock.  
• I stamped Bunch of Beans from Technique Junkies, on four different brightly colored cardstock using Jet Black Archival Ink from Ranger.  I was trying to channel my inner Warhol and chose pink, blue, yellow/orange, and green.  
• I die-cut each of the stamped images using a 4" x 5.25" stitched rectangle die, adhered a piece of black fun to the back of each one, and then I adhered one ot each card front.    
• For the inside, I die-cut 4 pieces of white cardstock using the same 4" x 5.25".  

• I printed 4 sentiments from the Caffeine Craze digital set, from Artistic Zen Studio, on Etsy.  I printed them at 18% on white cardstock, die-cut them using a stitched square die, adhered a piece of black fun foam to the back of each one, and then to the card fronts.  

Thanks so much for stopping by my blog today.  I am now going to make a big pot of coffee and enjoy the rest of my day.  I hope you guys have a great day too.  Until next time...

Hugs from Brasil.

~Michael

2025 Cards 6 and 7 | Love You a Latte Valentine's Day Card | Technique Junkies | Graciellie Designs

 

Hello, everyone. Today, I am sharing these 2 cards for Valentine's Day, which is fast approaching, but you can certainly use them for any special day. especially if you are a coffee lover or have a coffee lover in your life.  

If you want to make these or something like them, below is a list of what I used with links, where available.  

Red Cardstock

White Cardstock

Stitched Rectangle Die Set - Gina Marie Designs 

Stitched Square Die Set - Gina Marie Designs

Coffee Lovers Digital Paper Pack - Graciellie Designs

Falling Checks rubber stamp - Technique Junkies

Love You A Latte rubber stamp - Technique Junkies

Red Velvet Ink Cube - Gina K. Designs

Onyx Black Versafine Ink

Clear Embossing Powder

Fun Foam 

To make the card:

• I made a top-folding A2 card using red cardstock.
• Using a 4" x 5.25" stitched rectangle die, I die-cut a piece of white cardstock and adhered it to the inside of the card.  If you don't have this die,  you can cut a piece of white cardstock, 4" x 5.25", and adhere it to the inside.
• I printed one of the papers from the Coffee Lovers Digital Paper Pack and die-cut it using the same 4' x 5.25" stitched rectangle die.  

• I stamped "Falling Checks" on the printed words using the Red Velvet Ink Cube and heat embossed them using clear embossing powder.      

• Using Onyx Black Versafine Ink, I stamped Love You a Latte on white cardstock and heat embossed it with clear embossing powder.  
• Once cooled, I die-cut it using a stitched square die.
• Using the next size up, I die-cut a piece of red cardstock.    

To finish the card...

• I adhered a piece of fun foam to the back of the checks/words cardstock and then I adhered it to the card front.  

• I adhered the "I Love You A Latte" to the red cardstock.  
• I adhered a piece of fun foam to the back of the red cardstock and then to the card front. 
• Lastly, I stamped the cup from Love You A Latte using the Red Velvet ink, heat embossed it with clear embossing powder, fussy cut the cup, and adhered it to the front of the card.

Here's the final card.

And here is another option without using the Falling Checks stamp. 

Done!  

Thanks for stopping by the blog today.  I hope you liked these 2 card ideas.  I'll be back soon with some more fun ideas for you.  Until next time...

Hugs from Brasil.

~Michael

 

2025 Card 5 | Mosaic Background | Angie Blom Digital Designs | Getting Inspired By Others

Hey all.  Today I am sharing a card that was inspired by a card I saw on Facebook made by Angie Cimbalo.  It's such a cool card.  Not having the supplies she used, and not wanting to wait 3 months for them to arrive here in Sao Paulo, I wanted to try and make it using a digital stamp. 

You can check out how Angie made her card using a 3D embossing folder from Spellbinders by clicking HERE.  I hope she's okay with me using her as inspiration.   

Here we go....

• I started with a top-folding A2 white card base.
• I cut a piece of gold mirror cardstock, 1/2" wide, and adhered it from the upper right corner to the lower left corner.  You could also use gold washi tape or a glitter paper too.  

• I printed Mosaic Background from Angie Blom Digital Designs, at 100%, on a piece of white cardstock, die-cut the image using a 4" x 5.25" stitched rectangle die, and then I cut the image in half on a diagonal.  
• Then, using 4 different colors of alcohol markers.  Yellow and blue for one side, and green and pink for the other.  I also only colored MOST of the mosaics, leaving some of them white.  

• I adhered the left side - with the yellow and blue colors - to the card front.  
• I adhered a piece of fun foam to the right side - with the green and pink colors - and then to the card front.  
• For my sentiment, I die-cut the word "hello" from the Oh Hello Again set from Memory Box.  I cut the word 4 times using yellow cardstock, glued them together, and then adhered the word to the card front.  This die set, from 2015, is long retired from Memory Box but you can still find them on the Frantic Stamper website by clicking HERE, if interested. 

After I finished this card, I was looking at it and thought, "Why not add some bling".  So I glued a tiny crystal to the center of each of the colored spaces and, honestly, I love it so much more!

Done!  I'd love to know what you think of this idea.  Thanks for stopping by my blog today.  If you like what you see here, you might like my other social media pages, which are all linked below if you want to follow me.  Until next time...

Hugs from Brasil.

~Michael

2025 Card 4 | Woodblock Wednesday | Use Your Stash | Christmas Card Idea

 

Hello everyone and welcome to my first Woodblock Wednesday post of 2025.  This is the day of the week in which we try to set aside some time during the day to use some woodblock stamps that may not have been used in some time or, maybe, have never been used.  

For today's card, I pulled 2 VERY old woodblock stamps out of my stash: a snowy branch with a world ornament hanging off it - from Viva Las Vegas Stamps.  I searched high and low on their site for the stamp but could not find it.  I assume it's been retired.  

The other stamp is called Peace Bird (1697-H) from Rubber Soul - from 2008 and also long retired.  I remember buying both of these stamps from The Ink Pad in NYC (closed) just to make today's card.  It only took me 17 years.  

I started by stamping the snowy branch with the ornament on a piece of white cardstock using Onyx Black Versafine Ink and Mermaid Lagoon from Ranger.  White the inks were still wet I used clear embossing powder to emboss the image.    

Next, I stamped Peace Bird using the Onyx Black Versafine ink and embossed that with clear embossing powder.  Then I colored in the image where needed, die-cut it using a stitched rectangle die, and added some glitter glue for the snow, and set it aside to dry. 

While that was drying, I made a top-folding A2 card base using red cardstock.  I embossed it with the Cross Waves 3D embossing folder from Altenew, and I adhered a piece of stitched white cardstock to the inside.

Once the piece above was dry, I adhered a piece of fun foam to the back, then to the card front.  To finish the card off, I printed the "Peace on Earth" sentiment from a Christmas Sentiments digital stamp set I bought from Scrap Flower eStudio on Etsy, layered it on a piece of red cardstock, and then to the card front. 

I hope you have enjoyed the card idea and thank you for stopping by the blog today.  Until next time...

Hugs from Brasil.

~Michael

2025 Card 2 | Caffeinated Christmas Card Challenge | Snowflakes | Stamplorations

Today I would like to share with y'all my 2nd card for 2025 - a slimline "coffee-themed" Christmas card for the Caffeinated Christmas #37 card challenge on Coffee Loving Papercrafters. The theme is "snowflake" and, of course, it has to have a coffee, cocoa, or tea theme included also.  

Let me show you how I made this card. 

• I printed Coffee Cup Row from Stamplorations on a piece of white cardstock, die-cut it using a 2 5/8" x 7 5/8" slimline die, colored the cups using 5 different alcohol markers, and adhered a piece of fun foam to the back.

• Using a snowflake stamp I found in an old Avocado Arts (out of biz) stamp set, I stamped a snowflake on the front of each cup using Jet Black Archival Ink.   

• I made a top-folding 3" x 8" white slimline card base.
• I die-cut a piece of red cardstock using a stitched slimline die and adhered it to my card front.   
• I adhered my colored cups to the front of the card.
• I stamped 3 sentiments, die-cut them using stitched banner dies, adhered them to strips of red cardstock, and then adhered 1 to the card front and 2 to the inside of the card.  
• Lastly, I adhered a small crystal to the center of each snowflake. 

Besides entering this card in the Caffeinated Christmas Card Challenge #37, I will also be entering the card in the following challenges if you want to add a card of your own.

A Perfect Time To Craft January Open Challenge #1

Crafts Galore Encore Challenge #131

If You Give A Crafter A Cookie Challenge #200

The Four Seasons Challenge - Winter Season

Thanks so much for stopping by the blog today.  Until next time...

Hugs from Brasil.

~Michael  

2025 Card 1 | You Make Me Smile | Angie Blom Digital Designs

 

Hello everyone and welcome to the year 2025.  

Made my first card of the year - a white on white card - using two digital sets from Angie Blom Digital Designs.  The flowers on the front of the card are from Magical Story.  After I pulled the image into my editing program, I duplicated the image and flipped it so the 2 images met in the center, and colored the images using some ultra fine tip BIC markers.

Then I printed one of the sentiments from Christmas Joy Mugs, die-cut it using a stitched banner die, layered it on a piece of purple cardstock, and adhered it across the center of the card where the 2 images met. 

All I added were some Yellow Stickles and little dots of Glossy Accents to the front.

Below are links to the stamps sets I used if you want to check them out.  

Magical Story:

https://angieblomdigitaldesigns.com/products/magical-story

Christmas Joy Mugs:

https://angieblomdigitaldesigns.com/products/christmas-joy-mugs

Here is a closeup of the card showing some of the shimmer from the stickles I used.

I'm entering this card in the following "Anything Goes Card Challenge Blogs" - 

A Perfect Time To Craft January Open Challenge #1

Crafts Galore Encore Challenge #131

If You Give A Crafter A Cookie Challenge No. 200

I'd love to know what you think of this card.  Please, leave a comment below!  Thanks so much for stopping by the blog today and enjoy the rest of your day. Until next time...

Hugs from Brasil.

~Michael